I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Soon, Li Yue and Pig Brother reached an acquisition agreement: a self-healing bone in exchange for half a stomach of meat, plus the right to use the stomach.

Since even his bone chef found it novel, Pig Brother would likely not refuse—that's what Li Yue thought, and Pig Brother's reaction was indeed as expected.

So, both parties felt this transaction was a great deal.

Pig Brother gained an extra ingredient, while Li Yue gained enough meat to squander in the library and a giant Synthesizing Snail large enough to sign contracts with 59 brain spirits.

Li Yue watched Pig Brother eat his bone, thinking that if Demon Secretary Damon Benben knew about this, he would definitely feel unbalanced—the historical record of the Steel City battle only earned a skull, but now Pig Brother received an entire skeleton without doing anything.

Of course, Li Yue removed the Demon Wolf's Teeth and binding threads before giving it to Pig Brother, just like the snacks Mini Minis usually ate; and after Pig Brother ate it, he, like the chef, cut off a small piece of pig's trotter and stared at it silently.

"What's wrong?" Li Yue asked subconsciously when he saw Pig Brother spacing out.

"Hoo... This chaotic cuisine, Golden Oil Pig Trotter, is very helpful and has a 'self-healing' effect," Pig Brother murmured. "Do you... want to try some?"

As he spoke, Pig Brother squeezed through the pile of meat with the pig's trotter and brought it to Li Yue's mouth.

Li Yue, seeing the pig's trotter still dripping with saliva, naturally declined politely, but a cluster of particles took the pig's trotter and embedded it into Egg's body.

"Yes, I can vouch for him." Egg said, and as the pig's trotter was absorbed, the location where the Demon King Mentor Mentuo had broken off a particle finally healed completely.

Li Yue finally understood what chaotic cuisine meant and suddenly felt that he had been too arbitrary in refusing the chef's "recommendation," but perhaps he could investigate Pig Brother in the future—for now, he seemed to be a foodie who liked handicrafts and didn't like staple foods?

At the same time, Li Yue used the Demon Illustrated Handbook to probe Pig Brother's material drops, and sure enough, it was "Stomach Pouch," the stomach pouch of a demon chef.

Like finding an organ discarded in a garbage heap, Li Yue suddenly felt... that if he also had the stomach pouch of a demon chef, he might be able to make chaotic cuisine as well.

In the future, he might have to slaughter a pig, but not necessarily this one, but some other one.

Soon, the transaction with Pig Brother ended, Yingying and Egg returned to participate in today's "Humanity's Fall Studies," while Li Yue returned to the cave on the upper level of the library to space out.

It wasn't quite accurate to call it spacing out; rather, he was continuing to explore the cloak, soaking Egg's particles, and creating new templates.

Li Yue currently had 3 templates. Template 1 was "Sharp, Bony Pretty Boy," Template 2 was a collection of various traps in the library and Mini Mini bone armor parts, and Template 3 was "Heavily Armored Strong Man"; Li Yue first unhesitatingly spent the remaining 1 demon point in the Demon Illustrated Handbook to open Template 4, providing it to the brain spirits who went out to collect malice after signing a contract.

Currently, not only did the transaction with the demon kitchen need to be maintained by the self-healing bone, but the exchange with Pig Brother also required it, so collecting malice was the top priority and had to be resolved first.

The "Heavily Armored Strong Man" was inconvenient to move—in Li Yue's conception, the armor worn by the brain spirits going out to collect malice needed to meet two conditions: first, it had to be light and flexible, easy to dodge and move; second, it had to meet basic protection requirements, at least not easily destroyed by skeletons and low-level armor.

As for the main target of collecting malice... of course, it was the skeletons in the Maze Corridor—they bore the important task of guarding the "Maze Corridor," and if they saw brain spirits running around inexplicably, they would definitely steadily produce malice.

Taking skeletons as the imaginary enemy, Li Yue began to construct Template 4—still using self-healing bones and binding threads as the base, using the lowest cost, only constructing two filter screens that were difficult to pierce with swords.

As for Demon Wolf's Teeth, Lava Right Hand, and Octopus Tentacles, they were not needed because they were unnecessary.

Li Yue named Template 4 "Little Ruckus," looking forward to their future performance in the Maze Corridor.

Li Yue calculated that there would be about 5 teams of skeletons patrolling the Maze Corridor every day, with about 5 skeletons per team. If they provided about 20 malice each time, the "Little Ruckuses" would harvest 500 malice each time they courted death; adding Green Time, Blue Time, and Red Time together, and having the brain spirits collect in three shifts, the daily expected malice would be 5000... which was still a very conservative estimate.

Especially in the later stages, once these "Little Ruckuses" were remembered by the skeletons, causing them to attack as soon as they were seen, the efficiency might even be much higher.

Of course, there was also a premise of ensuring the maximum opening time of the "Loathsome" card, which remained to be verified, but Li Yue was generally optimistic.

Next was the application of the octopus tentacles—Li Yue thought about it and felt that legs were useless, and replacing them all with octopus tentacles was a good choice, eight of them.

This way, he could move freely in the wasteland like "Octopus Shapeshifter" Corey, and even directly absorb earth elements to spray attacks.

As for binding and restricting enemy movement... they were all within the scope of the lower body's application, and replacing the legs would not affect the hand movements at all, such as lava, such as bone swords.

Thinking about it, Li Yue discovered another problem—the self-healing bone was his sensory object. If the feet remained in the bone state, as long as there was a "thought," he could move quickly; but if they were replaced with octopus tentacles, he would need to use extra thought to control them, and the reaction speed would be a little slower...

Li Yue wanted both, and after pondering for a moment, he came up with the idea of using his own head, carefully cutting and polishing the octopus tentacles in the Demon Blueprint to make them smaller and thinner...

Then, he tied them to the skull with binding threads, as if they were hair.

"That's settled." Li Yue thought silently—in this way, he could maximize the use of the suction cups' absorption ability, protect the fragile brain spirit body, isolate attacks against the head, and at the same time, it would not affect the "Earth Element Affinity" earth escape effect.

Anyway, if he wanted to quickly change positions, it was enough for his head to be able to freely drill into the soil...

Moreover... there would be no worries about hair loss—thinking, Li Yue pulled the hairline lower, looking like dense dreadlocks on his head.

Although it looked a little strange, Li Yue himself was completely acceptable, just like he never pursued suits when playing games in his previous life, no matter what kind of tattered appearance he grew into, as long as the attributes were good enough, he would stick them on his body.

Anyway... he was a monster.

Another step in the design was that Li Yue sewed the Demon Wolf's Teeth into the gaps between the suction cups of the octopus tentacles with binding threads, giving the tentacles themselves extremely strong destructive power—as long as they were entangled, whether it was control or killing, it was all within Li Yue's control.

After cutting and controlling the opponent with a headbutt, Li Yue could completely use the suction cups to increase the opponent's "bleeding" effect, and even use blood as a raw material for spraying, killing multiple birds with one stone.

Scratching his sticky head, Li Yue finally enriched Template 1, thought for a moment, and decided to change its name—after having octopus tentacles, Template 1 was still largely a "Sharp, Bony Pretty Boy," but the hairstyle became dreadlocks, and the whole skeleton looked much more unrestrained and fashionable.

So "Unrestrained Bony Hipster" became the new name for Template 1 until Li Yue collected new, more powerful demon materials.

Next was to transform "Heavily Armored Strong Man"—combining octopus tentacles and what he had learned in "Maze Biology," Li Yue had a brand new idea on how to transform Template 3.