I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

During tonight's "Advancement Studies" class, Li Yue received many glares from Mento, and had to listen to his sarcastic remarks beside Eggie.

"What kind of garbage are you eating..."

"This isn't eating, it's suicide."

"Being friends with this kind of demon, you have no future..."

While Mento was rambling to Eggie, he took out a drop of liquid from his sleeve and smeared it on Eggie's surface: "This is what you should be eating. This is a combination of three substances I extracted from chaos. Only supremely powerful magic can make it a stable liquid, which will greatly help your 'maturity'..."

Li Yue felt something was wrong when he heard this—he risked his life in the Blood River, only to receive a few blessings of questionable value, and almost died because of it; Eggie didn't have to do anything and was directly given a feast...

The difference in treatment was too obvious.

However, Eggie didn't care, perhaps deliberately provoking, or perhaps standing up for Li Yue: "Teacher, it's impolite of you to say that about my friend."

Li Yue muttered to himself—ha, is it polite to eat the "friends" in the Demon Kitchen? Is it polite to eat my materials?

"There must be side dishes with the main course, this is what I've learned recently." Eggie let the liquid flow on the eggshell, like a child with a new toy.

"You are truly my good student." Eggie received Mento's unreserved love.

Afterward, Mento separated a clone to teach Eggie how to absorb the substance, leaving one to stare blankly at Li Yue.

After staring for a while, Mento's worms suddenly trembled wildly—after spending time with this Demon King tutor, Li Yue could roughly tell that this trembling meant he was laughing. Mento would laugh like this whenever he was gloating.

"I'm looking forward to tomorrow night's Slaughter Cup," Mento said with a smile. "Boudibug has lost his ability. If you can't defeat him, the debt to OogwayBoogie won't be cleared... Whoever holds the authority of the Library, he will seek them out to collect."

Li Yue was also worried about this—the soul contract ceremony and materials were ready, and the imminent event was tomorrow night's Slaughter Cup...

How could Boudibug be helped to get through it smoothly?

And how to define "smoothly?"

Fortunately, the soul contract could be signed now. Once the contract was completed, Li Yue could completely control Boudibug's actions.

"Do you have any suggestions?" Li Yue asked for Mento's opinion.

"Up to you." Mento's answer was very quick, still adopting a laissez-faire policy towards Li Yue. "You must believe that all decisions are made by yourself."

"But I seem to see... you want to sign a contract with Boudibug first, turn him into your slave, and then see how far he can go before deciding whether to tell him to win or lose?" Mento pointed to the air above Li Yue's head.

Through the air above Li Yue's head, Mento saw a scene—the scene was in the center of the arena, Boudibug was shrouded in Li Yue's Mind Demon shadow, like a puppet, fighting a blurry shadow.

"It's useless, you're asking for my advice, but you actually have no choice."

"You must help Boudibug, you must win, and you must win easily."

"Only in this way can you keep the authority of the Library."

"The Slaughter Cup is one of the few competitions in Demon King City that all demons can see. Now some demons already know that the Mind Demon Lord is participating... Think for yourself, what will be the consequences if you lose, or if you win in an ugly way."

"At best, the Library will never be peaceful again, at worst, it will be annihilated in chaos... Now, do you still think it was the right choice to kill Boudibug in the first place?"

Mento said a series of things, without even giving Li Yue time to react: "This is what I said, the future storms are for you to endure..."

"You thought that under Boudibug's rule... it was the darkest time of your demon life..."

"No, you're wrong, the haze will never dissipate, the haze will only wait." Mento paused, "The only difference is whether you can become stronger before the next haze envelops you."

"The existence of demons is for the existence of higher beings." Unconsciously, Mento gave Li Yue another "Advancement Studies" lesson.

After listening for a while, Li Yue indeed realized that he had no choice. Only by helping Boudibug "win easily" would he have more time to prepare.

Thinking deeper, OogwayBoogie initially planned to have Boudibug die in the final, besides making money for him, was he also interested in the authority of the Library?

Or to kill the owner of the Library, and then cause greater chaos in Demon King City?

