I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue, fully dressed, plunged into the orb before the Throne Room.

The corridor before the Throne Room was already dilapidated, almost a ruin, but the brave warrior and the two Sons of the Devil fighting inside immediately sensed the arrival of the uninvited guest.

"Busy?" Li Yue greeted his two companions, not in a hurry to join the battle—Lamont's whip dance was still impenetrable, and Li Yue had experienced Holy Light before, knowing it was particularly lethal to undead creatures like skeletons, so he could let Dandan and Yingying wear them down a bit more.

"You're here? Quick! Help me teach him a lesson!" Dandan couldn't command Yingying, and was getting angry. Seeing Li Yue arrive, he immediately shouted, completely forgetting the bold ambitions he had declared before the graduation lesson.

What about the honorable one-on-one duel they had agreed on?

"Have you already taken care of yours?" Yingying was a little annoyed.

[To think that I'm still not as fast as this Brain Spirit… Tsk, if Lamont wasn't carrying so much holy water, I would have twisted his head off long ago… Annoying.]

"Yeah… pretty simple." Li Yue's "Slaughter Sea Butterfly" tactic had been practiced silently for half a month. This victory was also due to thorough preparation, so he wasn't planning to rush in blind against Lamont; he would observe first.

"Bite my devil's butt, if I can just smash him once, I guarantee I'll smash his head into his butt—" Dandan was so anxious that he added a spinning effect to himself, feeling a little angry, a little dizzy, and barely able to enjoy the pleasure brought by the whip.

"Actually, we've already won." Yingying couldn't break through the whip shadows, but she could already sense Lamont's power decreasing through the shadows.

The spreading momentum of the whip shadows was also completely suppressed, now turning inward.

"Not necessarily, if you guys were sure to win, Isaac would have stopped the fight already." Li Yue spoke from his experience, "This Lamont should still have a trump card, don't be careless."

Li Yue was telling the truth—Isaac couldn't possibly allow the Sons of the Devil to beat him to injury for a mere graduation lesson; there were bound to be changes in the battle.

"Aren't you going to help?" Yingying had one very accurate perception.

[It doesn't matter who gets the Holy Whip, anyway, even if the Brain Spirit gets it, he'll lend it to me to play with… ]

"Not in a hurry, let's watch a bit longer." Li Yue had originally planned to observe for a moment and then join the battle, but when he saw the shattered walls and holes, he suddenly had some other thoughts.

The scene was recreated by Mento using spatial magic, so wouldn't this be a good opportunity to examine the Throne Room?

If it were in the real Devil King City, Li Yue couldn't imagine any possibility of approaching the Throne Room. Although the scenes in the orb were from different eras, they should still be of great reference value…

So Li Yue held up the Slaughter Sea Butterfly, which had been burned to only half its original size by the brave warrior, as a shield, bypassed the whip shadows and the battle circle, and pushed open the wall that had been half-destroyed.

Behind the wall was the Throne Room. The City Lord was naturally not there; it was empty and desolate, with only a solitary throne and a red carpet leading to the throne. On both sides of the red carpet were eight candlesticks, their flames flickering and burning steadily.

Without exception, all the arrangements in the Throne Room were blurred. Li Yue guessed that Mento hadn't spent much magic power to recreate the Throne Room, only retaining the most basic facilities, and even the moonlight effect wasn't added.

Thumbs down.

Li Yue endured the sounds of banging and crashing from outside and walked inward, passing the red carpet to reach the throne, sensing no abnormal magical fluctuations.

The throne was excessively blurred. Li Yue couldn't clearly see the material, only feeling that it was too huge—according to the City Lord's physique seen in the arena, sitting in the center would only occupy one-fifth of the seat? It would be about the same as if he sat on it himself.

Perhaps some City Lord had a huge physique, and the throne was matched accordingly…

Li Yue didn't find anything particularly noteworthy on the throne and the red carpet, and instead walked to the eight candlesticks—the candlesticks were tall, but much shorter than the throne, pointing straight to the ceiling of the Throne Room, like pillars.

