I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“The first option: after the closed war training ends, I, Scourgerick, will lend you my skull.” Li Yue effortlessly sold out Scourgerick's skull, thinking that this was a great deal.

Even if Damon Benben could twist the numbers on the contract, it wouldn't affect Li Yue at all—even if the demon scribe borrowed Scourgerick's skull for 100 full moons, couldn't he just make another one?

It would just cost a bit more malice, practically a freebie.

“Alright, hee hee…” Damon Benben smiled, and with a flourish of his pen, a wave of magic rippled from the parchment, then tightly wrapped around Li Yue's skull, finally disappearing.

Then, Damon Benben tore off a small corner of the parchment and floated it towards Li Yue; as Li Yue used his mind to examine the falling corner, the parchment itself returned to its original state.

Delivery—Li Yue sensed a vast amount of information from the falling corner, immediately understanding the relevant history of the war in the Calendar Year 235, and also gaining a basic understanding of the Steel City's defense capabilities.

Holy light, knights, artillery fire, steam-powered soldiers, clockwork warriors… This battle was the most dazzling and brilliant one before the Tas Empire aimed for dominance over the Chaos Continent.

Being able to witness the pinnacle of human combat power in the “Blood River”—even if it was the “pinnacle” from decades ago—Li Yue felt it was a great gain.

Li Yue looked at the information in the parchment and felt the power of humanity, but the extremely distant sense of belonging flashed by, making him feel even more that this world was strange and full of malice.

I am a monster…

The afterglow of the setting sun was fragmented and stretched obliquely; Li Yue didn't notice when he returned to the formation… his shadow seemed to have an unusual “jump”.

“Be careful! There is a great mage in the city who is very skilled in light magic!” Damon Benben called out a cryptic warning as Li Yue left.

Li Yue couldn't understand at all what light magic had to do with him—wasn't the weakness of the skeleton race the place where the soul resides? Light magic wasn't mentioned…

Back in the formation, Li Yue read the information on the parchment thoroughly, and looking towards the flags waving and the winged demons circling near the king's tent on the hillside, he knew that the moment the sunlight was swallowed by the night, it would be the moment for the skeleton infantry to attack.

He must first understand the skeletons in front of him and find out the origin of the 3,000 skeletons…

After all, there is a big difference between 3,000 troops and 300 troops.

Li Yue quickly walked around the proud and upright skeleton battle formation, inspecting the troops, but the information given by the Demon Illustrated Handbook was very ordinary—no matter which skeleton soldier Li Yue analyzed, the result given by the Demon Illustrated Handbook was the same.

【Analyzing… 2%…】

This is not analyzing the skeleton soldiers, but analyzing the Blood River—Li Yue judged.

So Li Yue turned to using the perception of the Brain Spirit to discover the subtle differences between the skeleton soldiers, and finally found 10 special existences among the 300 skeletons.

Unlike the usual skeleton infantry who held knives and shields, they each held a long staff made of bone joints, looking like bone mages or the like.

Of course, the composition of the skeleton infantry team was not complicated. Besides the knife and shield soldiers, there were these ten bone mages. There was no skeleton captain riding a bone horse that Li Yue had seen in Demon King City before—perhaps this configuration was more practical, only used for infantry regiments to fight.

Before sunset, Li Yue quickly summoned the 10 bone mages to his side and asked the question he was most concerned about.

“Can you… summon skeletons?”

This was Li Yue's speculation—if the 3,000 skeletons were not born because of Damon Benben's power to “twist numbers,” then it could only originate from the ten bone mages in front of him.

The bone mages also gave an affirmative answer, chuckling and saying that as long as they cast a spell, they could awaken the sleeping skeletons, or even corpses that had not been dead for long!

Corpse?

Li Yue's mind raced, and he continued to ask: “Awakening corpses, is it just controlling the bones? Is there any way to get their memories?”

