I Became the Demon King of Lust

As we headed through the dungeon, it was eerily quiet.

That was because…the monsters that should have been here were all missing.

There were very few monsters wandering about, even the area in between the safe zones had very few monsters.

When we saw this, Tie Gang couldn't help wanting to make a few detours.

We headed to the location of some of the area bosses, but we found that they too were missing.

It was as if this entire dungeon had been cleared out already.

But that shouldn't be the case since there was a record of who comes and goes into the dungeon. It was impossible for anyone to sneak into this raid dungeon since it was guarded by the Awakener Association with the most advanced surveillance equipment.

So where did the monsters and area bosses go?

All three of us knew that there was something very much wrong with this dungeon when we saw all of this.

I felt like we should go back to the camp and bring everyone, but Tie Gang insisted on going to check the floor boss.

So we had no choice but to go with him.

But the results were not what we had expected.

The floor boss was also a mummy, but it was on a completely different level.

It was a mummy that was twice as large and more than four times as powerful, with a magic weapon. This floor boss was regarded as a C Rank Boss Monster, but that meant that it should be easy for Tie Gang to fight.

It was just too bad that this floor boss wasn't there.

When we arrived at the chamber with the stairs leading up to the next floor, we found that the sarcophagus that should have contained the floor boss was empty.

It was opened up and the boss that should have been inside was gone.

The stairs leading to the next floor weren't guarded at all.

As we stood there at the entrance of this room, we couldn't help deeply knitting our brows as we stared at this open sarcophagus.

After standing there for a bit, we slowly made our way into the room. As we stepped in, the torches around us suddenly lit up as if it was reacting to our presence.

However, there was nothing for them to light up since this was an empty room.

Everything that should have been here was gone, including the treasure that should have been scattered all around the room.

It was as if whatever had been here had been cleaned out by something.

Tie Gang went over to the sarcophagus to take a closer look at it, as if he wanted to find some clues as to where the floor boss had gone.

But for me, I was more interested in the lid of the sarcophagus on the ground. Join us at m_v le mpyr

I looked closely at this lid and revealed a frown as I realized something.

Tie Gang saw the look on my face, so he turned to ask, "Is something wrong?"

I didn't react at first, but then I gave a slow nod before pointing at the lid on the ground.

Tie Gang looked at it, but then he revealed a confused look as he didn't understand what I was implying by pointing at it.

So I explained, "The way that this lid is facing, it's clear that this sarcophagus was opened from the inside instead of something opening it from the outside."

Tie Gang revealed a heavy look when he heard this as he understood what I was implying.

For this sarcophagus to be opened from the inside, there were only two possibilities.

One was that someone had triggered this floor boss fight and that had caused the floor boss to open the sarcophagus from the inside. The other was that the floor boss had opened it up all on its own and then left this place on its own.

The former was clearly the better option of the two.

If it was someone that had snuck in and killed the boss, then that would be much safer than if there was something changing about this dungeon.

After all, if this room had been cleared out because of a change with the dungeon boss, that would greatly increase the difficulty of this dungeon.

After a long moment of silence, Tie Gang decisively said, "We have to go back."

Both of us nodded in agreement to this.

We had snuck out to see what we could find, but what we found was just too important to keep to ourselves.

We had to go back and bring everyone or else who knows what would have happened.

As we were heading back, Tie Gang couldn't help saying, "What are the chances that someone snuck through the guards and entered this dungeon without any documentation?"

I revealed a bitter smile and looked at him without saying anything.

He also revealed a bitter smile and shook his head as he said, "Alright, alright, I get it."

With a sigh, he said, "We'll just have to do what we can to survive. If it comes down to it, I'll even lay my life down so that everyone can get out."

The bitter smile on my face became even more bitter when I heard this.

This was the reason I just couldn't get along with Tie Gang…

Every time we did anything, he would always raise a death flag like this and this time, it was a death flag that included all of us!

If he wanted to die, he should just keep it to himself instead of dragging all of us into it like this!

Now we basically had a target on the back of our heads for fate to strike us down…

But he was still needed for us to get out of here, so I patted him on the back as I said, "I hope so too."

He looked at me with a strange look, but he didn't say anything else.

It would be a lie to say that I didn't use a bit too much strength when I patted him on the back.