I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

With some time still remaining before the "Hero Studies" course, Li Yue entered the Chaos Gate and went straight to the recreation room, but didn't find Damen Benben there.

Most of the time, this guy would be in the recreation room, pulling closed the huge velvet curtains, creating a private space to fool around with Natemier. Why the change of heart today?

In front of the curtains, Li Yue and Natemier locked eyes. The nightmare succubus immediately struck a pose, making Li Yue feel rather uncomfortable.

"I haven't even asked, why did you change your hairstyle?" Natemier flew over and directly reached out, caressing Li Yue's tentacle hair.

[Seems like trying… Ah… ]

Li Yue felt a current run across his scalp, and his tentacles instinctively perked up—could it be that with the "Brain Spirit Pituitary Gland," his thoughts had become more numerous?

If he didn't have so many things to take care of, Li Yue wouldn't have minded playing around with the nightmare succubus.

However, after barely attending half a session of "Humanity's Fall Studies," Li Yue learned from Bao'er's teaching that once one entered a dream with a nightmare succubus, there was a high probability of unknowingly exposing a lot of information. Therefore, Li Yue fled before that class even reached the practical stage, and hasn't attended a second session to this day.

He couldn't be too unrestrained with Natemier at the moment.

"Stop it, I have something to discuss." Li Yue pushed away Natemier's arm, feeling a wave of softness, "Where's Damen Benben?"

"The Demon Scribe? He's in the study." With You Mento's restrictions, Natemier couldn't forcibly pull Li Yue into a dream. She bit her lip and said, "Stupid bones, don't you understand my heart?"

Li Yue was quite helpless and joked with her, "Want to have some fun? Then why not sign a soul contract first and become my slave…"

"Did I say I wouldn't?" Natemier opened her arms, "Come on."

[Enslave me… Lord Schorlric… ]

Li Yue was stunned, looking at the 456% action prediction success rate in the Demon Illustrated Handbook, feeling a little dumbfounded. He really couldn't figure out if this nightmare succubus was feigning or going with the flow.

Or perhaps… did she have a penchant for this sort of thing?

However, whether it was real or not, Li Yue only mastered the signing methods for low-level demon contracts at the moment, and hadn't researched the creation of higher-level contracts—the terrifying materials alone were enough to make Li Yue retreat.

Low-level demon contracts only required some basic magical materials. But when it came to the "Demon-level," the difficulty of creation increased exponentially, and even the materials themselves originated from the Demon-level or higher. Different contract contents also had different ritual requirements, all of which Li Yue couldn't satisfy.

"I'm going to find Damen Benben, goodbye." Li Yue steeled his heart, bypassed Natemier, and walked towards the study—he knew the way well. Li Yue had been there many times to collect knowledge from the library.

"Sigh…" Natemier sighed softly and turned to Egg and Shadow, who were following Li Yue, "What about you guys? Want to play?"

"Play? With you? What's fun about that? Can you hit me?" Egg had always been very simple-minded.

"Of course I can…" Natemier's tail flicked and struck the eggshell.

Then Egg stopped moving.

"Ah? That's a little interesting." Egg had learned the catchphrases of Mini and Mini after spending so much time with them, "Again?"

"You don't have the right to set conditions… Hitting you, kneading you, squeezing you… it all depends on my mood." Natemier's attitude suddenly became stern, her face hardening, as if she were a different demon.

Li Yue was a little sluggish again, not expecting Natemier's methods to be so broad.

"Get in here." Natemier turned and flew back to the curtains, pulling open a corner of the curtain and letting out a bit of dim red candlelight, signaling Egg to come in.

Egg changed its route, and Shadow followed it into the curtains—they weren't very interested in Li Yue and Damen Benben's conversation anyway.

Li Yue let them be, thinking that as long as the nightmare succubus didn't bother him, it would be fine. He turned and pushed open the side door of the recreation room, entering the study; just before closing the door, Li Yue heard the sound of whipping from inside the curtains, and Egg's familiar, comfortable moans.

