I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Extending his thoughts along the wall seams, even through the wall of the Twelfth Archive, Li Yue could still feel the scorching heat assaulting him. Google search reading

It was as if someone had moved purgatory into the archive. The entire space was distorted by the sweltering heat, the lines of the walls no longer straight, and the floor and ceiling seemingly uneven.

This was Bosh’s heart power—when Li Yue focused his thoughts on Bosh, he was shocked to find that his physique was larger than the last time he saw him, and his body was faintly entwined with some kind of flame. As soon as Li Yue’s thoughts lightly touched that flame, a strong desire for bloodlust would arise, almost causing him to rush out and duel Bosh directly.

[Current target… Status: Excited/Confused; Life: 4]

The number of lives had also increased—as the Demon Guard had revealed, Bosh had taken advantage of the Green Time to recover some of his strength, and had regained a life.

However, what Li Yue cared about most was the scorching heat that made him anxious.

[Traces of battle… My guards… Demon Wolf Finley… ]

Bosh surveyed the corridor, seeing the sword marks on the wall and the charred ground. It was not difficult to determine that a fierce battle had taken place not long ago.

[Cannot sense them… Are they all dead? Is the skeleton dead?]

Bosh used his limited intelligence to deduce the battle situation, but quickly lost patience. Even though he knew that Ke Li and Ke Er were no longer there, he still roared violently, "Ke Li! Ke Er! You two lumps of waste! You better be dead, or I'll put you under the blood cocoon when we get back! Frying you until the last piece of your heart sizzles!"

Listening to Bosh's deafening roar, Li Yue couldn't help but wonder if Bosh didn't know that his guards… could no longer be resurrected after returning from the Blood River, or how many lives he had left.

"Bite my red butt… That skeleton better not be dead… I want to kill it myself…" Bosh scanned the middle level of the archive, and began searching for Li Yue’s whereabouts. Recalling Li Yue’s elusiveness, this time Bosh didn’t even let go of the narrowest shadows by the wall.

In Li Yue’s perception, Bosh was holding an object the size of a heart in his hand. The constantly radiating scorching heat was coming from this “heart”—after being roasted for a long time, even the wall skin had become fragile.

[Is that skeleton really dead… It was for nothing that I begged for the 'Infernal Heart' from the blood cocoon… ]

Li Yue guessed that the “Infernal Heart” should be some kind of demonic relic, with the effect of constantly releasing scorching heat and making creatures within a certain range more violent.

Coming over with a gift?

Then I'll accept it.

Li Yue didn't plan to let Bosh continue moving in the middle level of the archive—Mini and Mini in the lower hall were practicing, and the Sixth Archive was also full of slave scholars. Once they entered the range of influence of the “Infernal Heart,” it would easily cause great chaos…

Furthermore, the scorching aura released by the Infernal Heart was constantly strengthening. Li Yue even suspected that if it was left for a while longer, the brain wrapped in the Self-Healing Bone would be damaged. He had to make a quick decision…

"Die with your guards…" When Bosh wandered near the main entrance of the Twelfth Archive, the wooden door, which had already been made brittle by the scorching aura, was instantly pierced. A bone sword stabbed into Bosh’s armpit at a speed indiscernible to the naked eye, precisely where one of the three hearts was located.

The skeleton’s swiftness far exceeded Bosh’s expectations. The Demon Legion Commander didn’t have time to turn around before his heart was pierced—the layers of magic patterns protecting his skin were like the carvings on the outside of a delicate cake under the sharp bone sword, offering no resistance at all.

In the midst of the intense pain, Bosh's fist transformed into magma, completely covering the area the size of a door, as if he wanted to punch Li Yue into "nothing."

Li Yue had already seen the power of Bosh's fist in the Blood River, so after a successful strike, he didn't choose to entangle, but decisively retreated back to the Twelfth Archive, turning the battlefield from the middle corridor into the room.

"Bang!" Bosh's fist struck the wooden door of the Twelfth Archive. Accompanied by a strong vibration, both the wall and the door instantly vaporized, the air became more blurred, and the entire middle level of the archive was shrouded in fog, and the visibility rapidly decreased.

Although Li Yue wasn't relying on sight to find his enemies, the spread of the fog made it more difficult to probe with his thoughts, not to mention the influence of the “Infernal Heart,” which continued to scorch his thoughts.

In the first round of the exchange, although Li Yue successfully pierced one of Bosh's hearts, he also discovered that Bosh's strength and speed were vastly different from before—obviously, the “Infernal Heart” could not only release scorching heat and induce violence, but also create a combat environment more favorable to the Demon Legion Commander.

Fortunately, the Self-Healing Bone was already a sensory object, and Li Yue could handle Bosh's speed…

When the main entrance of the Twelfth Archive was shattered and turned into mud, a red shadow darted out of the dust and fog, carrying countless heat waves and dust to chase the skeleton. The pile of bones seemed to have foreseen the attack, stepped to the corner of the wall, and dodged the magma fist pressing down from the air.

