I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue's brain furrowed, thinking, here it comes—for some reason Li Yue couldn't understand, it was clear that the demon king mentor, Mento, had noticed some of Li Yue's characteristics, so he hadn't addressed him as "Scorlurek" and would ask extra questions before bestowing a blessing.

Li Yue didn't know how much Mento had seen through—had he confirmed that he wasn't Scorlurek? Or had he noticed that his true form was a brain spirit? Or even discovered that his soul… wasn't from this world?

Recalling his performance on the battlefield, Li Yue found that except for using the abilities of "Shapeshift" and soul impact at the last moment, he had been quite conventional at other times, basically maintaining the normal performance of a skeleton soldier, at most using a little bit of telekinesis in the details…

Mainly, under the effect of "Demonic Inspiration," Li Yue couldn't achieve perfection, and often had to choose to go all out.

So, amidst the apprehension in his heart, Li Yue heard Mento's "inquiry."

"Why… don't you delve deeper?" Mento's question left Li Yue baffled.

Delve deeper? Delve deeper into whom?

Li Yue had thought Mento would ask if he was a brain spirit, why he had mixed into the closed battle training, where the real Scorlurek was, and whether he had killed him…

But instead, he asked an unintelligible question?

Li Yue's bone hand had almost healed, and he raised it to scratch at the bone seams; Yingying, who was selecting demon relics, was also attracted by Mento's question and kept wriggling, as if thinking together.

Li Yue was puzzled, but Mento was quite patient.

"Your tactic… is to bring the bone mages to the place with the heaviest casualties on the battlefield, or the place most prone to flooding, and then revive the dead bodies and withered bones to the greatest extent, turning the human's lost combat power into the expeditionary force's combat power…"

"Then when the outer city's walls were breached by siege beasts, why… didn't you directly delve deeper into the inner city, but instead continued to fight on the city walls?"

"For you at the time, the inner city's churches, cellars, and residences… were almost inexhaustible recruitment points…"

"You even thought of… dividing your forces to summon from the inner city's graveyard…"

"Then why, don't you delve deeper?"

In an instant, Li Yue's head buzzed and trembled, finding his blind spot in thinking.

From Li Yue's point of view, he wanted to use the withered bones in the graveyard to add color to the skeleton sea, but he never considered killing civilians and turning them into skeletons…

This was Li Yue's instinct, Mento's doubt, and vaguely an extremely important answer at the moment.

Before him was the demon king mentor, not asking about the whereabouts of the skeleton prince, nor asking about Li Yue's true form, but asking about a thought on the battlefield.

Li Yue's mind raced, finally grasping the key to Mento's question.

What the demon king mentor was asking was—are you, in the end, a demon?

Killing the demon wolf prince Finley through infighting was a demonic act, disobeying Bosh's orders was a demonic act, "deceiving" Yingying to accompany him was a demonic act, and using human weaknesses to raid the commander was a demonic act…

Only that one choice was unlike a demon.

"I…" With a thought, Li Yue drafted several answers in his mind.

Bosh's demonic inspiration was too strong, and as a member of the expeditionary force, he subconsciously cooperated? The bone mages who went to the graveyard would start killing civilians after reviving the dead in the graveyard, but were stopped by the garrison? The commander was the most urgent target to be eliminated, and a raid should be launched during the heyday of the skeleton sea?

"I…" Li Yue drew out a long sound, buying himself time.

"I understand." Just as Li Yue was about to speak, Mento suddenly retracted the question.

?

Yingying put up a big question mark, while Li Yue felt even more panicked—had this old man already obtained the answer? Just like himself, who had mastered the Demon Illustrated Handbook, as long as he asked the right question, he could reap the information he wanted?

Li Yue couldn't help but use his thoughts to analyze this demon king mentor, and found that the analysis speed was similar to analyzing the demon king himself, no matter how long he focused, it was still that pitiful 1%.

Fortunately, no malice popped up, and although Li Yue was apprehensive, he hadn't yet stepped into the realm of fear.

"You, have you chosen?" Mento turned to Yingying expressionlessly, asking about his choice.

Meanwhile, Li Yue was still immersed in everything that had just happened, completely unable to understand what Mento had determined and how he would deal with himself in the future.

