I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"Back already?"

The Twilight Earthworms were a bit bewildered for a moment.

Who ever heard of prey turning around and rushing into the hunting range?

Could it be… he wants to hunt us?

The Twilight Earthworms perked up—having survived in the underground city for so many years, very few prey had ever escaped their mouths, let alone dared to turn around and hunt the Twilight Earthworms.

Just what kind of sacred being is this demon?

The mature earthworm decisively turned its head, leading the little ones to pounce on the constantly writhing tentacles, and conveniently solidified the earth elements around it into steel-like hardness; while Li Yue, after rushing in, turned around and ran, jumping back into the tunnel from the soil layer, disappointing the Twilight Earthworms.

Hmm? Playing with me?

The mature earthworm knew that some demons were inherently cheap, but since it couldn't drill into this guy's head, it was still itching with anger.

Li Yue didn't feel ashamed at all, and just kept jumping back and forth between the soil layer and the tunnel, taking advantage of the fact that the Copper Dwarves outside hadn't discovered him yet, while attracting the Twilight Earthworms' hatred and frantically analyzing them.

The Twilight Earthworms were in an uproar, and the Copper Dwarves were also fully mobilized.

The lava eroded the soil layer, also weakening the Twilight Earthworms' control over the earth elements; coupled with the Demon Illustrated Handbook's prediction of the earthworms' actions, Li Yue was able to sense which area of soil the earthworms were about to lock onto, and he moved with ease through the patches of soil that had been solidified into steel, rapidly approaching the center of the underground palace.

But our numbers don't seem to be decreasing, but rather increasing.

While traveling, Li Yue would of course occasionally burrow into the soil layer, maintaining his mockery of the Twilight Earthworms; and after frantically running for more than ten miles, the Twilight Earthworms' strength seemed to have weakened a lot, possibly because they had been exposed in the soil layer for too long.

【It's over, it's over… fighting the dwarves and the Twilight Earthworms at the same time… you're done for… you're dead… can I just have the battery…?】

The success rate of predicting the earthworms' actions was very low, as low as 88%, and its weakness did not escape the nature of a mysterious creature, which was "weak light."

【Analyzing… 79%…】

At first, Copper Ladle was still very depressed, but as Li Yue passed through several blacksmith shops and knocked away several Copper Dwarves clad in armor, the wandering heir to the throne changed his mood.

Only then did Li Yue believe that when he had just used his tentacles to discharge electricity, what had forced back the Twilight Earthworms was not the electric current, but the momentary burst of weak light, and he thought that he had been too hasty and had not noticed such an obvious weakness.

The drop from the Twilight Earthworms was a material called "Dusk Soil," which should be able to meet Borgne Copper Ladle's need to extract adhesive from earthworm skin, and it could also be applied to the various mechanical adhesions in the library.

The earthworms that had their bodies broken did not die, but re-emerged after entering the soil layer, becoming more and more numerous as they were killed; when the earthworms entangled Li Yue, they directly pulled the passing Copper Dwarves into the ground, and had already swallowed dozens of dwarves who had attacked along the way.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yue realized that he had been careless.

Lava eroded the soil layer, the soil arched and deformed, and most of the mechanisms and traps that were originally hanging on the walls and underground became ineffective, coupled with the seemingly crazy Twilight Earthworms, the Copper Dwarves' gathering place fell into absolute chaos.

Can they still use feints?

Kill Copper Hammer, snatch back the battery that Copper Ladle painstakingly researched, and incidentally collect some skins from the Twilight Earthworms…

During this time, there were several times when the mature earthworm seemed to be unable to bear its anger and directly stuck its head out of the earth hole to try to kidnap Li Yue, but after almost having its head chopped off by the bone sword wrapped in death energy, it retreated in frustration, and together with its descendants, half of its body was embedded in the hole, and half of its body swayed outside, like angry algae growing on the wall.

