The Author's POV

330 Inferno 1

Inside of a dark room, a loud slap echoed.

-Smack!

"Oy, wake up."

With a bald head, a white beard that was so long it felt like it hadn't been cut in months,and bluish-purple skin, a creature resembling a dwarf spoke in a hoarse tone.

"If yer don't wake up within a minute's time, I'll make you feel something worse than the previous smack."

A vicious aura revolved around the blue-colored dwarf as he looked in front of him. A frail old dwarf sat there.

Bald head, braided hair, and wrinkling face;the dwarf was none other than Jomnuk.

The only dwarf that knew the access code of the security system. At the moment, he had both eyes closed shut and his hands were strapped on top of a large metallic chair. He wore a one-piece grey clothing and all of his beard hair was unbraided.

Since artifacts were hard to identify, they decided to strip Jomnuk of everything.

Although his mana was sealed because of the poison, it was still best to remove all of the items that he was wearing.

-Smack!

The blue dwarf once again smacked Jomnuk in the head.

"Yer finally coming to your senses?"

This time, the blue dwarf finally managed to get a reaction. Jomnuk's eyes twitched slightly.

It wasn't long before he finally opened his eyes.

Upon opening his eyes and staring at the blue dwarf in front of him, a frightened and bewildered look appeared on Jomnuk's face.

"Huh? Where am I? What is going on?"

Moving his body, Jomnuk found that he was bound to the chair he seated.

"What the-?!'

"Haha, you finally came to your senses."

Taking pleasure in Jomnuk's struggle, The blue dwarf flashed a sadistic smile.

Hearing the blue dwarf's words, Jomnuk finally came to his senses. He looked at the duergar and asked in a worried tone, "W-Who are you?"

"Hehe, let me introduce myself..."

Plack! Plack!

Tapping onto something, the dark room was instantly lit up by bright white lights.

Once the lights turned on, Jomnuk was finally able to see his surroundings.

But upon witnessing what was inside of the room, a look of horror flashed in his eyes.

Because the whole room was one massive device connected to a helmet.

"Y-you're insane!"

Bam-!

Smacking onto the metal armrest of the chair,the blue dwarf leaned closer.

"My name is Karl Kullam and as you can probably tell, I am a Duergar."

Walking towards the back of the room and taking the helmet, Karl flashed an evil smile.

"Although I'm not exactly famous among you dwarves, amongst us Duergars, I'm extremely well known."

Walking back towards Jomnuk, he dangled the helmet in his face.

"If you want to die peacefully, tell us how we can access the main defensive systems. If you refuse to do so..."

-Spurt.

blood sprayed all over the

"Huh?"

pained and desperate scream, Karl was met

ran

eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took

he muttered in a voice

Pui-!

towards the right side of

"Oh?"

and shrugged off the cowardice in

like you still got some

and grabbing him by the hair, Karl lifted his head

right hand was the

that again while looking at your face. Where

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk did not

helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on top

your head is my own creation,

Clank-!

locked the helmet on

the development stages, I should be

Karl

had the ability to extract the memories of the

Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't hold his

because he knew that they would task him with the job of extracting his

memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl

about the war nor for the information to disable the defensive system, all he cared about

hands together, Karl could no longer contain his excitement and pressed on

-Ding!

onto the

can't wait to extract all of

just about be

"Huh?"

his head, to Karl's shock and horror,a

Impossible! Your mana was supposed to

took a step back. Fear and disbelief dyed his

were supposed to have captured, started emitting mana from

poison was supposed to last at

Something was terribly wrong.

took off the helmet from his head. Then, without wasting any time, he explosively shot towards Karl's direction. His speed was unbefitting that of a dwarf as he reappeared right in front of Karl. His speed was so fast, that Karl

"Khh.."

was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already blue face turned

retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's

eyes turned white and

from Karl, Jomnuk clicked

I've got to

Jomnuk grabbed at it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face

than Ren, who

disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion

"Huuu..."

didn't waste time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly replaced them

face. What followed after was a subtle blue

"Done."

Ren retracted

his mana quite yet. He was currently low on

Clank-!

into the chair, Ren put the helmet on his face and turned

standing not so far

pale, she stood in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a small device that stood at

"You done?"

"Yes."

away from the small

tsk tsk. Being so cold all the time, who knows if that's the secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I

"Good," He smiled.

someone paid close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could

was the one responsible for the missing tooth. But, in fact, the one

he knew that the Duergars would strip him of everything he had,