I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

The mines of Mount Riftinggold were located on the mountain itself, the former site of the First Army's royal tent during the expedition.

It was also here that Qihe, Kingston, and Clive encountered Nolemore, who had recently been promoted, and where Gerald Kingston retrieved the lost magic mirror, and Qihe killed Isaac, the first hero.

However, in just a few months, Mount Riftinggold had been almost completely hollowed out. With the support of the people, the mine's operational efficiency was extremely high. Every worker overextended their body, entering and exiting the depths of Mount Riftinggold like蛀虫, converting the minerals into nourishment for the empire, supporting the war against the demons.

The materials for Garrote One to Garrote Five, as well as the magic stone energy needed for those spires, were all mined from Mount Riftinggold.

However, after touring the mine, Li Yue still saw that the level of automation was very low, basically relying on mine carts and rail transport. The entire Mount Riftinggold was also full of collapse marks, indicating that security measures were not in place, and mine accidents occurred frequently.

It was under this kind of violent mining method that Mount Riftinggold's output was very high, constantly transporting energy to the empire.

The nearby ones went directly to the armory, while the distant ones went directly along the railway into the empire, entering the pockets of the royal family and nobles.

The mine was connected to a graveyard.

Speaking of a graveyard, it was actually a huge, dry river valley. Since it wasn't the rainy season, the riverbed was exposed, and the riverbed was filled with the corpses of miners.

Above, there was a layer of holy light flowing, covering it tightly, to prevent the corpses from reviving under the summons of some demonic power, and also to avoid being seen by the miners who were still alive, affecting production.

This was the entirety of the mine.

The "Fractured Construction Site" task that Li Yue initially took on had a client, Horad, who was the mine chief who bought a small mine.

In addition to ensuring the daily transportation of minerals, Horad's main task was to promote some obedient workers to become a supervisory group, to supervise the work of the miners, and to eliminate troubles such as strikes.

However, unlike the mines within the empire, the miners of Mount Riftinggold were very well-behaved. In addition to being able to eat their fill every day, as long as they could send a little salary back to their families in the Five Towns, and have a drink at the small tavern by the mine on weekends, they were able to satisfy all their needs.

As for strikes, they had never even heard of them.

Breaking through the barrier of the holy ash and the imperial banner, Li Yue and the others discovered that the internal security of the mine was not that strict. The miners working the night shift were quietly working inside the mountain, not at all affected by the earthquake just now.

It might also be that so many mine accidents had occurred that they couldn't effectively distinguish which vibrations were caused by mining and which were caused by the demon army heading towards Mount Riftinggold.

So Li Yue and the others sometimes transformed into miners lining up for work, and sometimes drilled into empty mountains to change direction. Except for occasionally encountering holy ash spread in the soil, they didn't encounter too many obstacles along the way, and freely entered and exited the mine.

And all these holy ashes were taken away by Hunteral and stuffed into his pocket, also clearing the way.

Mount Riftinggold was originally an empty mountain, with various mine tunnels connected in layers, equivalent to a huge underground city. Li Yue, with his tentacles, was like a fish in water here, and quickly lit up the mine in a mess.

Originally, Li Yue thought that the warehouse for storing various ores would be a problem, just like the town hall and church in Five Towns.

But in fact, due to the huge total amount of minerals, these ores would not be put into the warehouse at all, but directly stored in the open air, waiting to be loaded onto trains heading north.

So the speed of lighting up was very fast, basically lighting up wherever he went.

Following Li Yue up and down for an hour and a half, Hunteral traveled all over the mine, and increasingly felt that this demon's behavior was strange.

If it was to be a vanguard for Demon King City, destroying the mine would obviously have a great impact on the imperial army, so Hunteral had been expecting Li Yue to cause some trouble, so as to attract the attention of the imperial army stationed in the mine.

As a result, this demon was really just wandering around?

"This area is an important pillar of this tunnel. If it is broken, the holy ore inside will not be able to be transported out, at least it can be sealed for three days…" Hunteral hinted to Li Yue what kind of impact it would have on the empire if he destroyed this pillar.

It was like this all the way, Hunteral always evaluated with the eyes of a hunter.

But Li Yue remained unmoved. Gradually, Hunteral fell silent.

"Did I disappoint you?" Li Yue certainly noticed Hunteral's silence.

Silence itself is information.

"I told you, I am a traveler, not a demon's scout," Li Yue patted Hunteral's shoulder.

Hunteral couldn't help but shiver.

"I don't need to destroy this place. If humans are cooperative enough, I can even make it so they don't even notice my arrival," Li Yue walked along the soil layer to the end of the last mine tunnel and withdrew from the mine from underground.

He had seen a lot along the way. Li Yue felt that the mine in Mount Riftinggold could not even be described as a sweatshop, basically equivalent to eating people. The burial ground for the miners was in the river valley, hidden by the mine, and countless refugees and townspeople were about to come here to fill those vacant positions.

Perhaps some miners felt something, but they were numb to the point of turning a blind eye to it.

They didn't even have the intention to ask about the whereabouts of those missing miners.

Just for a few full meals, and the copper coins sent to their families, and then every week, they found a night to numb themselves with alcohol.

If it weren't for the New Church's "blessing," this mountain would definitely breed powerful demons.

This may also be the meaning of the existence of the holy light flowing curtain in the river valley.

But looking at the scenery, it is quite beautiful.

Little did they know that there were corpses all over the underground.

Li Yue stood opposite the river valley, stopped briefly, and soon, the anchor point of the mine was lit up.

In the map in Li Yue's mind, in the entire Five Towns of Riftinggold, only the armory and the town hall of Holy Ore Town still had a trace of darkness, and almost all of them were covered with light.

"Let's go, to the armory!" Li Yue turned around, bypassed the river valley, and went to the location of the Riftinggold Mountain Armory.

Hunteral originally thought that all of Li Yue's remarks were mocking him, and he would definitely do something here.

He didn't expect that there really wasn't anything.

Hunteral suddenly realized that Li's approach was somewhat similar to that of an explorer.

The road of an explorer also requires going to different places, but the only difference is that explorers need to find a "harvest", and the harvest can be a treasure, a person, a scenery…

Could it be… that Li actually got some kind of "harvest"?

If this demon is really an explorer?

Hunteral's eyes changed when he looked at Li Yue, and Hunteral thought of his lost map.

Could this be the reason why I was inexplicably attracted to this demon?

Is my exploration map on him?

Hunteral connected all the strange behaviors that happened around Li Yue and gradually found the answer.

Li Yue didn't have the heart to think about Hunteral's inner drama, and quickly came to the armory with him and Yingying. He found that the level of security of this huge factory built on the mountain was completely different from that of the mine.

The armory was completely a whole, and even the floor was cast in iron, separating the earth element, and Li Yue could not swim in directly.

The periphery was stationed with the Kingston family's private army, who received Jessie's order and were gathering in an orderly manner, and teams of them were taking trains to the Five Towns of Riftinggold.

Outside the private army's barracks was the simple wooden plank house camp of the armory workers.

At this moment, dawn was approaching, and the workers were washing, queuing, and entering the factory, preparing to welcome a new day of work.

"Then we… should we go to work too?"

Li Yue swam into the workers' barracks, preparing to take the opportunity to sneak into the armory.

"Huh? The Iron Horn Three? Aren't you dead?"

And just as he lined up in the queue to go to work, Hunteral was stopped by a worker.