I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

The accusations of "Abhorrent" and "Rebellious" landed squarely on Masna, immediately throwing the eight grotesques into disarray.

This was originally a backup plan Lee Read had to deal with Mandena – the Jackalweirds were numerous, and labeling Mandena with these two cards would inevitably impact their tactics, potentially even causing infighting within the family.

However, just now, firstly, time was of the essence, and Lee Read wasn't certain he could hit Mandena with the cards. Secondly, the various spatial deceptions of the Scepter of Deceit made Lee Read hesitant to act rashly.

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Now that Mandena was dead, and with Masna in tow, Lee Read naturally wouldn't hold back.

At this moment, all the demons present felt that one of the long-eared grotesques was particularly abhorrent, and the formation momentarily shifted towards that battlefield. The eight grotesques even began attacking each other.

The long-eared grotesque was skilled at using its ears to collect sounds and its mouth to create sonic booms. However, under the influence of "Rebellious," its ears were drafty, and its mouth trembled back and forth, resembling a failed "Mutation"'s deformity.

But Lee Read knew he had succeeded, and quite successfully – the human skin behind Mandena merged with the grotesque patchwork and the human skin crafted by the trickster Masna, becoming a new Demon Relic.

Although the exact effects were still unknown, just looking at the increased action speed and constantly changing form of the grotesques… it was clear that this Demon Relic had undergone a qualitative change.

Next was the petrifying ray from the Beholder Jackalweird, Ellana… which was fired due to the "Abhorrent" effect – but before the ray could hit, the eight grotesques were already fighting tooth and nail. Masna's long-eared grotesque was the most miserable, its large head almost torn off by the other seven grotesques…

【How could this be… my trump card…】

As the long-eared grotesque neared death, its muscles and skin writhed violently, and many torture devices burst forth from within!

Lee Read recognized them, having seen them in the Jackalweird family's torture chamber – iron maidens, skinning machines, limb-crushing machines… Masna had hidden all these things under its skin?

Quite the act…

If Lee Read had been even slightly careless and had attacked in person without relying on the array, it was entirely possible that he would have been trapped by the torture devices suddenly popping out from under the skin, suffering a joint attack from the grotesques.

However, at this moment, the iron maiden burst through the long-eared grotesque's ribs, opening halfway, its steel spikes firmly embedded between the ribs, scraping off a thick layer of flesh, clearly injuring the Masna within; the limb-crushing machine was stuffed with a large section of bone, and Lee Read couldn't even tell if it was Masna's arm bone or leg bone.

In other words, under the influence of "Rebellious," the Masna beneath the long-eared grotesque's skin was undergoing several forms of torture, and was doomed to die even without Lee Read taking further action.

Lee Read became even more expectant of this Demon Relic – wasn't this the skin he had been dreaming of?

With it, as long as he wore it, no matter what appearance he presented, he could hide many good things under the skin…

He would no longer have to worry about demons seeing what was stored in the skeleton's chest cavity.

So Lee Read cleared the field, determined to take down this bizarre Demon Relic and see its specific effects – the four small arrays of the Slaughter Sea Butterflies unfolded, and Lee Read also released the Bone River, remotely retrieving the "Abhorrent" card to reduce damage to the Demon Relic.

The Jackalweird Hunters, suddenly regaining consciousness, were confused, but also knew that Masna was doomed. They turned their direction and charged towards the Slaughter Sea Butterflies, putting up a final resistance.

But Lee Read didn't even look at them – the remaining six Slaughter Sea Butterfly arrays rotated, strangling the Jackalweird Hunters who invaded the array; those who didn't invade the array were isolated outside, allowing Lee Read to focus on cleaning up the mess.

Sea Butterflies danced in the arena, dividing the battlefield into three areas – one was where Lee Read drove the four small arrays to trap and kill Masna, one was where the six arrays gradually spread the strangulation circle, gradually surrounding Ellana and Flayna, and also incidentally protecting Budibog, who was undergoing "Mutation," and the remaining one was for Galarick to freely fight the Jackalweird Chieftain and the Minotaur, with everyone staying far away so as not to disturb them.

Halfway through the battle, Redcoat had collected enough souls and began dotting around on the barren land, outlining a magic array around himself.

