I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

The church in Holy Mine Town was brightly lit, and no one slept.

Some were lost in thought after watching Reed Cotte's livestream, their hearts even wavering; others were preparing to set off immediately to search the entire town for traces of the Shadow Demon.

After the demon attacked Red Oil Town, the alert level of the entire Five Gold Towns rose to an unprecedented height, as if demons could strike at any moment.

And the Shadow Demon, which had always haunted the Five Towns, naturally became the primary target.

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The power of the New Church spread out, and believers holding holy light torches roamed the streets.

Although most of the people in town didn't know what was happening, they felt the seriousness of the situation. Those with good information learned that the Demon King's city had fallen to Red Oil Town and was heading towards Riftgold Mountain, so they immediately packed their luggage overnight.

The penniless refugees had already been taken into the mines and armories. Those who remained in town had originally planned to leave after the bardic convention, but now it seemed even more urgent.

The entire town was filled with unease.

The timid had already set off.

It was foreseeable that after tomorrow, Holy Mine Town would be almost deserted.

The church's believers would also become the last residents of the Five Towns, waiting for Torsos' decision—whether to preserve their strength and move to the Holy City, or to become an anchor point for the New Church in Riftgold Mountain, strengthening the light of the New Church's faith for humanity?

The believers had no answer either.

In this atmosphere of tension and unease, the ground at the main entrance of the Holy Mine Town Church suddenly opened, and a hunter appeared, several clusters of explosive arrows hitting the church gate in succession.

As for the holy ash scattered in the church's underground and surrounding areas… it was all collected by Huntelaar, losing its warning function.

The church gate collapsed instantly, and the priests inside rushed out in rows, a strong holy light enveloping the hunter within a hundred meters, washing over his body.

Holy light is effective against demons, but its effect on hunters is greatly reduced. Huntelaar could still "endure" it.

"Save me! Save me!" Huntelaar, as if possessed, shouted loudly to the New Church priests while firing explosive arrows.

"I was forced to sign a soul contract with a demon! Is there a priest who has mastered the Source of Faith who can help me wash away this demon's curse—"

Since Huntelaar already knew that Li Yue didn't treat him as a person at all, and wouldn't trust him, he didn't stand on ceremony anymore and directly shouted out his demands.

Some priests who skillfully controlled the Source of Faith could indeed wash away and purify some demon curses by consuming the Source of Faith, including soul contracts.

It was through this kind of washing and purification that more believers could be continuously absorbed, making them more eager to "believe".

Holy Mine Town was the largest town in the Five Towns, and Huntelaar felt that if any priest had this ability, it would definitely be here.

Otherwise, he would have to go to the Holy City.

So the priests and believers saw a hunter who was launching a fierce attack while constantly begging for mercy, a scene that puzzled them greatly.

As for the "purification" that Huntelaar was expecting, only a few of the priests in the Five Towns had this ability, and they were all gathered at the Slum Town Chamber of Commerce searching for the Shadow Demon, not at the scene.

"Haha, his reaction is quite fast." While the main entrance was in chaos, Li Yue used his tentacles to peel open the soil from the ground, open the wall, and drill into the church.

Shadow was wary of the inexplicable notes in the shadow space, ignoring Li Yue.

The church structures in the Five Towns were similar. Li Yue drilled out of the washroom and went straight to the Confession Hall, also petrifying all the believers he encountered along the way.

Li Yue was working hard to use this newly acquired skill to increase his proficiency.

As for the sporadic holy light that was projected over, Li Yue directly separated his body to avoid it, trying not to cause secondary damage to Shadow.

Noticing the intruding Shadow Demon, the believers and priests wanted to remind their companions, but they were petrified before they could open their mouths, as if they had encountered Medusa.

As he fought, Li Yue even pried open his eye sockets, squeezed out more right eyes, and stuck them all over his head—the angles of the eyes embedded in the eye sockets were limited, so putting them on his face made it much more convenient, and there would be no blind spots in his vision.

So the priests saw the Shadow Demon squeezing out eyeballs while fighting, sticking them all over his head and body, and petrifying in shock.

Li Yue didn't encounter much obstruction along the way, nor did he cause too much commotion, and rushed into the Confession Hall.

Outside, the fighting was getting more and more lively. Huntelaar used all his abilities, regardless of the cost of materials. Traps and various arrows almost covered the entire square outside the church gate, like plowing the land, showing extremely strong destructive power.

"Bang!" Breaking through the door, the anchor point of the Holy Mine Town Church on the map began to light up.

Li Yue guarded the door, carefully looking at the people in the cages of Holy Mine Town, and suddenly discovered something peculiar.

First of all, there were only two people in the cages of the Confession Hall.

One "person's" stomach was extremely large, almost filling the entire cage, the fat squeezing and bursting, so that you couldn't even see where his head was, let alone distinguish where his limbs were.

The other person was extremely thin, squeezed between the fat and the cage, "hanging" on it in a completely effortless posture, embedded in the folds of the first person's fat, only exposing his almost skeletal head.

Secondly, the bars of this cage were also very different from those in the other Confession Halls. The white paste on them had almost solidified into the texture of wax oil, firmly trapping the two "people" inside.

Even if the thin one seemed to be able to squeeze out of the cage from a certain angle in a distorted posture, he had no intention of doing so at all, enjoying the comfort of being squeezed by the fat.

Seeing Li Yue, covered in eyeballs, rush into the Confession Hall, the thin one's ears twitched subconsciously, without even opening his eyes.

He might have wanted to say something, but he gave up before he could implement it.

"Someone's here? The smell… let me taste the smell…" A muffled voice came from the gaps in the fat in the cage, as if it was being squeezed by the meat.

Immediately afterwards, the fat wriggled and rotated, twisting the thin person to the very bottom of the cage, and then a head popped out from a chrysanthemum-like fold.

This was the first person's head.

"Let me taste…"

Although he poked his head out, he didn't open his eyes. His nose twitched, his mouth opened slightly, drooling with viscous saliva, and his lips became greasy at the same time, and began to tremble.

Li Yue noticed that a piece of the first "person's" mouth protruded, like a stack of heavy masks hanging on it.

"Taste…" Accompanied by his voice, his mouth unfolded and stretched out layer by layer, about to reach out of the cage and head straight for Li Yue.

But at this moment, the white wax on the fence flowed slightly, blocking his mouth.

No, not a mouth, but a mask in the shape of a mouth.

The texture was completely different from the paper masks Li Yue had seen in Copper Mine Town, but it was enough for him to perceive its origin.

The Masked Assembly.

These two people were heretics of the Masked Assembly.

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by the lighting of the Holy Mine Town Church's anchor point, Li Yue began to perceive their emotions.

The fat one was very hungry, and the thin one was very lazy.

Too lazy to live, and even too lazy to die.

Shadow suddenly showed signs of getting out of control, devouring the shadows on the ground, causing a piece of the upper wall of the Confession Hall to suddenly be missing, and cracks began to appear.

The next second, Shadow was paralyzed.