I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"What were you doing just now?" Egghead seemed to understand, yet didn't quite.

"We also need to leave an informant, so even if he's not in the library, we'll know what he's up to." Shadow successfully dealt with Tom's side and returned to the upper cave with Egghead. "And then... he can use the dominoes to find us, and we can also use Tom to find him. Two-way communication."

Shadow took advantage of Li Read's sleep to plant an informant.

After busying with the Sixth Archive and the Bone Chamber, Shadow ran to the kitchen newly opened for Piggy, greeting them and instructing the Mini-Minis interested in cooking to be at Piggy's disposal, developing chaotic cuisine suitable for the library.

The Six-Armed Pig came here to cook, so he naturally didn't refuse. He and his good friends, the Mini-Minis, first tasted the desserts he brought, then sorted the side dishes sent by the Demon Kitchen food cart, moving between the warehouse and the kitchen, quickly getting into the rhythm of creating an exclusive cafeteria for the library.

During this trip, Shadow also sorted out the behavior of the various demons in the library and assigned tasks to Piggy, Brain Spirit, and the Mini-Minis, not wasting time, which also gave Li Read ample time to rest.

Returning to the upper level of the library, the scarlet Brain Spirit was still sleeping. Shadow returned to its underside, enjoying the embrace of Egghead's particles. The three Demon Sons fell asleep together.

This sleep of the three demons lasted until the deadline of the "three days" mentioned by Fuxi—the last day—if they didn't solve the mystery of the cloak, they would lose the so-called "most favorable environment."

And also, at this red hour, Shadow and Egghead were supposed to report to the Abyssal Maw.

Li Read was awakened by Shadow—without "completion," Li Read's biological clock seemed somewhat chaotic after just advancing, not waking up on time as before.

"Damn, how long have I been asleep?" Li Read didn't even remember being knocked unconscious by Shadow, only feeling refreshed. Those originally complicated and intricate thoughts became clear and organized, no longer constantly encroaching on his mind.

"Two days, today is the third day." Shadow had also been accompanying Li Read, sharing this peaceful day and night, feeling very peaceful at this moment.

"Two days..." Li Read thought of Budhiberg. He wondered how much could be done in two days, and couldn't help but suddenly shudder. Then he saw Shadow replay the arrangements of the past two days for Li Read.

In the Bone Chamber, the Mini-Minis and several Brain Spirits were fiercely discussing. Lulu disassembled the ignition device of the magic-guided motorcycle and placed it in the library's mechanism pool planned by Li Read, gesturing that this ignition device could trigger many kinds of mechanisms, and how to use them, etc.

The kitchen and warehouse had already been connected by Piggy and the Mini-Minis, turning it into a cafeteria. Feifei also brought five Mini-Minis and three Brain Spirits to learn cooking. They had already made a lot of food that looked completely inedible, but they were tasting it very happily.

In the Sixth Archive, Tom was holding a book of Basic Demonology, muttering, the shadow on his eyes gradually fading, wriggling into two dark circles.

On the bloody corridors of the middle and lower levels, a looming brain occasionally climbed onto the rafters, sometimes hiding behind the window spirits, disappearing every time the cross mark was about to overlap with the body. It was the Brain Spirit Lord Budhiberg, constantly escaping, escaping, and escaping for two days.

After using his authority to check the situation in the library, Li Read felt relieved and said to Shadow, "You've arranged everything?"

"Yes, it's all your arrangements. I'm helping you carry them out." What Shadow did was basically what Li Read had thought of before falling asleep, with the only addition of planting an eye on Tom, which he also informed Li Read of.

"Even when you're about to leave, you don't forget to keep an eye on me..." Li Read switched to another perspective, looked at Tom's dark circles, complaining while also finding it a bit interesting—these two Demon Sons, joining the army while watching how our library develops?

"Well, then communicate at any time." Li Read also moved his brain grooves and took out two sticky dominoes.

"No hurry. According to the schedule, you should open this thing, right?" Shadow turned into an arrow and pointed to the blue-purple cloak above the Soul Altar.

"Yeah, three days, today is the third day." Li Read's credibility in the prophecies of the Fire Burning Valley prophets... leaned more towards believing. Plus, now that Egghead and Shadow were here, and the library's magic was almost full, there was no better time to open the cloak than today.

"By the way, friends, according to the summons we received, we should also open the gate today." Egghead threw the particles into a crack in the upper cave, seemingly ready to invade and replenish the space at any time, opening the passage to the Abyssal Maw.

"One thing at a time, aren't you curious about this cloak?" Li Read currently knew that there should be a life form inside the cloak, also a secret existence that could make the Demon King instructor Mentor sneer, equivalent to the status of authority, now... the moment to reveal the truth has finally arrived.

"Then friends... shall we do this first?" Egghead retracted the particles and pointed to the cloak on the Soul Altar.

After repeatedly checking the library's magic power and the state of the Deception Staff, Li Read put on the "Transparent Head" of Template 1 and transmitted a "3, 2, 1" thought to Egghead, his will piercing into the gap of the blue-purple cloak again!

But for some reason, the state inside the cloak at this moment was completely different from before!

In the past, the cloak was like a maze with nine doors. Even if Li Read painstakingly opened three, it would lock back two in the blink of an eye; but this time, the doors of the maze inside the cloak were all open, letting Li Read's will pierce in, going around and around to the core.

Before there were doors and locks, but this time it was completely undefended, as if actively inviting Li Read.

"There's a problem..." Li Read found it difficult to determine whether this change was due to the Demon King City deciding to open its gates, or because his "advancement" a few days ago had disrupted some structure in the library.

Shadow grew larger and then smaller, seeming to be telling Li Read... that the former possibility was greater.

After passing through several cracks and adhesions, Li Read finally came to the core area he had never been to before—in the very center of the blue-purple cloak, there seemed to be a membrane wrapping something, slowly pulsating.

And along with the pulsation of the central membrane, the magic power of the library, the souls of the Brain Spirits, the souls of the Mini-Minis... all seemed to be forming some kind of connection with the cloak.

Li Read stayed for a moment, thinking that he had already come to this point, and there was nothing more to hesitate. While consciously linking the "Deception Staff" to avoid risks, he used his will as a knife and pierced the constantly pulsating membrane.

"Sizzle..." A stream of pus spurted out of the membrane.

And this same stream of pus... suddenly evaporated upon encountering the air, completely merging with the entire cloak, and began to wriggle violently above the Soul Altar.

Along with the wriggling of the cloak, it seemed that a flower was growing above the Soul Altar; changing in an instant, the flower grew, withered, and then reopened. Finally, the cloak draped down, no longer wrinkled into a ball.

After opening it, Li Read, Shadow, and Egghead, the three Demon Sons, were a little surprised.

Inside the blue-purple cloak... was actually a baby?

Or a baby with a transparent brain, where you could see the brain?

"Do you... know who I am?" As soon as the baby spoke, magic surged.