I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Coming all this way wasn't to listen to threats from a seventh-order mage.

Li Yue made a decisive move.

Even though Fihall had prepared thoroughly, he didn't expect the doctor to be so swift—just as a wisp of flame ignited on his eyebrows and beard, the scalpel accurately struck his forehead, piercing it and drawing out a thick gush of tainted blood!

Immediately following, countless strands of binding thread surged in along with the scalpel from Fihall's wound, directly prying open his scalp and continuously burrowing deeper along his blood vessels.

“Ah—”

Fihall roared in anger, his physical form receding as his entire body abruptly transformed into flames. The bursting tainted blood, however, acted like fuel, engulfing Li Yue's body completely.

After all, he was a hero who had already made a name for himself on the Ke'os Continent, not comparable to the scattered cultivators Li Yue had encountered before.

At the same time, the heroes in the Hunting Country camp began to coordinate with Fihall.

Dozens of arrows with different attributes instantly pierced through Li Yue's body joints, firmly pinning him in front of the raging flames, like a living target; the knights also quickly deployed enemy-ally domains, partly to share the damage for Fihall, and partly to prevent the arrow shafts from being completely incinerated by the flames.

And as Li Yue was fixed in place, his bones, muscles, and nails began to be “stolen” one by one, instantly ending up in the hands of the thieves in the camp.

Next, a dazzling firework erupted from Li Yue's head.

Concussion, explosion, piercing, and poison bullets were fired one after another from the gunmen's barrels, detonating on his face.

When the hero group fought together, they instantly unleashed tons of damage.

It was only a pity that Li Yue's main body had already burrowed into the soil from his trouser leg, taking advantage of the fact that everyone in Hunting Country's attention was drawn to Hannibal, and scurried to the blacksmith's shop underground, using binding threads to tie up the treasure box.

【Is he dead?】

【What a pity about the materials on his body…】

【Damn, what did I steal? It's all gooey…】

Listening to the heroes' inner voices, Li Yue moved his will, and the octopus tentacles in Hannibal's body wriggled and began to suck forcefully!

Flames, gunfire, and poison all receded together, going from dazzlingly brilliant to silent and still in an instant.

Fihall's flames rapidly dissipated, and his main body had to reappear. This time, Li Yue's incomplete hand, clutching the scalpel, once again stabbed into the eye on his forehead, sending in the explosive power and electric light that had just been absorbed by the octopus tentacles!

“Poof.”

Fihall's head instantly exploded, and the ground behind him was directly blasted into a huge cavity.

The knights in the Hunting Country camp also had their armor shattered at the same time, completely covered in scorch marks and poison, startling them and forcing them to immediately release their friendly protection.

Li Yue's main body took advantage of this chaos to put the treasure box into his skull before swimming back towards Hannibal's body.

After a brief confrontation, Fihall had become a corpse with flames constantly spewing from its neck, and Hannibal was obviously not in a good state either—the patchwork monster was pierced by dozens of hunting arrows, its head was blasted out of its skull and facial bones, and its body was missing tendons and flesh with red liquid flowing everywhere, like a broken mass of flesh left over after being devoured by countless piranhas.

Even more shocking was that the third eye on Fihall's forehead had not been completely destroyed. At this moment, the scalpel had been melted off and was falling in mid-air, with pillars of fire constantly spewing from the crack, randomly sweeping across everything in the Third Safety Zone.

The Hunting Country camp was even more chaotic. The knights formed a formation and deployed light shields, forcibly resisting the pillars of fire. When the crack in the third eye swept across Hannibal's body and turned to shoot at the priest's prayer circle, a burst of holy light descended from above, reducing the constantly spewing eyeball to ashes.

Peace returned to the field, and Li Yue once again put on Hannibal's body—drilling back from the back to the upper body, then using binding threads to connect the spine from the damaged waist, sewing it up, forcibly adding self-healing, and then forcibly propping himself back into human form.

At this time, the heroes of Hunting Country looked at the doctor who was swaying and sitting up, as if they were looking at a self-sewing rag doll, and they all felt terrified and strange.

