I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

If that's the case, then the reward for Mission 1 should be the Nine Lives Cat, which miraculously revives after being killed, and the reward for Mission 2 should be the Sulfur Fire, which is obtained after defeating the boss, right?

Duke was puzzled. He was momentarily distracted, but quickly brought his attention back to reality. Talia stomped her foot, and the crystal crown on her head emitted an eerie light. Now that she had a body, even if the legendary destiny didn't work, Talia wouldn't need much effort to crush Duke.

"world!"

Duke quickly pulled out his World Watch and stopped time, but a scene that shocked him appeared: in the world where time was stopped, Talia was still moving, as if she was walking slowly towards him unaffected... No, the time stop had never worked in the first place.

Duke looked down at the World Pocket Watch in his hand. Its hour, minute, and second hands had stopped moving. He didn't know if it was broken or... had fallen into a deep sleep.

Can Talia even "hypnotize" inanimate objects into a deep sleep?! If that's true, even if he's immune to her abilities, it's useless!

It's important to understand that Duke's three trump cards are all useless at this moment. The Lucky Dagger's cooldown isn't ready, and his spirit Megan has been captured by Talia; the Displacement Coordinates are intact, but without Megan by his side, Duke can't use that thing at all; and Deus Ex...

The cooldown time for this item is "one final act".

Duke didn't understand when the final act was, and since Deus Ex was not working at this point, it proved that he hadn't experienced the final act yet.

Just then, the intermittent, ethereal sound finally rang out.

"Give...give the person you like...a hug."

But Annie, the executor of this great adventure, has fallen into a deep sleep. She is destined to be unable to complete this embrace and will soon be eliminated. Therefore, neither Duke nor Talia paid any attention to the ethereal voice.

But Duke felt... the ethereal voice seemed a little weaker.

Then, the scalpel that had been stuck in the ground suddenly made a piercing sound. Then, more than a dozen skeletal arms sprouted from the ground like bamboo shoots, forming another cage. Just as Talia was about to escape, a somewhat cold body embraced her.

A skeleton with a picture of Anne's magic attached wrapped its arms around Talia, holding her tightly in its embrace, unable to move.

"The adventure was a success."

"Darling, your body is so soft and smells so good." Annie, who had somehow come to her senses, gave a mocking smile, but her tone was full of love. "It was worth the ten seconds of self-hypnosis I spent."

She wasn't just talking nonsense; Annie could feel the touch of her controlling the skeleton, and it was an absolute fact that Talia's body was soft and fragrant.

"Hmph." Talia raised an eyebrow, showing no panic despite being held tightly by the skeleton. She countered, "How did you do that? How did you wake up? By using the rules of another dimension?"

"That's right, the core rule of this world is Truth or Dare. In order for people to play Truth or Dare, the alternate dimension will help clear away all obstacles, and players only need to give up the courage to play Truth or Dare." Obviously, this time the obstacle that could not be resisted was the slumber given by Talia, so Annie relied on the rules of the alternate dimension to wake up and ambushed Talia.

As Annie spoke, she shook the bone staff in her hand, causing countless bone claws to press down on Talia's body, trying to tear her clothes... and then tear her body apart, drink her blood, and devour her flesh.

The boning scalpel stuck in the ground was still emitting a piercing sound that sent chills down the spines of anyone who heard it.

Duke's stalker grinned cruelly, seemingly eager to dissect Talia, who was being held by the skeleton, while the entertainer she was facing calmly looked back at her with an equally excited smile.

The Bone Claw stopped moving the instant it touched Talia, unable to harm her in the slightest.

On the contrary, Duke, who had some connection with them, didn't dare to say a word, and sighed inwardly, "Women fighting is really scary."

"Eighteenth...round...Talia."

"Please choose... Truth or Dare?"

"The truth."

Although Talia had been trapped inside Megan's soul within the Lucky Dagger and had no awareness of the outside world, unaware of Duke and the other's previous game progress, she seemed to know about the famous "Truth or Dare" game. She immediately gave her choice and heard the ethereal voice's question:

What are you afraid of?

Talia fell silent.

No matter how tightly the skeletons on her body tightened their arms, they couldn't stop her from escaping. No matter how sharp the scalpel stuck in the ground in front of her was, it couldn't cut her. No matter how clever and cunning Annie was, she was no threat in her eyes.

Duke.

Talia gave her answer.

“I’m afraid of his threats to me, I’m afraid of his threats to the mute, I’m afraid of the enormous opportunities he brings to the floating city. I’m afraid he’ll trick me into coming to the floating city, I’m afraid of being besieged by several legendary witches, I’m afraid of dying.”

"Correct answer."

Talia's confession confirmed one thing for Duke and Anne.

They are no match for Talia, who possesses a physical body. Therefore, their only chance is to completely destroy the witch game in a short time, clear the game, and bring Talia back to the floating city!

"...Round 19...Duke."

"Please choose... Truth or Dare?"

"A great adventure!"

"Please jump from a high place."

Duke raised an eyebrow and said without hesitation, "I'm going to start from here and fall into the bottomless pit!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Duke felt his feet sink into the ground, and then he was enveloped by a feeling of falling. Not only him, but Annie and Talia also fell into the "bottomless abyss" with him.

The three people, along with half of the skeleton holding Talia, plummeted from the sky. The bone scalpel, embedded in the ground, also fell, continuing its ominous, piercing wail.

