I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Chapter 448 Proposal?

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

As Duke's body temperature rose, the surface of the bronze mirror underwent a startling change, but the scene was completely different from the one that had appeared when Duke last asked the question.

Last time, the scene Duke saw through the mirror image was the core of the floating city where "Zun" was located. His original body was stored in a transparent crystal coffin filled with green liquid, and his body was immersed in the green liquid. The transparent coffin containing his body was directly connected to Zun's body by a "data cable" and was operating normally under the calculation of that supercomputer.

This time, the location of the "Zun" itself was still shown in the picture, but the prophecy witch appeared in the picture. Tservini smiled at the "camera". The mirror of the person in the mirror gave the prophecy witch's smile a perfect close-up. Not only did she smile, but she also reached out and waved at the "camera". It was obvious that she was greeting Duke and others outside the "camera".

After exchanging greetings, the Witch of Prophecy wiped the cold sweat from her brow, then laboriously disconnected the "data cable" from the transparent coffin. She then shakily lifted the coffin and slowly left the core room of the floating city. Before Tservini left the room, a golden hue appeared on the screen, but before Duke and the others could discern what it was, the Witch of Prophecy closed the door.

Duke frowned and asked softly, "Did you see that flash of gold just now?"

"Yes, it must be the Little Prince."

"Ida said with great interest," Cecil, who had seen the Little Prince in a parallel world, nodded in agreement. However, Amber, who had also seen the Little Prince in a parallel world, and Blackie, who had seen the Little Prince in the Babel Tower Turtle Soup game, both shook their heads. Neither of them had clearly seen what the fleeting golden light had been.

Just as everyone was exchanging a few words, the scene in the mirror changed again. The process in between seemed to have been suddenly cut off. The prophetic witch carried the coffin up the long underground passage and returned to the city lord's mansion. Then, carrying the coffin, she kicked open the door of the city lord's office.

In the city lord's office were Carol, Eve, and Monica, who were talking about something. Judging from their expressions and actions, their words were extremely heated. However, the bronze mirror could only display images and could not produce sound. Moreover, the images were not displayed clearly enough, so Duke could not see what they were talking about.

On the contrary, it was Tserene who walked into the room and spoke that made her mouth movements too clear, allowing Duke, who knew a little about lip reading, to understand what she was saying: "Duke's body can be hidden in your office for now. By the way, don't tell Megan about this."

Then, the image of the person in the mirror abruptly stopped, but soon a completely new change occurred.

Duke appeared in the frame, holding a gorgeous white wedding dress in his hands, and handed it to the person standing in front of him—Annie.

Anne looked incredulous, covering her mouth with her hands. But she quickly accepted the white wedding dress with delight and tore off her original clothes without hesitation. She then tossed the ripped clothes aside, leaving her only in her signature lingerie set—a seductive style with numerous cutouts.

Anne looked at the white wedding dress she was holding and pondered for a moment whether she should put it on first. But soon she came up with another good idea—so she rushed towards Duke with the dress in her hands, knocked him to the ground, and straddled him.

Everyone: ?

The scene abruptly ended, and Annie offered a sharp commentary on it:

"Wedding dresses aren't important, let's have the wedding night first... That's so me."

Anne let out a sound of admiration and pride. Clearly, the events depicted in the mirror were exactly the choices Anne would make. She looked extremely pleased, her eyes narrowing and becoming captivating crescent-shaped. She gazed at Duke with deep affection, then suddenly said firmly:

"I do (IDO)."

"What are you talking about?" Amber interrupted her impatiently, lightly tapping Annie on the head with her hand to snap her out of her reverie. Then, she raised an eyebrow, looked at Duke with a half-smile, and asked, "Duke, when did you buy your wedding dress?"

just.

Duke: "...I feel like I can still explain it."

"Oh?" Amber crossed her arms and looked at Duke, waiting for his "excuse," but before Duke could speak, she said irritably, "You don't need to explain. I don't actually care where you bought your wedding dress... I just want to know, can you pick out a wedding dress like this for me?"

"Huh?" Duke paused for a moment, then muttered to himself, "But wouldn't it be unfortunate if the groom saw the wedding dress beforehand?"

He muttered very softly, but Amber, who was standing right in front of Duke, still heard him. The usually aggressive Duke paused slightly upon hearing this, then raised his hands to cover his blushing face—did Duke really know what he was saying? Was he implying that he would definitely be her groom?

Is he really not proposing?

"Hmph, you've passed this time..." The little jealous queen of the floating city muttered under her breath. She didn't know if Duke heard her, but she figured that even if he did, the shameless scumbag wouldn't admit it. "Duke, so what exactly is this? Aren't you going to explain it to us?"

Duke certainly heard Amber's mutterings, but just as Amber had predicted, he would never admit it, even if it meant his death.

He nodded, taking the opportunity Amber had given him, and explained, "This prop allows you to see other possibilities. For example, the scene of delivering the wedding dress to Annie is clearly a worldline completely different from this one." (Upon hearing this, Annie's eyes lit up—so she had a winning worldline.)

"So your body isn't in the City Lord's office in the City Lord's Mansion?"

