I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

"Mmm, delicious."

Then, she realized something was wrong.

A surge of heat rose from her lower abdomen and spread throughout her body. Nona felt her cheeks burning, and her gaze towards Duke became somewhat unfocused. Duke was already breathtakingly handsome, but previously, in Nona's eyes, he seemed more like a cold-blooded and ruthless villain. With that filter in mind, Nona naturally couldn't feel any affection for him. But now, that filter not only disappeared, but even changed its appearance. In Nona's eyes, Duke suddenly seemed more pleasing to the eye.

His every move brought Nona a great sense of security.

Unbeknownst to her, in Nona's mind, Duke's image began to overlap with those of people she had liked before.

She slowly exhaled, then called out in a soft, gentle voice:

"Duke~~"

"I'm here." Duke nodded, then coldly turned his head away, put the cake away, and didn't look at Nona again. But even with such a cold attitude, Nona did not change her attitude. She still looked at Duke with longing, as if she were looking at her lover.

Little Cecil was startled by Nona's eager gaze and quickly hid behind Amber. The seductive elf, however, didn't mind her boyfriend being stared at like that—Annie's gaze at Duke was even more outrageous, and Amber never said anything. Anyway, she could tell that Duke didn't like Nona.

She was just curious about what the cake was.

"You drugged that cake?" The perverted elf's thought process hadn't changed at all. "What kind of drug was it, and how could it be so potent?"

Duke's lips twitched slightly: "...Why are you so concerned about this?"

“Because I’ve never tried it before,” the lecherous elf said matter-of-factly. “I’ve always wanted to try this medicine, to see if it’s really like the ones in those dark elf picture books, that makes you feel so good you’ll feel terrible… Anyway, can I have a piece, Duke?”

At this point, Amber's tone even sounded somewhat ingratiating, making it hard to believe that less than ten minutes ago, this girl was still giving her the cold shoulder—of course, after the Little Prince phantom incident broke the awkward silence between the two, couples in love usually tacitly pretend that nothing had happened and quietly return to their daily lives.

“I didn’t drug her, and she (pointing at Nona) wasn’t in heat… probably.” Duke rolled his eyes. “Ahem, if you really want to experience it, I suggest you go find Eve. At least there won’t be any safety issues with her.”

Amber nodded thoughtfully, seemingly agreeing with Duke's point. She figured that once the floating city's warrant for Duke's arrest was lifted, she really would go to Eve for a bottle of magical potion she'd never tried before, and then use time magic to find Duke…

Duke didn't care what Amber was thinking. The cake he took out wasn't the one that had drugged Nona to make her like this; it was an item he had drawn a long time ago but hadn't used.

[Item Name: Mixed Berry Multi-Layer Cake]

[Item Description: Women can never resist the temptation of lots of desserts, remember, never!]

[Item Effect: Greatly increases the user's favorability.]

In short, they couldn't let Nona leave, but keeping her by their side might not be safe either. So why not play the emotional card and increase her favorability so that she wouldn't betray them for the time being?

Duke smiled slightly and turned to Cecil: "So, did you get in touch?"

"Yes, I've made contact."

Little Cecil held up a magic phone and handed it to Duke.

Duke picked up his phone and listened to the voice coming from the microphone, which almost made him drop it.

"Holy crap, Date?!"

Chapter 370 The Sincerity of Choosing One of Two

"Hello? Cecil said you're outsiders from a parallel world?"

The voice coming through the microphone sounded somewhat languid, and the content was nothing out of Duke's expectations. However, the familiar voice, the familiar tone, the familiar manner of the sentence almost made Duke, who was listening with his magic phone, tremble and drop the phone.

"Holy crap, Date?!"

Ida, the mute!

The culprit behind the massive explosion of the floating city.

Duke and Amber were sent to a parallel world because of her.

At this moment, Duke heard Ida's voice again in the parallel world. How could he not be startled?

Amber, Cecil, and Nona watched as Duke shuddered slightly. The latter two gave him strange looks, while the former, startled by Duke's words, quickly asked, "Is it really Ida?"

Duke casually covered the microphone and nodded to her: "Sounds like it."

Meanwhile, Ida, sounding somewhat annoyed, replied from the phone: "Hello? Hello? Can you please answer me?"

"Sorry, sorry." Duke clicked his tongue. "Hello, my name is Duke."

