I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Pierce. ơ ɱ

The sticky skin of "Octopus Shapeshifter" Corey couldn't stop the invasion of death energy, and was instantly pierced by the bone sword; the wronged souls firmly tugged at the half-octopus man, even preventing him from dodging vital points by twisting his body.

"Puff… …" Like a deflated balloon, the bone sword, along with a large amount of death energy, drilled into Corey's heart, completely surrounding it—Li Yue noticed that as the bone sword was about to pierce the heart, the translucent heart was pushed up by some force, as if it were being delivered to the tip of the sword.

Corey began to wither.

First the skin, then the viscous moisture in his body, and then his head; and the red fly in his right shoulder seemed to realize that it couldn't help, and as death energy approached, it subconsciously wanted to drill out the way it came.

[Good his demon cocoon's surging… … Good her demon cocoon's power… … Buddybooger actually hid something… …]

The red fly was severely frightened by the "Thorn of Decay" and flapped its wings to escape.

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Li Yue certainly wouldn't let it go back, after all, it was a "possible" malice—with the "Brain Spirit's Pituitary Gland" and the soul contract, Li Yue was almost a community with Buddybooger, so he wanted to try whether malice directed at Buddybooger would fall on him.

Death energy lingered, enveloping Corey's head and the red fly together, returning to nothingness.

The dust on the ground slowly fell back, and the battle ended.

[Malice + 4521]

Li Yue secretly flipped open the "Abominable" card on his chest, and as he wished, he harvested Oogie Boogie's malice—as for the malice of the audience in the arena, he hadn't received it yet, perhaps they hadn't reacted yet.

That's right, the demons in the audience were very confused—they only saw that at the beginning of the second round, there was a back-and-forth, earth-shattering battle on the field; but at some inconspicuous point in time, the "Octopus Shapeshifter" Corey disappeared, turned to ashes, and then even the ashes disappeared.

"Ah hahaha—very regrettable—the winner is still our—Brain Spirit—" Oogie Boogie's malice was quickly replaced by the pleasure of pocketing money, and he jumped back into the arena and shouted.

"Those idiots who lost money—don't give up—next time the goddess of luck will come to your heads—" Compared to comforting low-level demons, Oogie Boogie seemed to be flaunting his happiness, "Revel, losers—the arena will provide you with the most indulgent night—the most indulgent every night—"

After speaking, Oogie Boogie jumped back and exchanged greetings with the big shots who had won money tonight.

And upon hearing Oogie Boogie's announcement, the audience erupted in boos, commotion, and dissatisfaction from the low-level demons who had once again had their wallets emptied by the Gambling Demon.

Oogie Boogie seemed to be used to it, and just shook his shoulders, and the fly demons in the audience moved—whoever shouted the loudest would be killed.

And seeing that a riot was about to break out, Li Yue didn't want to become the target of public criticism at this time, so he quickly flipped the "Abominable" card back—Oogie Boogie's 4521 was already enough, and it also verified… …as long as the "Abominable" is in hand, Buddybooger's harvest of malice is also effective, that's enough.

The next step is to test whether Buddybooger can go out alone without wearing the "Heavy Armor Hunk" to see if he will still harvest malice—if possible, can the 60 Brain Spirits in the library become malice collectors walking in Demon King City?

That would almost fundamentally solve the problem of "malice" production.

While Li Yue was thinking in a low-key manner, the commotion in the audience was quickly quelled by the respective fly demons—of course, through slaughter.

After all, this time was not like Li Yue's arena debut, where the result exceeded the expectations of all the demons—the gamblers in the high-level area had already received the news, and were now secretly rejoicing near the black mist, not becoming the fuel for a new riot.

So the low-level demons were not able to achieve anything, and could only be frustrated like the previous two games, and the flames of the riot were quickly extinguished.

And even though he had already won, Buddybooger still stayed in place, seemingly waiting for something.

[Killed a high-level demon, gained 1 demon point, material "Octopus Tentacle", please confirm]

Li Yue waited for the material to be extracted from the "Octopus Shapeshifter" as he wished—after all, it was a demon that had absorbed a demon relic, and if there were materials dropped, it was very likely that he would not be disappointed.

Sure enough, it's a tentacle… …great… …

Li Yue directly clicked "Confirm" in his mind, but was not in a hurry to absorb it into himself—the material was obtained by Buddybooger, and it would be too strange if it was absorbed by the skeletons in the audience.

