I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"Is that him?" Li Yue extracted a tentacle to touch the shadow, communicating with Yingying in real time.

"It's him. The direction and movement speed are consistent with yours," Yingying quickly concluded.

At the same time, in the dense forest on the outskirts of Saint Ore Town, Hunterlar moved quickly along the ground, his eyes always locked on the underground.

No matter how many checkpoints or sentries Hunterlar ran past, he did not arouse their slightest vigilance, his concealment being comparable to Li Yue's when he was invisible.

It should be known that Li Yue was able to perfectly control every inch of his body with the help of the shadow, so as not to be noticed by the scavengers, sentries, or believers on the road.

Hunterlar achieved the same effect with experience alone, which was enough to prove his strength.

"Do the New Church's believers have any movements?" Li Yue had already sunk into the ground. Yingying's perception of the shadows and the situation on land was still better.

"None."

"It seems to be a solo operation... Could it be just to hunt me down?" Li Yue still couldn't understand Hunterlar's motive.

This was not surprising, since even Hunterlar himself was not sure.

"Do you want me to go up and catch him?" The severed gecko tail wanted to bite someone.

"No, the commotion would be too great. It wouldn't be good to attract scavengers or anything," Li Yue quickly wrote, changing direction, "I'll run downwards, lure him to the bottom of the soil layer, and then deal with him..."

Firstly, he could test the hunter's tracking range, and secondly, the underground was Li Yue's familiar territory. Fighting there would not only be more advantageous, but also more concealed than on the ground.

It wasn't as if a hunter would grow tentacles like him, right?

Li Yue sank to the bottom, while Yingying grabbed the severed finger bone and moved between the hunter and Li Yue.

"Did he find me so quickly?" Hunterlar frowned. "I'm getting rusty..."

"Damn... What exactly happened to me before at Mount Lou? Why do I have no memory at all? Am I actually being schemed against by a demon?" Hunterlar shook his head and thought.

Currently, Hunterlar's Eagle Eye had a maximum range of about one kilometer. According to Li Yue's descent speed, it would only take a few minutes to exceed the visual range.

Although he could roughly sense Li Yue's position, precise positioning took time—Hunterlar didn't plan to continue wasting time playing hide-and-seek with Li Yue, deciding to meet him first.

"Since that's the case, then let's compare speeds..." Saying that, Hunterlar used his Eagle Eye to scan an abandoned mine, conveniently picked up a half-broken shovel, and dug as he walked, chasing down along the mine shaft.

An 8th-order hunter possessed weapon affinity, and the shovel was like an extension of Hunterlar's hand, digging dirt only slightly slower than Li Yue.

The two chased and fled, with the shadow moving to the middle.

"This Li... Don Quixote... is good at melee combat and escape, has an eye for appraisal and the ability to be invisible, and is used to nailing or pinning down enemies with iron nails..."

Before hunting, a hunter naturally had to investigate the prey's habits as thoroughly as possible.

"The attack method is mainly breaking and tearing, which is simple and efficient." Hunterlar recalled the deaths of the Red Oil cultists, thieves, and sentries.

Judging from the information obtained from Red Oil Town to Riftgold Mountain, Hunterlar felt that his advantage was great, and his delay in taking action was only due to the cautious habits of a hunter.

"Today we will meet, Li."

Now that he had already made a move, Hunterlar naturally wouldn't hesitate any longer, going downwards at full speed.

"Hmm? Did something fall?" Soon, Hunterlar discovered the finger bone falling behind.

And the shadow on the finger bone.

"A trick? No, it's a trap..." Hunterlar noticed the abnormal movement of the finger bone and the shadow. "Daring to use a trap on me? It seems they have limited knowledge of hunters..."

Hunters were originally experts at setting traps, and in addition to having the ability of "weapon affinity", they usually had the innate advantage of "trap affinity", basically not triggering any traps, and even being able to directly take all kinds of traps for their own use.

This was also why everyone liked to team up with hunters when Demon King City first opened.

"Shadow demon... Tsk, the resources on the road are too scarce. I didn't get too many materials that can generate holy light..." Hunterlar looked at his carry-on bag, confirming the types of arrows.

"And I can't make a large number of recovery herbs..."

An 8th-order hunter could directly swallow materials to achieve the same effect as swallowing herbs.

"There's no way around it... Who told the Old Church to be so barren now..." Hunterlar muttered, continuing downwards.

"But judging from Li's habits, this should be enough. I like repairing reckless demons who love melee combat the most."

Hunterlar waved his arm, but his palm seemed to be separated from his body, holding the shovel far ahead to dig dirt, without splashing it on his indigo robe at all.

If a scholar or a demon familiar with the colosseum saw this scene, they might understand that this was the strengthening effect of "Abada's Arm" on an 8th-order hunter.

"The speed is very fast, but... maybe I can catch that shadow first, and keep a card?"

Hunterlar realized that Li had deeply drilled into the bottom layer, and the speed was even faster than his own, thinking about how to respond.

"I hope this shadow demon has enough value... enough to become the only prey..."

"How is he? Is he still chasing? Is there any sign of slowing down?" At the same time, Li Yue had been paying attention to the hunter's movements through Yingying.

From the ground to the bottom, Li Yue had released dozens of small bones along the way, scattered throughout the soil layers, forming a network that echoed each other.

This time, he was drilling vertically, and Li Yue used his tentacles to push away the soil. He found that the deeper he went, the higher the temperature became, and he gradually felt discomfort.

The discomfort did not come from the body, but from the brain—although the skull could insulate heat, the effect was not very good, and Li Yue had to stuff the octopus tentacles into his head, absorbing the rolling heat.

"He's chasing, and he's about to encounter..." Yingying's handwriting revealed excitement.

"Not good, he found you." Li Yue quickly realized that the hunter was not afraid of his "trap".

The hunter had Eagle Eye, enough to see some information underground.

Since he saw the trap and didn't slow down, that was enough to show that he was confident in getting rid of Yingying.

Although Li Yue could use Instantaneous Movement with Yingying's help to return to its side and directly start a war with the hunter...

But now there seemed to be a better battlefield.

"Don't contact him. You have to try to avoid him and bring him here..." Li Yue paused briefly on the bank of an underground river, threw down two femurs, and continued downwards.

This time on the way down, both the earth element and the heat were absorbed by the tentacles, and Li Yue's body gradually turned yellow with red.

"Why?" Yingying didn't understand.

"He came prepared. This time, he's not going to hide anymore and is ready to have a big fight with us," Li Yue quickly wrote. "Then of course we have to pull him to the battlefield that is most favorable to us."

In this way, Yingying, who was withdrawn to the rear, was no longer a trap, but had become bait.

"This riverside?" The shadow on the femur turned into an arrow, pointing to the underground river.

"Yes..."

Before Li Yue could explain too much, Hunterlar had already arrived at the shadow of the finger bone at the top.

"Shadow demon? I've been hearing your name everywhere lately..." Hunterlar pointed at Yingying from afar.

"Will you be my 'only prey'?"

Light arrows appeared beside Hunterlar.