I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

The voice also came from the Little Prince, but it was the Little Prince he knew, the Little Prince in a parallel world who did not obtain the star map and did not build the floating city... These were his words before he died.

Duke asked softly, "Can death take you to the homeland you've always dreamed of?"

“I can’t take it.” The little prince, who had fallen to the ground, spoke. She slowly got up from the ground, and the bloody wound on her chest healed quickly, but because the rose dagger was still stuck in her chest, her wound could not be completely healed. However, the little prince did not care. She sat on the ground, hugged her knees with her hands, buried her head, and said in a muffled voice, “Death is completely useless.”

Sure enough, she was dead.

Duke wasn't surprised. He had noticed before that the Little Prince's body was floating. He had initially suspected that the Little Prince was a dead soul, but later discovered that she possessed a body—albeit a dead one. She was like a necromancer, manipulating her original body in the same way she manipulated corpses, controlling herself.

Her body was heavy, binding the Little Prince and preventing him from leaving. But even her heavy body could not hold back the Little Prince's soul. She struggled within the body, and even though she could not fly with her body, she could make it float in place, turning herself into a ghost with flesh and blood.

When did you die?

“Not long ago,” the little prince said with a wry smile, “not long ago, I received a revelation from a parallel world.”

"Was it the other you who told you that you could return to your homeland by killing yourself?" Duke sighed. He still couldn't recall the details of the story during the Little Prince's game with the witch, but the emotions he felt at the time had already flowed through his heart—at least he knew that he and the other Little Prince were indeed friends for a short time. "It seems that your naive idea has failed as expected."

“No, it worked.” The little prince gave Duke an answer that surprised him. “I’ve returned to my homeland, but there’s nothing left there—my planet, my rose, my botanical garden…”

As the Little Prince narrated, the entire miniature planet began to shake violently, as if a major earthquake had occurred. At the same time, Duke, who was standing on the miniature planet, felt that the moon above his head was moving faster and faster, almost sliding down from the sky in a flash.

"After the next sunrise and sunset, everything will come to an end, and the black prince living on the miniature planet will also meet the end of his fairy tale."

This was the power Duke had conjured through deus ex machina, and this outcome would ultimately be achieved in some way through the power of deus ex machina. But now time was running out, and the situation was far from ideal... Duke dared not imagine what kind of unexpected events the deus ex machina would create in the remaining time, forcing the outcome to take place.

Duke was thinking of leaving, but the Little Prince's words kept him there.

Do you want to know what the Star Chart System is? Do you want to know how to break the fate of the floating city?

Duke nodded immediately.

Duke doesn't know, Duke wants to know.

He can't even figure out how he beat the Little Prince and the Witch game back then, let alone how to break the fate of the floating city. He has no ideas and can only gamble by choosing the plan that seems the craziest but actually has the highest chance of success.

But if he could obtain more information, perhaps he wouldn't have to take the risk.

"Unfortunately, I don't know either."

"what?"

"No one knows what the Star Chart System is, no one knows why it binds the fate of 'constantly linking with other dimensions' to a star chart... But I have no choice. If I want to return home, I must obtain a spaceship that can find my home planet. So, I chose to create a floating city using a replica star chart, and use this city as a spaceship to set off towards the stars."

"But the plan failed."

The price the Little Prince paid for his failure this time was that the floating city was swept up by fate.

"So, at that time, I wanted to make up for my mistakes and free the floating city from its fate of being constantly linked to other dimensions. Even if it meant sacrificing myself, I didn't care."

"But I failed again."

The price the Little Prince paid for her failure this time was that her soul was corrupted by another dimension.

No one knows what the Star Chart System truly is. The Little Prince has only come into contact with it, and that contact is solely because it was the reason she was lost in this world. Unlike Duke, she has never mastered the Star Chart System, nor has she understood its power. Similarly, no one knows how to break the fate of the floating cities, both of which are built upon the Star Chart System's star chart.

The star map system is a black box that no one can understand.

"Cannot understand" means "cannot be parsed," and "cannot be parsed" means "no way to start."

