I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

[Item Effect: Share your fate with the mute.]

[Special Note: This item will change after the mute person accepts you.]

Duke glanced at the system's description of the little girl in front of him. In the eyes of the Witch's Guide System, Ida was not an independent existence, but a prop... And that was indeed the case. The mute's humanity and divinity were both in Duke's divine body at this moment. He could clearly feel her and His existence. The little mute in front of him, who looked like a piece of jade, was a body remotely controlled by the mute. In essence, it should be a creation made up of the ten props that Duke had just drawn.

The mere mention of this caused Duke a pang of pain in his heart.

Damn it! My ten-pull ticket! My ten newly acquired items! My golden legendary item!

Duke didn't even have time to see what kind of outrageous cheat he had drawn was before the gods of the floating city personally sealed his title, confiscating his item and turning him into an item himself.

"Living and dying together" and "sharing the fate" with the mute—that doesn't sound like good news, does it? Duke is just a mere mortal. Let alone a legend who can stand shoulder to shoulder with gods, he's not even a hero. Relying on various gadgets and his pre-learned all-powerful trickery and spell thievery, Duke's regular combat strength barely meets the minimum standard for a hero. Even Cecil from the beginning of the story could easily defeat him, let alone gods.

And now you're saying that the fate of the gods will be tied to his?

What might seem like a trivial fate to someone with aphasia could be an insurmountable obstacle for Duke, a single misstep and his life could be over. Well, given Duke's past experiences, anyone with similar abilities would likely have died countless times. Perhaps being bound to someone with aphasia makes no difference to him.

What's truly frightening is the Aphasiat's interference with the Witch Conquest System... But Duke also has some clues about this. Judging from the item description of this artifact called the Mythical Age, the reason it can interfere with the system is ultimately because it has resurrected its humanity and linked its own fate with it.

This may be the side effect of "resurrection".

Those who can be successfully resurrected are all the dead, beings who have lost their destiny. Therefore, after resurrection, Duke's task is to "share" his own destiny with the resurrected. This time, he resurrected the human aspect of the mute, Ida. Unlike ordinary dead people, the mute's human aspect is dead, but his divine aspect is still alive... which directly led to this result.

Duke tied his fate to that of a god.

"My name is Ida."

Ida's repeated words reached Duke's mind again, interrupting his thoughts. It seemed that she, who shared his fate, couldn't hear his thoughts, which made Duke breathe a sigh of relief. Then he heard Ida continue:

"Big brother, what's your name?"

Duke placed Ida, whom he was holding, on the ground.

She looked like a younger version of Megan, or a completely smaller version of the mute, but compared to the inhuman, irrational, and ruthless gods and the mature, sometimes mad saints, the little Ida in front of Duke not only had the innocence and cuteness of someone her age, but also a unique charm—a natural leadership that made people want to follow her.

Is this the core of the Common Heart faction, the top witch who once rivaled Lady Scarlet and forced Monica to go to great lengths to assassinate her?

However, this innate leadership did not affect Duke—in order to adapt to the rules of the alluring West Coast, little Ida was wearing an adorable pink children's swimsuit, which basically destroyed the slightly age-inappropriate temperament she possessed.

Others probably feel the same way.

Duke lowered his head and said softly:

"My name is Duke, hello Ida."

"Hello."

Little Ida looked at Duke with a beaming smile. Like in the legends, she was unable to speak, and could only express her thoughts through the hearts of those around her. She nodded politely, then looked at Duke, whose fate was intertwined with hers, and said with a smile:

"Big Brother Duke, can you take me to see the streets of the floating city?"

……

"Wow, this is quite different from what I was like back then."

Riding on Duke's neck, Ida looked around the streets with great excitement. The magical technology of the floating city was developing very rapidly. The ever-changing technology also kept the streets developing rapidly. Almost every ten years, the streets would become completely unrecognizable.

Duke personally experienced the speed of change in the quantum floating city.

As for Little Ida, she had been away from the floating city for hundreds of years. Everything here was completely different from her time, and she found everything new and exciting.

But strangely, she never asked Duke any questions... because whenever she saw something new, her mind would immediately conjure up relevant information and tell little Ida what it was, when it was invented, and by whom.

