I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Li Yue's soul shock had no effect on the human commander in the white light, but the bone sword truly pierced through the soft light, gradually reaching his neck.

Initially, a look of surprise flashed in the commander's eyes, but when he saw the bone sword, his expression suddenly turned cold, filled with indifference.

Li Yue felt even more that the human commander seemed to be alive, but at this moment, he had no other thoughts, using all his will to make the bone sword pierce an inch further.

However, just as the bone sword was constantly approaching the commander's neck, a hand wrapped in holy light reached out from the void, grasped the blade, and easily stopped its momentum—that hand was flawless and moist, and Li Yue vaguely recognized it as the hand of the Second Archmage.

Perhaps it was because of excessive magic consumption, or perhaps the intention to block was too strong, the hand gripped a little tighter, accidentally drawing a drop of blood.

The blood and the bone sword fell to the ground together, and then, there were no longer any humans on the platform.

Immediately afterward, Li Yue was frozen in all his thoughts by the irresistible cold, stiffening under the platform of the city wall.

Before his death, Li Yue only saw white light gathering in the middle of the battlefield, the human troops preparing to counterattack the royal tent; and a huge portal vaguely opened in front of the royal tent, but it shattered suddenly under a single point of starlight.

After a real sense of dizziness, Li Yue found himself back in the original stone room—the blood river and the surroundings flowed slowly, and Mento still stood beside the wax castle, but in Li Yue's perception, his existence seemed no different from the walls and the air, as if he had no life at all.

And when Li Yue's perception focused on Mento for a while, this Demon King instructor seemed to slightly raise his head and glance at Li Yue.

Li Yue did not specifically perceive Mento's movements, but he inexplicably had a feeling of being seen through.

Beside him, the Nightmare Succubus Nate Meier stood leaning against the wall, smiling at Li Yue, the scars caused by the holy light had disappeared; while the Demon Wolf Prince Fenli was still half of his body frostbitten and half of his body charred, baring his teeth at the first moment Li Yue returned, wishing he could directly gnaw on Li Yue's bones to heal himself.

[Malice + 651]

Perceiving himself, Li Yue found that he was still in the state of bone ash wrapping his skull, obviously the damage caused in the blood river was real and needed time to recover.

That is to say, as long as the blood river moves a trace of malice, it can kill them at will, and even if all the students are added together, they will not be his opponent…

Recalling the battle just now, Li Yue suddenly remembered that he used "Transformation" at the end—it might be some trait of Bosh combined with Li Yue's motives, which triggered the violent performance, causing him to forget to disguise his brain spirit, and even use "Soul Shock"…

Will there be trouble? Li Yue began to think of excuses.

Before he could recover from the battle just now, Li Yue suddenly saw his shadow rise up like a piece of paper, posing a big exclamation mark.

"I! Died!" Shadow was very unwilling.

"I haven't used Shadow Stab yet!" Shadow exclaimed, "Ah! Such a large range of shadows!"

"I died too." Li Yue coughed twice, without telling Shadow that it was precisely because of his twisting and killing that the human commander decided to retreat, and directly caused the Demon Expeditionary Force and the blooming sea of skeletons… to become victims of Reid Kote's meteor.

"What a pity, I don't know how much merit I can get…" Shadow sighed, spitting a small section of shadow on the ground, and then sewing it back onto Li Yue.

"Merit…" Li Yue muttered to himself—is it considered merit to make the Archmage shed a drop of blood?

"Killing enemies in the blood river simulation will give you merit, it would have been great if my last hit had succeeded…" Shadow sighed again, leaving behind the white-bottomed Demon Common Text, "When I was a shadow, the pure-blooded demons who participated in the closed combat training before… cared most about the merit in the simulation battle."

"Even scouting the enemy can get merit, but it's a pity I didn't use it much this time." Shadow pointed to the place where Bosh was originally standing, "This guy has a problem with his brain, he is indeed an idiot."

Li Yue didn't pay too much attention to Shadow's evaluation of Bosh, thinking that no wonder Shadow had been eager to kill humans, it turned out he wanted to accumulate some merit…

How much do I have? Li Yue was curious.

The sea of skeletons tactic was very successful, not only causing considerable damage to the defenders of Steel City, but also accumulating all the way, and finally advancing to the city wall of the outer city, plus the drop of blood that fell from the Archmage's hand when the bone sword was stabbed out…

Li Yue felt that maybe this time he could be among the best.

Just as Li Yue was calculating, the demon secretary Damon Benben, carrying a chain, was thrown out by the blood river, holding a parchment scroll and silently admiring it—the parchment scroll depicted a red-skinned demon fleeing from the ice rain in a panic, the demon was small, his wings were completely shattered, and he was frozen to only half of his body, crawling weakly on the inner city streets of Steel City.

"Is it over?" Li Yue vaguely recognized that it was Bosh, the commander of this battle, and asked Damon Benben.

"Almost, I didn't wait until the end, I finished drawing this, and wrote myself to death." Damon Benben's arm withered, but his expression was still relaxed, "The last one to die is the most miserable, his brain will be pried open by humans to extract demon materials and information… merit will be deducted… Hehe, I hope it's this guy."

Damon Benben pointed to his painting.

"By the way, your head, oh." Damon Benben remembered his agreement with Li Yue, and looked at the skull wrapped in bone ash, "Not bad, you know how to protect your head."

"Well, when I recover, I'll lend it to you to play with." Li Yue decided to fulfill his promise after the combat training was over—anyway, he had agreed with Damon Benben that it would be when he was "convenient."

Damon Benben nodded and continued to admire his painting.

Immediately afterward, the demon merchant Mai Mai and the demon chef Pige rolled out of the blood river hand in hand, Mai Mai was covered in injuries, but still holding all the gem jewelry, as if those were more precious than his life; Pige held his bleeding neck, trying to stuff the broken bones and flesh back in, it was obvious that he had been swung to death by the giant sword brave.

When Collie, Kerr, and the red-robed priest Reid Kote came back one after another, all the students of the closed combat training returned to their original positions, waiting for Bosh, the commander of this battle, to die out of the blood river; among them, Damon Benben held a quill and parchment, seemingly preparing to record all of Bosh's misery in a more three-dimensional way at the first moment.

But without waiting for the simulation battle to really end—Mento saw that only Bosh had not returned in the arena, and only slightly shook the white robe full of holiness on his body, and the blood river "spit" Bosh out, suspending the simulation.

Bosh's entire body was only one-fifth of its original size, at this moment his scalp was cracked, as if something was about to dig out his brain; there was almost no complete skin on his body, similar to what Damon Benben had painted, only smaller and more miserable.

"Ha!" Damon Benben had been waiting for a long time, seeing Bosh fall to the ground, he flew up with a "swoosh", circling around and starting to sketch quickly, as if to record all of Bosh's misery in a more three-dimensional way.

Damon Benben laughed as he painted, his laughter was terrifying, and Bosh was obviously temporarily incapacitated, lying on the ground hugging his head and twitching, unable to make any response.

In the end, it was the demon merchant Mai Mai who drove the gem ring in his hand to alleviate Bosh's pain, so that he could stand up again.

But inadvertently, Li Yue sensed that Mai Mai seemed to have drawn a sudden slip of paper from Bosh's body while treating him, and stuffed it into his arms.

"Don't accept the demon merchant's kindness, because they will complete loans on you at any time." Shadow wrote on Li Yue's shadow, kindly informing him.

Li Yue nodded, thinking that this battle… seemed to have gained a certain degree of trust from the shadow demon? Not bad.

[Malice + 623+777…]

Bosh and Fenli's malice would not be absent either, but Li Yue knew that Bosh's was not only directed at himself, but almost hated all the demon sons in the arena.

The arena was not silent, and Mento did not speak, but precisely at a certain moment, all eyes gathered on him, there was no more sound, and no more malice-related prompts popped up.

Mento raised his dry palm, moved his fingers, and stroked the blood river in the void; the blood river first rippled, then surged and rolled, and then returned to calm.

"Kill rate 13%… This is your final result…" Mento's voice was simple and heavy, "Among them… you completed 4%, you can get 'blessing'."

Mento pointed to Li Yue, Bosh's expression twitched immediately.