And these bones and tentacles that were sucked into the ground quickly withered and were all swallowed by the yellowish-brown earthworms.

They can't just tear down their own home, right?

【Analysis complete, Demon Illustrated Handbook entry 801—Twilight Earthworm】

So Li Yue wrapped Borgne Copper Ladle, guarded against the earthworms that could drill out from above, below, left, and right at any time, and floated away at high speed.

The analysis speed increased.

Also, at the first moment of breaking into the earth wall, Li Yue used his countless tentacles to hold countless lava left hands, urging the release of lava.

Next, as long as he occasionally wrapped himself in electric light and led those countless Twilight Earthworms to attack the underground palace together, he could bring enough trouble to Copper Hammer, and thus create an opportunity for assassination.

【Kill it… charge… it would be wrong to just die like that… at least die like a man…】

Li Yue couldn't help but think that perhaps the previous degradation of the library wasn't because Copper Ladle made a request, but because he ran out to hunt for materials himself?

“Quickly report to the patriarch!” a dwarf warrior shouted.

And this kind of chaos has a tendency to spread to the underground palace where the patriarch is located.

And at this time, Li Yue was pinching the mature earthworm that had initially attacked him, afraid that it would unite into more and not dare to tear it apart, so he could only use his mind to add binding threads to hold it together, while also wrapping it in electric light, preparing to shake it to death alive.

And just as the tunnel outside was in chaos, Li Yue finally completed the analysis of the Twilight Earthworm as he wished.

The Twilight Earthworms frantically swung their bodies, releasing magic power in the soil layer, summoning more companions to come and save them—in the soil layer, yellowish-brown lines gathered into a sea around Li Yue, surging towards Li Yue.

A weak suction and a feeling of being swallowed surged from his lower body, Li Yue directly tore apart the Freak Puzzle, disregarding the Self-Healing Bone and Octopus Tentacle that were sucked away, and floated away quickly!

Countless yellowish-brown earthworms poked out from the soil layer from all directions. Li Yue held the bone sword and flew with four bone thorns, twisting off countless yellow lines that did not have time to retreat, and continued to rush towards the underground palace where Copper Hammer was located.

Li Yue quickly scanned the illustrated content of the Twilight Earthworm, mainly looking at their action prediction success rate, weaknesses, and drops, thinking that this trip was really not in vain, and Borgne Copper Ladle's contract was very worthwhile.

“Reporting to the patriarch is useless! Report to the officer! The expeditionary army is recruiting soldiers and opening furnaces to forge, the officer is more useful than the patriarch!” Another dwarf exhibition put the axe back on his back and ran to the direction of the furnace.

In this way, there is no need to rely entirely on binding threads to forcefully bind them together.

Just as half of the Twilight Earthworm's body was swaying outside, suddenly the same thin lines drilled out from the ground where its feet were standing, directly binding Li Yue's upper body!

But even if they don't tear it down, that area of the underground city is already a bit precarious.

Approximately half of the distance remains.

Li Yue ruined his wishful thinking, but also knew that everything, everything, was based on being able to run alive to the dwarf underground palace and kill Copper Hammer…

In other words, if it is not true, gnashing hatred, with their wisdom, they will not leave the soil layer…

Thinking, Li Yue wrapped himself in electric light, instantly illuminating the entire tunnel, retreated, and broke into the soil wall amidst the earthworms' trembling.

As soon as Li Yue accelerated, he naturally crashed into the Copper Dwarves' cordon. After three batches of dwarves confirmed that it was indeed an intruder, they began to throw flying axes sparsely at Li Yue and his retreating route, and the sound of catapults and crossbows rang from all directions.

Towards the direction of the dwarf underground palace.

And finding that the target had遁入 the soil, several catapults fired at the wall, blasting out countless gravel but failing to see the intruder's body as they wished, the Copper Dwarves stood in a row, a little unsure of what to do.

Within the entire scope of the underground city, the Twilight Earthworms' attack has no blind spots.