I Became the Demon King of Lust

I just brought a finger up to my lips when I looked back at her.

Long Shui Ling looked a bit displeased that I wasn't willing to tell her, but she also understood that this was just a normal thing for Awakeners.

There were some things that everyone had to hide about their own power.

She understood, but she couldn't help feeling a bit displeased.

After all, she felt that with everything that they had gone through…he should trust her a bit more.

Once the Lizardman King was taken care of, there was a cracking sound that came from behind them.

This was the throne that the Lizardman King had sat on previously that was cracking apart. It shattered to pieces and broke down, creating many fragments of stone on the ground.

But what it revealed was what they really cared about.

This was a small lizardman statue, but it had a red glow to it.

This was similar to the red bubble that had appeared around the other contestants and the red glow that had appeared on the mural before.

After a period of silence, Long Shui Ling suddenly asked, "Is that…?"

She didn't finish her question, but I understood what she was asking.

I shook my head to show that I didn't know at first, but then I said in an uncertain voice, "It should be…"

Both of us just looked at it a bit longer before she asked, "Then should we…?"

I slowly shook my head at first, but then I took out a watch to see the time.

There was only around an hour left before this exam would end, so…it didn't seem like we had the time to wait.

If we wanted to do this, we should destroy it while we could.

After all, who knew what kind of defenses this thing had.

It could take us quite a while to destroy it in the first place.

So in the end, I just gave a slow nod before moving forward. As I moved towards the red glowing statue, I lifted up my sword.

As I stood in front of it, I brought my sword down on it with half of my strength. After all, I was expecting some kind of barrier to appear around this statue and bounce my sword away.

However, there was nothing like that at all.

My sword cut right through the statue without any resistance, splitting it in half right down the middle.

I couldn't help being surprised as I watched the two halves of the lizardman statue lying there on the ground still glowing red. But after they laid there for a bit, the red glow slowly started to dissipate away.

It didn't take long before the red glow had completely disappeared from the statue.

I turned to look around to see if anything changed, but there were no changes to this room at all.

It seemed that to check if it worked or not, we would have to go to each of the altars.

But that was only for a normal person.

I had a different way and it was all because of the bracelet that they gave us.

I opened up the rankings and watched over a few names.

These were the names of the five that we had followed earlier.

I had made sure to check their names when they had been killing the sahuagins and lizardmen earlier.

I was waiting to see if their point values would go up.

As expected, they started going up, showing that they had been freed from the red bubble.

Anyone that could reach this second exam was not a fool.

They would be keeping track of the time and they knew that they wouldn't have much time left. Instead of wasting time getting revenge on the young man with the shield for tricking them, they would try to earn as many points as they could while they still could.

After all, if they wasted their time taking revenge and that caused them to fail this exam, they could only blame themselves.

After making sure that they were freed, I said to Long Shui Ling, "It worked."

When she heard this, she let out a sigh of relief.

She had been worried the entire time about those people, so she immediately felt relaxed when she heard him say this.

But this also showed just how much trust Long Shui Ling had in Lin Fan.

After all, she didn't even doubt his words for a second when he said this, even though she didn't actually know how he was certain that they had been freed.

She just trusted him regardless.

Once that matter was confirmed, she turned to look at the young man with the shield who was still in a daze and asked, "What do we do about them?"

I looked at the young man with the shield before looking at the other two who were up against the wall. With a sigh, I said, "Go and help them wrap up their injuries and then we're leaving."

Long Shui Ling revealed a happy smile and gave a nod as she simply said, "Un."

Then she ran off towards the two against the wall while pulling out some medicine.

As she ran over, I couldn't help thinking to myself, "She has too much compassion to be an Awakener…"

There were many things that couldn't be predicted in the dungeon and sometimes one needed to be cold hearted with these matters.

Having compassion was good as a human, but as an Awakener…it was dangerous.

If it wasn't for the circumstances, I definitely wouldn't have chosen to team up with her.

I just hoped that I wouldn't have to work with her in the future.

"Wait, isn't that a flag? Am I cursing myself like this?" I couldn't help thinking to myself…

I just gave a sigh before walking over to where the Lizardman King's corpse had disappeared.

The loot from a dungeon boss definitely wouldn't be cheap.

I wouldn't let such a thing go that easily.

After she finished treating them, she wrapped us up in her illusion before releasing the one she had cast on the young man with the shield.

When he came back to his senses, we were already gone.