I Became the Demon King of Lust

I was right, it was a familiar place.

After following the tracks of the beasts, we found ourselves back at the cave where we had fought the mutated Salamander.

The beasts were completely crowded around this cave, but it didn't seem like they were about to push in. Instead, it almost seemed like they were just guarding the entrance to this cave, so that no one would be able to enter.

It seemed that they were guarding something that was important to the cave.

With how many beasts were gathered, it didn't seem like just the stampede that we had encountered earlier was here. It seemed like there were even more beasts than what was in the stampede.

But why did they all gather here?

No, it was better to ask, just what had they gathered to protect?

With the way that they were standing around the cave, it was clear that they were protecting something.

The thing that could bring all of these beasts together would without a doubt be something very powerful and rare.

It didn't take long for our greed to be provoked.

However, we weren't the only ones that had been drawn to this.

Since everyone was standing in the trees to avoid the beasts, it was easy to notice each other.

This time, we didn't surround ourselves in the illusion, so the others were able to notice us.

If we kept using the illusion, when it was discovered that we were using the illusion, those that we had stolen from with this power would realize that it was us. With how many Awakeners had been in the mutated Salamander's cave when we killed it, there was no doubt that it would be quite troublesome to have to deal with them.

So for now, it was better to not use the illusions.

As we looked closely, we could see a few people that we recognized in the trees around us.

These were the ones that Alex and Julius had told me to pay attention to when we had been in the cafe. These were the ones that were considered to have some kind of skill.

That included Tammy and the Sol Warriors who we had stolen from earlier.

Everyone was wary of each other, but no one made a move.

After all, the first person to make a move would without a doubt be surrounded by everyone else.

That was just how tense the situation was.

And with each passing moment, it became more and more tense.

After all, even if we had no idea what the beasts were doing, we were certain that there would be other beasts inside the cave that we couldn't see. We had no idea what those beasts inside of the cave would be doing, but there was no doubt that the situation wasn't good for us.

As the pressure fell onto us, there was finally someone that couldn't take it anymore.

"Men! Follow me!"

This was a group from one of the large guilds.

It was a group from a big guild from Australia called Kangaroo Jack.

This guild wasn't as big as the large guilds, but it was still a guild that could be considered first rate.

So the ones that came from this guild certainly wouldn't be weak.

After the leader of the Kangaroo Jack group shouted this, he and his men jumped down onto the ground and charged at the beasts.

The moment that they landed, the beasts immediately turned to face their direction.

However, unlike before, they didn't charge at them like when they were stampeding.

Instead, they just strengthened their position and prepared for the offense of the Kangaroo Jack group.

When the leader of the Kangaroo Jack saw this, he immediately said, "Spread out!"

The members of his group went off in different directions, though they all kept going forward to hit the wave of beasts in front of them.

It seemed that their plan was to strike at different parts of the beast wave.

If they could strike from different parts of the beast wave, with the power that they had, there was no doubt that a shockwave would spread through the beast wave. This shockwave would surely shake the unity of the entire beast wave, making it easier for them to take it down.

But they found that it wasn't as easy as they thought.

The beasts that they tried to attack all had powerful defenses.

They found that their attacks weren't able to pierce through these defenses at all, so their charge was completely stopped.

Once they lost the momentum of this charge, there were various attacks that came in their direction.

It took all that they had just to dodge out of these attacks, though there were still some that hit them.

As they fled, the Kangaroo Jack group all looked very sorry.

At the very least, the one good thing was that they didn't suffer any casualties.

Though they were heavily injured, at the very least, they were all able to get out of there with their lives.

But this just went to show how powerful these gathered beasts were.

Those with sharp eyes immediately noticed why this was the case.

It was the unity of the beasts, it was the fact that they were all working together that made them hard to deal with.

Individually, the beasts weren't that powerful.

However, when they all came together like this and gathered their power, they became hard to deal with.

This was not something that any single group would be able to deal with on their own.

There were just too many beasts here.

Everyone had learned from the mistakes of the Kangaroo Jack group and there wasn't a single person who jumped down to challenge the beasts after this.

But they also couldn't just give up whatever treasures were inside of the cave.

After coming this far, they couldn't just turn back and give up now.

So there were some ideas that were floating among these Awakeners.