Hell's Handbook

Chapter 268: The Ogre

The corpse of the witch suddenly leaped up from the ground and hugged Su Jin tightly. It exploded violently before anyone realized what was going on, and the impact of the blast was bigger than they imagined.

As her body exploded, her blood rained down on everyone there, and even Wu Chen did not manage to dodge it. But that didn’t bother him. He kept his eye focused on Su Jin.

Su Jin stood where he was without moving, as though he were injured. Wu Chen had a worried look in his eyes. He wasn’t worried that Su Jin would be injured, since such a blast wouldn’t be able to hurt Su Jin at all. He was worried that this blast would affect the demon trapped inside Su Jin’s head.

A moment later, Su Jin started moving again. He casually pulled away the parts of the witch’s body that were still stuck to him. She had hugged him really tightly, so her arms and legs were still stuck to him despite the blast, as though he had been attacked by an octopus.

After he made sure there were no more broken pieces of flesh on himself, Su Jin said to Wu Chen, “I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble you again. Some of the symbols are smudged.” He pointed to the symbols on his skin that had been smudged or erased because of what the witch did.

Wu Chen exhaled deeply and got some rags from the castellan. He cleaned up the parts of Su Jin’s body that got the witch’s blood on it, then used the blood from the witch to draw those symbols on Su Jin again. He didn’t need anybody to contribute blood this time.

Su Jin checked himself to make sure everything was alright. He had been a little fearful earlier on as well. If the witch erased too many of the symbols on his body that served to suppress the power of the demon inside his head, then all of them were doomed. Thankfully, only the section on his chest was smudged, which didn’t affect him too much.

Once Wu Chen was done redrawing the symbols, he said to the castellan, “Did you not know at all that your own wife was a witch?”

“I… actually, I’ve only married her for less than a month and I really had no idea that she was actually a witch.” The castellan had a panicked look on his face. He was supposed to be the lord of this city, yet he married a witch. If the people found out about this, he could forget about remaining the castellan.

“Sir, when you married her, did she have any sisters or close female friends?” asked Su Jin.

The castellan didn’t even pause to think. He nodded and said, “Yes, yes. When I married her, I knew she had two older sisters. I even built a house in the north of the city specially for both of them. Are you saying that…!”

“Birds of a feather flock together,” said Su Jin with a laugh. This was good news. There were three witches in total, of which they had just gotten rid of one, and now they knew where to find the other two.

“Let’s not waste anymore time! Since we’ve gotten these clues, let’s head there right now!” Wu Chen rubbed his palms together.

The castellan said, “I’ll get a guard to bring you there!”

“Yes, please. Find one who knows the two ladies,” said Su Jin. He was afraid that the two other witches might have gotten the news and run away, and it would be difficult to find them among the people by themselves. Of course, it would be great if the two of them left the city, but he didn’t think that was going to happen.

The castellan quickly found a guard who knew the two women and also gave them horses to ride on, which pleased Su Jin greatly.

The horses galloped along swiftly within the city. Su Jin was terrible at horse riding, so he shared one with Wu Chen. Kang Ze turned out to be pretty good at horse riding, so he got his own horse. This made Wu Chen very unhappy and he kept complaining and cursing throughout the journey, saying that Su Jin should have been the one who sent the food back to the church, because he would rather share a horse with a beauty like Kano Mai than one naked Su Jin.

Su Jin just kept quiet, afraid that Wu Chen might throw him off the horse if he made Wu Chen unhappy. If that happened, he would have to run after the horses instead. While he was more than capable of running as quickly as a horse, a naked man running after a horse was a really terrible look.

The horses quickly arrived at a newly built house in the north of the city. The knight with them got off his horse, bowed to the other three and helped Wu Chen and Kang Ze to hold their horses.

“Sirs, this is the place,” said the knight politely.

“Thank you. Please wait here for us,” Wu Chen said to the knight. Su Jin had already walked toward the gate. He grabbed hold of the gate and pushed hard against it, causing the planks nailed to it from inside to break into two.

“The planks were nailed from the inside, so there are probably people inside,” Su Jin said to Wu Chen.

Wu Chen threw the crystal into the yard and the crystal immediately gave off a weak glow. The two of them exchanged glances, then Su Jin marched into the yard first. His ears trembled slightly as he listened to every sound in the yard.

“Don’t come in!” Su Jin suddenly yelled, forcing Wu Chen to stop in his tracks.

Wu Chen turned and ran far from the house without hesitation, because he had watched Su Jin scan every corner of the yard, including the areas that he couldn’t see from his position. He had noticed a figure reflected in Su Jin’s eyes, which meant that someone was already lying in wait for them here.

