I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

The floating city has four legendary witches on the surface. Carol and the Prophecy Witch are among them. The other two, like the highly respected Prophecy Witch, are also senior figures from the floating city's thousand-year history. Two of these three are from the same era as Lady Scarlet and were directly involved in the establishment of the floating city.

Although they, like Ms. Fei, were no longer involved in affairs, they still outwardly supported the Carol government and maintained a good relationship with Carol. According to Guangbao, they would occasionally appear in the city lord's mansion.

If the legends in the public eye are like this, then the legends in the shadows, like Duke, are even more unimaginable.

As far as Duke knows, Monica and Megan should both be in the city lord's mansion at this time.

Speaking of Megan...

One of the reasons Duke fought Talia was to rescue the "son of the mute" who was both his mentor and friend. However, a lot of time has passed since then, and Duke has only seen the mentally unstable Megan in the Babel Turtle Soup game... He doesn't know how she is now.

Duke clicked his tongue, gathering his scattered thoughts, and looked at the two people walking out of the city lord's mansion together—clearly, they were Eve and Monica.

Duke had never directly contacted Monica in the parallel world (so he didn't even have time to send out the Mythical Armor), so she couldn't get complete memories from Duke. At this moment, she frowned and followed Eve with a humiliated expression as they hurriedly left together—judging from the direction they left, they were probably also preparing to go underground.

“Alright, we can move out now.” After Eve and Monica had completely left, Duke turned to Amber and Cecil and whispered, “No one should be leaving the city lord’s mansion anymore.”

Carol, Eve, and Monica all left the city lord's mansion. If there were other legends in the mansion, especially top-tier legends that Cecil couldn't defeat, then Duke would have to accept his bad luck... but that possibility is unlikely.

In the entire floating city, the only ones who could defeat Cecil in his current state are probably Carol, Fei, and Ida. Moreover, if it really came down to a real fight, the three of them would definitely not win easily!

Amber nodded, reached out and grabbed Cecil's clothes with one hand, and took Duke's hand with the other, slowly exhaling.

The next instant, the scenery before them blurred and changed—Amber used her spatial teleportation ability to bring Duke and Cecil to the conference room in the city lord's mansion. This was the very conference room they had stayed in when they went to the Cinderella Game; Amber had recorded its spatial coordinates back then, which was why they could arrive at their destination so smoothly.

The conference room was empty, and even the conference table was covered in dust, indicating that no one had been there for several months. The arrival of Duke and the others stirred up a lot of dust. Upon seeing this, Duke quickly released the touch mode, while Amber and Cecil coughed softly from the dust.

"Has no one come in here since we last came?" Cecil waved his hand and casually remarked, then Guangbao looked at Duke: "Duke, what should we do next?"

Duke didn't answer Guangbao's question. Instead, he looked at Amber, who nodded knowingly. She closed her eyes and sensed for a few seconds before opening them and shaking her head regretfully: "I can't sense anything in the city lord's mansion. Moreover, I don't recommend using spatial magic to move around here—the city lord's mansion is full of various spatial restrictions. If it were any other spatial mage, they would probably have been arrested on the spot by now."

"how about you?"

"I... can only say that I can leave whenever I want, but I can no longer move freely within the city lord's mansion area."

Amber sighed.

Carol is, after all, a top-tier time spellcaster capable of manipulating space and time. Her understanding and control over space are equally formidable, likely second only to Amber, a true space genius, within the floating city. Such a powerful witch's stronghold, cultivated over many years, is naturally a forbidden zone for ordinary space spellcasters.

It can only be said that Amber, who easily brought Duke and Cecil in, is also an extraordinary monster.

“Then let’s keep a low profile and not use teleportation spells.” Duke shrugged. He hadn’t expected to be able to move freely in the city lord’s mansion with Amber anyway. He returned to a state where he could touch things, stood firmly on the ground, and then said softly, “Noelle said my body is in the basement of the city lord’s mansion, right?”

He didn't actually ask the girls, but rather used this method of talking to himself to confirm the situation and strengthen his confidence.

The essence of the Omnipotent Trick is a composite skill that combines psychology, the flexible application of low-level magic, magic tricks, causality effects, and other abilities. Duke is a genius at using the Omnipotent Trick. He can grasp the mentality of the "audience" at the right time and amplify the most important effect of the Omnipotent Trick, "causality," through misleading and inducement. This is the key to using the Omnipotent Trick well.

Whether it's psychology, the ability to use magic, the effects of magic, misleading and inducing... or other methods, they are all essentially aimed at enhancing the causal effect of the all-powerful trickery.

Duke was already proficient in this skill, but after once ascending to godhood, his understanding of it deepened considerably—through his brief divine life, Duke clearly felt just how much power beliefs and ideas could unleash.

