I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue yawned, bored with waiting.

Although he didn't physiologically need to yawn, Li Yue felt the action suited his mood, so he did it.

In reality, Li Yue wasn't sleepy at all.

The massive underground project had been completed three days ago, and now they were just waiting for the Hunter Country's core personnel gathering tomorrow, when a volcano would erupt, turning Loushan into a dead mountain.

During Li Yue's sneaky construction process, there were, of course, many small episodes, such as the time a sharp-eyed Hunter Country brave found the Self-Healing Bone in the mountain, and the time he made eye contact with the Thieving Eye when burying the Eye of Aberration...

But these small episodes were all resolved safely by the Staff of Deception, and Li Yue secretly gave Loushan a skeleton, and also buried many tricks.

He even remembered to coat the Self-Healing Bone with a layer of photonic pigment in some of the thinner parts of the mountain, reducing the chance of it being discovered.

Everything is going smoothly so far.

Over the past month, Jessie had urged him several times, saying that she had obtained several damaged magic cannons, and as soon as Li Yue offered his Heart of Valor, they could be sent immediately.

She didn't mention the source of the magic cannons, and Li Yue didn't bother to ask, only saying that he would offer it soon and asked Jessie to wait.

In fact, Li Yue himself was already burning with impatience.

Overall, killing Abaddon required solving two problems: one was his physical body, and the other was the debt.

The premise of killing the physical body was to clear all the "capital," which meant killing all the core members of the Hunter Country, hence the skeleton and rumors of Loushan.

And during the volcanic eruption, Li Yue had to be careful not to incur too much debt, lest he be suddenly bought by Abaddon.

He had to ensure that Abaddon spent as little money as possible, and also reasonably distribute the damage while causing destruction...

If it weren't for the fact that Abaddon's luxurious cave was surrounded by a vast number of Distance Coins and Trap Coins, Li Yue would have sneaked in long ago and looted his entire fortune.

He was still afraid of stirring up a hornet's nest.

Although Li Yue had already prepared everything, he still wasn't very confident, feeling that killing an eighth-tier merchant was really too troublesome.

Especially when this merchant was his creditor.

It was in this uneasy mood that Li Yue waited for the dawn of the next day.

Whether he could get rid of being held hostage by the Hunter Country depended on his performance today.

【Are you ready?】

Li Yue sat on Hunteral's bed, patting the thick fur of the Forest Bear.

The Forest Bear had been pulled out of the ground by Li Yue and forcibly healed of its injuries with Self-Healing.

Sensing Li Yue's thoughts, its strong bear paws impatiently slapped the ground, its claws scraping against the rocks, creating layers of sparks.

"Roar—"

【Really don't need to increase the density, or change it to iron?】

Li Yue tasted the Forest Bear's strength and felt it wasn't that great, perhaps it still couldn't withstand a few wild grabs from a high-level Thief's Hand.

【I only want my own body!】

The Forest Bear remained angry and hungry.

【Roar, whatever.】

Li Yue unfolded his thoughts, grasping all the sensors near Loushan, "seeing" a towering bone tree with tangled roots, and tentacles and eyeballs surrounding the mountain like a flower field.

"It's starting, charge, Beary." Li Yue hid into the soil layer, swimming towards Loushan's conference hall, while controlling all the magma right hands to release magma.

Hot air and magma began to fill the branches of the towering bone tree, flowing upwards.

In Loushan's conference hall, more than a dozen cups of coffee were arranged on a long table, emitting wisps of heat.

Each cup of coffee corresponded to a seat, and each seat was occupied by a brave of the Hunter Country with the power and potential to become a leader.

It's just that none of them touched the coffee on the table, each drinking the wine they brought.

No one wanted to owe Abaddon any more.

The bald Abaddon sat in the seat of honor, smelling the aroma of coffee as he scanned the crowd, unfazed by their reactions.

"Now that everyone's here, shall I start choosing?" Abaddon didn't seem to intend to let the people at the table speak, just putting on his glasses and looking at them one by one.

The braves had no objections, and nothing to say, quietly waiting for Abaddon to finish reading.

This was not an election, nor did it require a vote—Abaddon's method of choosing a new leader was simple, using the Eye of Appraisal to see value.

