I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

After probing over a thousand bubbles and finding nothing but a scattering of gold dust, Li Yue was forced to change his approach.

Since the "Ruler" enjoyed observing, Li Yue flipped over the "Attention" card to attract its attention.

Even if it meant potentially drawing the gaze of something else.

And Li Yue certainly achieved that.

The instant the "Attention" card was flipped, the void twisted, and countless presences suddenly appeared from all directions, so numerous they completely filled his perception, inside and out.

Among them were eyes of various shapes, endlessly stretching lines, and arcs of light patterns being elongated.

Although there was no malice warning, Li Yue instantly flipped the card back.

A brief commotion was enough; he could sort out the rest later.

But it seemed he was too late.

The entire void began to shake, and the space to the upper left seemed to become a flowing whole—thousands of bubbles shifting together, turning in a strange formation and slow motion, gazing at the Ideal Nation.

It might have been an instant, or it might have been forever.

Even Li Yue himself could sense it.

【Can I deceive it?】

Either the distance was too great, or it wasn't part of the chaos, or it even exceeded the Demon Illustrated Handbook's understanding.

Si Ce quickly thought of a solution—if the lizard was still watching him before he obtained the "Ruler," he could simply throw the "Attention" card into the void and let the lizard chase after it.

Then Li Yue suddenly thought, if the lizard was still watching him, would escaping back through the door crack cause a cataclysm for the Chaos Continent, just like what happened outside the yellow bubble?

Amidst the mounting tension, there was a slight easing—Si Ce heard the bad news from Yingying's telepathic message.

At the same time, whether moving forward or backward, Li Yue's Demon Illustrated Handbook showed no reaction whatsoever.

Flipping the card back, most of the distant presences broke their gaze, while some vague shadows near the Ideal Nation inexplicably melted, unable to withstand the lizard's single glance.

【Let's try using this.】

【No radar, no go?】

Dandan and Yingying were both silent, each experiencing in their minds with Si Ce the imagined destruction of the world, still recovering from their shock.

Dandan, however, wasn't afraid at all—even within the Brain Spirit's body, it still looked forward to a heavy blow that could shatter it.

Li Yue figured that since Yingying's radar sometimes sensed the "Ruler," sharing their thoughts should allow him to perceive the "Ruler's" presence as well.

Even so, the lizard's attention still hadn't left the Ideal Nation; the Bone Ship, which had just recovered slightly, began to disintegrate again, and Shadow, Brain, and Egg continued to swell.

Although Li Yue couldn't see anything outside the bubble, he steered the Ideal Nation according to the radar's direction, turning around and traveling at low speed along the yellow bubble's arc in that direction.

The starry sky gradually approached.

Finally, as the starry sky expanded until the light mist completely filled the background, the Ideal Nation burst out of the yellow bubble and returned to the void once more.

Perhaps those cries came from the moment the yellow bubble was completed, only now reaching them.

This place is dangerous.

Bumping and scraping, the Ideal Nation sailed towards the other side of the yellow bubble.

Si Ce took out an item.

Even without any malice, the Ideal Nation and the three Demon Sons within were likely to disintegrate at any moment.

Or perhaps, the golden sand world of the yellow bubble was being gradually drawn in by the starry sky.

The binding line pulled in the door crack had already snapped, with only the limp Shadow Line barely holding on.

This time the starry sky was behind them, constantly becoming blurred and spreading out; Li Yue even had the illusion that they weren't moving forward, but were being dragged backward by gravity.

Ahead was the yellow bubble covered in golden sand.

As the lizard's gaze flickered, a halo appeared on the surface of the Bone Ship, showing no signs of disintegration; at the same time, Li Yue's Shadow Body seemed to have gained substance, swelling uncontrollably and intensifying.

Even if the lizard's arrival was delayed by a few years, decades, or centuries, the collision at this level was destined to bring about the demise of everything on the continent.

Dandan and Yingying weren't faring any better; one had cracks forming in its brain grooves, barely maintaining its body with the binding line and shadow stitching; the other had its eggshell deformed, with particles turning into dust.

But like the sun hanging in the sky, the Ideal Nation was a traveler in the desert; no matter how the traveler walked, no matter how far, the sun always hung there, impossible to approach or move away from.

Ahead was the unreachable Ruler; behind was the relentless lizard.

Yingying gave Li Yue confidence, and Li Yue also saw that a strangely shaped, entangled star had appeared in the bubble directly ahead, guessing that it was the "Ruler."

Li Yue was far enough away to "see" that this being was large enough, but difficult to understand.

Without a doubt, the lizard was still approaching, and the three Demon Sons weren't sure how much time they had left.

【What to do?】

Judging from its shape, it roughly resembled a giant lizard coiling in the void, bubbles covering its entire body, with eyes, tail, and back, each swaying with different rhythms.

Only some bubbles that weren't growing on the lizard's body bounced off, not pierced by the lizard's gaze.

Its every subtle curve, every tiny arc, was constantly described by the Demon King Instructor.

Dandan's brain grooves went cold, and the Ideal Nation accelerated to full speed.

The bubbles seemed to be growing on the surface of some creature, the chaos blurring; two enormous bubbles suddenly opened, like a pair of eyes, staring straight at the Ideal Nation.

Li Yue saw the "Ruler" ahead.

The immediate priority was to find a way to shorten the distance to the "Ruler," get it quickly and leave…

【Not yet.】

Li Yue temporarily couldn't bother searching for any remaining "Rulers" nearby, driving the Ideal Nation directly into the nearest bubble.

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Without a fallback strategy, Si Ce began to rethink how to shorten the distance to the "Ruler."

Behind them, countless bubbles were like countless open eyes, squeezing the yellow bubble to extreme expansion, the film stretching to its limit, ready to burst at any moment.

【No, the distance hasn't changed.】

【Not close enough.】

"Poof…"

That was the Ruler, because it was exactly like the messy tangle of lines that Mentor had drawn in the library.

As long as they got it, the three demons could say goodbye to this void and also say goodbye to the lizard approaching from behind.

【The Ruler is over there.】

As the three demons discussed, the starry sky behind them drew closer.

Yingying's radar was constantly turning, currently facing the back of the Ideal Nation.

Li Yue couldn't extend Shadow towards the Ruler, so he turned to Dandan, wanting to try remote deception.

Was the destroyer actually himself?

Then what was the point?

The yellow bubble behind them shattered, and the golden dust merged into the light mist, flowing and hiding between the bubbles.

Li Yue didn't dare use the drill, afraid of triggering some kind of expansion of the yellow bubble, slowing their pace.

【Closer.】

Perhaps he had to abandon the "Attention" card.

Entering the bubble, the surrounding scenery blurred into a starry sky.

At this time, Li Yue was also a little afraid of the "Analyzing" prompt popping up, because that might mean that they were gradually approaching the "Ruler," and even more likely that the lizard was already extremely close.

Obviously, the Ideal Nation's speed alone wasn't enough to close the distance with the Ruler, and the Demon Illustrated Handbook couldn't analyze it, unable to learn more about the Ruler…

Even without the Demon Illustrated Handbook's prompt, Li Yue could see from the aberrant eye growing out of his butt that among those thousands of bubbles, the light mist was shaking and deforming, and the cries of various creatures and plants faintly echoed.