The Little Prince couldn't solve the problem, nor could the four major families, the sheriff, and the council in this floating city. They even chose to give up, which directly led to the Little Prince being corrupted by the alternate dimension.

At the same time, Carol couldn't solve it either... at least, without him and the Star Chart system he controlled, Carol was helpless in this matter.

“Duke, you want to become a god, don’t you? I don’t know what you want to do, but if you want to become a god, you have to kill me.”

Suddenly, the Little Prince raised his right index finger high and pointed it at the head of the evil gods in the sky who was still holding the miniature planet. As if responding to her call, the miniature planet began to change. It was entangled by the roots of some baobab trees, and the entire miniature planet was pierced by the roots of baobab trees.

The baobab trees were called "devil trees" by the rational Little Prince because they would harm or even destroy the mini-planet if they grew, so she never allowed any baobab trees to grow... But now, the roots of these baobab trees are like the tentacles of a devil, entwining the Little Prince.

The demon's tentacles... the roots of the baobab tree intertwined to form a gigantic arm, which slapped away the arm that the evil god had been holding onto the miniature planet, and then forcefully grabbed the evil god's hand.

Two separate arms clasped together, wrestling in the air above the floating city.

"Kill me, Duke."

The little prince, entangled by the roots of the baobab tree, cried out, gripping a short sword made of roots in her hand. She raised it, pointed it at him, and said with murderous intent:

"Otherwise, I'll kill you and take the Star Chart System from you!"

……

The Little Prince is Duke's friend.

Not only is the little girl in front of him Duke's friend, but another little boy in a parallel world, the Little Prince, is also Duke's friend. In a short time, Duke and the Little Prince became very good friends. The reason is simple: unlike the childlike innocence and fun in the original "Little Prince," the Little Prince, who has lived for thousands of years, has long been assimilated and corrupted by the world, and is no longer the pure embodiment of the past.

The Little Prince is neither mercenary nor evil, but he is also neither naive nor does he possess the whimsical fantasies typical of children.

Aside from his body remaining unchanged and still resembling a child, he was like an old man nearing the end of his life.

It could be said that the "innocent" second personality created by the girl Little Prince was actually the Little Prince that Duke had never encountered before, a child who had just left his homeland and had not yet been corrupted by the inherent evil of the world.

But Duke couldn't resonate much with that Little Prince; the Little Prince he could truly consider a friend was... that lonely traveler who was somewhat similar to him.

Duke had just transmigrated to this world, and the world of swords and magic made him feel almost completely out of place. He felt alienated from this world. His death before transmigrating had left him with immense psychological trauma, and the loneliness of never seeing his family and friends again after transmigrating drove Duke almost insane. Therefore, he devoted most of his energy to studying the star map system that he had brought with him when he transmigrated.

Duke discovered that the Star Chart system could be altered according to his wishes... So, with a rather wicked sense of humor, he transformed the Star Chart system into a "Witch Conquest System" and devised a way to have it assign a series of related tasks. Through these tasks, he jokingly got to know some witches.

His original intention may have been to make friends, but it ended up turning into chasing girls.

Just then, Duke's first friend after his time travel came knocking on his door.

"Duke, come with me to conquer a witch game."

The Frozen Witch Rol... or rather, the Lord of the Floating City, the Time Witch Carol.

Carol may have thought she had concealed her identity very well, but Duke already knew her true identity... or rather, he approached Carol with a purpose in the first place, but at that time Duke could not have imagined that the witch game Carol led him into was called "The Little Prince".

Of course, Carol didn't expect that the "little prince" that had been bothering her for so long would be solved by Duke, whom she had brought along on a whim.

From this perspective, they are all lucky.

Carol's good fortune lies in the fact that she found the answer to saving the floating city and the savior she had been searching for for many years.

Duke's good fortune lay in meeting the Little Prince.

In this world of swords and magic, Duke, a transmigrator who doesn't fit in with the world, encounters another transmigrator who doesn't fit in with the world, a little prince.

