I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Zun also picked a flower from the ground. Her eyes were fixed on the flower in her hand. The camera zoomed in and analyzed it. Soon it came to a conclusion: "This is a real plant, but its vitality is about thirty times stronger than that of ordinary plants."

Thirty times?

Duke glanced at Zun in astonishment. He had anticipated that the plants brought by the Tree of Life clone would be different from ordinary plants, but he never expected the difference to be so great and so outrageous.

Honestly, with a thirty-fold difference in vitality concentration, the fact that they can still stay obediently on the ground without turning into tree people or plants fighting zombies is really giving the residents of the floating city's underground world a lot of face.

"Is it possible to extract life force from these plants?" Duke asked curiously. "Also, do you think it's possible for them to transform into different forms through this abundant life force?"

"Take the War Tree, an elven companion unit, for example. The War Tree's life force concentration is similar to these flowers and plants, but I don't think they will become aggressive."

Zun shook her head, tossed the small flower in her hand into her mouth, and it went through the tube into the power reactor inside her body. Her dragon girl form's mouth wasn't just for decoration; it not only had a voice system but also a complete digestive system, used for combat and the daily life functions of disguising herself as a living being—in other words, this mechanical dragon girl could eat and bite in battle.

"Because they currently lack this structure and function, they have extremely high concentrations of vitality but cannot utilize it. However, if there are other changes in the future, my current judgment will no longer be valid."

"I understand."

If that towering tree is truly an incarnation of the divine Tree of Life, then it's not surprising what changes have occurred to these flowers and plants. If it were the real Tree of Life, creating a large number of soldiers from these flowers and plants would be a piece of cake, even reaching the level of the Candy Castle and the Bone Legion. It is a true top-tier deity.

Duke pinched his chin, frowning as he pondered. However, the information was far too scarce for him to determine what had happened. He only knew that this anomaly was definitely related to Noelle and the Leaf of Life, and that Cecil was very likely to have been affected by it.

"Guangbao will definitely not be defeated in such a short time."

Duke said with absolute certainty that the person he trusted most in the entire floating city was probably Cecil, not only because she was kind-hearted, but also because of her growth. She had become a near-legendary capable of standing on her own, possessing her own beliefs and convictions. He believed that his family's Radiant Witch would not be easily defeated even when facing a true legend or a true god, and could at least hold out until her companions arrived.

"But I can't leave her all alone."

After saying that, Duke took out two gold-level items from his pocket: the World Pocket Watch and the cheating device.

After changing his divine body, Duke's side effects of using cheat items to instantly kill a group of divine messengers naturally disappeared. If he wanted to kill a legend, he could only rely on cheat items or deus ex machina. The latter was obviously better than the former, which had serious side effects. However, he had not yet met the conditions for using the latter, so he could only make do with cheat items for the time being.

Duke prepared for battle, then looked at Zun. She tilted her head, understanding perfectly (heaven knows what conclusions her analysis system had drawn), and extended her hand, saying to Duke, "What do you need me to do, Mr. Duke?"

"Speaking of which, what functions does your body have, Zun?" Duke looked at the dragon wings behind the mechanical dragon girl in front of him. There were many obvious magical mechanical marks on her body. Zun probably deliberately did not hide them to avoid others misunderstanding her identity when they saw her. But at the same time, these obvious magical mechanical marks also made people who saw her wonder: "Can she fly?"

“Yes,” Zun replied calmly, then extended his hands to Duke, gesturing for him to hold them. “Where do we need to go?”

Duke reached out and grasped the dragon girl's hands, strangely feeling the coldness of the mechanical dragon girl's fingers, before clicking his tongue and replying, "Can you take me to see the whole view of that big tree from the sky?"

"no problem."

Zun nodded, and then the seemingly decorative mechanical dragon wings on her back transformed. When fully extended, each wing exceeded two meters in length. The steel-forged turbine accelerator began to heat up and erupted in dazzling flames. Then, she began a countdown:

"Five, four, three..."

The countdown stopped abruptly at "three," and before Duke could react, Zun had already taken off with him, soaring into the sky. The sudden acceleration startled Duke, who almost let go of Zun's hands. This acceleration was nothing to a god-like body, but Duke, still somewhat annoyed, complained, "What are you doing?"

"There was an attack, so the launch time was brought forward."

Hearing Zun's cold words, Duke was slightly taken aback and subconsciously looked down at the spot where they had just been. Looking down from the sky, he could only see lush or colorful flowers and plants, and nothing but their shadows. Where was the attack? Did the flowers and plants bite, or did their shadows look like they were hitting people...? Uh.

"So, is the attacker the flowers and plants, or their shadows?"

Zun answered succinctly: "Shadow."

As they flew into the sky, they quickly entered a deceleration phase. Upon reaching the ceiling of the underground world, Zun stopped moving, hovering in the air with Duke. At the same time, he released one of Duke's hands, allowing him to interlock his fingers with his other hand, and they hung steadily in the sky.

