I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“Uh… when are you coming back for dinner? The dishes are ready.”

Li Yue showed the domino close-up of the puddle, shaking it against the shadows.

“Hellfire?” Yingying certainly remembered their agreement, and was even more familiar with every inch of the Abyss Maw. “Did you find it?”

“Of course.” Li Yue refocused the domino on himself. “Let’s study it first, and when you get back, we’ll go down together and take a look…”

“Of course, we have to be together.” Yingying retorted.

Li Yue was speechless.

“Why do you look like you owe someone money?” Yingying could always see through the surface to Li Yue’s true state, whether it was because of her strong observation skills or the connection established after the advancement ceremony.

“Uh… I do owe some debts, but I’ll pay them off soon, very soon.” Li Yue didn’t go into too much detail, nor was it necessary.

“Can you pay them off?”

“I can.” Li Yue nodded.

“Sorry, I’m in a bad mood, influenced by the bloodlust.” A red mist filled Yingying’s side, and the battle seemed to be at a critical juncture.

“Just like what we experienced in the Blood River back then.” Yingying added, afraid that she hadn’t explained it clearly enough.

“Kill! Charge! What are you waiting for!” Dandan seemed completely unaware that Yingying was talking to Li Yue and kept urging from the side.

“Understood.” Li Yue certainly knew that the battlefield on the Holy City side must be filled with bloodthirsty desire, and he also remembered the uncontrollable sword he wielded at the end of the Blood River simulation battle.

Moreover, Li Yue really understood—after all, he had just been assimilated by the Abyss Maw once, and the memory was still fresh.

Although he didn’t remember exactly what he did.

“How’s your side? Very lively?” Li Yue asked about her return date, wanting to arrange the order of harvesting Hellfire and destroying Hunter Country.

“Yeah, attacking the underground of the Holy City, it’s very comfortable.” Yingying said, “Mempheus thinks the progress of the radical faction in the Holy City is too slow and wants to give them a push, forcing them to invite the God of Faith sooner…”

‘You can force that?’ Li Yue muttered to himself.

“I’ll go home after this battle.” Yingying also wanted to show Li Yue the battlefield with the dominoes, but Li Yue could only see bursts of red mist and the holy light flickering in the red mist.

“You can go home?” Li Yue thought the expeditionary force had strict discipline.

Especially when it came to the end.

“We Children of the Devil can apply for leave.”

“Mempheus allowed it?” Li Yue wasn’t sure if the demon commander would give Yingying such benefits for no reason.

“Yeah, who cares, he won’t tell us his true intentions, but it doesn’t matter, you wait for me.” Yingying glanced at the puddle in the Abyss Maw again.

“After this battle, maybe I’ll advance.” Yingying showed her current number of kills, and Li Yue was dumbfounded.

“That’s a good thing, let’s have a banquet to celebrate!” Li Yue was certainly very much looking forward to how strong Yingying would be after advancing.

During this time dealing with Hunter Country, it was indeed quite tiring without Yingying’s help.

Thinking about it, Li Yue turned to Tom and asked him to prepare to start purchasing.

“What banquet? Don’t you still owe money?” Since becoming Steele Baby’s shadow, Yingying seemed to understand human relationships better.

In the past, she would have asked what the relationship was between advancement and banquets.

“It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, you fight, I’ll go pay off the debt.” Li Yue confirmed that there was still some time before Yingying returned, so he could just deal with Hunter Country first.

If the God of Faith was still late, if his assumptions could be realized, then maybe he could give Yingying a surprise by the way.

“Yeah, pay it off as soon as possible.” Yingying controlled Steele Baby to nod, “Okay, hanging up, fighting…”

“Wait!” Li Yue pressed the domino, “Ask Steele Baby, does he know about Hellfire…”

“Not asking, I’ll tell you when I get back, if he knows, I’ll know too.” Yingying ended the communication.

Li Yue noticed that the density of the shadow had become lighter, and he couldn’t help but worry again—he had investigated and prepared thoroughly before dealing with Hunter Country, but Yingying and Dandan had been fighting against the top combat power of the Holy See, and it was also a battlefield, so it was naturally a hundred times more dangerous.

He couldn’t delay any longer.

【Okay, we can go back first, I’ve recorded some interesting things…】

Tom seemed to sense Li Yue’s urgency and considerately prepared to return.

【Okay, you remember the time, within three months, we need to change the marker.】

Li Yue pointed to the corpse on the ground, not wanting this thing to become an Rank 8 Hunterar and hunt him again.

Back in the library, Copper Spoon was still studying the newly assigned homework, and Li Yue couldn’t wait to brew a lie.

“I got the Demon King’s permission to leave the city.”

If he wanted to go to Loushan to “pay off debts,” the first problem to solve was leaving the city, of course.

Without the Demon King’s permission, the Lord of Authority cannot leave the city—Li Yue had only been to Death Town Desler at most, and had never seen the outside world.

This was also an attempt that Li Yue was very much looking forward to.

But when the Scepter of Deceit shook like a sieve and a complex sea of lines like a black hole appeared in front of him, Li Yue knew he had failed.

“Got the Demon King’s permission” was equivalent to deceiving the Demon King, and the magic power of the library could not fully support Li Yue’s materialization of the Demon King’s thoughts, and he almost fainted after trying it.

Li Yue foresaw this situation, but he couldn’t help but want to try.

If he could deceive the Demon King, he would definitely have a much easier time in the future, and it might not be impossible to directly deceive him into becoming a major pillar.

But it wouldn’t work now, so he could only settle for second best…

Li Yue changed his lie.

“I am not the Lord of Authority.”

The Scepter of Deceit materialized all of Li Yue’s thoughts and feelings, although it was complicated, the consumption of magic power was still bearable.

Finding the thought “I am the Lord of Authority,” Li Yue used the Scepter of Deceit to smudge it, and finally succeeded.

Half of the library’s magic power for today was reduced, and Li Yue guessed that the reason for the success must be because part of the library’s authority was still in Budiboge’s hands.

Mentor once said that authority cannot be without an owner.

At the moment, the library has an owner, but it is not Li Yue.

Then is he no longer bound by the Demon King’s ban?

Li Yue rushed to the upper level of the library, put on the Hunterar’s skin, stared at the Demon Route, and touched the binding thread entangled on the four-cornered table with his mind…

Loushan, the marker for the Hunterar’s residence began to light up, and Li Yue’s body began to stretch.

It’s working!

Li Yue was inexplicably excited—since crossing over, he could finally leave this dark Demon King City?

Finally, he could enjoy the feeling of the sun shining on his brain grooves?

Finally, he could temporarily leave the inexplicable gaze in the dark and return to the human world?

Li Yue’s mood was also stretched, crossing thousands of miles of ground and clouds, crossing the heads of thousands of creatures, and reaching a continuous mountain range with rat holes everywhere.

Already sitting in front of the Hunterar’s bed, Li Yue was still unwilling to wake up, just wanting to smell the free air here.

God… is this the human world… even the stench is so dear…

Li Yue was immersed in it, unable to extricate himself.

“Awoo?”

A beast’s cry rang from the darkness inside the cave, scattering Li Yue’s dream.