I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

For Budibuger, tonight is another difficult battle.

After taking down "Slaver" Bodekoli, Budibuger's odds in the arena have been lowered, and even well-informed casino whales know Budibuger's identity—so under the operation of Okibuki and the whales, Budibuger's opponent in this match is the fallen one ranked in the top two hundred of the arena, the seventh-order knight who was once a famous hero of the Chaos Continent, "Roving Sword" Paladin.

"The arena is the knight's final destination."

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This is a widely spread saying in the Chaos Continent in recent years, because after the technology of clockwork warriors and steam mechs became more and more mature, those non-noble knights who purely trained their bodies and did not have prominent family backgrounds lost their usefulness and could only go to the arena to make a living.

Outside the Demon King's city is like this, while inside the Demon King's city is another reason—knights are proficient in hand-to-hand combat, so they generally have a higher win rate in the Demon King's city's arena, and are popular for betting. Once a fallen knight comes to the Demon King's city, Okibuki will arrange for them to become gladiators...

The arena in the Demon King's city, like the outside, has become the so-called "knight's final destination."

Budibuger was already injured, and his home was bombed. Although he managed to win against Paladin, the injuries on his body became more serious, almost to the point of collapse.

But the good news is that, like after defeating Bodekoli, Budibuger "fused" Paladin's body, so the refined magic armor and magic sword of this seventh-order knight before his death were half-attached to Budibuger, which can play a certain protective role—and if Budibuger has enough time, this brain spirit master can also transform the magic armor and magic sword into his own combat power, to deal with the more difficult next battle...

After two battles, Budibuger's battle ranking soared, and he also won a ten-day break. Next, he only needs to fight two more matches to reach the final of the full moon. If he wins the final, he can pay off Okibuki's debt.

Returning to the front of the library, Budibuger already knew from the grapevine the ranking range of the next three opponents, which are 150, 100, and 90—the arena ranking has reached the top 100, which is already the level of a high-level demon. Budibuger feels that before that... he must return to his best condition.

Dragging his tired body back to the library, Budibuger was in danger of exploding with just a slight movement, so the speed of his movements also slowed down a lot.

"Damn... Skorrlick... pure-blooded demon..." Budibuger saw the mess of the first outbreak of the Heart of Purgatory, and did not dare to stay too much in the lower and middle layers, and went straight to the upper layer of the library.

"Damn demon sons... why now... I don't know what's going on up there..." Budibuger cursed all the trainees who participated in the closed battle training in his heart, while climbing to the iron gate, and then a more hideous broken wall was reflected in his mind.

Budibuger's thoughts were stagnant for a moment, and he leaned on the railing under the corridor in silence; while the demon scholars in the oil painting quickly hid in the back row, not daring to blink their eyes, for fear of being absorbed by Budibuger.

"Tzz..." Budibuger's dark brown body squirted out a stream of brain fluid, and then he woke up again in the severe pain; with a thought, he picked up the demon scholar and asked about the current situation of the upper layer of the library.

"After you left... quiet... just now... Book Demon... is back..." The scholar's knowledge is limited, and he only gave Budibuger some very superficial information, but it was enough to make him surprised and suspicious.

At first, Budibuger's first reaction was to escape, but he suddenly realized that there was nowhere to go—if he encountered Skorrlick again in the middle layer, it would be a big trouble with his current physical condition.

At least the Book Demon is inside, and the Imaginary Things are also inside...

Budibuger tried to move Paladin's magic armor to the outside of his head, protecting all the weak parts, and decided to go in and take a look—he can't not go home, right?

However, in the first second of floating into the cave, Budibuger once again discovered that the weirdness inside was beyond his cognition—first of all, the originally familiar upper layer of the library was completely unfamiliar at this moment, as if the home he lived in day and night was suddenly replaced by a cave, and he couldn't help but wonder if he had gone to the wrong place; those ancient books and desks had long been lost in the explosion of the "Heart of Purgatory", and the Imaginary Things were all in a "silent and unresponsive" state, and may have all died cleanly.

What made Budibuger even more incomprehensible was that from the intricate passages of the cave, there was a "ding ding dong dong" sound from time to time, as if someone was digging for treasure; those sounds were mixed and symphonic, although not violent, but seemed endless, making people uneasy and irritable.

Budibuger hesitated for a moment, and his thoughts extended. He did not perceive the existence of the Book Demon, but found the groups of skeletons that were busy in full swing—each skeleton looked like Skorrlick, each skeleton had a scorched face and a wooden expression, desperately stabbing the disordered Imaginary Things with the bone spurs in their hands.

Budibuger's home was demolished by Li Yue, and at this moment, there was no way to retreat. Anger and fear flooded his mind. He moved silently to the cave where Silver Fish was.

The skeletons diligently waved their swords, chopping the silver scales and fish heads, like helpers in the demon kitchen; Budibuger stabilized his state, suddenly solidified the skeletons that were waving their swords, and instantly crushed them into bone ash.

"Huff..." Budibuger suppressed the injuries in his brain, absorbed the remnants of the Silver Fish into his body, covered his whole body with silver scales, and then mustered up the courage to move inward.

...

The cave where the old mage was located was still calm. Yingying was quite experienced in combat. After confirming Budibuger's return, he did not make any changes, nor did he use shadows to explore Budibuger's whereabouts, so as not to be discovered by him in advance.

With the strategy set, Yingying chose to believe Li Yue's judgment.

Li Yue mechanically twitched his transformed body, his eyes rolled back, leaving only the whites of his eyes, waiting for Budibuger to enter the game—the old mage's position was relatively closer to the Earth Elemental, Golden Armor Warrior, and Okibuki. According to the route, Budibuger would come here after cleaning up the Silver Fish.

His thoughts kept extending, until at a certain moment, a shadow like a mud ball stuck to the light, and came to the entrance of the cave.

"Come on... come on..." Li Yue suppressed all distracting thoughts, silently calling Budibuger at the entrance of the cave. Under the transformed skin, the bone sword was already clenched.

However, things went against his wishes. Budibuger suddenly stopped moving, and Bodekoli and Paladin on his head spoke in unison: "Your demon butts are so eyesore... don't hide... come out..."

Li Yue suspected that Budibuger was bluffing, but he did not dare to transmit a message to Yingying. He only hoped that his combat experience would be good enough to withstand this bluff.

At the same time, Li Yue controlled the skeletons that were stabbing the stone pier to turn around and rush towards Budibuger with their bone swords—he should react when he heard the sound. Li Yue was still conscientiously "completing" this performance called ambush.

[Xia Erfas's state is very strange... I should completely erase this cave... Even if there is a risk of collapse... I should erase it... erase it...]

Li Yue did not expect that the old mage still had a name, and at the same time, his mind suddenly tightened—Budibuger was going to do it directly?

Would the next second be a full-strength "Soul Impact" from a high-level demon, directly shattering this cave?

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One choice may determine success or failure—if you choose the wrong one, you will be crushed to pieces, red-skinned demons, magic wolves, all killed for nothing.

Abandoning distracting thoughts, Li Yue gritted his teeth and made a choice.