I Became the Demon King of Lust

Chapter 323: First round (1)

The host didn't even react when the portal appeared.

He just kept going as if the portal appearing here was a normal thing.

"Your objective will be to earn points in the dungeon. The ones that earn the most points will be rewarded in the next round. The ones that don't earn enough points…" His eyes turned sharp and his voice turned dark as he said, "You won't make it to the next round."

Then his voice went back to the happy tone that it had before as he said, "I hope that all of you will do your best and won't leave any regrets."

The host turned to look at the screen that had the rules on them and said, "The ways to earn points are all written on the board, so look carefully and remember them."

Then he turned once more to the contestants to say, "Of course, you're free to work with each other and against each other. You're even free to go on a massacre if you're so inclined to."

This time, many of the contestants couldn't help reacting.

Was he basically telling us to risk our lives for this tournament?

We had never heard anything about this…

But the host didn't give any time for us to think about this as he said, "Let the first round begin."

Then without waiting for any of us to react, he suddenly walked through the portal and disappeared.

All of us couldn't help just staring at the portal in a daze, as if we were trying to figure out if he was being serious or not.

But since the host had disappeared and there was nothing else that happened, there were some people that couldn't take it anymore.

These people didn't hesitate to go forward and enter into the portal.

As soon as they walked through the portal, they disappeared along with the host.

There were some people that were hesitating and there were some that were wavering.

I was on the side that was still hesitating.

But when I looked at the clock, I found that it was just past noon.

In fact, judging by how much time had passed, the host had timed it perfectly so that the portal appeared at noon.

Was it all a coincidence or was it…?

It seemed that the longer that we wasted here, the worse it would be for us.

So I waved my hand at my group and started moving towards the portal.

When they saw us move, Alex and Julius' group also started moving.

The two of them came up to walk beside me and looked at me with smiles before turning to look at the portal.

We walked up together and stood there in front of the portal for a bit.

Then I said, "Hold hands, we don't know if it'll separate us."

Everyone was surprised, but there was a mad scramble for my hand in the end.

There were three of them that wanted it and there were only two hands, so they fought over who would take it.

In the end, it was Long Shui Ling and Bing Xin who won.

Even if Claire had become stronger, she couldn't compare to the two of them.

The rest of our group just grabbed hands and lined up behind me, waiting for me to go into the portal first.

Seeing that we were ready, I gave them a nod before walking forward into the portal.

I could feel space distorting around me as I walked into the portal and when it stopped, I found that I was in a completely different place. Though I wasn't surprised that I was in a completely different place since that was what the portal was for.

What I was surprised by was that this place was in the middle of the forest.

Looking around, I could see that there were the people who had entered the portal before us standing there.

I could also see the host from before standing there, but he wasn't saying a single thing. He was just standing there completely still, almost as if he was a statue instead of a person.

Even if the people around him were saying things to him, he didn't seem to react at all.

It really seemed like he was a NPC from a game instead of an actual person.

This seemed to be a dungeon of some sort, so at the very least, I knew that we were in the right place.

However, there were still questions that I had about this.

How were they supposed to keep track of our points?

The rules said that we would be able to get points from killing monsters or stealing them from other contestants, but it didn't say how those points were recorded.

I wanted to think about more things, but there were more people coming out of the portal, so we had to move out of the way.

It was Alex's group that came after our group came in.

When they saw us, they immediately came over and grouped up with us.

I could also see that there were others that had grouped up together during this, so it seemed like we weren't the only ones that had formed an alliance.

Alex also looked around during this time.

It seemed that he was trying to figure out what the situation was, just like I was doing.

When Julius' group came out, they also came over to me.

However, Julius didn't look around and just asked, "What are you guys doing? Let's go and find some monsters to kill."

Both Alex and I were surprised to hear this, but I couldn't help asking, "Do you know if there's anything that we need to get to record the points that we get? They didn't give us any equipment at all."

Julius looked at me with a raised brow as if he was trying to figure out if I was being serious or not.

Seeing that I was serious, he shook his head and said, "Didn't they give us tokens to register us as contestants? That's what those are for."

I suddenly remembered what he was talking about.

Right, they had given us tokens earlier when we had been shown to our rooms.

So that was what it was for.

Then if that was the case, we should head into the forest while we could.

After all, there was a twenty four hour limit to being in this dungeon.

That was our limit to collect as many points as we could.