Hell’s Handbook - Chapter 285

285: Reunited

Natasha and her three companions were stunned for a moment. Natasha sniggered nastily and said, “That’s a novel way to boast about yourself! A god? Are you disillusioned or something? Then again, since you’ve dared to barge into Shen Wu’s home, I suppose your condition must be pretty serious.”

But the Mad Hatter didn’t get angry with her despite the insults. Instead, he smiled and said, “Of course, it’s a little difficult for you to believe me so easily. But in order to show you that I wasn’t lying… let me show you my true self!”

“What the…” Su Jin was stunned this time. But the Mad Hatter looked ready to fight and didn’t look like he was joking.

“I’ll stall them, you go in and rescue her!” The Mad Hatter took his jacket off and Su Jin realized that the Mad Hatter was actually very muscular.

The Mad Hatter loosened his tie and a maniacal smile spread across his lips. His top hat started shaking violently, then made a loud bang as it suddenly extended in length and turned into a black foil.

“EGHHHH! UGHHH!” A weird growling came from the Mad Hatter’s throat, then two giant ram horns grew from the top of his head. His white dress shirt was consumed by black flames and strange runes appeared on his skin.

VOOM!

The black flames surrounded his body and fangs grew inside the Mad Hatter’s mouth. There were a few threads left behind by his shirt on his shoulder, and because of the black flames, his skin also turned black. After that, he started to grow rapidly. He turned from a Caucasian man standing at around 1.8 meters tall to a black demon standing at 10 meters in height.

“Woohoo! It’s been such a long time since I broke free from my shackles. This feeling… is simply wonderful!” The Mad Hatter stretched his arms and legs. His demonic body had come with a strength that made him feel like he had been reborn. He was like a person who had been trapped in a drawer for a long time and was finally able to straighten his body out again.

Natasha’s expression changed dramatically and she exclaimed, “You’re really a god… that’s interesting. I thought you guys would only appear in Challenges. Looks like that major incident before the rules changed does have something to do with you deities!”

“Beautiful Miss Natasha, please forgive me for sounding rude, but… normally, I would kill the womenfolk first, because that way, the ladies wouldn’t have to go through unnecessary fear.” The Mad Hatter grabbed the air and the top hat that had transformed into a black foil immediately grew in proportion to the Mad Hatter’s current demonic body.

Natasha nodded slightly. She touched a piece of jade hanging around her slim neck. In the next instant, she began to transform like a monster as her body grew in size and changed in shape. Scales and claws appeared in no time, and it didn’t take long for Natasha to turn into a giant jade dragon.

“So that’s what he meant by Jade Dragon King!” Su Jin gasped. The power that Natasha exuded was no less than a deity. Was this what the #2 among the owners was capable of?

Su Jin dared not stick around any longer. Unless his sealed up psychokinesis was fully unsealed, there was no way he could join in the fight. He had to leave this battle to the Mad Hatter.

Natasha knew that it was going to be tough for her to fight the Mad Hatter already, so she didn’t bother trying to block Su Jin from leaving. Her three subordinates ran after him instead.

Su Jin moved very quickly, but so did the three chasing after him. Also, they came toward him from three different directions, so they were able to corner him.

“Guys, this matter has nothing to do with the three of you, so there’s no need for you to get involved, right?” Su Jin scanned them frostily. These three were definitely tough ones to fight. Natasha wouldn’t have them by her side otherwise.

“I’m sorry, but Miss Natasha is going through a negotiation with Shen Wu. If we can take you down, then we’ll have more bargaining power,” said a man in sparkling armor. His hair was blond and he held a large sword, which made him look like a real knight.

“In that case… let’s fight!” Su Jin pressed his hand on his Handbook. His Boning Knife, the Gift from the Gods and Rumor appeared at the same time. Su Jin dared not hold back in his fight against three opponents. Any of these people could be even more powerful than Abbas.

The blond man made the first move. The giant sword in his hand glowed white, then Su Jin saw a light that was the same shape as the sword shoot upwards, then fly toward his head like a high tower crashing onto him.

Su Jin moved to the side quickly and just managed to miss the boundary of the attack. He dashed toward the person who looked the least proficient in close range battles. That person was in a black robe and held a magic wand in his hand. When he got closer, Su Jin realized this man was a black, elderly man.

“Illusion! Weightlessness! Weakness! Flicker! Flames!” the elderly man uttered these words in quick succession. Each one represented a spell.

Illusion allowed the man to split into eight of himself and each one looked as real as each other. Weightlessness and Weakness were spells targeting Su Jin. They made Su Jin suddenly float into the air and made his limbs feel weak. Flicker was used to impair his vision by making a bright light flash again and again in his face. Flames was an attack spell that sent a ball of flames toward Su Jin’s head.

