I Became the Demon King of Lust

After the first moment, I realized that the temperature was rising rapidly.

Since that five minute mark, it was as if the temperature of the room kept climbing and climbing. It was as if we were in an oven and someone had just turned that oven on.

The heat was similar to getting closer and closer to the blue phoenix at first, but then it became even hotter than standing beside the blue phoenix.

This was a heat that was making me sweat buckets, but that wasn't it.

I could actually feel my skin getting burned from the air that was around me.

This was not a heat that I could endure at this rate, so I had no choice but to stop running and take out the gem that Bing Xin gave me to keep myself cool.

This only worked for a few seconds before the heat was too strong even for the gem to stop.

I had no choice but to put the gem away since I could feel that its powers were weakening under this heat. If I kept this gem out, there was no doubt that it would be destroyed by this heat in a matter of time.

Seeing that I stopped running, the blue phoenix asked, "What's wrong? Why did you stop running?"

Hearing this, I immediately turned to her and asked, "My lady, do you know why it's getting so hot?"

The blue phoenix had a confused look at first as she looked around herself and said, "It's not that hot."

But then after thinking about it, she suddenly said, "Oh right, that's the natural heat that comes from my body. Once the challenger enters the room, the room seals and the heat gets trapped inside of this room. Until the challenger disappears, the heat will continue to build up inside of this room until it reaches high temperatures."

Then as if it was an afterthought, she said, "But it shouldn't be that hot that it would affect you."

The way that she said this was so casual that it didn't seem like it was important at all, but…

This was a very big deal for me!

After all, I was currently being cooked alive by the heated air of this room.

The longer that I stayed in this place, the more that I would be cooked by the heated air.

I had to figure out a way to reduce the heat or get out of this place as soon as possible.

Getting out of this place…there were only two ways.

One was to let the blue phoenix let me pass this round and reach the top of the Tower of Trials.

The second was to die and return to that respawn room.

Of course I would prefer one over the other, but it didn't seem like the first option was going to happen. After all, the blue phoenix was currently looking at me with a look like she found this boring.

There was no doubt that she wouldn't allow me to pass with just this.

As for finishing the laps…there was no way that I would be able to do that.

This heat was just too much for me to even stand there, let alone run like that.

So the only thing that I could do was…

"My lady, is it possible to turn down the heat? I'm sure that this isn't much for someone as great as yourself, but for a lowly mortal like me…Well, I'll die at this rate." I tried to act as humble as possible since that was the most likely way to convince her.

The blue phoenix looked at me with a gaze that almost seemed like it didn't matter to her.

But then she said, "Oh, is that so? It's too bad that I can't actually do anything about this. Even if I were to stop the heat coming from me, it won't get rid of the heat that is already in this room. So if you can't overcome the current heat, then you'll still die."

My chin dropped when I heard this, but this wasn't the worst part yet…

The blue phoenix then said in a softer voice that I was still able to hear, "Not to mention, it will be uncomfortable if I do hold back my powers. So I really don't want to."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

I really didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this point.

My life was worth so little that she didn't want to suffer a bit of discomfort just to help me get rid of this heat.

I could feel that the heat was still climbing around me which meant that the blue phoenix hadn't turned off the heat that was coming from her yet.

I could even see my skin turning red at this point, just like the colour a lobster would turn if they were boiled.

The only thing I could do was say with a bitter smile, "Then what should we do?"

The blue phoenix didn't hesitate at all as she looked at me and asked, "You still have one more attempt after this, right?"

I was surprised and caught off guard by this sudden question from the blue phoenix, but I still slowly gave a nod in the end.

The blue phoenix suddenly revealed a smile as she said, "Then all you have to do is come back again. Once you die, the heat will dissipate and then you can come back to try it again. To compensate you, I'll even cut the laps that you have to run in half."

I just looked at the blue phoenix with a look as if I couldn't tell if she was being serious or not.

But the blue phoenix's expression didn't change at all as she said this.

It seemed that she was indeed being serious about this.

However, the fact that she had said this with a straight face really made me want to curse her and punch her in the face!