I Became the Demon King of Lust

As we stood there, we realized that we had no choice but to go along with it.

We didn't know what the mummies were building these houses for, but at least it would let us blend in and give us a place to operate from if we built this house.

This would help us get more information later on.

So after exchanging a look, we started dividing up the tasks.

There was a limit to the range of Long Shui Ling's illusions, so it wasn't as if we could get too far away from each other.

We would only be able to go so far without breaking the illusion.

So we weren't able to split up into teams that would be able to go off and find information.

There were two teams that were formed.

One was a team for building the house that we were supposed to build. That was left up to the group that was led by Blaze and Kaito.

The two of them would lead the others in building our house since they said that they had experience with things like this before.

Apparently, both of their parents owned construction companies, so they knew how to do things like this.

As for the other team…well, it wasn't so much of a team as just me.

I would be going around to the other plots and 'talking' to the other mummies to see if I could get any information from them.

Though…it really wouldn't be talking since I couldn't understand what they were saying.

It would be more like paying a courtesy call to neighbours after moving in.

As for Long Shui Ling, she was sitting in the middle of the plot just doing all that she could to maintain the illusion.

It was easier for her if we just did simple things like walking and talking, but it was much harder to match the illusions up when we did more intensive things like building the house.

So to make it easier on her, she would just sit still and focus on the illusions instead of helping with anything.
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At the same time, it consumed quite a bit of her magic power to keep these illusions up. So sitting still like this would let her preserve as much magic power as she could.

The only thing wrapped around me was a simple illusion, but that was fine since I had my Hypnosis.

I had already tested it and I could make the mummies see what they wanted to see, so it wasn't a problem at all to let them believe I was one of them even if the illusion failed.

So while they were building our house, I went around to talk to the various mummies building their houses.

Though to call it building really was an exaggeration.

It was better to call it stacking rocks into what seemed like a poor shelter.

It seemed like just a single shake would be enough to make these 'houses' that they built crumble.

But it made sense once one thought about it.

Monsters like these mummies didn't have a concept of building in the first place, so it wasn't as if they had prior knowledge of this. The fact that they were able to build these simple rock shelters was already considered good enough.

This was enough to prove that they had gained enough intelligence to figure things like this out.

I wouldn't look down on them since I knew that they were monsters with intelligence.

It was just too bad that I wasn't able to get anything out of them.

It was hard to have a conversation with these monsters that could only moan and gesture. Even if I could get them to answer my questions, it was a lot of confused gestures and moans since they didn't seem to have an answer for the questions that I was asking.

It seemed that they didn't know anything about why they suddenly gained intelligence.

They all said that it just happened one day and they were here.

So I had no choice but to head back while feeling dejected.

When I came back, I was surprised to find that our house was completely surrounded by mummies.

I immediately raised my guard when I saw this since I thought that my team's disguises had been broken. I was prepared to fight my way through and get them before running away…but it seemed like I was worried for nothing.

That was because these mummies hadn't gathered because they had seen through our disguises.

Instead, they were standing around watching my group build the house.

As soon as I saw the house that they were building, I immediately understood why all of the mummies had gathered like this.

The houses that the mummies built were nothing more than simple shelters that had been built by stacking rocks together.

But the house that my group made was an actual proper house.

They had found some weapons that had been dropped nearby and they were currently using these weapons to cut the stones into blocks. Those blocks were then stacked on top of each other with clay placed in between to seal the gaps.

It wasn't the best way to build a house, but it was definitely the best with what resources they had.

Not to mention…it was far beyond anything that the other mummies had built.

So naturally they attracted attention from the other mummies.

But I had to admit, these two weren't kidding when they said that they came from families that owned construction companies. It was clear that both Blaze and Kaito knew what they were doing with the way that they cut and stacked the stones.

When they saw that I was back, they put down their weapons and came to greet me.

But it was also at this time that the other mummies around us suddenly started moving forward. They came right up to us and surrounded us.

With how they surrounded us…it really seemed like a horror movie.

Were they about to attack us?