I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Duke gained a lot from this witch game.

The monetary rewards for the Witch Game are self-evident. As a high-difficulty game that was cleared on its very first attempt, even if Duke and the other fourteen players split the prize equally, the final reward would definitely be much higher than that of the "Statues" game. Furthermore, the prize money for the Witch Game isn't simply divided equally; it's allocated based on contributions.

Inside the prize redemption room, the witch will use "divination" to determine the player's contribution to the witch game.

As the absolute dominant player in the game, Duke's share of the prize money was extremely generous, and he had even begun to fantasize about magic scrolls for 5th-level spells.

In addition to the monetary rewards from the Witch Game itself, he also received many rewards from the system.

One chance to win a prize after completing the Witch Game.

The reward for the daily quest "The Beginning of Curiosity" is "Demon-like Woody Flos".

This is an exclusive reward obtained when Witch Gret's affection level reaches "Passion".

"As expected, participating in the witch game is the primary source of productivity!"

Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Voice of All Things

The system's continuous notifications filled Duke with elation as he repeatedly interacted with the system, displaying each reward he received in front of him.

[Task completed, reward available.]

【receive.】

[Item: Demonic Woody Plough, already generated.]

【Item Name: Demonic Woody Plough】

[Item Description: No cat can resist catnip, just as no cake princess can resist mixed berry cake.]

[Item Effect: Stimulates the hormones of all creatures associated with the concept of "cat," putting them into an "excited" state.]

Duke looked at the prop with a somewhat subtle expression.

What's wrong with your system? One minute it's aphrodisiac cakes, the next it's hormone-stimulating props. Are you a system or a sex toy store?

He strongly suspected that the existence of this thing itself was a scheme devised by the system to target a certain witch who wore cat ears and meowed. In the system's calculations (if it had this function), if Amber were to maliciously act cute in front of him again in this way, the demonic wood catnip would be able to serve its purpose.

However, in the later stages of the Witch Game, both Duke and Amber had almost forgotten about this setting. It wasn't until they saw this item that Duke suddenly remembered that there was such a thing.

This shows that the cat-eared elf isn't sexy enough. If it were sexy enough, would he have forgotten it?

Cat ears are bad civilization!

This magical catnip is actually a catnip stick, and it looks no different from an ordinary catnip stick. However, Duke has never owned a cat in either his past or present life, so he doesn't know the difference between a normal catnip stick and one produced by the system.

After playing with it for a while, he threw it back into his inventory, thinking it might come in handy someday.

Next, Duke turned his attention to the lottery system. Based on his experience in the previous witch game, Duke realized that the items obtained by reaching the "Passion" level of witch favorability were extremely powerful, and the spatial anchor was incredibly effective. Back then, when the entire Candy Castle collapsed instantly during a high-powered spatial tremor, only their room remained unaffected, remaining in place during the spatial tremor.

From this perspective, the spatial anchor's effect extends beyond sealing spatial ability users like Amber; it likely has many other ingenious uses. Furthermore, and crucially, its effect is such that even the rules of other dimensions are temporarily ineffective, making it an exceptionally powerful magical artifact!

Duke is someone who tends to "save the best food for last."

So he decided to put this thing aside for last and try his luck with the lottery first.

Should I use a single draw ticket?

【Yes. 】

After a burst of cheap light and shadow effects, the gashapon machine emitted a dark gray light, and at the same time, the system notification sounded.

[Item: Empty Gift Box, already generated.]

[Item Name: Empty Gift Box]

[Item Description: Empty gift box.]

[Item Effect: As the name suggests, it's an empty gift box that you can use to fill with gifts and give them to others.]

Duke: (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

As it turns out, the miracle of getting the Mixed Berry Cake in the last single pull was purely coincidental. Although Duke transmigrated and got a nice appearance in APP18, he was still essentially the unlucky guy who needed a census to pull cards. His precious single pull ticket turned into an ordinary empty gift box in the blink of an eye.

His lips twitched slightly, and he casually tossed the gift box aside before continuing to examine the rewards.

[When Witch Greta's affection level reaches "Passionate," you can claim a reward.]

[Item: Voice of All Things, has been generated.]

[Item Name: Voice of All Things.]

[Item Description: The sounds of all things are like vast clouds and mist, while humans are constrained by their physical bodies, existing independently in this mortal world.]

[Item Effect: Allows you to hear the sounds of all things.]

"I know the answer to this question. The human ear can hear frequencies ranging from about 20Hz to 20000Hz. We cannot hear lower frequencies like infrasound or higher frequencies like ultrasound."

But that's just a scientific explanation. This is a fantasy world of swords and magic, and this item is definitely not that simple. Furthermore, the spatial anchor is closely related to Amber's abilities, but what about this Voice of All Things? What is its connection to Grete's abilities?

Uh... what abilities does Gretel have again?

Duke fell into a deep contemplation, questioning the meaning of life.

Logically speaking, Duke should have had many opportunities to witness Greta's combat abilities in the Witch Game. After all, even if she herself is unwilling to fight, the Saint is possessing her, and if she were to actually fight, the abilities she uses would certainly be closely related to the Cake Princess.

But here's the problem: in his three conflicts with the Sage, the first time he smeared the Sage's face with a cake and instantly killed him; the second time he ran away before the fight even started; and the third time he rushed in for close combat and instantly killed the Sage again.

This directly resulted in him being completely unaware of the abilities of the saint and even Gretel.

"I originally thought the Cake Princess would give me an ability related to cakes."