"Perhaps, besides the law of causality, the power of belief can also be applied to all-powerful tricks."

So Duke made its first attempt.

In front of Amber and Cecil, who were acting as "spectators," he made a stomping motion, and Duke's spirit body seemed to be exerting force in every muscle (in reality, no matter how Duke, who was already a spirit body, used his muscles, the effect was still the energy of the spirit body). All the techniques at this moment were demonstrating this.

The misleading and seductive nature of magic, the illusions created by magical effects, the application of psychology...

Amber and Cecil were still functioning rationally; they both understood that Duke, now only a spirit, couldn't do much, but these piled-up details deceived their minds.

Thus, the magic trick worked, turning the lie that had fooled Amber and Cecil into reality.

"Boom—"

Duke stepped onto the ground, causing the conference room floor to collapse with a crash.

Amber and Cecil were stunned; only two questions remained in their minds:

You call this "keeping a low profile"? Wasn't it supposed to be "infiltration"?

Chapter 440 The Kaleidoscope of a Beautiful Girl

As long as they eliminate everyone who discovers them, no one will be able to detect their infiltration.

Clearly, Duke was also a top assassin who believed in unparalleled stealth. To the astonishment of the girls, he smashed through the conference room floor and led them into the basement of the city lord's mansion.

However, the city lord's mansion was as if no one was there. Even though Duke had caused such a commotion, no guards came to check on the situation, and no one came to chase after Duke and his group who had gone deep into the basement.

But the three Duke members didn't care about this—because they were more concerned about something else.

"Duke, Amber, doesn't this place look familiar?" Cecil walked at the front of the three. After forcibly breaking into the basement, they didn't find Duke's body. Instead, they found a staircase leading deeper underground. "I feel like I've walked down one of these deep underground staircases before?"

“A parallel world,” Duke casually answered Cecil’s question. “This place is almost exactly the same as the staircase leading from the Pandora family’s underground city to the depths of the floating city in a parallel world.”

Guangbao suddenly realized and clasped his hands together, then tilted his head in surprise: "Strange, why does our floating city also have a place like this? The two floating cities are so different, aren't they?"

“Our floating city was designed by Lady Fei based on that floating city… The difference is significant because it evolved along two different paths over a thousand years, due to time. But in the very beginning, the two floating cities were probably very similar.” Duke was still examining the deep, dark staircase, as if he had already seen something from it. “In the parallel world, we didn’t have time to explore the underground passages of that world, perhaps we can explore them properly here.”

“Duke,” Amber reminded him, frowning, “Don’t forget our purpose.”

“What I know is finding my body, right?” Amber and Cecil seemed more concerned with Duke about whether he could reclaim his body than with Amber and Cecil. He stretched lazily, then took out two items from his inventory, and looked at the wall of the staircase. “Noelle didn’t mention this staircase that goes deep underground. Either he lied to us and my body isn’t in the city lord’s mansion at all, but that’s unlikely… It’s more likely that Noelle didn’t know about this staircase either. He did see my body in the ‘basement of the city lord’s mansion,’ but Carol used the information he knew to lure us here.”

"Huh? Is it that complicated?" Amber was stunned, and asked hesitantly, "What do you mean? Is your body really not here?"

“No, if I were Carol, I would put my body at the very bottom of this underground passage—if she really wanted us to explore this place as much as possible.”

Duke exclaimed in admiration:

"What a clever scheme. She used the information we learned from the previous timeline to deceive and manipulate our actions. She knew I remembered the memories from the previous timeline, so she planted a seed in Noelle's body. As long as we make contact with him, we will inevitably end up here."

It's clear that Carol's strategy has fully adapted to the changes of "multiple playthroughs," with the "time difference" and "information gap" created by time rewinding being Carol's greatest weapons. Realizing the brilliance of Carol's manipulation of time, Duke clicked his tongue, becoming more vigilant and focusing his attention on the two items in his hands.

[Item Name: Star Chart]

[Item Description: A brilliant star map recording the sun, moon, and stars; the prophetic words guiding people to look up at the sky; the driving force behind the creators of the floating city; the sacred path upon which this great city was initially formed.]

[Item Effect: The divine authority initially formed by the floating city: "Stars".]

[Item Name: Person in the Mirror]

[Prop description: "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"]

[Item Effect: You see another possibility of yourself in the mirror.]

There's not much to say about the star chart; Duke used it to ignite the divine fire and eventually became a god.

Duke took it out simply to press it against the walls of the underground passage, to see if these walls would transform into a dazzling star map, like in a parallel world. But in reality, the two floating cities were fundamentally different. The star map didn't make the walls reveal their star map; instead, it damaged the walls—the star map still retained some divine authority and seeds of divine fire, while the stairwell walls were merely mortal objects, and even simple contact with the star map would cause them to quickly crumble.

