I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“Ding ding ding…”

The three coins on the tentacle jingled softly. Li Yue twisted, and the coins bounced up, landing as a bone chariot and a heart.

At the same time, Li Yue felt complete.

This time, Li Yue dared not directly touch the Heart of Valor again. He used his mind to hold it, snatched a piece of rag from the residents who were evacuating from the foot of Mount Lou, wrapped it up, and hung it on a rib of the bone mass.

Fortunately, Abaddon was a miser and didn't destroy all the coins when he died.

Knowing that it would take Tom time to count the spoils, Li Yue couldn't wait to smear Jesse's blood on the magic mirror, wanting to trade for the magic cannon as soon as possible.

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Li Yue was really annoyed by Copper Spoon's constant nagging; his brain was about to grow calluses.

"Found it?" Jesse had asked too many times recently and had lost the patience for pleasantries.

Li Yue didn't waste any words and directly threw the Heart of Valor wrapped in rags into the mirror.

"Whose is it? How long has it been dead? Was it taken during a fierce battle?" Jesse held down the rag, not eagerly grabbing it, but asking first.

"Does it matter?" Li Yue was surprised, wondering if it would affect the quality.

"Of course, it matters. The activity of the Heart of Valor will rapidly decline after it's removed, and the intensity of the battle is directly related to its freshness…" Jesse knew he couldn't get a clear answer from Li Yue, so he simply opened the rag and observed it himself.

The Heart of Valor was fresh, tender, and throbbing.

"Just taken?" Jesse squinted, seemingly wanting to see where Li Yue was.

Li Yue had, of course, adjusted the angle long ago; behind Van Helsing's head was only bone.

He didn't expect Abaddon's coins to have a preservation function…

Seeing the Heart of Valor in almost perfect condition, Jesse no longer cared about who it was taken from, grabbed it, and rolled his eyes.

Li Yue was a little curious about his own reaction when he held it back then.

A moment later, Jesse came back to his senses, his chest heaving, covered in cold sweat, obviously terrified.

"I saw it, I saw it…" Jesse murmured to himself, still shaken.

"Where's the cannon?" Li Yue was not interested in what Jesse saw at all, his mind only on the magic cannon.

Jesse suddenly woke up, wiped his sweat, took out a magic bag from his arms, and threw it to Li Yue across the mirror.

Li Yue was so anxious that he almost went through the mirror to get it.

Opening a gap in the magic bag, Li Yue probed his mind inside and sensed two magic cannons with warped barrels and a cannon body that was almost shattered into parts.

The barrels were covered with salt stains and moisture, as if they had been salvaged from the sea.

"Satisfied?" Jesse, after Li Yue inspected the goods, was also eager to hold the advancement ceremony.

"Of course, I'm satisfied, but I want more." Li Yue wasn't sure if three magic cannons were enough for Copper Spoon to develop an improved version; the more, the better before success.

"No problem, I will continue to search, and I will also update the requirements." Jesse prepared to leave.

"Wait, what changes will a Knight undergo upon reaching the 8th rank?" Li Yue suddenly thought that this noble was about to be promoted to an 8th-rank Knight, so he might as well ask her what special abilities she had, so as not to be caught off guard like when he encountered Abaddon and Huntelaar.

The 8th rank was a qualitative change for a hero and worthy of attention.

"A lot, improving combat instinct, influence, immunity to fear-based magic or curses, calling people out for duels…" Jesse spoke extremely quickly, introducing Li Yue to the general idea in a machine-gun-like manner.

While Li Yue was listening with interest, he suddenly noticed a glare from the mirror, and the communication was cut off.

Huh? It was clearly wrapped tightly with the bone mass, so how could there be light?

The light seemed like a dagger, stabbing into Van Helsing's face. Li Yue quickly coated the magic mirror with a layer of photonic pigment to cut off the increasingly intense light.

[Malice + 4444]

Li Yue was shocked and quickly opened the bone mass. He saw on the side of the towering bone tree, far away, a half-machine-transformed, modified hero, carrying a giant sword twice as long as his height, rushing towards him.

Steam was coming out of the modified hero's chest, and his whole body was operating at high speed.

Beside him were two teams of clockwork soldiers, chasing neatly alongside him.

Unlike what he saw in the Blood River simulation battle, the gears on these two teams of clockwork soldiers were more sophisticated, and the outer skin was no longer simple iron, but more rounded armor.

The Battle of Steel City had passed for decades, and the clockwork soldiers had, of course, iterated through several rounds.

Li Yue knew at a glance that this half-machine-transformed modified hero and the clockwork soldiers came from the Tas Empire—obviously, the commotion of the Long Bone Tree of Mount Lou was too great, alarming the strongmen of the Tas Empire.

During the run, the modified hero remotely locked onto the bone mass and raised the giant sword in his hand when he was still dozens of miles away from Li Yue.

What was this doing?

Li Yue also noticed that, along with the modified hero's actions, the accumulated water on the ground… even the slightly reflective volcanic mud, like the magic mirror just now, burst into strong light.

The clockwork soldiers traveling with the hero also raised their palms, revealing the prisms in their palms.

The prisms seemed to be injecting magic into the hero's giant sword. The strong light caused the giant sword to suddenly lengthen, and in a few seconds, it stretched to a height of a hundred meters, almost reaching the branches of the bone tree.

Li Yue couldn't help but chuckle.

The Tas Empire's modified guy was coming to chop him with a hundred-meter-long broadsword?

The Empire had actually mastered this technology…

[Malice + 4444+4444… ]

At the same time, there was also a cloud in the sky, inexplicably drifting directly above the bone mass; the clouds churned, and a hand stretched out from inside, seemingly wanting to push away the air in the clouds.

But the next second, the cloud closed and then dissipated.

"Huh?" Before dissipating, a voice of doubt came from the clouds.

Li Yue sprinkled the egg's particles upwards, the teleportation was forcibly interrupted, and the hero was unable to step over.

Although the cloud dissipated, the strong light remained.

It changed its angle and radiated to the vicinity of the bone mass, forming a cage.

The huge light sword finally arrived above the bone mass, aiming to fall.

There was no escaping it.

"Damn it, there's finally a demon without eyes showing its head here…" The modified hero's voice was loud.

The people who were evacuating from the Lou Mountain range heard him, as if they had heard the voice of a savior.

Li Yue thought that this hero was indeed right.

"Eh? The one in the cloud didn't come? Is he slacking off again…"

"Who are you?" The modified hero was extremely fast, only a dozen miles away from the bone mass, and the giant sword had already fallen halfway.

"Who am I?" Li Yue repeated the hero's question, asking himself.

I am Li Yue, the brain spirit of the Fifth Library, the wielder of the Bone Sword, the Son of the Devil…

The Lord of Authority of the Library.

What about the Lord of Authority?

The Lord of Authority must not leave the city without the permission of the Demon King.

Li Yue remembered the jingle, and the lie used to leave the city was exposed, and the surrounding air began to ooze blood.

"Want to escape?" The hero's strong light was even brighter, almost completely enveloping the bone mass.

But the next second, the strong light was erased by the irresistible blood color, and the bone mass turned into a drop of blood, forcibly pulled back to Demon King City.

The light sword landed, scouring everything, and a thick gully was plowed on the ground.

But the target point was empty, the machine hero scratched his head, searching around for the bone mass, but there was no response.

"Damn, running really fast… A new expeditionary force formation?"

The modified hero first looked at the towering, deformed bone tree, and then looked in the direction of Demon King City.