I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue was taken aback, unsure if it was a hallucination or something that was actually happening.

“Shadow?” Li Yue suddenly remembered that there was also a shadow demon participating in the war training. Recalling Damon Benben's instructions before going into battle, he tentatively gurgled a sentence.

“Yeah.” The shadow communicated with the skeleton by wriggling out the demon's common language, which gave Li Yue a headache, after all, sensing a shadow was much more difficult than sensing a real object.

“Why aren't you attacking?” As if played in reverse, Shadow asked again.

“This isn't how wars are fought, Bosh's command has a big problem…” Li Yue replied, racking his brains, “It's a meaningless waste of life, relying solely on skeleton infantry and demon wolf warriors… it's impossible to cause any harm to humans. Humans haven't even used much force, and they can kill 290 skeletons and 500 demon wolf warriors.”

Li Yue counted, from the start of the battle until now, the humans have only used 3 artillery groups, 5 squads of musketeers, and 3 heroes. One of the heroes couldn't suppress his killing intent and rushed down to show his presence with quick movements.

Yes, speaking of the giant sword hero—Li Yue had no doubt that the guards on the city had a hundred ways to kill Finley, but the giant sword hero chose the least efficient one, indirectly saving Finley's life…

When Finley grew in size, Li Yue felt more than a dozen complex magical powers rising from the city. The fluctuations of those magical powers converged into great destructive power, even just touching it with his mind almost made Li Yue faint in pain.

“Or… do you want to die meaninglessly like Finley?” Li Yue retorted to Shadow, “We can obviously achieve better results, we can obviously receive the blessing of the Demon King mentor.”

As Li Yue spoke, the fierce battle under the city walls had entered its final stage. More than half of the demon wolf warriors had been lost. If Finley hadn't attracted most of the firepower from the city, and if the humans hadn't left a heavier gift for the demon expeditionary army in front of the king's tent, the demon wolf warriors' attack would have been disintegrated long ago.

As for the skeleton infantry… besides wasting some artillery shells and gunpowder, they had hardly caused any casualties to the humans. At this moment, only a few scattered bone hands and skulls were hanging on the city walls, and it was unknown whether they were dead or alive.

The centipede that was originally hovering in front of the king's tent had moved to the center of the battlefield, repeatedly rotating its body, seemingly ready to rush towards the Steel City at any time.

“Then what do you think… what should we do?” Shadow felt that what Li Yue said made sense—he had felt this way since before the king's tent.

“I don't know what you can do…” Li Yue carefully looked at Shadow, confirming from the feedback of the Demon Illustrated Handbook that it was a powerful existence.

【Analyzing… 7%…】

“I have reserved some bone mages who will cause the greatest possible damage to the Steel City at the appropriate time…” Of course, Li Yue didn't intend to just pretend to be dead until the end of the Blood River test, and had been looking for opportunities.

“For the skeleton race, the initial frontal battle is not our greatest strength. We should be a… surprise… that inflicts the greatest blow on the human combat power and spirit in the middle of the battle.” Li Yue was very much looking forward to reaching the point of intense fighting, with large-scale casualties, or… him discovering where the Steel City's cemetery was.

“What is… surprise?” Shadow asked doubtfully, “As far as I know… the skeleton race is not good at mental strikes.”

Rarely, Li Yue felt that the shadow demon in front of him… was actually one of the few people in Demon King City who could communicate normally. He sighed inwardly, but said, “It's a metaphor, a metaphor.”

Shadow was silent for a moment, then the shadow wriggled again: “So you are waiting to summon enough skeletons before joining the battle?”

“That's about the idea.” Li Yue looked towards the blood-colored centipede in the sky, sensing a surging killing intent, “What about you? What are you going to do? Do you want me to give you some advice?”

【Analyzing… 21%…】

“Okay, tell me.” Shadow was like an obedient good student, “If you are correct, I will listen to you, because I think your decision to leave the bone mages is very correct.”

Li Yue didn't expect to be recognized by the shadow demon.

“Okay, wait a moment, let me think.” Li Yue wanted to let the Demon Illustrated Handbook complete the analysis first, take a look at Shadow's information, and then make a decision.

“Do you want me to introduce myself? You don't seem to know much about shadow demons.” Shadow thoughtfully added, which made Li Yue a little curious… how exactly was it born, why was it so considerate, so refined?

“No need, I have my own judgment.” Li Yue responded deeply, also afraid that Shadow was ill-intentioned, or had omitted some important information.

