Hell's Handbook

Chapter 216: Slay The Dragons

Actually, Fabian had demonstrated his ability to remove curses much earlier, since he had successfully broken the pact between Zhou Xinyu and that old timer. In fact, that pact was actually rather similar to the way this Dragon Soul Crystal had control over the humans turned dragons.

Just then, a whooshing sound could be heard outside Angel’s residence. Several natural dragons had flown over and they had surrounded her place, ready for a battle anytime.

“Everyone, prepare for battle! Fabian, I’ll count on you to break this curse!” Angel asked Fabian very sincerely, making this young magic academy student feel incredibly excited as he nodded his head vigorously.

The humans turned dragons reverted to their dragon forms, roaring as they flew into the sky. They did not try to talk the dragons out of fighting and launched an attack immediately. They wanted to stall for time so that Fabian could break the curse.

“Are you able to handle this?” asked Su Jin with a frown. This crystal was going to be the key factor in this battle. If Fabian couldn’t remove the curse then this battle was doomed to begin with. It would be easier for the owners to then focus on killing one dragon and end the Challenge.

Fabian nodded confidently and said, “Magic curses are different from traditional magic. It’s formed by magic incantations and not magic power. As long as I can find the core of the incantations, then even a mere student of magic would be able to undo it. That’s what I’ve learned.”

Su Jin gave him a pleased nod. “In other words, you can handle this, right?”

“No problem at all.” Fabian nodded confidently. He held the Dragon Soul Crystal in his hands and sat down on the floor as he focused all his energies on breaking the curse inside the crystal.

Back in the sky, the dragons from both sides were busy fighting each other. Kano Mai and the rest were ready to join in the fight, but Su Jin stopped them from doing so. “Now is not the time yet.”

“Not the time yet? I don’t think so. We just need to kill one dragon and the whole Challenge will end,” said Zhao Kai as he narrowed his eyes slightly. A messy fight like this was the best for finding a chance to end this Challenge. He just needed to follow behind one of the humans turned dragons, then give his enemy one last fatal blow and it would do the trick.

But Su Jin glared coldly at Zhao Kai and said directly, “I’ve made them turn against each other in order to complete this Challenge perfectly. If you ruin my plans at this juncture, I will not hesitate to deal with you accordingly.”

Zhao Kai glared right back at Su Jin. “You have no right to tell me what to do.”

“I know, but I’m not asking you to do me a favor. You can take this as a threat,” said Su Jin nonchalantly. If the Challenge had just started, he wouldn’t care about what Zhao Kai wanted to do. But now that he had spent so much effort and the possibility of completing this Challenge was in sight, he wasn’t going to let Zhao Kai ruin his plans.

Zhao Kai wanted to say more, but Kano Mai, Situ Jin, Wu Chen, and even Zhou Xinyu began to glare at him too. Zhao Kai was stunned for a moment before he laughed sadly and shook his head as he murmured,“ I hope… I hope this doesn’t end up killing us all.“

Just then, a beam of light shot out from Fabian’s hand. A huge number of mysterious runes surged from within the Dragon Soul Crystal before dissipating before their eyes.

Fabian’s eyes flew open and he turned to say excitedly to Su Jin and the rest, “I’ve broken the curse! I’ve broken the curse inside the Dragon Soul Crystal, so the humans turned dragons will not be curtailed by any external forces! They’re free!”

Su Jin smiled and nodded at Fabian. “Wait here and don’t go anywhere. Xinyu, stay here with him. Mr. Zhao, you can do whatever you like.” He turned to his team members and said, “Alright! It’s our turn now! Let’s go slay some dragons!”

Kano Mai and the rest nodded in response. Su Jin dashed out and his team members followed behind him. Zhao Kai hesitated for a moment, but eventually chose to stay put.

Su Jin, however, had not dashed out and leaped into the sky to join that battle. Instead, he was running away from where they were.

“Aren’t we going to slay dragons?” yelled Wu Chen from behind Su Jin.

“Of course we are! But our target won’t be these dragons. Our target is the leader of the dragons!” replied Su Jin in a loud voice.

“The leader of the dragons?” His three teammates were all a little taken by surprise by that answer. Situ Jin called out, “Isn’t that a bit too dangerous? That’s the leader of the dragons, which means he’s the best of the entire race. Creating trouble for him would be putting ourselves in too much danger.”

Su Jin shook his head. “That’s not true. When we went to see the leader earlier, I had scanned his energy levels and found that he’s very weak now.”

“Weak?!”

“That’s right. If a human’s body is like a bottle, then our energy is like the water inside this bottle. A normal human or living creature should have a bottle full of water. But when they’re badly injured, weak, or close to death, the water inside will keep decreasing, because his energy levels are weakening over time. The leader of the dragons… is in this situation now,” explained Su Jin.

After Su Jin explained these things to them, his team members did not raise any further objections. They followed behind Su Jin, and they quickly came back to the cliff where the leader of the dragons lived.

Su Jin and his team had just landed at the cliff when the white mist started swirling rapidly. The gigantic head belonging to the leader quickly appeared in front of them again.

“Are you trying to challenge my authority? I’ve given you strength, life, freedom, yet you… wait a minute!” The leader suddenly paused. His black gem-like eyes widened with a start. “You are not dragons! You aren’t humans turned dragons! You are humans!”