Li Yue's thoughts ran wild. He quickly restrained his mind and began to think about the most important thing at hand...

How to win?

The current Boudibug is only at the level of a low-level demon. Not to mention facing gladiators ranked within the top 200, even if he encounters the Demon Wolf Warrior Finley, he may not be able to defeat him...

And he has to win easily?

Seeing Li Yue concentrating, Mento hummed a familiar tune: "I am Gambling Demon OogwayBoogie, I never play a fair game~"

Almost at the same time, Li Yue stood frozen in place, suddenly remembering something—OogwayBoogie never plays a fair game, he must have made some arrangements...

Combining the words "Seize the opportunity in the second round" on the invitation, Li Yue vaguely grasped a clue.

In this Slaughter Cup, Boudibug must win?

"But even if you侥幸 pass this hurdle, there are still two more rounds later." Mento threw the problem to Li Yue all at once, seemingly to prove the correctness of his initial organization of Li Yue to kill Boudibug, "Before the last round, Boudibug will have an advantage with OogwayBoogie's arrangements, but in the last round, all of OogwayBoogie's arrangements... are aimed at killing Boudibug."

"What are you going to do at that time?"

Li Yue glanced at Mento, wondering what he was up to—was he angry because he stole his egg?

But there was still no malice popping up—Li Yue really hated that the Demon Encyclopedia hadn't included the Demon King tutor, so he couldn't know his true thoughts.

Li Yue had been analyzing Mento in the two Advancement Studies classes, but even now it was only a pitiful 1%. Even if the closed-door training ended, he wouldn't be able to finish analyzing him.

"So what do you want?" Li Yue's attitude became worse.

"Nothing, I'm just watching your performance." Mento said as if he would be at the scene in person, but Li Yue wasn't sure where he would be watching.

"Okay, you watch closely, and see what the new Mind Demon Lord will do." Li Yue had already thought of a solution and felt that it was reliable.

"Okay, really good." Mento nodded, the worms started trembling again, "If you perform well, I can also give you a reward, definitely more useful than a Supreme Demon Stone..."

Hearing Mento's "reward," Li Yue inexplicably felt like he was being provoked; but after thinking about it, there really wasn't any choice other than helping Boudibug win this round. Mento was just reminding him of the seriousness of the crisis in a roundabout way.

As long as he won this round, he would have several more days to develop safely—at least enough time to complete the construction of the Library's defenses, and enough time to study hard and learn the courses clearly...

If there was a reward, it would be even more profitable.

"What reward?" Li Yue asked with caution, and was immediately disgusted by Mento's answer.

"It's hard to run to the Demon Kitchen with painstaking effort, but you can't bring all the materials back, it's very sad, right? It hurts, right?" The trembling of the worms became more intense, apparently Mento had spied on Li Yue's every move in taking Eggie to the Demon Kitchen.

"If you help Boudibug win easily, I'll give you a bag to hold your stolen spoils." Mento nodded, "But I will cast a curse, every time something falls into the bag, half of it must be given to Eggie, how about that?"

Li Yue felt like he had become Eggie's nanny—after going around in circles, it was still to make it easier for Eggie to eat some spirit stones?

"Okay, bring it here first." Li Yue knew that Mento was good at space magic. Having such a bag was better than nothing, at least there was a place to put the stolen items; and with a "good relationship," maybe he could stop Eggie from stealing food.

The worms on Mento's chin fell off and burned to ashes in the air; the ashes covered Li Yue and Eggie and disappeared, reaching some kind of agreement.

Li Yue didn't stay in the classroom for long. Before the Green Hour arrived, he ran to the entrance of the First Library to wait, there was a contract to sign with Boudibug.

But unexpectedly, when Li Yue arrived this time, Boudibug had already revived in advance. At this moment, he was dragging MiniMini, who had been beaten a little retarded a while ago, in the air, as if in a kind of threat.

"Stop it, come down first." Fei Fei was about to be driven crazy by Boudibug, but all the attacks were dodged by that flexible brain, so he had to hold up his sword and shout angrily below.