Hell's Handbook

Chapter 386

The moment Su Jin landed in front of her, the nine tailed fox’s pupils constricted as she let out a shriek and nine tails appeared behind her. There was a flame on the end of each tail, and they came together to form a nine-colored flame that flew toward Su Jin.

The other four demons immediately moved aside. They were clearly afraid of this nine-colored flame. Excitement spread across their faces when they saw that the flame had hit Su Jin, because as far as they knew, this flame was extremely lethal. Anyone hit by the flame was definitely going to die.

But their understanding of the flame’s powers had no effect on Su Jin. After being hit, Su Jin remained standing, and the flame started shrinking instead. After it had shrunk considerably, the demons realized that Su Jin was actually consuming the flame.

“What in the world?!” The nine tailed fox paled. She couldn’t believe her eyes. That nine-colored flame was powerful enough to kill gods, and that was how she managed to become the leader of the demons despite being a seemingly small and frail woman.

Su Jin narrowed his eyes slightly after he had consumed the entire flame, then nodded and said, “It’s a pretty good ability to have, but there’s too little of it.”

“What… who exactly are you? You’re not a Hell’s Handbook owner. It’s impossible for any owner to have this sort of power,” said the nine tailed fox.

Su Jin smiled and said, “Since you know about Hell’s Handbook and its owners, I’m sure you have even more information than that.”

“We don’t have as much information on hand as you think we do. We only know some things from our numerous battles with owners,” said the Golden Horned King as he remained standing on the shoulder of the Silver Horned King. He too, had a Seven Stars Sword, but the other item he carried was a Suet Jade Flask.

Su Jin nodded and said, “Like I said earlier, I just want to talk to you guys. Of course, if you think it’s important to specify how much you know first before we talk, I can wait.”

The five demons were beginning to feel uneasy. Su Jin was someone who killed the thunder god within seconds, and the nine tailed fox’s nine-colored flame had done no harm to him. Even if they fought him together, they would probably end up dead, while Su Jin would still be standing.

The nine tailed fox was standing very close to Su Jin and she couldn’t stand the pressure Su Jin was placing on her, so she furrowed her brows and said, “Fine! What do you want to talk about?”

Su Jin smiled and flicked his finger, causing the main door of a house that hadn’t been damaged to open. He said to the five of them, “Let’s go in and have a chat.”

“Humph, and you think someone of our size could get in there?” said Daitengu with a snort.

Su Jin didn’t think it was a problem. He stared at Daitengu and the creature rapidly shrank to become the same size as the nine tailed fox in the blink of an eye. He turned to look at Bifang and the Silver Horned King, and they too, became smaller within seconds.

The three demons were too shocked for words. They could accept that Su Jin had incredible fighting abilities, but having other abilities such as this one was very frightening.

Su Jin walked in first. The five demons exchanged glances, then walked in behind him too. There was a large wooden table and a few wooden stools inside the house.

Su Jin cleared the table and put the stools around the table before motioning to the demons to take a seat. The demons dared not protest and sat down. Bifang, the bird covered in flames, suddenly spoke up, “You’re not worried about those other owners?”

“Worry about them? Whatever for?” asked Su Jin.

“They are of the same race as you are, aren’t they? They’re being attacked by the demons under us now,” Daitengu chimed in.

Su Jin shook his head slightly and said, “Firstly, from the moment you become a Handbook owner, you have to protect your own life and you can’t count on others to do that for you. Secondly, I’ve killed one of the great demons, and the other five are seated right here with me. That’s the most help I can give them. If they still can’t survive despite that, then… it’s too bad.”

The demons were taken aback by his words. They could sense that this man was different. He looked like an ordinary owner, but there was something different about him. Other owners had fear written all over their faces when they saw the demons, but this man was full of nothing but curiosity.

“Well, enough about them. Let’s talk about you guys. You’re all very powerful, and nearly as powerful as gods, but you’re not under the control of the Handbook, which is a very strange thing,” said Su Jin calmly. He did think this was all very odd, because regardless of whether they were monsters or gods, every creature that appeared in a Handbook Challenge would be under the control of the Handbook in some way or another, regardless of whether these creatures realized it or not. But not these demons. These great demons were free. They were trapped in a Challenge, but they were not under the control of the Handbook.

In other words, Hell’s Handbook had to carve out the area where these demons passed through to create a Challenge out of it. This was unlike how it usually placed the monsters or gods it needed into a space that was designed to be a Challenge. The result was more or less the same, but the way it was designed made a lot of difference.

In the past, Su Jin wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference. But now, Su Jin had the ability to see the difference. He just needed to look at the demons, and he could sense that they were free beings.

“We don’t know what you’re talking about,” the Golden Horned King shook his head.

Su Jin was not surprised by his answer, since it was true that some people truly had no idea what were the real circumstances they were in. Those who understood themselves and their situation were often noble characters, and these great demons were clearly not in that category.

But just when Su Jin was about to say more, he suddenly froze. The demons also suddenly got up to look out of the house with puzzled expressions on their faces.

“What’s going on? The demons are being killed very quickly, and the speed is… rather abnormal!” said Daitengu.

Su Jin was just as puzzled as them, but he wasn’t puzzled about the destruction of the demons. It was the group of owners. Liu Bowen and the rest seemed to have run into danger, and they had already lost a few people.

“Is it Hell’s Handbook?” murmured Su Jin as he disappeared in a flash. The other five demons exchanged glances, then dashed toward where the problem was happening.

Su Jin got there almost immediately and found that more than half the owners were dead. A group of five led by Liu Bowen was being protected by a powerful weapon, while the demons around them were all dead. Not a single one was still alive.

“What are those things?” Su Jin’s gaze fell on three very strange looking creatures standing in front of Liu Bowen’s group. If he had to describe them, he would say that they looked very much like Predator from the sci-fi movie franchise.

“Our mission is to… kill everything in the Challenge. Our mission is to… destroy the Challenge!” These three creatures were clearly not ordinary living things as they spoke with electronic sounding voices. One of them came charging toward Su Jin.

Su Jin immediately went into fight mode. A silvery sword appeared in his hands with a flash. How sharp a weapon made from psychokinesis was entirely up to Su Jin. As long as he wanted it to be, his weapon would become invincible.

He thrust the sword forward and split the creature in half. But before he could even feel happy about it, the creature healed itself again perfectly. And it healed up too quickly for anybody to even react.

Pfft! A tongue-like object shot out from the creature’s palm and hit Su Jin’s shoulder. Su Jin’s eyes widened, because his shoulder was like a piece of paper to this tongue. The tongue had pierced right through his shoulder.

“What?!” Su Jin was horrified. His physical body was comparable to a god’s and because he was outside of the universe’s control, anybody who could hurt him had to be at least equivalent to a high level god. And even a high level god would not be able to hurt him so easily. Yet, a random creature had been able to pierce his skin just like that. None of this made sense.

The creature did not retract its tongue-like object, but shot out hooks to hold onto Su Jin. A similar tongue-like object shot out from its other hand, and this time, it was aiming for Su Jin’s heart.