I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue, of course, wouldn't consider the feelings of everyone present. With a twist, he charged into the dungeon, temporarily escaping the encirclement of Jessie and the knights.

Of course, he also sank deeper—if he wanted to return the same way, 24 knights, a Tier 8 knight, and 3 mages would all be Li Yue's enemies.

Perhaps even adding Soya and the other heroes who had just passed the first round of recruitment.

Kicking open an iron door, the dungeon rumbled open. Li Yue saw six prison cells inside, and none of the occupants were human.

A group of Masked Ones followers whose faces had been torn off were slamming their faces against the southwest wall, seemingly trying to return to the location of their masks...

In the remaining cells, there were hunched old men with blood tumors growing on their backs, hanging upside down from the ceiling; obese individuals covered in pus who were sucking on each other; and freaks with abnormal organs, like an ear growing on their elbow, and the ear stuffed with dense rows of fingernails.

Li Yue's eyes were truly opened.

Combining the ones banging their heads against the wall and the ones with blood tumors, Li Yue knew that these were believers from other cults, but he didn't know why they were imprisoned here.

Entering the dungeon and lighting up the darkness only bought Li Yue a little time, which quickly ran out. Footsteps and the sound of mechanisms rose behind him. Naturally, Jessie was the closest pursuer.

The walls of the dungeon also began to be covered with ice crystals. Clearly, the Kingston family's mages realized how powerful Li Yue's fists and feet were and began to construct a cage.

Just as Jessie was preparing to dismantle the wall, Li Yue finally led the people out of the dungeon.

A match of equal strength.

"That kind of physical weakness… he's not a knight." As one of the people in the entire continent who understood the path of the knight the most, Li Yue quickly judged that Jessie's body exceeded the limits of a knight.

Even though Li Yue said that, Zhou Ming had no intention of building a relationship with her. He only wanted to subdue her quickly, or, at worst, hold her hostage as his ticket to escape.

"However… you underestimate the power of a knight too much." Zhou Ming spoke, and the armor on her body glowed, gradually connecting into a whole, "I am walking on the path of Tier 9, I possess the power of a Holy Knight."

Li Yue immediately unloaded the cell doors of the six prison cells, creating a series of loud clangs as they hit the ground.

Is this the kind of confidence that all knights have when they reach Tier 8?

Immediately afterward, the Burdened, hanging upside down from the ceiling, fell to the ground, with a large air bubble sticking to its back; the Faceless Ones of the Masked Ones slightly flared their nostrils, smelling the air of freedom.

"My lover in the next life?" Jessie could see through it. Her armor was blurred by the light, and it was impossible to find a weakness.

The heretics in the cage didn't expect that someone would actually save them, and they all paused for a moment.

Zhou Ming moved her hands and feet to confirm that there were no strange pauses in her body, and was already ready to attack.

Zhou Ming's body was the strongest weapon.

Obviously, the Kingston family's sacred artifact also couldn't interfere with the progress of the "duel." During the process, Zhou Ming didn't display fire wings like she did in the Copper Heart Tavern.

After appraising it, Jessie discovered that all of the armor on her body was priceless. Even a single piece could make someone a wealthy man in the Seven Towns of Riftgold.

The combat rhythm of both sides was also almost the same, with give and take—fists and swords landed on each other's bodies, all hitting with explosive sounds, and neither side could completely dodge the other's attacks, nor could they completely break through the other's defense.

Jessie had seen Li Yue's duel in the Copper Heart Tavern, and had also heard about duels from Gamma, but only in the form of poetry. She didn't expect it to be so straightforward and irresistible.

Jessie then regarded this sentence as… if it came to physique, Li Yue was no match for her, and she began to engage in close combat.

The "duel" immediately took effect, and Jessie was dragged into a barren land, surrounded by huge stands and passages on all sides.

Being able to fight against an Tier 8 knight, he should already be considered a top-notch physique.

"I must have seen you before…"

Li Yue initiated a duel.

She ignored the oncoming Burdened, Faceless Ones, obese people, and freaks, and pointed her sword at Jessie.

Zhou Ming's equipment was enough to match her status as a noble.

Her body also began to burst with thick pus from the attacks of the longsword.

"You rushed into the dungeon… to rescue this group of heretics?" Li Yue stepped forward, gradually closing the distance with Jessie, "Are you a non-believer?"

In terms of hand-to-hand combat, an Tier 8 poet should not be a match for an Tier 8 knight, right?

At least, it looked quite intimidating.

If Li Yue delayed her, and the heroes outside solved these heretics and completed the encirclement, then it would be difficult to escape.

There were no interferences in the barren land, and there was enough space to dodge and move. Jessie sheathed her sword and fought Li Yue with her bare hands.

After all, she had practiced with her older brother Gerald since she was young and had plenty of experience.

Jessie didn't answer, and couldn't answer this question.

Zhou Ming was a little dazed, but didn't know why she was dazed.

After a few minutes of intense fighting, Zhou Ming's fists left layers of fine marks on Zhou Ming's armor, and at the same time, her body was also slashed a few times by Li Yue, and the sound of bone fractures rang out.

Jessie thought of this and was naturally a little anxious, but she didn't attack immediately, but quietly watched Li Yue.

It looked… like a coliseum.

The difficulty was not in the barren land, but in how to deal with the fire wings that would burst out of her body later.

"Did you eat the Bone of Self-Healing? Or is it the effect of the Source of Faith?"

After all, the dungeon was located between the Town Hall and the New Church. Even if the New Church was collecting bone plates from door to door, the speed of support must be fast, so the battle must be resolved quickly.

The Kingston family's sacred artifacts were even more priceless.

Jessie was trying to create chaos.

"Then… perhaps only fighting can make me remember." Li Yue held up his greatsword and fought with Jessie.

"At this time… are you joking instead? Shouldn't it be me?" Li Yue was still trying to recognize Jessie's face.

Jessie's confidence grew even more.

The obese people and freaks also rolled out of the prison cells and began to destroy indiscriminately.

I don't know how strong these heretics are…

If I had known, I would have just grabbed Gamma and beat him up on the ground, wouldn't that have been better?

"This ability is quite annoying…"

Perhaps I need to remove the fragments of the magic mirror?

Jessie was surprised by her decisiveness—how dare the Kingston family's heir randomly pull someone into a duel, aren't they afraid of death?

"Your fighting style is really unfamiliar to me…" Li Yue tried to recall the experience of entering the Demon King's City for the first time, but he couldn't remember Van Helsing's name no matter what.

After slightly blocking a couple of times with the iron sword in her hand, Jessie saw the chipped edge and the rolled blade, confirming that it would break after a few more hits, and also confirming that her own strength was enough to withstand Zhou Ming's special slash.

As if it had been in disrepair for years, the stands were dilapidated, scattered with wine glasses, bones, and other debris; in the sky, there was a blood moon, splitting the dark clouds and quietly watching the barren land, with cracks hidden within.

"Where have I seen you?" Li Yue scrutinized Jessie, "But I just can't remember…"

Li Yue's aura suddenly rose, and with a "clang," he chopped Zhou Ming's arm.

However, Jessie had experienced the baptism of the "fracture construction site," fully understanding that fractures did not affect combat, and instead became even more ruthless.

Zhou Ming also finally tested the limits of this body, and suddenly felt that she might have been too careless before.

With 24 knights, 3 mages, a fully staffed clockwork warrior squad, and a group of heroes chasing after him, Zhou Ming made the best choice to encircle Jessie.