I Became the Demon King of Lust

Chapter 426 The Awakener Association's gamble

While looking at me still, Asura suddenly said, "We will be providing support to the winner of this tournament. They will be given priority in all dungeons managed by the Awakener Association and they will receive the greatest support of the Awakener Association staff."

He went on to list a bunch of different benefits that would be offered to me, but I couldn't help knitting my brows when I heard this.

I understood what Julius had meant by this previously right away.

Cooperating with the Awakener Association, that was not something that everyone would benefit from.

There were those people that would benefit from it since the Awakener Association did have immense resources. But for those that weren't as close to the Awakener Association, this kind of connection with them wasn't useful.

It would actually bring more harm than help since it would force them to come to a confrontation with the Awakener Association.

It made sense that this wouldn't be as helpful to Julius since he was from the Rothschild Family.

They were a family that had hid their wealth and power for a long time, so they naturally didn't want to be exposed by cooperating with the Awakener Association.

But that made me wonder why Tammy had given up.

The Sol Warriors shouldn't be at odds with the Awakener Association, so she should have benefitted from this as well…

As for me, I would naturally benefit from this.

After all, I had Eliott who I was already working with.

I had already agreed to cooperate with the Awakeners Association through Eliott, so there was no doubt that this would only make our cooperation even better. As long as I didn't do anything that would harm that relationship or Eliott suddenly didn't want to cooperate with me, then nothing should have changed this.

When he finished saying all of this, Asura came right up in front of me and reached his hand out as he said, "I'm looking forward to working with you from now on."

I looked down at him and slowly reached my hand out to shake his hand.

But I could feel that there was something strange about the way that he looked at me. Read the latest on empire

It was almost as if there was something else that he wanted from me, but I didn't know just what he wanted.

After taking my hand, I suddenly felt Asura pulling me forward off the podium.

I landed beside him and he wrapped his arm around my shoulder before saying into the mic, "This young man is a prime example of what the younger generation of Awakeners should be. Working hard to achieve a goal and becoming the best member of society that one can be. In these dark times, we should all strive to act in this manner to benefit society as much as possible."

There was only silence that followed after Asura said this.

The crowd just looked at him with very strange looks, as if they couldn't understand what he was saying.

Dark times?

What did he mean by dark times?

In this current era, humans were flourishing because of the resources that came from the dungeons. They had many new technologies that were fueled by the magic crystals that they farmed from the dungeons.

So with the single threat that everyone united against, there was less open conflict.

Though of course, it was impossible to completely get rid of all conflict since there would be a competition for resources no matter what happened.

But it was far from calling it dark times since the world was overall better.

So what was he talking about?

Asura could see the way that the crowd looked confused and he suddenly said, "The reason I say that this world is now in dark times is because of the appearance of the final enemy for humanity. The reason I say this is because of the appearance of the demon king."

There wasn't a single mouth that was closed in this stadium after he said this.

Even I couldn't help looking at him in shock when he said this.

Though this matter had been reported before, it was only regarded as traces of the demon king and no one had ever confirmed that there was a demon king.

But now, Asura, the third ranked person of the Awakener Association was announcing the existence of the demon king. When someone of his status announced something like this, there was no way that people could ignore it.

It was just…why would he announce something like this?

Anyone who thought about it would be able to figure out that by doing this, he would be causing chaos.

Just by announcing this, there was no doubt that people would panic and spread many rumours about this matter.

So why did he do it?

His next words explained it all.

As soon as I heard them, I knew why he was doing this.

"I'm sure that everyone is worried about this, but that is why I have come here today. I want to see the new generation of Awakeners with everyone. They will be the ones that will lead our world into the future and be our vanguard against the demon kings.

I want everyone to know that our Awakener Association will be there to help everyone in the fight against the demon king." Asura said in a very passionate voice.

He was creating a public enemy and then inserting the Awakener Association as the one that protected everyone.

In this way, the Awakener Association's prestige and influence would become much greater than before.

They would be able to become the organization that everyone trusted and wanted to join once they established themselves as the greatest defender of humanity.

But in a sense, this was also a gamble since it all depended on how the crowd reacted.

If the crowd didn't react, it didn't matter what they said about themselves since they wouldn't support the Awakener Association.

But this gamble paid off for the Awakener Association in the end.