Hell's Handbook

Chapter 235: Immortal Body

In order to preserve the shine of the blade that Su Jin used, a layer of oil had been applied to it. Upon closer inspection, Su Jin realized that the layer of oil was still intact. This sort of oil adhered to any surface it came into contact with, so even if one only lightly scratched the surface, you would take quite a bit of oil with you.

“You split your body before I actually cut you, so it looked like I was the one who sliced you to pieces. But actually, you’ve merely shapeshifted,” said Su Jin quietly.

Reginald looked at Su Jin in surprise and exclaimed, “Your intelligence in combat is pretty high! You actually realized this almost immediately. I’m amazed!”

“So, as long as I manage to slice you before you split yourself, you’d still get hurt, right? After all, it’s one thing to choose to split yourself and another to be split by the blade of a knife!” Su Jin swung his knife again, but this time, a powerful wave of air sprayed out as he swung it. It resembled knife qi, but this was actually just a different way of using his immense strength. It was different from the energies that Chu Yi and Miyamoto Tooru used and required one to be extremely strong physically. But that was the only way he could get around the limitations placed on him by the Handbook.

Reginald was about to say more, but Su Jin wasn’t going to give him the chance to do so. It was hard to say if this fellow was purposely stalling him in order to allow Arkas more time to attack everyone else.

Su Jin moved as quickly as lightning. The one meter blade was able to cause damage within a five meter radius because of the technique he had used. This made it hard for Reginald to estimate how far he had to be from Su Jin in order to remain safe.

The energy that burst from the swinging of the blade was so strong that it seemed to slice through the air and flew as it formed a vacuum. This time, Reginald could not move aside in time, so his slug-like arm was sliced right off. But after that arm fell to the floor, it was still alive and flew toward Su Jin’s throat.

“HAHA! Do you even know what it means to evolve? This is what it truly means to evolve! Life must reach a higher realm, and from then on… death will be unable to touch me ever again!” Reginald laughed maniacally and worms shot out continuously from where his arm once was. These worms were much smaller than the one that killed Wu Chen, but they were shooting out of his arm like bullets, so it was hard for even Su Jin to dodge them all.

“Hakkesho kaiten!!” yelled Su Jin pretentiously. Of course, he wasn’t some character in Naruto, but he understood the principle behind that particular move. If he spun himself, he could generate a centrifugal force that would make everything around him spin away from his body. The only problem was that he had to spin extremely quickly.

Su Jin started spinning like a tornado, making all the little worms flying his way spin away from him. But he soon realized that he couldn’t keep this up for long. Spinning like this made him terribly dizzy!

“Close range combat!” Su Jin stopped himself from spinning and flew out. Since he couldn’t spin himself, he was going to let the knife in his hands do the work. The gleam of the blade as it spun looked like a screen of light. It was definitely going to be so fast that not even a droplet of water could get in, never mind these worms!

Just then, Reginald’s broken arm came flying toward his back, making it difficult for him to protect himself or make an escape.

“HA!” Su Jin suddenly turned around and bellowed furiously. A mighty cloud of air surged out from his mouth and struck the worm wielding the arm. The sheer force from his shout had turned the worm into minced meat.

But at the same time, Su Jin felt a pain in his hand. Reginald had seized this opportunity to aim some worms at the hand that Su Jin used to brandish his knife. Despite how tough his skin was, the worms were still able to corrode his skin in no time and started burrowing into his flesh.

Su Jin did not hesitate. He swung his sword to force Reginald to move backward, switched his sword to the other hand, and then proceeded to chop his right hand off at the forearm.

It sounded extreme, but Su Jin had seen what these worms could do. If he let them reach his head, it might explode like Wu Chen’s.

The part of the arm that Su Jin had hacked off only bled a little. His superhuman body had allowed his wound to heal in mere seconds. Meanwhile, his chopped off hand was also polished off in the same amount of time by a few worms. Those worms started growing in size rapidly and began to evolve.

In just a few moments, they became the size of mini poodles. There were three of them in total. They started fighting and biting each other, a winner emerging just a few seconds later. The winner ate the other two that lost and continued its evolution process.

Everything had happened in no more than five seconds. The three mini poodle sized worms had become one ugly worm that was the size of a Doberman. This worm resembled a human, except that it had four arms that looked like insect legs. They were very long and thin and were covered by a hard layer.

“My goodness! How much energy does your palm contain? I can’t believe it’s allowed the worms to evolve to this extent, and evolve almost perfectly. Are you really human?” Reginald stared at Su Jin in disbelief, but it wasn’t a look of admiration. He was staring at Su Jin like Su Jin was some furnace that could produce miracle pills.

Su Jin glanced down at his arm. He was very strong, but he didn’t have the ability to regrow a limb. His enemies hadn’t reduced in number and now he had one more. Reginald didn’t seem to have grown any weaker, and there was a worm that had actually grown stronger from eating his own flesh. The situation was only getting worse.

“You’re thinking about escaping? I’m sorry but I can’t allow you to get away. If I consume all of you, I think I might be able to metamorphosize again!” There was a maniacal look in Reginald’s compound eyes as he raised his broken arm and kept shooting tiny worms out. The evolved worm also came pouncing toward Su Jin at high speeds.

