Hell's Handbook

Chapter 243: Sudden Visit

Neither Su Jin’s Personal Hell Domain nor the Team Hell Domain had anything suitable for him, so he just took a quick look and didn’t bother getting any items. He was now focusing on improving his physical body and psychokinesis, but these were areas that were really hard to upgrade.

His psychokinesis was a little easier to deal with. After the Train of the Supernatural incident, he had become a top user of psychokinesis, and he had let the Mad Hatter seal it up so that he could return to the real world. But it was just a seal after all. Su Jin would eventually be able to break it someday.

Getting an upgrade in his physical body was the more difficult part. Even among owners, he had one of the strongest physical bodies around. Wu Chen also confirmed that he had never seen any owners with equivalent strength either. But if you looked at it from a different angle, Su Jin was nothing compared to the monsters he had come across in Challenges.

According to Wu Chen, Su Jin had probably reached the limit for owners. If he wanted to improve further, he’d have to find some way during a Challenge or see if any opportunities presented themselves there.

After he returned to the real world, he hadn’t even had the time to take a breath when he saw Kano Mai staring at him with a horrified look on her face. His heart skipped a beat in fear when he realized that she wasn’t staring at him but behind him.

Su Jin immediately did a roundhouse kick. Given his level of strength, even if Optimus Prime were behind him, he was sure he could send him flying.

But the person behind him was more formidable than Optimus Prime. He actually caught Su Jin’s leg in midair.

At the same time, Su Jin had really used a lot of strength, so the force alone caused the person behind to slide backwards. The tiled flooring turned into mere dust as well.

“Good heavens! Is this how you treat your guests, Mr. Su?” The person who had been pushed backward by Su Jin shook his head. He then bowed slightly toward Su Jin in a gentlemanly fashion.

“Mad Hatter!” Su Jin was surprised. His visitor had turned out to be Mad Hatter, whom he hadn’t seen in quite a while now.

The Mad Hatter was smiling, but it seemed a little forced. Su Jin then noticed that his shoulder was bleeding and was rather puzzled. “You caught my leg with your right hand, so why is your left shoulder bleeding instead? I don’t remember learning some martial arts move that could strike a person on one side and injure the other side instead.”

The Mad Hatter touched his bleeding left shoulder and sounded a little annoyed as he said, “I came to your world a while back and wanted to visit you, but I didn’t know where you stayed. So, I used the simple method of searching for the person with the highest level of psychokinesis in this world, then…”

Su Jin burst out laughing. “And you found some guy with the surname Xu? And he beat you up?”

“I don’t know what his surname was, but he doesn’t stay too far from here and he’s also a fellow human like you. Good god, what sort of world is this? It’s bad enough that someone as ridiculously strong as you exists, but there’s actually another person whose psychokinesis is almost at god level.” The Mad Hatter was very displeased indeed. He was pretty much a deity to this world, yet he was thrashed by a mere human shortly after he set foot here.

Su Jin couldn’t stop laughing. He turned around and said, “Mai, could you get us some tea, please?”

Kano Mai knew that Su Jin had some things to discuss with the Mad Hatter, so she nodded obediently and walked to the kitchen. Su Jin then invited the Mad Hatter to take a seat while still laughing heartily.

“That person’s name is Xu Ran and he is extremely formidable. He’s one of the top ten owners of the Handbook. But… you’re a real god: how in the world did you get hurt by an owner to this extent?” Su Jin knew what the Mad Hatter was capable of. Someone who could seal his massive amount of psychokinesis should have come out of a fight with Xu Ran unscathed, not injured like this.

The Mad Hatter leaned lazily against the couch and sneered. “I’m not a god of this world, so I do face some limitations when I’m here. Furthermore, I was already injured and I didn’t expect this guy to be this formidable. Besides… his injuries are worse than mine. I don’t think he’ll be able to walk for a while.”

Su Jin felt bad for Xu Ran, since he had been beaten up by a god from a different world for absolutely no reason. In terms of poor luck, he was probably right behind Chu Yi.

“So, why are you here? Didn’t you say you couldn’t come to the real world?” asked Su Jin curiously.

“Before this I couldn’t, but after such a long time, I did find a way. I’m here to return you the favor. You said you needed to look for the Demon Lord, didn’t you?” said the Mad Hatter calmly.

Su Jin sat up straight. His heart was still with the Demon Lord and the Demon Lord said before that he didn’t have much time left. Even if the Mad Hatter hadn’t come to visit him, he would have to start thinking of a way to look for the Demon Lord soon.

“Are we going now?”

“You have something else to attend to?”

“Nope. Let me tell Mai I’m going out for a while and we can leave.” Su Jin got up to look for Kano Mai.

“Hey. You’d better be prepared. The Demon Lord… is a deity from the dark side, so be careful. He might launch a sneak attack on you or something,” said the Mad Hatter out of the blue.

“Sure, thanks for the warning,” said Su Jin without looking back.

He found Kano Mai making tea in the kitchen and said, “Mai, I need to attend to some matters with the Mad Hatter and I don’t know how long I’d be gone. If anything happens, you decide what to do, okay?”

She didn’t know anything about what was going on between him and the Demon Lord, but she knew that the Mad Hatter was a dangerous character, so Su Jin might be in danger if he was alone with the Mad Hatter.

“Then… take care of yourself, alright?” Kano Mai didn’t have any reason to stop Su Jin from doing this, but after Su Jin nodded and turned to leave, she called out, “Actually… I can go with you.”

“Uh, there’s no need for that,” said Su Jin with a smile. He was going to pay the Demon Lord a visit, so he preferred not to implicate anybody else.

Su Jin came back out and the Mad Hatter immediately threw his hat into the air. He jumped in and Su Jin jumped in after him.

Once they were inside, Su Jin got a shock. The inside of the hat was a completely empty space with various little sparks floating about.

“Those are fallen spaces. They were once bustling with life, but now… to put it simply, those are Challenges where the owners made it,” the Mad Hatter explained simply.

Su Jin stared in wonder at the different sparks floating around him. So, he had gone to these sparks to complete those Challenges. His mind started running wild and he asked, “Then… if I leap into one of those sparks right now…”

“You will be shredded to bits by the forces of space. What sort of place do you think you’re in? This place can be considered the most dangerous part of the universe. The outside of each spark is surrounded by a powerful force and even people at god level can’t move around freely inside here. Only people with special powers like myself can. I’m warning you, don’t try anything funny here. Otherwise we’re all going to end up dead,” the Mad Hatter warned Su Jin sternly.

After the Mad Hatter said that, Su Jin didn’t dare to do anything. He obediently held onto the Mad Hatter’s coat and followed him. The two of them walked for a long time before the Mad Hatter suddenly stopped in front of a black cloud.

“We’re here,” said the Mad Hatter quietly.