The floor vibrated, and a golden-black flowing pit emitting scorching heat formed in the center. The Twelfth Archive was also on the verge of collapse.

Stepping on the corner of the wall, Li Yue borrowed strength to turn back, and the bone sword pierced towards the inner side of Bosh's right leg, the location of the second heart!

[Bone flea running around… Bone flea burned to ashes… Slap… ]

Bosh cursed Li Yue repeatedly in his heart, and his right fist expanded into a magma again, slamming hard at Li Yue and the bone sword that were thrown over. Li Yue had already read Bosh’s thoughts. With a move of his mind, the bone sword fell to the ground and picked, narrowly leaping into the air, changing the angle and continuing to strike down.

Li Yue’s swiftness was unexpected. Although Bosh didn’t have time to retract his right fist and change his move, a ferocious glint flashed in his eyes, and his left palm pinched.

[Infernal… Blood!]

The Infernal Heart was a heart-shaped demonic relic, and the surface seemed to always have magma flowing—under Bosh’s pinch, the magma burst from the surface, and dirty blood gushed out from the blood vessels, turning into countless heat currents and smoke, covering the Twelfth Archive!

With no way to avoid it, Li Yue spun the bone sword, while urging his thoughts, and hit the oncoming magma with a soul impact—compared to directly piercing the magma with the bone sword, it was safer to clear the way with thoughts in advance.

However, Li Yue’s mental strength was far from enough to withstand the spray of magma, and only thinned it a little. Still, three to five strands of dirty blood from the heart broke through the swirling bone sword and thoughts, splashing towards the Self-Healing Bone.

There was no doubt that neither the Self-Healing Bone nor the binding threads could directly withstand this heat—in a flash, Li Yue grasped the direction in which the magma and dirty blood were splashing, unfolded his skeleton, and passed through the gaps!

The binding threads were burned, Li Yue seemed to be scattered into several bone fish, passing through the fishing net woven by magma, and fiercely "bit" Bosh!

Bosh's battles were all open and close, how had he ever seen this kind of combat method that was accurate to the millimeter? Moreover, this skeleton seemed to be able to see through the location of the heart, and every blow was concentrated on the fatal part, which couldn't help but make Bosh a little afraid…

Until the bone sword pierced the second heart on the inner side of the thigh, Bosh did not make an effective dodge. The bursting of the heart squeezed the throat, causing a demonic roar: "Aww—"

[Malice +1444]

In just two encounters, the battle had entered a white-hot stage—Li Yue did not give up the opportunity of Bosh's pause, rolled up the bone sword and stabbed towards the location of the last heart, the root of the wings.

But because he needed to go around the back, Bosh saw through Li Yue's purpose at a glance, and hurriedly gathered his mind, flapped his wings and dodged upwards, while another large handful of magma was thrown out from his right fist…

This time, Bosh did his best. The thick magma almost covered half of the archive, brushing against the wall and volatilizing the burnt smell, pressing towards Li Yue. The somewhat shriveled "Infernal Heart" after the previous burst also resumed its beating, and the scorching aura rolled in.

Li Yue suddenly calculated that even if he retreated at this moment, the speed of the broken binding threads would not be fast, and he would still be turned into coke under Bosh's palm, so he thrust his sword forward, temporarily giving up on backstabbing Bosh, and first tried to escape the Demon Legion Commander's magma fist.

The shadows of the two demons suddenly merged and separated. Li Yue's lower body was completely burned, and the sticky magma was still constantly driving upwards, so he had to give up his lower body. Bosh repelled Li Yue's fatal backstab, although it seemed that he was bumped by a few scattered bones, but the injuries were not serious, so he clenched his fist again in the red and black dust, and turned to Li Yue.

The floor in the center of the archive was smashed into a large hole, and half of the archive was plunged into a sea of fire. The "Infernal Heart" was beating strongly, getting more and more excited.

[Losing the ability to move… You're finished… You stupid skeleton… ]

Bosh approached the skeleton that was only half a body left, but found that… the skeleton was smiling?

"Your blood… tastes good." Li Yue waved his hand, as if to disperse the bloody dust and haze in the air.

Bosh was like a humanoid furnace. Under the scorching of the Infernal Heart, the two rows of small tooth marks on his butt were constantly spitting fire, and his blood seemed to have turned into fuel, evaporating with Bosh's power.

"A demon bit your butt?" Li Yue confirmed that Bosh's life was rapidly draining, and exchanged a pair of "sharp bony handsome man" with the malice he had just collected, and stood up unscathed.

Seeing that the situation was developing in a bad direction, Bosh bit his fangs and squeezed the “Infernal Heart” with his last strength!

[Explode… Let's fall into purgatory together, skeleton… ]

The Infernal Heart was pinched and burst by Bosh, and the blazing flames and magma swept across the sky and the earth. The middle level of the archive was like a volcanic eruption.