I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Duke's lips curled up slightly, and he looked around at his surroundings. He didn't recognize where he was at first, but Carol, who had come to this world of possibilities with him, spoke up: "This is my office."

Duke subconsciously turned to look at the city lord, but strangely found that her expression was not quite right. In this drift of fate, this elusive person had always maintained a state of amusement, either coldly watching Duke struggle, or making funny faces and complaining beside him. When asked a question, she only had the answer "I forgot".

These unrestrained behaviors made Duke somewhat forget that she was actually the lord of the floating city, and the "culprit" behind this fateful drift. On her shoulders lay the heavy responsibility of ensuring the entire floating city survived the apocalypse.

She bit her lip and looked at Duke silently, as if she was feeling disappointed about something.

Duke silently observed Carol, pondering what had happened to make the usually carefree Carol show such a sad expression—it couldn't possibly be that she was so upset just because she saw him hug Cecil, could it?

He clicked his tongue and waited for Carol to speak. The two stared at each other in an awkward silence for a while before Carol finally composed herself and spoke again: "It's just that the timing might not be the most recent."

"Not recently? Then how early?"

"Several hundred years ago, at least when Lady Fei was the city lord," Carol said simply, looking at the interior of the office. "At that time, this wasn't my office, nor was it Lady Fei's office."

"...Is this the office of the first generation Space Witch?"

Duke asked curiously.

"You seem to know quite a lot." Carol glanced at him, raising an eyebrow. "Do you know about my relationship with the first generation of the Space Witch?"

"I know a little bit, I've heard some of it."

"Wow."

Carol crossed her arms and looked Duke over with interest. Her previously low mood seemed to be gradually improving as she talked to Duke, but she quickly clicked her tongue and muttered under her breath, "Well, it's not surprising that someone with the Star Chart System knows everything..."

Although she spoke very softly, Duke still heard what she said. Upon hearing this, Duke immediately became curious: "So, do you know what the Star Chart system is? What is its use and significance?"

Carol looked at Duke and hesitated for four or five seconds, then shook her head:

"I do not remember."

"Tch, riddle teller, get out of the floating city!"

Duke rolled his eyes.

The possibility before him, Carol's riddle-like style, left Duke feeling somewhat speechless. He couldn't help but suspect that Carol was using this riddle-like rhetoric to buy time... To be honest, although Duke still didn't know what Carol was planning to do, the possibility of her stalling for time was not small at all.

At the same time, he looked down at his inventory.

Since you've chosen to be a riddle master, don't blame me for causing your social death!

A thought flashed through Duke's mind, and he took out the "Time Diary" from his inventory. He didn't care whether the diary's owner was right in front of him or not, and he flipped the Time Diary back to where he had left off. Sure enough, the content after that point had appeared.

Carol, somewhat curious, leaned closer. When she saw the handwriting in the diary, her face changed instantly—although Carol's memory was incomplete, she could at least recognize the handwriting in those diaries; it was her own. So, Carol, disregarding her image, frantically lunged forward, shouting, "No! Stop!"

But she was quickly subdued by Duke—Duke was no match for Carol, of course, but he could read the contents of the diary:

"Heh heh heh, I am the ruler of this world! You old hag, hurry up and send me the money!"

"Waaaaah, I was wrong! Don't stop my allowance, you bastard... dear master!"

When Duke casually read aloud Carol's early, cringeworthy diary entries, Carol turned ashen-faced, buried her face in her hands, and immediately began rolling around on the floor of her office.

"Ahhh! Please, please stop reading!"

Chapter 478 The Diary of Time

Of course, the additions to the time diary weren't limited to this kind of melodramatic diary writing. In fact, these were only a small part of the newly added diary entries, while the vast majority consisted of content like this:

"Rainy month, fourth day (seventeenth cycle)."

"Finally figured out the old woman's cause of death... Quantum Cloud, where did this damn thing come from?!"

"Seven days of the rainy month (the twenty-fourth cycle)."

"Damn it! How do I get into the quantum cloud?"

"Rainy month, fourth day (the thirty-first cycle)."

"In the last cycle, I entered the electronic cloud for the first time thanks to Ida's advice."

