I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"Charge! Smash! Escape!" Yingying cycled through words in Li Yue's mind, almost pointing an arrow directly at the royal box.

"Don't panic, we're done for if you panic." Li Yue held Yingying down, forcibly stopping her from moving.

Suddenly, Li Yue felt as if his predecessor had experienced something similar, that feeling of almost being discovered but not yet confirmed.

Back then, he... seemed to be sitting in some auction house.

Was it that as he lit up Riftgold Mountain, his memories also began to loosen gradually?

"Someone must have discovered the dominoes we hid in the restroom, but they haven't really discovered us," Li Yue quickly took off Jessica's gown, unraveling it into a pile of binding threads.

Once the guards started searching and found two Jessicas, there would be no hiding place.

"Then what do we do?" Yingying felt time freeze.

"Time has stopped, what else can we do? Wait it out." Being trapped by time also brought Li Yue a puzzling sense of familiarity, a feeling of déjà vu.

"This kind of magic must be powerful, right? If it lasts too long, it will consume a lot of energy." Li Yue vaguely felt time gradually loosening, and resistance began to appear in the various boxes.

"Silver Armor? What is he doing?" A Li Yue knight shattered the surrounding time, crushed the floor, and retreated step by step towards the restroom.

"You might seek help from the New Church to delay the purification of the entire town hall," Leli raised a finger, "But of course, he is too eager for this scene, after all, it will cause very little harm to the poets."

This indicated that the first half of the Bard Assembly was about to end.

"Demon?" The Li Yue knight frowned.

"If the boxes retreat, the entire corridor on the eighth floor will be filled. Slowly, the first half is about to end."

A very strong odor.

"Unless..." Will offered a new suggestion, "Unless you delay seeking help from the New Church?"

The magic array was attached to the candlelight and lamplight, illuminating the darkness and spreading shadows; once the Shadow Demon retreated into that shadow range, it would trigger an alarm and imprisonment.

"Can't he untangle the magic in his hands?" The Li Yue knight raised his sword, "Their magic has brought too much trouble to the King."

"But surely Rufus and we are cooperating..."

"You're saying the Revealer of Light will arrive soon." Leli weakly emphasized Wright's name, "Regardless of whether there is a demon or not, no matter where it is hiding, he will drag it out..."

"That's your dereliction of duty." The Li Yue knight clenched his fist.

"Have you found it?" Like Will, Silver Armor was unaffected and strode into the restroom.

However, according to the current situation, the Shadow Demon had indeed not yet appeared before 11 o'clock.

"However, for the sake of the King, and considering the safety of Mrs. Minister of Creation, you can slowly return to my side and ask if I want to leave early..." Leli said casually.

"Cannot." Silver Armor emphasized.

The resistance in the boxes on the third floor was particularly strong—there were nobles, there was royalty, no one would willingly be trapped by time.

The main drawback was that this magic array would make the light on the scene strange, and it would also bring some odors.

"What's the New Church doing again?" The Li Yue knight was about to leave to report to the King when he suddenly turned back.

"Nothing." Fiery wings leaked from Silver Armor's armor, instantly cleansing the dominoes and eyeballs.

"Are you talking about the one with very low cost?" Leli had of course known about this plan for a long time—it was a set of magic arrays that utilized elemental mages' affinity for dark elements to "perhaps" detect Shadow Demons.

Will was speechless.

They would never abandon understanding the truth of "this war" at the first moment because of a Shadow Demon that had not yet been caught.

"Understood." Will nodded, "But if something goes wrong with the New Church..."

"So, is there no point in you asking these questions?" Silver Armor of course fully understood the purpose of the various families and the royalty coming to the assembly.

"Hmm? Nothing?" Inside the west restroom, Time Mage Will looked at the spider web woven in his palm and did not find a very clear target.

"Cooperation doesn't matter, Wright will be here soon." There was still a ball of light in Silver Armor's box.

Silver Armor of course knew about Wright's magic that could shoot out light spots as markers.

"Tell the King, a demon has infiltrated." Silver Armor would certainly not conceal the news at the risk of the King's death.

"But..." Will still had something to say.

"Perhaps we could place some dark elemental magic traps specifically for shadows on the eighth floor? Our mages can do that."

"Where is it?"

The Bard Assembly gathered so many heroes. The power of demons was everywhere. Shadow Demons were naturally rare, and human means of detection were very limited.

She had been waiting too long.

"Cannot." Silver Armor nodded to Will.

"He knows that's not possible," the Li Yue knight said coldly.

Immediately afterward, Li Yue sensed that the dominoes and eyeballs in the west restroom had been destroyed.

"Go do it." Although the cost was very low and the smell was very strong, at this point, Silver Armor had no better choice.

Silver Armor just didn't expect the Shadow Demon to make a move so early.

"I told you, Wright will be standing by our side soon." Silver Armor walked back to the box, "The shadow won't come out. Even if it can avoid the traps and Wright's search, as long as it dares to show itself, it will never escape."

The spider web hung the entire structure of the town hall, and everyone was trying to break free.

Was Vana's prophecy wrong?

"Shadow Demon." Silver Armor thought for a moment and took a step to announce the news.

"He knows that Shadow Demons are difficult to distinguish..." At the same time, Will's forehead began to sweat, "The various nobles are also resisting your magic..."

"If he can't find the Shadow Demon, then it can only be like this." Silver Armor was expressionless.

"Found this..." Will picked up the dominoes and eyeballs and presented them to Silver Armor.

The host waved his hand and summoned a bathtub. The sand outside the bathtub began to flood, covering the field and piecing together a three-dimensional giant painting that enveloped Demon King City and the Seven Fortresses of the Noose, covering the entire stage.

"He also go and inform the various families to check their entourages." Silver Armor reassigned Will's task, "Since we have no way to check everyone, then this part of the responsibility can only be left to them themselves."

"The fall of the God of Faith is really troublesome..." Silver Armor impatiently adjusted his armor.

Only a corner of the stage remained, waiting for the poet participating in the final to appear.

"These things have no way to harm us, they seem to be just the demon's eyes and ears." Will tried to analyze the function of that group of bones and eyeballs.

The eyeballs embedded under the dominoes tried hard to rotate, but they could only look in a predetermined direction.

"What are they talking about?" The Li Yue knight hated that feeling of being kept in the dark.

This was the secret weapon to capture the Shadow Demon.

In the eyes of a Time Mage, if you want to assassinate the royal family or a great nobleman, this little thing is obviously not enough.

Will dispelled the magic, and everyone in the town hall instantly resumed their actions.

"The higher-ups want you to witness... an epic performance! Please welcome..." The host called out the first bard to appear, who was none other than that Great Clown.

"These... has the Shadow Demon already come?" Leli of course recognized whose things they were, and his expression instantly became solemn, "Perhaps this demon is also curious about the outcome of the war?"

Will lowered his head and silently conveyed the message to the boxes of several great nobles; at the same time, the music on the seventh floor of the town hall sounded.

"He knows the current situation, he'd better not cause any trouble." The Li Yue knight left a sentence and turned to leave.

After all, I am also one of the heroes who absorbs faith to increase power.