“You seem to know me, Duke. Yes, my name is Ida.” Ida on the phone quickly suppressed her displeasure and even showed a slight smile, but Duke felt that her voice was slightly different from the Ida he knew. The Ida on the other end of the magic phone sounded more mature. “Leader of the resistance organization ‘Dawn,’ it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

The mute Ida he knew was in a somewhat childlike state because she had just been "resurrected." In her previous life, Ida was definitely not a short girl; she was more likely to be in a mature state like the mute god or the saint Megan. Her voice was probably closer to that of this Ida.

In other words, this is probably a parallel universe version of Date.

"I won't waste any more words with you, Miss Date."

Duke clicked his tongue. He didn't actually have any ill feelings towards Ida, which was slightly different from Talia, who had also caused trouble before. The main difference was that Talia clearly disregarded the lives of others and only wanted to save her home world, while Ida, as a mute, would never abandon the floating city. Duke still didn't understand the reason why she did those ambiguous things.

Even so, Duke had no interest in engaging in pointless small talk with Ida.

"Where are you now? We'll come find you for a face-to-face meeting."

"Now?" Although Ida asked the question, her tone was not surprised at all. Instead, she casually gave an address: "The second floor of Gunflower Bar."

"it is good."

Duke was about to hang up the phone to ask for directions to Guns N' Roses when Ida said with a smile, "Don't rush, hand the magic phone to the kid next to you who knows spatial magic."

Duke raised an eyebrow and, without hesitation, handed the phone to Amber.

Amber took the phone somewhat bewildered. Then she heard Ida give her spatial coordinates on the other end. She quickly told Duke about it and asked, "What should we do? Go there? Could it be a trap?"

“Go, why not go? It’s probably not a trap.” Duke took the phone and saw that Ida had already hung up. “She’s showing us her power, indicating that even though the commotion we caused with Purple Iris hasn’t been over for more than a few hours, she already knows about your abilities, Amber—she’s even realized that you’re not a true legend, something that even Purple Iris doesn’t know.”

Zi Yuan was somewhat blinded by her own involvement. As the only person directly facing the "legendary amber," the pressure she faced was even greater than the pressure Duke had faced in bed. Therefore, she never considered the possibility that the "legendary" amber was actually a fake.

However, in this matter, it's not so easy for an outsider to see clearly. After all, Zi Yuan is a top-tier near-legendary, and anyone who can suppress and defeat her must be a legend. Generally speaking, no one would think that she would possess such a cheating ability as time manipulation. Judging from her tone, Ida has already deduced that Amber's legendary status is definitely not permanent.

"This rebel organization called 'Dawn' seems to have more potential than I thought."

Hearing Duke's mutterings, young Cecil, displaying a spirit of shared honor and disgrace, pumped his fist and said, "Of course!"

Amber nodded, silently reciting the spatial coordinates Ida had told her. Then, she grabbed Duke with one hand and Cecil with the other, and had little Cecil grab Nona, who was staring at Duke. In this way, she led the other three to activate a spatial spell and arrived at the spatial coordinates Ida had mentioned.

The next moment, they arrived at the second floor of Guns N' Roses Bar.

The bar on the second floor was deserted, with only a few customers drinking and chatting quietly, showing no surprise at the sudden appearance of Duke and his group. The only person who looked at them raised a glass of whiskey and gave an elegant and charming smile: "Hello, I'm Ida."

Duke saw Ida from this parallel world, and his first reaction wasn't to see the small, mute person, but rather that he had seen Megan. Amber, who was beside him, also showed a somewhat surprised expression, but she had also seen the mute person's divine body before, so she didn't mistake her for someone else.

"Sister Ida!"

Little Cecil lunged at Ida, causing her to quickly put down her whiskey and take the full force of his cannonball-like impact. She lifted him up and asked with some surprise, "Cecil, have you gained a little weight?"

"what?"

Little Guangbao was stunned, then jumped off Ida with a look of horror, hurriedly checking himself for any extra fat. Ida, who had easily fooled Cecil, turned her gaze back to Duke and said softly, "You're Duke, outsider? I've heard Miss Cecil mention you."

Clearly, the Cecil that Ida was referring to was not the little Cecil standing next to her, but rather the Lightbear from their family who had also come to this parallel world.

Where is Cecil now?

“I don’t know either.” Ida shrugged. “She’s missing.”

Duke's expression changed instantly. He took out Neon from his inventory and pointed the gun at Ida in front of him. Amber behind him also became serious and grabbed Duke's clothes, ready to take him away from there at any time.

