I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

This was another ordinary day in New Holy City.

The Eye of Mercy continued to emit rays, inspected by the clergy soldiers and artificers between each cooling period to ensure the next emission would be flawless.

Red rays shot into fixed light spheres, which then refracted the light to the warfront, sweeping away bone chariots.

These days were all like this.

New Holy City was territory controlled by the Empire and the New Church, and the only remaining giant city-state outside the Empire's borders.

Prosperous Wasteland City, which had been contested by three factions, had already been occupied by the rising Sand Kingdom.

The Sand Soldiers drove out the forces of the Empire and the Snow Country, then organized locust-like armies, heading towards the Tas Empire in the east.

Of course, these events were too far from New Holy City, so the believers inside the city felt no impact.

Refugees from the south continued to pour into the city, becoming New Church believers under the priests' baptism, becoming new clergy soldiers, and then being transported by train to the front lines of Red Oil Town.

Until this peace was broken by a Colossus.

The slender-legged behemoth stood still within the halo of light, ceasing its advance.

The horns on the city walls blared even louder, as the sentinels and citizens discovered they were staring directly at its eye through their telescopes.

“That is…” A clergy sentinel looked through his telescope and saw a slender leg descending from the clouds.

“That’s not the kind of good-hearted bad thing you attract. After all, without such a small eye, it’s hard to notice…”

“You need to retreat, no matter where that leads.” Jinshan answered directly.

So the appearance of this slender leg made the clergy sentinels raise their guard.

“Acceptable, not bad.” Jinshan retracted the body of the giant spider, also temporarily separating Ying'er, not allowing it to listen to his inner thoughts, “I'm asking you, if it were you, how would you retreat?”

As he spoke, Jinshan spat out a large number of bones, eyeballs, and threads originally stored in Ying'er's shadow space, sewing them together into a bright and glaring bone eye, hanging above the giant spider's disc-shaped body.

And standing in the halo with the giant spider were the monsters it excreted, as well as some refugees.

Anyway, they are all underfoot, it won’t affect anything.

“A very standard answer, but with a few extra details.” Jinshan approved of Ying'er's idea, because that was what he thought too.

Thus, more and more heretics led, also creating this mixed team of monsters and humans.

The halo washed over the giant spider's body from bottom to top, indeed burning its outer shell and body hair, but without causing any impact on its movements.

During the Battle of Holy City, the hundreds of miles around Cindrami were razed to the ground, providing an excellent view, becoming a giant city on a plain.

The New Church showed no mercy to heretics.

These heretics seemed to suspect to some extent that the Colossus and the Colossus's children were a new faith, so they led the giant spider all the way, dedicating themselves to the giant spider and its children.

“Looks like this is the New Holy City’s defensive line?” Jinshan noticed the halo spreading out in front of him, controlling the giant spider to stop.

Many refugees had even seen the Colossus with their own eyes, and barely escaped from the Colossus's side, until they arrived at New Holy City and became believers.

After regaining the Demon Illustrated Handbook, Jinshan could still hear Ying'er's inner voice.

That's also why Jinshan wanted to take this opportunity to harvest some goodwill—this was a city of people.

As he spoke, Jinshan used photon pigments to become invisible, preparing to take advantage of the commotion on the city walls, infiltrating with his true body and Ying'er, to quickly deal with this anchor point.

“It's just a silly big thing, so conspicuous, where can it run to that we can’t chase it down?” Jinshan had the Ideal Village inside his stomach, so he didn't care about leaving his control, how far could the giant spider run.

“If it were me… I would control the giant spider, take the people on it and walk over, run around, attract the Empire’s attention, and then we’d sneak away.” Ying'er replied after thinking.

Or rather, heretics.

“What are we here for? Why not retreat?”

“Oh yo, much crueler than Lie Jiangye.” Jiang Ye followed the distorted eye placed on the giant spider's body, watching the scene of that heretic being purified.

The giant spider with the giant eye hanging on it strode forward, blocking the halo and holy ash, and together with the heretics and monsters under its feet, launched an attack on New Holy City.

Jinshan felt that the reason this was happening was mainly because the giant spider's appetite was small, only needing to eat a few dozen people each day to excrete hundreds of monsters.

Even though he had never been a father.

Most monsters had no ability to move, they were eaten by the refugees, becoming the refugees' food.

【But… this is New Holy City… one of humanity’s lairs… the place where faith originated…】

“Besides, such a large city in front of us, with many believers and many humans inside, we should take this opportunity to harvest a wave of goodwill.” Jinshan retracted Yingying, controlling the giant spider to retreat.

“Are those Sand People?” The first sentinel noticed that there seemed to be people below the slender leg.

“But Papa… what if we take a little longer, aren’t you afraid it will run away?” Ying'er condensed into an arrow, pointing at the giant spider.

“Let’s go, Arachne!” As the Eye of Mercy was about to face the bone eye directly, Jinshan moved his mind, moved his threads.

If goodwill wasn't enough, he had to save it a bit, Jinshan even thought he could hang bone-guided cannons all over the giant spider, turning it into a mobile turret.

【Okay, we will retreat.】

【Papa… so powerful…】

They received news that the Sand Kingdom's army was campaigning in the east, and were also worried about when they would arrive.

The Eye of Mercy was also adjusting its direction, turning towards the giant spider's side.

Anyway, from Lie Jiangye to here, Jinshan had seen nearly ten Colossi.

And this halo itself was the magic of the New Church, combined with holy ash, could effectively block demons or heretics, ensuring the safety of believers within the city.

The giant spider stopped, while the heretics on the ground very actively stepped over the halo, and then were washed into ashes.

The people inside New Holy City of course knew that many Colossi and even Giants had appeared on the continent of Kaios these days, they were walking aimlessly everywhere, smashing clouds, eating mountains, and bringing death along the way.

If this one died, he could just replace it with another, the continent wasn't lacking in these things right now.

After experiencing everything at Lie Liyue with Jinshan, Ying'er had learned to feint, and thought it was cool.

Once this village is gone, there won't be another shop like it.

“Anyway, it’s not refugees, and it’s not unbelievers.” The second sentinel decisively blew the horn, notifying the church.

“See, I told you, bringing such a big thing along would definitely be useful…” Jinshan dragged Yingying together to drill into the giant spider's abdomen, and then slightly changed the angle of the spider's legs, probing the giant spider's body past the boundary of the halo.

After the New Church of the Empire occupied and rebuilt it, the light emanating from the walls of New Holy City enveloped the hundreds of miles of plains, bringing solace to the believers in the city.

Ying'er's inner voice made Jiang Ye feel a sense of déjà vu.

“Papa? Are we going to retreat?” As Jinshan's mind became increasingly scarlet, Ying'er also became increasingly respectful of Jiang Ye.

After learning that Ying'er was his and Yingying's child, Jiang Ye subconsciously switched to a fatherly tone.

The eyeball stared directly at New Holy City.

“No no…” Another sentinel saw the scene outside the city and felt puzzled.

The remaining refugees raised their heads in prayer, waiting for the giant spider's guidance.

The slender leg stopped because of the sound of the horn, it walked further and further back, hundreds of legs clumsily swaying, until it stood quietly outside the halo of the Holy City.

Moreover, they wouldn't care what strange things followed.