I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“My sons… my people… the war drums have sounded… emerge…”

The demon legion commander, already the size of an infant, suddenly spoke in the demonic tongue with Memphistos's intonation, which was very strange.

“The blood cocoon has opened… my one thousand three hundred and twenty sons… my demon legion commanders…”

“Tonight… we shall devour the gods together…”

Immediately following this, as angels continued to descend from the edge of the new sun, red-skinned demons began to gather within the red mist, forming a scarlet river in the sky to meet the angels.

Li Yue felt that this scene was familiar, except that there was sunlight now.

Only then did Li Yue understand what the demon legions constantly being born from the Abyssal Maw… were preparing for.

The Abyssal Maw finally mobilized its entire army.

The angels' singing weakened, and the red mist, like a large net, covered the stars in the sky in reverse; holy light began to diffuse, and the balanced formation between the angels was broken, the sky cut apart by scarlet red.

Thousands of the sharpest red strands gathered near the Holy City, clashing against the light pouring down from the sky, like a giant crocodile devouring a waterfall, constantly twisting its body, rotating and crushing.

The demons counterattacked, and Li Yue, of course, immediately took action.

Li Yue first distanced himself, took out a branch from the giant bone tree, using the bone sword as its edge, and slashed at the angels from afar.

This was still Li Yue's inspiration from that machine soldier hero—holy light could be blocked with bone clusters as shields, but the light thorns were too bizarre, so he tried not to get close and just chop from a distance.

The Self-Healing Bone was originally Li Yue's sensed object, and although a branch was several hundred meters long, it was effortless to use. A few sweeps knocked the angels tumbling in place, cracks appearing everywhere.

Although he was essentially still using the bone sword to slash, the giant bone tree could effectively shield against the holy light, slowing down the purification, making it very suitable for distracting the angels and taking the opportunity to hit their weak spots.

And with the endless red mist, red-skinned demons, and bloodthirsty desire as support, the angels' singing's effect on weakening the demons also became negligible. Li Yue thus enjoyed the benefits brought by Memphistos, preparing to purely use brute force to eliminate the angel in front of him.

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Although the angel was already covered in wounds, it still had no emotion. After spinning the light thorns a few more times, shaving off a few layers of the bone tree, it began to flash towards Li Yue.

Having experienced a month-long hand-to-hand combat with Hunterlar, Li Yue was completely capable of dealing with the angel in terms of combat reaction.

Using his brain, Li Yue stuck the bone sword in front of the angel.

After a series of clanging explosions, the distance between the angel and Li Yue did not decrease, but several pieces of its protruding waist were shaved off.

The angel's body was cut open, and the cracks were no longer soothed by the holy light, but instead had a tendency to burst.

Feeling the increasingly intense holy light leaking onto the ground, Li Yue felt more and more uneasy, decisively blocked the bone tree in front of him, and then saw countless light thorns explode, as if a flashbang had exploded in front of him.

It's just that this flashbang was deadly—the bone tree was pierced in the middle and crashed to the ground; the bone sword floated beside it, and Li Yue forgot to control it for a moment.

The angel died, and the red-skinned demons held by it were also liberated, roaring and rushing towards the next angel; and Li Yue recovered from the glare, carefully sensed the past, and did not notice any drops.

No drops from suicide?

It's really consistent with the believers guided by the priest's blessing.

Li Yue was even more curious about what the “source of faith” was.

Fortunately, there were still many angels along the way, and unless he was extremely unlucky, he would definitely be able to find the answer to the “source of faith”.

Looking at the mess on the ground and the demon guards who had just flown into the sky and died because of being contaminated by the holy light, Li Yue suddenly realized the angel's thorniness and accelerated his movement towards the ruins of the Holy City.

And in the ruins of the Holy City, a thick pillar of light rose from the ground, pointing to the new sun in the sky.

Shadow narrowed to the size of a well, missing half of its body, and stabilized its body by clinging to a broken wall's shadow.

Egg was completely deflated, like a kicked-out soccer ball, leaning listlessly against the wall.

Steel Baby was even more embarrassed, almost without complete skin all over its body, and most of its internal organs were lost, hiding behind Egg.

Although there was a thick red mist to resist, the Holy City's pillar of light was the strongest, filling the sky and the ground, and there was almost no space for Shadow to move safely.

What was even worse was that before the new sun appeared, Shadow had controlled dozens of priests and knights of the Holy See and fiercely fought against the radical faction entrenched in the ground; as a result, as soon as the new sun appeared, they broke free from Shadow's restraints and tore apart Shadow's body together with the angels descending from the sky.

Egg's pit was blasted into this shape by a self-detonating angel.

Right now, it was dizzy, and although it was still some distance from death, it had almost lost consciousness, like a drunkard.

Shadow was injured, and Steel Baby was of course no better off.

If it hadn't just stolen a part of the holy light, I'm afraid that Shadow might only have a quarter of its volume left, and Steel Baby himself probably wouldn't even have a body.

Very miserable.

At the same time, the angels and priests and knights were illuminated by the holy light, and their combat power greatly increased. At this moment, they were indiscriminately attacking above and below the ground—the angels' light thorns would not harm the priests and knights at all, let alone harm each other. The entire underground of the ruins was full of angels flashing and releasing light thorns in circles, with murderous intent everywhere.

The red mist seemed to have flooded the sky to fight against the new sun, and Shadow and the others could only choose the place where the holy light was the thinnest to change positions, and deal with the angels, and they might be cleansed by the holy light at any time.

“Hee hee, divine magic is formed, no one can stop it, the Heavenly Spine is finally coming down, I'm so angry I can't breathe…” Steel Baby looked at the sky, and when he mentioned the name “Heavenly Spine”, his mouth exploded instantly, and his tongue twirled.

“Hey… oh… there are still… bombing me… bombing you…” Egg swayed and turned in circles, seemingly accumulating power, preparing to catapult himself to the new sun.

“How is it? Aren’t you running yet? The Heavenly Spine is here, aren’t you afraid of being sucked to death?” Steel Baby’s mouth, which had finally grown back, exploded again, but this did not affect his communication with Shadow.

As the 23rd Demon King, Steel Baby would never avoid the name of the God of Faith.

“I won’t escape, I haven’t been promoted yet.” Shadow’s handwriting was very calm, as natural as “I’m going to eat today”.

“Still want to be promoted? Did you see the holy light outside?” Steel Baby teased, “You shadow demons are most afraid of holy light, and at the moment, on this continent, there is no holy light stronger than here.”

“No, the holy light there is the strongest.” Shadow made an arrow, pointing to the new sun in the sky.

“Go find the Heavenly Spine?” Steel Baby’s mouth exploded again, “Aren’t you afraid of death?”

“The most dazzling light can give birth to the most intense shadow.” Shadow’s handwriting was still very calm.

“Hee hee, as expected of the son of a demon.” Steel Baby was still laughing, as if this was the answer he was most looking forward to.

“Take the host… that is, me… to the sun, and then leave a spot on the most dazzling light, so as to condense the entity and complete the promotion…”

Steel Baby realized Shadow's thoughts.

“This is your plan?”

“Yes.” Shadow ticked on the ground.

“Then what are we waiting for! Let’s go!” Egg seemed to wake up from being drunk, or seemed even more delirious.

“Hee hee, then let’s go.” Steel Baby put the deflated Egg on his head like a hat, just covering his infant-sized head.

In the depths of the Holy City, a shadow swept across the sky and the earth, throwing itself into the new sun in the sky.