I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue inventoried the materials in the storeroom and then called the demon merchant Mai Mai over, stuffing the items one by one into the stomach pouch borrowed from Piggy.

Mai Mai never imagined that he, a top-notch demon merchant, would one day be "appraising" tiger-striped gecko droppings…

But no matter what, it was considered fulfilling the agreement—when the fourth Killing Cup began, Mai Mai would take this pouch of materials and change to the coliseum to place bets for Li Yue.

"Remember, the pouch isn't the bet; it's what's inside…" Li Yue reminded Mai Mai.

"But everything you have in there… isn't worth as much as this pouch," Mai Mai grumbled.

"I know, but it's not mine. If you want to use it as collateral, ask Piggy," Li Yue still needed to get supplies from the demon kitchen, of course he couldn't offend Piggy or the head chef—at least not by "stealing the pouch to place bets."

Mai Mai shrugged almost imperceptibly.

"But that's not the main thing. Later, go find Reid Kotter; he'll be placing bets with me," Li Yue didn't mention the details of the deal, and Mai Mai didn't dare to comment.

Based on the odds offered by the demon merchants at the coliseum, Li Yue roughly estimated that if he wiped out the Gnoll family in the first round, converted to the gold vault, he could only earn less than 100,000 gold coins; it was just a pity that he still hadn't found the location of Scourgerick's treasure. Otherwise, with the Skeleton Prince's wealth, this round of chips wouldn't be so thin.

As for the remaining profits… it would depend on how many treasures the Red Robe Priest Reid Kotter could contribute.

This was also why Li Yue was desperately trying to get Reid Kotter on board—as for how much Reid Kotter would bet, Li Yue didn't make any demands, only looking at his sincerity.

During the "Hero Studies" graduation class, Li Yue solidified his first place position, and it was a good opportunity to win over other Demon Sons, but Li Yue didn't choose to force it, only seeing who had the foresight to invest…

Of course, no matter how much Reid Kotter could contribute, Li Yue himself could guarantee to scrape together 100,000 gold coins, only paying out a stack of renewable self-healing bones. This deal was already very profitable.

Although Li Yue didn't know what treasures 100,000 gold coins could buy at the Demon Market, at least having money or not made a big difference in mentality—when the full moon Demon Market opened, he would buy what he could, and steal what he couldn't afford.

Li Yue thought this as he watched Mai Mai leave.

Everything depended on winning—tomorrow night was the fourth Killing Cup, and the final was the night after. Time was already somewhat pressing.

Fortunately, the preparations were almost complete—Li Yue floated back to the upper cavern from the storeroom, repeatedly going over his initial arrangements in his mind, and realized that he had already eliminated the variables caused by Mentor's open and closed combat training, and even found better betting channels and better financial support.

This old thing that made trouble for him… probably didn't expect it, right?

Or… was this another difficult problem deliberately given to him?

Li Yue pondered, thinking, and suddenly realized that this old thing might really be doing it on purpose.

"What are we doing today?" Egg, who was soaking in the bathtub, popped her head out and asked, interrupting Li Yue's thoughts.

Yingying, on the other hand, was folding Lamont's relics by the bathtub with a crackling sound, as if playing with a Rubik's Cube, already extremely skilled, switching freely between knives, spears, swords, halberds, whips…

These two Demon Sons had been playing with Li Yue for several nights and were no longer accustomed to peace, always wanting more adventures—one night they poked a hornet's nest in the Gnoll's Forbidden Forest, and another night they participated in the "Hero Studies" graduation class. Their tastes had become picky.

"Isn't there class today? What class is it…?" Li Yue had to ask Yingying for the schedule again.

"Human History," Yingying wrote down the answer before Li Yue asked, "The graduation class's content is 'Distribution of Contemporary Papal Factions'."

"Ah… Horanisang ah…" Li Yue still remembered that the "Human History" teacher was a rigid fellow, who probably wouldn't prepare anything fancy for the graduation class, at least not like Isaac.

Like Isaac, Horanisang was once a human, even a bishop—occupying a "deposed" position in the evolutionary history of faith on the Chaos Continent.

During the transition between the old and new religions, the collision between faiths turned the continent into a river of blood. As the leader of the losers, Horanisang was branded a heretic by the contemporary Papacy and angrily threw himself into the arms of demons…

So humans and demons in Demon King City called him the "Fallen Bishop," preaching in Demon King City all day long—demons would listen to him preach his doctrines when they wanted to sleep, like listening to a lullaby, or like listening to a joke.

As a proponent of the old doctrines, Horanisang taught a lot of old-era history in "Human History." Li Yue had read all the teaching materials before he finished speaking, only feeling that the era was barbaric and unreasonable. The old religion represented by Horanisang built order to a certain extent, but was quickly abandoned by the times.

Li Yue had also finished reading 《Distribution of Contemporary Papal Factions》 long ago, memorized it in his heart, waiting for the day it could be used.

"How is it? Want to go out and play?" Egg and Yingying didn't really want to attend "Human History," knowing that Li Yue had already previewed all the courses, so they proposed the application to "go out and play."

They wanted the Brain Spirit to prepare some more fun programs.

"Tomorrow night is the fourth Killing Cup. In two days, we should wait," Li Yue pacified the two Demon Sons, "Reduce unnecessary outings, hide our trump cards, and then give the Gnoll family a surprise."

If the Demon Sons went out too much and were associated with the Brain Spirit and the Killing Cup, the Gnoll family might be prepared in the battle, increasing the difficulty…

This battle, which could not afford to go wrong, included pre-battle, during-battle, and post-battle.

"Then should we go to class?" Egg and Yingying felt quite bored.

"Going to class… is not necessary. Call a Brain Spirit to go, and tell us later," Li Yue had already developed the function of Brain Spirits attending class in his place—the Brain Spirit would listen to Horanisang's murmurs, and after finishing class, it only needed to transmit a thought, and Li Yue would know what was taught in class, saving a lot of time.

"There are still two days. I think we might be able to pull in another helper," Li Yue patted Egg.

"Still need to find a helper? What for? Aren't we enough?" Egg and Yingying were unconvinced—especially Yingying, who had just gotten Lamont's relic, had long wanted to fight the Gnoll leader a few more times.

Before, using Egg as a meteor hammer consumed a lot of Yingying's shadows, and she also had to help Egg switch positions. Yingying always felt that she hadn't exerted her true strength in that battle.

"Enough is enough, but maybe it's not stable," Li Yue also remembered the Gnoll leader who didn't react at all when the Demon Illustrated Handbook covered him—if everything went smoothly and he managed to kill the Mind Gnoll Mandena, it would be best to arrange another guy to fight the Gnoll leader head-on, so as not to disrupt the plan by the remaining only variable.

And Yingying also had to help control the field. Among the remaining players in the library… apart from himself, it seemed difficult to confront that big wolf-fang club head-on…

So Li Yue had a completely new candidate in mind—wasn't the gatekeeper of the library a skeleton?

That Galarek whose greatsword could transform, an octagonal staff against a wolf-fang club, just right.

Anyway, Li Yue had the Skeleton King's nominal authority. If he summoned him, who would dare not obey?

He hadn't paid attention to him before because there were still too many uncertainties in the library. Now that the internal affairs had been settled, it was time to pacify the external affairs—Li Yue thought, drew his bone sword, and walked towards the library gate.

And just at this moment, Lulu and Feifei trotted all the way and rushed to the upper cavern.

"Brother! Brother! Someone! Someone came in!"

Someone? Who?

Li Yue used the authority of the library to look towards the bloody corridor on the first floor and chuckled.

"It's a Gnoll…"