Hell's Handbook

Chapter 405

What’s the greatest benefit one could offer? For ordinary owners, Spirit Power equipment, special weapons and treasures that could increase one’s strength would be good enough. But to the owners at the top of the list, a promise, or a favor was a lot more tempting.

If everything went well, Natasha would become one of the first Earthlings to become a god, and she might very well become the very first person of the current cycle to become a god. A promise from someone like that was priceless.

“Deal!” Su Jin nodded and agreed to it without hesitation.

“In three days, I will get someone to go to Hell’s Bar and pass you something that will allow you to reach where I am. It’s been so hard to move from universe to universe after the death of Shen Wu,” said Natasha with a sigh.

After their discussion, Su Jin arrived at Hell’s Bar to find someone already waiting for him. The man presented him with a ruby-like object in a very polite manner.

Su Jin noticed how fearful the man looked and asked curiously, “What’s wrong? Am I very scary?”

“My apologies, sir, that was not my intention. Your aura is very overwhelming and it makes a miniscule existence like myself feel very terrified.” The man seemed really frightened and looked like he was ready to kneel before Su Jin at any moment.

Su Jin frowned. He guessed that the owners of Natasha’s world had already taken control and created a huge class and power difference between owners. That was probably why this owner felt that he was nothing more than a miniscule existence in his own world.

Su Jin wasn’t in the mood to, nor was he capable of making changes to Natasha’s universe and its owners. Besides, having a strong and powerful way of governance was actually helpful to increasing the prowess of owners.

“You just have to input Spirit Power,” replied the other man.

Su Jin tried inputting some and he could sense a force that could bend space was forming, and it was responding to a set of coordinates that was already pre-programmed into it. But what surprised him was that this was not a single-use object. That made this thing extremely valuable.

Once he had input sufficient Spirit Power, his body looked a little distorted before he disappeared completely. He went through a quick tunnel of light and reappeared in front of a gigantic castle. A sculpture of an equally gigantic jade dragon stood in front of the castle.

Su Jin’s appearance did not cause any chaos because he had appeared on a platform that had been built specially to receive him. The guards surrounding the platform bowed respectfully to him when they saw him.

He walked off the platform and asked the guards, “Where’s Natasha?”

“Sir, could we have your name, please?” asked one of the guards.

“I’m Su Jin,” replied Su Jin.

“Mr. Su!” The guard quickly fell to one knee and said loudly, “Please wait here, I will report your arrival to the Dragon King right away!”

Su Jin frowned. This place seemed overly militaristic and resembled the situation at Shen Wu’s planet. Or perhaps Natasha had been inspired after spending time at Shen Wu’s planet.

Then again, Su Jin was just here to help, so he wasn’t going to make any unnecessary criticisms. A guard showed Su Jin to a luxuriously furnished room to wait for Natasha or someone else to bring him to Natasha.

Everything in the room was incredibly fancy. The couch that Su Jin was on felt really different from anything he had seen before, and it made even someone who didn’t care for luxury items like Su Jin feel amazed.

Almost his entire body had sunk into the couch as he asked one of the guards, “You guys knew I was coming?”

“Yes, we did. The Dragon King told us that you would probably be coming today, but we did not expect you to be this early,” replied the guard.

Su Jin nodded and said, “I see. Well, I don’t like wasting time.”

“The Dragon King said before that a formidable person at your level is extremely resilient mentally,” said the guard like he was trying to butter Su Jin up.

Su Jin smiled. “It seems like all of you are very… how do I put this? Very… loyal to Natasha?”

The guard’s expression immediately grew serious as he responded, “That is correct. The Dragon King has saved this world several times before, and has given ordinary owners like us additional protection and training. If not for the Dragon King, I would have perished in a Challenge a long time ago.”

“Training?” Su Jin was surprised. “You mean… in terms of handling Challenges?”

The guard nodded. “That’s right. The Dragon King would gather us, then let us go through a simulation of the Challenges and help us to analyze each one so that we can deal with them accordingly.”

Su Jin didn’t know what to say. This was the first time he had heard about something like this. He had never even thought about doing such a thing. But it was a pretty good idea. Gathering all the owners of the same world to train and to group them according to their style and strengths in order to complement each other was a great way to increase every owner’s chances of survival.

“Nobody protested?” asked Su Jin.

“Of course there were people who protested, but they didn’t live long,” said the guard with a smile.

Su Jin nodded. He wanted to ask more when he suddenly felt a few powerful auras coming his way. He narrowed his eyes slightly and quickly recognized the people approaching him.

“After we parted ways at the Grave of the Gods, the three of us were very worried about you!” As the host, Natasha approached him first, while Durand and Oscar followed behind her.

“Thanks for your concern!” said Su Jin to the three of them as he stood up.

Natasha waved a hand to tell the guard to leave. It was only after the guard had left that she frowned and asked, “There were some issues surrounding yourself when we were in the Grave of the Gods… is it all settled now?”

“Yup, everything’s back to normal. But… I’ve lost my chance to become a god,” said Su Jin with a grin. He didn’t look the least disappointed about losing this chance.

The three of them exchanged glances. Durand asked, “Is it because… you didn’t want to become a god?”

Su Jin didn’t want to lie to them. He nodded and said with a smile, “I have my own reasons for making this decision. But that doesn’t matter now. Let’s go back to why we’re here. What’s all this about other owners from other systems coming to attack you?”

The other three could only smile and move on since Su Jin clearly did not want to talk about his decision. They had a lot of trust in him, after all. Su Jin had been pretty much their leader when they went through the Grave of the Gods. If not for him, they might not have even reached the actual grave, never mind attain the chance to become a god.

So, even though Su Jin wasn’t going to become a god, they did not dare to look down on him. On the contrary, they felt that Su Jin was way more powerful than themselves. Someone who was willing to give up the chance to become a god would definitely have other better plans. All three of them needed others to protect them from attacks if they wanted to become gods, so they agreed to help each other. But they still felt that their powers were insufficient.

Anything sent by Hell’s Handbook to interrupt the final process they had to go through before attaining godhood had to be formidable characters, so the three of them dared not take this too lightly. That was why they tried their best to ask other good fighters for help, and the one they thought most highly of was Su Jin.

Natasha paused to think about how to phrase this before saying, “It’s actually quite simple, if you think about it. Half a month ago, I absorbed all the energy from the gravestone and I could move onto the last step to attaining godhood. But just when I was about to start the final step, the Handbook sent me a warning.”

She opened her Handbook and placed it in front of Su Jin. This was also to show how much she trusted him.

Su Jin took the Handbook from her, and he could see that the warning was written very clearly.

“Warning: when embarking on the last step to godhood, Hell’s Handbook will send non-earthlings to create disturbances, and their mission will be completed only if they can stop your last step from happening. You must go through the last step while these disturbances are happening. If you get through it successfully, you will become a god. Otherwise, you will perish. When going through the final step, you may invite other owners to help defend against these disturbances.”

“If you succeed, you become a god, but if you don’t, you’re dead?” Su Jin tapped his nose. The Handbook was pretty strict with the selection alright. But more importantly, how formidable were their attackers going to be? And how many were coming?