I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

The Demon Wolf Prince, Finley, had lost his right arm. Half of his body was covered in frost, while the other half was scorched from holy light. He emerged from the ground, his left hand clutching the corpse of a red-skinned demon. He licked the constantly falling flesh as if it were an ice pop. Even with the red-skinned demon already reduced to a skeleton, he devoured every last bit of bone and flesh, desperately trying to recover.

Of course, Li Yue's condition wasn't much better. Even with the Bone of Self-Healing constantly mending him, the bone matter blasted away by the Steam Machine Soldier's holy light bullets was far from forming a complete body. Only bone ash supported his skull, making him resemble another kind of monster.

"Skorrirek? You're not dead yet?" Finley asked, surprised to see Li Yue.

"Dead? Even if your Demon Wolf warriors are all dead, my skeletons are inexhaustible," Li Yue croaked twice, raising his chin to indicate that Finley should look at the situation on the city walls himself.

Seeing the pale white sea of skeletons, Finley fell silent.

"Mentor, the Demon King's tutor's blessing, won't be for you," Li Yue said, naturally not willing to pass up such a valuable reward.

Then, Li Yue suddenly received a line of prompts and felt a sense of foreboding.

【Malice +372】

During the entire siege, Li Yue hadn't received much malice, which strengthened his belief that this battlefield was simulated by the Blood River, allowing him to let loose and kill humans. However, the Blood River's lack of malice didn't mean Finley wouldn't have any. At this moment, the Demon Wolf Prince, chewing on his "energy bar," clearly still saw Li Yue as a competitor and didn't want him to gain a large amount of war merit.

"Hack him to death!" Before Finley could react, Li Yue issued the order. The pale white skeletons suddenly enveloped the Demon Wolf Prince Finley, who had just crawled out of the cave.

Swords and blades rained down. The heavily injured Finley, not even having figured out the logic of the situation, was stabbed through the lower abdomen by a flurry of swords and fell into a pool of blood.

Li Yue used his bone sword to stab to death over a dozen Demon Wolf warriors who had rushed to rescue him. Only when they stopped attacking the skeletons did Li Yue put down his bone sword and try to recover his magic power.

"You sent Finley away?" Shadowshade had returned to Li Yue's side at some point.

"Just killed him like that? Like killing a stray dog?" Waves rippled within Shadowshade's heart. Was this how sudden the actions of a strong person were?

"Yeah, the battle is fierce. I don't plan to risk being stabbed in the back by him to continue forward…" As Li Yue spoke, the Bone Warlock had already resurrected Finley's corpse, the flesh half-gone.

Was he going to use him as a mount?

Shadowshade was silent.

"And… he was the first to have the thought of killing me." Thinking that Shadowshade was also a Demon Child participating in the test, Li Yue "sat" into Finley's ribcage and explained further.

This explanation, falling into Shadowshade's heart, served more as comfort, as if saying, "I won't kill you."

"You know when others think of killing you?" Shadowshade didn't believe it.

"I can guess… No one understands Demon Wolf warriors better than me."

"Of course, no 'one'…" Shadowshade thought secretly, then remembered something else.

"What if I wanted to eliminate you?" Shadowshade re-entered Li Yue's shadow.

No malice-related prompts popped up.

"No, you don't want to," Li Yue chuckled.

"…" Shadowshade was shocked, thinking that she couldn't fall behind if he was truly a strong person.

Immediately afterward, Shadowshade asked a question that almost made Li Yue fall out of Finley's ribcage.

"Want to go kill a king? Or a city lord? Or a human commander or something…?" The battle was going well, and Shadowshade had some relatively radical ideas. "If we want Mentor's 'blessing,' we definitely have to kill something powerful, right…?"

"We can try… but we have to be very careful." Li Yue reluctantly answered, not quite believing that he could do it. Up to now, Li Yue could only confirm that two of the three Archmages in Steel City had been mobilized. One threw the ice wall to scatter Bosh's formation, and the other used teleportation to send away the heroes. The third had yet to appear.

