I Became the Demon King of Lust

The arena had been quickly prepared, it didn't even take fifteen minutes.

When it was done, Johnny was the first one in.

With the way that he stood there, it was clear that he was trying to show off and make himself out as the one that was in the right.

He was making me seem like the lazy one, the untrustworthy one, the one that no one should support.

And it seemed like it was working based on the whispers that I could hear.

"Look at that, Johnny's been waiting for over five minutes now and his opponent is still nowhere to be seen."

"You don't think he ran away, right?"

"Psh, a F Ranker wanting to fight against a B Ranker? What a joke. It's clear that he bought his C Rank Irregular License with money, how else could he have gotten it?"

"Shh, don't say that. Even if it is fake, it was something that was accepted by our guild. If you say too much, it'll seem like you're criticizing the guild."

"Humph, I just hope that this will open the eyes of certain people and they'll kick him out when the time comes."

It was clear that the crowd didn't favour me, but that was to be expected.

With the difference in reputation and all the seeds that Johnny had sown, it was clear who they would support.

But of course, I wouldn't give up that easily.

If I did, I wouldn't have come in the first place.

So while everyone was badmouthing me, I walked right up into the arena and stood there in front of Johnny.

He was surprised to see how calm I was, but he was only silent for a second before he said, "I'm surprised that you didn't run away. But now that it's come to this, know that I won't show you any mercy."

I just calmly looked at him and said, "I don't need any."

Johnny couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this, but then he said with a snort, "Trying to act tough now. Don't regret it later that you didn't beg for mercy when you could have."

I didn't bother answering this and just stood there facing him head on.

Johnny was once again taken aback when he saw me looking at him like this, but then he gave a snort as if he could see through me.

The way that he looked at me seemed like he was thinking that I was just acting tough.

But I didn't care since I only had one thing that I needed to do.

Seeing that we were both prepared, Tie Gang who was in charge of the fight said, "Now, I want a fair and clean fight from both of you. Do you understand?"

We looked over and I gave a nod.

Johnny only gave a nod after hesitating a bit, as if there was something that he wanted to say.

But Tie Gang just ignored him and said, "Then begin."

As soon as he said this, Johnny turned to look at me while raising his hand.

When his hand raised, there was this magic fluctuation that came from him.

He was clearly using his ability.

Johnny's ability was the B Rank Vine Control, so as soon as he raised his hand, there were vines that poked out of the ground.

He must have scattered the seeds in the ground earlier when he had been waiting in the arena. Or else, it would have been impossible for vines to suddenly appear out of nowhere like this.

When I saw this, I just simply muttered under my breath, "Stronger and faster."

With a swing of my sword, I cut right through the vines with the burning blade in my hand.

Before swinging, I had made sure to put one of the flame talismans that I received onto my sword.

The vines didn't stand a chance at all against this flaming sword.

But the fact that I had used the talisman drew quite a bit of criticism.

"Look at that, he can't even use his own powers to fight. He has to use the borrowed powers of the talisman…"

"Shh, don't say it so loud or else Tie Gang will hear you. It's clear that there's an unspoken relationship between them."

"Humph, all he can do is rely on money and relations unlike us who had to work hard for everything that we have."

It was clear that they weren't happy with me and thought that I was some kind of spoiled brat who relied on money to get what I had.

Of course, this was all because of the seeds that Johnny had sown.

But I ignored them and focused on Johnny.

He had a surprised look on his face when he saw that I had cut up his vines, but he didn't remain idle for long.

He quickly summoned more vines and he took a different approach. Instead of sending them all at once, he was sending them forward in irregular intervals.

He was planning on using this irregular timing to catch me off guard.

It was just too bad that I was already prepared for this. I easily dodged the ones that I could dodge and then cut down the ones that I couldn't.

There seemed to be no problem at all as I avoided all the vines that came at me.

At the same time, I could see that he was getting tired from controlling so many vines to attack me. The vines were getting slower and slower, making it easier for me to dodge.

What was his end plan here?

As I was wondering this, there was a vine that suddenly came from behind me that grabbed my leg.

When I looked down, I found that it was a vine that I had cut that had suddenly regrown itself.

That was it!

He had been planning on creating a trap and was waiting for me to fall into it like I had just now.

It seemed that I had given him too little credit.