I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

The Sixth Library's washroom was a separate structure, about twenty square meters in size, abruptly attached to the outer city's cliff face, the toilet pit leading directly into the unknown.

The window was made of iron bars like those of a prison cell, covered with thorny flowers. If Li Yue released his perception, he could sense a strong sense of "rejection" from them, probably sealed with some kind of magic to prevent slave scholars from climbing out and escaping.

As for the smell... well... it was naturally the smell of a toilet—Li Yue stepped over the threshold and saw a long, roughly hewn toilet pit filled with excrement.

A pale-faced young scholar was holding a folded long stick, repeatedly stirring the slightly clogged toilet pit...

Clearly, there was also a hierarchy among the slave scholars, with the newcomers responsible for "cleaning" the toilet.

Li Yue saw the young scholar's slightly damp blond hair lift slightly, and he coughed, "Get out."

The young scholar was taken aback, "But..."

"Get out." Li Yue had already sensed the old scholar's footsteps approaching.

The blond scholar didn't insist any further, folded the long stick and piled it in the corner, and walked out with his head down; just as the old scholar pushed the door open and entered, he saw the blond scholar and snorted softly, scaring the blond scholar into a shiver, and he quickly walked out.

The old scholar was about to say something, but when he saw Li Yue next to the toilet pit, he didn't speak, and quietly came to the moonlight spot in the toilet, lifted his robe and squatted down...

Li Yue slightly resisted the door with his mind, while releasing his mind on the other end, tightly enveloping the old scholar...

Through the body, Li Yue's mind could not reach the inside of the old scholar, so he could only break through from the outside...

Whether it was nervousness or something else, the humanoid figure that Li Yue had transformed into stood still, but his telekinesis did not choke the old scholar's neck—this was a person, even if his eyes were cloudy and his heart was dark, he was still a person.

Li Yue had killed the Demon Wolf Fendis, and had also erased the existence of a skeleton soldier with a small stone... but when facing the old scholar, he still hesitated.

"What are you doing?" The old scholar noticed something was wrong and looked at Li Yue standing next to him.

【Malice + 199!】

【Activate... Focused theft... Larris's heart lifespan!】

Suddenly, Li Yue sensed a slight magical fluctuation beside the old scholar's hand; immediately afterwards, that magical power seemed to transform into a pair of demonic claws, instantly attacking the corridor outside the Sixth Library, the lazy and sleeping Larris...

Li Yue was disguised, and the old scholar's spell targeted the wrong person.

Like a gunman who grips his pistol but hesitates to fire, Li Yue hadn't figured out what was going on, but when he saw the enemy's "drawing" action, he subconsciously pulled the trigger.

"Uh..." The old scholar only felt his neck being tightly strangled, lifting himself into the air.

And it was at this moment that Li Yue realized that the old scholar had mistaken him for the slave scholar in the corridor and attacked the wrong person.

"What did you just do?" Li Yue approached the old scholar and transmitted his thoughts to him.

The old scholar was like a torn rag, an invisible hand strangling him in mid-air, twisting his body.

【I have dragged everyone into the ritual, and can steal their lives at any time...】

The old scholar made a "hoarse" sound in his throat, unable to speak, but answering Li Yue's question in his mind.

This was the interrogation method that Li Yue had planned long ago—using the Demon Illustrated Handbook's effect of insight into people's hearts, obtaining nearly true answers from the Demon Illustrated Handbook's feedback by "asking" specific questions.

The old scholar was very light, and it was more than enough to strangle him with telekinesis—when the time came, Li Yue inexplicably thought of something else, almost missing the old scholar's next thought.

【Chant the spell... kill you...】

"Ah... ha... huh..." The old scholar barely hummed, but his eyes kept rolling upwards, unable to chant any curses.

"Just now you said... escape, how are you going to escape, when are you going to escape?" Li Yue didn't dare to relax at all, quickly transmitting his thoughts to extract useful information.

【Next full moon... Demon Market... Toilet pit... Climb down...】

The old scholar's consciousness was blurred, answering vaguely, and soon he could no longer provide useful information; and in Li Yue's original plan, when the interrogation could not continue, he should have let the old scholar catch his breath slightly to continue answering, but after seeing his magic, Li Yue didn't dare to take the risk, and just watched the old scholar floating in the air, no longer twisting.

【Malice + 299】

This was the old man's last frozen, complete, malice to kill Li Yue.

A strange smell came, and Li Yue felt extremely uncomfortable; the old scholar was dead, dead in the toilet like a rag.

Li Yue shook his head, resisting the urge to throw the body into the toilet pit, and instead threw it in the corner where the folded long stick was—one was dead, there were still two, he couldn't give up halfway.

Even if Li Yue didn't know what the Demon Market was at the moment, and didn't understand how to "escape".

The lunch break had passed for a quarter of an hour, and there wasn't much time left; it was still quiet outside, some of the slave scholars were catching up on sleep, while others continued to try to soften the hard chunks of meat with their dry lips so that they could swallow them.

