I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Abed's inner voice was becoming increasingly difficult to suppress, and although the magician Sand had a duty to advise his employer, Abed, upon seeing the dazzling Kingston family crest on Jessica's silver armor, he acquiesced to Abed's request.

Sand felt that having someone from the Kingston family nearby could improve their chances of survival and make escape easier.

The Rain Man was still muttering in the background, but none of the present heroes or merchants bothered to call out to him; after downing two bottles of magic potions, Brad glanced at Li Yue's wounds, seemed to think there was no problem, and took no further action to heal him.

The party of six was about to leave the safe zone and venture deeper into the arena; while Li Yue, having opened the "full map," carefully memorized the locations of the three safe zones and searched for his target.

Where to cause destruction... to weaken the arena to the greatest extent?

Paralyze the Beholder's surveillance network? Or blow up Oogway Boogway's arena throne?

Then, Li Yue discovered... that outside the three safe zones, there was also a vast underground area that was not within the Beholder's surveillance range, either intentionally avoided or on a separate monitoring system.

Li Yue strongly suspected that the underground area... was the arena's storage room; otherwise, why wouldn't it be included in the surveillance range?

Therefore, Li Yue decided to go and see, to confirm whether it was the arena's "weak point"—what could strike the King of the Arena harder than stealing all of Oogway Boogway's treasure?

Although the devil's money couldn't buy Minnie and Meanie's lives, without money, Oogway Boogway might die.

Sand divined for a moment at the entrance, confirming that there were no monsters nearby, and the group set off again, leaving "Rain Man" to continue his mumbling in the safe zone.

But at the same time, Li Yue heard a change in Rain Man's inner voice.

【It's going to rain... go find the clouds...】

Rain Man joined the hero squad, bringing the team to seven members.

【Rain Man has a great reputation, this is a good opportunity to see if he's worth recruiting... Van Helsing, Rain Man... if these two guys help, after smashing the arena, maybe we can take them to the throne room to find the Demon King...】

Hearing Jessie's inner thoughts, Li Yue inexplicably felt that this time, the arena might be turned upside down—in the name of heroes.

Seeing Rain Man join, everyone had no objections, and the heroes stepped out of the safe zone's door.

Sand held the map he had just copied from Jessie in one hand, while manipulating the sand to float in the air and point the way, leading the team of heroes to their first destination—the VIP room.

The underground area that Li Yue was looking for was deeper beyond the VIP room, right next to the high-level gladiator lounge, conveniently on the way.

Entering the tunnel beneath the stands, the gunslinger Karl's eagle eyes were of little use, and the Jessica trio's mode of operation changed to the female knight using her intuition to be vigilant, guarding against possible demons and monsters.

Li Yue stood to Jessica's left and right, keeping an eye on the Beholder's surveillance in his mind, knowing that the moment the group left the safe zone, they had fallen into the demons' sight—the armor, the skeletons, and the two test subjects had all turned and headed straight for the corridor where Li Yue was.

The heroes' formation was neat, with Li Yue and Jessica at the front, the gunslinger Karl in the second rank, Brad and Abed and Sand in the middle, with sand guiding the way and green light escorting, Rain Man trailing at the very end of the team, stomping on the ground.

When monsters began to emerge in the corridor, this set of hero formations came into play—gunfire and silver thread were woven into a line of death covering the entire corridor, clearing the enemies in front and advancing rapidly, and any attacks like leg bone boomerangs or Beholder's rays were all taken by Li Yue, either tearing off a piece of the ground as a shield or snatching the bones and throwing them back, clearing the way with force.

As for behind them, it was rumbling; every time Jessica looked back, she couldn't see Rain Man's movements, only a pile of broken monster corpses on the ground; only Li Yue could sense that once a monster chased after them, Rain Man would slightly wave the small stick in his hand, and a vast force would strike out from the air, smashing the monsters to pieces, smashing them into the walls and ceilings.