A silver light shone in Su Jin’s eyes. He didn’t need his actual eyes to locate the old man. Psychokinesis provided him with the most accurate information, so the Illusion and Flicker spells lost their effect.

The Gift from the Gods glowed dimly as the Protection of the Gods skill was activated. All elemental attacks were no longer effective on Su Jin, so Flames was useless. Su Jin’s body was very tough, so Weightlessness and Weakness didn’t bother him too much. As long as he had other means of attacking besides his own body, that was good enough for him.

“Boning Knife, Judgment!” Su Jin’s Boning Knife sliced through the sky as he activated its skill. Immediately as he did that, the blond man’s sword crashed down on his body. The third person made his move too. He held a longbow and shot an arrow of light toward Su Jin’s back, where his heart was.

The Boning Knife’s attack did not come with any special effects. It didn’t come with any glow or waves and looked like Su Jin had just waved a normal knife about. That made the elderly man less wary of the attack, since he thought Su Jin had not been able to launch one in time.

Pfft! There was a muffled sound as the elderly man was ripped apart like a painting. His body and the space around him instantly shattered and disappeared into thin air.

His other two companions were shocked. They wanted to help him but had no way of doing so. They could only watch as the elderly man disappeared before their very eyes. The two of them were a little frightened now. Su Jin had launched that attack so silently, they hadn’t detected it at all. If Su Jin had done that to them, they would have met the same fate. Thankfully…

Swoosh! Su Jin leaped up again after the dust had settled. That sword attack had been pretty powerful and Su Jin had gone into a momentary daze. But that arrow turned out to be an elemental attack, so it was destroyed like the Flames attack from the elderly man. If not for that, it was going to be quite difficult for Su Jin to suffer simultaneous attacks from all three of them.

The two men stared in disbelief at Su Jin. The elderly man had died, but they were sure that their attacks had hit Su Jin. How could Su Jin still be standing after that?

While they were still in shock, Su Jin seized the chance to dash toward the archer. But the two of them reacted quickly. The blond man made a horizontal swipe with his sword so that Su Jin couldn’t get close to them. To his surprise, Su Jin immediately turned and ran. He didn’t intend to kill these two at all.

He had been able to kill the elderly man only because Judgment packed a powerful punch. But activating that skill cost him 1,000 Spirit Power points and he only had enough to do that four times. That was enough to kill them, but he couldn’t possibly consume everything he had just to kill them and not leave any for himself in case of emergencies.

The two of them did not expect Su Jin to just make a run for it. They were about to give chase when they suddenly felt dizzy. Su Jin had seized the chance to hit them with a bit of psychokinesis while they were confused and distracted. By the time they regained their senses, Su Jin was nowhere to be found.

Su Jin continued to follow his psychokinesis to the place he had detected earlier and came to a place that was a relatively luxurious living space. That surprised Su Jin a little. He was initially afraid that Ye Yun would have to live in poor conditions, but it seemed like Shen Wu treated her decently.

As he walked further in, Ye Yun’s presence became clearer to him. After running past corridors and yards, he finally saw the person he had been thinking about day and night.

Ye Yun was sitting quietly at a stone table. She cupped her face with both hands and looked terribly bored. But when Su Jin appeared in front of her, she clearly looked very stunned.

“I’m here to bring you home!” Su Jin held his hand out to her.

Bang! Su Jin’s gesture was met with a gunshot instead. The bullet hit him in the chest, which made him take a step backward. This was no ordinary bullet either. It had probably been modified to become more powerful than an ordinary one. What was she trying to do? Some people believed that couples always fought, but this wasn’t the sort of fighting those people were referring to!

“Shen Wu, just give it up already! You’ve come up with such illusions quite often in recent days and they’ve clearly been useless,” said Ye Yun as she wrinkled her nose and glared triumphantly at him.

Su Jin wasn’t sure if he ought to laugh or cry. He couldn’t believe he was being taken as an illusion created by Shen Wu. If his body weren’t this resilient, she might have ended up murdering him.

“I’m really Su Jin, I’m not an illusion.” Su Jin scratched his head. He had no idea how else to convince her.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

All he got in return was a flurry of bullets, which made him jump up and down to dodge them. The bullets weren’t enough to kill him, but they still hurt.

“Are you seriously trying to kill me?! It’s really me! I’m really here to get you out of here!” wailed Su Jin miserably. But Ye Yun ignored everything he said.

He had no choice but to force his way over. And when he reached her, he could see her begin to panic.

He grabbed hold of her shoulders and hugged her tightly as he whispered, “It’s really me. I promised you that I’d bring you back, so I’m here to fulfil that promise.”

Ye Yun initially tried to struggle free, but when her senses identified him as Su Jin, she froze and stared at him in disbelief.

“It’s… it’s really you!”