"I choose this! Freak Jigsaw!" Yingying was never one to hesitate, and when Mento asked him back, he immediately condensed into an arrow, pointing to the rightmost of the three blurry light spheres.

Choosing spoils… Li Yue was certainly interested, and seeing that Mento didn't ask any further questions, he couldn't help but shift his attention there.

The light sphere chosen by Yingying was layered upon layer, each layer with several human figures perfectly pieced together, wrapping it… However, the shape of the "human figures" was bizarre, some with dog heads and huge mouths, some with only one thigh connected to the lower body, and some even without heads, with facial features embedded in the chest, eyes closed, snoring.

Strangely, no matter how strange the human skin grew, no matter how irregular the weapons in their hands were, they could be pieced together seamlessly, hence the name "Jigsaw."

The other two light spheres were not pointed to by Yingying, so they were still blurry and unclear—as soon as Li Yue used his thoughts to probe slightly, he would feel an unspeakable stinging pain and be forced to shrink back.

"Are you sure?" Mento's inquiry had no emotion.

"I'm sure!" Yingying put out a large piece of text, which was the key information of the Freak Jigsaw, "Freak Jigsaw is a demon relic of the 'Freak' clan, consuming the master's magic power to summon several Freaks for exploration and combat, very suitable for me…"

Yingying moves by relying on shadows, so if there are several controllable puppets, the way of activity will be more varied.

"Different Freaks have different abilities, personalities, and shapes, so they must be pieced together after use, otherwise it will cause them to riot, counteracting the master with foul language, temptation, and offering food…" Yingying also fully understood the negative effects of the Freak Jigsaw, "I can forcibly piece them together by twisting and killing, eliminating the possibility of riots…"

"So it's very suitable for me, it's it!" Yingying's handwriting was joyful, and he couldn't wait to pounce on it for fusion.

Li Yue didn't know how powerful the Freaks in the "Freak Jigsaw" were, but seeing Yingying's happy appearance, he guessed that it was a very useful demon relic, and couldn't help but look forward to his own "blessing"—it's common sense that the first place reward is better than the second place, right?

"Okay…" With a wave of his hand, Mento disappeared the other two light spheres and handed the Freak Jigsaw to Yingying.

Yingying seemed to want to put out some more handwriting, but was wrapped by the blood river hidden in the wall crevices and thrown out of this space.

"You, I will bestow a blessing upon you." Mento turned to Li Yue, leaving only the two of them in the field.

"Teacher…" Li Yue could no longer endure this atmosphere that made his brain twitch, "Do you… have something to say to me?"

It's like knowing that the other party has seen through your identity, but hesitating to expose it, waiting for you to continue acting awkwardly… Rather than that, Li Yue felt it would be better to exchange information within a certain range to judge what the demon king mentor was thinking.

Hearing Li Yue's inquiry, the worms on Mento's chin instantly froze, and then gradually extended towards the bone seams of Li Yue's head, like a dense mass of threadworms, embracing their destination.

"Do you… want to die?" Mento asked.

The worms stroked Li Yue's skull, extending a tingling sensation in Li Yue's brain.

"Don't want to." Li Yue shook his head firmly.

"Then… don't ask…"

"This is Demon King City, you are just a small, inconspicuous drop of water in the depths of this Sea of ​​Deformity… No one cares about your origin, and no one cares about your destination…" Mento raised his head, and Li Yue finally sensed his eyes.

It was a kind of restrained gaze, while releasing a trace of expectation, the pupils were as faint as the starry sky, as if there were spots of light flickering.

Li Yue felt a sense of his life being in the hands of the other party, and at the same time there was a faint intuition—it seemed that for some reason, Mento was very interested in him.

No answer is also an answer—Mento has no malice towards him for the time being.

Li Yue did not dodge Mento's gaze, and suddenly raised his head: "Then… please bestow a blessing upon me."

No matter what kind of fate the future holds, Li Yue knew that the only thing he could do was to become stronger.

"…" Mento was silent for a moment, and opened his palm to Li Yue, but seemed to have not yet decided which kind of "blessing" to bestow.

"Wait a moment." Li Yue suddenly raised his hand, "Which blessings are there, can you let me choose?"

Mento was even more silent.