With each swing, Li Yue could also feel the Qi wall wrapped around the short stick suddenly expand, covering his entire back, turning the monsters into a rain of blood.

This was the so-called "Rain Man."

Li Yue didn't quite understand how such a hero was trained, nor could he see through his path, only feeling that if he were to fight him, there seemed to be a certain difficulty in killing him.

With three corridors left to the VIP room, the armor and skeletons on the road had been almost dismantled, Abed's heart was like a drum, constantly shouting "baby," and Li Yue seriously suspected that the moment he saw Bain selling fingers, this merchant from the Sand Country would lose control on the spot, and he was also looking forward to the heroes' reaction to this.

And the change happened at this moment—the fire-maned test subject took the lead in arriving at the front of the corridor, standing in place and sizing up the heroes' formation.

The silver threads and gunfire approached, but the test subject seemed not to see them, only shaking its mane slightly, burning away Jessica's sharp breaths and bullets; then, the lion glared, its eyes dull, as if it had seen something incomprehensible.

At the same time, the green light surrounding Jessica converged, and the magician Brad in the hero formation seemed to be possessed, taking his staff as a club and rushing out to swing at the test subject!

Jessica certainly couldn't tolerate this kind of behavior that broke the formation, and grabbed Brad's other arm, but as she pulled, Brad smashed the staff backhand, smashing the emerald magic stone at the tip of the staff, also breaking his own arm, and then forcibly tearing himself away.

Blood burst in front of Jessica's face, scattering a look of astonishment.

What's going on? Brad lost control first?

Li Yue was puzzled.

And Brad, who rushed out... was turned to ashes by the test subject's mane.

Everything happened too fast, Jessica didn't even have time to share the damage, and the hero squad's formation was broken, losing their only healer.

When the test subject glared again, turning to the next hero, Jessica seemed to suddenly think of something and shouted: "Don't make eye contact!"

【The arena's curse... is real... it's taking effect here!】

Li Yue only heard "there's a curse" in a hurry, and hadn't figured out what was going on, when he saw Jessica and Karl each take out a pair of glasses and put them on their noses; Sand also instantly filled his eyeballs with sand, and used his body to block the line of sight of his patron Abed, so as not to repeat Brad's mistakes.

Covering his mutated eyes with his palm, Li Yue activated the perspective function, looking at the test subject in front, not knowing what the arena's curse was.

【Avoid eye contact with any monsters... as long as eye contact is made, there will be a battle to the death, until killed...】

Jessica put on her glasses, activating the fire-resistant runes on her silver armor, preparing for the upcoming test subject.

And Li Yue probably understood what was going on—a curse that forcibly pulls people into battle?

It really is very suitable for the arena...

It's just that Li Yue had just made eye contact with the test subject for a long time without any reaction, and thought, could it be that it only works on one target at a time? Or does it only work on humans?

Oh no, my brain spirit doesn't have eyes...

Seeing that several heroes were prepared to deal with the curse, Li Yue couldn't help but release his perception to explore Rain Man's situation, quietly wondering what the famous hero of the North would react.

At this moment, the ice-maned test subject also appeared behind the heroes, again forming a pincer attack; Rain Man turned around and strode towards the test subject behind, obviously also affected by the curse, and rushed straight over.

Boom!

The test subject behind was hit by Rain Man's stick, its body smashed the tunnel, and fell towards the arena's square, Rain Man completely gave up on the hero squad, and chased after it alone.

The first test subject was pulled away by Rain Man... no, Rain Man was pulled away by it.

There was still another test subject left in the tunnel, as well as four heroes and a merchant.

"The VIP room... is in front... let me go find... my baby..." Abed pushed away Sand, who was blocking him, ignored the golden sand blocking his vision, and muttered towards the VIP room.

Sand wanted to grab Abed's shoulder, but only grabbed a handful of flesh—along with Abed's footsteps, the flesh was also churning in his body, gradually fading away.