I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Empty eye sockets stared directly at Lee Read.

Skorlik, who had "transformed," was a little embarrassed and cautiously touched the skeleton shell in front of him with the bone sword in his hand…

The bone sword touched the sternum of the skeleton, knocking the demon blueprint product, which resembled a corpse, to the ground—the bone sword was sharp, and cracks faintly appeared on the sternum, but they quickly healed, emitting a crystal-clear light as if reborn…

Dead thing!

The skeleton made from the demon blueprint was a dead thing.

This gave Lee Read great comfort—the most unstable thing about transformation was that although it had an image, its overall strength was still Lee Read's own strength. Lee Read had already experimented with this in the prison of the vegetable garden.

However, the skeleton made from the demon blueprint not only had a physical body, but also retained the characteristics given by [Self-Healing Bone]—self-healing!

For a brain spirit, this was undoubtedly a suit of armor that could heal itself, and also the best disguise at the moment…

Of course, Lee Read did not rule out the possibility of collecting the souls of certain types of demons if he killed them, and then injecting them into the demons made from the demon blueprint; but for now, Lee Read felt that the most suitable way for him to use it was to directly "wear" this thing.

Lee Read suddenly retracted the appearance of the transformation and the demon blueprint creation in front of him, and then released it again—this time Lee Read aimed more accurately, and the skull of the skeleton wrapped the body of the brain spirit, turning it into a real skeleton!

Controlling his hands, feet, and entire body through his will, Lee Read felt the physical texture fed back into his mind and knew that this experiment was very successful—transformation consumed less malice and was suitable for short-term or deceptive disguises; the creation of the demon blueprint was a completely real entity, with strength that transcended the brain spirit itself, making it more reliable and malleable.

Lee Read couldn't help but imagine that if he could kill that cold and beautiful city lord and then convert him into some material to make a real shell… would that give him the power of a demon king?

Of course, it was just a thought.

Lee Read tried to control his current body again, adapted to the weight and feel of the self-healing bone, and began to play the Song of Decay again…

Unlike the freedom of transformation, the control of physical objects consumed more of Lee Read's own magic power, like wearing a weighted object; fortunately, the skeleton's bones were relatively light, and Lee Read could control them freely with his current level of mental power, but he just needed to familiarize himself with it.

Feeling the vibration of the Song of Decay's melody projected on his own bones, Lee Read also sketched some random thoughts in his mind—now that he had a skeleton, could he fill it with flesh and blood in the future?

Apart from being fragile, Lee Read had not felt too much discomfort with the body of the brain spirit, but the appearance of the self-healing bone did greatly make up for the shortcomings of the brain spirit—now at least he wouldn't be hugged to death by Mini and Mini.

When he had materials related to flesh and blood in the future, and learned some knowledge about the human body in the library, could he return to human form?

Lee Read, who still defaulted to being human… of course wanted to have a human body and regain a little bit of the feeling of being human.

However, at this moment, Lee Read did not intend to change the details of this skeleton—disguising as Skorlik was convenient for closed military training, and having a body of self-healing bone was even more convenient. As for the human body, he could think about it first, and put it into practice when he really had the opportunity in the future.

Moreover, Lee Read believed that, like the transformation function, the demon blueprint could definitely save more than one body, and with a self-healing bone as the base, he would have strong support no matter what image he wanted to disguise in the future, at least avoiding troubles such as bone fractures…

It seems that he still needs to collect more malice and demon points… Fortunately, the Demon King City is not short of these—Lee Read thought.

After roughly studying the effect of the self-healing bone, Lee Read then had a question—was the self-healing bone collected by killing Skorlik only usable once?

Focusing his mind on the demon blueprint, Lee Read found the gray-labeled material "Self-Healing Bone" and found that as long as it was collected, the material could be exchanged through malice, but the consumption compared to transformation… could be described as massive.

Exchanging one unit of [Self-Healing Bone] required 5,000 malice, which was roughly equivalent to a set of Skorlik's bones.

As for the demon points that had just been consumed, their function was to unlock the "slot" of the demon blueprint, which could be understood as saving a template.

