Hell's Handbook

Chapter 394

The white ape was furious when it realized it had been tricked and moved even faster than before. The situation became even more difficult for the ones under the cloak, and it looked like they were going to get killed by the white ape.

Just then, Su Jin made his move. He stretched his sword out and a silver glow flashed in front of the white ape. It shocked the white ape, and after it looked up to see Su Jin, it gritted its teeth and ran off.

Su Jin had fought several times with this white ape before. This white ape had been the king of this mountain, and it had been very unhappy about Su Jin’s arrival.

But for Su Jin, he was only a visitor and he felt that it was important to protect the environment he was in, so even if the white ape fought him, he would not kill it.

After some time, the white ape realized it could not defeat Su Jin, and Su Jin did not take up too much space either, so the white ape eventually just allowed him to stick around.

But today, this fellow had actually helped someone who didn’t belong to the mountain, which made the white ape wary. It already had trouble fighting one of them, and it would definitely suffer great damage if it tried to fight two, so it decided to retreat for now and find another chance to get back at Su Jin.

The ones whom Su Jin saved stood where they were without moving until they seemed sure that Su Jin was not dangerous, then said, “Thank you so much for saving me! I will definitely repay you by…”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. If a Handbook owner has come all the way here just to say hello to me, I’d be damned,” said Su Jin with a laugh. Indeed, the one hiding under the cloak was not someone from this world, but an actual Handbook owner.

That person froze for a moment, then bowed slightly as though they were about to say more, but ran off like the wind before saying anything.

Su Jin burst out laughing again. This person had tried to trick him. But he could understand where this owner was coming from. Anyone who could immediately identify an owner during a Challenge had to be someone who was at least a demigod, and this owner couldn’t handle such a character.

But Su Jin wasn’t letting them get away. He grabbed the air, and the owner who had run out of sight came flying back toward Su Jin.

“Why are you running? I’m not going to eat you,” said Su Jin with a chuckle. He flicked a finger and the cloak came off, revealing the people inside.

There were a total of three people beneath the cloak. One of them was a fairly beautiful blonde woman, and she was carrying a boy and a girl in her arms.

The two children were like a pair of dolls. The woman had made a sling of sorts around her waist so that she could carry one child on each side. The two blades just now had come from these two.

Su Jin was quite surprised to see someone who was presumably not Chinese go through a Challenge with two Chinese children. The Handbook usually sent owners of the same ethnicity to the same Challenge.

In other words, the Handbook based its selection of human owners on Earth. It followed the geography of the Earth and picked owners from the same area for any given Challenge. That was why one seldom ran into owners of different races during a Challenge.

But the two children were actually from this world. They were not owners.

“Don’t be scared, tell me what’s going on and I will let you go. I can even help you complete your mission,” said Su Jin calmly.

The woman was clearly a little confused. What was going on now? She knew that demigods knew about the existence of Handbook owners, but very few would take the initiative to interact with them like this.

“What… what do you want from me?” asked the woman cautiously.

Su Jin tapped his nose, then smiled as he said quietly, “Introduce yourselves first? What’s your name, and what are these two children’s names?”

The woman knew that she had to cooperate in order to survive, so she replied honestly, “My name is Marsha, and they are Yun Shan and Yun Shui, siblings from Yun Hill.”

“Are you Su Jin, the martial god?” asked the little girl, Yun Shui, all of a sudden.

Su Jin raised an eyebrow, then smiled and said, “That’s right. I’m Su Jin, the martial god.”

The two children instantly became very excited, even as tears welled up in their eyes.

“What’s going on?” Su Jin was surprised by their reaction. He looked at Marsha and asked, “Does your mission have something to do with me?”

Marsha hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Su Jin was not surprised by that. He wasn’t surprised that the two children knew his name. He had become very famous over the past ten odd years.

He wasn’t surprised that owners would be sent to this mountain either, since that white ape would make a good Challenge boss for a low level Challenge.

But since both of these things were happening at the same time, then it had to have something to do with him.

“That’s right.” Marsha was scared of Su Jin, but she still spoke the truth, because she had a feeling that Su Jin would know immediately if she tried to lie.

“What’s the mission?” asked Su Jin.

Marsha’s lips trembled a little, but she still managed to say, “I have two missions. My main one is to get your Cicada Wing Sword, and the side quest is to get you to take in these two children as your disciples.”

Su Jin was rather surprised now. After he had changed his characteristics, it seemed the Handbook had found him suitable to be part of a Challenge, and he was now a boss-like character that owners had to fight.

“It’s a Challenge completed in parts?” A silver glint flashed in Su Jin’s eyes as he scanned Marsha’s memories. He was a little disappointed by that, because basically Marsha would not be teleported back to her world after she completed her mission here, but she would be sent to another place to continue the Challenge.

The Handbook was testing him out to see if he was suitable to be the main character for a Challenge.

If he killed Marsha right now and made it impossible for her to complete the Challenge, then he would definitely get the chance to become a final boss in the future, and not just one of the many stages that owners had to get through.

But what disappointed him the most was that he would not be able to make use of her Challenge to send himself back to his world, since she would be teleported to another place or another world after she was done here. He didn’t receive the same mission, so he wouldn’t be sent elsewhere with her.

Marsha continued to look fearfully at Su Jin. She didn’t expect the man with the title of Martial God to actually have the powers of a god. She couldn’t believe someone like Su Jin existed in a mere Level C Challenge.

Su Jin paused to think, then passed his sword to Marsha. It was made from psychokinesis, anyway, so he could make them in bulk if he wanted to. Besides, he did say earlier that as long as Marsha answered his questions, he would help her complete her mission.

Marsha was clearly surprised that Su Jin was so cooperative. After she took the sword from him, she continued to look puzzled as she disappeared into thin air and was teleported to a different place.

Immediately after Marsha was transported, the two children lost their sling and began to fall, but Su Jin pointed at the two of them and they floated in mid air instead.

“Now, let’s start with why you want to be my disciples,” said Su Jin with some interest.

The two children exchanged glances, then Yun Shui said, “We want to learn martial arts and avenge our family.”

“Avenge your family?” Su Jin raised an eyebrow as he scanned the children’s memories.

“Gosh, this is like some TV drama,” Su Jin shook his head. The Yun Hill where these two children were from had been razed to the ground. These siblings were the only survivors.

Feuds between martial artists that resulted in the destruction of whole families were both prominent in novels and this world that Su Jin was living in now, so he wasn’t particularly surprised by their situation. But he was going to be here for only one more year or so, so taking in disciples at this point would be a little irresponsible of him.

Just when Su Jin was still thinking about what to do, the stomachs of both children rumbled at the same time. The two children were salivating at the sight of the fish in Su Jin’s hand.

Su Jin burst out laughing and said, “This one’s cold already, so I’ll make you two another!” He pointed at the air and another two fish from the same lake as before flew into his hands, much to the two children’s amazement.