Su Jin narrowed his eyes. This was how hard a Level B Challenge was. If he was allowed to use his Spirit Power, he would have overcome all these creatures easily. But it was going to be hard for him to survive this ordeal without such powers.

“Escape? I never thought of doing that. After all, if I allow you to remain alive, you will become a huge headache! Besides… I still need to avenge my friend!” said Su Jin with a sneer. He wasn’t in the most ideal situation, but his time in the Handbook hadn’t all gone to waste either.

He punched the metal box carrying his weapons with one fist and it broke into several pieces. He caught the pieces as they broke and sent them flying. Shadow after shadow shot out, each one striking a worm and turning it to mush.

At the same time, his left hand raised his knife and brandished it such that Reginald had to find a place to hide himself and didn’t have the time or energy to shoot worms out anymore. The problem was that there was that evolved worm coming at him as well. The worm spread its four arms out and came flying at Su Jin.

“Triple Qi Thrust! Demon Tiger Emerges!” yelled Su Jin as he thrust one palm out. This was Chu Yi’s best move, the Triple Qi Thrust!

Su Jin wasn’t as well trained in martial arts compared to Chu Yi, but it wasn’t as though he couldn’t learn. His body was strong and nimble, so he could learn any form of martial arts very quickly. He had also learned this Qi Thrust technique, but because he did not understand it as well as Chu Yi, he was only able to execute up to the Triple level.

But Triple Qi Thrust was enough, since Su Jin’s body was able to unleash more energy, so his Triple Qi Thrust was much more powerful than Chu Yi’s. The worm had no idea how powerful this move was and slammed right into Su Jin’s palm.

Craaack…BOOM!

There was a muffled sound before an explosion occurred. The impact of the Triple Qi Thrust exploded from inside the worm like a bomb, turning the worm to nothing but mush.

Reginald was in disbelief. That was the worm he was the most pleased with, since its evolution was almost perfect, as he had said earlier. He didn’t expect Su Jin to be able to kill it with just one move.

He turned and wanted to run, but there was no way Su Jin was letting him get away. Immediately after that evolved worm fell to pieces, Su Jin’s left hand flicked every piece of worm flesh rapidly toward Reginald, striking the captain like bullets.

Reginald kept splitting himself again, hoping to avoid any damage to his body before getting hit, but Su Jin was flicking way too many flesh bullets at him. There was no way he could dodge them all, so several parts of his body ended up getting badly injured. He looked so pathetic now.

“I’m going to kill you!” Su Jin’s eyes were bloodshot as he swung the knife in his left hand horizontally, which sliced Reginald into many pieces. Then, he suddenly stopped moving and watched Reginald piece himself back together again.

“What an idiot! You actually gave me the chance to revive myself! You…” Before Reginald could finish his sentence, Su Jin swung his blade again. He sliced Reginald into several pieces, then stopped to watch Reginald merge the various parts of his body into one again.

Once he had become one whole piece, Su Jin sliced him into pieces once more. Then, he said quietly, “Your rate of revival is slowing down. It started with just a few seconds, then more than ten seconds, and the third time took nearly half a minute. This time, it’s going to take a minute or so, isn’t it?”

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“In other words, your revival method isn’t like what you described. You don’t have an immortal body at all. Once your energy is consumed beyond a certain point, you’re going to die, aren’t you?”

Reginald felt terror in his heart. Just like what Su Jin had just said, he didn’t have a body that couldn’t be killed. If he was killed enough times, he would reach a point where he could no longer revive himself.

“I get it now. You need to hunt to get more energy, right? If you have enough energy, you’d be able to continue reviving yourself. And because you were searching for a source of energy, you attacked Wu Chen!” Su Jin’s gaze turned frosty as he snorted and said, “Despite your desperation, your senses were still very strong. You could sense that I wasn’t someone easy to deal with, so once you had successfully launched a sneak attack on Wu Chen and got what you wanted, you made a run for it. That’s what happened, isn’t it?

“Right. I’ve mostly understood everything now, so it’s time for you to die!” Su Jin slammed a palm against one of Reginald’s pieces of flesh and vibrated his hand so quickly, he turned the flesh to air in the blink of an eye.

“NOO!” Reginald howled. He was really scared now, because Su Jin was able to destroy one section of himself so easily. Su Jin would just need a little bit of time and he would be able to vaporize all the other pieces.

Of course, Su Jin ignored his cries. His palm continued to vaporize all the pieces around him. Once he was sure he had vaporized everything, he grabbed all the equipment that had been scattered all over the floor and went on his way.

After Su Jin walked away, one of the least destroyed pieces of the evolved worm that Su Jin had turned to mush suddenly started moving. A few seconds later, it turned into a worm that was about the size of a finger.

“Stupid thing. Did you really think you could kill me like that?” rang out Reginald’s voice from that tiny worm.

“Oh, I didn’t know you could do this too. Well, I guess this time, it’s really goodbye,” Su Jin’s voice suddenly echoed in the corridor again. He had returned and sneered at the worm as he raised the gun in his hand and shot the worm to pieces.