I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Duke stared at the ominous little black box, sensing a dangerous aura emanating from it. His standards were now ridiculously high; anyone who could make him feel threatened would at least be a near-legendary figure. He cautiously inquired, wanting to know the effects of this Pandora's Box before Eve used it against his people.

And at that very moment.

A beam of holy light shone from the deeper depths, instantly drawing the attention of Duke and his two companions. They looked in the direction of the brilliant light, and then heard a distant announcement:

"I want to get to my destination in one step."

Before the words were finished, a tall and slender figure appeared in front of Duke, Amber, and Eve. She carried the "I Want" spear and her body was covered with a dazzling holy light. It was Cecil, whom Duke and Amber had not seen for more than two days.

The Radiant Witch stormed onto the floor containing Pandora's Box, clearly intending to jump out and stab someone. But before the rash Cecil could make a move, she recognized the faces of the three people on that floor and was immediately horrified: "Duke? Amber? Eve?"

Cecil was completely stunned.

Duke and Amber, who had gone to great lengths to fool Eve, were also stunned.

Even Eve was stunned. She recognized the woman who jumped out as the "strange person" who had caused fear throughout the floating city for the past month!

For a moment, everyone froze in front of Pandora's Box. Cecil didn't expect to see Duke and the others. Duke and Amber didn't expect the Light Treasure they were looking for to suddenly appear. Eve, who recognized the "weirdo," couldn't understand why this "weirdo" knew them.

The only one in the entire room that didn't freeze in place was Pandora's Box.

The brilliant holy light shone on its box, producing a loud "sizzling" sound.

The next instant, Pandora's Box suddenly opened because of the holy light—and instantly appeared in front of Cecil, who had provoked it, and swallowed Cecil whole!

"Wow, that's amazing!"

Before Guangbao could finish his curse, she vanished from the small dark room. Eve breathed a sigh of relief; in that brief moment, Cecil had exerted terrifying pressure on her, and she had no desire to confront such an enemy. However, the two people beside her shouted almost in unison:

"Cecil!" "Sister Cecil!"

Before Eve could even react to why these two "disillusioned princesses of the Elf Kingdom and their husbands" knew the strange man, they did something that Eve couldn't understand at all—Duke reached out and grabbed Amber's arm, while Amber cast a spell without hesitation, instantly teleporting Duke above Pandora's Box, allowing Pandora's Box to swallow them both whole.

Then, Pandora's box, having feasted on the three of them, shuddered and closed its lid with satisfaction, leaving Eve standing there dumbfounded.

"what?"

Chapter 376 "Deep Sisterly Affection"

Duke suddenly opened his eyes and sat up in a daze, finding himself sitting on a small, deserted island. The island was empty, only about ten square meters in size, with a lone coconut tree in the middle. Amber and Cecil were lying on the beach with their eyes closed, still unconscious.

The sky was filled with bright sunshine, while the island was surrounded by an endless, dark sea.

Duke didn't immediately check what the dark seawater was. Instead, he quickly got up to check on Amber and Cecil. But before he could move, Guangbao rubbed his eyes and sat up. A few seconds later, Amber also opened her eyes.

"Duke? Amber?" Cecil looked at Duke in front of her and Amber, who was still conscious, with a bewildered expression. She slapped her cheeks hard with both hands and muttered to herself in disbelief, "Am I just too tired and hallucinating?"

"No!" Duke quickly stepped in to stop Guangbao from hitting him—this honest child was really slapping herself, making a loud slapping sound, and after a few slaps, her little face was red. "We're not hallucinating, stop hitting her."

“Oh, I see. You must be Duke and Amber from a parallel universe.” Cecil nodded and said with a “sudden realization,” then looked at Duke and Amber’s faces and commented, “They don’t seem to be as good-looking as our Duke, but Amber looks pretty much the same.”

Duke: "?"

Duke... Duke has never been told he is "not good-looking" in his life, especially since he has obtained a divine body and his charm will inexplicably increase from time to time. He has only ever received the comment, "You seem to be better looking than before," and has never received the comment, "You seem to be less good-looking than before."

Tolerable or unbearable!

Duke walked up to Cecil expressionlessly, reached out and pinched Guangbao's cheeks on both sides, threateningly saying with a dark face, "Who are you saying isn't good-looking?"

“I…I didn’t…” Cecil stammered, “I didn’t, I didn’t…you’re bullying me, aren’t you?!”