In the study, Damen Benben was "sitting" in the sky, dangling from chains. Two chains were hanging from the crystal lamp on the ceiling, while the remaining chains were wrapped around various books and materials, as if he were studying.

The most eye-catching thing was the half of a magic stone embedded in Damen Benben's cloak. It was obviously almost completely absorbed, covered in cracks and about to break.

"You're studying? That's rare." Li Yue greeted Damen Benben—he had never seen Damen Benben in the study before. He didn't know why, but today he seemed different from before.

Studying while having a constant supply of magic power?

"I've been studying… rewriting recently." Damen Benben wasn't surprised to see Schorlric enter and glanced at the octopus tentacles on his head, "Do you understand?"

"I don't understand, rewriting what?" Li Yue didn't know much about the practice of Demon Scribes, only knowing that they could distort numbers, and he had to pay extra attention to this when communicating with them.

"It's really interesting… It's hard to imagine that just a little change can affect the present…" Damen Benben seemed to be answering irrelevantly.

Li Yue knew he wasn't finished and didn't interrupt.

"For example… this is a statistical list of the books transported here from the library." Damen Benben pulled up a small booklet with a chain, "It says… Kalic Kalic 299… Third Full Moon… 172 books were put into storage…"

The booklet automatically opened, turning to the last record before the Closed-Door Battle Training; Li Yue could vaguely discern that it was Mini and Mini's handwriting.

"There's only one copy of this statistical list, which means… if the records here are rewritten by me, then reality… will also change accordingly…" Damen Benben said, picking up a quill and touching it to the statistical booklet.

At the same time the pen tip touched the paper, the magic stone on Damen Benben's head instantly cracked, withered, and Damen Benben's fingers suddenly withered, losing their vitality.

With the slow slide of the pen tip, Damen Benben rewrote "172" as "142"; the number of books in the study seemed to be unchanged, but Li Yue felt that in this instant, a part of the knowledge stored in his mind seemed to be lost, and a certain part of the continent that he had imagined became much more blurred.

Li Yue was horrified—were those thirty books… "rewritten" to be deleted by Damen Benben?

Was this the extension of the Demon Scribe's "distorting numbers"?

But this was deletion, what if it was addition? What kind of changes would occur?

If thirty books were added in the same way, where would the knowledge in these thirty books come from?

The more Li Yue thought about it, the more frightened he became.

"You don't need to be afraid, this ability is… not that convenient to use." Damen Benben hooked his withered fingers and looked at Li Yue thoughtfully.

[Whether the record is unique… the number and level of ‘reality’ involved… whether it is necessary to pray from Chaos… whether the unknown backlash can be accepted… ]

Li Yue listened to the Demon Scribe's inner thoughts, carefully reading the limitations of this ability while thinking about how to avoid being affected.

After thinking for a moment, Li Yue felt powerless. No wonder the City Lord had his father stationed in the vault—with "rewriting…" wouldn't the wealth of Demon King City be able to multiply at will?

As long as the Demon Scribe was willing to pay the price and bear the risks.

Thinking, Li Yue sensed Damen Benben throwing out three magic stones from his cloak.

"Next, there's a question." Damen Benben smiled, "If I, as a Demon Scribe, record a log of this Closed-Door Battle Training, wouldn't it be the only record?"

"Then, I'll write a line… During the Battle Training, three Demon Sons participated in the fourth match of the Slaughter Cup with You Mento's permission…" Damen Benben laughed heartily, "This is a fact, right?"

Li Yue's brain grooves began to twitch.

"Then… I'll rewrite the number 3, adding myself, what do you think 'reality' will become?" Saying this, Damen Benben slowed down a little, ensuring that Li Yue followed his train of thought.

"Oh damn, why didn't I add a few more, so everyone could go out and play together?" Damen Benben patted his head with the chains.

"What do you think?" The Demon Scribe asked the skeleton.