So Duke casually put away the star map, looked at the remaining item, and murmured:

"Magic mirror, magic mirror..."

With the collapse of Duke's divine body, Duke was in a state of near-death experience on the level of causality, barely surviving until Amber's resurrection thanks to the effects of the Nine Lives Cat. However, because of this near-death experience, Duke lost the Talkative Mirror, which was lost in a parallel world and was not brought back to this world by Duke.

However, the figure in this mirror is also a bronze mirror, and looks almost exactly the same as that argumentative mirror.

Duke suspects that it is actually related to it in some way—for example, the "Mirror Man" was originally a member of the same kind as that argumentative mirror, but was made into a specimen after death and eventually obtained by the Star Map system, but Duke has no evidence for this.

But in any case, the magic mirror is always useful, like now.

"Magic mirror, magic mirror, do you know where my body is?"

As they spoke, the image in the mirror underwent a startling change. The shot rapidly zoomed out, changing from a close-up of Duke himself to a medium shot, then a long shot, and then zoomed out in one go at an extremely fast speed.

A moment later, the camera abruptly stopped, focusing only on the staircase, which resembled the heart of a behemoth, riddled with the veins of "magical technology" and a supercomputer directly handling the normal operation of the floating city.

This supercomputer is codenamed 5497... or you could call it "Zun".

A body was placed in a transparent crystal coffin filled with green liquid. The body, immersed in this liquid, remained vibrant and retained its original handsome appearance.

That was Duke's body.

Soon, the image in the magic mirror disappeared, but soon a completely new change appeared.

Duke saw two beautiful, white bodies intertwined in the magic mirror.

Duke: "?"

Amber and Cecil, who were watching Duke's actions, suddenly changed their expressions. Guangbao's face turned bright red. She covered her eyes with her hands, but left gaps between her fingers enough for her to see anything clearly. She would occasionally peek at the bronze mirror in Duke's hand, and then quickly look away, feeling guilty.

Amber, on the other hand, seemed unsurprised and excited. After all, she hadn't looked at an R18 book in a long time and desperately needed to replenish her erotic energy. So, she immediately rushed over to Duke's side and carefully examined the image in the magic mirror. After a long while, she suddenly spoke up: "Isn't this you and me, Duke?"

Duke, who hadn't been watching the video carefully, paused for a moment, then leaned closer to examine it: "It really is! Isn't this the incident from last time? Damn! Who filmed this video?!"

“I’ll bet a gold coin that Annie did it.”

"How come you thought the same thing as me?"

Duke and Amber, openly enjoying their own indecent videos, showed no shame whatsoever, perfectly embodying the idea that "if I'm not embarrassed, it's others who are." However, after hearing their discussion, Cecil, who was initially too shy to watch, was also aroused by their curiosity.

She crept up behind Duke and Amber, peeking through her fingers at the bronze mirror, where a scene of explicit content was unfolding, making everyone blush. The innocent Guangbao, watching this live sex show, couldn't help but swallow hard, fantasizing about joining in... but before the dreamer could finish her daydream, the image on the magic mirror abruptly stopped.

Duke reluctantly put away the magic mirror and said irritably, "I was really enjoying watching it!"

Amber: "That's right!"

Cecil: "..."

Although Guangbao had long known that she liked Duke, she sometimes couldn't help but sigh that Duke and Amber really looked like a married couple—whether this "married couple resemblance" was a compliment or an insult depended on the situation.

Chapter 441 Spoiler Witch

Clearly, the indecent video that was just played was the price for using the mirror image, but Duke thought about it for a long time and still couldn't figure out whether it was a punishment or a reward... cough! Not that.

What Duke couldn't figure out was the effect of the "Man in the Mirror" prop.

In the system's item description, the effect of the "Mirror Man" item is "You see another possibility of yourself in the mirror," but just now he used the "Mirror Man" to see the original position of his body, and then paid the price by playing an indecent video.

However, neither the former nor the latter seems to have anything to do with "another possibility".

Could it be that the magic mirror is only showing another possibility, and Duke's original body wasn't actually deep in the underground passage? Then how do you explain the indecent video? Although Duke didn't see himself from this surveillance camera's perspective, he should still be able to recognize that this is something he actually did, right?

It happened in... huh?

Duke was slightly taken aback.

Because he suddenly realized that the indecent video content shown after the mirror image was not something that happened in their current timeline, but something that should have happened "last night"—Amber used time magic to rush into the alluring West Coast and pin Duke down... He meant that this event not only did not happen in this timeline, but it was also temporarily impossible for him to happen because he had lost his body.

This is another possibility for him.

"Then, what about my original body?"

Duke muttered to himself softly, but neither Amber nor Cecil, who were following behind him, could hear what he was saying. Guangbao asked curiously, "What's wrong?"