Duke asked coldly, "What happened to Cecil?"

"Calm down, calm down. Miss Cecil is so strong, what are you worried about?" Despite Duke pointing a revolver at him, Ida remained calm and said, "Miss Cecil has been in our world for a month now, and she has been assisting our Dawn in its activities... but last night, she suddenly disappeared."

Last night was the time when Duke and Amber arrived in the parallel world.

Why did they disappear?

“I don’t know either. I can only guess… She’s caught in the ‘world rules’ controlled by the four major families.” Ida snapped her fingers. “Furthermore, the ‘little prince’ you’re looking for is actually within the ‘world rules’ controlled by the council speaker.”

Chapter 371 She is her

“Cecil is caught in the ‘world rules’ controlled by the four great families, while the ‘little prince’ you are looking for is actually in the ‘world rules’ controlled by the Speaker of the Council.”

Ida smiled as she looked at Duke and Amber, her right hand casually stroking little Cecil's hair, comforting the little Cecil who was especially worried about her "sister," and said softly:

“However, according to my intelligence, the disturbance you caused has already made the Speaker of the Council aware of the problem. If you had arrived any later, they might have already moved the ‘Little Prince’ away. Duke, what will you choose?”

Which of the four major families?

Duke frowned, but spoke without hesitation.

Ida's meaning is simple: she wants Duke to choose between Cecil and the Little Prince, but for Duke and Amber, there is only one correct answer to this choice.

“The Pandora family.” Ida snapped her fingers, her eyes showing no surprise, as if she had expected Duke to make this choice. She said softly, “The Pandora family holds a mysterious ‘world rule’ in their hands. No one knows its actual contents, only that many of the Pandora family’s enemies have been trapped by this world rule and, after a period of time, have become the Pandora family’s lackeys.”

"Pandora's house?"

Duke frowned. He didn't recognize anyone from the Pandora family, which relieved him—at least he wouldn't have any mental burden when storming into the Pandora's territory and wreaking havoc; he could focus solely on rescuing Cecil. But soon, he noticed a subtle change in Amber's expression.

She swallowed hard and quickly asked, "Is there anyone in the Pandora family named Eve Pandora?"

Duke was stunned, while Ida clicked her tongue and asked in return:

"Head of the Pandora family, what's wrong? In your parallel world, do you still know Eve?"

Duke and Amber: "..."

Not only do we know each other, but I've also been saved by the Potion Witch countless times.

Well, in the end, I can't avoid these incredibly familiar actors.

Duke sighed.

But he wasn't overly pessimistic. After all, their goal was simply to rescue Cecil, not to go against the Pandora family or fight Eve. Besides, Eve in this parallel world probably wasn't as mysterious and powerful as the one they knew.

"What other information do you have regarding the Pandora family's world rules?" Duke asked, frowning. "Secondly, what price do you want us to pay?"

“It’s very simple. I just need you to do one favor for Dawn, and I will fully assist you in all your actions.” Ida pulled the obedient little Cecil into his arms, pressed his whole body against hers, and squinted his eyes to enjoy the fusion of Cecil’s youthful and mature body. “I need you to make her relinquish her divine position before you take the little prince away.”

"Give up the divine throne?"

"That's right. She currently occupies the position of the only guardian deity of the floating city, but no matter how hard she tries, she cannot become a true god. She is an outsider from another dimension—not a native of this world—which cuts off her ambition to become a god. But at this moment, the little prince forcibly occupies the divine position, so even if others obtain the qualifications to become gods, they will not be able to successfully condense their divine sparks."

Ida casually explained, her words also explaining the mechanism behind the appearance of the Little Prince's phantom, why it bore a certain resemblance to the divine punishment of the mute, and also revealing her own ambition:

“I want to become a god of the floating city, so that I can have hope of leading ‘Dawn’ to overthrow the three major powers of the council, the four major families, and the sheriff, and unify the floating city. But as long as the little prince remains in his divine position, I can never become a god.”

Similar to the Ida that Duke knew, the Ida before him also had the ambition to become a god. She wanted to achieve her goals by embarking on the path of mythology and to lead the organization she led, "Dawn." In fact, the Ida in Duke's world was the same. The reason she sought the path to godhood was precisely to lead the organization she led, the Apha (who had just broken free from the influence of its predecessor, the Heart Society), to a greater level.

However, Ida did not encounter a little prince who blocked her path to godhood, nor did she achieve godhood prematurely due to being assassinated.