I Became the Demon King of Lust

Though the portal had already appeared, I didn't go right into it.

Instead, I looked around the room to see if there was anything special about it.

It seemed that the monsters that had been stalking me were goblins. Or at least that was what I thought they were, though the corpses were a bit too burnt and maimed for me to identify them properly.

Still, I could at least tell that these were goblins because of the shape and their sharp ears.

There was no mistaking the sharp ears that these goblins had.

As for the rest of the room, it didn't seem like there was anything special about this place.

Well, it was only a bunch of goblins that were hiding in the forest, so it wasn't as if they were that hard to take down in the first place. It was only because I was being cautious that it had become this big in the first place.

After realizing this, I couldn't help revealing a bitter smile.

Well, since there was nothing for me to do here, I didn't bother staying in this room any longer.

I walked right through the portal and went to the next stage.

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"Ugh, this thing really is disgusting."

I couldn't help saying this as I pulled my sword out of the monster that was on the ground.

The blood that leaked out of the monster and went into the water that was also at my feet.

Because there was so much water, I wasn't able to avoid it at all as the blood of the monster soaked me.

At the very least, I would be cleaned up once I reached the next round.

That was something that I had discovered during my time here.

With each round cleared, the contestant would receive a full heal and be completely cleaned by some kind of magic. These were the things that I discovered when I went from the fourth floor to the fifth floor and from the sixth floor to the seventh floor.

I had been so focused on the Ifrit when I was on the fifth floor that I didn't notice that all of the aching from my body had disappeared.

The aching that came from using my power to take down the Blue Ogre had completely disappeared the moment that I went to the fifth floor.

So it turned out that one could fight with all their power on each floor and then be healed by whatever it was in this trial.

At the same time, I found that they cleaned my clothes since I had been covered in soot when I went from the sixth floor to the seventh floor because of the burning forest.

All of that soot had disappeared without a trace and I had been cleaned up completely.

I didn't know what was doing this in this trial, but I was grateful since it did help.

Currently, I was on the ninth floor and I had just finished stabbing this merman to death.

This wasn't the normal merman that one might see in movies, but rather a fish like creature that walked on two legs. This thing used a trident and was able to swim very fast, which made it hard to deal with in this room, which was a room that was filled with water.

Each of the floors after the sixth room had been like this.

There was a different environment for each and the monsters that were there gained advantages from those different environments.

For the seventh and eighth floors, the monsters there were only D and C Ranked, so I was able to find some way to deal with them with brute force. Though when it was over, I found that there were mechanisms in those rooms that allowed me to negate those advantages of the monsters.

That was the way that I was supposed to clear those rooms, instead of just using brute force to kill the D and C Ranked Monsters.

However, this ninth floor wasn't the same since the merman that was here was a B Ranked Monster.

It was just too strong for me to beat up with brute force and it was just too fast with the speed buff that it received in the water.

But I had found that way to negate this in the end.

Before I negated the merman's advantage, this room had been filled with water. There were only a few spots that I had been able to step on without falling into the water.

So it had been really hard for me to fight the merman while it was swimming under the water.

But luckily I had figured out the mechanism for this room.

Those few spots of land, they had to be destroyed to drain the room of the water that was in it.

Those were the parts of the plugs for the drains that stuck out of the water. So they had to be destroyed completely to allow the water to drain away.

The more plugs that were destroyed, the faster the water would drain.

This was not an easy thing to do since each plug destroyed meant less land to stand on.

As for fighting a merman in the water…there was no better way to commit suicide.

So that wasn't an option.

I had to use all my powers to keep the merman at bay while dealing with the decreasing amount of space that I could stand on.

So it was a race to see if I fell first or if the merman ran out of water first.

In the end, I was the one that had won that gamble.

Seeing the merman lie there on the ground bleeding out, I really felt the urge to stab it another time because of all the trouble that it caused me.

But I held myself back in the end since I was certain that people were watching.

Looking at the door, I steeled myself since the next room was the real room.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

It seemed that the pattern was that each five rooms had an A Ranked Monster.

So the next room would without a doubt have one waiting.