I Became the Demon King of Lust

After leaving that cave, we really didn't have anything else to do.

We couldn't gather any information since we had chosen to steal the boss, so all we could do was wander around like a headless chicken looking for monsters.

It was a good thing that there were monsters all over this dungeon, so it wasn't hard to find things to kill.

The only problem was the amount of points they gave.

These weak monsters didn't even give one thousandth of the total points that the mutated Salamander gave and that was after splitting it up. So it was clear that there was nothing to gain from fighting them.

But the problem was that there was nothing else for us to fight…

So it was making the best of the situation.

All the while, we kept looking for stronger monsters.

However, it was as if the stronger monsters had all disappeared.

Two hours later, we were still no better off than we were earlier.

We had stopped attacking the various small monsters that were around and gathered around.

When we gathered, I was the one that said, "We can't keep going like this. There are no points to earn from this, so we'll fall behind the others at this rate."

Everyone nodded in agreement to this.

They weren't fools, they all knew that our time was slowly ticking down.

But no one said anything after this since they knew that there was nothing that they could say.

There was only silence as we stood there until…

"Roar!"

There was this loud roaring that came from around us. This roaring wasn't just the roar of a single beast, but the roaring of many beasts.

It was almost deafening with how many beasts were roaring at the same time.

As soon as we recovered from our daze, we immediately raised our guards and prepared for whatever was coming. After all, it was impossible that there would be nothing after this kind of roar.

But just where did this roar come from?

That question was quickly answered by the things that came out of the forest.

They came out of the forest just like they were coming out of the woodworks.

There were many different beasts that suddenly ran out and they all swarmed towards us.

Seeing this, we had no choice but to run.

We could have fought them, but this was a very bad place for us to fight them.

After all, it was clear that this was a stampede.

The only ending that we would have if we stood there was getting trampled by this stampede.

There were just too many beasts that it was impossible for us to stop them if we stood in their way.

As we ran, I had Blaze and Kaito leave behind a wall of flames to try and disrupt the beasts. However, all that happened was that they crushed through the wall of flames to still continue charging at us.

In fact, it didn't even seem like the wall of flames did anything to them when they hit it.

It was as if it was just annoying them rather than hurting them.

When the beasts charged into the flames, there was what seemed to be this invisible barrier that blocked all of the flames that were in front of them.

This was the phenomenon that was formed when beasts gathered in a stampede like this.

It was when all of their mana was gathered together and with this gathered mana, it formed a barrier in front of them that could block most attacks.

That was why stampedes were so terrifying.

In the end, the only thing that we could do was jump up into one of the trees in the path of the stampede.

For some reason, we saw that the beasts avoided trees that were in their way even though they weren't afraid of the flame wall that Blaze and Kaito had formed.

Though we didn't understand it, we still jumped up into the trees that were in the path of the stampede.

Once we jumped into the trees, it was as if magic happened as the beasts all ignored us.

One moment, they had been chasing us and the next, they were completely ignoring us.

They moved past the trees and continued running forward in a certain direction.

It seemed that from the beginning, the beasts had never been targeting us.

From the very beginning, they were just charging in a certain direction, with a goal in mind. As long as we didn't get in their way, they wouldn't care about us at all.

But that raised the question.

What were they targeting?

The stampede lasted around ten minutes before all of the beasts disappeared.

That was just how many beasts there were in this stampede.

Though they had passed us, not a single one of us got out of the tree.

We just stood there in the tree, looking in the direction that those beasts had run off in.

There was only one thought in our minds.

"Look at all those points!"

Every single one of the beasts would be worth points and there were so many of them in that stampede.

If it wasn't for the fact that there were so many of them, we might have fought them to get those points.

But that didn't mean that we didn't have a chance to collect those points.

I looked at Alex and Julius who were both in their trees with their group with a look that made my intentions clear.

Both of them nodded in agreement when they saw that I was looking over at them.

It was only then that we jumped out of the trees and started following the tracks of the stampede.

With how many beasts there were and how many tracks they left behind, it wasn't hard for us to follow these tracks.

But as we did, I couldn't help feeling a bit strange.

It was that the direction that this stampede was heading in seemed familiar.