I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Just a few months after meeting Duke, Amber underwent a dramatic transformation, especially in terms of strength, realm, and spirit. Originally, although she possessed extraordinary talent, being the second space witch in the Floating City in a thousand years, she was useless except for her talent. No matter how you looked at it, she was just a spoiled little princess who told dirty jokes.

In just a few months, Amber has already established herself at the Hero level and is now trying to reach the Legendary level. Apart from her usual dirty jokes and love for doujinshi, there are so many changes in Amber.

Without a doubt, Duke was the catalyst that allowed the amber to grow rapidly.

Duke retorted somewhat irritably, "But so what if amber grows fast? Can't people grow too?"

"So, when she pulled out her mythical weapon during the time stop, ready to fight me, the accident happened."

Carol said softly:

“I originally thought that the connection between the ‘Space Witch’ and the quantum cloud was only due to the special nature of the first generation Space Witch. But now it seems that… the transformation between time and space, which is dominated by space, will naturally attract the quantum cloud. Especially when the power is purer and closer to the legendary destiny, the deeper one will be trapped in the quantum cloud. Amber, who used the mythical weapon, is already too pure, so she is naturally trapped in the quantum cloud and cannot escape.”

Duke's eyes widened.

When he heard about the "first generation Space Witch" from Carol, he remembered the time diary he had read.

Could it be that the thing that killed the first generation of the Space Witch in the diary was this quantum cloud?!

Duke said excitedly, "Carol, you must know how to save Amber! When the first Space Witch was trapped in the Quantum Cloud, didn't you also go through a time loop and come up with a way to save her?!"

Carol gave Duke a strange look, seemingly wondering how he knew all this, but she quickly nodded and then shook her head, saying seriously, "Don't pin your hopes on me. The only one who can save Amber is you, and only you, Duke."

"Your fate is tied to Amber's fate, and now you are the only one who can pull her out of the quantum cloud."

As she spoke, she suddenly clapped her hands together lightly, then reached out her right hand to grab Duke's arm, while her left hand snapped her fingers lightly.

"Begin your journey of destiny, Duke. In the turbulent river of fate, seek the traces of amber."

In that instant, time resumed its flow, but Duke had absolutely no idea how to find the amber.

He glanced around at the alluring West Coast, then fixed his gaze on the small cabin nearby.

In this small, alternate dimension, what impressed Duke the most was undoubtedly the night he spent in that little cabin.

When Duke turned his gaze to the cabin, he saw a blur before his eyes, and a figure resembling amber appeared beside the cabin, but vanished in an instant. In that instant, Duke felt something pull him hard, and caught off guard, he was dragged to the ground by the force.

The instant Duke's body collided with the ground, a century of time and space underwent abrupt changes.

He appeared on a bustling street where neon lights displayed cheap and vulgar advertisements as if they were free, and the people on the roadside were like zombies, entering a state of sagehood after enjoying the simplest and most brutal stimulation.

There is hardly a more distorted social structure in the world than this.

here……

"This must be a floating city in a parallel world."

Carol's voice rang in Duke's ear, and she said with great interest:

"It seems this is the first stop on our journey of destiny."

Chapter 467 Searching for You Among "Countless" Possibilities

"It seems this is the first stop on our journey of destiny."

Upon hearing Carol's voice so close to him, Duke instinctively jumped to the side, away from the floating city lord who was both friend and foe. Only then did he realize that she had changed out of her previous black bikini and into a cyberpunk-style outfit, completely blending into the parallel world of the floating city, which also had a cyberpunk vibe.

However, when Duke saw Carol, he subconsciously frowned and a hint of hostility flashed in his eyes. This was when he felt the most hostile towards Carol, because she was the culprit or direct cause of Amber's predicament in the quantum cloud—regardless of whether Carol did it on purpose, Duke couldn't feel any goodwill towards her now.

Maybe this is displaced anger, but so what if he did displace his anger?

Carol blinked blankly at Duke's subconscious action, but quickly pretended not to care, turned her head to the side, pointed in that direction, and said softly, "Duke, I have to remind you, this is not the same as the previous time loop."

She wasn't lying, and the system didn't give Duke a single draw ticket for the time loop, which was enough to prove that he didn't experience the time loop when he returned here from the alluring West Coast... If it wasn't the time loop, then how did they get here?

Duke frowned and pondered for a moment before giving his answer: "Is this another possible world? Have we also entered the quantum cloud's range?"

“Bingo. Because your and Amber’s fates are tied together by the Star Chart System, we were able to directly access and enter the Quantum Cloud.” Carol laughed happily and snapped her fingers at Duke. “Because we don’t exist in a quantum state and cannot directly merge into the Quantum Cloud, it caused the Quantum Cloud to collapse, becoming what you and I can understand now.”