Li Yue first controlled Buddybooger to stuff the octopus tentacle into the "Heavy Armor Hunk", and then absorbed the two extra bone cabinets into his main body, silently completing the material recovery, before inspecting the spoils of this battle.

The "Octopus Tentacle" retained most of the characteristics it had when it was still on Corey's body, including stickiness, earth element affinity, and absorption/ejection.

It's a pity that it doesn't have the wide-range ink ejection with a corrosive effect, nor does it have transparency… …Li Yue was a little discouraged, but the remaining abilities were enough to fill this little regret.

In the future, lava in the right hand, octopus tentacle in the left hand?

No, no, the imagination can be richer, who says tentacles must grow on the hands or feet?

It's already very convenient to directly install it on the Brain Spirit's main body, both offensively and defensively, and if it's installed on "Template 1", it's purely a monster—bones are covered with Demon Wolf Fangs, bleeding when touched; the back is covered with octopus tentacles, running fast in the earth, the prey can't escape even if they want to.

If the tentacle absorbs the lava from the right hand, can it spray out something terrifying?

And with "Earth Element Affinity"… …perhaps some new uses can be developed?

For example, helping Mini Me's改造library?

Being knocked on by the little guys every day, the skull is really a bit painful… …

Just after putting away the "Octopus Tentacle", Li Yue thought a lot, realizing that his combat ability seemed to have improved again with a qualitative effect, and at the same time, the Demon Illustrated Book popped up a new prompt.

[The obtained materials have reached "6" types, do you want to spend 1 demon point to unlock the "Material Detection" function?]

There's still a new function? Full of pots and pans, that's what this is?

Li Yue has always accepted new functions, especially "Material Detection", which sounds imaginative—will he be able to see the materials that each demon may extract on the Demon Illustrated Book after unlocking this function?

Being able to see the drop rate is a serious system… …otherwise, only opening blind boxes has too much uncertainty.

Li Yue decisively clicked confirm, and also learned about the specific content of "Material Detection"—consistent with Li Yue's guess, the Demon Illustrated Book has an additional column of "Material Drop" between "Weakness" and "Birth Record", and a quick scan revealed that the Demon Legion Commander's is indeed the Lava Right Hand, and the "Octopus Shapeshifter" Corey's is also the Octopus Tentacle.

In an instant, Li Yue understood the mission that the Demon Illustrated Book gave him—analyze demons, detect the materials that can be produced, kill them to obtain them, and then continue to enrich the demon blueprints?

Okay, this is very demonic.

With this function, he can choose combat targets specifically in the future, or avoid combat, or even hunt demons… …

Li Yue suddenly felt that he was complete, and he didn't have to try his luck to open blind boxes anymore.

It's just a pity that he doesn't know the drop rate, and he still can't rule out some unknown interference, but Li Yue also has some of his own guesses—like Finley, who is also a Demon Wolf Warrior, would drop "Demon Wolf Fangs", but he gained nothing when he killed Fendis, does that mean that the drop rate is related to the target's strength?

"Go back, let's go… …" Li Yue transmitted his thoughts, letting Buddybooger retreat from the arena on his own, watching him meet at the gate that could inspect souls.

When preparing to leave, Li Yue didn't notice that a strong skeleton on the high level was staring at him and left the audience with him.

Li Yue bypassed the crazy low-level demons and quickly exchanged the gambling money from the fly demon—after deducting the fly demon's "service fee", Li Yue had 16 gold coins, 47 silver coins, and 33 copper coins on him.

Running all the way to the back door of the arena, Li Yue saw that Buddybooger in the bone cabinet was being harassed by a group of flies.

"Why don't you fucking talk… …hey… …believe it or not, I'll tear down your bones, buzzing?" The flies stopped on the outer layer of the bone cabinet, twisting their wings and trying to drill inside.

"Don't stop me, let me go back, please… …" Facing Oogie Boogie's fly insects, Buddybooger didn't even have the slightest thought of resistance, just wanting to go home as soon as possible.

Li Yue hurriedly hid behind a wooden box at the corner, teaching Buddybooger to speak from afar.

"If you don't let go, I'll burn all of your flies, you demon cocoon." Buddybooger's tone changed, and the fly group exploded.

[Malice + 1322]