Hell's Handbook

Chapter 419

Chapter 419

The man instantly turned into a monster that stood at around five meters in height. He glowed like the moon, as though an ambassador of the moon had descended on them, and charged toward one of the owners.

The monster moved at an astonishing speed, and all anyone could see was the monster’s fists moving slightly. The target owner was too frightened to remember to duck, but just then, a silvery wall of light appeared in front of him and saved him from the monster’s attack.

BOOM!

A blast resounded as Li Yi made it to the monster and placed one hand on the monster’s side. His white hair flew in the wind from the impact of the explosion.

The monster was instantly blown away. The other owners realized what was going on, but their first reaction wasn’t to fight back but to run in all directions, afraid of being involved in the fight.

“Sigh, it’s little wonder none of them have Spirit Power,” Su Jin shook his head. These people had nothing but fear in their hearts, and didn’t even have the courage to face dangers. There was no way they would be able to awaken their Spirit Power, since that was usually awakened only when one was in a life and death situation and the owner displayed a tremendous will to live.

Courage was vital for an owner to become powerful. It wasn’t a courage to mindlessly charge at the things you feared, but for one to never lose your will to fight back and survive even in the face of death. But the owners who had just run off in all directions clearly didn’t have the will to fight back at all.

Su Jin had no idea if such owners could possibly survive long, but as far as he could tell, that was probably not very likely.

The monster had been sent flying and was very badly hurt. Half his body had been blasted right off. But the moon shone down brightly on him and his wounds began to heal rapidly.

“I’m going to blast you to smithereens! Let’s see if you’d still be able to recover from that!” Li Yi was not young, but his temper was even shorter than a young person’s. He bent his knees to lower his center of gravity, then charged at the monster and placed both hands on the monster this time.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A series of blasts filled the air as layers of flames covered the monster entirely. Su Jin scanned the monster with his psychokinesis and found that the monster had indeed been blasted to smithereens. The explosion had blown the monster to bits.

“Phew!” Li Yi exhaled deeply as the completely lambasted monster was no longer able to recover from that. Li Yi, however, sat down on the ground and started muttering something. Su Jin paused to listen and was surprised that the old man was chanting some Buddhist sutras for the dead owner’s soul.

Su Jin wasn’t sure what to say, but he was worried that the same problem would befall Li Yi. He understood what this moonlight was about now. It seemed like as long as they walked in the moonlight, their bodies would be affected by it. Once they stopped moving, the power that entered the owner’s body via the moonlight would become stronger and turn the owner into a monster.

“Don’t worry, I’m not an idiot. I’ve initiated several micro explosions within my body, which makes my body work even harder than when I’m exercising. The power of the moonlight won’t affect me.”

“That’s good to hear.” Su Jin did not make any further comment. But he was rather impressed. This old man was really something. Not only was he able to think quickly and clearly, but he was very calm as well, which was something rare but necessary in such situations.

After he was done praying for the dead owner, Li Yi got up. He called out to the four other owners who had run away, “Come back! The danger has passed!”

The four owners felt a little embarrassed since all they did was run while Su Jin and Li Yi fought the monster. But they forgave themselves quickly because to them, they were merely ordinary owners while the two men who fought were both more powerful veterans.

“The moonlight has been extinguished?” asked Lv Meng.

Su Jin shook his head. “It’s not going to be that easy to do that. We probably only managed to extinguish an infected person. Also, we were probably wrong about the definition of moonlight earlier. It might be literally referring to moonlight itself.”

“What?! How can we possibly put it out then?” asked one of the owners with a perplexed expression on his face.

“I don’t know,” Su Jin shook his head, “We can only try to gather information from the Challenge and find answers from there.”

Everyone fell silent for a while. Lv Meng then asked, “So, what happened to that guy just now?”

“Mr. Li and I are guessing that as we let the moon shine on us, the moonlight has entered the body and has filled our bodies with an energy of sorts. When we’re moving, our bodies are able to break this energy down and get rid of it. But once we stop moving, this process also stops, and we will turn into monsters,” explained Su Jin. But this was just their guess and they could not be sure at this point.