“This might have happened in the last time loop.” Duke nodded, then shook his head. “But I’m not sure. Zun, can you sense the condition of your original body?”

The mechanical dragon girl beside her tilted her head: "Main body? What main body?"

Duke: "..."

"Well, if that's the case, then there's nothing we can do about it."

As long as Carol's time loop has no limit on the number of times it can be used, Mad Duke dares to choose an aggressive action strategy... And judging from the time diary, even if Carol's time loop has a limit on the number of times it can be used, it can still be used at least four times.

If Duke doesn't just go all out and take off, they'd be embarrassed to call themselves the "White Dragon of the Waves"!

"Let's storm the floating city lord's mansion tonight!"

Chapter 449 Because of Duke!

The person who responded most enthusiastically to Duke's plan to storm the floating city's lord's mansion was not Annie, Amber, or Cecil, but Ida.

It's probably because when the Floating City Lord was still Lady Fei, this former mute never did the feat of directly storming into the Floating City Lord's mansion. Although the current Floating City Lord is Carol, she can be considered a substitute for Fei. If Ida could storm into the Floating City Lord's mansion with Duke, it would be a way to make up for the regret of that year.

Of course, Date's initiative and enthusiasm are very important for this trip—if anything goes wrong, Date is the only one who can stand up to Carol.

If Duke's previous strategy of "a small elite" was somewhat unreasonable, bringing his entire family and even the prisoners (referring to the armored witch Stephanie) along, it seems a bit illogical. After all, his strategy in the last cycle was correct in every way. Infiltrating the floating city lord's mansion should be done this way—Duke led Amber and Cecil into the floating city lord's mansion. With both capable fighters and fast runners, they were a combination that could both attack and defend.

To their utter surprise, they didn't encounter Carol or Eve, nor the true form of the prophetic witch... but instead met the unpredictable Little Prince. The Little Prince's legendary destiny wasn't spatial magic; Amber couldn't detect spatial fluctuations beforehand, and afterwards, she needed to expend considerable effort to squeeze into the miniature planet the Little Prince had constructed.

Amber's initial hacking into the mini-planet was like a professional locksmith encountering an electronic lock—a locksmith capable of picking any physical lock. However, she suddenly found herself facing an electronic lock. The Little Prince's legendary destiny didn't utilize space technology, so it wasn't Amber's area of ​​expertise. But because her husband had been kidnapped and was trapped inside, who knew what that seemingly harmless little girl/boy might do to him? So, the professional locksmith Amber panicked, pulled out her sledgehammer, and smashed the electronic lock with it.

This kind of brute-force cracking is not only difficult and laborious—Amber would be exhausted after smashing an electromagnetic lock once—but it also takes a long time. Normally, Amber can travel through space as easily as eating or drinking, but last time she rescued Duke, it took her a very long time.

The Little Prince of this world possesses the memories of the Little Prince from the parallel world. He knows that Amber has the ability to break into the mini-planet, so in the previous cycle, he did not linger in his own world at all, but instead took Duke directly to the core cabin at the lowest point of the floating city.

While bringing your family along might seem a bit awkward, it certainly has at least three advantages over a three-person team.

Firstly, Ida plus Cecil is definitely stronger than Cecil alone. Moreover, with Ida's experience and abilities, she is fully capable of dealing with the Little Prince's legendary destiny, unlike Amber and Cecil, who, like two hotheads, could only watch helplessly as Duke was kidnapped by the Little Prince.

Secondly, Annie's presence ensures that the team has other "brains" besides Duke. If Duke encounters an accident temporarily, as Duke's loyal (and spoiled) dog, she will definitely be able to force herself to calm down immediately, take over Duke's command of the team, stabilize the situation, and ultimately help Duke overcome the difficulties.

Thirdly, there's the existence of the mechanical dragon girl, Zun. Their destination is her original location, and bringing her along is profitable no matter how you look at it. If she can control the core of the floating city, the "5497" super robot, Duke and the others will essentially gain another top-tier combatant!

Duke admitted that there was an element of gambling involved, but he was a madman by nature; he would gamble as long as the odds of success exceeded fifty percent.

Not to mention that they are currently in a time loop, so even if they lose the bet, they don't have to pay any price.

"and……"

Duke did not say the second half of his sentence.

It's time to go see Carol.

……

"Why did you wake me up! I've been busy all day and finally... Hmm?" Eve rubbed her sleepy eyes, still grumbling about her best friend's low mood after just waking up, but before she could say two words, she felt a familiar sense of déjà vu—after all, Eve was Carol's closest best friend, and the first thing she noticed was this sense of déjà vu, so she frowned: "Did you reset time?"

"Ah."

Carol smiled and nodded, patting Eve on the shoulder with satisfaction: "Great, looks like I won't get scolded a second time."

"You deserve to be scolded. I'm not a legend, I'm just a mortal. I still need sleep! A person in deep sleep who is woken up will definitely yell at you, understand?" Eve finally finished her lines, then reached out and pinched her flesh hard, using the pain to force herself to wake up, then smacked her lips: "Almost got scolded a second time... Is this the first cycle?"

“No, this is the second cycle.” Carol shook her head, then did some simple calculations. “The first two times, the Floating City’s doomsday will happen tomorrow.”

"Huh?" Eve was stunned for a moment, then stared at Carol with a slightly changed expression. "You're kidding, right? According to our calculations, the end of the floating city is still several years away!"

“Our calculations are certainly correct, and I have already repeated the time loop hundreds of times. If nothing is done, the end of the floating city will indeed happen in three years—114 years after the city was built.” Carol nodded, put her hand on Eve’s shoulder to calm her down, “But that is under the condition that I do nothing.”

"What do you mean? What did you do to bring the end of the world three years earlier?"

"The aphasic abdicated, the concept of the Little Prince was erased, multiple Crown-level witch games occurred one after another, and Talia's success opened up a passage between the floating city and the other dimension." Although these were all terrible news, Carol seemed extremely happy when she said them. She concluded, "This cycle is really too interesting."

Eve knew she wasn't referring to the recent days of time rewinding, but to the entire cycle of reincarnation.

The cycle of time began 514 years ago.

Eve pursed her lips and said with some regret, "Carol, do we have to start all over again?"

Every time Carol fails to save the floating city, she returns to a point in time 500 years after the city's founding. That means she will return to the time before she met Eve and they gradually transform from strangers back into friends.

Although Eve wouldn't feel anything, she couldn't help but feel sorry for her good sister because she never expected that Carol would endure hundreds of time loops with an average time span of over five hundred years.

But Carol showed no sadness whatsoever… quite the opposite, she even laughed:

"No, I believe this cycle of reincarnation is the last one!"

"Because of Duke?"

"Because of Duke!"

Chapter 450 The same stealth, different results

DAY0.

night.

Duke and his group's infiltration plan once again began with Amber's spatial magic, and they were once again brought into the conference room of the floating city lord's mansion by Amber.

"Isn't it a bit too arrogant of us to just walk in like this?"

Amber asked with some concern.

Unlike the last time, when Amber witnessed Carol, Eve, and Monica leaving the city lord's mansion, she was fearless during the teleportation and never imagined that the floating city could have legendary combat power—in fact, there were not only some, but several, from the prophetic witch to Megan to the little prince. Although they were all old, weak, sick, and disabled who couldn't defeat Cecil, they were still considered legends.

In this cycle, Amber not only didn't witness Carol and the others leaving the City Lord's Mansion, but she could even be certain that they were still inside—after all, what else would decent people be doing at night? Look at them sneaking around to the City Lord's Mansion meeting room, they don't look like decent people at all!

Amber had tried her best to conceal the spatial fluctuations she was causing, but it was no use no matter how hard she tried. She had brought a large group of people with her spatial spell, and she didn't believe that Carol and the others in the city lord's mansion wouldn't be able to sense the spatial fluctuations coming from such a close distance.

The number of people remaining in the conference room at this point is ridiculously high.

Duke, Amber, Cecil, Anne, Ida, Alice, Stephanie, Zun, and a little black cat perched on Amber's head.

There were eight and a half people (the half being Xiao Hei). Knowing that they had sneaked in, their only goal was to secretly enter the deepest part of the floating city and head towards its core chamber, anyone who didn't know better would think they were planning to storm the city and wipe out the entire leadership.

Stephanie, who was forced to work, was nominally a prisoner, but her personal freedom was not restricted. In fact, she was treated as a partner by Duke and the others and given a task. This "fingertip witch" was forced to cast protective magic for everyone present, not only to help herself stack armor, but also to help everyone present stack armor.

While diligently casting spells, the armored witch lowered her head, tears welling up in her eyes. She kept apologizing to her organization in her mind and constantly hypnotizing herself, "I was forced, I was forced, I was forced," hoping that Carol would not discover her betrayal... This silly armored witch had no idea that this was her home turf. Even if she ran to Carol to tell her, Duke and the others wouldn't do anything to her.

Ida looked around the conference room with curiosity. Having never entered the Floating City Lord's Mansion before, everything seemed curious and novel to her—even when she walked the streets of the Floating City again after hundreds of years, she had never shown such curiosity.

She wrinkled her small nose and took two deep breaths:

"Is this where Fei holds meetings? I can smell her stench! Damn it, she must have done it here when she imposed the ban on us mute people back then."

Ida said somewhat indignantly, while Duke, standing beside her, had no idea how to remind her—as far as he knew, the Floating City Lord's Mansion was renovated every term; Monica had renovated it, and Carol had renovated it as well. Who knew where this conference room used to be in the Lord's Mansion?

"Oh, she said she could smell the stench of scarlet. Maybe this used to be the latrine of the city lord's mansion..."

Amber looked at Duke with an expression of utter disbelief, then looked away without hesitation, seemingly a little embarrassed to admit that she and this guy who made such a blatant scatological joke were boyfriend and girlfriend.

Ida didn't hear Duke's quiet mutterings at all; she was still immersed in her past and the environment of the city lord's mansion. But she quickly returned to normal and turned to Duke: "Duke, what's next?"

"It's very simple."