Having finally escaped Duke's clutches, Guangbao suddenly widened her eyes, only to realize that the man joking with her was the Duke she knew. In that case, Amber beside her was also Amber from her original world.

"Wow!" Guangbao burst into tears of joy and opened his arms wide, rushing towards Duke like an octopus. He hugged Duke tightly and knocked him to the ground, excitedly shouting, "Duke! It really is you! I thought I'd never see you again... This is great... This is great!"

Duke didn't struggle. He simply held the agitated Cecil in his arms, gently smoothing her soft hair. Sensing her intense emotions, he softly comforted her, "It's okay, we're here to take you home... It's alright now."

The two remained embracing each other for a long time before realizing that there was a third person on the island, and that she had also regained consciousness.

Duke was the first to realize the problem. He turned his head to the side somewhat awkwardly, and then, for a moment, his movements stiffened slightly. Cecil, being a near-legend, sensed the subtle difference when Duke's body stiffened. She looked up at Duke's face with some curiosity, and then followed his gaze to the side.

Amber crossed her arms and stared at the two of them expressionlessly.

She said she didn't mind having a threesome with Duke and Cecil, but Duke couldn't really say what she was thinking.

Anyway, Duke never dared to respond when the perverted elf made such jokes.

Upon realizing Amber's gaze, Duke and Cecil froze for a moment before quickly separating. Cecil flipped backward and jumped, while Duke scrambled to his feet. The three remained locked in an eerie silence for a few more seconds before Cecil broke the silence.

She mustered the exact same emotion again, and with a loud cry, she opened her arms and pounced on Amber, knocking the lewd elf to the ground as well. Overwhelmed with mixed emotions (?), she exclaimed, "Great! Amber! I thought I'd never see you again in this lifetime..."

Faced with Guangbao's wailing, Amber quickly abandoned her previous expressionless demeanor and instantly switched into a sisterly affectionate state, hugging Cecil and bursting into tears: "Waaah, yes, yes, it's so good... We finally found you, Cecil sister..."

Duke, standing to the side, began wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

Women are masters at playing dumb.

Women are terrifying.

After Amber and Cecil, who had been crying while hugging each other, finally calmed down, Duke finally learned the whole story from Cecil.

To begin with, Cecil was initially sent to the floating city in a parallel world by the mute Ida. However, the flow rates of the two worlds were clearly different. Although the time it took for her to be sent in by Ida was at most less than half a day different from the time it took for Duke and Amber to be sent in, it was more than a month in the parallel world.

During this month or so, Cecil unexpectedly met his parallel world self, and then added "Dawn" to his introduction, helping the poor civilians of the surface world to resist the oppression of the four major families of the underworld.

This kind of rhetoric was naturally Cecil's favorite type, and coupled with her natural trust in herself, it became a useful weapon in the hands of the "Dawn" organization, causing panic among the four major families within a month.

Her disappearance, which began two days ago, was quite simple. According to Cecil, the reason she hid in this secret passage deep within the floating city was because she had received information from Ida. If she hid here for a few days, she would be able to wait for the opportunity to directly assassinate the heads of the four major families.

In fact, she did get what she wanted. If the head of the Pandora family hadn't been Eve, but someone Cecil didn't recognize, and if Duke and Amber hadn't been there to disrupt morale, her attack would have definitely succeeded. Amber, wielding the "I Want" spear, could have killed the target family head before Pandora's Box could have finished her off.

After hearing Cecil's story, Duke fell into deep thought.

He has two different conspiracy theories in mind.

There's no doubt that Ida is behind all of this. It seems she used Cecil and deceived Duke... So the question is, why did she do this?

The simpler of the two logics is that she wanted to use Cecil, an outsider, to kill Eve, which is why she hid her beforehand. Then she used the missing Cecil to guide Duke and Amber to visit the head of the Pandora family, and almost succeeded in the end. However, she did not expect Pandora's Box to be so powerful.

And the second logic...

Her real goal was to have all three of them swallowed by Pandora's Box and sent to the present world.

Duke frowned and looked at the dark sea surrounding the island.

Chapter 377 The Dark Sea

Duke frowned as he looked at the dark sea.

Despite the bright sunshine and the presence of a coconut tree on the island to brighten the day, the boundless, dark sea still made the atmosphere of this small world feel incredibly oppressive.

