Hell's Handbook

The sea of clouds billowed like an angry ocean, and both Su Jin and Shen Wu’s expressions turned grim when they heard the furious roaring coming toward them because they had guessed what creature it was. Durand, Oscar, and Natasha, owners from the western hemisphere, still had no idea what was about to hit them.

But it didn’t take long for them to realize what creature had ctheir way, because a gigantic head burst through the clouds – it was a dragon! The mythical Chinese dragon!

“Damn it!” Su Jin’s eye twitched. No wonder Natasha had sensed it first. This dragon had probably aimed for her because she had the blood of the dragons of the west.

Natasha could sense the Chinese dragon’s fury clearly, so she could also sense its immense power. That was why she had felt so fearful.

“What do we do?” asked Oscar. They had to work together, otherwise this dragon was going to kill them all just minutes after they had started the Challenge.

“Kill it! We’ve just started the Challenge, so we can’t afford to lose anyone now, otherwise we’ll be in big trouble later on!” As the highest ranked owner, Durand was quick to make a decision. So what if they were facing a mighty dragon? The five of them were all equivalent to demigods, so they would be able to kill it if they joined forces.

Everyone nodded slightly, while Natasha gave a low shout as she suppressed the fear in her heart. Scales and claws grew on her body as she instantly transformed into a dragon the ssize as the Chinese dragon, then dashed toward it.

Durand summoned his sword, then bit his finger so that a drop of blood fell onto the blade. Giant flames engulfed the blade as Durand pounced onto the dragon with the sword in hand.

Oscar created a whole bunch of shadows which he stretched and used to tie around the dragon. Shen Wu did not do anything immediately, because his powers were more likely to hurt the team, so he watched from the side first.

Su Jin charged at the dragon without hesitation as well. He wasn’t as large as Natasha, but he was about as strong. And because he was smaller in size, the concentration of his strength was like hammering nails into the dragon, so he was able to hurt the enemy even more.

The battle in the clouds stirred up a huge storm, and several peaks were crushed and shattered by Natasha in dragon form and the other dragon. With Su Jin, Oscar, and Durand’s help, the dragon began to lose ground.

Roaar! The dragon let out a roar as it spewed fire. The flames were incredibly hot and Su Jin and Durand were in its line of fire.

Just when the flames were about to strike the two men, the flames suddenly turned to smoke. Shen Wu nodded at them from afar. He was going to deal with any fire the dragon spewed.

With Shen Wu helping in this aspect, the four of them went ahead to attack the dragon without having to worry about that. Oscar’s shadows held the dragon’s claws together, Natasha held onto the dragon’s body tightly, Durand’s sword chopped off the dragon’s tail, while Su Jin picked at each of its scales.

Finally, the dragon seemed to realize it couldn’t defeat these tiny things. It let out an angry howl as its entire body began to turn red. Su Jin scanned it with his psychokinesis and yelled, “The dragon’s going to implode!”

“Implode?!” Everyone had sunderstanding of mythical creatures, but they had never heard of dragons imploding before. Then again, many things in a Heaven Level Challenge could not be explained with normal logic, so they just had to deal with whatever came!

“Don’t let it implode! I want its blood! It’s all mine!” Natasha shrieked like she had gone insane. She really wanted the blood, because she had sensed a special power in its blood that was compatible with her body.

“Don’t worry, it won’t be able to do that,” Shen Wu scoffed. He slammed his palms together hard, and the redness in the dragon’s abdomen faded, causing the dragon to let out a howl in despair.

Shen Wu’s powers were able to control temperature, and it was powerful enough to even change the temperature of the dragon’s fire, so he was also able to dispel the heat that the dragon had tried to use to implode itself.

As the dragon whimpered sadly, Natasha used one of the wounds created in the scales by Su Jin to absorb a large amount of the dragon’s blood.

The dragon’s huge body convulsed a few times before life slowly drained out of it, and it stopped moving. Natasha let out an excited howl, because she had consumed a huge amount of the dragon’s blood, and her body actually began to glow brightly.

“Excellent! I feel like… I’m about to reach the next stage!” Natasha reverted to human form and closed her eyes as she relished her new powers. She could sense that she had beca lot stronger than before.

“So… you still can’t get to the next stage, then?” asked Su Jin.

Natasha nodded and said, “I’m just a tiny bit short of reaching the next stage. But I can sense that I’ll definitely be able to beca god during this Challenge!”

None of them chastised Natasha for her confidence, because they actually felt encouraged by it. If Natasha had been able to obtain the chance to evolve just after they started this Challenge, it meant that all of them stood a chance too.

But Su Jin had a troubled look on his face. After flipping through his Handbook, he said to the rest, “I’m not trying to be a wet blanket here, but… how are we supposed to complete this Challenge?”

His Handbook was completely blank. There was no introductory paragraph on the Challenge, no quests, and no main mission. In other words, they had no idea what they had to do in order to end this Challenge.

Everyone hurriedly opened their own Handbooks to find that they didn’t have any information either. They were stuck here.

“What now? Does that mean we can’t leave this Challenge until we becgods?” asked Durand puzzledly.

Su Jin paused to think, then nodded and said, “I’m afraid that’s the case. I’ve researched information on the Grave of the Gods and you guys know a thing or two too. I’m sure all of you know that… each tthe Grave of the Gods opens, someone will definitely beca god.

“If the people who stepped into this place also did not have any information or missions to complete like us now, but we can confirm that sof them did manage to get out of this space, plus sbecgods, doesn’t that mean the mission here is for at least one of us to beca god?”

The rest agreed with this analysis. Their strength was mostly in fighting, and while they were quite intelligent too, they were not as smart as Su Jin, who had been his team’s strategist for a long time.

“So, we can get out once we beca god? That’s great, isn’t it? Isn’t that why we’re here?” Oscar grinned widely. They had risked their lives to chere precisely because they wanted to attain godhood!

“Let’s go! I hope that building has what we want!” Durand licked his lips. His desire made his entire body tremble.

They continued moving toward the building and cclose in no time. Now that they were closer, they could see how luxuriously built this building was. The entire ground was made from the best jade, while the building itself was made from diamonds. But these expensive materials were meaningless to the five of them. If they wanted some, they could exchange points for a whole pile of it.

The building was dark inside, but they could vaguely hear the sound of chanting. They stepped onto the jade ground and white lotus flowers instantly appeared beneath their feet.

“Lotuses growing with each step?” Su Jin and Shen Wu’s eyes lit up.

But just when they were about to go further, Durand suddenly held them back and said, “Something’s not quite right. Do you see the two statues in front of the main door?”

“They’re alive,” said Shen Wu.

Everyone was a little confused, so Shen Wu explained, “Their temperature. I can sense their body temperature. It’s definitely not the icy cold temperature a stone statue ought to have. They’re more like living creatures that resemble stone.”

Su Jin immediately used his psychokinesis to test them, but the moment his psychokinesis covered the two statues, two extremely loud voices boomed in his head.

“A demon!”

“Get lost!”

Pfft! Su Jin vomited a mouthful of blood. Those two voices were like two giant hammers that hit him directly on the head. The pain nearly knocked him right out.

“They’re alive!” Su Jin struggled to spit those words out.