I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

"Duke Meow..."

Monica's attack did not affect Carol. In other words, the reason why the Shadow Witch was able to regain her fighting power was entirely due to Carol undoing the time reversal. Since she dared to do this, it means that Carol must have a backup plan to deal with Monica.

Carol didn't even glance at Monica in her mythical form. Monica had been her ultimate goal, something she had achieved decades ago, and Carol had no interest in continuing her ill-fated relationship with her.

She simply snapped her fingers lightly.

"Restart".

As a result, the entire witch game was reset.

The streets of the floating city, which had been destroyed in the legendary battle, were restored to normal at a visible speed, and Monica's mythical form was also reversed in time at a visible speed.

In the span of a single breath, she broke free of her mythical form. Two breaths later, she slammed to the ground, her heart once again missing from her chest, and began an endless torment of time.

“Carol…”

The lamentations of the defeated could not affect Carol's thoughts. Holding the leaf of the Tree of Life, she began to think about how she could break the deadlock. The best outcome she had hoped for was no longer possible, but her minimum goal still had a chance of success.

"Let's begin then."

Carol raised her hands, and the leaf of the Tree of Life she held in her hands emitted a dazzling light. It quickly melted into an emerald green liquid, and then condensed into a liquid humanoid shape. The body was genderless, its height was variable, and its appearance was unpredictable. All the body's data would be related to the soul that entered it.

This is the spare body Carol prepared for the mute.

Sure enough, after the emerald liquid took on a humanoid form, the mute's eyes lit up. The enormous entity immediately condensed, shrinking into a ball, and burrowed into its body formed from the leaves of the Tree of Life. Then, its body evolved into a divine form. Its posture began to resemble those of the previous inhuman divine messengers, and its appearance grew to resemble Megan's.

The mute will devour Duke, using his humanity as a substitute, and descend upon the floating city with a body based on the leaves of the Tree of Life.

Carol's goal was only possible because of this fact.

But she still wanted to save Duke.

How to save him?

No, perhaps it doesn't need saving!

Carol's gaze hardened instantly; she decided to forcefully push forward with her plan—the plan to kill a god!

Just as the original plan was to kill the mute's divinity, to pry open His soul, and to bring out the Dukra that had not yet been completely devoured and assimilated (if any remnants remained)!

"There's no other way, let's just leave it at that."

She was ready to call out to Eve, who was always waiting for her.

But at that moment, the body's appearance changed, transforming from a perfect woman's face into... a perfect handsome man.

As everyone knows, there are many inhumanly beautiful women in the floating city, but only one inhumanly beautiful man.

Duke!

Chapter 292 Savior 3k

Carol said Duke was messing around, but Duke wasn't messing around at all.

He was certain of his success, which is why he dared to let the mute devour him.

Although Duke is known as Mad Duke and always seems to have a death wish, he's still a person with feelings, so how could he not be afraid of death... well, maybe. Anyway, Duke once had his soul devoured—didn't he lose his soul duel with Talia and then get completely swallowed by her?

At that time, Talia had barely won a victory against Duke, and before she could regroup, the world she cherished was hastened to its apocalypse by the newly awakened Jasmine's "Song of Destruction." As a "hero" of her homeland, Talia did everything in her power to send as many people as possible out of the world and into the floating city, before dying from exhaustion.

But honestly, is it reasonable for a legend to die from exhaustion? Even if she was on her last breath, she shouldn't have died from exhaustion—after all, after winning the soul duel, she devoured Duke's soul as sustenance, so she should have recovered a considerable amount of power.

The only answer is that she simply "swallowed" Duke's soul, without managing to absorb even a fraction of his power. It was precisely because she won without any spoils that she was ultimately driven to exhaustion.

So the question is, why was Talia unable to absorb even a single bit of Duke's power back then?

Duke believes there is only one truth.

System protection.

The Witch Conquest System has never been very prominent, but all of Duke's trump cards were ultimately obtained because of the system's existence. Its existence and status are perhaps much higher than Duke imagined—although its name and function seem somewhat comical, Duke has never doubted the system's power.

It was because of the system's potential protections that Duke dared to cosplay as Sun Wukong, voluntarily entering the abdomen of a mute person and writing "I was here."

Duke may not be a fearless madman, but he is definitely a crazy gambler.

As it turned out, Duke made the right bet.

Duke, who was swallowed by the mute, remained conscious and stayed inside the mute's body. Apart from the faint crying that kept echoing in his ears, he could not only see what was happening outside, but also was immune to Carol's time stop and could see her complete actions.

Then, the mute's divine instincts led it to enter the body created by the leaf of the Tree of Life, and Duke, who was inside it, had no choice but to enter the leaf of the Tree of Life as well. The situation was slightly different from what Carol had expected... The mute did not gain humanity by devouring him, and the final being that descended would not be the "mute" that Carol had hoped for, but a divine monster.

Duke, trapped inside the mute's body, will find no way to escape. He can only wait for Carol to carry out her god-slaying plan, and then gamble on whether his soul will be unaffected by the battle between the legend and the god after the fight ends... He prays that his soul will still be intact when the battle is over.

If it weren't for Duke's unexpected turn of events, Carol would now be pondering the philosophical question of whether it's more difficult to deal with a "monster with only divinity" or a "god who possesses both humanity and divinity."

But Duke's presence still caused an unexpected turn of events.

Although he has abandoned his body, Duke can still use his inventory and take out the items he previously put in.

For example, cheating devices.

