I Became the Demon King of Lust

Chapter 17: First drops

As soon as these items appeared, I didn't hesitate to pick them up.

These were the drops that came from defeating this monster.

No one knew just where these drops came from, but they just knew that monsters would drop items after they were defeated.

It was one of the unsolved mysteries of the world and people hadn't been able to figure it out even after all this time. So most people just stopped thinking about it and accepted it as the norm.

The one thing that I was surprised about was how many items had been dropped.

This was much more than the normal amount that I had heard about.

However, that didn't stop my enthusiasm as I went over these items.

The first things were a few copper coins that I just put in the special pouch that was on my bag.

These copper coins were dungeon coins, the currency of the dungeon.

They weren't used in our world since we still had our own system, but they were used in the dungeon shops that appeared. These dungeon shops appeared randomly and they only accepted the currency that came from the dungeon like these copper coins.

Though whether these copper coins were able to buy anything from the dungeon shops was a completely different question.

After all, those dungeon shops only sold the highest quality items that even the top rankers were after.

So dungeon coins weren't used on Earth, but there was a market for them.

It was just too bad that the exchange rate was very low since it was something that could be farmed quite easily. The only ones that actually bought them were the high rankers who needed a lot of dungeon coins to buy something special.

Still, they were worth money, so there was no reason not to keep them.

I moved on to the second item which was the standard magic crystal.

This was something that every monster dropped as well since this was something that every monster had.

Magic crystals had become the new power source in our world after discovering that they were a safe and clean source of energy. These were crystals that contained all of the mana that a monster had before it died.

Scientists had found that this mana was a clean energy that could be used without limits, so it had become the energy that had replaced all fossil fuels. This had reversed climate change on Earth and had ushered in a new age of clean energy.

Nowadays, most things run on magic crystals instead of any other form of energy.

So magic crystals were always in demand.

The third item was a vial of some kind of liquid.

When I looked at it, there was a screen that popped up to show me what it was which surprised me.

After all, normally one would need to bring these items out to an appraiser before they were able to find out what they were. Only those that had appraisal skills would be able to appraise these items dropped by the monsters in the dungeon.

I didn't have this appraisal skill, but I had…the demon king system.

Could it be that the demon king system allowed me to appraise things like this?

This really was a pleasant surprise since appraisal skills were rare and well in demand.

But I realized a problem…

I had already awakened and my power had been recorded. So if I suddenly appeared to have some kind of appraisal skill…that would attract a lot of attention and that would be very bad.

After all, I was a demon king…the enemy of humanity.

The moment that I was found, I would be hunted by every human out there.

So it seemed like I had no choice but to keep silent about this.

But still, for now, I could use this appraisal ability.

[Slime Acid]

A vile of acid from a slime. Has a strong corrosive ability.

It seemed that this vial was filled with the acid that made up the inner fluids of a slime.

I had already seen how powerful it was when I killed that slime earlier, so there was no doubt that this would be a useful item in the future.

Then I turned my attention to the fourth and final item.

Once again, as soon as my eyes fell onto it, there was a screen that popped up.

But this time, it was different from before.

[Strange Orb]

Unknown use.

That was all that was written on the screen that had appeared.

So I pushed that screen aside and looked carefully at this thing, but all that I saw was a black orb that seemed to have some kind of mist swirling inside of it. I couldn't find anything special about this and it felt like it was just a normal orb.

Well, the one thing that I did find was that it was quite fragile and it seemed like it would crack with just a bit of force.

Of course, I didn't crack it since I had no idea what this thing was.

The appraisal of the demon king system had said that it had an unknown use, so there was no way that I was going to risk this while I was in the dungeon. There were still other monsters here, so I didn't waste any time putting these drops in my bag and heading off again.

But before I could go far, I heard the sound of more things bouncing in front of me.

This was a very familiar sound, one that I had heard not that long ago.

There was mistaking this since if there was one, there would be others, so I was certain that these were slimes.

I had already taken care of one slime, so there was no reason for me to fear these ones even if there were more than before.

So without hesitation, I headed towards the sound of the bouncing with an excited look on my face.

After all, each monster killed meant money gathered.