I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Unexpectedly, Li Yue's request, which he found difficult to broach, was considered less than a trivial matter by Yingying, almost equivalent to "go take a lap at the end of the corridor."

Li Yue thought it must be because he was too busy dealing with the slave scholars, and for a moment he was unsure of his position—for a demon, crawling into a toilet pit required no courage; rather, it was Li Yue's refusal to eat people that surprised Yingying.

Li Yue anticipated that this kind of strange development would continue to occur, so he silently dispelled the slave scholars' desperate thoughts and stopped sensing their inner feelings.

Some of the slave scholars couldn't think straight, frantically searching for scraps of hardened meat in the seams of the beds, preparing for a protracted battle; others, on the verge of death, simply lay back on their beds, not thinking about anything, feeling too tired even to live.

Of course, this did not include Tom—this young, blond scholar had also joined the food scavenging team, even daring to leave the Sixth Repository and go to the library hall to wait for the next round of meat and water distribution.

In Tom's view, nothing could stop him from living until the next full moon and then leaving this hellish place from the Demon Market.

"How is it? Did you find anything unusual?" Li Yue himself also took a turn in the lavatory, using his mental power to sense that the passage downwards from the toilet pit was very long, so long that it exceeded his sensory range.

"How did you know?" Yingying pressed closer. "Can you read minds? I wanted to ask you when you killed Budiboge. Is it that blond guy who told you? Can you read my mind?"

[Do you know how much I admire you?]

Li Yue had not previously analyzed Yingying without a goal in mind, and he hadn't expected the son of a demon to think this way—admire me?

Then I need to act even better.

"You are special, I can't do it," Li Yue didn't want his interactions with Yingying to be too awkward.

[What a pity...]

"That blond guy has been to the bottom of the toilet pit..." Yingying spoke of the "anomaly" at the bottom of the toilet pit, confirming that there was indeed a very special passage—in Yingying's words, it was tainted by the stench of money and the smell of magic stones, and it should undergo some kind of distortion under certain circumstances.

Of course, Yingying couldn't deduce that the passage led to the Demon Market, but the information she provided exceeded Li Yue's expectations.

"Demon Market," Li Yue revealed the answer to Yingying. "There will be a path at the bottom of the toilet pit that leads to the Demon Market, during the next full moon."

"How do you know?" Yingying's inner thoughts and words were very consistent.

"Knowledge, knowledge..." Li Yue muttered twice. "How about it, want to go take a look then?"

Li Yue had already decided to visit the Demon Market during the next full moon, firstly to investigate whether it was necessary to leave Demon King City, and secondly to see what rare goods would appear on the market.

"I know the Demon Market! It's the spoils of the Demon Expeditionary Army!" Yingying's understanding of the world began with the Abyssal Maw. Many places she hadn't been to were mentioned by the Demon Expeditionary Army in the Abyssal Maw. "Many, many towns and tribes! Demon Markets are set up in rotation! There are many fallen human souls, and I heard it also attracts many homicidal maniacs to gather..."

"You can also leave Demon King City and go to 'Paradise'!" The demons called human society "Paradise," a good place for pleasure.

"What, do you want to leave Demon King City?" Li Yue was a little curious about Yingying's inclinations.

"Of course! As long as you are strong enough, you can eat and play as you please in Paradise!" Yingying suddenly became a little excited. "Although I don't know what's so fun about it... but pure-blooded demons really like to go to Paradise. It's just that the new city lord has taken office and hasn't reopened Demon King City yet, so it's difficult to leave..."

"Reopen?"

Li Yue communicated with Yingying, and in a few words, he understood the current relationship between Demon King City and human society—when the city lord changes, it is the weakest time for Demon King City, so the entry and exit of demons within the city are restricted to the greatest extent, and the same restrictions apply to some heroes who attempt to destroy Demon King City.

It can be understood as a truce between humans and demons.

When the new city lord is strong enough or confident enough, Demon King City will reopen and begin the next collision with humans on the Continent of Chaos... as well as the expeditions of the Demon Expeditionary Army.

Of course, before the official reopening, there are still some ways to enter and exit Demon King City—the Demon Market is one of them.

"This closed-door war training is also an opportunity, an opportunity to reopen Demon King City..." Yingying inadvertently reminded Li Yue, "If we can find new methods to deal with human warfare during this period, Mento will report to the Demon King and reopen the city to conquer new spoils..."

Li Yue finally understood the relationship between the closed-door war training and the city lord and the Demon Expeditionary Army—the closed-door war training is to improve the sons of demons, and it is also an experiment to find human weaknesses.

Once it is determined in a certain Blood River simulation war that the demons have the upper hand, Mento will report to the current city lord and request the opening of the city, and Demon King City will also send a new Demon Expeditionary Army to begin the conquest of the continent, plundering more spoils, land, and various resources.

Currently, the "reserves" of Demon King City are in a delicate state—taking the slave scholars as an example, the last batch that was captured was nearly ten years ago. If the city is not reopened to plunder, the slave scholars may be over-consumed, leading to the stagnation of daily life in the library.

The same thing also happens in other facilities of Demon King City, such as the "laboratory," which consumes a lot of human materials, and the "arena," which is very much looking forward to the appearance of new gladiators...

Although Demon King City is home to various demons, some "resources" still depend on human society, which is why demons, even in their strongest period... have never completely destroyed humanity.

Therefore, Mento's report on the closed-door war training... is crucial for Demon King City, or even the Demon Expeditionary Army—once it is determined that the demons can reverse the disadvantage, then Demon King City will definitely open the city and once again set off a bloody storm on the Continent of Chaos.

Conversely, if a means to break through the clockwork warriors and steam-powered soldiers cannot be found, the Demon King City may continue to be closed, not engaging in direct battles with humans, but waiting for humans to enter a period of decline and using infiltration, temptation, and other methods to control key humans and influence the direction of human development.

And in this delicate state, Li Yue suddenly realized that he seemed to have become a small pebble on the long river of time, perhaps slightly changing the flow of this river—the result of the closed-door war training is an important basis for "whether to open the city." What impact will it have that warmongers like Bosh and Finley have been inadvertently wiped out by him?

Another way of thinking—if he can really influence Mento's judgment of "whether to open the city," how should Li Yue choose?

Although he can turn a blind eye to the group of slave scholars in front of him, Li Yue doesn't seem to be able to ignore the war that is about to happen on the Continent of Chaos...

What is this?

Li Yue didn't expect that even after becoming a monster, he would still encounter such a headache-inducing problem.

Li Yue had questions, and so did Yingying.

"But there's a problem..." Yingying, of course, didn't know about Li Yue's inner thoughts and asked very sharply, "We can't leave the library before the closed-door war training ends, how can we go to the Demon Market?"

Yeah...

The next full moon includes the Demon Market, Mento's "report," and even the new round of finals for the Slaughter Cup... Li Yue could almost foresee that Ogibugi would not easily let Budiboge go. In the end, the most urgent thing was to quickly get the library back on track, and then see how things developed and respond accordingly.

Or... he could apply to Mento to leave the library during the closed-door war training?

Anyway, isn't it all up to the demon mentor?

It would be great to have the authority of the library in hand—Li Yue thought so, not lingering in the Sixth Repository any longer, preparing to take Shadow and Egg to "meditate" next to the Soul Altar, to quickly make a blueprint of the library.

But what made Li Yue laugh and cry was Egg's current state.

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