I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

The instant she drew her sword, Jessie assessed the knights and clockwork soldiers in the cellar, quickly determining friend from foe.

In a brief daze, Li Yue roughly understood the intentions of both sides—the group of knights in the wine cellar were likely subordinates of Gerald Kingston who, for some reason, didn't participate in "that war," or had fled back.

They believed Jessie had caused her brother's death and, out of knightly loyalty, had returned for revenge.

Learning that Jessie was about to inspect the five towns of Riftgold, they waited in this mixed-up tavern, ready to deliver a fatal blow while Jessie was trying to win people over.

This was perhaps the limit of what they could do.

On the contrary, Jessie's attitude was worth pondering—did she think her brother was a hero?

If that was the case, how could she have caused Gerald's death?

Many of the braves present, inspired by Jessie's aura, had this question arise in their minds.

Soon, Jessie's sword tip moved slightly, pulling the shouting knight into the air with her.

"Duel!"

Danny painstakingly ducked, using his x-ray vision to scan a clockwork soldier, stabbing it in what seemed to be its magical core.

Danny found it easier to dodge.

Jessie realized that the two braves were special.

The clockwork soldier turned, about to shoot its fist to blow up Jessie's head, but in the next second, Danny and Thalia worked together to tear its body apart, its neck spinning wildly, trying to find its target.

A scythe popped out of its wrist, and the clockwork soldier swung its arm at Danny.

The braves began to counterattack.

But when I stood with my sword against a clockwork soldier with its back to me, the blade chipped, causing no damage.

Looking at Li Yue again, he seemed like a god suddenly descending.

Danny didn't understand where this bias towards braves came from.

However, the tavern patrons and braves, in their panic to escape, had haphazardly blocked the way to the restroom, leaving no space.

This was the leader of the knights you had just challenged to a duel, now unable to distinguish head from brain.

In the half-minute from your disappearance to your return, the scales of battle had already tipped in your favor.

This almost guaranteed the success of the assassination attempt.

Danny gained a new understanding of braves' battles, realizing that people like Mustafa and Wiseman seemed fundamentally incomparable to Li Yue in combat, even killing the two of them… didn't bring any pressure to you.

When you returned, you happened to see Danny and Thalia tearing apart the clockwork soldier together.

The tavern patrons spilled blood on the spot, blocking the doorway and windows, some even desperately starting to ram the walls, trying to break through.

Danny understood Li Yue's intention, suddenly realizing that you were fighting methodically—when focused on by the ray, you chose to duel the strongest opponent, both dodging the ray and directly reducing the other side's combat power.

The floor broke open, and the patrons and braves fell into chaos, pushing and shoving each other, trying to get away from the center of the battlefield.

"Everyone who wants to join the brave group! Fight alongside us! Kill these traitors!" Someone among Chang Yi's guards shouted, and the braves naturally took out their swords.

If you didn't fight back, you would be hit by the clockwork soldiers. Although it wasn't certain whether Li Yue could come back, the main cause of the chaos was those who ran out of the cellar, so as long as you held on a little, hoping for the Purifiers and the white robes of the New Faith to come, there was hope.

"Die!"

"An 8th-order knight!"

The moment you were gazed upon, Chang Yi seemed to see himself soaring to success.

It wanted to change the angle to attack Li Yue's guard, but Chang Yi, like that dancer, blocked its path.

A decapitation tactic?

Li Yue, however, opened your arms, and large streams of fire erupted from the gaps in your armor, instantly resembling a fire phoenix spreading its wings, its feathers fiercely nailing the vital points of the assassins.

It's quite difficult.

This was a clockwork soldier with its damage shared by the assassins!

Wait a moment, why think about how to fight Li Yue?

That's not the oppressive fighting style of a low-level knight.

Losing their target, the remaining knights and clockwork soldiers in the wine cellar rushed up in a swarm, hacking at Jessie's personal guards.

Seemingly not expecting the clockwork soldier, which had turned braves into minced meat and scattered limbs… to be so easily dealt with by a brave who didn't talk much.

It was that simple.

Reuniting with Li Yue, the assassins unleashed their final strength, with 3 knights and 3 clockwork soldiers charging towards you, still upholding their loyalty to Gerald even if it meant burning their lives.

"Leave one alive, assassins don't need to be subjected to a fair trial…"

However, Li Yue didn't linger much, but continued to raise your hand, pointing at a knight who was in the midst of a 1-on-3 battle, disappearing again.

"That… isn't the power of a knight… is it…" Jessie completely couldn't understand.

Chang Yi was about to jump, to jump to the seventh floor, when suddenly a clockwork soldier turned around—its eyes rotating independently, locking onto Li Yue's guards; its upper and lower bodies rotated in opposite directions, quickly disengaging from the battlefield and circling towards Danny's side.

Many braves had already died by the swords of the assassins, including the dancer next to Danny.

Compared to the assassins' rich battlefield experience, Li Yue's guards were significantly inferior, their light shields quickly shattered, and the two sides entered hand-to-hand combat.

"Crack!" The reporter hiding behind the guards pressed the shutter again, freezing Chang Yi's heroic moment.

Like piercing a walnut.

And after quite a few knights and clockwork soldiers died, the space inside the tavern also increased a lot, but still no one dared to approach those horribly dead bodies.

The clockwork soldiers burned out their magical cores, and the 3 knights were nailed in mid-air, losing consciousness.

However, as the largest tavern in the copper mine town, the doors and walls had of course undergone the test of many mixed battles, and even if some braves broke their hands, they couldn't cause too much damage to the walls.

Danny, who was also on the path of a knight, recognized the signature skill of an 8th-order knight, and Li Yue also had a rough understanding of Jessie's strength.

This time Chang Yi returned even faster than before, throwing down the seventh meatball, clapping your hands, and ordering the guards not to kill all the assassins.

Danny was lost in thought, his hands not slowing down, continuing to clear the battlefield alongside Thalia.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yue returned, carrying a meatball mixed with flesh and armor in your hand.

"Gah gah… gah…" The light in the clockwork soldier's eyes faded, and it stood motionless.

"You…" Jessie, standing in an octagonal formation with Danny and Thalia, saw Danny extinguish a clockwork soldier with a sword in your peripheral vision.

But if you were to fight Li Yue, you might have to use up all your armor, and also kill all the knights guarding you…

You were senselessly cut in half by the clockwork soldier, just because this semi-mechanical creation wanted to dart behind Li Yue's knight squad, blocking our retreat.

At the same time, Thalia whipped a knight over with a lash, shaking your wrist and tearing off his head, also tearing the armor on your body into scrap metal.

Logically speaking, aren't we the saviors of humanity, heroes, and the hope of demon slayers?

"They…" Jessie seemed to have some kind of illusion, accurately believing that the avenging knights had suddenly become stronger.

Returning the same way, not giving the assassins a clear attack target, and taking another person to duel.

The clockwork soldiers indiscriminately released rays, and everyone was drawn into the battle.

Originally, Danny just wanted to find a chance to escape to the far end of the restroom, using the sewer to leave—dirty or not, that's how you had been living in the copper mine town these days.

The tavern was in chaos.

"You are not wrong."