I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

That's right, they helped Norton not to help him fulfill his wish, they just wanted to kill him!

Chapter 283 Her Hero 4k4

Anne and Amber chased Norton into the Tower of Babel, and he entered the Turtle Soup Witch's Game almost right after them.

However, due to this brief time difference, the two of them were unable to enter the same memory world as Norton. Later, with the help of Annie's intellect and Amber's unreasonable spatial abilities, they finally caught up with Norton's progress. This witch game posed no danger or difficulty for them, and they were able to move around almost unimpeded except for the inability to leave.

However, Norton eventually did take the initiative to contact them.

According to Anne's original plan, they were supposed to secretly follow Norton and see if there was a chance to kill him. If the attack failed, they would simply use Amber's abilities to escape. She didn't want to confront a true legend head-on. When Norton first found her, she was flustered for a while, but Norton unexpectedly showed them goodwill.

Norton told them what Duke and Cecil had been doing all this time.

Destroy the existing order of the floating city's underground world and create a new underground world.

This sounds like a fantasy, but when you change the protagonists to Duke and Guangbao, everything suddenly makes sense.

Yes, that's how crazy their Duke family is.

Norton said that it wouldn't be easy for Duke and Cecil to succeed, that Cecil would never become a legend if he didn't fulfill his great vow, that he was on Duke's side and wanted to change the order of the underworld with him... and then asked Amber and Anne to help him bring down the Mute God.

Norton didn't lie much; nine out of ten of his statements were true. The only thing he concealed was his hostile relationship with Duke and his group. Apart from that, he didn't tell any lies—even his good relationship with Duke wasn't a lie, since Duke still had some goodwill towards this sucker who gave him the prosthetic body. If it weren't for the need to change the order of the underworld and become his enemy, Duke wouldn't necessarily have helped Cecil kill him.

He was there to fulfill the divine intervention of the mute.

May that great god, as He desires, descend upon His faithful floating city.

So Anne agreed to Norton's request.

She was fully aware of Norton's deception, but she also knew that most of what he said was true, since the logic behind the stories was consistent.

So the question is, if they want to help Duke and Cecil with that daunting task, what can they do inside the Tower of Babel?

After much deliberation, Anne returned to her original goal.

Kill Norton.

This is what Anne was hiding. She deceived Norton, pretending to cooperate with him while secretly concealing the remains of the mute she found, and then made all sorts of preparations. Anne originally didn't intend to tell Amber about this plan, lest it be exposed (actually, she was worried that Amber would take credit for her work when she tried to curry favor with Duke), but Amber was more perceptive than she had originally thought and noticed her plan, so she had no choice but to tell her everything.

To be honest, Anne originally thought that a noble elven princess like Amber would disdain such behavior of agreeing to cooperate on the surface but stabbing someone in the back. However, she did not expect that Amber would not only not mind at all, but after hearing that it could help Duke, she took the matter even more seriously than Anne.

As Amber's rival, Anne earnestly advised Amber to refuse to be a simp and not to be manipulated by bad men, but the elven princess, who had already been "trained" by Duke, resolutely refused.

To paraphrase a certain perverted elf: "That's my taste!"

Well... In short, while Amber was taking Norton around the nearby memory worlds, Annie stayed in this "ultimate memory world," accumulating power and waiting for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to appear, allowing her to use her trump cards to challenge the might of a legendary powerhouse.

At this moment, after a series of unexpected events, Annie finally got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Norton's ankle, which was gripped by the flesh-and-bone soldiers, instantly turned into piles of bones that spread upwards at an extremely rapid pace. He was startled and almost without hesitation reached out and severed his right leg to stop the bone-like transformation from continuing.

Norton's actions were undeniably decisive, but self-mutilation on the legendary battlefield was tantamount to suicide. He was already the weakest of the three, and now he had cut off his own leg. Clearly, neither the Beast of Sin nor the Shadow Tyrant would miss such a golden opportunity.

The beast of sin roared to the heavens, and the elemental tides rose and fell around them with its roar. The constantly fluctuating elemental tides wrapped around Norton's body, making him feel an unbearable weight. This elemental tide was made of heavy earth element, which pressed Norton's body so that his spine bent and his remaining legs were pressed firmly to the ground.

Monica withdrew the evil god of shadow behind her, transformed into a shadow herself, merged into the ground, and rushed toward Norton's location. Then, a false shadow emerged from behind him, the shadow in the exact same posture as Norton at this moment. The shadow reached out and hugged Norton's body.

