I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"It hurts, it's strong." The shadow changed silently. If Li Yue hadn't been using the Demon Illustrated Handbook to analyze the shadow demon, he wouldn't have noticed this exclamation.

"This is a battle of top-tier levels…" Li Yue also sighed.

According to what Li Yue read in the "Noble Directory of the Kai Li Year 259", the skirmishes between humans and the Demon Expeditionary Force usually involved less than a thousand people, and mostly focused on destroying villages, plundering villagers and resources. A battle like this, with both sides deploying over ten thousand troops, must be quite rare.

In that doomsday scene, the Demon Honor Guard and Bosh-driven Winged Demons began a frontal battle with the defending forces of Iron City. Amidst the entanglement of scorching magma and flowing spells, bursts of fire and holy light erupted continuously in front of the city.

Most of the fire rain was spread out and shattered by the mage next to the human commander with outstretched hands. Only about 30% could fall, hitting the solid lower part of Iron City, causing almost no direct casualties.

However, Li Yue noticed that the fire rain falling from the sky not only directly struck the city walls, but also spawned smaller, red-skinned demons!

Born in the scorching flames, they continuously vibrated their wings, following the scent of fear constantly emitted by the weak-willed among the human guards, opening their huge mouths and pouncing fiercely!

Fear made them grow and become larger. Even though many small red-skinned demons were "purified" by holy light and giant swords, the remaining ones could still cause casualties and trouble to the defenders.

Obviously, in Kai Li Year 235, humanity's air defense capabilities were still relatively weak. The only damage to the Winged Demons mostly came from the hands of heroes. The expeditionary force only needed to dodge slightly to find gaps in the flowing magic, thereby throwing more fireballs, and even using fire blades for close combat!

As for those bullets fired from the gun barrels, which even the shooters didn't know where they would go… Ignoring them was safer than dodging.

Three Archmages… Only one has taken action so far? Are the remaining two accumulating power? Are they showing weakness? Or are they determining who the commander of the Demon Expeditionary Force is?

They didn't expect that this time… the Demon King Commander would be the vanguard himself?

Li Yue couldn't help but speculate.

Moreover… that one is an Archmage, right? It should be, looking at the ice spear flowing with magic just now… If the caster isn't an Archmage, then there's no need to fight this battle anymore.

However, Li Yue wasn't too sure either. He could only sense that the battle on the city wall was inextricably fought, with human soldiers and heroes constantly dying, and expeditionary forces and Winged Demons constantly falling with broken wings. Yet, the main force of the human guards remained unmoved, staring directly at the Demon Expeditionary Force's main force under the king's tent.

As if infected by the fierce battle on the city wall, Yingying's wriggling showed a hint of restlessness: "I want to set off, what's your suggestion?"

"Well… I don't suggest you join the battle now." Li Yue was still a little short of including Yingying in the Demon Illustrated Handbook. Although he didn't know the specific abilities of the shadow demon yet, he still gave some conclusions.

"The main force hasn't moved. Although the fight is lively at the moment, it's still a probing phase for both sides." Li Yue chuckled, directly stealing Damon Benben's advice, "Some heroes' holy light… will cause great damage to you. You should have experienced it just now…"

"And the current battlefield… is full of holy light. You don't have much room to play." Li Yue's opinion was very pertinent, "Don't give up your composure because of the battle…"

Even Li Yue himself felt a surge of restlessness from the bottom of his heart, with a strong urge to chop and smash something, but he still took "composure" as the first suggestion to Yingying.

"I know, this is the Demon King Commander's 'Demon Encouragement' effect. The longer he fights, the more severely injured he is, the more the Demon Expeditionary Force's main force will be enhanced, and the greater the bloodthirsty desire will be…" Although Yingying's shadow traces were clear, they still revealed a hint of killing intent.

If he had a tongue, Li Yue almost bit it off—why haven't I heard that Bosh has this ability? This ability is a bit perverted, isn't it? Especially since the Demon King Commander can also be reborn… Wouldn't this give the Demon Expeditionary Force a lot of buffs before the real fight even starts?

Does he have to send the skeleton infantry and demon wolf warriors to their deaths first to be happy…

At this moment, the front of Iron City was a chaotic mess. Li Yue could no longer sense Finley's existence in the chaos, feeling apprehensive. Then, he finally received the prompt from the Demon Illustrated Handbook.