"As expected, Ida's guess was correct. The old woman was lost in the quantum cloud because of the side effects of the time and space conversion! Because of the existence of the quantum cloud, she may have been trying to leave it, but she was bound to die countless times. Therefore, no matter how much effort I put into the macroscopic world, I could not prevent her from dying."

"She truly deserves to be called a mute person who can rival Ms. Fei and the others; she knows far too much."

"I tried to convert time into space, but I couldn't get into the quantum cloud. I spent a long time flipping and converting space and time back and forth before I finally got into the electron cloud. I didn't find the pattern to getting into the electron cloud, but it's a good thing that I was able to get in."

"But in the last cycle, although I entered the quantum cloud, I couldn't handle the legendary swordsman who appeared in the possibility world. I could only watch helplessly as the old woman died in another way! Damn it, if it weren't for his ability specifically countering me and the old woman, my master and I wouldn't have lost if we had worked together!"

“I managed to bring Ida in. With the help of this most outstanding young talent in the floating city for thousands of years, what is a mere legendary sword saint? No matter how strong his legendary destiny is, can it compare to the legendary destiny of the mute?”

"The sixth day of Ugetsu."

"Outrageous!"

"Why is there a hunting angel formation in the floating city? What era is this? The ancient magic empire was destroyed hundreds of years ago. Where did these 'moving natural disasters' that only appear in the age of gods come from? What exactly happened to the floating city in this possible world?"

"Rainy month, fourth day (thirty-second cycle)."

“I’ve thought about it. Although Ida is exceptionally talented and has unlimited potential, she is only a super rookie who has just become a legend. Although her legendary destiny is strong enough, her research and development of it are insufficient. It’s normal that she can’t defeat the Hunting Angels’ line. So this time, I’m trying to find a way to bring Ms. Scarlet into the world of possibilities.”

"Hmph, I'd like to see if this legendary hunting angel formation can defeat the Witch of Miracles."

"The seventh day of Ugetsu."

"Boiled!"

Could it get any more outrageous?

"The gods have come in person!"

"It's an ancient god, not the one mainstreamed by those sects now, but a super god who unified the continent's faith ten thousand years ago, and simultaneously held the divine positions of sun god, war god, and so on. And it's not an avatar or divine thought, but the fallen, sealed original body?! Who sealed this thing? If you can seal it, why don't you just kill it?"

"Even if Ms. Fei is strong, there are limits... In fact, the fact that she was able to perish together with that newly unsealed super god with the old woman's help has far exceeded my expectations. But our goal is to rescue the old woman, not to perish together with a super god!"

Duke looked at the contents with a serious expression, while Carol leaned close to him, reading the diary entries with him. She seemed to genuinely lack Carol's complete memories, so she was engrossed in reading them, offering her opinion as she watched the story featuring herself: "Looks like I was quite naive back then."

Upon hearing her words, Duke subconsciously glanced at her chest, which was far from being considered immature, but immediately looked away.

He always felt that his thoughts and feelings were being influenced by factors that were not his own—from this LSP perspective, it was mostly the changes Amber had brought about; her personality and way of thinking had infected him along with their intertwined fates.

He pinched his chin and muttered to himself:

"Judging from the contents of these diaries, the situation you encountered back then was different from ours. After you entered the Quantum Cloud, you were able to directly meet the first-generation Space Witch, but in all the possible worlds we experienced, the existence of 'Amber' was erased. Why is there such a difference? Is it because the first-generation Space Witch was much stronger than Amber?"

"It could also be because of you. Perhaps it is because your fate is intertwined with Amber's that she disappeared from these possible worlds... Besides, wasn't the existence of the first generation Space Witch erased?"

Carol raised an eyebrow, looked at Duke, and quietly asked:

Have you ever heard of the first generation of the Space Witch?

Duke was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

"Well, you probably haven't heard of her, because nobody remembers her anymore, including me, including Ms. Fei and the others... Of course, I don't know if my original self remembers her, but I certainly don't. And the records of the Floating City aren't kept either; nobody in the entire Floating City knows her name."

Carol's words reminded Duke of something—Ida had met the first Space Witch directly and even thought that such a monster shouldn't have died so easily... But even so, Ida never mentioned the first Space Witch's name!

