I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue continuously reinforced Copper Spoon with "Self-Heal," while also quickly stitching up his neck with binding threads, lest this future craftsman of the Library should kick the bucket before even reaching it.

“Heh heh… heh…” Copper Spoon was still unable to speak, but twisting past Copper Hammer’s contorted neck, he forcefully shoved his head into his own backside.

[Indeed, you are taller now… I admit it… You can use your face to wipe your own butt… ]

Following the skeleton’s grave-dancing, Li Yue’s lower limit of understanding was once again refreshed by the Copper Dwarf.

While Copper Hammer’s heart was still beating, Li Yue hastily used his mind to pull Copper Hammer’s head out, simultaneously distributing a sliver of "Self-Heal" to him.

“Don’t rush, you’re going to kill him ten times; this is only the first.” Li Yue comforted Copper Spoon, “First, deal with the Twilight Earthworms. Didn’t you still want to retrieve your Power Cube…?”

Copper Spoon’s eyes were still filled with hatred, but his sanity was relatively intact. He drove the Colossus to quickly sweep away the remaining Twilight Earthworms.

The worm tide gradually subsided, and the Colossus’s movements became increasingly sluggish. Clearly, Li Yue’s "Self-Heal" couldn’t rapidly replenish the blood Copper Spoon had lost. Simply preserving his life was already difficult, and Copper Spoon’s control over the Colossus was rapidly weakening.

When the Twilight Earthworms were completely cleared by the Colossus, peace returned to the palace. The Colossus shrank back beneath the throne, and Li Yue once again transformed back into the Freakish Puzzle, using the octopus tentacles’ affinity with earth element to quickly scurry around, carefully searching for any usable materials that remained.

Copper Spoon, however, was only concerned with repairing Copper Hammer.

[In that case, the physical traps in Master’s Library… Chengcheng directly used the Tainted Whetstone to regress and weaken them, and the Skeleton Guards’ weapons are the same… ]

Copper Spoon pointed to the flickering light beneath the throne: “No non-dwarf demons have intruded into the palace area. It’s probably reinforcements coming from the Furnace…”

In his heart, Copper Spoon made a further explanation about the Jewelry Box.

“Or is it that Master wants to seize the Copper Dwarves’ Furnace right now?”

Besides that Power Cube, Bai Jing hadn’t found any other usable dwarven creations. They were probably all destroyed by the surging worm tide, except for the accessories inside the jewelry box, like the ones Copper Hammer was wearing just now.

[Dwarven Jewelry Box… has a certain sealing effect on demon relics, suitable for storing demon relics… ]

“It won’t work. The Colossus can’t leave the underground city, and its forging techniques have long been lost. Unless you become the Copper Dwarves’ King, there’s no way to reawaken it…” Copper Spoon explained complexly, “The Colossus and the palace barrier use the same technology. If I had more time, maybe I could figure out the principles behind it…”

“But clearly, we don’t have any time now.”

Dozens of octopus tentacles were stitched onto Copper Spoon’s body, and they swayed according to Bai Jing’s will, carrying the Freak and Copper Spoon into the depths of the earth.

Copper Hammer had been kept barely alive by Bai Jing, but completely lost control after half of his beard was plucked out. His entire body began to wriggle, like a piece of rotten mud gradually boiling.

Thinking this, Bai Jing opened his chest and re-wrapped Copper Spoon into his body.

This was the greatest humiliation for the Copper Dwarves.

After hammering for a while, Copper Hammer’s mutating flesh was hammered by Copper Spoon into a copper plate the size of a table, finally reaching a stable state.

Before dealing with Copper Hammer, Copper Spoon’s inner thoughts were clearly active again. Apparently, dwarves and humans had a very big difference; they wouldn’t be entangled in hatred for too long.

Because in that case, it was very likely to attract the attention of the Demon Scribe, Damon Kirk.

As for the preservation of that whetstone, it could be placed in the toilet of the Eighth Library, which wouldn’t pose a problem at all.

“No need, we can come again next time if needed.” Li Yue certainly didn’t plan to start a war with the officers of the Furnace when the expeditionary force was about to set out.

