Hell's Handbook

Su Jin had already moved as quickly as he could, but he wasn’t quick enough to rescue Bifang. He was very interested in the demons of this Challenge, because the fact that they were not under the control of the Handbook already made them very interesting. But these creatures that had suddenly invaded the Challenge were also of interest to him.

“These creatures are really shocking,” Su Jin frowned. It wasn’t going to be easy to deal with these creatures. The way they were able to replicate the skills of another person was insane. In other words, these creatures had a very high upper limit, as long as they had enough people to emulate.

“My psychokinesis attacks are a combination of energy and physics, but it has no effect on the creature. So… could it possess the power of magic?” wondered Su Jin to himself.

Su Jin was very powerful, but it was useless if his powers were unable to hurt his enemy. He was like an invincible martial artist in a TV drama who did not pose any harm to the viewers at home. Su Jin and the creature seemed to be in this sort of relationship, but it was a one way relationship. The creature could attack him anytime, which put Su Jin in a passive position.

“If it has magical powers, how about using this?” Su Jin waved a palm, and a six-pointed star magic circle suddenly cfalling from the sky. He had learned this from Wu Chen, or rather, this was a skill that Wu Chen had learned from the dragons in one of the Challenges they had gone through together. Su Jin had not really learned it properly, but he could fully understand the workings of the Handbook, so he was able to analyze and recreate a skill that wasn’t too complicated with ease.

“Seal!” yelled Su Jin. This magic circle was meant purely for sealing things up.

The magic circle fell onto the creature and cdown hard on its head. The creature growled and tried to struggle free, but after it struggled for a while, the magic circle was able to keep it under control, and the creature slowly lost the energy to move.

Su Jin heaved a big sigh of relief. He was so glad this thing had a weakness and was so powerless in the face of magic. But before he could start celebrating, he saw a layer of patterns rise from the creature. The patterns kept flickering, and the magic circle that held the creature down was slowly being broken down.

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“It’s getting used to the magical powers of the circle.” Su Jin could barely believe it. While it was true that the magic circle had managed to hold the creature down, the creature immediately started adapting to its situation. It was like a lion that started growing gills shortly after it had been thrown into the ocean and could breathe normally underwater after that.

The creature slowly broke free, then stared at Su Jin icily. Its emotionless eyes flickered a few times, then its electronic voice resounded once more, “Our mission is to… destroy the Challenge, destroy the target! Target identified!”

“I’m the target now?” Su Jin frowned. The creature suddenly leaped into the air as the magic circle was no longer effective against it. Two silver swords made from psychokinesis appeared in its hands, and it brandished them at Su Jin.

Su Jin did not move and allowed the two swords to strike him. The psychokinesis that formed the swords disappeared the moment they hit him.

The creatures were aggressive fighters, but they didn’t seem to have much experience in fighting. Using psychokinesis to attack Su Jin was akin to charging a phone with electricity. That tongue-like object it had was of a greater threat to Su Jin.

Su Jin grabbed hold of the creature’s neck and filled its body with psychokinesis in order to find the creature’s memories and background.

But Su Jin only ended up frowning even harder than before as he exclaimed, “This is unlike any lifeform I know of. What… what is this?”

He was really confused. The creature was empty inside, with no internal organs or system mechanics. The only thing inside were srunes that shone with a bright and mesmerizing glow.

“What… are you?” The silver glow in Su Jin’s eyes grew brighter as he flooded the creature with his psychokinesis in order to analyze and understand every rune in its body.

Finally, Su Jin saw an image. That was something hidden deep within the runes. It was not this creature’s memory, but more like a video left among the runes for sreason. It was just like the nature of lifeforms within Hell’s Handbook hidden inside their DNA.

In the image, Su Jin saw a warm and gentle ball of light floating in the air. Countless runes flew about within the ball of light. Sleaped out from the ball and turned into these creatures.

“A new system outside of Hell’s Handbook? This system… contains information about Hell’s Handbook, which is why the powers within the Handbook’s system is unable to hurt the creatures created by this other system. If I want to kill them… I have to use powers outside the Handbook’s system,” murmured Su Jin to himself. It was a short clip, but it was enough for Su Jin to pick up a large amount of information.

“Is it the Mad Hatter? Or someone else?” Su Jin had thought of Kano Mai. She was a primordial deity who had helped to create Hell’s Handbook, so she was probably the one who knew the Handbook best besides the will of the universe. If she were willing to help, it wouldn’t be impossible to create another system to fight against Hell’s Handbook’s powers. But having the ability to do it and actually doing it were two different matters.

Hell’s Handbook was created based on the powers of the will of the universe. If one wanted to create a similar system, the powers they would need would be tremendous. Su Jin couldn’t imagine who in the world would possess such powers.

“Could it be a mini system? It has a full set of capabilities, but it covers a very small area?” That was the only explanation Su Jin could cup with. But even so, the energy required to complete such a system was still terrifyingly high. Su Jin felt that only the elder gods put together would be able to accumulate this much energy.

The creature in Su Jin’s hands continued to struggle nonstop. Su Jin stared at the creature, then suddenly went into a daze. He released the creature, and the creature immediately attacked Su Jin. This time, the creature’s arm bones suddenly popped out and cat Su Jin’s throat like two sharp knives.

And just before the creature’s arm bones hit Su Jin, its body suddenly crumbled into a mess of runes that disappeared with the wind.

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In just a few seconds, the creature was gone. Su Jin snapped out of his daze, and he gave a pleased nod as he looked down at his hands with a smile. “These rune creatures have enlightenedgreatly. What shall I call this new power I have that is outside of the Handbook?”

After pausing to think, Su Jin glanced at Bifang’s corpse on the ground. A light flickered in his eyes and Bifang’s broken wings suddenly flew back onto Bifang’s body as though he were rewinding the tape. Then, the flames on Bifang’s body were rekindled.

Bifang’s body stiffened up, then it took in a deep breath and cback to life.

After it was revived, the light in Su Jin’s eyes faded. He nodded, then sighed as he said, “I’ll call this new power… Maniacal Power! But there are still a lot of limits at the moment, and I’ll have to develop it further to bring it past the limit.”

Bifang immediately went into fight mode, only to find that its enemy was gone. Only that strange human who wanted to talk to the demons was left. It was confused for a moment, then said, “Wait, was I… was I dead just now?”

“Wow! What amazing observation skills!” Su Jin complimented Bifang.

Bifang shook its head and said, “It’s not a matter of observation skills, it’s my memory. I remember clearly that the fire of my core was put out, so I definitely died.” It glanced at Su Jin and said, “I know that owners possess all sorts of wonderful powers. So, were you the one who revived me?”

“I did revive you, but I didn’t use the powers that an owner would have to do it,” chuckled Su Jin. He checked on the battles happening further away from them and said to Bifang, “You’d better hurry. Your two friends are having trouble holding up.”

“Damn it, I forgot about them!” Bifang flew into the air and started flying toward where one of the demons was. Its voice resounded, “I’ll leave the other one to you!”

“Treatingas a friend now? That’s a little… troublesome!” Su Jin shook his head, but he vanished almost immediately and appeared where the nine tailed fox was in an instant.

Compared to Bifang, the nine tailed fox was doing pretty well, probably because she was more agile. But she wasn’t going to last long, because as the creature chased after the nine tailed fox, it seemed like the creature was studying and picking up the patterns in her movement.