I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Duke didn't know how Annie had taken command of the Bone Legion, but he had also been the supreme commander of the Bone Legion when he was in Candy Castle. There was no reason why others couldn't do what he could do, so Duke wasn't surprised at all that Annie had become the commander of the Bone Legion.

However, he was somewhat surprised by the combat power displayed by the skeleton army of this world.

The five or six skeletal dragons besieging Faceless Norton were incredibly powerful. Their blazing white dragon breath made the sky seem as if several suns had appeared. Faceless Norton's power and speed, combined with the genuine blessing of the Mute to the Saint, made him a true legendary professional.

Aside from being brainless and not very adept at using legendary destiny (admittedly, combat intelligence and legendary destiny are very important, but the power of the legend itself is enough to crush most mortals), Faceless Norton is not much different from the real Norton. The power he displayed in front of Duke was almost indistinguishable.

However, despite this, Faceless Norton was still being brutally beaten by the bone dragons.

As the other side of the two major forces in Candy Castle Replica, the Candy Legion quickly followed suit after seeing their old rival's unusual battle. Five or six candy dragons took off and arrived in front of the Bone Dragon and Faceless Norton. However, they did not come to help Faceless Norton fight the Bone Dragon, but to join in the fun and fight Faceless Norton in a mixed doubles.

"My old rivals have suddenly gone to fight someone else? No way, they belong to me. What kind of third party dares to interfere in our relationship!"

Well, this logic sounds a bit yandere, and it's possible that Annie's existence caused Duke's judgment to deviate somewhat... but the situation is pretty much the same.

In short, the brainless Faceless Norton was suddenly in a desperate situation. He might have been able to hold his own against five or six bone dragons for a while, and might even have won. But when the enemy suddenly increased to a mixed force of more than a dozen bone dragons and candy dragons, he could no longer use his legendary destiny and, being brainless, he fell into an even more desperate situation.

But what does this have to do with Duke?

Since the start of the battle, Duke hadn't cared about the outcome, only occasionally glancing up at it. He believed Annie could handle Faceless Norton, but things had gone even more smoothly than expected. Megan had also sent people to kill Faceless Norton—perhaps because her hiding place had been exposed by the Path of the Saints, which instilled fear in Megan, who was now driven only by instinct.

Noel was somewhat concerned about the battle overhead, but only glanced up a few times a minute. He breathed a long sigh of relief after seeing Faceless Norton helplessly bathed in the dense dragon breath, but he immediately tensed up again when he saw Faceless Norton struggling to break free of the dragon breath.

“Norton is a tough-as-nails legend after all, so he can’t be dealt with in a short time. But fighting against both the Bone Legion and the Candy Legion at the same time… this Faceless Norton is a brainless idiot who can’t use his legendary destiny, so he definitely has no chance of survival.” Duke casually comforted the easily startled Noel before continuing with the serious matter, “Tell me, what kind of things are inside the Tower of Babel in this floating city?”

That's right, the two of them didn't stay on the ground of the floating city to watch Ultraman fight monsters with Faceless Norton, Bone Dragon, and Candy Dragon. Instead, they headed to the underground world of the floating city as fast as possible, wanting to return to the Tower of Babel as soon as possible.

"Simply put, the Tower of Babel seals away a large number of prisoners who lived in this world of memories in the past," Noel said simply. "Among them are many outrageous monsters, with an average level of at least hero, and quite a few near-legendary and true legendary professionals, and even a few monsters... Back then, Monica and the floating city paid a great price to send them into the Tower of Babel."

"Why were they sealed in that Tower of Babel? Shouldn't it be the world mechanics of this witch game that's trapping the prisoners?" Duke asked curiously. "After Monica locked them up in this witch game, did she have the leisure to build another sealing tower in a reliable cage?"

"No, this is a seal they cast on themselves. After all, they are just mortals. No mortal can withstand the cruel passage of time. Even those long-lived species cannot withstand hundreds of years of hardship in another world. In order to survive, they chose to seal themselves away and wait for the Tower of Babel to collapse. The final location they chose was the Tower of Babel within the Tower of Babel."