Li Yue certainly didn't expect the Nightmare Succubus to cooperate with him. After getting the general information from Damon Benben, he felt it was necessary to understand some details of the human city defenses…

And these, the soldiers guarding the castle should all be able to provide.

The bone mage's answer was: “Haven't tried it, but it should be possible.”

Li Yue nodded, and his shadow also moved.

“I understand, you come over.” Li Yue beckoned the ten bone mages, adding twenty skeleton soldiers, and detoured to a large rock on the periphery of the demon expeditionary army's formation, looking worriedly at the sun.

Only a trace of sunlight remained, about to dissipate on the horizon.

“You, dig pits, two.” Li Yue ordered the twenty skeleton infantry.

The skeleton infantry had not yet received a higher summons, strictly obeying Li Yue's orders, and divided into two groups, digging fiercely with their respective shields, quickly digging out a huge pit.

Li Yue waved his bone sword without emotion, cutting off the limbs of the ten bone mages, leaving their dark eye sockets covered with a deep layer of doubt.

“Ge ge?”

Li Yue didn't explain anything, piling the bone staffs, heads, and torsos together, and the hands and feet in another pile, pushing them into the newly formed pit.

“Throw down your shields, bury them.” Li Yue once again ordered the twenty skeleton infantry.

“Ge ge?”

The shields of the skeleton infantry were still stained with soil, and they had dug quite deep at the moment—they looked towards the bone mages at the bottom of the pit, their faces filled with the same doubt.

Orders could not be resisted, and twenty shields were thrown into the pit, firmly covering the bone mages at the bottom; immediately afterwards, forty bony hands moved in unison, quickly filling the soil they had just dug out back into the pit.

“Tread firmly, jump on it.” Li Yue almost added a sentence “Show off your dance moves”—after all, skeletons are players who love music and dance, I wonder how much the Blood River can imitate?

They really jumped up—the afterglow of the setting sun was like the last bonfire, and when it was ignited by the moonlight, the skeleton soldiers had already left dense footprints on the two pits, both like the remnants after the end of a carnival, and like an invitation to a new round of noise.

“When you charge, hold the bone staff and the shields I left for you, and defend.” Before the thick soil was trodden firmly, Li Yue finally left a command to the bone mages underground.

Releasing his perception, Li Yue could sense the bone mages under the thick soil gritting their teeth, trying to respond to him.

Done, hopefully it will be useful… Li Yue led the twenty skeleton soldiers who had lost their shields back to the formation, waiting for the sound of the demon horn to sound.

And everything he had just done was the only way Li Yue could preserve his strength in a short time—otherwise, if Bosh gave an order, all 300 skeletons would charge at the first time, even if they could summon 3,000 skeletons, they would not be able to withstand a concentrated fire from Steel City or a few holy lights.

It's better to leave the ten core bone mages, to appear at the most appropriate time, and get richer results.

Moreover, Li Yue estimated that when the siege battle really started, Bosh should hardly have the leisure to drive the skeleton soldiers to be cannon fodder alone… right?

Thinking of this, Li Yue was not very relieved of the demon's vengeful heart.

Buzz—

The fire reappeared, and the sound of the demon horn rippled out; at this moment, Li Yue only felt that his mind power had been greatly enhanced, as if he could fly and slash, invincible.

Immediately afterwards, 290 skeleton infantry and 500 magic wolf warriors rushed out of the demon expeditionary army's battle formation and surged towards the Steel City, which was full of torches under the moonlight.

Li Yue did not move, because he felt that he would be going to his death.

In the air, Bosh and his guards rode hundreds of winged demons, holding fire knives spurting with red flames, like a blood-colored centipede circling in front of the king's tent, looking down at the earth ferociously.

Then, all the demons under the king's tent turned their heads again, all looking at Li Yue.

Li Yue's scalp tingled, and he had to jump up, cross a hundred meters, and step into the battle formation composed of 290 skeleton infantry.