I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

[Analysis interrupted, record saved.]

Li Yue hadn't even figured out the function of the Demon Illustrated Handbook, so he didn't dare to analyze blindly and hurriedly withdrew his will.

Although the Demon King didn't detect the activation of the Demon Illustrated Handbook, he could sense the thoughts of the Brainlings, and a look of disgust flashed in his eyes.

[Malice Collection function activated, Malice +9999]

The Demon Illustrated Handbook popped up a notification.

Is this… … the Demon King wants to kill me?

Li Yue's mind buzzed, and he thought he was done for.

Fortunately, Li Yue was not the only Brainling who touched the Demon King with his will—the other three Brainlings also subconsciously released their will after it overflowed, and all harvested the Demon King's malice.

But in that situation just now, activating psychic power was the normal reaction—Li Yue understood this and calmed down a bit, secretly pondering the existence of the Demon Illustrated Handbook.

After the analysis was successful, the Demon Illustrated Handbook recorded 134 Demon Wolf Warriors, which were still stored in the list in his mind at this moment, and it also played a real role in the battle with Fendis just now, initially showing its value.

Then what was the [Malice + 9999] that popped up just now?

Li Yue felt it was necessary to find time to study this Demon Illustrated Handbook carefully in order to formulate his actions.

Here, Li Yue restrained his will and looked inward at his mind, while the Demon King completely lost interest in accompanying them—no matter how the Brainlings defeated the Demon Wolf Warriors, this level of battle… … could not arouse the Demon King's concern.

His face growing paler, he drank the thick wine in his glass and slightly raised his palm to greet the audience.

Li Yue was glad… … he seemed to have been let go.

The audience erupted.

"Rejoice, my people."

The demons in the audience soared with energy, their voices shaking the night sky.

The Demon King smiled and nodded, then a flash of black light, and he suddenly disappeared from the throne.

"Lord Demon King said—rejoice—" The Bag Demon's body turned into the shape of a wine barrel, and he also shouted to the audience.

Passed?

Li Yue suddenly felt something was wrong.

It seemed like something was missing?

"Where's the reward? We won! Where are the magic stones!" The other three Brainlings unanimously sent their thoughts to the reward area behind the throne.

There, a skeleton soldier with a gap in his head was holding a silver plate, and on the plate was a magic stone with a regular, symmetrical shape and flawless color.

Li Yue still remembered Oogibugi saying before the game—the Supreme Magic Stone is a treasure that every demon dreams of, and with it, they can greatly improve their magic power.

Will there be a qualitative change?

Li Yue didn't know, but Li Yue wanted it.

"Want the Supreme Magic Stone? Brainlings? Want magic stones?" The Bag Demon seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, the mouths sealed by the bag were cracking, his whole body trembling, shaking off a pile of ants.

[Malice + 323]

A prompt popped up in his mind again, Li Yue noticed something was wrong and floated in place without moving—obviously this malice came from the Bag Demon, and if he made any more movements, he might be unlucky.

"Yes! That's the winner's reward!" "We won!" "Give it to us!"

The other three Brainlings obviously didn't have such a good thing as the Demon Illustrated Handbook and were still jumping up and down—perhaps they were too excited, and as they floated anxiously, they also accidentally lifted the red cloth under the magic stone with their will.

"Hahaha? Snatching? What restless fools, go die, you trash who made me lose money… …" The Bag Demon opened his mouth with an "Ah" sound, and countless flies and insects instantly flew out of the bag!

They drilled into the Brainlings' bodies from the exposed blood vessels, immediately stopping any activity of the Brainlings; and as more and more flies and insects entered, these three "Colosseum warriors" who killed the Demon Wolf Fendis were thus burst their brains and turned into a cloud of fart in the air.

The death of the three Brainlings caused the demons near the throne to laugh, but a charming female demon leaned over, her voice sweet: "How could you lose money? Our Colosseum King? Obviously, no one bet on this result, right?"

"Hahaha! But I took money from the vault myself and bet on the Brainlings dying in the second round!" The Bag Demon's big mouth flapped, turning to Li Yue and saying fiercely, "What about you? Winner? Want a reward?"

