I Became the Demon King of Lust

Time passed very quickly as we made our camp in that nest of the ice dragon.

No one actually came to challenge the ice dragon after us, so there were no disruptions.
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The only thing that we did have to take care of were a few monsters that had wandered in from outside, but that really wasn't a problem since they were weak monsters. Just the guards that were at the entrance were more than enough to take care of them.

When time ended, we were curious about how we would be able to leave this place, but that was answered very quickly.

There was something that started to glow and release strange fluctuations.

When this happened, all of us pulled out the things that were releasing these strange fluctuations.

It was the tokens that we had been given.

Some of us recognized what was happening and some of us didn't.

The ones that didn't…

"What is happening?"

"Why is there this strange aura coming from this thing?"

The ones that did just remained silent as they waited for what would happen to happen.

Though those that had a greater understanding knew that to do something like this definitely wasn't cheap. The amount of Return Stones that were needed to achieve something like this…was surely not something that a single guild could provide.

As expected of a tournament that was being held by multiple different large guilds.

After the light built up for a bit, there was a large flash of light that came from these tokens.

The one thing that I noted was that the tokens on the ground by the ice sculptures that we destroyed had never lit up. It seemed that they already knew that their owners were dead, so they didn't react at all.

If they knew that their owners were dead, did that mean that it was also reported to the ones that were outside?

Then did that mean that the organizations behind the ones that we killed already knew that their people were dead?

If that was the case, I could only wonder if they knew who did it…

No, even if it didn't show who did it, it should have been clear just based on the change in points. I was certain that they would have displayed the amount of points earned by each person outside, so they should have seen when the points of their rookies disappeared and when our points increased.

It shouldn't be hard to guess what happened after seeing that.

It seemed like there was trouble waiting outside for us…

When the flash of light cleared, we found that we were in the same place as before.

When we appeared in front of the crowd, we were immediately met with cheers and applause. This crowd seemed different from the one that was here yesterday, but it wasn't hard to guess why that was.

This first round took an entire twenty four hours, so it wasn't as if the crowd from yesterday would have remained sitting here for that long. After the first round started, they would have been sent off and they would have been gathered again before the first round ended.

But there were those that only had tickets for the first day and not the second day, so there would be a change in the audience.

However, the ones from the guild didn't change.

I could also see Su Chen and the rest sitting there in the audience waving at us.

After giving us some time to adjust, the host suddenly said, "Let's welcome our contestants back!"

As soon as the host said this, the applause and cheering became even louder.

There were some that embraced this and waved back to the crowd, but there were also people that were too tired after what had happened inside the dungeon. They just moved to the corner and waited for this to be over.

Not a single one of them left since they wanted to hear the results of the first round.

At the same time, there were some that were looking for faces that they recognized.

That included Michael who was looking in our direction at this moment.

You would think that the one that he glared at would be Tammy, but it was clear that he was glaring at me. After all, I had been the one that had trampled on him and taken his token from him.

If looks could kill, there was no doubt that he would have wanted to kill me.

But he couldn't do anything in front of everyone like this, so he had no choice but to hold back.

If he bit his lips any harder, there was no doubt that he would be bleeding.

It wasn't just Michael alone who was glaring at someone.

There were many others who were also glaring at each other after the first round.

It was clear that there were many grudges that had been formed because of what happened in the dungeon, so it wasn't strange to see everyone acting this way.

The host let the crowd go for a bit before saying, "There were many things that happened in this first round and it was a rollercoaster seeing all different changes in the score in real time."

As expected, they had been watching the score and they had made it available to everyone to watch as well.

If cameras had been allowed in dungeons, there was no doubt that they would have filmed us the entire time.

But if cameras had been allowed in, plenty of deaths could have been avoided.

That would have cut into the theme of this first round, so they wouldn't have sent in cameras even if cameras had worked in the dungeon.

This was just how this first round was.

The host continued by pointing at a screen that suddenly came down in the center of the stage and saying, "Now, let's see what the final scores are and who the winners of this first round are."