Noel's death occurred before he was imprisoned in the Tower of Babel. His true self never entered the Tower of Babel in the first place. It was this "Noel's conscience" that was imprisoned in the Tower of Babel more than ten years ago.

He was just a newcomer to this prison, but ever since he entered the Tower of Babel more than ten years ago and heard his predecessors talk about the horrors of those monsters and their purpose in sealing them away, Noel had lived in the Tower of Babel within the Tower of Babel, always guarding that prison within a prison, voluntarily becoming the prison guard among the prisoners.

"In other words, what Bugatti wants your help with is to break the seal on those monsters and release them from the Tower of Babel?"

Duke's eyes widened, and he slapped his thigh: "Chao! Why didn't you say so sooner? If you had, I would have brought Brother Boss along. How could I have left him alone at the Tower of Babel?"

"How dare you say that? I had no idea you were going to drag me into another memory world!" Noelle said, puffing out her cheeks and glaring at the mention of this. "This is the result of your actions!"

"...There's no other way but to try and fix things after the fact. Hey, don't be too nervous. Maybe the Bugatti will just stay put and not cause any trouble?"

Clearly, Duke's good wishes did not come true; instead, they turned into a jinx.

When the two of them returned to the Tower of Babel with a little black dog, they discovered that Bugatti's head had disappeared, and the seal within the Tower of Babel had also changed.

The seal has been breached, leaving a large hole.

Clearly, the immobile Bugatti has entered the seal, attempting to awaken the monsters living within the Tower of Babel.

Noelle frowned:

"What should we do now?!"

"What else can we do? Chase after them!"

Chapter 277 The Cocoon of the Tower of Babel

Bugatti has entered the seal within the Tower of Babel.

Duke took Noel to another memory world alone to show him the "game loophole" he had discovered. He had his own reasons for doing so—he didn't want Bugatti to know about it, nor did he want him to join them. Even though Bugatti only had a head left, he was still a legendary strongman. Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that he was a fierce man who could live even with only his head.

Duke believes they must keep a close watch on Bugatti and not give him the opportunity to use his trump cards (if he has any).

At the time, he was unaware that there was a seal within the Tower of Babel, sealing away a large number of powerful monsters. If he had known this, he would have tricked the leader away first, and then taken Noelle to another world of memories.

Dealing with these cunning and treacherous old fogies requires constant vigilance.

"Meow!"

After entering the seal, the little black cat, who had been dozing on Duke's head, raised its head, let out a loud meow, and began to wriggle restlessly. Then, stimulated by the change in the environment, it jumped off Duke's head and transformed into a black catgirl in the blink of an eye.

Annie's teaching seemed to have an effect. Little Black, who never cared about human ethics, swayed her body as she transformed, mimicking Monica changing clothes, using shadows to outline an outfit for herself. However, compared to the aesthetically pleasing Monica, Little Black's sense of style was rather questionable; the "clothes" she created were still just rags.

"She can turn into a human?" Noel looked at Blackie in surprise, but the clothes she was wearing made him frown, having been raised by the Cavendish family as their heir since childhood. "What is she wearing?"

Although his appearance was even more slovenly and wretched than Xiao Hei's, that didn't mean Noelle would approve of such attire—after all, double standards are an inherent human instinct, a phenomenon known as "being strict with others but lenient with oneself." Xiao Hei's human form was such an adorable little girl, how could she be dressed like this? It was a complete waste!

Clearly, Duke thought so too. He frowned and said to Xiao Hei, "When we get out, I'll take you to a clothing store."

"Meow? No!"

“Listen to me,” Duke said seriously. “I think you would look great in Lolita fashion.”

"Duke, you perverted big cat!"

Let's leave those kinds of jokes aside for now.