Even in the time diary in Duke's hands, the name of the first generation Space Witch is not directly mentioned.

You should know that she is not mute, and mentioning her name will not incur divine punishment.

Duke fell into deep thought, while Carol grew impatient: "Keep watching! Is there nothing more? Let's see what I did and how I solved it!"

"Oh, there are still some."

This time, the time diary didn't stop there; instead, it went straight to the end of the "Saving the Old Lady" chapter. Duke had just glanced at the last part of the diary and found that the "Old Lady" was already lively and energetic, helping Ms. Scarlet and going to fight Date in the ring.

Duke turned to a page of his diary.

"Four days of rainy nights (the 764th cycle)."

Duke and Carol: "?"

Did I miss reading more than 700 chapters?

They exchanged a glance and quickly continued reading the rest of the diary.

"In the quantum cloud, the most sought-after type of legendary destiny is always the destiny-based legendary destiny."

"Unfortunately, I can't do it. My legendary destiny is basically locked in the realm of time. In these hundreds of time cycles, I have only found one path of legendary destiny... At the same time, I can't find any legends of destiny-based legendary destiny. Lady Tservini is one, but she can't enter the quantum cloud at all."

"However, this cycle should end this long battle. I have found the only solution to the quantum cloud, and I have found a way to awaken the sleeping princess."

"Star Map System".

"Or rather, a floating city based on a star map system."

Chapter 479 The True Star Chart System

Duke blinked, then turned to look at Carol beside him, who blinked back at him.

The two of them stared at each other, frozen in silence.

Assuming each cycle begins on the fourth day of the Rainy Month and ends on the seventh, Carol would have spent over three thousand days, or more than eight years, in this recurring time loop. If Duke were the one repeating the cycle for more than eight years, he certainly wouldn't be foolishly trying to force it and mindlessly repeating the time loop. Instead, he would definitely use this time to gather enough information, try different methods of salvation, and conduct extensive trials and research.

Carol's ability to act is beyond question.

Without any prompting, she figured out the existence of the "Quantum Cloud" in just seventeen time loops, and in less than forty time loops, she tried to bring Ms. Scarlet, Ida, and other "external aids" into the Quantum Cloud to fight the Hunting Angels and the Ancient Sun God. She caused so much trouble in less than forty time loops. Duke didn't even dare to think about what she did in the more than seven hundred time loops that were skipped in between.

Honestly, Duke doesn't understand why Carol was able to make Monica the second Floating City Lord. Monica isn't stupid, but she's far inferior to Carol. And in terms of combat power... well, Carol has been the Sword God of Ten Mile Slope for so long, why isn't she invincible yet?

Leaving those things aside for now... Judging from the contents of the time diary, after repeating the time loop more than seven hundred times, Carol has come to the final conclusion—to save people from the quantum cloud, one must either master the legendary destiny of the "Fate System" or utilize the "Star Chart System".

Duke had always thought the former was the only answer, until he saw this diary and realized that there was another shortcut—and this shortcut was much more convenient for him, since he had the genuine Star Chart System!

But... how do I use it?

Duke, who had been getting excited, froze on the spot after realizing this.

Although he possesses the legitimate Star Chart System (now the Witch Conquest System), it's gone mad and turned into a marriage-urging (?) system, practically wanting him to have sex with various witches every single day. While there's a limited-time event going on, it clearly has nothing to do with Quantum Cloud… Duke has absolutely no idea how to utilize this Star Chart System!

And how did Carol manage to rescue the first generation of Space Witch using a pirated Star Map system (Floating City)? How exactly did she do it? Did she hack into Zun's body using code?

Completely bewildered, Duke turned to look at Carol in front of him, pondered for a moment, and finally decided to torture her:

"Now you can tell me exactly what the star map system is, right?"

But Carol's expression was even more bewildered than his:

"I don't know?"

Amnesia is such a convenient excuse… Duke is now starting to suspect that the reason Carol trusted a potential version of herself to protect him was because she had the foolproof excuse of amnesia, ensuring she could never reveal the truth. Duke suspects he knows far more than this potential Carol.