I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“The Shadow Demon and the demon army may be related, but that's not important…” Wright didn't need to endure Rufus's questioning, but for some reason, he was still explaining to him.

A larger wave of refugees is surging towards the Holy City and the Empire. The New Church needs to screen and absorb them, and also try to prevent too many spies from heretical sects from infiltrating.

The Creation Department's retrieval mirrors are limited and cannot scan every refugee.

“I've heard everything this demon has been doing in Riftgold Mountain. He hasn't caused any damage, just wandering around…” Among the information Wright gathered, it was mentioned that Li Yue had been wandering around the Five Towns.

Although he attacks fiercely, he hasn't actively attacked humans too much.

“No damage? No damage!?” Rufus pointed to the ruined church, “You say this is no damage?”

The ground was a mess, with broken walls deeply embedded in the ground, burying the believers and priests of the church; as for the two large masks, they were re-imprisoned in the Holy Light cage, again resuming their fat-squeezing-thin situation.

The onlookers had been dispersed, fully aware that chaos was coming, and most went back to pack their luggage.

A large portion of them were families of mine and armory workers, with nowhere to go and full of confusion about the future.

As a result, the Holy Light in the Five Towns was naturally unstable. Rufus and Vijes realized that they seemed unable to simultaneously fight the Masked Assembly and the Shadow Demon who had infiltrated Riftgold Mountain with their own power alone.

“Currently, you have no way to confirm that this was caused by the Shadow Demon, and not by the two masks of the Masked Assembly.” Wright pointed to the fat and thin duo in the cage, pointing out that Rufus had overlooked an important variable.

“If most of the faith power wasn't used to imprison these two masks, would the church be defeated by a Shadow Demon!?” Wright's words hit Rufus's sore spot.

“If the Five Towns hadn't been infiltrated too much by the Masked Assembly, would we be unable to catch the Shadow Demon?”

“But… why are you always protecting it?” Rufus asked Wright through gritted teeth.

“I… choose to believe a prophecy.” Wright made a final attempt to persuade the two New Church priests, “If we put most of our energy into searching for the Shadow Demon, such a trivial matter, it will cause even greater chaos…”

“Trivial matter? You say this is a trivial matter?”

“Prophecy? All your decisions are based on some diviner's inexplicable prophecy?!”

Rufus's voice rose again, furious.

Jesse remembered the diviner from the slums in the Town Hall bedroom.

What would happen if the New Church discovered her?

Jesse thought it was quite exciting.

“Forget it, do as you please, I'll just give one last reminder.” Wright suddenly felt a little lazy and didn't want to argue with Rufus anymore, “The Five Towns needs to be a bridge for the frontline refugees, this is the New Church's opportunity.”

“Absorbing refugees, reducing the chaos caused by refugees and demons, this is your greatest role.” Wright's light sphere began to fade, “I will inform Torsos of this situation, and at the same time, you go and do what you think is right.”

After Wright finished speaking, Jesse left silently with the light sphere, leaving the two New Church priests by the ruins, accompanied by the two masks in the cage.

On her schedule, gathering military strength to fight the Demon King's City was far more important than appeasing the church's anger.

As for that Shadow Demon…

If the prophecy is accurate, it will appear at the Bard's Gathering at 11 PM tomorrow night. Then, gather the existing manpower to deal with them.

If you want to catch the Shadow Demon, this is the last chance before the expedition, and also the best chance.

Jesse and Wright left together, and the area in front of the church quickly returned to calm.

“You did a very poor job…” Rufus turned to vent his anger on Vijes.

Rufus had clearly given Vijes the task of encircling and suppressing the Shadow Demon, but besides eliminating a large number of Masked Assembly believers and capturing two large masks, Vijes hadn't even caught the shadow of the shadow.

“As you know, our faith power is used to imprison the masks and purify the dominoes. There's not much left, and I can't mobilize all of it.” Vijes was also dissatisfied with Rufus.

“If we can get the support of Lord Torsos, we can wipe out the Masked Assembly in the Five Towns in one fell swoop, and even catch the Shadow Demon…” Vijes attempted to have Rufus seek help from above.

“You heard, Lord Torsos will only let us do our best to absorb more believers!” Rufus avoided further exposing his incompetence to Torsos, “If there are more believers, there will be more faith! We can do more!”

“Whatever…” Vijes gave up arguing with Rufus, becoming lazy, “The dominoes are all lost, we have indeed failed in our duty.”

“Don't say that! Since Lord Torsos is unable to take care of us, we'll rely on ourselves! ” Rufus's emotions became more and more agitated, “The footsteps of war are getting closer and closer. Losing the dominoes is nothing. As long as we catch the Shadow Demon, everything will be worth it!”

“Ah… if Wrath was here… he could directly put the masks on their heads…” A pile of fat in the cage trembled wildly, the sound transmitted between the folds of flesh.

“Mmm…” The Sloth Mask seemed to want to say something, but was too lazy to say it.

“How can we catch it now…” Vijes had indeed tried various methods, but facing a shadow that had disappeared into the darkness, and also having to spare faith power to imprison the masks of the Masked Assembly, he was really unable to do so.

“For example… we can use these believers we have now to do something?” Rufus proposed a completely new idea.

“You mean… like the Old Church?” There was some hesitation in Vijes's tone.

“No, even more resolute than the Old Church.” Rufus shook his head, “We are their faith, they should serve us.”

“But if Lord Torsos finds out…” Vijes's emotions were difficult to mobilize.

“He will be even more approving of our results!” Rufus had already made up his mind, “The front line is already in Red Oil Town, the Empire will not provide us with further assistance, we can only rely on ourselves, on faith.”

“Anyway, if the Demon King's City attacks, these refugees will also become skeletons, becoming accomplices of the demons, so it's better to dedicate themselves to the faith before that…” Rufus hurriedly walked to the ruins, found all the broken light rhombus emblems, and began to piece them together.

“If you think so…” Vijes no longer objected, but didn't help him find them either.

And outside the cage, in the ruins, a small piece of fat was struggling to crawl, crawling towards the Holy Light cage.

“What are you doing?” Vijes noticed the fat's movements, clenched his fist, and the Holy Light cage became narrow, squeezing the flesh of the two masks, making a “sizzling” sound.

The small piece of fat outside the cage was also burned away, becoming a pool of oil on the ground.

“Heh heh, heh heh…” The Gluttony Mask seemed to enjoy it.

“Don't worry, you will dedicate yourselves to the faith first.” Rufus turned around and calmly looked at the fat and thin duo in the cage.

Dawn was approaching, the light of the Riftgold Mountain Church was still trembling, the station was already crowded, and many townspeople had packed their luggage overnight, preparing to take the first train to the New Holy City to leave.

The railway of the mine was also busy.

“Hey… transporting so much ore at once, could it be that they're going to run away?” Li Yue sighed at the grand scene at the station.

Three figures drilled out of the sewer and went deep along the mine tunnel.