I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Norton frowned but did not answer Cecil's question.

In a sense, he wasn't the real Norton. The real Norton had been obliterated by Duke's punch. He was merely a quantum state possibility left behind by the real Norton, collapsing into this mirror image within the quantum state world. Theoretically, if he left the quantum state floating city, he would immediately perish.

The fact that he was destined to die was actually irrelevant to Norton. He had already achieved his goal; the mute had, through his efforts, come close to bringing a god into the world. Whether he continued in his current state as a divine messenger or perished directly, it was an acceptable outcome for Norton.

However, Norton always felt uneasy.

Duke's presence made him feel that no matter how smoothly things went, there was always the possibility of a reversal... and this ominous premonition increased dramatically the moment Cecil appeared.

He raised his head and looked at the eleven divine messengers in the sky, feeling slightly relieved.

Duke just killed "me" with his ability, so he absolutely cannot use it a second time in a short period of time... Moreover, its side effects seem to be very serious. His soul has entered a weakened state. Even if I really perish, those eleven divine messengers will still exist here.

Norton's silence and subsequent "admiring the scenery" gesture caused Cecil's lips to twitch slightly. However, Guangbao had finally matured somewhat; instead of acting impulsively and swinging her spear at Norton, she turned and shone holy light on Duke and Amber, attempting to heal their injuries, and casually asked, "Why are you so weak? What did you do?"

"They used an atomic bomb to kill a mosquito," Duke said expressionlessly. "It was a wasted shot."

But soon, Duke's face showed a look of astonishment, but Guangbao didn't pay attention to his expression. Instead, he nodded as if he understood: "Oh... um, he's cured."

Having easily healed Duke's weakened state, she didn't delve into his profound words and expression, but instead continued to scan the entire battlefield out of the corner of her eye.

The battle between Monica and the Beast of Sin reached its climax, but no one expected that the scales of the battlefield would tip in their favor. It was Xiao Hei, who had been passively observing from the sidelines, who had entered the quantum-state floating city. Afterwards, Xiao Hei transformed back into a dark-skinned catgirl. However, unlike before when she would disappear during battles, this time she changed her tune and actively intervened in Monica's fight against the Beast of Sin.

Beside Monica, Xiao Hei unleashed an extremely outrageous fighting power.

In short, Monica used a special property of hers to create a low-end version of herself, Monica Mythical Stance, who is currently dual-wielding herself and Little Black, a mixed doubles fight against the Beast of Sin.

There's no need to worry about the battlefield here, but the situation in the sky that Norton just looked at is far from optimistic. The presence of those eleven divine messengers, even without doing anything, has brought immense pressure to Cecil. Each of them seems to be a legendary high-ranking angel. Although they are not as powerful as Norton, the Beast of Sin, or Monica individually, they are not ones that Cecil can deal with in a short time.

Needless to say, Cecil had already sensed a higher being approaching this world, attempting to break into the Witch Game, to break into this world of memories.

Time is running out.

The arrogant and domineering Guangbao, who had just made his entrance with an air of "everyone here is trash," swallowed hard after understanding the situation on the battlefield and asked somewhat guiltily:

"Duke, what should we do?"

“I have a question.” Duke held up a finger, pointing to the sky, which, due to quantum superposition, displayed a bizarre state where sunny, cloudy, and rainy weather were all superimposed together. “Cecil, if you had two ‘I Want’ guns, could you take care of those angels?”

"what?"

Cecil paused for a moment, then shook his head somewhat awkwardly.

"Then, I'll ask you one more question."

This time, Duke didn't ask Cecil about the question; instead, he looked up and asked the World Consciousness.

"Anyone in the floating city besides Carol who can reverse time?"

"No, you have nine questions left."

The World Will answered hastily.

"After returning from other memory worlds, were the number of questions reset as well?"

Duke muttered something and then snapped his fingers.

His physical weakness was indeed healed, but not by Cecil's holy light. Rather, an extremely rapid time reversal occurred within him. The user may have hoped to take this opportunity to deceive Duke's perception, but he failed.

But Duke didn't call out to Carol, because he probably knew what she wanted to do.

He sighed, lowered his head, and continued asking questions, this time directed at Cecil:

Is the "I Think" gun truly omnipotent?