[Copper Hammer’s demon relic… Tainted Whetstone… As long as it’s smeared with feces and urine, it can be conveniently used to perform filth-related enchantments on weapons… ]

Copper Spoon examined the surface texture of the Tainted Whetstone, feeling its magical fluctuations with his fingers.

Sensing the screams and murmurs in Copper Hammer’s heart, Li Yue knew that the Copper Dwarf King was completely perishing.

“Hmm, is this his Power Cube?” Li Yue pulled out a dark, rhomboid cube from his pocket—it was found in a jewelry box in Copper Hammer’s bedroom, and he could vaguely feel the electricity within.

Li Yue heard the function of that “whetstone” from Copper Spoon’s heart, and thought that this degree of revenge should be considered satisfying Copper Spoon’s expectations…

Bai Jing used his will to help Copper Spoon up, handing the jewelry box to Copper Spoon as well, and then tugged at the throne and the ruby, attempting to take them away—the only things worth scavenging in the dwarven palace were Bai Jing’s great achievements in slaughtering the Twilight Earthworms.

After retrieving the tool bag from Li Yue, following the methods of dismemberment, artillery bombardment, strangulation, suffocation, and being patted into minced meat, Copper Spoon’s final kill was to pluck out all of Copper Hammer’s beard.

The only thing they knew was that a freakish man held up electric light, leading a group of Twilight Earthworms, and destroyed the entire palace.

After a trip, he harvested a craftsman, a battery, Dusk Soil, mithril armor, and Copper Hammer’s demon relic. Li Yue already felt it was worth more than the cost; as for the injuries to the Freakish Puzzle, and the consumed Self-Heal Bone, Iron Quality, and electricity, they could all be quickly replenished.

[The side effect is that it must be stored in feces and urine for a long time… ]

[From now on, Copper Hammer will be forever accompanied by his favorite feces and urine… ]

[Your master is very crazy, maybe there is really that possibility, but this is really not a good time… ]

Li Yue tried it slightly and found that the throne was completely fixed in the palace, and even cutting the ground couldn’t take it out. It was as if the throne itself didn’t exist, but was just some kind of projection that he couldn’t touch.

Simply killing a dwarven patriarch wouldn’t cause too much trouble if it didn’t affect the furnace forging.

The wriggling of flesh and blood became more and more turbulent, but each of Copper Spoon’s hammerings could hit the hard spots, and just happened to curb the deepening of the mutation, gradually shrinking Copper Hammer.

[Master helped me avenge my hatred. From now on, I will be loyal to him, become his weapon, become his stepping stone, become the ladder for him to climb to the throne of Demon King City… ]

Copper Spoon seemed to have predicted Copper Hammer’s reaction. Just as the flesh and blood began to wriggle, he suddenly took out a hammer from his tool bag, and then plucked Copper Hammer’s beard while hammering his forehead.

If he could get this sacred object, maybe he could directly start building a Gundam.

“Alright, that’s enough for you.” After a moment of silence, Copper Spoon finally shifted his attention away from the Tainted Whetstone—even though his neck was still a bit leaky, Copper Spoon could now make sounds again.

When the dwarven warriors led the armored, wing demons, and eye demons to enter the palace with difficulty, they found only the empty throne standing alone, not even seeing the shadow of the enemy.

Copper Hammer’s demon relic?

“Yes, it’s not him, my master.” Copper Spoon put away the Power Cube and lowered his head, pledging allegiance to Li Yue.

Bai Jing knew that this was mutation, and also a signal of imminent transformation.

[I need more work, more engineering… Only in this way can I play my role, and only then will I not fail the Copper Spoon name given by my ancestors… ]

Copper Spoon’s revenge… Livingly killed Copper Hammer into a mutation.

Li Yue didn’t expect this unexpected gain.

It was just that after successively suffering the attacks of the Twilight Earthworms and the Colossus, the volume of the Freakish Puzzle had shrunk a lot. After loading the magic cannon, even the dwarf’s body couldn’t fully accommodate it, so Copper Spoon had to leave half of his body exposed.

Li Yue didn’t expect Copper Spoon to be so proactive, having just killed his enemy Copper Hammer, and was already thinking about how to help himself.