【Item Name: Cheating Tool】

[Item Description: "Invincible! Dazzling! Like a shooting star! The strongest player in gold! Hyperion!"]

[Item Effect: Allows you to choose one of the following cheat modes: invincibility, invincibility, instant kill, teleportation, unlimited money, resurrection, or unlimited mana. The effect will last for three seconds and then end.]

He couldn't use Instant Kill, as his soul was still under the influence of side effects. But even if he could use Instant Kill, he most likely wouldn't choose to destroy the mute from the inside—an option Duke had never tried before, which made him almost unable to look away.

resurrection.

"Theoretically, the mute became this deity after death, right? So the question is, can I revive her 'humanity' within her body?"

And so, Duke succeeded.

The sobbing that echoed within the mute's body abruptly ceased, and a tiny soul appeared before Duke. The newly resurrected humanity, like a newborn child, opened its eyes with a mixture of confusion and curiosity, seeing the first person it had encountered since its rebirth.

In the towering divinity of the mute, Duke gazes into the humanity of the mute.

She looked like a young Megan, her intelligence and memories not yet fully awakened; she simply stared curiously at Duke, blinking occasionally. This strange eye contact lasted for a few seconds before Duke finally couldn't bear it any longer and asked:

"Little friend, what's your name?"

"Name...name." The little mute lowered his head and pondered for a moment before raising his head and saying excitedly, "My name is Ida."

As she uttered her name, the mute's divinity shrank instantly, merging with Little Ida and falling into a deep sleep, while Duke was ejected from the mute's divinity and took over the body made of the leaves of the Tree of Life.

Because of the change of master, the leaf of the Tree of Life suddenly changed its appearance, turning from a charming woman into a charming and demonic man—the changes that the mute divinity had just brought to this body were still preserved. In other words, Duke obtained a divine body.

This is way more exciting than artificial remains!

Duke began to familiarize himself with his new body, and then glanced at his attribute panel:

[Basic Attributes: Strength?, Agility?, Constitution?, Intelligence?, Perception?, Charisma 25.]

Good heavens, strength and agility are still unseen questions, but charm is skyrocketing towards inhumanity.

"what happens?"

Carol's somewhat bewildered voice rang out. She looked at Duke, but it didn't seem like she was looking at Duke—from her perspective, the mute had vanished into thin air.

This doesn't make sense! The person with aphasia must be asleep inside Duke's body for some unknown reason!

She probably didn't even realize she'd stumbled upon the right answer, but that wasn't a good thing for Duke—because Carol didn't stop preparing.

"Eve!"

She called upon her old partner.

Regardless, Carol was determined to carry out her god-slaying plan, and this was the perfect opportunity! It didn't matter whether the person controlling this body was Duke or the mute... For the sake of the floating city, she had to destroy this body!

For this purpose, she had been preparing for decades. After becoming the lord of the floating city, she had been plotting the killing of a god. Especially in the last ten years, Carol had calculated countless contingency plans and exhausted almost all possibilities in order to achieve her ultimate goal. And indeed, she had successfully trapped the mute in a mortal body.

Carol was given her only chance to kill a god.

Therefore, even if it means killing Duke, Carol will not stop!

The Witch Game, which had just been reset, began to collapse. This world had already reached its limit. The arrival and sudden disappearance of the true god caused it to bounce back and forth on the edge of overload, finally destroying the world's already fragile balance.

The world began to collapse, and space began to thin.

Duke was still unable to control his body. He watched Carol's movements, watched as the power of the Witch of Wishes penetrated the world, came into her hand, and gathered into a longsword.

This longsword is the greatest masterpiece of the floating city, capable of slaying gods.

"I want to interrupt Eve's wish."

Cecil's voice rang out. She had already exhausted her last bit of strength, but somehow she managed to squeeze out a little more. She swung the Spear of My Thought and used Legendary Fate to interrupt the Witch of Wishes' Legendary Fate.

Little Black leaped onto Annie's head, then hugged Cecil tightly, grabbing Amber's left hand in one. Both hands transformed into skeletal forms, converting their power into pure life force and channeling it into the bodies of their two rivals. Cecil's final act of interrupting Eve's wish stemmed from this power, which also allowed Amber's spatial magic to penetrate the weak spatial barrier.

They arrived at Duke's side in an instant, and Amber quickly grabbed Duke's forming body with her remaining hand, preparing to take him away from this world.

"Amber! Cecil! Anne! What are you planning to do?"

“I’m sorry,” Amber licked her lips, “but I’ve always been a willful elf princess.”

After saying that, she led everyone away from the witch's game and away from the Tower of Babel.

The floating city and Carol's "excellent pawns"—Amber, Cecil, Annie, and Duke—have all broken free from her "control" and stood on the opposite side.

Carol stood frozen in place for a long time, as if she were the only person left in the whole world.

After a long while, she slowly sighed and snapped her fingers:

"Restart".

The world has been reset once again.

The collapse of the original world came to an abrupt end, as if it were an illusion.

The Time Witch did not use time-stopping or time-reversal techniques. If she wanted, she could stop Amber and the others from leaving at any time, and also prevent the world from collapsing and the spatial barrier from weakening.

But she did nothing; she simply let them go on purpose.

Carol looked up at the stars in the sky, as if talking to herself, or as if speaking to someone.

She decisively let go of her decades-long obsession, and softly said to the distant stars:

"I hope you can become our savior, just as you say, Duke."

Chapter 293 This is too much torture!