Whoever had the highest value could replace Hunteral, Barrow, and Bonnie.

Barrow and Bonnie had also risen to power in this way.

That was an era of rapid expansion and infinite plunder for the Hunter Country.

"Alright, it's you three." Abaddon quickly finished reading the latest value of everyone present and quickly selected three people.

Surprisingly, this time the leaders were not hunters or thieves, but two merchants and a magician.

This magician was only at the sixth tier, far inferior to everyone present.

It's just that he was the illegitimate son of a nobleman from the Snow Country.

Business-oriented, huh...

The core figures of the Hunter Country understood Abaddon's needs.

"In the future, we will hide behind the turmoil, making all the great powers of the Chaos Continent... our source of wealth." Along with Abaddon's announcement, Loushan began to shake.

The braves present knew that Abaddon had gained a lot of debt in Demon King City not long ago, but they didn't expect his strength to have risen to such a terrifying level.

Could Abaddon already make the earth tremble?

Feeling the tremors in the ground, some hunters and thieves who were originally dissatisfied bowed their heads one after another, fearing to anger Abaddon—after Hunteral's death, the status of hunters and thieves in the Hunter Country plummeted, so of course they had to keep a low profile.

What's more, they all owed Abaddon a lot of debt.

Abaddon, on the other hand, was at a loss.

Earthquake?

What's going on?

Could it be that the God of Faith has descended?!

Abaddon suddenly stood up, tossing a coin into the air.

The braves of the Hunter Country were so frightened that they quickly lowered their heads.

The coin was caught by a toad hand, which pinched out the shape of a mouth.

"Something happened in the Holy City?" The tremor intensified, and Abaddon had no time to greet the demon merchant, going straight to the point.

"Ribbit..." The toad pondered for a moment, seemingly confirming something.

"Nothing, ribbit... still fighting, what's wrong?" The demon merchant rarely saw Abaddon so urgent, and was also very curious about what was happening here.

"A demon has set its sights on Loushan? Fireplume Valley?" Abaddon absolutely didn't believe this was a simple earthquake.

When he established the Hunter Country, he and Hunteral carefully selected the site for Loushan, which had been stable for decades, and it was impossible to suddenly offend some god now.

"As far as I know... not, ribbit... nothing, ribbit..." The demon merchant was extremely curious, tearing open space, about to have a toad head pop out, "What's wrong, your house exploded?"

"Forget it if you don't know..." Abaddon forcibly pressed the toad head back, and also stuffed the toad hand in.

Seeing that he couldn't get any information, the demon merchant grumbled before retreating.

"You must have offended someone..."

"Everyone is waiting for the God of Faith to come down, who would cause trouble at this time?"

"Remember to check the debt, ribbit..." Ripples rippled in the space, and the toad hand disappeared.

Abaddon had a激灵, immediately searching the debt of the brain spirit, only to find that the numbers had not changed.

Just an earthquake, not yet causing damage?

Abaddon stared at the numbers, running towards the outside of the conference hall, sparing no effort.

At the same time, braves from the Hunter Country ran out of the various caves of Loushan, all looking towards the conference hall.

They were originally waiting for the announcement of the new leader, but they didn't expect to wait for an earthquake, and they were all very puzzled.

And when the birds and beasts of Loushan began to flee in all directions, they finally realized that this was not Abaddon putting on a show of force, but a natural disaster.

"Earthquake!"

"Quick, pack up your things and escape!"

For a time, thieves and hunters stuffed everything they could into their arms, regardless of whether it was their own belongings, and the road to escape the mountain became a road of reaping.

Abaddon looked into the distance, finding that the earthquake was only limited to the mountain of Loushan, and the surrounding town was not affected, so he immediately determined that it was the work of a demon.

【It must be that brain spirit...】

As soon as Abaddon had this thought, the sky turned dark.

Sunlight was shattered by countless thin lines, which then connected into pieces.

Eighteen thin lines halfway up the mountain intertwined and spread, like an unfolded birdcage, covering the entire Loushan.

"Bang!"

Like a giant having its skull opened, or like a celebratory champagne being uncorked...

Fire and earth lifted the clouds, crashing down.