During this time, some short-sighted Forbidden Forest demons approached the Red-Robed Priest, but they were all smashed in the skull by Redcoat's fist, like cracking an egg, and then he broke open their bodies and tore out their souls – Lee Read recalled Redcoat's performance in the "Hero Studies" graduation class and thought, sure enough… this Red-Robed Priest likes hand-to-hand combat.

The magic array took shape, and the blood on the ground began to be attracted to it, flowing through the barren land towards that place, like a heart beating in the arena, calling for all the blood to return.

Overall, the general direction of the battle was developing as Lee Read had imagined. Only the situation on Galarick's battlefield was not very smooth, and the Skeleton Knight's life was in danger at any time; but this was Lee Read's test for Galarick. As long as the Skeleton Knight could hold on until Lee Read dealt with Masna's Demon Relic, the crisis could be resolved.

Victory was already in his grasp, it just depended on whether he could take down the Jackalweird family's Demon Relic, and whether Budibog could complete his "Mutation."

"Disperse!" When the grotesques were stitched into cocoons by the binding threads of the four small arrays, and the blood ran dry, Lee Read signaled the remaining six arrays to expand the battlefield.

His main body continued to wander, until confirming that Masna was dead, popping out the final 1444 malice, and contributing 1 Demon Point.

Lee Read made a new set of "Slaughter Sea Butterflies," one bone shell, and took down the eight rustling human skins from the barren land as if he were collecting clothes – Lee Read had seen the actions of the grotesque patchwork and didn't dare to store them directly against his main body. He used the Slaughter Sea Butterfly as a safe, packed up the human skins, and bound them tightly with layers of binding threads, sealing them tightly.

The human skin was not very peaceful, and was still jumping in the bone shell, seemingly wanting to find new flesh, but Lee Read didn't have time to study its characteristics – the battle was still continuing, the goal was to wipe out the entire Jackalweird family in the first round, and there were less than five minutes left to take the victory.

Without even checking the effects of the Scepter of Deceit, Lee Read suppressed his curiosity and joined the hunt for Flayna and Ellana.

These two Jackalweirds had already fallen into a state of confusion and fanaticism – having witnessed the deaths of Mandena and Masna, and unable to get any help from the Jackalweird Chieftain, they knew they were going to die.

But the only way out was killed by Lee Read, they had no way out, they could only explode with the following magic power and blood, and desperately fight against the hateful Library family…

So they also died.

Flayna was caught by Lee Read in his flight path, and the Slaughter Sea Butterfly "spit" out binding threads, pulling Flayna to the ground like netting a dragonfly. Then Lee Read used his tentacles to suck up all the extreme cold in the air, opening a path and drifting to the front of the Jackalweird, using his bone sword to cut off his "wings."

【You… I've seen you…】

【Malice + 944】

As Flayna died, two ribs under his armpits turned into two daggers, Flying Daggers.

Lee Read then stuffed the Flying Daggers into the Sea Butterfly where the human skin was located, and the human skin immediately calmed down, and the bone shell was also chilling.

Ellana's death… was not as smooth as Flayna's – Lee Read forcibly squeezed out the last trace of magic power from the Beholder with his octopus tentacles before sending Ellana to his death.

In the end, except for one tentacle hair that was ice blue, the remaining tentacles were filled with petrifying rays and turned stone gray. The Beholder on Ellana's shoulder… only had blood flowing out, and couldn't shoot anything.

Only then did Lee Read raise Egg and smash Ellana's head, also breaking the eyeball.

【It's all Masna's fault… I should have reported to the Chieftain back then…】

【Malice + 944】

The Beholder on Ellana's shoulder fell down, shriveled and withered, and Lee Read also collected it together.

Looking at the battlefield again, only the Jackalweird Chieftain and the Minotaur were still attacking Galarick fiercely, and the other Jackalweirds were resisting sporadically, and then were torn into pieces by the Sea Butterflies, all the blood contributed to Redcoat, dyeing his robe even redder.

Seeing that there was only one place moving on the battlefield, seeing Lee Read dissecting the Jackalweirds like a butcher, seeing more Sea Butterflies surround the Jackalweird Chieftain and begin to dance gracefully…

The audience was silent, gaining a new understanding of the Library family.