Extending his will upward along the candlesticks, Li Yue sensed that each of the eight candlesticks had slight differences, and their differences were all concentrated in one location—the junction between the candlestick and the candle flame, where there was a small emblem.

Eight candlesticks, eight emblems. In the faint obscurity, Li Yue could barely distinguish three of them—a bone, twin swords, and a cocoon.

It was also because they were too blurred. Li Yue wasn't sure if it was a cocoon or a potato.

And when he identified the crossed twin swords, Li Yue suddenly felt a chill on his head—this twin swords emblem… where had he seen it before?

Searching his memories, Li Yue immediately found the origin of the twin swords—the Gate of Souls in the arena that examined gladiators… it was covered with various inscriptions, and above the inscriptions was this twin swords symbol!

What does this mean?

Could it be that the eight candlesticks represent the eight most relied-upon forces in the Devil King City under the throne? Eight regions?

Otherwise, why would the emblem of the arena… appear in the Throne Room? And on the candlesticks of the basic furnishings?

Following this line of thought, wouldn't the bone refer to the Graveyard of Light? The cocoon would be the Blood Cocoon… representing the Abyssal Maw?

The more Li Yue thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case, thinking that the trip hadn't been in vain, but also feeling somewhat disappointed—the Soul Altar in the Library also had an emblem, a simple outline of books, obviously not ranking high in the Devil King City of that era, not even having an independent candlestick.

Li Yue didn't know that in the current era, there was a short candlestick in the Throne Room, engraved with the emblem of the Library, and the candle flame had even shifted for a while.

After looking at the candlesticks, Li Yue tried hard to sense the appearance of the remaining five emblems with his will, but they were too blurred. Li Yue barely remembered them, but it was difficult to distinguish them, thinking that perhaps he could only match them after seeing the real objects.

"Gone! Three bottles!" Li Yue was wandering in the Throne Room when a line of Yingying's handwriting suddenly popped over from the broken wall, "The holy water is used up, come kill!"

Li Yue also remembered the outlines of the emblems, and then remembered that there was still serious business to attend to. He lowered his head and was about to burrow into the earth, but was stopped by "Completion."

Have the other Sons of the Devil finished fighting…

Li Yue had always carefully reserved his trump cards for the other Sons of the Devil, and of course he wouldn't expose them at this time, thinking that the "Thorn of Decay" was enough. If he couldn't tunnel through the earth, then he wouldn't. He turned and ran towards the battlefield.

Outside the broken wall, the Holy Light on Lamont's body was approaching zero, and the holy water he had sprinkled on the ground was almost used up. Yingying was stabbing at Lamont from countless directions, attacking from the sky and the ground together with Dandan.

The brave warrior Lamont also knew that the situation was critical, but under Yingying's all-pervasive attacks, while maintaining his own movements, he also had to break through the surging Dandan. He seemed to have no energy to pay attention to Li Yue.

The moment Li Yue rushed out, he suddenly remembered that Isaac hadn't called a stop, still keeping some precautions. His main body didn't move, and the Flying Sword and Bone Sea rushed towards Lamont in the layers of whip shadows.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Lamont had been waiting for this moment. He chanted a spell, and then the Holy Light suddenly flooded, turning into a Holy Mist that permeated the area before the Throne Room!

The highly corrosive Holy Light instantly filled the space. Yingying trembled slightly, turning Dandan into a cannonball and smashing it hard towards

"Dirty demons, be purified under the Holy Light…" Taking advantage of Yingying's weakness, Lamont's movement speed increased, turning back and rushing towards Dandan, the whip also surging with Holy Light, entwined with infinite holy power.

Li Yue suddenly realized that the tentacles on his head couldn't absorb the Holy Light, and Fire and Thunder… seemed difficult to have a good effect in the Holy Mist—the distance of a whip, as if separated by a chasm.

"Shadow Space!" Li Yue telepathically communicated to Yingying, while the tip of the Bone Sword was entwined with death energy.

In the erosion of the Holy Mist, Yingying understood.