"Boom-"

A muffled thud rang out as Shadow Norton's hands crushed Norton's shoulders. It used Norton's legendary destiny, and the pure destructive power exceeded Norton's body's ability to withstand it, causing a large amount of blood to splatter out.

Norton seemed to be truly in dire straits, and Anne merely added a trivial footnote to this legendary battle.

But at that moment, Norton spoke up:

"Annie, you can't kill me like this, hahahahahahaha!"

The Cavendish man grinned and laughed maniacally. He reached out and slammed his hand down on his chest, shattering his heart and Norton's shadow, which coveted it. Then, he looked bloodthirstyly at where Annie was.

That one look sent chills down Annie's spine. He was clearly on the verge of death, yet his trapped beast-like gaze still carried a bloodthirsty aura, sending a shiver down Annie's spine, who had brought him to this state.

How could he possibly come to attack me when he was surrounded by the Beast of Sin and Ms. Monica?

Anne comforted herself.

But the next moment, Norton, covered in blood and with large parts of his body mutilated, appeared in front of her and raised his fist.

The feeling of suffocation prevented Anne from uttering a single syllable. It was as if her face had been pressed into the water, and she struggled but could not surface—until Amber beside her pulled her out of the water.

Spatial fluctuations are fleeting.

Amber grabbed Anne by the back of her collar and teleported her to an open space ten meters away, dodging Norton's first punch.

Before they could even catch their breath, Norton's second punch came crashing down like a shadow, a fist with destructive power capable of destroying anything in its path. This time, even Amber couldn't get Annie away from where she stood; she could only clutch tightly what she was holding.

In Amber's hand was a small cross badge.

That was a gift from Duke to her, a misaligned coordinate system.

Norton's second punch was slightly deflected by the force of the misaligned coordinates, striking the sinful beast in the distance. Caught in the crossfire of the unknown attack, the old beast rolled over in mid-air, gritted its teeth, and let out a mournful howl, almost collapsing to its death on the spot.

But the third punch, the fourth punch... the hundredth punch!

Norton unleashed over a hundred high-speed punches in one go. Amber had to calculate desperately for each punch to deflect his attacks in other directions and avoid harming them. Even when Amber managed to escape with Annie, the dying Norton could still follow closely with a punch, forcing her to continue using the misaligned coordinates.

Neither Annie nor Amber had ever personally encountered a true legend; they had no idea how outrageous a professional of this level could be. Norton's attack shattered their wishful thinking and complacency in a short time, leaving only panic. Amber, her face flushed, calculated the spatial coordinates needed for the misalignment, while Annie, whom she had protected, tried her best to remain calm, attempting to find a solution in this desperate situation.

They put Norton in a desperate situation, but he also put them in a desperate situation!

Anne gritted her teeth and shouted:

"Silence is golden!"

Her words startled Norton slightly, but he didn't stop his attack—he wouldn't abandon his assault just because Anne was also a mute. He was indeed a devout believer in the mute, but his God had never taught the mute not to kill each other, much less allowed his followers to slacken on the battlefield.

But Anne wasn't saying that to Norton.

With a clanging sound of bones, a skeleton leaped from the ruins and other scattered bones, appearing beside them. Then, the power of the living dead and the ability to heal flesh and bone erupted from its body, and in a very short time, the skeleton, indistinguishable from the other skeletons, transformed into a woman with both holiness and allure, appearing before them.

Despite having her eyes closed, one could still see an uncanny resemblance between her and the saint Megan. However, unlike Megan, she exuded a sense of holiness... This was the effect that her soul had had on her remains after she became a god.

That's right, these remains belong to the person who lost their voice!

The mute's remains remained incorrupt for centuries after her death, something everyone could imagine. A deity's body, naturally influenced by the concept of divinity, would become sacred. After finding her, Anne considered various methods of concealment, but ultimately rejected them all… until she remembered her unique spell. When Anne transformed the mute's remains into a skeleton, even Norton didn't realize that what he had been searching for was right beside him!

Only a necromancer like Annie, with her extremely low moral standards, could imagine such a method of concealment.

Upon seeing the mute, Norton abruptly stopped his attack, trembling as he gazed at the true form of his god.

“My God…the great mute…”

The moment Norton was praying fervently, the mute's remains moved. She slowly opened her eyes, which were devoid of any light, but the moment she stared at him, Norton was instantly moved.

It was this exaggerated emotional fluctuation that gave Annie the opportunity.

"A prison for the soul".

It's a 6th-level necromancy spell, but thanks to Annie's modifications, it's now powerful enough to unleash the power of an 8th-level spell.