Their shared characteristics made them hit it off almost immediately, and they became close friends despite their age difference.

But this happy time did not last long... because the Little Prince had already made his decision before Duke entered the witch's game.

“The journey is too far, you know. I can’t carry this body with me, it’s too heavy.”

The traveler searching for his homeland is tired.

He wanted to seek his final return through death, even though his reasoning seemed absurd to his friends, and even though killing himself would not allow him to escape the shackles of gravity and magic, leave the prime plane, and find his way back home. But the Little Prince still persisted in his idea.

The Little Prince wanted to embrace death.

He is too tired.

Carol thought this was a good opportunity, after all, she had always been troubled by the Little Prince's Witch Game, which always worsened the fate of the floating city. Clearing the game would only bring harm to the Little Prince (she obviously didn't know that the Little Prince's suicide would not clear the game, and might even make it worse—like the corrupted Little Prince in a parallel world, whose influence was obviously much worse than that of a mentally sound Little Prince). In her opinion, the Little Prince's suicide was definitely a good thing for the floating city, so she had no intention of stopping it.

But Duke doesn't care.

At that time, he felt absolutely no sense of belonging to the floating city and could not possibly accept the choice of sacrificing the Little Prince for its future. Carol might be considered one of his friends, but the Little Prince was a more important confidant. He didn't let the Little Prince die like the pilot in the original story. In his view, returning home through death was an incomprehensible thing, and the Little Prince's personal wishes... didn't matter; he simply didn't want him to die.

To put it bluntly, Duke was incredibly selfish at the time. He only cared about himself and the healing he received from talking to the Little Prince.

Therefore, the Star Chart system responded to Duke's idea and provided him with assistance.

Duke put his ideas into action, and with the aid and abettion of the Star Chart system, he made this insane and selfish idea a reality.

So Duke destroyed the Little Prince's home planet.

He destroyed his friend's hope with his own hands, allowing the Witch Game "The Little Prince" to reach its ending and giving Carol real hope. She placed all her bets on Duke, but she also chose to respect Duke's choice and helped him erase the memory.

until.

……

The figures of the two sides clashed fiercely.

The Little Prince was fast, unbelievably fast; she displayed the power expected of a top legend in her field. Logically, someone of Duke's caliber should have struggled even to keep up with her speed, but he calmly and with all his might kept pace.

Not only their eyes, but their bodies also kept up with the Little Prince's pace.

He wielded all-powerful magic, spewing divine fire, and constantly stealing the spells cast by the Little Prince.

A fleeting moment in the heat of battle.

Duke's outstretched fingers touched the rose dagger embedded in the Little Prince's chest.

So he used all his strength to grab the hilt of the short sword completely with all five fingers.

In that instant, Duke saw the Little Prince's eyes once again. His eyes were still so pure, devoid of kindness or malice, filled only with a yearning for liberation.

She is so tired.

The Little Prince wanted to embrace real death.

This time, Duke respected her choice, forcefully pulling the rose dagger from the Little Prince's chest with his five fingers. Bright red blood spurted out once again, and the Little Prince collapsed to the ground once more.

The moon sets in the sky, and the sun rises in the east.

The little prince, lying on the ground, murmured:

"I want to see the sunset... but the sunrise will do."

Then, she slowly lost control of her body and collapsed into the withered sand.

There was no sound at all.

It's like the sad ending of a fairy tale.

The black prince living on the miniature planet finally got the ending she had longed for.

But for Duke, it was the beginning of everything.

He could barely rest for a moment. He suppressed the fragmented and disconnected memories surging in his mind, resisted the urge to vomit, and tilted his head back.

The miniature planet began to collapse because of the Little Prince's death. The roots of the baobab tree gradually lost their power, and the sun and moon seemed to have lost control because of the Little Prince's death. The sun that had just risen rose quickly and set in the west. The next sunset would arrive on the miniature planet almost in the blink of an eye.

Duke narrowed his eyes, looking at the evil god's hand that had lost the baobab tree to resist it.

At this moment, he ascended to the divine throne.