I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“What the hell… where did you come from?” The box shuddered, on the verge of falling apart.

After all, it hadn't been long since that war ended, so it was normal for Gamma to have some PTSD.

“Found it…” This was something Li Yue had picked up next to a corpse on the roadside when he went to relieve himself once.

Li Yue had heard Gamma's epic poems and naturally knew that this domino was the demon's streaming device, so he carried it with him.

Mainly because the eyeball embedded in the domino was quite cute, quite friendly, and lifelike.

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“Didn’t you say this thing could broadcast the war situation to the entire continent? Then logically… shouldn’t it be able to directly recite poetry for you?” Li Yue played with the domino in his hand.

“If you just want to recite your poems to the people of the entire continent, wouldn’t streaming be more efficient? Why even participate in the Bard's Assembly? The epic poem recited first will be the final version.”

Gamma fell silent.

“How did I not think of that?” Gamma said faintly, after a long silence staring at the domino.

“Don't blame yourself, after all, you're just a talking box, it's normal not to think of these things.” Li Yue spread his hands.

“It's just that, from your description, this domino should only be used for projection, not the mother card…” Li Yue even offered a solution, “Find the mother card, recite poetry to it, and it'll be streamed? Then you'll advance?”

Li Yue already understood that the ultimate goal of being a hero was to advance.

Gamma was the same.

“Mother card?” Gamma had never thought about the logic behind domino streaming, “Maybe it really is possible…”

“But if that's the case, I need to return to Demon King City…” After thinking for a moment, the box shook even more violently, clearly afraid of returning to that place that brought him endless fear.

“Well, that is a problem.” Li Yue didn't think that such a talking box had the ability to bravely break into Demon King City.

After all, that was a demonic realm that claimed the lives of a Holy Knight, a Great Mage, and the Empire's strongest army.

“I'm just suggesting the possibility, it doesn't rule out that other bards might think of this method, and then muster the courage to return to Demon King City and sing a big one…”

Li Yue suddenly felt that a hesitant box was much cuter than a very dramatic box.

Especially when it hesitated.

“Muster courage? If we had that kind of courage, we wouldn't just be bards…” Gamma knew himself and his compatriots very well, “Letting us go with the Empire's hero group is fine, going on our own is absolutely impossible.”

“What we're good at is creating, not fighting.” Gamma denied Li Yue's guess.

“And we're not scholars, so how could we find a way to use the mother card?” Gamma finally stopped hesitating.

“The possibility you mentioned simply doesn't exist for bards. If we were to carry our own works and re-experience Demon King City… wouldn't that be the same as that idiot who delivered messages with the succeeding Pope Sistolum?”

“His ashes have probably frozen into ice shards, right?” In Gamma's mind, brave poets are dead poets.

He didn't want to be one of them.

“Okay, then let's do it your way, it's better to participate in the Bard's Assembly…” Li Yue suddenly thought that a group of talking boxes gathering together for a meeting should be quite fun.

“Where is your assembly held?”

“Coincidentally, it's in a tavern in Splitgold Mountain. It seems everyone's escape speed is about the same…” Gamma muttered.

After half a day of rambling, Li Yue finally made Gamma let down his guard and reveal the destination.

It was actually Splitgold Mountain.

“I thought such an important gathering would happen in Godsworn City.” Through two days of communication, Li Yue already knew the name of the Imperial capital.

“Godsworn City? Haha, of course there are idiots who publish their works there, but in the end, they are all completely changed by the royal family…” Gamma laughed wildly again, “Do you think such an epic about the Empire's failure would be published in Godsworn City?”

“Looks like you're not that smart either…”

“At the end of that war, Prince Noel died like a chicken! He even wet his pants! Hahaha!” Gamma inadvertently revealed the scene at the end of the war.

But Li Yue didn't care, his mind was full of thoughts about how to sell Gamma before going to the tavern when he arrived at Splitgold Mountain.

After pondering for a moment, Li Yue could only think of going to a market or pawnshop before going to the tavern.

Or, if he met a caravan on the main road, he could trade in advance.

“Well… is it time for today's poetry moment?” Since they were already talking about the war, Li Yue was quite curious to know how Prince Noel reached the point of wetting his pants.

“Very good, where did we leave off yesterday?”

“We left off with Bone City being pushed off by the engine to take off, then what?”

“Then…”

“The Pale River and the six-winged angels dragged the blood color, heading towards the entrance of the Demon City…”

…

The five towns outside Splitgold Mountain are named after the five minerals: Holy, Gold, Silver, Copper, and Iron. After two days of trekking, Li Yue and Gamma arrived at the outpost outside Iron Mine Town via the main road and were being inspected in the team.

They did encounter several caravans on the road, but after private negotiations, Li Yue found that none of them were willing to trade for that “talking box” on the spot. They all said that they needed to go through the appraisal of the town's exchange before they dared to buy it.

Of course, it might also be related to Li Yue's relatively high asking price.

Even though Li Yue's asking price was only one-tenth of the box's value.

The closer to Splitgold Mountain, the lower the possibility of trading. In the end, Li Yue stopped trying and thought it would be better to wait until he got to the exchange to have it appraised and sold for a good price.

Of course, the prerequisite was to find some way to hide it from Gamma.

So, these two days, Li Yue's attitude towards Gamma was very good, as if he had been deeply attracted by his epic poems and couldn't stop, and his hand was very far away from the hilt of the cross sword.

Until they arrived at the outpost.

Outside the station stood a wooden sign, with more than a dozen prohibited items carved on it, including locusts, flies, bones, red oil…

The biggest one was the domino embedded with eyeballs and tongues.

“Hahaha! The Empire has already banned the domino! You still said you wanted to stream! How is that possible!” Gamma offered a ruthless mockery.

Of course, it was mainly used to deny Li Yue's suggestion about streaming poetry.

After Li Yue's attitude improved, Gamma also became relatively high-profile and even more convinced that participating in the Bard's Assembly was the right way to advance.

Li Yue didn't react to this, he just walked to the woods outside the outpost, preparing to bury this domino in the soil, and then take it out when he left the town…

“Prohibited items found, destroy them on the spot.” Two Imperial sentries jumped down from the tree, their voices stern, and slashed at Li Yue's hand.

Li Yue was careless for a moment, only looking through the forest, not at the tree, and missed these two sentries.

“Clang!” Li Yue raised his sword, blocking the sentry's saber.

“You dare to fight back?” One sentry slashed at Li Yue's neck.

But he was immediately pulled back to his side by another sentry, who repeatedly winked at him.

“What are you doing? There are orders from above, anyone carrying a domino can be killed…” The sentry who jumped down first was still exerting force.

“Kingston's sword.” The other sentry pointed to the sword in Li Yue's hand.

“Where did you get it?” The sentry whistled and asked Li Yue.