"The attacker was a shadow? A shadow creature similar to Little Black, or... Monica?"

Duke muttered a few words to himself, hovering in the sky. He first surveyed the magnificence of the "Tree of Life" for a while, then tried to discern what was in the area where the Tree of Life was located. However, due to the wildly growing plants, even though he was in the air, he couldn't get a good view. The only thing he could confirm was that no battle had taken place there.

Guangbao didn't get into a fight? Is it over already? Or was Guangbao tricked?

Just then, Zun suddenly spoke up, pointing in a certain direction and reminding Duke, who was focused on observing the Tree of Life: "Mr. Duke, look over there."

"what?"

Duke turned his head and looked there, and then he saw a huge shadow appear on the ground, pressing down on a large patch of plants, as if something huge in the sky had blocked out the light and imprinted its body on the ground.

However, a problem arises: firstly, there is no such strong light source above the underground world of the floating city. The ceiling here is not lit, and the light source is usually the street lamps. Now, it has been replaced by the faint light emitted by the towering trees. Secondly, there is no such huge thing hovering in the air casting its shadow on the ground.

They were both suspended in mid-air, with absolutely nothing around them!

“So, this is shadow magic.” Duke narrowed his eyes. “Zun, do you recognize Monica’s face?”

“I have seen the portrait of the former city lord, Monica.”

"Very good, she must be hiding somewhere in the underground world. Can you find her with your camera?"

"No problem," Zun nodded, and less than a second after she agreed, she said crisply, "Found it."

"what?"

Duke paused for a moment, then looked in the direction Zun pointed and immediately saw Monica. However, besides this former city lord who had been taken out of the Tower of Babel by Carol, there were other people with her, and these people were all people Duke knew very well—Amber, Blackie, and Amber's older brother, the elf prince Bain.

He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:

"Amber? Why are Amber and Blackie here? And didn't Bain go back to the Elf Kingdom?"

Not long after the Sleeping Beauty Game, Bane left the floating city. After all, he was a busy and powerful elven prince, and he couldn't stay in the floating city for a long time like some irresponsible little princess to have a romance. His last return to the floating city to help conquer the witch's game was actually one of the deals he made with Carol.

When Bane left the floating city, his companions who had gone through the Sleeping Beauty game with him even saw him off. Duke watched him fly away on a griffin... And now, less than two months later, he's back?

Is this elf prince really that busy...? No, what is he doing here?

From Duke's perspective, Bane and Monica seemed to be on the same side, while Amber, with her little black hair on her head, was questioning her brother. At such a distance, Duke naturally couldn't hear what they were saying, and the elven siblings who were arguing obviously didn't notice Duke and Zun, who were suspended in the air.

“Bane, why are you here? Why are you with Monica?” Duke turned to look at Zun in surprise. She explained expressionlessly, “I can read lips.”

"Wow, awesome."

After receiving Duke's insincere praise, Zun continued to relay Amber and Bane's conversation. She even thoughtfully used different voices to distinguish between the two speakers. When relaying Amber's words, she used a voice very similar to Amber's, while when relaying Bane's words, she randomly chose a rough voice that didn't quite match. This was obviously because she had only heard Amber speak.

"This is part of a deal between the Elf Kingdom and the Floating City. (Bane)"

"Trade! Trade! All you ever do is trade, trade and trade, and what have you brought to the kingdom? What does the kingdom really want from the Floating City? Why do you never talk to me about these things, brother!" (Amber)

“You’re not suited to get involved. You’re not suited to do this dirty stuff.” (Bain)

"That's what you say again. I'm not suitable... Fine, then as the princess of the Elf Kingdom, shouldn't I be entitled to know what you're planning? My friend is still in the Underworld, and I don't want your plans to affect her. (Amber)"

Listening to Zun's retelling, Duke showed a slightly surprised expression. From the retelling, it sounded like Amber had managed to calm down from her initial excitement. The little girl who used to be easily startled by any accident after entering the Witch Game could now maintain basic composure. Had she grown so much in just a few months?

Not only Duke looked surprised, but Bain, who was in the distance, also looked at his younger sister with great surprise, as if he had never met her before, and it took him a long time to explain his purpose.

"Carol wants to kill the Mute Ones, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want the Floating City to have a god; it's just that the Mute Ones are currently a cancer to the Floating City." (Bane)

"A malignant tumor? Why? (Amber)"

"Are you completely unaware of the rampant growth of the Aphasic faith over the past few centuries? Don't you remember the Talia incident? And the numerous and complex gray organizations in this underworld—they all have Aphasic backgrounds to varying degrees. Due to mismanagement of the faith, over 70% of the Aphasic followers are potential criminals, enemies who threaten the rule of the Floating City. (Bane)"

There is absolutely no problem with this statement; the vast majority of organizations and followers of aphasia are such a malignant tumor.