【Analysis complete, Demon Illustrated Handbook includes 1211—Shadow Demon】

【Shadow Demon; Distribution: Abyssal Maw; Lifespan: 1000-; Habits: Modified by the object it is born from, generally inclined to calmness and belligerence, easily curious about things, and eager to become stronger; Hobbies: Sleeping/Observing in the dark; Skills: Shadow Spike/Twist Kill/Shadow Stitch/Shadow Space; Action Prediction Success Rate: 675%; Weaknesses: Holy Light/Teleportation】

Li Yue focused on checking the "Skills" column of Yingying—Shadow Spike is probably some kind of very concealed physical damage? I don't know how large the range and power are…

As for "Twist Kill"… it should be to control the shadow master's actions in reverse? Twist it however you want?

"Shadow Stitch" might be a control skill, fixing people in a certain position?

Li Yue felt that he was pretty close to the truth. After roughly figuring out the effects of "Shadow Spike", "Twist Kill", and "Shadow Stitch", his mind could no longer move away from "Shadow Space".

"You have Shadow Space, right?" After analyzing, Li Yue directly asked Yingying, with a confident chuckle.

"Well… you really know, amazing." Yingying praised Li Yue, and was even more surprised—this skeleton can even judge its own level, it doesn't seem as weak as it looks?

Li Yue was silent—I only know the names of your skills, can't you say a few more words?

As if hearing Li Yue's inner call, Yingying, seeing that Li Yue didn't answer, transformed back into a line of fresh, inspiring Demon Common Language: "With my current ability, I can carry a small legion, but the transformation speed will be slightly slower, and…"

"Do you want to cooperate?" Li Yue didn't wait for Yingying to finish speaking, nor did he need to ask how many people a "small legion" was, because he had confidence in Yingying, believing that it definitely had the ability to carry 10 bone mages—at worst, he could break up the bone mages, even without the thigh bones.

"How to cooperate?" Yingying drew a big question mark on the ground.

"You go back first, put all the bone mages I buried in the ground into Shadow Space, and then, when the real battle starts, we'll give the humans an internal surprise." The plan in Li Yue's mind instantly took shape.

In fact, it was just a slight modification to the original plan—Shadow Space is definitely a divine skill for transferring small units over a large area. As long as it is used properly, it can directly solve Li Yue's battlefield entry problem.

Originally, when Li Yue buried the bone mages, in order to protect their lives to the greatest extent, he also buried 20 more shields to give the thin bones a little protection, but he didn't have much confidence, not really believing they could smoothly enter the battlefield…

This time, with Yingying, Li Yue even felt that he could go deeper, be bolder, and reap richer rewards.

Li Yue seemed to have already imagined the scene—when the frontal battlefield was fought to the point where both sides suffered heavy casualties and were bleeding profusely, groups of skeletons would be born in large numbers, injecting a new source of living power into the Demon Expeditionary Force…

This, is the surprise.

"It's possible."

"But when there are objects in my Shadow Space, I can't achieve shadow-to-shadow jumps."

"I must only be parasitic in one shadow."

"Will that be you?" Yingying turned into a huge question mark again.

"Of course it's me." Li Yue said lightly, paused slightly, "I'll go back with you, and take over the bone mages…"

"Then… just wait for Bosh's order to launch a full-scale attack." Li Yue reformed into the appearance of Skorrlick, covering his whole body with black soil to try to conceal the light of the Self-Healing Bones, detouring towards the king's tent.

At the same time, Bosh finally broke through layers of holy light protection, broke free from countless slow shackles, and at the cost of half his body and one leg, led more than ten guards to the front of the human commander.

But, it stopped there.

Buzz—

The air vibrated, and several light arrows suddenly appeared, blocking Bosh and the guards' momentum, and constantly gathering more.

The human commander coldly looked at the hideous Bosh, clenching his teeth; the mage on the side had an expression of calm, but his eyes revealed deep exhaustion…

And a little bit of expectation.

"Hmph…" Bosh sneered, and said in a muffled voice, "Honor!"

"Honor!" More than ten guards responded loudly, and then the muscles of their whole bodies seemed to be drained completely, immediately exploding and dying, and then being reborn as smaller pure-blooded demons.

"Ha!" The fire blade in Bosh's hand surged fiercely in red, bursting out with scorching flames, instantly lengthening to ten zhang, and fiercely劈ing into the human commander's head!

The mage remained unmoved.

"Attack—" Bosh finally used the commander's authority again, issuing an order to all the demons of the Demon Expeditionary Force.

The Demon Expeditionary Force launched a general attack on the first night.

And it was after this shout that the human commander, who had been split into two pieces of charred meat, seemed to shed a layer of skin, turning into a priest-like old man, the church pendant on his chest gradually dimming.

Immediately afterwards, from behind the curtains of the city tower, the human commander stepped out, nodded to the mage, and raised his arms and shouted.

"Prepare to fight—expel the demons—"

The Iron City siege battle has fully begun.