That is to say, if he collected more materials in the future, in addition to the complete set of Skorlik, Lee Read could also make more kinds of demon bodies…

Closed military training was a good opportunity—there were many demon sons inside, and if they were all killed, how many materials could he earn?

Lee Read had a dangerous idea and quickly reined himself in.

Having a clear idea of the upcoming closed military training, Lee Read turned his mind back to the empty middle level of the library, unsure whether Budibog would suddenly have the idea to stare at him, and began to work on solving the "work" problem for tomorrow…

The Book Demon would monitor the hall at the beginning of every green hour, and it would definitely be discovered if there was one less brain spirit, so how to solve the roll call problem tomorrow?

Lee Read thought, and his mind also extended forward along the empty corridor… Just as he had some ideas, Lee Read suddenly felt two unusual "figures" in the corridor.

The figures were small, like two sweet potatoes embedded in the back door of the eleventh library, peeking towards the entrance of the thirteenth library—Mini and Mini, Lee Read's deskmates.

These two little guys… were they worried about Lee Read's safety, so they ran over in the middle of the night to check?

Lee Read instantly understood their hearts. While feeling gratified, he didn't know how to explain to them—should he reveal his identity? Or deceive them?

The strumming suddenly stopped. Before Lee Read could figure out how to face them, the two Minis suddenly walked out of the shadows.

What's going on? Aren't they very timid?

"You… where did that brain spirit… go?" Mini shouted at Lee Read, her voice full of fear and anger.

Did they discover the brain spirit's disappearance and come to ask the skeleton prince Skorlik for an explanation?

Lee Read suddenly wanted to touch their two little round heads.

"What? Are you not satisfied? Want to die?" No matter how gratified Lee Read was, his persona couldn't collapse.

"Don't want to!" Mini and Mini said in unison.

"If you have something to ask, come and ask me…" Lee Read picked up the bone sword, deciding to scare away the two little guys—Mini and Mini were not good at keeping secrets, and concealing that Lee Read was a "special" brain spirit was already their limit.

"Where did the brain spirit go?" Mini and Mini hesitated for a moment, but still slowly walked over, shocking Lee Read.

What was even more shocking was that although Mini and Mini walked in front of Lee Read, their hands were still stretched out long, hooking onto the back door of the eleventh library, like a fully stretched spring, ready to use the force to escape far away at any time.

Lee Read even suspected… that if he really killed a high-level demon-level Mini and Mini, could he harvest materials similar to [Stretching Flesh]?

"I went to arrange for it to find bones." Lee Read hurriedly dispelled the evil thoughts in his mind and made up a lie, "This is the noble mission I gave him…"

Mini and Mini's expressions obviously relaxed, and then became eager to try.

"I won't allow him to receive any help…" Lee Read was afraid that the two little sweet potatoes would suddenly run to places like the vegetable garden to pick up bones.

[Malice +1]

Mini and Mini gave back malice, and Lee Read was both amused and annoyed.

"See, I told you he wasn't dead!" Mini was a little more irritable than Mini and punched Mini.

"Who knows if what he said is true…" Mini rolled his eyes at Skorlik, and Lee Read felt that he had to show something to justify himself.

Lee Read raised the hilt of the sword, and the bone sword reflected the moonlight, a flash of sharpness, dazzling Mini and Mini's eyes.

Mini and Mini exerted force with both hands, and the two little sweet potatoes bounced back, disappearing in front of Lee Read in an instant, and then the sound of kicking footsteps gradually faded away.

Lee Read couldn't help but suspect… that if he really let Mini and Mini collect the bones of the skeleton, they could really steal some from the sleeping skeleton soldiers.

Time slowly passed, and Lee Read, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, pondered how to explain to the Book Demon tomorrow, while occasionally chopping the self-healing bone with the bone sword to understand the speed and extent of the self-healing…

After fully evaluating the strength of the self-healing bone, Lee Read began to play the Song of Decay to pass the time, waiting for the red hour to turn into the green hour…

Finally, the moonlight suddenly brightened, and the flickering candlelight on the wall also slowed down a bit; Lee Read put away the lute, silently said sorry to the brain spirits, picked up the bone sword, and walked towards the fifth library downstairs.