【Analyzing… 30%…】

Shadow was quite surprised—could it be that this skeleton was a hidden powerhouse? The pride of a powerhouse? But it was clearly beaten to the point of playing dead…

While Li Yue was communicating with Shadow, Bosh in the sky seemed to have forgotten Li Yue's existence, focusing on observing all the troop movements on the Steel City, not disgracing the demon expeditionary army's instincts.

“That person… is their commander, right?” Bosh, riding the largest winged demon, asked Kelly and Kerr beside him.

The person Bosh was talking about was the one who ordered the giant sword hero to return to the city.

“After killing him, it's the next commander, and then as long as we keep killing their commanders, the city lord will appear, right?” Bosh asked, as if talking to himself.

“Glory!” Kelly and Kerr seemed to only be able to say this one sentence, but the fire knives in their hands were thick and ever-changing, obviously their combat abilities were hundreds of times richer than their language.

“Look… Demon Wolf Prince Finley is still very useful…” Bosh suddenly shouted to all the personal guards, “Have you all written it down! Those spellcasting heroes? Those noisy commanders?”

“Glory!” More than a hundred personal guards responded in unison.

“Demon Wolf Prince Finley… will he die? Should we let him die?” Bosh gazed again at Finley, who was clinging to the city wall, scarred and awkward.

“In the expeditionary army… all lives are yours.” Kelly and Kerr only had the target of the next kill in their eyes, not looking at the embarrassed figure of Demon Wolf Prince Finley.

“You're right… it's a pity there are always fools who don't understand this.” Bosh's fangs were ferocious, “Like that Skorrirk who dared to ignore me…”

“Where did it go? Forget it… that's not important.”

“Vanguard Army, listen up—” Bosh finally squeezed the protruding spine behind the winged demon, ordering all the personal guards: “Charge with me—”

“Glory!” The scarlet centipede's flames blazed brightly, waving hundreds of feet in the air, and slammed straight into the steel-like castle at the end of the battlefield!

“Here it comes, the real vanguard legion…” The human commander misjudged the extent of this demon expeditionary army commander's madness, not expecting that he would personally take the field after only one engagement.

“Prepare to fight!” the human commander shouted, and the robed mage beside him stood closer to him.

The blazing flames streaked across the sky, inexplicably bringing up the thick earth on the ground—huge clods of earth ranging from ten to a hundred meters in diameter broke free from the shackles of gravity, slowly rising from the ground, and then swept over and wrapped the scarlet centipede in the air, becoming its shell, its armor.

It was also a siege hammer!

In the process of Bosh and the Expeditionary Army's personal guard regiment “smashing” towards the Steel City, the thick earth wrapped around them was also constantly melted by the raging flames, plated with a layer of magma-like blazing yellow and dark black, like a horizontally erupting volcano coming from nowhere and cutting through the void!

However, just as the magma was about to reach the Steel City, the mage beside the human commander stuck his staff into the ground, raised his hands high, crossed his thumbs, and chanted a sacred incantation.

Magical power rolled and stirred, and an ice spear that went straight to the heavens and earth, composed of snowflakes and ice crystals, and perfectly shaped, suddenly condensed in front of the Steel City; the ice crystals transformed into a solid body, and when the streamer turned, the prism-like ice surface reflected countless side faces of human warriors.

Perseverance, strength, decisiveness—the Blood River simulated it vividly, as if it had a soul.

The light reflected on the ground, flowing across Li Yue's scattered skeleton—just a slight touch made Li Yue feel an extreme cold that froze his soul, and even his thoughts almost solidified.

Afterwards, magma approached from the sky, as black as fire; the ice spear was quietly placed diagonally in front of the Steel City, facing the source of the magma.

The sharp sacred aura pointed directly at the Demon King's Expeditionary Army's vanguard, even splitting the clouds and hot mist behind it, leaving only moonlight wherever it went.

“Na!” The mage's thumbs were separated, and the ice spear shot out, causing layers of ripples in the air, and also evoking an extreme cold, cleansing all the demons in the field…

Shooting out meant hitting—in an instant, the ice spear and the magma smashing towards the Steel City met, and time also stopped abruptly at this moment.

Next, the magma shattered, and Bosh and his personal guard team were no longer in a complete formation. Thirty percent of the hundred personal guards were lost, and all the remaining members were frostbitten everywhere.

But they did not stop at all, dispersed their formation, and still pounced straight at the top of the Steel City; and the magma fell as fire rain after scattering, hitting the Steel City, outlining a doomsday scene.

Li Yue sighed at this scene five hundred meters in front of the Steel City, trembling at the same time, and almost couldn't restrain his urge to join the battle.