"Then where's Amber? Where is Amber?" Duke looked in the direction Carol had pointed earlier, but didn't see Amber. Instead, he saw a figure that surprised him—he saw himself and Cecil walking side by side on the streets of a floating city in a parallel world. "Huh? Is that me and Guangbao? But why don't I see Amber?"

“That’s Duke from this possible world.” Carol nodded, took the initiative to stand next to Duke, and explained to him, “Didn’t I say? This isn’t a time loop. You and I aren’t unique to this world. Perhaps we’ll even see me from a parallel world later.”

Duke said coldly, "We haven't met you in the parallel world during our previous parallel world trips."

“Is that so? Perhaps I’m not even in the floating city in the parallel world.” Carol shook her head with some regret. “Alright, let’s hurry, Duke. We don’t exist in a quantum state, so we won’t get lost in the quantum cloud like Amber. But our contact with the quantum cloud won’t last long either. You must find Amber before we make contact.”

"What?" Duke exclaimed excitedly. "What do you mean?"

"Literally, find amber."

Carol looked at Duke, took a step back away from him, and then spread her hands:

"In this world, the possibility of amber has not collapsed into a physical form. Just like what happened before we began our drifting of fate, amber does not exist in this world of possibility. That's why we can see you and Cecil, but we can't see the amber that should be beside you... But this is the quantum cloud, where countless possibilities are superimposed behind a world of possibility, and amber is hidden among those countless possibilities."

Duke's eyes widened, and he murmured, "So that means..."

"In other words, you have to find the amber from countless possibilities before the quantum cloud spits us out."

"What's the difference between this and finding a needle in a haystack? Finding the only possibility among countless overlapping possibilities? How is that even possible?!"

Duke stared at Carol, somewhat agitated. He couldn't quite understand her words, because such a thing seemed rather unrealistic to him—Duke was indeed a gambler; if a plan had a greater than fifty percent chance of success, he'd go all in, risking his life and fortune. But even this madman, when faced with an order of "countless," could only feel an overwhelming sense of despair.

“I can do it.” However, Carol categorically rejected Duke’s self-doubt. Her eyes held a hint of nostalgia, anger, disappointment, and cold scrutiny—as if this were a trial she had woven for Duke, and she could not accept Duke giving up on the trial, nor could she tolerate Duke failing it. “You are Duke, how could you not do it?”

Looking into her eyes, Duke was slightly taken aback. He still couldn't remember what had happened in the Little Prince game, nor could he recall what kind of past he and Carol had shared, or why she trusted him so much. But he could still draw strength from Carol's firm words.

He gradually regained his composure and began to think quietly. Soon he realized something.

Why does Carol know so much about it? Why does Carol know how to save Amber?

"Carol, was the first Space Witch ever trapped in the Quantum Cloud? Did you successfully rescue her? Is that why you're so sure I can rescue Amber, because you succeeded before?!"

Faced with Duke's questioning, Carol simply looked away without answering directly, instead changing the subject: "Let's hurry up, Duke."

She refused to answer the question, but her attitude told Duke the answer.

The "crisis" encountered by the first-generation Space Witch was most likely the quantum cloud, and Carol activated the time loop for the first time to save her master. Duke doesn't know if Carol succeeded afterward, since he can't possibly take out her diary in front of her and read the later additions, but what she figured out through repeated attempts using the time loop is mostly true.

"Okay, so how do I find amber?"

"I do not know."

"Huh?" Duke's hostility and murderous intent flared up instantly. "How could you not know?"

However, Carol was more innocent; she shrugged, and her expression didn't seem to suggest she was lying.

"I really don't know, I don't remember."

Chapter 468 The Yandere Cecil

Carol insisted that she didn't know how to find the amber, and her excuse sounded rather flimsy—she said she didn't remember.

But for some reason, Duke felt that what she said was true, that Carol really didn't remember.

So Duke didn't press Carol for answers. Instead, he frowned and pondered—how could he find a specific possibility in a world composed of countless possibilities?

His first thought was the Lucky Dagger's Lucky Strike, but that item had long since been obsolete.

Ultimately, Lucky Strike is just a hero-level item. Although it involves causality, its effect is relatively weak and cannot affect high-level battles or situations. Let alone something like Quantum Cloud, even in the Turtle Soup game, Duke didn't use Lucky Dagger to change the outcome of entering which "memory world" next—not because Duke didn't want to, but because Lucky Dagger couldn't.

Just as the Lucky Dagger can't change the outcome of the system's gacha machine, the Cinderella Wishing Machine (Soul Requiem version) can influence the gacha machine's outcome to some extent—that's the difference in power levels. As for Duke's other item, Deus Ex, it can most likely also affect the system's gacha machine's results, but the conditions for using Deus Ex are quite strict, and Duke hasn't used it in this area yet.

At this point, Duke's next thought was deus ex machina.

However, the conditions for using deus ex machina have not been met; it feels that the "final act" has not yet been reached.

Apart from that, Duke clearly had no other tools to help him find the amber.

Duke frowned and continued to think, but Carol beside him didn't seem to want him to think properly, and was even adding fuel to the fire: "Duke, aren't you very good at navigating witch games? Why don't you treat this Fate Drift as a witch game? I've never seen you participate in a witch game by just standing there and daydreaming, figuring out the core of the witch game out of thin air. Come on, big brother who likes playing games."

"You're so annoying, can you be quiet for a while?"

Duke rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on. He had no intention of paying any attention to the overly familiar city lord, but what she said did make sense. If this drifting fate was to be seen as a witch's game, he absolutely could not stand still and daydream. Instead, he should participate in the "main storyline" of the witch's game and find more clues to successfully uncover the core of the witch's game.

This time, however, the key point is to find amber.

So, Duke finally took a step and walked on the streets of this floating city in the parallel world. The streets looked somewhat familiar yet very strange. Duke couldn't be sure if he had really walked this road during his parallel world journey, but he was certain that Amber had been with him almost the entire time during his parallel world journey—the only two times he was separated from Amber were when he was taken to the Mini World by the Little Prince and when he became the god "savior".

However, in the former case, it was Amber who ultimately saved him, and in the latter case, it was also Amber who ultimately resurrected him.

Unbeknownst to him, amber had become his most important companion.

Duke gritted his teeth, his pace quickening unconsciously as he strode towards the direction Carol had pointed—the direction "Duke" and "Cecil" had gone. Duke wanted to see his counterpart in this world and search for Amber's whereabouts.

The observers who created this possible world are him and Carol, so this world must have been built around him or Carol. If you want to find clues, the answer might be right next to "Duke".

"Boom—"

However, at that moment, a loud bang rang out at close range. Duke instinctively leaped to the side, dodging what had suddenly attacked him. But even though Duke dodged the attack, he couldn't see what it came from; it was as if an invisible tentacle had slammed heavily on the spot where Duke had just been. At the same time as he was attacked, "Duke" and "Cecil" were also attacked.

The people of this world seemed caught off guard by the attack. "Duke" was hit hard and sent flying, while "Cecil" was also hit directly. However, the holy light protection she had set up beforehand worked and protected her from serious damage.

"Duke?! Duke, are you alright?!"

When Cecil saw Duke being knocked away, her expression changed instantly. She seemed somewhat different from the Cecil Duke knew; she completely lacked the simple-minded Guangbao's sense of justice, instead exuding a madness. The instant she realized Duke had been knocked away, she revealed a fierce killing intent, gritting her teeth as she said:

"I want to hug Duke! I want to find and kill the enemy who just attacked Duke!"

With that, she vanished from her spot and reappeared beside "Duke," pulling him into the crook of her left arm. Her right hand then condensed into a dazzling holy light, and without any regard for the poor people still on the street, she slammed the magnificent holy cross into the ground.

If this attack were to actually hit the ground, this entire street, along with its inhabitants, would perish from the destructive power of the holy light. The Lightbringer Duke knew would never have acted this way, but this "Cecil" seemed to be a yandere, akin to Annie, who attacked without any restraint.

Duke was also within the range of the Holy Light Cross that Cecil had unleashed. His expression changed slightly, and he quickly reached out his hand towards the Holy Light that was affecting him, whispering, "Spell Thief."

His right hand lashed forward and grabbed a handful of dazzling holy light.

Duke's spell rogue couldn't steal Cecil's Holy Light from her; it was her innate ability, something Duke couldn't take or use. However, his spell rogue could barely disrupt the Holy Light spells she cast.

The dazzling Holy Light Cross collapsed prematurely because of Duke's spell rogue, before it could even destroy the street.

But this made Cecil frown immediately, and holding Duke in the air, she said coldly:

"I want to see who stopped my spell."

As soon as she finished speaking, she vanished from her spot again, transforming into a beam of holy light that shot towards Duke.

In an instant, she stood in front of Duke, looking somewhat surprised.

"Another... Duke?"

Duke smiled awkwardly, about to greet the somewhat crazy "Cecil" and explain his situation, but the "Cecil" in front of him gradually understood everything.

Her face darkened instantly, and she screamed wildly: