I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“Ugh… Budibuger is so fierce…” Oggyboogy announced the official start of the fourth round of the Slaughter Cup while bouncing into the air, “Let’s see… how far can the Brainlings go? Hahaha…”

But in that short delay, Mandena relied on the "Staff of Deception" to help the Gnoll family gain the upper hand—two points of icy coldness were about to be imprinted on the wings of the Slaughter Sea Butterfly, and dozens of Gnolls had already bitten at the Sea Butterfly. →

The arena was also suddenly filled with mist, but after Li Yue's further perception, he realized that it should be some kind of spore, from the fungal demi-life in the Forbidden Forest.

The Gnoll family had indeed made sufficient preparations. Even if they only brought some scattered monsters, it was enough to gain an advantage in the first moment—if the participants in the fourth round of the Slaughter Cup were really just Brainlings, they would lose their ability to perceive the battle situation and become prey for the Gnoll hunters.

The forest terrain seemed to give the Gnoll family a great boost. Their speed was faster than in the Forbidden Forest, their arms were stronger, and their bites were more vicious!

But facing this kind of battle, Li Yue's reaction was—to ignore it.

For the Gnolls, they were still establishing a combat advantage, but for Li Yue, the moment of victory or defeat had arrived—Li Yue fully believed in the defensive ability of the "Slaughter Sea Butterfly" and was prepared to directly sacrifice Budibuger, determined to kill Mandena and eliminate the unstable factors brought by the "Staff of Deception."

Ignoring the spores filling the arena, ignoring the attacks on Budibuger's bone shell, Li Yue locked onto the boar that the Demon Illustrated Handbook identified as Mandena, and drove the small formations of three Slaughter Sea Butterflies to flap their wings together, bypass the trees, and quickly approach!

“Huh?” Oggyboogy returned to his seat and only then did he notice some problems—how did such a big change appear on the battlefield in an instant? Where did the forest come from?

Was I deceived by something? Or was I stopped?

Oggyboogy was not sure, but this did not affect his continued presentation of the Slaughter Cup spectacle.

“Hahaha! The Gnoll family has moved in the Forbidden Forest—the following battle will be presented to you by me—” Oggyboogy's fly swarm scattered throughout his body, and countless compound eyes instantly covered every corner of the battlefield, and then countless compound eyes projected the scene into the air, allowing the audience to see every detail.

They saw the Sea Butterflies dancing wildly, vaguely chasing something, and they could also see dozens of Gnoll hunters appearing, led by an owl, attacking a certain bone shell together.

Is that Budibuger?

When the Slaughter Sea Butterflies invaded a corner of the forest where Mandena was located, under the surge of magic power, Li Yue suddenly sensed that the bone shell being targeted by everyone was not where Budibuger was…

As expected, it was Mandena's "Deception" effect—Mandena made all the Brainlings believe that the Brainling Lord was being attacked. What was the purpose?

Was it a test? Or a compression of the Brainlings' formation?

As Li Yue was thinking, two points of icy coldness had already pierced into the high-density self-healing bone, followed by the tearing and biting of dozens of Gnoll hunters—the bone shell quickly shattered and was plated with a layer of frost, crackling in the sound of tearing.

Can hold on… Li Yue tested the defensive ability of the bone shell and urged the three Slaughter Sea Butterfly formations to accelerate—the first step to locking in the victory was to be close enough to Mandena…

If the "Staff of Deception" hadn't snatched the first move, Li Yue would have already cooperated with Yingying to kill him; but now, Li Yue could only ask Yingying to help the Slaughter Sea Butterflies accelerate.

Of course, there would be Brainling losses, which Li Yue had already considered; but before Li Yue could relax, he suddenly discovered in his perception that the Slaughter Sea Butterfly where the real Budibuger was… in the blink of an eye, it had been switched to the position of that tattered bone shell that was being gnawed at!?

This was a mental trap.

[Deception… ]

Li Yue could only read Mandena's thoughts after the action—the Mind Gnoll was indeed difficult to deal with, this degree of concealing thoughts… was it the effect of the Staff of Deception?

Li Yue gave up on mind reading, focused on traveling through the forest, hunting Mandena, and still ignored Budibuger's life or death.

At this moment, Li Yue also understood Mandena's true intention—he actually found a Sea Butterfly at random first, and then used the Brainlings' perception in the arena to locate the real Budibuger?

He succeeded.

A wolf-tooth club suddenly fell from the forest and smashed towards Budibuger, it was the Gnoll leader's club; at the same time, in the trees of the forest, a Beholder's pupils glowed, about to shoot out petrifying rays.

The Beholder Gnoll, Elana, appeared.

Petrify first, then smash?

Good tactic.

As the only Gnoll that the Demon Illustrated Handbook could not lock onto, the Gnoll leader's appearance was perfectly timed, and Li Yue also knew that this was the last chance—Mandena, like himself, hoped to behead the other's leader in one fell swoop, and then clean up the mess.

Only he didn't expect… that Budibuger was not the real commander.

This was also Li Yue's only advantage at the moment.

“Now!” Li Yue called out to Yingying as they had discussed, while the bone sword was entwined with death energy, ready to strike within the Slaughter Sea Butterfly.

“You guys stop fighting!” Yingying, who had been silent since the start of the battle, suddenly opened up and covered every corner of the battlefield.

In this instant, Yingying's ability to perceive the battle situation completely surpassed Li Yue, and directly unfolded a map in front of Li Yue, a map leading to Mandena.

Li Yue opened the shell and followed the map, a skull covered with tentacles, carrying a bone sword, bypassing the traps made by the Gnoll hunters marked by Yingying, and went straight to Mandena.

The battle was momentarily still, and the picture in the sky was also interrupted for a moment. When it lit up again, the audience found that the Gnoll family and the forest that had been moved in… were all still.

“Shadow… Shadow Stitching!” “Shadow Demon!” “Son of the Demon!” “This is cheating!”

The audience howled.

But it seemed that his strength was not enough. After a moment of stillness, the Gnoll leader's wolf-tooth club continued to fall.

Li Yue knew this was happening and had already rehearsed the corresponding countermeasures with Yingying—Yingying's Shadow Stitching had various limitations such as strength and quantity, so Li Yue simply defined a priority for Shadow Stitching with it.

Mandena was naturally the highest priority, followed by the Flying Gnoll and Beholder Gnoll who had the possibility of area attacks… As for the Gnoll leader, he would probably consume a lot of Yingying's magic power, so Li Yue additionally found Gallarick to help stabilize the battle when Yingying controlled Mandena and the Gnoll family.

The wolf-tooth club fell, and before it could fall on the outside of the bone shell, it was blocked by an octagonal staff.

“Glory!” Gallarick had developed the habit of shouting from the Demon Expeditionary Force.

“Boom!” A loud noise erupted, Gallarick's shoulder bones shattered under the impact, and cracks appeared on the octagonal staff.

It was blocked.

The petrifying ray passed through the gap where Gallarick's octagonal staff and the wolf-tooth club collided, the Sea Butterfly's bone shell was petrified, and the Gnoll leader raised the wolf-tooth club again—he believed that the next strike would not even need to hit, just some tremors would be enough to shatter Budibuger's shell.

And also in this second, Li Yue saw the boar, Mandena.

The boar's fangs trembled slightly, seemingly resisting the restraints of the shadow; magic power was also slowly released from its mane, constructing Mandena's next "Deception Magic."

In the second second, the Gnoll leader's wolf-tooth club fell again, Gallarick met it with his staff, Yingying, whose strength was not enough, relaxed its control over a Minotaur again, followed by dozens of Gnoll hunters.

The hunters prepared to besiege Budibuger, and the boar's skin and mane wriggled in layers, about to explode—"Shadow Stitching" was about to collapse under the great force.

Then "Requiem of the Dead" was released by Li Yue in time, countless wronged souls pressed on the boar's body, barely completing the second second of restraint, and the bone sword pierced the boar's nose as desired.

Was there "Deception"? Li Yue was not sure, and did not hesitate at all.

“Hit!” The bone sword burst out with death energy, and at the same time, Li Yue's tentacles also released wind and thunder, and true fire. The place where the boar was located was like being hit by a huge magic cannonball, erupting with a strong light, becoming the only brilliance at this moment.

Roasted boar, roasted dead boar.

The aroma filled the air, the real pig aroma.

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