“Your eyesight’s not bad,” said Su Jin with a nod. He kept his hand on his Boning Knife, then summoned the Gift from the Gods and the Demon Lord’s Longbow.

“You people are the ones who caused this fight among the dragons.” The leader’s voice suddenly calmed down.

Su Jin nodded. “That’s right.”

“Why did you do that?” asked the leader.

“If I wanted to look good, I’d say I’m doing this for freedom and for justice,” said Su Jin with a laugh before his expression grew serious. “But in reality, I’m doing this to complete my mission.”

“Mission? What mission do you have? Who gave you such a mission?” the leader continued to demand answers.

But Su Jin’s response was one launch of the Attack of the Demon Lord, which was accompanied by Su Jin’s voice in the leader’s ears, “To slay a dragon!”

Immediately after Su Jin launched his attack, Kano Mai, Situ Jin, and Wu Chen launched their attacks too. Kano Mai’s Soul Whisperer started spewing bullets in all sorts of colors, while Situ Jin and Wu Chen summoned guns to shoot at the leader. They didn’t have a lot of long range weapons, so guns were their best option, since they did a lot of damage with each bullet.

A slew of attacks instantly hit the leader in the face, but while the Attack of the Demon Lord had successfully left a wound on his face, the attacks from the other three had failed to hurt him in any way.

Even so, these attacks were enough to anger the dragon. He was the strongest creature in this world, and you could even say that he was like the god of this world. But now, these lowly humans were trying to attack him. They had to be punished.

“You lowly worms! Angering me is the one thing you should never do!” roared the leader of the dragons. He rammed his own skull hard against the cliff with a tremendous amount of strength.

Su Jin motioned to the rest to retreat and they quickly moved out of the range of the leader’s attack. Everyone’s eyes lit up at the same time. Since the mighty leader of the dragons, the most powerful creature of this world, had actually used nothing else but his own head to ram the cliff in an attempt to fight back, it meant that Su Jin was right in his assessment of the leader. The leader of the dragons was weakening day by day, and he was about to die.

“Attack with everything you have! He won’t last long!” Su Jin leaped onto the leader’s head. His psychokinesis was constantly keeping tabs on the leader’s energy levels, so he could clearly see how the leader was doing as they fought. The leader’s energy levels were slowly decreasing right now.

Situ Jin slammed both palms against a shadow. Two shadows that looked just like him instantly jumped out from the ground and leaped onto the leader’s head like Su Jin. One of the shadows suddenly transformed into Situ Jin, and if you looked carefully, you would notice that Situ Jin had exchanged places with the shadow.

The leader was slowly beginning to have trouble holding up against the bullets fired by Kano Mai and Wu Chen. These humans possessed a different sort of power from him, but it was equally powerful. Kano Mai’s bullets, in particular, would make him feel more and more tired each time one hit him. But the most frustrating of all were the two men on top of his head.

Su Jin held the Boning Knife and attacked the leader in a barbaric fashion. He stabbed the knife into the leader’s head, then held the handle tightly and started running.

The special thing about this knife was that it was extremely sharp. So, it was able to slice through the leader’s skull even though it was incredibly hard. Meanwhile, Situ Jin focused on attacking the leader’s weak point, which was his eyes.

The leader spread his wings, using one to block the shots from Kano Mai and Wu Chen, while using the other to try and chase Su Jin and Situ Jin off his head.

Su Jin mostly ignored these attempts. If the wing came too close, he would just use his knife to slash at it. That would slice a hole in the dragon’s already injured wings.

Situ Jin was having an even better time. He would keep changing places with the other two shadows nimbly and looked like he was a constantly leaping shadow.

The battle did not take long to end. Su Jin had torn apart a lot of the leader’s head, while Situ Jin had also caused irreparable damage to the dragon’s eyes. It was as though these four mere ants were about to kill an elephant with their continuous biting.

The leader panted heavily. He knew he was going to die soon. He never imagined that the ones who would eventually smite him would be humans, a creature as pathetic as a worm. He felt indignant about this, but he didn’t have the energy to fight back at all.

Actually, the leader of the dragons shouldn’t have been killed this easily. He had a lot of dragons guarding him, but because the humans turned dragons had initiated a war, those dragons guarding him had to help in the war and couldn’t guard him anymore. Also, the Dragon Soul Crystal that had been able to control the humans turned dragons had been rendered useless as well.

The leader of the dragons had roared angrily in hope of attracting the attention of the dragons to come back and guard him, but the dragons were all too busy to do so. There were a lot of humans turned dragons, and compared to the natural dragons, these humans turned dragons were true warriors. They were once humans who had been able to slay a dragon, after all.

Now that they had the body of a dragon, they were able to fight even more fiercely than before. They quickly gained the upper hand, so it was impossible for any of the natural dragons to come back and protect their leader.

The dragon smashed his head weakly against the cliff, and he was running extremely low on energy. Just then, Su Jin pulled the bowstring of the Demon Lord’s Longbow back. He aimed it at the leader’s head and let go of the string. A roar was launched from the bowstring and made a huge, bloody hole in the leader’s head.

Everything went black immediately after that, and the voice signaling that the Challenge was completed rang in everyone’s ears.