After muttering a few words, Duke took out something that looked like a single hearing aid, the so-called "Sound of Everything." He curiously put it on his ear and waited for a moment, but heard nothing.

"As expected, these inanimate objects in the room don't 'make a sound'."

He was just about to take off the hearing aid when he heard a faint sound:

"Help me...help me..."

Duke frowned, decisively removed his hearing aid, and the faint sound ceased.

So he put the Voice of All Things back on and looked up to find the source of the cry for help. He quickly realized that the sound was coming from outside the room. After thinking for a moment, he finally opened the door and rushed out of the room.

It was nighttime, the perfect time for thieves to act. Duke activated his stealth skill and slipped into the shadows, silently making his way towards the faint sound.

He was also curious about what was making the sounds that the Voice of All Things could hear.

……

Cecil is drafting his next remarks.

She wasn't a particularly eloquent person and generally preferred to maintain her "not good with words" persona, but the conversation that was about to begin was very important, and she didn't want to make any mistakes.

Next, the Radiant Witch will persuade her sisters not to go astray!

Amber arrived much earlier than she expected. As soon as the doorbell rang, Cecil hurriedly put down her pen, tore out the long, nonsensical paragraph from her notebook, crumpled it up, and threw it in the trash. Then she rushed out to open the door for Amber.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw Amber, who had changed back into her maid outfit, waving at her: "Hello, Cecil sister."

Gretel followed behind her. Unlike when they met before, the Cake Princess had changed out of her tattered clothes and was now wearing a maid outfit that was clearly a size too small, probably lent to her by Amber.

It has to be said that her small maid outfit was stretched taut across her chest, making Cecil's eyebrows twitch.

If amber is the kind of unexpectedly valuable material, then Grete is the kind of material whose exceptional talent is clearly visible to the naked eye.

Of course, neither of them are Cecil's steel-plate class comrades!

Chapter 40 Who doesn't like a naive and easily fooled pretty older sister?

Cecil looked warily at his natural class enemy, the Cake Princess.

With that useless fat on your chest, you, Grete, are no friend of the Radiant Witch!

Even if my best friend steals my man, I, Cecil, am left alone for life, and I jump off the floating city, I will never be friends with you, Cake Princess.

"Wow, so pitiful!" Five minutes later, after hearing Amber's brief account of the story, the Radiant Witch hugged Grete with tears in her eyes, comforting him with a sob in her voice, "It's okay, Grete. When you come to the Floating City, all the witches will be your sisters. If anyone bullies you, just say my name, Cecil, and I'll stand up for you."

Cecil is so popular in the floating city for this very reason. Who wouldn't like a beautiful older sister who is simple-minded, has no bad intentions, and is full of a sense of justice?

Greta accepted Cecil's hug somewhat awkwardly, not knowing why it was this cool (on the surface) older sister who started crying. She cast a pleading look at Amber, who understood immediately, grabbed her by the back of the collar, and dragged Cecil towards the kitchen.

"Alright, little Grete has finally escaped his misery, not so you can hold him and cry. I'm going to cook myself, Cecil, can you help me?"

"Oh."

"Little Gret, you just wait outside."

"Do you need my help?"

Grete asked timidly, still standing there, hesitant to move, the unfamiliar surroundings making her somewhat shy.

"It's alright, you're a guest, there's no reason for you to help. Just sit here and wait for your meal."

Amber ushered Cecil into the kitchen, then grinned and patted Grete on the shoulder:

"I invited you here to taste my cooking. When we go to Duke's house for dinner tomorrow, you can be a judge and fairly evaluate our cooking skills... You must secretly give me extra points then."

Greta stared blankly at Amber. She hadn't heard such a down-to-earth conversation in many years. She sniffed, feeling a strange urge to cry. The little princess suppressed the urge and nodded vigorously at Amber: "Mmm!"

So Amber quickly walked back to the kitchen.

She was very familiar with Cecil's house and quickly began searching for ingredients, asking as she did so, "As his 'ex-girlfriend,' what kind of person do you think Duke is?"

Upon hearing this, Cecil immediately perked up; she knew the real topic was coming.

“Amber, listen to what I’ve been through. Duke is a shameless man. He’s good for nothing except being handsome. Think about it, what kind of good person can a guy who’s juggling five women at once be? I…”

“I didn’t ask that, Cecil.” However, Amber waved her hand, interrupting Cecil’s accusation against Duke, “Anyway, most of your relationship with him was just a pipe dream.”

"Huh?" Cecil was taken aback. "From Yun?"

Amber spent several days with Duke, and although she felt that he was using her as a tool (which she resented), she still learned a lot of strange things from him during their time together, such as this.

“Yeah, it’s just a virtual romance. You’re the last one on the five boats, and you’ve only been ‘dating’ Duke for less than three days, right? Most of your prejudice against him comes from rumors.” Amber counted on her fingers the stories of Duke and Cecil’s three days of “dating.” “You’ve only gone on one date with him, received one gift from him, and haven’t even participated in a witch’s game with him. To be honest, how can that be considered a relationship!”

Cecil: "..."

Amber's words were like killing someone and destroying their spirit. Cecil called on her friends to hunt down Duke mainly because of her sense of justice, not because she was deceived emotionally—to be honest, Duke didn't even have time to do anything to her.

Moreover, Amber felt that even if her older sister wasn't one of the five ships, she would definitely stand up for the witch sisters after hearing such a horrifying story.

"Besides, the gift Duke gave you, that decorative knight's sword, I don't think you lost it, did you?"