While the close sisters Amber and Cecil were still chatting and reminiscing, Duke walked alone to the lakeside, squatted down, and reached out to try to touch the dark seawater.

He cautiously extended a finger to touch the seawater. The sensation was no different from touching ordinary water; it was neither sticky nor painful or uncomfortable. Then, he scooped up some seawater with both hands, confirming that it was indeed pitch black.

Duke casually splashed the black water he was holding onto the sand and stones of the island, making the already damp sand and stones even wetter, but even so, it didn't cause any change. It was as if the pitch-black water had no other problems besides looking black.

is it possible?

This is the inside of Pandora's Box; it wouldn't be surprising if something terrifying were inside.

"As expected, the only option is to go down into the sea."

Just as Duke was muttering to himself, Amber and Cecil simultaneously ended their conversation and walked to Duke's left and right, looking with him at the bottomless, boundless, pitch-black sea.

In the vast ocean, all they could see was the isolated island beneath their feet.

"amber."

"Uh-huh."

Amber nodded knowingly. She was very self-aware and proactive in being Duke's tool. Duke only called her name once, and she understood what Duke wanted her to do—wasn't it just to have her take the two of them a distance to see if there were any other lands in the world besides this isolated island?

Amber reached out and took Duke's hand, interlocking their fingers, then looked at Cecil. When Amber's gaze swept over, Guangbao quickly withdrew her outstretched hand—she had originally intended to sneakily take Duke's hand, but before she could succeed, Amber discovered her, so she had no choice but to awkwardly extend her hand to Amber, taking the initiative to back down.

Cecil was clearly planning to have Amber hold his hand so she could lead the two of them on their way, but Amber suddenly pouted and put her other hand behind her back.

"Huh?"

Cecil paused, looking at Amber with a puzzled expression. Amber pouted, looking at Cecil with reluctance, then glanced at Duke's free hand. Even Guangbao, being a woman herself, was a little confused. Did her best friend want her to hold Duke's hand, or did she not want her to?

If it's the former, then why does she look so unwilling? If it's the latter, then why doesn't she let him hold her hand?

Even Cecil, when it comes to emotions, becomes an innate master of love. She strained her usually unused brain, painstakingly analyzing what amber meant. But before Guangbao could figure it out, Duke impatiently took her hand, saying irritably, "What are you dawdling about?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Amber and Cecil looked at Duke almost simultaneously, which startled him.

"W-what are you doing? Haven't you ever seen a handsome guy before?"

"Humph!"

The two girls, each holding Duke's hand, almost simultaneously expressed their displeasure, then turned their gazes away from Duke without prior arrangement.

Duke: "?"

Duke was completely baffled, having no idea how he had offended these two girls. But now neither of them was paying any attention to him, so he could only begin his space-jumping journey in utter confusion.

Amber shook her head and activated a spatial spell.

The Space Witch swiftly traversed the air with her two companions, dragging Duke and Cecil along. In the next instant, she arrived in the air beyond their line of sight. After stopping in the air for three seconds, the three confirmed that there was nothing within the limit of their line of sight. Then, Amber cast her spell again.

Amber launched about ten space jumps in succession, but the scenery in front of her was always the same dark sea. They could not find the mainland, nor could they find a second isolated island.

So, Amber brought her companions back to the island according to the previously set spatial coordinates.

"It seems that the only way to beat this 'witch game' is to go into the sea and look for clues."

Duke stood on the deserted island, staring at the dark sea, and said softly.

"It's okay, I don't mind."

This was said by the easygoing Guangbao; of course, she wasn't afraid of any enemies or the unknown.

"Don't even think about leaving me behind, Duke."

This statement naturally came from Amber, who had been arguing with Duke about it before, and was now unwilling to be even a step away from him.

“Girls, I know you’re all very brave, heroines among women, the epitome of womanhood.” Duke’s lips twitched slightly as he raised his hands, which were still being held. “But, could we let go before we go into the sea? How are we supposed to swim like this?”

Amber and Cecil once again looked away in unison, one to the left and one to the right, but neither of them showed any intention of letting go of each other's hands.

"Ok."

Duke, whose hands had been divided between his best friend and his friend, sighed helplessly and announced, "There's no other way. We'll just have to go into the sea like this. If it really doesn't work, Amber will choose the direction to go. Besides, the seawater is so dark that we probably won't be able to see anything once we're in, and we can't go downstream anyway."