"No reward needed."

Li Yue endured the shock in his heart and answered neither humble nor arrogant.

"Hmph, that's more like it… … You've already received your reward, being able to live is your biggest reward."

The Bag Demon fully demonstrated the Demon King City's rule of "the strong take everything" to Li Yue.

[Malice + 72]

The Bag Demon's malice has decreased, Li Yue felt that this time… … perhaps he really survived.

But, is that enough?

"But you used the vault's money, aren't you afraid of being discovered by the Demon King and having your head taken off?" The enchanting female demon hugged the Bag Demon's fat body.

"Lord Demon King? He's only just ascended the throne, and the injuries he sustained fighting the previous Demon King… … won't heal in a few hundred years!" The Bag Demon laughed and laughed, suddenly taking off his headgear, revealing the dense flies and insects inside, "Besides, if he wants to take my head, then let him take it?"

"Hee hee… …" The female demon was amused by the Bag Demon.

"The Demon Kings are like flowing water, the Colosseum King is like iron… … Hic!" The Bag Demon drank the Demon King's remaining wine, and commanded the skeleton soldier holding the silver plate, "You, take the magic stone back to the vault… …"

"And lock up this trash, and call him up for the next Slaughter Cup!" The Bag Demon pointed to Li Yue in the field, "Either help me get my money back, or die!"

Li Yue knew that this was the Colosseum King's final verdict on him.

"Giggle giggle!" The skeleton soldier responded, and Li Yue understood—guaranteed to complete the mission!

Is this the world of demons? The strong are king, and the weak don't even have the right to choose how they die?

Tsk, it seems no different from the previous life, just more direct?

"I am the Gambling Demon Oogibugi, I never play fair games ~" After pronouncing Li Yue's sentence, the Bag Demon hugged the female demon and hummed a song, dancing a disgusting dance in the audience, waving the flies and insects in the bag.

"Let's go, you poor worm!" The skeleton soldier held the silver plate in one hand and pulled out a machete in the other, pressing it against Li Yue's cerebellum and walking out of the Colosseum, "Compared to you, perhaps your companions are a little luckier, at least they don't have to live and suffer."

[Malice + 17]

It seems that the weaker the monster, the fewer malice points it provides? And… … it's related to the specific content of the other party's malice?

Li Yue constantly deepened his understanding of the Demon Illustrated Handbook, knowing that this was his only useful trump card in Demon King City.

As for being imprisoned in the dungeon, waiting for the next Slaughter Cup to become Oogibugi's bet… … Li Yue didn't object—the memory of the body took effect, Li Yue knew that the Slaughter Cup was held every full moon, so even if he couldn't escape the dungeon, he still had a lunar cycle to prepare.

What's more… … with the Demon Illustrated Handbook, it shouldn't be difficult to escape—there's only one skeleton soldier escorting him, even if it's difficult to deal with, it can't be more difficult to deal with than the Demon Wolf Fendis, right?

You can even… …

Li Yue slowly floated, his will enveloping the magic stone on the silver plate.

"Wait!" Oogibugi's voice sounded again, "I almost forgot, this is our Colosseum's rising star, it would be too rude to only have one skeleton soldier escorting him, hic… …"

"You guys go too!" Oogibugi called four more skeletons who were dancing, forming a team to "escort" Li Yue into the dungeon.

Li Yue slightly increased some irritability, until he harvested four more [Malice], then he felt a little better.

Five machetes were pointed at Li Yue's head, making Li Yue unable to move; Li Yue also floated away from the Colosseum with them, without any extra movements.

In the process, Li Yue couldn't help but think, in this Demon King City where "the strong take everything"… … if you want to live, it seems there is only one way to go?

Become the Demon King?

Didn't Oogibugi just say that the Demon King just now was the new one, and the injuries from fighting the previous Demon King would take hundreds of years to heal… … perhaps it's a good opportunity for all monsters to turn over? A good opportunity for him to turn over?

Yes, Li Yue had already begun to think about his current situation from the perspective of a monster.

The carnival in the Colosseum had just begun, and on the way out, a line of prompt messages lit up in Li Yue's mind.

[Analyzing… … 30%… …]