I Became the Demon King of Lust

It was of course the young man with the shield.

But there was another one that ran over after stabilizing herself.

Long Shui Ling came over to my side and then stood behind me, almost as if she was hiding herself from everyone else.

The way that she did it, it seemed that I had gained quite a bit of trust from her.

But I ignored all of this as I looked at the bartender in the center who was currently looking over us.

There was a moment of silence before that bartender suddenly spoke, "Welcome back everyone. I hope that you enjoyed yourself and did your best so that you didn\'t leave any regrets in the dungeon."

Then with a sigh, he said, "Unfortunately, a few of our friends weren\'t able to make it out alive. So all we can do is pray for their souls."

I couldn\'t help looking around.

It was subtle, but there were a few people that were missing from this place…

I was taken aback when I noticed this, but I wasn\'t the only one.

We had thought that since this was an exam being held by the Awakener Association, they would make sure to protect us.

However, that didn\'t seem to be the case…

It seemed that the death waivers that we had signed at the beginning weren\'t just for a worst case scenario. It seemed that there really was a chance of death in this exam…

I might need to be careful in the future…

After giving us a moment to let this sink in, the bartender said, "But let\'s not think about this depressing matter right now. Instead, let\'s take a look at the rankings."

With a wave of his hand, there was a large board that was projected into the center of the room.

This was a large virtual leaderboard that went from roof to floor, allowing everyone in the room to see it clearly.

At the top of the leaderboard was Lin Fan\'s name as expected.

Under that was Long Shui Ling and then the others.

The name of the young man with the shield was Zhao Kui and he was in third place.

Then under him were the young man with the pompadour whose name was Andrew and the magical girl whose name was Chelsea.

Below them were just a bunch of random people that I didn\'t recognize at all.

After giving everyone some time to see this leaderboard, the bartender said, "It seems like some people have done very well and some people have done not so well. But now for the moment of truth."

The bartender turned to point at the leaderboard as his voice fell.

When he pointed at it, there was a line that suddenly appeared on the leaderboard.

It appeared around the midpoint of the leaderboard, cutting off the hundred and hundred and first name on the board.

Everyone was confused when they saw this, but they waited for him to explain.

The bartender then said, "This is the cutoff point for the second exam. All those that are above the line have passed the second exam and those that are below…"

He didn\'t finish his words, but the meaning of his words were clear.

Those that were below had all failed.

There was a moment of silence as this sunk in for these people.

Then there were looks of happiness and sadness that appeared on their faces.

The ones that were happy were naturally those that were above the line.

The ones that were sad…were those that were below the cutoff line.

Among the ones that were sad were some of those that had been trapped by Zhao Kui.

Because they had been trapped in those red bubbles for that period, they had fallen below the cutoff line and hadn\'t been able to make it to the next round.

Along with the devastated look that they had, they also looked at Zhao Kui with eyes filled with anger.

It was all his fault that they had been trapped after all.

However, Zhao Kui didn\'t care about this at all.

Zhao Kui had been glaring at me the entire time since he recognized me from the dungeon boss fight.

After giving them some time to process this, the bartender continued by saying, "Those that are above the line, do know that you will have an advantage in the next exam based on your position. The worse that you do, the worse you will have it."

When they heard this, those who were at the bottom couldn\'t help revealing ugly expressions.

After all, this was directly concerning them…

The bartender didn\'t care about this as he then said, "For all those that have passed, please follow me. I\'m sure that you are all tired from your trip in the dungeon. So to help you recover, we have prepared accommodations for all of you before the third exam. Please take this chance to rest up before you take the third exam."

When he said this, all of them couldn\'t help revealing relieved looks.

They had been worried that they would be forced into the third exam right away, but many of them were tired since they had been fighting non-stop in the dungeon.

It had already been three days, so there were some of them that were close to collapsing.

If they didn\'t get some rest, they might not even make it to the third exam.

There was a door that opened and the bartender led us through that door.

The others that were left in the room were those that hadn\'t passed.

There were some that wanted to follow, but the other examiners stopped them.

As we were following the bartender, Zhao Kui came over and said, "This isn\'t over yet."

I didn\'t even bother answering him and walked right past him.

Zhao Kui\'s face twisted when he saw this, but he didn\'t do anything since they were still in front of the examiner.

But the look in his eyes made it clear that this wasn\'t over yet.