This battle would last three days, and the first night had only just begun… And judging from the tactics Bosh had devised, the outcome would likely be decided within a day. There was a very small chance that the Demon Expeditionary Force would break through the city walls and massacre their way through the city, but the greater probability was that humans had preserved enough counterattack force and would sound the death knell after the Demon Expeditionary Force had been depleted to a certain extent.

And Li Yue's summoned sea of skeletons… perhaps it was merely delaying the human counterattack.

Thinking this, Li Yue commanded the skeletal Finley to climb the city walls, extending his mind to "look" back at the distant royal tent and the siege beast battle formation. The royal tent area remained quiet, seemingly having suffered no further damage after that holy light. However, the siege beast battle formation had lost more than half of its numbers. Fortunately, the three Bone Warlocks Li Yue had left there resurrected several elephant-type siege beasts and dozens of heroes, still entangled in combat.

Unexpectedly, the three Bone Warlocks Li Yue had left behind hadn't become targets of the heroes' attacks and were still persisting in casting spells on the periphery. At the same time, more than half of the Red-Robed Priests had died or been injured, and the "deathly stillness" they had created had a huge gap. The heroes, who had originally been weakened, had completely opened their formation and would soon clear out the entangled Demon Wolf cavalry and further erode the siege beast battle formation.

The skeletons staying with the siege beast battle formation wouldn't amount to much and would soon be swept away. Li Yue confirmed the situation.

As for that uniquely shaped bell-type siege beast… it was still fiddling with moonlight.

Even now, Li Yue didn't know what its attack method was. Daimon Benben's records didn't mention it, and Li Yue couldn't help but suspect that even when the humans began their counterattack, this strange fellow might not have completed its siege preparations.

"How to be careful?" Shadowshade had begun to believe the "strong person's" judgment.

"Although you can move forward through the shadows, we still need to be 'slow'. Slower, using slowness to gain speed," Li Yue said, words that Shadowshade couldn't understand, only feeling that they were somewhat impressive.

Li Yue shifted his mind back to the city walls, silently calculating the distance. The breach in the city was at the corner of Steel City. After the sea of skeletons had devoured them, Li Yue and Shadowshade still had a quarter of the journey to go to the center of the city walls, the most dangerous quarter.

This section of the city was concentrated with the heroes' strongest defensive power. When the sea of skeletons spread to this point, waves of light and magic power fluctuations had already come to intercept them, slowing down the skeletons' progress…

Although Li Yue didn't know what specific magic it was, seeing that the skeletons would move slowly when they entered a certain range, and that the death aura they contained would constantly weaken, he could guess that it was some kind of soul-soothing or dispelling spell that could effectively suppress the Bone Warlock's necromantic summons.

Not to mention the constant overflow and radiation of holy light. Even a slight touch would greatly weaken Li Yue… Li Yue believed that this was also a big problem for Shadowshade, which was why she had turned around to ask him.

If Li Yue's offensive hadn't reached its peak at this moment, with no way to continue afterward, Li Yue would have even wanted to turn around and rush into the inner city to resurrect a few more skeletons before fighting up again.

"Advance, observe, and then deliver a fatal blow." With Finley's skeleton as a mount, Li Yue had a certain ability to break through and had freed up some offensive limitations.

Of course, Finley's skeleton and Finley himself were not the same. Both strength and agility were greatly reduced.

The greatest effect of the sea of skeletons was to drag the defenders into the quagmire of melee combat. Before the Bone Warlocks had exhausted all of their magic power or died, Li Yue didn't plan to make any very risky attempts.

"Observe what?"

"Observe the enemy, see which guys are causing us the most resistance, and then solve them, using slowness to gain speed, decapitating them one by one, and advancing steadily." Li Yue used his mind to drive Finley's remaining flesh and blood, pouring it into his ribcage, trying to sit as steadily as possible.

"Then how do we advance?" Shadowshade followed Li Yue, jumping through the shadows to move, always eager to try.

"Of course, we take the safest route…" Li Yue unfolded his mind, using the natural advantages of the Brain Spirit, searching for the route with the least resistance in the defenders' chaotic offensive.

"Look, what's that?" As they went, Li Yue sensed a magic power that was painful to the touch and pointed Shadowshade in a direction.

In that direction, there was a gray-robed mage chanting an incantation.