"of course."

"it is good!"

He gripped his magnificent spear and pointed it at the sky.

Chapter 288 Thirteen Possibilities of the End

From the moment the Beast of Sin appeared, the situation deteriorated rapidly. A series of coincidences occurred one after another, as if dancing on the edge of a knife, struggling to keep the situation moving in a certain direction. If Duke or Annie had been a little luckier, they would have had a chance to defeat Norton ahead of time and end the battle.

However, their attacks and assassinations of Norton failed due to perfectly timed coincidences.

Perhaps it wasn't because they were unlucky, but because... they were on the opposite side of "fate".

This "destiny" is named Carol, and the future she has determined is simple: Norton has successfully brought the mute here.

Bugatti and Megan ended up in Babel because Carol killed them. Norton was able to enter Babel because Carol, knowing the attack plan beforehand, didn't make any special arrangements. Monica, needless to say, was sent in by Carol herself. Duke, Cecil, Amber, and Annie all entered Babel because of Carol's words. And Noelle, one of the direct causes of Bugatti becoming the Beast of Sin, was also sent to Babel ten years ago when Carol came to power!

Not to mention the little details like the inexplicable end of the time reversal on Monica and Bugatti.

All these details suggest that Carol is behind this battle, acting as an invisible hand, manipulating all the actors present like a puppet show.

What exactly does Carol want to achieve after all this hard work?

It's very simple; it's nothing more than dealing with or exploiting people with aphasia.

But whatever she wanted to do, Duke, as a member of this larger scheme, couldn't escape at this point. Clearly, Carol didn't want him to fail or die, so she orchestrated Cecil's arrival and secretly used time reversal to return him to the state before he used the cheat item and the "I Want" gun.

Duke possessed the Book of Truth, an item with a cooldown of 666 hours. Its countdown allowed Duke to immediately ascertain the specific effects of time reversal. Upon seeing the "I Think" Gun's cooldown revert to before its use, he understood what Carol was implying.

"Alright, let me see what you're up to."

Duke gripped the ornate rifle in one hand and held the remote control for the cheat device in the other.

The divine messengers in the sky are all legendary powerhouses, and some are even fantasy beings born from imagination. It is almost impossible to kill them. Duke has cheat items that can "instantly kill" those troublesome divine messengers, but he only has three seconds of cheat time and only one cooldown time for the "I Want" gun.

Logically, he should have used those three seconds of cheating time and the "I want to" moment to take down Norton in front of him, but Duke was a greedy guy; he wanted to take down all his enemies in one go.

Whether it was the divine messengers, Norton, or the sinful beast, they were all instantly killed within those three seconds.

This seemed like an impossible task. Duke seemed destined to be greedy and try to swallow an elephant, and Carol, who was hiding herself, would never be able to turn back time again. But Duke still couldn't help but think about this idea.

Norton's "resurrection" inspired Duke.

This is a world of quantum superposition, where every thing in reality is superimposed with countless possibilities. However, quantum superposition only exists at the microscopic level. The observation of the soul causes these superimposed possibilities to collapse into a definite link. The characteristic of the quantum floating city is that these possibilities appear simultaneously, first superimposed on macroscopic reality. Just like Norton, the possibility of his own existence and the possibility of the Norton in the mirror possessing consciousness coexist; both Nortons are "real" Nortons.

So, could he increase the possibility of stacking them together to turn one spear into thirteen spears?

"Since the 'I Think' gun is truly omnipotent and can do anything, then it should be able to accomplish any wild idea."

Duke took out a monocle, the Mirror of Radiance that he had given to Cecil earlier, but she later obtained the omnipotent "I think" and returned it to him. Duke put the monocle on and then looked around.

Cecil and Norton, the messenger who sensed something was wrong, clashed.

Amber nervously reached out and grabbed Duke's clothes. Unbeknownst to her, she had regained her spatial abilities and was ready to drag Duke away at any moment.

Anne was still treating her injuries, but she was also frowning and thinking about something, as if she had thought of something.

Monica and Blackie were too busy beating up the sinful beast to even glance at Duke and the others.

Noelle stared at the divine messenger Norton as if he were the murderer of her father.