Su Jin exhaled deeply when he saw that Wu Chen had run with all his might. Monsters in a Level D Challenge were no match for him, with the exception of the affliction demon. As long as he didn’t have to worry about his companions getting hurt, he wasn’t worried about having to fight these monsters himself.

“It was foolish for you exorcists to choose to enter Mo City.” A tall and large man walked out. His eyes were narrowed slightly and he held a giant bone in his hands.

Su jin scanned the people in the yard and murmured, “1, 2, 3, 4… plus the women, there are a total of 22 of you. You guys are…ogres.”

“I heard long ago that exorcists had the ability to detect our superhuman powers, but you’ve failed to detect our trap. It’s too bad that a few have managed to escape, but it doesn’t matter. It’s more fun to kill you one by one!” The man grinned widely, revealing remnants of flesh and blood stuck between his teeth. It seemed like he had just finished eating.

“So, you think this is a cat and mouse game? But I think you’ve gotten our roles reversed.” Su Jin stretched his neck and arms. He was very pleased with this situation, actually, since he would be able to wipe out all the ogres and witches in one go. That was perfect.

Two extremely gorgeous women sat down next to the ogre and leaned against him. They both had a look of hatred in their eyes. One of them said to him, “My dear, I think you must have tasted all sorts of people before, but I’m sure the taste of an exorcist would be quite different, right?”

“Of course! This is possibly the meal that we’re looking forward to the most!” The ogre cackled, then shouted, “My brothers, let’s go!”

The other ogres roared as they dashed out from various corners of the yard. All of them had a bloodthirsty look in their eyes, and they seemed especially excited because their target was an exorcist.

Su Jin made his move too. He came face to face with an ogre whose clothes were already stained red from blood. It was clear that this was an ogre who didn’t have very good eating etiquette. Then again, even if it were clean, it was going to be stained with blood soon.

There was a crunch as Su Jin’s arm pierced through the ogre’s body like a spear, and he retracted it quickly after that. Only his arms did not have any symbols drawn on it, so he just needed to make sure the rest of his body wasn’t affected when he fought.

Within a moment, Su Jin turned into the angel of death in the yard. Ogre after ogre crashed heavily onto the ground. Their bodies were much larger compared to humans, yet they were unable to defend themselves against Su Jin’s attacks. They were like giant ragdolls as Su Jin pierced their hearts with his bare hands.

The leader of the ogres did not expect an exorcist to be able to massacre his fellow ogres just like that. He roared and pounced toward Su Jin. The two witches realized that they were losing, so they took out their crystal balls, held them up and began chanting. Before long, a red light shot out from the crystal balls and covered the ogres entirely. The ogres immediately went berserk, and their fighting abilities improved.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough. Just like how an ant could not fight a human even if it became as large and strong as a beetle, these ogres were no match for Su Jin at all. He continued killing them at the same rate. In fact, because the ogres were so obsessed with killing him, they kept charging at him without dodging any of his attacks. That only helped him to kill them even faster.

The leader of the ogres brandished the bone in his hand and swung it mightily at Su Jin’s head. Su Jin raised a hand and caught it immediately. His hand trembled slightly, and the entire bone was turned to powder. He had made use of the Qi Thrust method to do that.

“Die!” After Su Jin had shattered the bone, he charged toward the leader of the ogres. The leader sensed danger, so he grabbed hold of two ogres and threw them at Su Jin, with the hope of slowing Su Jin down. But before they could even hit him, he swiped them away with his hands.

Su Jin’s hand grabbed hold of the leader’s head, and the leader felt like he had landed in the hands of a demon. He was terrified and opened his mouth to plead for mercy, but before he could say anything, his head burst like a balloon.

The leader of the ogres was considered just a high level monster, and based on the categorization that Jiang Li had of Challenges, this leader was like a special forces soldier, or a top mercenary. As long as the owner was not careless, it wouldn’t be difficult to kill such a monster.

The 20 ogres didn’t even last three minutes. Su Jin even felt like he ought to thank the witches for using those strange chants to make the ogres go berserk. If the ogres hadn’t just charged at him brainlessly and refused to even try escaping, then it would have taken him more time to kill them all.

The two witches were already too frightened to even stand steadily. They never knew such a powerful exorcist existed. That was a group of ogres which were able to defeat a whole team from the church. Yet, they had been massacred by just one person.

“Those symbols on his body… those are symbols to trap demons. What’s inside his body?” One of the witches actually recognized the symbols on Su Jin’s skin and collapsed weakly onto the floor. She was so frightened that she peed herself.

Su Jin glanced at the two women, took White Ash out and fired twice.

The gate opened and Su Jin walked out. At the same time, the two witches walked out behind him. He didn’t kill them.