It wasn't just Little Black who was affected by the environment inside the seal; however, as a shadow creature, she was more sensitive to this kind of stimulation. But that didn't mean that Duke and Noelle wouldn't be affected.

Duke frowned. The stimulating magic was constantly piercing his skin, causing him to feel slight pain on his exposed skin from time to time. In addition, his newly learned Omnipotent Trickster and Spell Thief techniques were also at risk of going berserk and losing control in this environment—especially the Omnipotent Trickster, which had already begun to go out of control.

He flipped his hand, pressed down the pigeon that had appeared out of thin air, and stuffed it back into its original place. Then he turned his head and extinguished the special effects flames that had appeared around him.

Omnipotent Trickery is an incredibly powerful skill. This ability, a complex blend of techniques including misdirection, illusion, enchantment, deception, and psychology, amplified by the cyclical forces of causality and luck, achieves miraculous effects. It would be a significant boost to Duke's combat prowess. Even legendary practitioners might be fooled by the Omnipotent Trickery of a Hero-level Trickster. Duke is certainly not Hero-level, but his talent allows him to rival Hero-level Tricksters in this regard.

Because of the usefulness of the Omnipotent Trick, Duke had recently fixed it to himself as an effect that could be activated anytime, anywhere, so as to avoid being unable to activate it when needed... As a result, a problem immediately occurred, and the Omnipotent Trick was constantly on the verge of going out of control in this strange place.

"Why is this happening? Isn't this a seal? Shouldn't those self-sealed prisoners be trying their best to calm themselves down? Why create such a high concentration of magic and high interference environment? In this environment, any spell could go out of control at any stage."

Duke frowned, but then he answered his own question:

"There is only one answer to the problem: something went wrong with the seal, and the environment inside has deteriorated into its current state without anyone noticing."

"That's impossible! The seal had been working perfectly fine until today." Noel frowned, lit another cigarette, and said through gritted teeth, "If you and Bugatti hadn't come here, it wouldn't have had this problem!"

“What you said is certainly possible,” Duke shook his head. “But the possibility I mentioned, and the fact that the environment inside the seal deteriorated to this extent in such a short time after the Bugatti entered the seal… which of these two possibilities do you think is more likely?”

Noelle fell silent.

The changes in the elemental environment require a gradual process. Not to mention that Bugatti is now just a head, his mobility is definitely not fast enough. Even if the First World entered the Babel Tower seal after Duke and Noelle left the floating city... this mere half an hour is not enough time for him to render the interior of the Babel Tower into what it is now.

After Duke persuaded Noelle, he took out a seven-colored gem from his pocket and held it in his palm.

[Item Name: Rainbow Core]

[Prop Description: Seven colors of rainbow light—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet—reflect the myriad aspects of the world.]

[Item Effect: The Rainbow Witch's greatest masterpiece. Although it appears as just a seven-colored crystal, it is actually an extremely powerful weapon. Infusing magic into it and casting spells will imbue the spells with a "rainbow" effect, resulting in random variations.]

One of the spoils Duke obtained after Cecil defeated the Rainbow Witch, this item can only unleash its full power in this special environment filled with magic.

The three of them moved very quickly. There was no witch game inside the Tower of Babel, just a lonely tower that went down into the depths. Before long, they had traversed most of the distance and entered the seal... but they didn't see a single person.

They only saw many broken cocoons.

These cocoons were scattered throughout the seal, each at least the size of a person, some even large enough to contain an entire two-headed ogre chieftain. However, without exception, all of these cocoons were empty, containing nothing.

“These cocoons must have been left behind by those who sealed themselves away.” Noel, who had been a professional seal-sealing prison guard for more than ten years, made a professional judgment: “They are the things they used to prolong their lives.”

Chapter 178 Real Men Don't Watch Explosions

Duke silently memorized the number of cocoons he had seen along the way; there were a total of twenty-one.

At first, the three of them didn't realize the problem with these cocoons, but Duke instinctively noted down the number and location of the cocoons. After seeing five, Duke realized that these cocoons might be the key to the problem inside the seal.