Because of an accident at birth, the Mute One, despite possessing the status of a chief god of a pantheon, failed to obtain a corresponding position in the floating city. The result of being suppressed by Monica for many years was the chaos and failure of faith. When a god's followers are mostly villains who mingle in the underworld, he will naturally be corrupted into an evil god.

The mute one, who has become too big to handle, has become a cancer in the floating city and should be removed.

"So, you're planning to eliminate the Mute Ones? (Amber's expression was rather grim, clearly worried about Duke's safety.)"

"No, this is preparation for the birth of a new god. (Bain)"

While the elven siblings were talking, Monica, who was standing next to Bane, moved. She took a deep breath, aimed at the shadow on the ground, and began casting a spell again to try to change its shape... Amber, Bane, and even Duke and Zun all turned their gazes to the huge shadow on the ground.

Amber and Bane could barely make out the full shadow, but Amber spotted Duke hovering in the air and waving at them.

But Duke and Zun were in the sky, and they could see the entire shadow clearly.

This shadow... its posture is exactly the same as Duke and Zun, who are currently suspended in the air. They are both dragon-men with outstretched wings, holding the man's hand and hovering in the air. However, the shadow is incredibly huge, as if there is a huge luminous object behind them.

A thought flashed through Duke's mind.

not good!

then.

A bizarre reversal of cause and effect has occurred in the real world.

The shadow that was first formed, once its physical form was in place, then worked backwards to construct the light source.

In an instant, the scorching sun blazed down behind Duke and Zun.

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Anne and Stephanie gazed at the sun hanging in the sky.

Clearly, it was not the real sun in nature, nor even just a luminous sphere; Anne sensed a faint divine quality emanating from it.

Anne had seen gods. In the Turtle Soup Witch game, she once saw the city's only guardian, the Mute. At the time, she didn't feel much urge to worship him, but she had to admit that the Mute's radiance was the most dazzling of all the high-ranking beings she had ever seen in her life.

Even the miracle witch she glimpsed briefly in Sleeping Beauty is no match for the mute's divine essence.

Anne sensed a power similar to that of the mute from the blazing sun in her field of vision. She quickly realized that it was divinity, the key that could lead one to the path of mythology.

Then, she suddenly turned to Stephanie beside her and asked, "Stephanie, do you want to become a god?"

"Huh?" Stephanie was slightly taken aback. She obviously didn't understand Anne's thought process, nor did she sense any divinity from the sun. In her eyes, it was just a big fireball, nothing special. "I haven't thought about it, but what's so good about becoming a god? I don't want to become a god, and I don't want others to believe in me or worship me."

“Indeed.” Anne nodded in agreement. “What’s the point of being believed in and worshipped?”

As a former and current social phobia sufferer, she is a typical yandere with a lack of love syndrome. She really cannot understand what it means to be worshipped as a god, nor does she think that among the people close to her, there are any who desire to become gods.

However, the will of the "deity" being worshipped may not be able to prevent him from being worshipped and believed in.

For example, Duke is worshipped as a god by the Dream Clan, and this will not change based on his personal will. Even if Duke finds the Dream Clan and clearly explains that he does not want to be worshipped as a god, it will probably be to no avail.

So here's the question: Does Date want to be worshipped? Or, to put it another way, as a deity, does she have any objections to those villains who worship her?

Anne shook her head, ending her philosophical musings on the relationship between gods and believers, and then quickly walked forward, wanting to get closer to the Tree of Life and the sun.

“No, are we really going in?” Stephanie looked at Annie walking forward, but didn’t follow immediately. Instead, she hesitated and stopped in place. “It looks very dangerous in there.”

"It's okay, you can start stacking armor now, you armor-stacking witch."

"I am not the armor-layered witch!"

Stephanie stomped her foot in anger, but Anne ignored her and strode into the depths of the underground world.

She did want to abandon Annie, but she was truly powerless to do so, because Stephanie had been cursed by this evil necromancer. Once she was more than a certain distance away from her, her life force would rapidly drain away. This curse made her dare not distance herself from Annie at all.

Seeing Annie getting further and further away, Stephanie stomped her feet and sped up to catch up, afraid that Annie would fall behind. At the same time, although she said things like "I'm not an armor-layering witch," her body obediently began to cast armor-layering spells.

Anne glanced at Stephanie, who had caught up, and remarked, "As expected of you."

The two traversed the lush sea of ​​plants at a rapid pace. While maintaining her speed (by using her bone-enhancing ability to give herself two extra-long "exoskeleton" legs to help her move forward), Annie glanced up at the sun in the sky, pondering why it had appeared in this underground world.

"Seriously, isn't this a gap in the magical mechanical structure inside the floating city? Is it really okay to put a sun in here? Won't the floating city explode?"