I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

There were about a dozen or so degenerate nobles captured in the Demon King's castle, disguised as monsters. At the moment, half of them were tied up and thrown at the cave entrance, while the other half were still being interrogated in the cave. Google Search Reading

Those thrown to the cave entrance were untied by a gnoll, who released their bound hands and feet, letting them escape into the depths of the forbidden forest; and behind them, dozens of gnoll cubs were watching eagerly, waiting to chase after them in batches.

The one who had just been untied obviously hadn't hidden the location of his magical materials, so his body was relatively intact, and he hadn't lost his mind like the previous one. Knowing that whether he escaped or not, he would die, he didn't really want to do as the gnoll wished.

"Listen to me, I'm very familiar with the demons of the Pleasure District, especially that, that Bao'er, we had a night..." The noble stood up and explained to the gnolls.

"Yi haha... Did you hear that? He's very familiar with the demons of the Pleasure District!" "Hahaha, the Pleasure District..."

"Here! Now is our Pleasure District! You are our pleasure!" The gnoll hunters shouted, wagging their tails and approaching the noble.

The noble tried to remain calm, stepping on the damp ground and wanting to say something, but when the gnoll cubs opened their huge mouths and pounced, this degenerate noble was still frightened and lost his courage. Hearing the grinding of teeth constantly approaching behind him, he ran away.

Amidst the gnolls' laughter, the degenerate noble quickly disappeared into the depths of the dense forest, along with one large, three small, and four gnolls.

"Next group, who's the lucky one?" The gnoll pushed out the next degenerate noble, and the gnoll cubs were eager to try again.

This was the general situation at the cave entrance.

Li Yue and Yingying, and Dandan mixed into a mass of shadows, attached to the tree closest to the cave entrance, preparing to act separately according to Li Yue's arrangement.

Since the task was not so dangerous, Li Yue's arrangement was also very simple—Dandan and Yingying stayed outside the cave, securing Li Yue's retreat route; while Li Yue himself sneaked into the cave to analyze the special existences among the gnoll family.

There were many ways to sneak in, and Li Yue chose the most conservative one—earth escape.

With the octopus tentacles' "earth element affinity" as support, Li Yue could move freely in the earth and stone without being discovered by the gnolls, even safer than transforming into a shadow to enter the cave.

Although there were always inexplicable bugs in the soil, under the Keeper's instruction, Li Yue would have at least 4 hours to minimize the disturbance of the bugs, paving the way for the collection work.

"Understood?" Li Yue clarified the retreat strategy to Dandan and Yingying, fearing that the two demon children would have a whim and come up with something unnecessary.

"Friend, mind your own business." Dandan impatiently displayed a line of words, "As long as you come back on time, we won't have any problems, but if you're overtime, we'll come to save you, hehe."

Having participated in many closed combat trainings, Dandan learned to joke from Damon Benben—of course, it might not be a joke.

Li Yue scanned the gnolls at the cave entrance with his mind, while tending towards the side of the cave along the shadow of the tree, preparing to penetrate the earth; but just as he left the big tree, he suddenly found a silent gnoll at the cave entrance that was very special.

[Analyzing... 67%...]

That gnoll looked about the same size as "Uncle Hyena." Originally, Li Yue thought it was a gnoll hunter, but the sudden prompt made Li Yue stop and temporarily shrink beside the shadow of the grass.

The analysis speed was very fast, jumping directly from 60%... Also a gnoll hunter, but there was something different?

Li Yue carefully wrapped it with his mind, not letting go of the slightest detail—this gnoll did not shout around the degenerate nobles like its counterparts, but squatted slightly, sitting on the mountain ridge directly above the cave, looking like a ruthless guard.

It was also when Li Yue focused his attention on the investigation that he discovered that this gnoll had two rows of feathers growing on its ribs, and something seemed to be concealed under the feathers.

With the experience of investigating the blue-purple cloak, Li Yue extended his mind inward along the seams of the feathers, only to find that at the root of this gnoll's ribs... there were actually two daggers hanging?

The aura of the daggers was cold and sharp.

A chill would rise as soon as his mind touched them, making Li Yue suspect that it was some kind of ice-attribute demon relic—whether it was what he saw from Budibug's memory or what he heard from Oogie Boogie, it proved that the gnoll family had a few good demon relics. The two daggers on the gnoll's ribs... were they one of them?

Soon, the Demon Illustrated Handbook completed the analysis, and Li Yue also saw the information of this gnoll as he wished—its number was still 122 Gnoll Hunter, so Li Yue ruled out that the daggers under its ribs were caused by "mutation."

Like the Skeleton Knight Garareck... was because of some kind of mutation, causing him to break away from the existence of a skeleton and be listed separately; then the gnoll in front of him was still 122, then it must not be a mutation, but caused by a demon relic.

The introduction was roughly similar to that of the Gnoll Hunter. Li Yue only found the difference in "Skills" and "Weaknesses"—in the skill column, in addition to the usual gnoll hunter skills such as "Tracking" and "Biting", Li Yue unexpectedly saw "Flying", and understood what the feathers were for.

It was just not clear whether it was flying or gliding—not seeing wings, how would it fly?

However, Li Yue was willing to call it "Flying Gnoll" to make a certain distinction from ordinary gnoll hunters.

In addition to "Flying", the Flying Gnoll's skill column also had several magic spells related to extreme cold, which should be derived from a certain essence of the dagger, such as "Extreme Cold Barrier", "Ice Line", and so on.

At the same time, unlike its other counterparts, the weakness of this "Flying Gnoll" became its ribs. Obviously, learning to fly also forced it to change its physiological structure, hiding some weaknesses...

What made Li Yue headache was that during the Killing Cup, if there was such a gnoll hunter who could fly in the sky, UU Kanshu would not only exceed the attack range of the "Killing Sea Butterfly", but also be more easily grasped by it. The law of the formation, so as to make a targeted attack...

And this was only one of the five special gnolls, what more troublesome abilities would the remaining four have?

Li Yue was silent—sure enough, the gnoll family, as the second largest force in the Forbidden Forest, could not be underestimated.

While Li Yue was thinking, half of the degenerate nobles who had been brought to the cave entrance had been released, and the little gnolls who had not had time to match their prey were drooling, jumping and jumping, looking at the gnoll hunters beside them.

"Let's go to the cave."

"Hey, don't go, it's dangerous." A big gnoll took back a cub, "Your Uncle Flaina is still at the door, do you want to be frozen into jerky?"

Flaina... Li Yue silently remembered the name of the Flying Gnoll.

As the big gnoll said, its neck exerted a slight force, and a thick layer of fur was draped around its neck before it stepped into the cave; while the "Flying Gnoll" Flaina on the top of the cave nodded to the big gnoll, clamped its armpits, seemingly afraid that the constant release of coldness would cause accidental injury.

Would it also restrict the actions of the same kind? This might be the side effect of this demon relic—Li Yue silently observed and kept this information in mind.

A flying gnoll who masters extreme cold attacks... Li Yue thought about countermeasures, while detouring to the soil next to the cave, removing the disguise of the shadow transformation, and plunged into the soil.

It wasn't until he touched the coldness of the ground that Li Yue understood why the gnoll family wanted Flaina to guard the door—it turned out that this was the "Extreme Cold Barrier"...

In the soil, one of Li Yue's octopus tentacles was suddenly frozen stiff, broken, and scratched the thread ball with regret.

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