The eleven divine messengers in the sky wore expressions of indifference and disdain for mortals, and made no intention of descending to help their "partner" Norton in battle; they simply waited silently for their god to arrive.

Duke took a deep breath and said softly:

"I want to let myself and the spear in my hand create thirteen possibilities from the countless facets of this world."

Duke's "I want" is a super-short version. If it were Cecil, she could recite four or five "I want" in a row, and then these words of power, carrying strong willpower, would be fulfilled one by one in reality. But the "I want" that Duke obtained through the favorability system can only be recited as one wish.

That's enough.

He weighed the weight of "I think" in his mind, and the Mirror of Radiance above his eyes began to light up. A large amount of data was displayed on the surface of the Mirror of Radiance, telling him what the wind speed was, the elemental concentration and the environment were like, and what angle and force to throw the spear at in order to hit the target.

The calculations targeting thirteen different objectives were being performed simultaneously within the Mirror of Radiance, and the thirteen answers appeared almost at the same time.

Then, the thirteen Dukes simultaneously pressed the button on the cheat device remote control, initiating a three-second countdown for the instant kill. As the countdown progressed from the first second to the second, the thirteen Dukes launched thirteen long spears.

The magnificent spear sliced ​​through the air, where possibilities overlapped.

They struck Norton, the messenger of God, the beast of sin, and the eleven non-human messengers of God in the sky.

The sound of breaking rang out simultaneously.

Norton, the Beast of Sin, the Eleven Divine Messengers.

At the same time, they vanished into thin air.

The floating city of quantum mechanics fell silent in an instant. All the battles ended due to the one-sided destruction. Everyone who was forced to stop turned their heads and looked at Duke with different emotions.

But then, everyone forgot about the miracle Duke had performed and looked up.

Because a real miracle occurred.

The mute population has begun to descend.

Chapter 289 Silence is Golden

The mute population has begun to descend.

In that instant, the world fell into absolute silence; no one could hear a sound.

A word flashed through Duke's mind:

Silence is golden.

In this absolute silence, he couldn't even hear his own heartbeat. Duke opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out. His vocal cords were vibrating, yet he couldn't make any sound waves travel through this world.

The others standing in front of Duke were also astonished and tried to speak, but none of them managed to utter a word or make any sound by tapping the ground.

In this silence, the mute are getting closer and closer to the world.

The mute remains that disappeared after the appearance of the divine messenger and Saint Megan reappeared. They did not become part of the gods. They remained themselves. The mute remains were still a soulless and mindless corpse, and Saint Megan still maintained her strange state of being too childish and naive. But they were not far from becoming part of the mute.

The arrival of a person with aphasia requires more than just a physical body.

His true form possesses divinity but is an incomplete deity (of course, the only essential condition for a deity's birth and operation is divinity; humanity is merely a superfluous burden). If He is to successfully descend upon the floating city, three requirements must be met: faith, physical body, and humanity.

First, a fervent and devout faith, only such faith would attract His attention; second, a suitable body for His use, and there is no body in the world more suitable than His remains; third, the humanity that the mute lacks, and as a "daughter" born from the remnants of humanity of the mute, Megan is fully capable of making up for His lack of humanity.

Clearly, thanks to the efforts of Norton, Bugatti, Carol, and others, all the conditions for the arrival of the mute have been met.

But at that moment, in the silent quantum floating city, Duke suddenly heard a sound, the only sound in the entire world, which made it stand out—it was the faint sound of someone crying.

Bugatti once said that this was the cry of the mute. He was a legendary figure in the floating city, having seen and heard the mute before she became a god, which was why he dared to make such a statement. As the cry of the mute echoed faintly in the quantum floating city, Duke suddenly thought of a possibility.

He originally thought that this quantum floating city was a collective memory world that gathered all the prisoners' impressions of the floating city, piling up possibilities and superimposing them. Therefore, everyone's final destination was this world, and there were no more memory worlds to go beyond.

But as it turns out, it's just that no one has ever successfully answered the question about the truth of this world; they can either leave or return. The accumulated possibilities here are beyond what the prisoners participating in the witch's game could experience—a simple example: in a real floating city, Norton couldn't possibly have a clone living in the mirror world, could he?