Rise of the Demon King: Caleb Gonzales's Rat Race

Chapter 173: More Questions

Takisha shrugged as she said, "We're not sure. It's not like we've had experience becoming the demon king. We don't know how the process works exactly. All we know is that the one who kills the previous demon king becomes the new one."

"Based on what we know, we can assume the process takes time." Mildred paused to think for a moment before adding, "Your case is the exception to the rule."

Caleb couldn't argue with that. It was a bit annoying that there were no more details regarding how the whole thing worked, but there was nothing he could do about it. Actually, now that he thought about it, there was something more worrying occupying his mind. If the system had been so desperate to replace the missing demon king, why was it okay with sending him away?

Something wasn't adding up. If it really lied to him about going home, why would it bother to send him to this fake world? It wasn't like he could do anything against it if it decided to go back on its word. He didn't exactly have any