"The adventure was a success."

"Round 20... Anne."

"Please choose... Truth or Dare?"

"The Great Adventure".

"Please...tell me...a secret you've kept for a long time."

Anne suddenly covered her face shyly, looked away, and said firmly, "I like Duke!"

Duke: "?"

What kind of secret is that?

"Correct answer."

Duke: "???"

This works?!

Or... does Annie really think it's a secret?! So the ethereal voice judged that she was right?

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The battle continues.

To be fair, Talia is such a persistent nuisance, and compared to her, even the stalker Annie seems quite attractive in Duke's eyes.

Ever since the Cinderella Game ended, Talia has been like a stalker to Duke, always appearing during the Witch Game and turning the original game upside down, forcing him into a chaotic mess of tartare.

Moreover, Duke had clearly destroyed Talia's soul in that game where clothes were torn apart, which seemed to be a reference to KL, through the power of deus ex machina. He never expected that this guy would be able to make a comeback and reappear in front of him like a ghost, restarting the war.

Ta-ta-kai, keep touching Ta-ta-kai!

Is she some kind of villain in a comedy comic? In every episode, she plots an evil scheme, only to be exposed and defeated by the righteous protagonist. At the end of each episode, she shouts, "I will definitely be back," and then makes a comeback in the next episode.

A new concept of Grey Wolf, right?

Duke prides himself on being a strategist, not a big-breasted... well, small-breasted, brainless fighter like Guangbao. He utterly despises this kind of relentless, non-stop combat. The environment in which he can best utilize his abilities is a complex one, like Cinderella Game, with unique and incredibly powerful rules in another world, allowing him to make full use of them.

What truly limits Duke's performance is, of course, one-on-one duels where strategy is completely absent. In such a arena, his greatest advantage vanishes entirely.

Nowadays, this game of truth or dare is, in most cases, a brutal one-on-one arena.

The open plaza, devoid of cover or obstacles, was a world shared only by Duke, Annie, and Talia. Aside from the truth or dare games each round, it was practically the perfect dueling arena. Facing a legendary being who had achieved perfect physical and spiritual unity in such a place, he felt like he was risking his life.

Under these circumstances, all Duke can do is finish the game as soon as possible, escape back to the floating city with Annie, and then figure out a way to deal with Talia.

He made them fall into the bottomless abyss, also following this line of thinking. On the one hand, it was to create an acceleration of extreme descent, thereby resolving the previous disadvantageous terrain. On the other hand, it was also to continue to deplete the power of the other dimension's core.

It wasn't easy for it to create a bottomless abyss that could never be reached. After completing Duke's idea, the ethereal voice became noticeably weaker.

Duke believed that if they could just have two or three more "unreasonable adventures," the core of this alternate dimension would be completely drained, detached from the floating city, and they would be able to complete the game.

Talia knew this too, and she didn't dare to return to the floating city with its four legendary witches. If the wheel of fortune turned to her, Talia would definitely choose truth and stall for time to kill Duke and Annie before they cleared the level.

In Duke's view, the key to this battle lies in the outcome of the roulette wheel.

However, Anne, who has always been very cooperative with Duke, seems to have her own ideas this time.

"Round 20, Anne."

"Please choose: Truth or Dare?"

"The truth."

Anne spoke without hesitation, then snapped her fingers. Her outstretched right hand withered into bones in an instant, stopping only at her shoulder, but continuing to deepen at an extremely slow pace.

at the same time

The Witch of White Bones

This title was not only to praise Anne's outstanding contributions to necromancy research (referring to the field of human transmutation), but also because of the absurdity of her signature spells.

As Annie's arm withered into bones, a startling change occurred on the skeletons that had come down with Duke and the others: flesh and blood grew from their pale bones.

The skeletal claws transformed into a bloody, mangled arm, and then a human figure sprouted from a bone. Their open eyes held no light, and their bodies emanated no trace of soul; they were mere flesh puppets.

This is Annie's signature spell.

Generally speaking, "bringing the dead back to life and fleshing out bones" is a phrase used to describe someone with superb medical skills, but in the hands of the White Bone Witch, this phrase appears exceptionally evil.

Under Annie's command, these soulless flesh puppets pounced on Talia. The half-skeletal part of her body remained a skeleton and was unaffected by the magic.

As they plummeted from the sky, their movements appeared somewhat comical, but Talia was unable to stop them with her slumbering legendary destiny, not because she couldn't put soulless flesh to sleep—after all, she ultimately couldn't put to sleep the gravity that caused their fall.

Duke realized that Anne not only had no intention of running away, but she even planned to hunt down a legend!

Daring to defy the heavens and earth, just like myself in the previous game.

Thinking of this, Duke suddenly paused for a moment.

What are your reasons for liking the person you love?

The ethereal voice rang out a question, and Duke pricked up his ears, wanting to hear Annie's reasons.

What do you like about me? Can't I change it?

“Because he’s good-looking,” Anne replied casually—this simple and unchangeable reason left her “beloved” speechless. After smiling and waiting for a moment, she continued, “I understand Duke. Because of this understanding, I can easily comprehend his thoughts, including his thought patterns, his likes and dislikes.”

These words left Duke speechless.

What kind of stalker's declaration is this? What are you showing off? Is being a perverted stalker something to be proud of?

Then Duke heard Anne continue: