I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

……

"I wish you all good luck."

One moment, the words of the witch who presided over the ceremony were still echoing in their ears, and the next second, Duke and the other two suddenly fell into the sea, with a mouthful of seawater choking Duke.

"cough?!"

He quickly closed his mouth and nose, and then barely opened his eyes in the seawater.

Then, Duke was dumbfounded.

They didn't fall into the ocean from the surface, and this wasn't some shallow sea close to the surface, but the deep sea! Looking up, they couldn't even see any light from the outside world!

As soon as they entered the alternate dimension of the Witch Game, they were transported to the bottom of the deep sea!

This witch game even has first-encounter kills?!

The witch game in the floating city's surface world isn't some dark game from the underground world, so shouldn't there be a review of the witches' experiences beforehand? Why is there a witch game with a "first-meeting kill" mechanic openly recruiting players? Or is the hard requirement for participating in this witch game deep-sea diving ability, which the three of them just don't know?

Underwater breathing is indeed a third-circle spell, but it is generally only applicable to shallow water. In the deep sea, there is water pressure! And what about the native creatures in the deep sea who are good at underwater combat?

Besides, underwater breathing is a transformation spell, Duke doesn't know how to use it!

But soon, Duke realized that he did not feel any discomfort at all in the deep sea. He released his mouth and nose and found that he could breathe underwater. At the same time, he felt a sense of incongruity, as if his body had undergone some changes that he had not yet noticed.

Wow, a mermaid!

Duke heard Annie's exclamation behind him. He instinctively turned to look at Annie and asked, "Where?"

His voice carried normally underwater, and at the same time, Duke saw Annie and the armored witch she was still holding in her arms—their legs had disappeared, and their lower bodies had been replaced by beautiful fish tails.

They turned into a pair of mermaids!

But soon, Duke realized that the mermaid Anne was referring to wasn't herself or Stephanie, because her exclamation was directed at herself.

Duke looked down at his lower body and then realized where his sense of incongruity came from, because his legs had also disappeared, turning into a half-bodied fishtail.

Clearly, Duke has also turned into a mermaid.

"What's going on?!"

Exclamations rang out one after another not far away. Duke squinted and looked in those directions. The adventurers who had entered this witch's game before them had also turned into "mermaids" one by one. After all, unlike the stunningly beautiful Duke, Annie, and Stephanie, their appearances and expressions were rather tragic and could hardly be called "mermaids".

Duke sighed, exhaled some bubbles, and made his judgment:

"It seems that becoming a mermaid is the basic premise of this world."

Chapter 307 How did you infiltrate the secret unit?

Since there was nothing nearby, the adventurers who came in to complete the game left one by one after getting used to their mermaid bodies, leaving only Duke, Annie, and Stephanie, who were in no hurry, behind.

Duke waited until no more adventurers entered the Witch Game before turning to look at Stephanie.

Why...why are you looking at me like that?

Stephanie tensed up immediately. She crossed her arms over her chest and swam back half a step, trying to create distance between herself and Duke, but Annie blocked her way.

"Are you that scared? I'm not some monster." Duke's lips twitched slightly. "Don't worry, I don't plan to kill you to silence you..."

Annie, standing nearby, raised her hand in a questioning gesture: "Are you really not going to kill them to silence them?"

Stephanie: "???"

“Don’t kill her! Annie, stop interrupting and don’t scare her. I think she’s about to pee her pants.” Duke glared at Annie. “We’re in the water right now. If she really peees, we’ll be the ones in trouble!”

Anne thought about the scene and then about water's excellent conductivity. She immediately showed a slightly frightened expression. After weighing the pros and cons, she nodded solemnly and then patted Stephanie on the shoulder: "Don't worry, we don't plan to kill you to silence you."

Stephanie looked at the two of them, tears welling up in her eyes.

They're "not planning to kill them to cover it up" now, but what if they come up with a new idea later?

Even assuming they (specifically Duke) really don't intend to kill her to cover it up, then why would they do that? The excuse of "being afraid she'll leak urine" sounds like utter nonsense. Duke is a notorious fugitive; if he doesn't intend to kill her, he probably has some other reason in mind.

Could it be...? Could it be!

Is this infamous "witch killer" planning to add me to her harem, or even go further, to turn me into his slave and then use my beautiful body to vent his evil desires?

The thought of this made the armor-layered witch tremble. She instinctively reached out and made several hand gestures, stacking up several magical protective spells, before lowering her head again. Even though she had repeated the armor-layering spell countless times and was already very skilled at it, it could not bring her any sense of security at this moment—the image of Duke shattering all her protective spells with a light touch was still vivid in her mind.

After becoming an agent in the secret force of the floating city, Stephanie had anticipated this day, but she never expected it to come so soon... Duke was the legendary "witch killer," capable of impregnating witches with a single glare! Now that she was in Duke's hands, what kind of future awaited her was self-evident!

Stephanie felt like she could already see herself heavily pregnant, eyes rolling back, tongue sticking out.

Dad! Mom! Your daughter might fall into the hands of a pervert... Waaah, I'm still young, I've never even been in love!

Duke glanced at Stephanie, who was clutching her hair and making strange noises, and clicked his tongue: "I feel like I see some of Amber's shadow in her."

Anne immediately became alert: "You've fallen for her?!"

“No, no, no… I meant imagination. They should have a lot in common in that respect.” Duke clicked his tongue, shifting his attention from Stephanie, who was still lost in her own fantasies, and looked around at the surroundings. “Although the other adventurers have left, I think we should stay here for a while longer.”

Anne shook her head and denied it:

"But so far, I haven't found anything."

Since arriving in this alternate dimension, she had been observing the surrounding area and had come to the same conclusion as other adventurers: there really seemed to be nothing here! If Duke hadn't insisted on staying, and if she had entered this witch's game alone, she would have left by now.

“I haven’t found anything either,” Duke shrugged. “But the changes in our bodies are very unusual, as it’s highly unusual that there’s no one here.”

Anne raised an eyebrow, seemingly understanding something from Duke's words, but Stephanie, who had resigned herself to her fate (meaning she had finally managed to snap out of her delusions), asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"The changes happening to our bodies... do you think this is caused by the rules of the world?"

"Otherwise what?" Stephanie tilted her head. "If it wasn't the rules of the world that turned us into mermaids, what else could it be?"

“The truly top-tier combatants may not be able to crack the core of the Witch Game, but they also have ways to prevent the rules of the other dimension from affecting them. Back then, the near-legendary Kazuki could go on a rampage in the Cinderella Game. If it weren’t for the mute’s clone, the miracle witch, Lady Scarlet, could have single-handedly destroyed the Sleeping Beauty Game. Even Cecil, who just became a near-legendary, could break through the barrier between the memory worlds of the Turtle Soup Game through ‘I want to’.”

"What? What are you talking about?"

Stephanie was radiating an aura of idiocy. Annie beside her had already figured it out, while she was still completely clueless, not understanding why Duke was telling them about his glorious deeds.

Duke looked at the bewildered armored witch and couldn't help but sigh.

She not only shares common interests with Amber, but she might also get along well with Guangbao.

Then, he rolled his eyes, pointed to his chest, and explained:

"The rules of the world cannot affect my divine body, because the rules of the world would stimulate the mute and awaken Him. On the contrary, the magical effects of lower rank and longer duration will not stimulate Him. In other words, we became mermaids because someone nearby cast a spell to save our lives."

"what!"

Stephanie finally understood. Her eyes widened in surprise, and she looked around frantically, but couldn't find anyone else. She pouted unhappily, "You're lying."

"Don't worry, our savior is probably just shy."

While Stephanie looked around, Duke withdrew his gaze and refocused his observation on Stephanie, shifting his focus to ask, "Speaking of which, you're a witch, right? What's your name? What's your signature spell?"

Stephanie was startled and quickly covered her chest with her hands, looking at Duke, who was rumored to impregnate anyone he glared at, with a wary expression. She denied it, saying, "What witch? I'm not a witch! You're the witch!"

"Oh." Duke shook his head calmly. "I understand. Then I'll call you the Armor-Layered Witch."

"Pah, what armor-layered witch? I'm Stephanie, the Fingertip Witch... Ah."

With this girl's intelligence, how did she manage to infiltrate the city lord's secret forces?

Oh no, Guangbao has a competitor with the same character design... Oh, our Guangbao's biggest advantage is that he can fight, this guy is a noob, so it's okay.

Duke rolled his eyes, then pulled a scantily clad dress from his inventory and handed it to Stephanie.

"Here, put this on."