But apart from the cocoons, they saw nothing. Not only did they see no living beings, but they also saw no trace of life or movement. The prisoners who emerged from these cocoons vanished into thin air as if they had been teleported away.

At this point, they still had one last layer to explore. If nothing unexpected happened, the leader Bugatti and the owners of the previous twenty-one cocoons would be inside.

So Duke stopped at the entrance to the staircase leading deeper underground.

"What are you doing?" Seeing Duke stop, Noelle and Blackie also stopped. He turned to look at Duke: "Aren't you scared?"

"No, I'm just thinking about something."

"what?"

Why should we go down?

"what?"

Noelle frowned, and then saw Duke raise his hand, pointing it at the stairwell in front of him, with a seven-colored crystal faintly visible in his hand.

This rainbow core is the greatest masterpiece of the Rainbow Witch's life.

If Duke uses this seven-colored crystal as a medium for casting spells, the spells he casts will have random effects. He can turn a fireball into a ball of lightning crackling with thunder. In a mage's duel, such a magical item would add unpredictable variations to spells. However, he is not the Rainbow Witch and cannot freely manipulate the changes in the red light core, thus limiting the spells he can cast.

But he doesn't need to use any particularly sophisticated magic.

The environment inside the seal of the Tower of Babel is abnormal; the magical concentration here is even higher than in many elemental planes, which explains the elemental creature, Little Black,'s excitement. In this environment, the Rainbow Core requires no magic; Duke can easily ignite and detonate the high-concentration magical environment simply by using it as a lighter.

For Duke, casting high-level spells is not his forte, but precise control of spells is his specialty!

"Back off."

After warning Noelle and Blackie, he held the Rainbow Core and used a simple level 0 spell, Trick, towards the stairwell on the next floor:

"The touch of freezing cold".

This necromancy spell wasn't difficult. A ghostly bone hand, carrying a chilling aura, passed through the core of the rainbow light. The coldness it brought transformed into a glowing green flame, which quickly penetrated the staircase.

After about ten seconds of operation, Duke heard a soft "pop" from afar. Without hesitation, he immediately turned around, stretched out his hand to Xiao Hei, and shouted, "Go!"

Xiao Hei grasped Duke's hand, while simultaneously grabbing Noelle's hem with his other hand. A massive shadow swallowed them both whole and carried them away at incredible speed. In this highly concentrated magical environment, Xiao Hei's power was greatly amplified, and the shadow escaped from the depths of the Tower of Babel at breakneck speed.

Less than a second after the three of them left the stairwell, a deafening roar came from the deepest level of the Tower of Babel, followed by a blinding wave of intense heat that surged from the ground to the surface! The series of explosions ignited the high concentration of magical energy one by one; this unstable magical energy, like gasoline, became the perfect catalyst for the explosions.

Such an elemental explosion would be too much for even a Bugatti at its peak to withstand!

What lay before Xiao Hei had become a race against time! While pulling Duke and Noelle along, she ran for her life, her fur standing on end, yelling at Duke: "Meow! Duke, are you crazy, meow! If you're going to die, couldn't you at least tell me beforehand, meow?! If I die, even as a ghost cat, I won't let you go, meow!"

Noelle was also cursing Duke furiously: "If you wanted to take them all down with you, then don't have taken me with you in the first place, you bastard! Damn it, I don't want to die!"

"Hey, don't worry." Duke curled his lip, looking at the heatwave and the series of explosions approaching them from behind. He did a quick calculation and figured that at Blackie's current speed, he would be overtaken by the constantly exploding magic in ten seconds. "How could I let you die?"

He's a madman, Duke, not a fool. How could he willingly put himself in an unsolvable predicament? Duke must have had a foolproof way to escape safely for him to do something like that!

After saying that, he put away the Rainbow Core and took out the cheat item once again.

His loss of direction has been cured, which means that the teleportation function of the cheat item has been restored.