I Became the Demon King of Lust

It was a mountain.

Well, it wasn't exactly a mountain, but it was a large pile of rocks that was in the center of this room.

This monster was completely covered in rocks and looked more like it was just a pile of inanimate rocks than anything, but if one looked closely, they would be able to see the hide that was underneath.

It seemed that there was a layer of rocks that formed a shell on this thing's back while the underside wasn't covered by anything.

As soon as I saw this, I could guess what kind of animal it was.

It was some kind of armadillo.

Though I didn't really know what the name of this monster was, I just temporarily named it rock armadillo in my mind.

But judging by the aura that was coming from it, it was clear that this thing wasn't weak.

With my experience, I could guess that this thing should be around C Rank.

First a bunch of E Ranked Monsters, then a bunch of D Ranked Monsters, and now a C Rank Monster…

This was only the third round!

With the trend that this was going at, wouldn't it mean that the next round would have a B Ranked Monster and the round after that would have an A Ranked Monster?

If that really was the case, then how was anyone supposed to finish this entire trial?

After all, there were fifty rounds of this!

I couldn't even begin to imagine what would come after an A Ranked Monster if this really was the case.

Would they even trap a S Ranked Monster in this place and make it an enemy.

S Ranked Monsters…these were definitely not jokes.

In the outside world, S Ranked Monsters would be considered disasters. Any S Ranked Monster would result in the evacuation of an entire province or country, that was just how dangerous they were.

But back to this rock armadillo, it didn't seem like it was planning on doing anything.

However, if one thought about it, it seemed like this kind of monster would be something that would rely on its defenses and would be a more passive monster. So it wasn't strange that it wouldn't be doing anything.

In fact, I could see that it was looking in my direction, only it didn't seem like it was planning on doing anything.

After a moment of silence, the rock armadillo even raised one of its clawed hands and gestured at me.

It was almost as if it was saying…

"Bring it on."

It was clear that this rock armadillo had intelligence, more intelligence than a normal monster like it should have. This rock armadillo should have been trained or it should be a monster that was naturally smarter than other monsters.

But the way that it chose to use this intelligence…

I really had nothing to say about this.

Still, I wasn't one to back down from a fight.

Since it wanted a fight, then there was no reason for me to not take advantage of this. Since it was so eager to fight, it was clear that this rock armadillo would make many mistakes.

I would go along and provoke it to take advantage of said mistakes.

As long as I led it on, this should be an easy fight.

It was only a few slow steps at first, but seeing that the rock armadillo didn't seem to move, I started moving faster towards it. Eventually, I was running right at the rock armadillo with my sword at the ready.

But even then, the rock armadillo didn't seem to do anything.

That was until I came close to it.

The rock armadillo brought its head forward and then curled itself up like an armadillo would.

When it did this, it took the form of a large boulder.

Then using the force of it tucking itself in, the rock armadillo started to spin towards me.

This thing was fully using its anatomy as an armadillo to attack. At the same time, since it was covered in rocks, the defense of this rock armadillo should be very strong.

This was basically a sturdy boulder rolling at me at this point.

I was caught off guard by this since it was much faster than I thought, it didn't seem like I would be able to get out of the way in time.

If this was a normal situation, I would have used the Time Stop skill to get out of the way and then counterattack. However, I had no idea who was watching and what they were capable of, so I had no idea if they would be able to see through my Time Stop skill.

As long as that was the case, I wouldn't take this risk…

So I gritted my teeth and said, "Stronger."

After saying that, I swung the sword out at the boulder that was coming at me.

In response to this, the rock armadillo actually jumped up into the air and fell down towards me. It seemed like this rock armadillo was planning on adding gravity to its attack.

I didn't know how heavy this rock armadillo was, but it was covered in these heavy rocks.

So no matter how one looked at it, it didn't seem like it would be that light.

But there was nothing that could be done since it was already falling down at me.

The only thing that I could do was swing my sword up to meet the rock armadillo.

The moment that the sword connected with the rock armadillo, I was shocked.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

That was because I didn't feel the resistance that I should have felt as I cut into the rock armadillo.

There was nothing that stopped me from swinging all the way through.

When it was over, there was something that slammed into the ground, creating a large crater behind me.

But it didn't do a single thing to me as I stood there with my sword held up high after that swing.