Stephanie instinctively took the clothes, and when she looked down, she saw that it was a blue strapless swimsuit.

Chapter 308 The Scheme of Handsome Men

Stephanie looked at the swimsuit she was holding, swallowed hard, and her hands trembled uncontrollably. It was unclear what story she was conjuring up again, but she quickly resigned herself to her fate, lowered her head, and asked another question that had been troubling her:

Why do you carry a women's swimsuit with you at all times?

Because entering the alluring West Coast requires wearing a swimsuit, and Duke knows that with his penchant for attracting women (thanks to his 25 Charm level with pretty boys), he might just lure some girl back to the secret base any day now. Therefore, he's stocked his inventory with no fewer than ten different styles of women's swimsuits.

It's not because he wanted Amber and the others to play dress-up! Absolutely not!

Duke coughed, not answering Stephanie's question, but pointing to Stephanie's clothes, which had become a clump from being soaked in water: "Aren't you uncomfortable?"

“It’s very uncomfortable, but…” Stephanie swallowed hard, closed her eyes resignedly, and said, “I understand.”

Having said that, she gritted her teeth and reached out to tear off her top in one go—in Stephanie's view, as a prisoner, she had no way to resist Duke's orders and could only be forced to strip naked in front of this pervert and change into the sexy swimsuit he had carefully selected in front of him.

Damn it, I'll never let you get away with this, Duke!

"Huh?"

Duke was stunned. He clearly hadn't expected Stephanie to change clothes right in front of him. He quickly turned his head to turn away, but Annie, who was beside him, reacted even faster. Her face darkened, and she swiftly covered Duke's eyes with her hand, saying sternly, "The number of rivals can't increase... I mean, I promised Amber and the others that I would keep an eye on you! Don't look!"

"I never planned to watch it in the first place!"

Stephanie, watching the two suddenly start arguing, finally realized that she might have misunderstood something. However, her half-undone top got stuck there, revealing half of her flat stomach. She thought about the gap between her fantasies and reality. As the humiliation on her face subsided, a sense of shame rushed to her head. Her face turned red, and she bent over and shrank into a ball.

Seeing that Duke and Annie had both turned away to give her space to change, Stephanie remained curled up for a long time before finally continuing her actions.

But after she threw her old top aside and struggled to put on the strapless swimsuit Duke had prepared for her, Stephanie suddenly froze—because a transparent finger hooked at the part of her swimsuit that connected her breasts. Although it didn't pull her swimsuit down, she was certain that the force was not her imagination.

"ah!"

Startled, Stephanie screamed. Duke and Annie heard her cry and turned around almost simultaneously.

It was as if they already knew what would happen if Stephanie changed her clothes. This pair of tacitly understanding scoundrels were clearly using the poor, idiotic operator as bait—otherwise, why wouldn't they change their clothes? Duke has plenty of swimsuits in his inventory! Enough for Annie to walk the Victoria's Secret runway.

Duke waved his hand, and the all-purpose trickery he created, composed of various spells, enchantments, and illusions, transformed into a truly omnipotent magical ability. Even in the pitch-black depths of the sea, he still emitted a dazzling light in places where light could not penetrate.

Stephanie and the mysterious entity that had snagged her swimsuit were both blinded by the blinding light, and could only utter cries of pain. The armored witch could only cover her eyes, while the mysterious entity, perhaps with higher resistance, regained its mobility after a brief cry of surprise and fled away from Duke.

But before it could escape for long, it crashed headfirst into a cage made of bones.

“Elemental creatures, huh? Give up. This is a 6th-circle spell, ‘Soul Cage,’ specially modified for elemental creatures.” Annie, who had already taken the lead on the path that the mysterious being was bound to take, sat on the cage and pouted. “Ever since Duke picked up that thieving cat, I’ve specifically learned how to restrain elemental creatures. Alright, benefactor, let’s see your true colors.”

"Waaah—"

With a weak, low groan, Duke, Anne, and Stephanie saw the true face of the mysterious being.

The water in the soul cage condensed into a vague human shape, and then after three or four seconds, it formed a petite mermaid who was holding her head and covering the spot where she had just bumped into the soul cage.

Her lower body, like Duke and the others, had a beautiful fishtail, while her upper body was that of a pretty, naked girl. Her sensitive chest was covered by two small seashells, and her body was covered with some seaweed, which was probably her only clothing.