I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Even with Yingying pulling with all her might, Egg still slid involuntarily towards the curtain.

Space seemed to be "deceived," overlapping with the altar behind Yingying.

The scene became Yingying wrestling with the gnoll leader—except that under the effect of the "Staff of Deception," the leader's arms suddenly swelled, as if possessing infinite strength. Seeing a slight stalemate, he brought down the mace on Egg again.

Egg groaned in pleasure, while Yingying struggled, wriggling incessantly.

Subsequently, the shadow began to crack, its speed far exceeding the collapse of the curtain and the earth—the faint shadow stretched between the Forbidden Forest and the gnoll cave couldn't withstand the enormous force and exceeded its stretching range. It seemed impossible to stop Egg from falling onto the altar…

Seeing that things were going badly, countless vines of the Forest Keeper stretched out from under the trees, pulling towards the egg in the air; Mandena snorted and diverted some of his magic to confuse the Forest Keeper's senses.

The vines were deceived and trembled erratically, unable to find their direction.

"This sacrifice… belongs to the gnoll family now," the gnoll leader said coldly.

"They are children of demons!" the Forest Keeper shouted as a reminder, hoping the gnoll family could appreciate his good intentions.

"Perfect, we haven't sacrificed a child of a demon yet…" the gnoll leader howled, "It's just a pity it's not Fentus's son…"

The gnoll leader's third strike was about to land, undoubtedly sending Egg into the altar. At this moment, Yingying, who had been silent for a long time, finally spread a line of words on the ground.

"You idiot, sacrifice your own gnoll butt."

Immediately afterward, Egg's position was instantly replaced by a cluster of grotesque figures, as if a flower bloomed in front of the curtain—a human flower.

Headless grotesques, dog-headed grotesques, Ami grotesques… all swelled up, embracing the gnoll leader's mace; Egg was directly swapped by Yingying to behind the gnoll leader and Mandena, escaping the Forbidden Forest!

"Hmm?" The old gnoll was full of doubt as the mace, already impossible to retract, slammed down.

"Ha? Ha!" The Forest Keeper was overjoyed because he sensed that there was one less demon child in the forest, the one that would have been sacrificed by the gnoll family.

It turned out that when wrestling with the gnoll leader, Yingying had already extended a shadow to the edge of the Forbidden Forest in order to ensure a smooth escape, and had taken out his demon relic from the shadow space.

As a grotesque jigsaw puzzle collected after the Blood River simulated battle, Yingying had already played with it skillfully. After learning "Advancement Studies," he directly developed the "Swap" gameplay.

On weekdays, Yingying used eight grotesques distributed in eight directions, constantly switching positions, thereby stretching and exercising his physique.

This time, escaping to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, seeing the menacing gnoll leader and Mandena, who were specially marked special gnolls, Yingying was naturally uneasy, so he had left a trick in advance, which now came in handy—the grotesque jigsaw puzzle was hit to the altar by the mace, and Yingying and Egg instantly escaped.

But it didn't end there.

When Yingying retrieved the shadow controlling the grotesque jigsaw puzzle, he also blessed them with a trace of momentum, reverse acceleration!

As a result, the altar in the curtain was smashed to pieces by the eight grotesques, and the grotesques, with broken heads and bleeding, danced wildly and began to scurry around in the cave.

The broken curtain still existed, and the gnoll family could see the grotesques' every move—only to see that the dog-headed grotesque seemed to smell something, possibly the scent of the gnoll cubs, so it led the remaining seven to run quickly to the side cave…

"Not good!" Mandena howled to Flainer and Elana in the air, and the two gnolls led the gnoll hunters to quickly turn back.

Mandena himself, seeing that Egg and Yingying had escaped the Forbidden Forest, seemed to have no intention of chasing them, and turned with the gnoll leader to a large tree beside them.

"They are children of demons? What do you know?" The gnoll leader leaned on the ground with his mace and asked the Forest Keeper, "Children of demons… why would they appear here? Aren't they in the closed battle training?"

The Forest Keeper looked at the old gnoll beside the gnoll leader, pondered for a moment, and then replied.

"I don't know, I only know… that the son of the Demon Wolf King also participated in the closed battle training." The Forest Keeper hinted, only wanting to quell this riot as soon as possible.

Hearing this, Mandena thought a lot, while the gnoll leader looked at the depths of the Forbidden Forest, a war fire burning in his eyes, but he said nothing, silently returning to the cave with the old gnoll, where the gnoll howls gradually intensified.

The Forest Keeper finally unloaded the tension lingering in his heart and suddenly looked forward to the fourth game of the Slaughter Cup—the timing of the demon children's "observation and learning" was too coincidental, perhaps everything that just happened… was related to that Oogie Boogie?

The King of the Arena… coveting the authority of the Forbidden Forest and the Library?

It's a pity that duty is on his shoulders, and there is no way to go to the scene to see it in person—the Forest Keeper thought silently.

…

In the hazy moonlight, an egg was rolling towards the Moonlight Path, looking back every three steps.

"You dropped something, aren't you going back to find it?" Egg hadn't had enough fun.

"No hurry, take it slow." This kind of patience was learned by Yingying from Li Yue in the Blood River, "Anyway, we'll meet at the Slaughter Cup, and I'll make them spit it all out then."

"Alright… hehe." Constantly savoring the impact brought by the mace, Egg was very satisfied with the second half of this trip.

Before long, Egg and Yingying arrived at the Moonlight Path and were startled by the octopus head that suddenly popped out of the ground—it was Li Yue.

"Was it smooth?" The time spent by Egg and Yingying was longer than expected, and Li Yue also noticed that Yingying was a little mottled, so he asked with concern.

Yingying didn't say anything, Egg shouted "Comfortable!" and then embellished the story of the chase when the two demons escaped—finally, Egg emphasized the gnoll leader's mace, saying that he must taste it again in the fourth game of the Slaughter Cup.

"Which is more comfortable, the leader's strike or Galarek's strike?" Li Yue didn't expect the gnoll family to come out in full force, taking the opportunity to compare the strength of the gnoll leader.

"About the same, but I think the gnoll leader has more potential, each strike is more comfortable than the last," Egg said honestly.

Li Yue suspected that Egg's perception might not be accurate, perhaps influenced by Mandena's "deception," or perhaps there was interference from the Forest Keeper, so he didn't fully believe it.

"Tell me all the details, again." On the way back to the Library, Li Yue "completed" the scenes he had missed from beginning to end, learned about Flainer and Elana's complete fighting methods, and also had a rough understanding of Mandena's methods and the gnoll leader's strength.

Overall, the most troublesome thing was Mandena's "Staff of Deception." If it weren't for this variable, Li Yue even felt that the original plan would have been enough to slaughter the gnoll family, but now… of course, he needed to adjust the tactics and also optimize the "Slaughter Sea Butterfly" in a targeted manner.

At this moment, recalling Mentor's question earlier, Li Yue felt that saying "overwhelming" was a bit arrogant—after all, it was the second largest force in the Forbidden Forest, it should be "first come, first served, flaying and stripping" instead.

Starting with the Mind Gnoll Mandena, one by one, drain the backbone of the gnoll family… In that case, even if there are nearly a hundred gnoll hunters and tricksters in the end, for the "Slaughter Sea Butterfly," it's just chopping meat.

Calculating all the way, Li Yue returned to the Library with Egg and Yingying, hurriedly greeted Galarek guarding the door, and incidentally let Galarek smash Egg three times before drilling into the upper cave of the Library.

Then, Li Yue saw a letter.

The signature on the envelope was a fly.