【He's not dead?】

【Is this still a human…】

【Doctor… is this a new path? Only eighth-order knights used to have this kind of vitality…】

“Coming again?”

Due to a missing piece in his neck, Li Yue's speech was a bit leaky, and countless binding threads were flourishing at the damaged parts of his body, seemingly ready to reach out to the heroes at any time.

The entire Hunting Country camp fell into silence, with no one responding.

Li Yue didn't care about being regarded as a demon by the heroes.

The doctor's identity was only to facilitate the collection of fragments. Now, he only needed one more to complete the Magic Mirror, and Hannibal's identity was no longer that important.

Even if he still wanted to use Hannibal to swindle and deceive, he only needed to kill all the heroes in the Third Safety Zone.

【If he's a demon, the lunatics from the Holy See won't ignore it. Let's see what their reaction is…】

The heroes hoped that the priests and priestesses in the prayer circle would give some response. Li Yue, upon hearing this, relaxed a lot instead.

Back in the First Safety Zone, the priest Lari had not seen through his demonic identity. Even after fighting to such a horrific state just now, they only eliminated Fihall's remaining eyes to prevent interference. It was estimated that they were working on something big and had no time to take care of him.

“My services are still available. You can come to me for surgery if you need it, no discounts.” Before long, Li Yue was able to barely get up, so he limped to the edge of the Third Safety Zone to search for the location of the last mirror fragment.

After instantly killing Fihall, the heroes of Hunting Country didn't dare to try again, and could only hope to quickly set up the teleportation portal and wait for the arrival of Hunteral.

Moreover, they suddenly felt that having such a doctor was not bad—being beaten into two pieces and having their skull almost blasted to pieces could still be healed. Hannibal's medical skills could simply be said to be divine skills.

As long as they could provide the materials, they could kill more demons between the Second and Third Safety Zones without fear of death. Maybe they could even think about the treasures deep in the Colosseum…

Thinking about this, the heroes of Hunting Country began to stir again.

And at this moment, the formation of the prayer circle quietly changed.

Holy light flowed, and the outer layer of dazed hero believers made way, as the priest in the center, accompanied by the priest Lari, slowly walked out and came to Li Yue.

The priest Bai Xu was probably a strong middle-aged man. He held a holy book in his hand and wore a holy triangular necklace around his neck, exuding an aura that the patchwork monster feared.

Looking down at Li Yue, whose body was damaged, Bai Xu's eyes were devoid of emotion, and Li Yue couldn't hear his inner voice at all. Some kind of Holy See treasure must have sealed his inner murmur.

“You've come.” The priest Lari reached out to Li Yue as if he had seen a believer, “Faith needs you. Are you ready?”

“What?”

“To become a part of the faith.”

“Oh, no need.” Li Yue shook his head, and the patchwork monster had regrown tender flesh on its bone mask.

“Really?”

【Malice +444】

When he received the malice prompt, Li Yue felt a little helpless, because he hadn't decided whether to start a battle with Bai Xu on the spot.

Although he looked miserable, Li Yue's strength was actually almost completely unaffected. The octopus tentacles even stored a lot of the flame and explosion that had just been absorbed.

It's just that if he really killed Bai Xu again, he would obviously have to eliminate his believers as well, which would be a bit of a blow to the hero side, and would instead be helping Oogey Boogey…

Killing Fihall just now was to reduce interference from the heroes. Now that Hunting Country was obedient enough, he didn't expect that he hadn't deterred the priest Bai Xu.

So this is the so-called “radical faction.”

【Maybe he needs to hear the priest's creed…】

Lari turned to look at the priest, Bai Xu's eyes still cold.

While the two of them were exchanging glances, Li Yue had already decided to not act for the time being and try to get away with it—Bai Xu couldn't leave Demon King City alive, but it wasn't good to die now.

“Receive my grace, be my believer, enjoy sweetness.”

The priest didn't say much and directly raised his hand, and holy light fell.