Li Yue quickly consumed 150 malice to transform himself into the old scholar's appearance, tidied his robe, and opened the door of the toilet.

"You..." Li Yue waved to the other two elderly scholars.

The blond scholar lying on the bunk next to the toilet suddenly shivered, as if he had been frightened.

Li Yue repeatedly confirmed that the blond scholar couldn't see the inside of the toilet from his angle, and couldn't figure out why for a moment, but he couldn't use the Demon Illustrated Handbook to analyze it—Li Yue had to concentrate all his attention on the other two elderly scholars in order to complete the plan.

【Enter the toilet... learn more about the plan...】

The other two scholars thought the old guy was going to share the escape plan, and quickly walked towards the toilet; Li Yue hid behind the door, sensing their state, and finalizing the last details.

Squeak—

The two scholars pushed the door open and entered, without suspecting anything else, allowing Li Yue to slip in and let them into the toilet.

"This?" The two scholars noticed the body in the corner at the same time as Li Yue closed the door, and immediately recognized it as the old scholar, turning their heads in astonishment, a sense of horror rushing to their scalps—who was behind them?

"I'm fed up with you two!" Li Yue, in the guise of the old scholar, shouted angrily, also faking some lowered voice effects.

The two scholars were extremely horrified, completely unable to understand what was happening in front of them, or what it implied.

Then, they saw Li Yue transform into the appearance of the third burly scholar, saying in that slightly irritable voice, "It just so happens that I've disliked you for a long time..."

What does it feel like to watch a superior turn into yourself in front of your eyes, saying things you can't understand?

While the third scholar was puzzled, he subconsciously clenched his fists, while the second scholar's palm instantly surged with magic!

And Li Yue immediately activated his telekinesis according to the plan, wrapping it around the second scholar's head and pressing it into a pile of filth in the toilet pit; at the same time, Li Yue tugged at the third scholar's body, slamming his head hard against the wall!

Bang!

The third scholar was dazed, his brain in a mess, but Li Yue's mind forcibly twisted his bones, extending his right hand and pressing it on the back of the second scholar's neck, as if he was doing it willingly...

Yes, this was the plot that Li Yue had arranged in his mind—scholarly conspiracy, infighting, head-pressing kill.

Even though Li Yue had been baptized by the Supreme Magic Stone, it was still quite difficult to control two people with telekinesis at the same time, and he didn't dare to relax in the slightest—with Li Yue's current telekinetic strength, he certainly couldn't harm enemies like the Demon Wolf Fendis, but controlling the behavior of two weak humans was still barely possible.

【Who is this person... must survive...】

The two scholars' thoughts coincided.

"The ritual of stealing life, where did you learn it?" Li Yue transmitted his thoughts to them at the same time.

【There were originally engravings on the table... the ritual incantation was recorded in the book... he modified it... we became the beneficiaries...】

Li Yue nodded, which was about the same as he had guessed—the slave scholars learned some knowledge related to rituals from the books in the library... and then found a way to use it through several years of research.

"Who carved it?" Li Yue needed to confirm that no one would continue to hide in unnoticed places, in undetectable ways... stealing his life.

【The previous Demon King...】

This time it was Li Yue's turn to be surprised—the previous Demon King? The Demon King who was recently overthrown by the current Demon King? What did he leave in the library?

While thinking, the second scholar drowned in a tragic way, but the third scholar seemed to have regained some strength, his joints crackling, trying to resist Li Yue's mind.

Li Yue sensed the gradual noise in the Sixth Library, so he concentrated all his strength and slammed the third scholar's head against the stone wall again...

Bang!

The toilet was quiet.

A knock on the door sounded.

Li Yue, transformed into the old scholar's appearance, opened the door, half-covering the line of sight cast inside, just revealing the second scholar's twitching feet and the third scholar's broken head.

"You get out." Li Yue imitated the old scholar's majesty.

The scholars whispered, the toilet seemed to have an invisible magnetic field, attracting their gazes to involuntarily cast inside.

In the end, the old scholar's majesty prevailed over curiosity, and the scholars lowered their heads, leaving their bunks according to Li Yue's instructions and heading to the corridor outside—they thought, the lunch break was coming to an end, a death event had occurred in the Sixth Library, the next eight hours... perhaps they could rest?

Li Yue watched the last scholar leave and close the door, then used his mind to hold it shut, then pulled the old scholar's body out of the toilet, tore his bunk into a strip, and hung it on the protruding wall as a noose; finally, Li Yue put the old scholar's neck into it, and then picked up a crooked stool and pushed it down under his feet.

After doing all this, Li Yue transformed back into the appearance of a Brain Spirit and squeezed into the crack in the door of the Sixth Library...

"Squeak..." The wooden door opened a crack, and in the moonlight pouring out, an old figure was swaying back and forth.