Some powerful law seized Norton's battered and emotionally charged soul, attempting to tear him from his body. The deep connection between a legendary professional's soul and body is difficult to sever, and Annie's spell failed... but it did cause a brief tremor in his soul.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Anne suddenly raised her hand, holding a neon gun, its dark muzzle aimed at Norton's forehead.

Duke's lost gadgets were all inside his soulless body, including the powerful Deus Ex machina and Neon. Amber had taken these gadgets for safekeeping. They might not know the power of Deus Ex machina, but they certainly knew how formidable Neon was. After receiving Neon from Amber, Annie began meticulously testing it, until this moment.

A "soul" remains in the neon-lit bomb cell.

"boom--"

The soul struck Norton between the eyebrows, ripping his already faltering soul completely out of his body. Meanwhile, the soul cage that had almost succeeded earlier continued to construct, a cage specifically designed to imprison souls that captured Norton's soul and confined it within.

Without a soul, the body naturally loses its ability to defend itself. Under Annie's control, the mute's remains reached out and touched Norton's body, causing it to turn into a complete skeleton at an extremely fast speed.

It's over! We succeeded!

Annie's face lit up with delight.

But this expression didn't last long, because Norton, who was imprisoned in the Soul Cage, moved. He... with only a soul left, smashed the Soul Cage with a punch, and then kicked Annie, who was frantically raising her arm.

"Boom—"

Despite being a soul without a physical form, this kick still shattered Annie's arm and half her body. The power of the legendary destiny "Destruction" is unreasonable; it can even shatter matter with a soul.

With half of her body turned into minced meat and broken bones, Annie was in so much pain that she almost fainted. But even though she still retained a sliver of consciousness, she felt as if she had been thrown into the air, entering a dreamlike and fantastical state.

She vaguely felt herself being picked up. Was it Amber? Her rival was such a good person, still trying to escape with her despite the situation… The expected pain did not occur again. Had Norton given up attacking her, someone who was destined to die?

Ah, I really want to see Duke again, I want to be praised by him, I want to tell him that I tried my best for him...

Sigh, I really hope I'll be luckier in my next life, and not be a sick person anymore. I hope I can have an ordinary life, meet a good man, and marry him happily, instead of meeting Duke and being ruined by him like I did in this life... No, why am I still deceiving myself before I die?

I don't envy an ordinary life at all. That sickly Annie was me, and also my favorite version of myself. Meeting Duke was the unluckiest moment of my life because he ruined it... but meeting Duke was also the luckiest moment of my life because he saved me from a boring existence!

If there is a next life, I will still cling to Duke no matter what.

Hehe, I won't give up, I'll always be a fan of you, Duke, I...

"I understand, so could you please stop talking... Even though I'm not the one who's going to die, I still feel embarrassed for you, Annie."

Annie woke up with a start, finding herself held in someone's arms. Half of her body was still in excruciating pain, but the bleeding seemed to have stopped temporarily. The faint scent of potion lingered in her mouth, as if someone had fed her a potion while she was half-asleep... Was it fed to her mouth-to-mouth?

Annie looked at the person who was holding her.

It's Duke.

He was the great hero who saved her from the boring first half of her life.

He is the great hero who came to save her wonderful later life.

Her hero.

Chapter 284 Long Time No See, Amber

In Duke's opinion, Eve's potions were sometimes even more outrageous than the items provided by the system.

As a super near-legendary (meaning a near-legendary who can easily defeat a legendary), her true witch title is the Wish Witch. Her legendary destiny is based on "wishing" rather than related to potions. However, many of the potions she developed are far more powerful than many fancy witch-specific spells.

For example, Natasha's Gate of Truth sounds fancy, but in reality, it's only useful for researchers (she herself doesn't have the knowledge to use the knowledge within the Gate of Truth). As a result, Natasha is just a blank succubus in peacetime and in battle—or even a blank succubus who refuses to use her succubus talents.

Then look at Eve's potion... Just the fact that Duke used a single potion to forcibly suspend Anne, whose body had been half-shattered by Norton's soul, shows its power.

Of course, whether a potion can regenerate Anne's severed limbs isn't really important. After all, as long as Anne is awakened from her coma, she can use her unique magic, capable of bringing the dead back to life, to barely heal herself. And shortly after Anne swallowed the potion (Duke: of course, he forced it in with his hand; how could he possibly feed her with his mouth as the yandere fantasizes?), she woke up.

Although Annie, who had just experienced social death, quickly closed her eyes and mouth and pretended to be asleep after stealing a glance at herself, her awakening couldn't escape Duke's notice. This was not only because her mutilated body was visibly sprouting bones, but also because the system emitted a pleasant notification sound: