I Became the Demon King of Lust

But Tie Gang didn\'t act the way that he thought he would.

Instead, Tie Gang walked over to the fang and picked it up. He brought them up in front of his face and looked at them closely for a bit, as if he was making sure of something.

After looking it over for a bit, he turned to one of his aides and said, "Go and call the appraiser for me."

The aide was surprised, but they quickly gave a nod and ran off to fulfil this order.

When they did, the leader of the other group knitted his brows as if he felt that something was off. However, he didn\'t say anything since he knew that this wasn\'t his place to speak.

The only thing that they could do now was wait for the appraiser to arrive.

It only took a minute for the appraiser to arrive, Tie Gang\'s aide really was effective.

When the appraiser arrived, he immediately came over to Tie Gang\'s side and asked, "Leader, did you need me for something?"

Tie Gang just raised the fangs in his hand and said, "Appraise this for me."

The appraiser was surprised, but he wasn\'t that surprised. He was just caught off guard at being asked to appraise this thing right away, though he already expected it since that should be the only reason that he was called over.

The appraiser didn\'t waste any time in taking the fangs and then a shocked look appeared on his face.

He looked it over a few more times, as if he was making sure that he had made the right appraisal before turning to Tie Gang to ask, "Boss, where did you get this?"

When the appraiser said this, everyone except me revealed different expressions.

The leader of the other team revealed knitted brows again.

Tie Gang revealed a look like he was already expecting this.

And my team revealed faint smiles as if they were waiting for vindication.

Tie Gang just calmly said, "Tell me what it is first."

The appraiser looked down at the fang before giving a slow nod and saying, "This is the fangs of a Guardian Cat, but…there\'s only one Guardian Cat that was supposed to be in this dungeon…So unless it was taken out, then…"

His voice trailed off since he didn\'t want to make any assumptions, but the meaning behind it was clear.

Guardian Cat.

That\'s right, that was the name of the area boss that I had completely forgotten about. I had only thought of it as an Egyptian Mau, but it seemed like it had quite the powerful name.

Tie Gang gave a nod before turning back to look at me to say, "Tell me what happened."

I gave a nod before telling him about what we had encountered.

When it was over, the room was silent as everyone once again looked at me with strange looks.

After this silence lasted for a bit, Tie Gang was the one who broke it.

He revealed a wide smile and gave a laugh as he said, "Good, good, very good. I had been expecting us to take at least four or five days to get to the next safe zone, but it seems like we\'ll be able to get there much sooner."

He stood up and walked over to my side to pat my shoulder as he said, "You\'ve really given me a pleasant surprise."

I just gave a nod before saying, "I\'m just doing my job."

The leader of the other team had been silent the entire time, but he couldn\'t remain silent anymore.

"We should form a patrol team as soon as possible to protect the camp. By taking down the area boss like this, all that\'ll happen is that the monsters will be thrown into chaos. Once that happens, they will certainly come for our camp."

He turned to point his finger at me before following up with, "If this fool didn\'t finish off the area boss ahead of time, we wouldn\'t have to deal with this mess now."

As soon as his voice fell, I knitted my brows along with the rest of my group.

The way that he put this, he was trying to use his words to make it sound like we were in the wrong for taking down the area boss.

To put it simply, he was gaslighting us.

But Tie Gang didn\'t fall for it as he said, "It\'s strange that the area boss would even show itself in the first place. The reports clearly state that it is prone to hiding itself and it should have taken us a while to even find it…So for it to show itself, it must mean that there\'s something off with this dungeon…"

All of us couldn\'t help being shocked when we heard this.

We wouldn\'t be as shocked if it was anyone else, but if it was Tie Gang who said this, then we had no choice but to believe it.

Tie Gang was silent as he looked like he was lost in deep thought.

But then he said, "Alright, we\'ll be gathering up and moving to the next safe zone tomorrow. Now that the area boss is out of the way, we\'ll push for the next safe zone."

The leader of the other group deeply knitted his brows before saying, "Leader, shouldn\'t we wait a few more days for the monsters to settle? If we head out at this time, wouldn\'t we be surrounded by these monsters?"

Tie Gang shook his head before saying, "If there really is something off about this dungeon, we should make the second camp as soon as possible. It\'s better if we spread ourselves out and give ourselves more room to operate, or else we\'ll be the ones trapped when the time comes."

Then as if it was an afterthought, he added, "Not to mention, the monsters being active now will be a good chance to clear out the numbers for the future. So we\'ll be carving our way to the next safe zone."

The leader of the other group opened his mouth as if he was about to say something, but then he closed it again as he revealed a thoughtful look.

Though he didn\'t like it, he had to admit that he could see the benefits of doing it the way that Tie Gang wanted to.

With two different camps, they would have much more space to work with and they would be able to support each other if something went wrong. So it was indeed better to go and create the camp as soon as possible.

But to do that meant acknowledging the achievements of this group that he considered inferior to himself, which was something that really was hard for him to accept.

In the end, he had no choice but to accept this since Tie Gang was the leader and he had already made his decision.

So instead, he chose to vent his anger on me by glaring at me.

I just ignored him as he glared at me.