I Became the Demon King of Lust

As he had said, I was let out of that room soon after and announced as the top ranker in the second round.

When I saw the list of people who had passed, I couldn't help being surprised.

That was because it had also listed how many floors they had been able to pass.

Other than me, there was no one else who had even made it past the twentieth floor.

The second top ranker was Tammy as expected since she had been second in the first round as well. At the same time, with the boost that she had obtained from the Inferno Gem, her flames had reached a completely different level of power.

So it wasn't strange at all that she had been able to make it to the twenty fourth floor.

It was the twenty fifth floor that had stopped her in the end.

The one that did surprise me was the one that had come in third.

It was Bing Xin.

I had thought that it would be Alex or Julius, but it wasn't. The two of them hadn't even come in fourth.

It was Long Shui Ling who had come in fourth for this second round, but that wasn't as surprising since I knew just how broken Long Shui Ling's powers were.

Bing Xin was a complete surprise since I didn't think that she had this kind of power, but I later learned that it was completely because of the blue orb that she received from the dungeon boss.

Just like how Tammy had gone to a different level of power with the help of the Inferno Orb, Bing Xin had gone up to a different level of power with the help of the blue orb.

So she had been able to freeze many of her enemies.

She had even been able to fight against the A Rank Monsters because of this orb.

Though I also learned that it wasn't just because they had these that they were able to make it this far.

It was also because they had tokens that were similar to mine.

Though the number of times that they could use their tokens was less than mine.

For Tammy, who was second, she was only able to use it three times.

For Bing Xin, who was in the top ten, she was only able to use her token once.

That was the crucial difference between Bing Xin and Tammy.

Bing Xin had only reached the twentieth floor while Tammy reached the twenty fifth floor.

But comparing myself to the rest, it seemed like I really was the outlier.

It was no wonder the organizers had taken me away and had questioned me like that.

Though thinking about it, it really wasn't being questioned as just asked a few simple questions about the tower.

I also couldn't help thinking about what had happened to Eric.

He was from the family that owned this tower, so surely he must be involved in this tournament in some way.

For some reason, I felt like I had heard the name Vanderbilt before…

It sounded strangely familiar…

But there wasn't time to think about this as I was being crowned the champion of the second round.

When I was being placed in front of everyone, I could see the strange looks that they were giving me. There were many complicated gazes that were cast in my direction, but it was clear what most of them were thinking.

How did he do it?

After all, I had done what no one else had been able to do.

Not only that, I had far surpassed everyone when it came to how many floors were cleared.

This wasn't a small gap, especially for those that had been in the tower taking the trial.

They knew just how hard each floor was to pass.

So at the same time, there were also some people that were looking at me like I was a monster.

While we were doing this, the host asked me, "What is your secret? How did you manage to figure out the mechanism for each floor and take advantage of it?"

I really didn't know what to say other than, "I just got lucky I guess."

The host raised a brow as he looked at me before saying, "Really? Just luck?"

All I could do was give a nod.

The host had a disappointed look as if he was expecting much more from me, but there really wasn't anything else that I could say. There were just too many things that I couldn't mention about the tower without revealing things that I didn't want to reveal.

Luckily, this host was a professional and he knew what to do after this.

Instead of dwelling on this, the host just went on to introduce the third and final round of the tournament.

As expected, it was a tournament style fight between all of the contestants.

But to my surprise, I found that I was given a bye all the way to the round of eight.

Tammy was also given a bye to the round of sixteen.

And there were others that were given byes to the round of thirty two.

The ones that were truly unlucky were the ones that were at the very bottom of the rankings that would have to slog all the way from the first round to the finals. But it would be very unlikely that they would even make it past the first round.

First, there was the fatigue to think about.

Second, there was the fact that those that were stronger were automatically placed in the higher rounds.

So even if the contestants in the first round won their fight, they would have to fight an opponent that was much stronger than them.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The only thing that they could pray for was good luck to be matched with someone who had passed from the second round like them since the fights in each round would be determined by a draw.

They could only hope that they had good luck.