I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Tentacles flailing wildly, Li Yue tumbled from the Bone Throne to the ground, only to find himself back in the dirt of the arena.

He touched the stinking, blood-soaked soil repeatedly, confirming his return and realizing that deception wouldn't truly displace his main body; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to return with a mere thought.

The question was, was everything that had just happened in the Bone Chamber's living room real?

Li Yue recalled that Minnie, the Brain Spirit, Copper Spoon, and Tom had all reacted as he expected, and the magic in the library had indeed been depleted…

[Malice +9999+9999… …]

When the familiar malice notification popped up, Li Yue breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the Brain Spirits were all working overtime, and very efficiently.

This confirmed that deceiving himself was possible, at least for things like returning to the library to report information and assign tasks…

It's just a pity he couldn't directly deceive himself into becoming a Demon King—that would change the perceptions of countless people and demons, which the library's current daily magic output clearly couldn't achieve.

Pushing aside the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Li Yue quickly refocused on the immediate battlefield, then resumed moving through the soil, releasing the Aberrant Eyes.

This time, considering the efficiency of the petrification rays, Li Yue added two layers of binding threads between the Aberrant Eyes and the outer walls of the Great Hollow.

When activated, the binding threads would tear off the fragile walls, and the survivors in the arena would directly face countless sea-like eyeballs, turning the entire Great Hollow into a space filled with petrification rays.

The ideal was very grand.

By this point, the Hunter Country's formation and the demons were locked in a life-or-death struggle. Even the talkative Hunteral was completely silent, focused on charging forward. The Great Hollow was filled only with endless venom, explosions, and death.

Hunteral and his group had advanced to about eighty zhang from Beelzebub, but encountered stronger resistance, and the two sides were temporarily deadlocked.

This was naturally good news for Li Yue. He seized the time to lay out the eyeballs, primarily focusing on the sides and upper layers—the bottom layer had Rain Man and Soya, each fighting individually under the influence of the curse. Li Yue decided to deal with them last to avoid alerting the enemy.

During this time, some Fly Demons would occasionally crash into the outer walls of the Great Hollow, knocking down scattered eyeballs; Li Yue's choice was to use binding threads to pull them into the soil and turn them into stone statues.

One day later, when Hunteral was sixty zhang away from Beelzebub, Li Yue had already filled the left side of the soil with Aberrant Eyes. His brain felt cramped, and he had to take a nap.

When he woke up, the situation hadn't changed much.

Although the Hunter Country's formation had shrunk, new brave warriors from the Third Safety Zone charged in to replenish the formation's fresh blood, still constantly harvesting materials.

At forty zhang, Soya picked up a pair of intact glasses, unaffected by the arena's curse. He ran back to the safety zone to recover his breath, his eyes fixed on Beelzebub deep inside.

Rain Man's expression was incomparably cheerful. Without even hearing his thoughts, one could tell he was very satisfied with the current "rainy season."

He didn't seem to care about the giant fly at the deepest part.

As long as there was rain before him, that was enough.

Li Yue had also finished the right side of the soil, leaving only the top, bottom, and Beelzebub's back.

At twenty zhang, Li Yue finished laying out the top layer, almost exhausted. Soya rejoined the battle, and after failing to break through the fly swarm, he decisively joined the Hunter Country's formation, becoming a sharp blade at the front.

The materials he obtained were also taken by the Hunter Country.

Soya didn't seem to have any objections to this.

He only wanted to quickly scatter Beelzebub's soul.

All eyes and battles were focused on the Hunter Country's formation and Beelzebub's fly swarm. Visible explosions and magic occurred there, and no one noticed the third party lurking in the soil.

The project's progress finally reached the bottom layer, and Li Yue had a headache.

First, at this rate, it seemed impossible to completely surround the Great Hollow; second, the ground was being fought over, the situation was complex, and it wasn't easy to get behind Beelzebub…

So, Li Yue dove deeper and stopped exchanging for Aberrant Eyes, instead switching to the Magma Right Hand.

Petrification rays needed to break through the soil, which was easy to handle on the sides and top layers, but very easy to be discovered on the ground that the warriors were treading on. On the other hand, laying a layer of Magma Right Hands deep down, creating a magma pool, was more concealed.

There were no red-skinned demons present; anyone who fell into the magma would die.

So, rows of red arms appeared underground—their right hands were holding each other, linked together, chasing the direction of the warrior formation's advance, spreading to the very center of the battlefield.

As for not being able to completely fill the Great Hollow, Li Yue had no solution.

Anyway, there was already a sufficient scale. When the victory or defeat was decided, he could personally enter the field.

"Do you see it? Our prey." When he was ten zhang away, Hunteral finally spoke to the warriors.

After several days of advancing, the stamina of this Rank 8 hunter had also been severely depleted, but surprisingly, his complexion was still very good.

"Our prey!" The warriors only needed to look up to see Beelzebub's true face. There was no fear in their eyes, only greed.

It was as if the giant fly demon, several stories high, was a fat piece of meat waiting to be slaughtered.

"Thieves, remember your work, maintain your greed…" Hunteral encouraged the thieves, also boosting their morale.

Correspondingly, the range covered by the thieves' magic expanded and solidified again, almost completely covering Beelzebub's body.

For Hunteral, the thieves' current role was to ensure that demon relics would be generated when Beelzebub died, ensuring the success of the sole prey's hunt.

"What Tass Empire, what Holy City, what Expeditionary Force… I will hunt them all, they will all submit at our feet!" Hunteral shouted, "The wealth, power… everything in the world will be ours!"

"Humans can also become gods!"

All the warriors in the Hunter Country's formation had a fanatical look in their eyes, which was very similar to the way Bai Xu drove his believers, except that now it was because of greed, while then it was derived from faith.

"The final moment is coming, before the feast begins, we must also hold knives and forks!"

Hunteral clenched his fist high, and countless phantom arrows folded at the front of the formation, scattering the fly swarm and paving a road directly to Beelzebub.

Immediately afterwards, countless thieves' hands stretched forward, endless like a living spring, finally exceeding the fly swarm's birth rate; the siege beast's lower abdomen wheels moved, taking the entire formation closer to Beelzebub!

Seeing the warriors erupt with fighting spirit, Hunteral showed a gratified expression, but a trace of vigilance remained in his eyes.

"Strange… why do I have a feeling of being targeted…"

"Where's the problem?"

"Have I become prey?"

"Has an enemy come looking for me?"

Thinking, Hunteral took out a beast skin map from his arms and spread it out in front of him—the map marked all his current trackers and enemies. The nearest place was full of demons, indicating the number of demons in the entire Great Hollow.

There were tens of thousands of demons, completely surrounding Hunteral, which was consistent with the current situation.

"Barrow, Bonnie, Abaddon are not in Demon King City… the demon who just escaped… is in the Underground City…" Hunteral carefully examined the map, "The Expeditionary Force is still in Sindrami… Oki Booji is attacking the city…"

"Damn it, where is the problem?" Hunteral clenched the map tightly, gnashing his teeth.

"Or… does this fly have a backup plan?"

"Damn it, now is not the time to hesitate." The formation rushed to Beelzebub, and the hunt had reached a critical moment.

Hunteral could already smell the fishy stench emanating from Beelzebub, and could see countless huge compound eyes when he looked up.

"You have finally come before me, buzz…" Beelzebub suddenly spoke.

"Dear, it's them, they want to hunt me, buzz…"

"Hunt, huh?"