“Murderers!” Lv Meng suddenly yelled. She glared and them and said, “He was an owner like us! And you two killed him just like that?!”

“If not?” Li Yi’s tone turned frosty. He was obviously a little angry now.

“Why didn’t you try to see if he could get rid of that energy? Maybe he could still be saved!” yelled Lv Meng.

Su Jin and Li Yi didn’t know whether to laugh at her or to chide her. The last thing they needed was someone with such saintly ideals. Su Jin said, “Given the circumstances, the only thing we could do was to fight off the danger and get rid of it as quickly as possible. Otherwise, I think all of you here would have turned into dead bodies by now. Of course if you think we did the wrong thing, then the next time something like this happens, Mr. Li and I won’t do anything. I hope Miss Lv will be able to heal him with your love!”

Su Jin had already put it as reasonably as he could. He wasn’t an evil person, otherwise he wouldn’t have chosen to go against the will of the universe. But he wasn’t a saint either. There was no clear way to save the owner and the owner was not only clearly trying to attack them, but the owner was very capable of killing them too. Killing him was the best thing to do in that situation.

“If I had your powers, I wouldn’t be like you guys! You’re just trying to selfishly justify your act of murder!” yelled Lv Meng indignantly.

Meanwhile, Li Yi was too angry to even speak. He couldn’t understand how a fairly pleasant young lady could suddenly become so unreasonable.

“You sure about that?” asked Su Jin.

“Of course! I’m not selfish like you!” said Lv Meng confidently.

“Mr. Li, could I borrow your powers?” Su Jin asked Li Yi.

Li Yi stared blankly at him and asked, “Borrow my powers? How?”

“I got a tool the last time that can duplicate one’s Spirit Power completely and allow another person to use it temporarily. I’d like to find out if Miss Lv would really protect the world if she had the power to do so,” said Su Jin with a smile.

Li Yi was rather surprised. He had heard about such tools before. But such tools were very hard to come by and it seemed like a waste to use it on someone like Lv Meng.

“Mr. Su, are you sure about that? Such tools are very precious,” said Li Yi.

“It’s fine with me. I think it’s worth it if it can be used to contribute to world peace.” Su Jin was clearly mocking Lv Meng’s ideals.

After Li Yi agreed to it, Su Jin, grabbed hold of Li Yi’s arm as a silver light flashed in his eyes. He let go of Li Yi, then grabbed hold of Lv Meng’s arm.

Of course, he wasn’t using a tool, and he didn’t own anything like that at all. He was using his maniacal power to duplicate Li Yi’s Spirit Power and forcing it to occur in Lv Meng’s body. But he had already set a timer, so that this Spirit Power would disappear from her body after a certain amount of time.

Lv Meng was shocked to discover a new power within her, and even more shocked to discover that she knew exactly how to use it. Of course, Su Jin had given her that knowledge along with the Spirit Power.

Once that was all done, Su Jin smiled and said, “We’re all set to go now. You’ve got real powers now, so we’ll hand the job of maintaining world peace to you.”

Lv Meng looked a little hesitant at first, but she still felt that she was capable of doing so. If these two cold blooded creatures were capable of protecting those they wanted to, she was certain she could too.

As the group continued their journey, Li Yi walked next to Su Jin and said, “There’s really no need for you to take that girl’s words so seriously.”

“Mr. Li, sometimes, one’s naivety doesn’t just bring harm to themselves, but it can also bring harm to others,” said Su Jin quietly. He glanced at Lv Meng, then frowned as he went on, “This girl is simply too naïve. The world isn’t black and white like she thinks, and the lines are even more blurred within a Challenge. So, instead of allowing her to build resentment and turn into a walking time-bomb, why not give her some powers? That way, even if she ends up dying, she would be able to accept her fate, no?”

Li Yi just shook his head and said, “I’m not sure about that. Naïve ones like her often blame any misfortunes they encounter on other people. I don’t think doing this is going to help. She’s still a ticking time-bomb, and she’s now an even more powerful bomb.”