Since its birth, the mute god has been silently watching over the floating city for hundreds of years. He has witnessed the city's development and all the miraculous changes. Nothing that appears in the floating city can escape his gaze... From a certain perspective, He as a god and Ida as a human are two personalities belonging to the "mute".

While individuals with multiple personalities may have drastically different traits and ways of handling situations, they should possess the same level of knowledge. Just as most cases of amnesia don't turn people into idiots, even if you lose all your knowledge and common sense, you can still know that you're thirsty and need to drink water, and that one plus one equals two. This is because knowledge and memories are stored in different parts of the brain.

The same principle applies to this world of swords and magic... Whether it's the humanity or divinity of the mute, they all exist within the same soul at this moment, and their memories and knowledge are naturally shared to a certain extent.

"Duke Duke, why are there so many dwarves?"

"The floating city is currently undergoing expansion, and thankfully there are so many dwarves around, which makes you less conspicuous."

Duke sighed and glanced to the side, where he vaguely saw Annie's figure.

Oh well, that yandere will come no matter what, and there's no point in trying to stop her.

"Little Ida."

"What's wrong, big brother?"

"Do you think there's a quick way to become a legend? You probably know that if I die, you'll die too, right? I'm too weak right now. If something happens to me, I can't protect you."

Duke asked casually. After the battle at Turtle Soup, he had an unprecedented thirst for power. Duke also wanted to become a legend and have the combat power of Light Treasure. In that case, with cheat items and deus ex machina, he could do everything he wanted... Unfortunately, let alone a legend, he couldn't even get close to becoming a hero.

He didn't actually expect Ida to give an answer, but...

"A quick way to become a legend? I know."

Her inner thoughts were tinged with a smile:

"Pray to me, Duke."

Chapter 301 How many girlfriends does that older brother have?

Prayer is out of the question; there's no way I could pray to someone who's mute in this lifetime. I can only try to win over the witch and make a living through lotteries.

Duke believed that the mute individuals did indeed possess the ability to quickly become legendary figures. Even at their worst, becoming a near-legendary level professional was never difficult. The eleven non-human divine messengers he instantly killed in the Quantum Floating City were all legendary-level beings. Were they collected one by one from the Floating City by the mute individuals? How could that be? In just a few hundred years, how could the Floating City have gathered so many legendary powerhouses who voluntarily became mute individuals?

It took Norton over a hundred years to finally find a way to become a messenger of God.

In other words, the reason why those divine messengers possess legendary combat power is because of the blessings of the mute, just like the "divine messenger revelation" in the dream world, who evolved after being favored by the mute.

But this is a heretical path. Not to mention that Duke would have to accept the control of the mute, it's questionable how much combat power those quickly made legends actually have, or whether they can compare to a genius like Cecil who takes things one step at a time.

Therefore, Duke certainly wouldn't go to pray to the mute to gain strength.

Therefore, when faced with Ida's suggestion, "Pray to me, Duke," Duke replied without hesitation:

"I'm sorry, I refuse."

"Eh~~" Ida's inner voice lingered in Duke's mind as she said with some regret, "I see. What a pity. I was hoping to make you the messenger of the mute."

After saying that, she jumped off Duke's neck and landed steadily on the ground. She pouted unhappily and wobbled forward on her own. She probably wanted to walk faster and shake off Duke behind her, but because her body was too petite at the moment, even if she walked as fast as she could with a wobbly gait, she could not make up for the difference in stride between her and Duke, and could not widen the distance between them at all.

Duke followed behind Ida, asking with some curiosity, "Aren't you the humanity of the mute? Why are you so actively helping the mute preach their divinity?"

“Strange, there’s no contradiction between Him and me, no conflict between us. He is me, so why shouldn’t I actively spread the word?” Ida turned and gave Duke a strange look. At the same time, her clear inner voice rang out: “Duke, how do you think I became a god?”

"Eh? You were assassinated by Monica and became a god after your fall."

"So, does that mean every legendary figure becomes a god after being killed?" Ida rolled her eyes at him, her tone tinged with annoyance. "Is becoming a legend really such a good thing?"

"of course not."

Duke is now a very knowledgeable person. He has not only witnessed the death of a legend, but he has also killed more than one or two legends, a total of double digits!

But whether it was Talia, the Beast of Sin, Norton, or the eleven divine messengers, they were only slightly more difficult to kill than ordinary mortals. If they were not completely wiped out, they would always die and come back to life, their spirits lingering. But when they finally died from exhaustion, they all vanished into thin air just like ordinary people, and there was no case of them becoming gods on the spot.

Duke immediately understood Ida's meaning: "So, becoming a god after falling was part of your plan all along?"

"To be precise, becoming a god was part of my plan. I didn't originally intend to die." Ida spread her hands. Her appearance was perfect and cute, like a porcelain doll. She only took a few steps and attracted the attention of many passers-by on the roadside of the floating city. "Becoming a god automatically after falling was a reasonable accident for me, because I had already prepared all the conditions required for a god."

Ida paused, a slightly embarrassed expression on his face, and continued:

"If it weren't for that, that damn Monica probably wouldn't have been in such a hurry to prepare for the assassination... Ouch, just thinking about it makes me ache."

She rubbed her chest, wondering how Monica had killed her. Judging from her actions... she must have ripped out her heart or lungs.

"Then you deserve it." Duke rolled his eyes. "She just became the lord of the floating city and heard that you were planning to make a big splash. If I were her, I would be furious too."

"To be honest, that's true."

Ida nodded in agreement, then smiled brightly in a certain direction and waved, eliciting adoring screams from passersby and showcasing the ultimate cuteness of a human child. However, Duke quickly recognized that Annie, who had been following them, was hiding in that direction.

However, Anne was even more shameless than Duke. After Ida exposed her stalking behavior on the spot, she walked out of the hiding place without changing her expression, and then walked into another hiding place in front of Duke and Ida, showing no intention of ending the stalking.

"Duke, I'm curious about your relationship with them."

Date looked away, turned around, and asked with a curious expression.

This time, the expressionless person was Duke, the deadly scumbag of the floating city, a witch assassin wanted by the floating city authorities for dating the current city lord (?), who said without changing his expression: "We're all friends."

Do any of your friends have girlfriends?

"……Have."

"How many girlfriends does the older brother have in total?"

"..."

Duke originally wanted to answer "one," but looking at the three intimate names in the Witch's Conquest System, even as a notorious scumbag in the Floating City, he was too ashamed to say "one," so he could only silently turn his head away and shut his mouth.

"Hehe, this is really interesting."

Ida laughed, but the smile quickly cooled, tinged with a strange glint in her eyes, revealing an emotion inappropriate for her physical age. The chuckling sound that had been playing in Duke's mind also suddenly subsided, the previously childish voice becoming more mature. Duke even had the illusion that he heard Megan speaking.

"Since you are unwilling to pray to me, I have another way to quickly become a legend for you to choose from."

Duke felt he had guessed what she was going to say.

"Duke, follow the path I once took and become a god."

Since you don't want to be a messenger of the gods, then become a god yourself. What a simple and crude idea!

The path to legend is a thorny one where one cannot rely on others, but is there room and possibility for opportunism on the path to godhood?

Duke raised an eyebrow, somewhat puzzled by Ida's sudden change, but didn't ask any questions. Faced with Ida's new suggestion, he hesitated for about three or four seconds before finishing his thought and speaking:

"tell me the story."

Chapter 302 What Does Amber Yearn For?

While Duke and Ida were shopping, Annie followed behind.

Amber used short-range teleportation repeatedly in the streets of the floating city, quickly weaving through the crowds of people.

After Duke woke up, he always acted alone, dealing with matters related to the Dream Clan and the power of faith, with Annie occasionally following him. Amber, Cecil, and even Little Black were all busy with their own affairs, and they could only gather together after they finished and returned to the Enchanted West Coast at night.

In fact, among the rebel squad, the only one wanted by the floating city authorities was Duke. The others could have gone home and lived freely—as long as they weren't afraid of being caught by the secret forces kept by the city lord's mansion... It didn't even matter if they were caught, as Carol's target wasn't them, but rather to find Duke through the clues they left behind.

Therefore, apart from Duke, no one else needed to use disguise magic to change their appearance; they just needed to be careful not to get caught.

In fact, the pursuit by the secret force was not a difficult task for everyone.