Summary :
Chapter 12 Solo Leveling begins with Jinwoo waking up in the hospital after his intense battle with the Ant Queen. He finds himself surrounded by his worried sister Yoojin and his fellow hunters, including Woo Jincheol who saved him during the fight.
Jinwoo learns that he has been unconscious for several days and that his body was on the verge of death. However, due to his incredible regeneration ability as a result of being a “Player”, he managed to survive. Woo Jincheol explains that Jinwoo’s actions during the battle were nothing out of the ordinary and that he took down the ant queen himself.
As Jinwoo recovers, he is visited by Hwang Dongsoo, the vice chairman of the Korean Hunter Association. Dongsoo expresses his admiration for Jinwoo’s strength and offers him the position of an S-rank hunter, the highest rank a hunter can attain. Jinwoo is surprised but hesitates to accept it as he still remembers the pain and despair he felt during his first foray into the dungeon.
However, he ultimately decides to accept the offer, realizing that becoming stronger is the only way he can protect those he cares about. Jinwoo also learns that he has acquired a new skill called “Shadow Exchange”, which allows him to switch places with his shadow soldier during battles.
The chapter ends with Jinwoo meeting the guild master of the hunter guild, Min Byunggu, who informs him that the guild wants to recruit him. Jinwoo considers the offer but remains cautious, aware that not all guilds have good intentions.
Overall, Chapter 12 of Solo Leveling shows Jinwoo’s growth as a hunter and his determination to become stronger. It also presents him with new challenges and opportunities as he navigates the world of hunters and guilds.
‘nonetheless, i can’t be positive, so….’
To be a hundred% certain, Seong Jin-Woo anonymously opened a thread on the net forum different to licenced Hunters.
[Title: Something weird has happened to me.]
[Description: I can suddenly see my Stats in numbers like in a video game, and I can even increase their values, too. Is there anyone who has experienced something similar to me?]
beneath that OG post, comments figuratively exploded forth.
└Anon: LOL Why dontcha forestall f*cking around, dude.
└Anon: Isn’t he only a loon?
└Anon: lost his d*mn mind.
└Anon: maybe you’ve played too many video games…..
└Anon: by any risk, are you a cartoonist?
└Anon: pass go to the closest sanatorium, ‘okay?
└Anon: I’d want to hear the details first.
└Anon: prevent accepting all varieties of trash simply due to the fact they hold the Hunter licence; this forum needs to undergo a cleansing, significantly now… (TL: I eliminated all the natural-Korean net slangs/emojis from the raw. discovered my lesson from my previous novel….)
Dozens of feedback all with roughly the similar contents flooded in.
“Eh-whew….”
Jin-Woo spat out a groan.
He had spent a long time looking round but he had nothing to show for his problems. He got referred to as a loon inside the forum and people disparaged him. He did all this, yet considering there was no information to gather….
“I bet that my case is absolutely a unique one.”
He become the handiest one beneath the heavens.
The maximum particular Hunter inside the whole world!
He nevertheless needed a while to discern out how a lot of a assist this abnormal phenomenon might offer, and just how some distance he could truly grow thru it, however at the least, he were given a terrific feeling approximately this complete thing.
when he took a look out of doors, the night time had deepened pretty drastically.
“while did the time get so past due….?”
Jin-Woo frowned deeply.
His eyes ached a chunk after staring right into a computer display for goodbye.
Jin-Woo massaged his forehead and stood up from the chair to loosen his body with a bout of mild stretching. He moved his frame this manner and that for a while. He bent his frame 90 levels and that’s when he observed small boxes mendacity forgotten on the floor.
“….Ah.”
The ‘random boxes’.
two bins wrapped in the monotone gift wrappers and topped off with a ribbon – exactly just like the ones in video video games.
‘They ought to’ve fallen off from the bed when i used to be making a mess of the room earlier.’
He had absolutely forgotten about them after receiving the ones as his rewards. Jin-Woo picked up the nearest field and opened its lid.
“….A band-resource?!”
He dumbfoundedly stared at the ‘element’ that seemed exactly like the everyday band-useful resource for a while, simplest for the records approximately it to float up above in inexperienced letters.
[Item: Band-Aid]
A ordinary band-aid. beneficial in patching up small wounds. can be stored inner your inventory.
“it is a band-resource….”
He became hopeful that this issue might own some sort of a unique attribute just like the treasures observed inside the dungeons, however he wasn’t so fortunate nowadays.
‘Of direction, I haven’t heard of someone finding band-aids inside a dungeon, to start with….’
together with his thoughts half in unhappiness and the alternative half in anticipation, he opened the remaining field.
And he were given himself a contemporary ball-point pen.
He studied it from all kinds of angles or even clicked on the tip so the ball-point could pop out, but it turned into still your average pen.
[Item: Ball-point pen]
an average ball-point pen. may be stored interior your inventory.
It was quite in all likelihood that, as its call implied, all types of random junk might come out from the random boxes.
“Hmm…..”
nicely, it wasn’t as though he was left empty-surpassed anyway.
positive, he didn’t certainly have any needs for either the band-useful resource or the pen right now, however way to them, he were given to study the life of the thing called the ‘stock’.
also, because the information on different objects determined within the room did no longer display up, he figured that simplest the data at the items from the random box will be examine.
“stock.”
As soon as he called out for his inventory, a graphical illustration of a garage unit with dozens of slots regarded inside the air.
As fitting the garage unit of a stage 1 user, it become…. no longer as empty as he thought. He thought there would be nothing in there, however in the first slot, he observed a as a substitute acquainted object.
“Isn’t that….?”
Jin-Woo took that out without delay.
Tti-ring.
[Item: Kim Sang-Sik’s steel longsword]
assault +10
It was exactly Mister Kim’s sword that Jin-Woo picked up returned within the underground temple. He assumed that it become left behind within the Gate, even though.
“hey, excellent to look you, too.”
a grin fashioned on Jin-Woo’s face.
He felt happy seeing this thing again, what with each of them having survived that hellish dying trap. besides, it become too wasteful to simply be abandoned in a distinctive dimension, wasn’t it?
‘Didn’t Mister Kim ahjussi say he sold this for around ₩3,000,000?’ (TL: over $2,600)
The weapons of Hunters outwardly regarded as an alternative plain, but the reality changed into some thing but.
Monsters couldn’t be broken with guns that did now not bring the wielder’s magic power. So, weapons crafted specially for the motive of handling the ones b*stards could continually be pretty pricey.
‘looks as if I’ll should rely on this man for a while.’
He have been combating with his bare fingers until now because he couldn’t come up with the money for to buy a right weapon.
even though it became a reasonably-priced sword, he became still as a substitute grateful for it.
‘You’re mine now.’
If Mister Kim noticed this sword in his fingers inside the destiny, he would possibly start foaming at the mouth and angrily call for its go back. nicely, he turned into a egocentric man who with ease discarded the saviour of his life, so it was instead a good opportunity.
however, each this sword and this ‘possibility’ had been given to him in return for sacrificing his life. So, he wasn’t making plans to give it returned that without difficulty.
Jin-Woo’s eyes sharpened substantially.
He had learned two things approximately reality returned in that temple.
first of all, he had to end up some distance, a ways more potent.
He turned into vulnerable and almost died numerous instances as a end result.
That wasn’t all.
He knew what the effects could be, but he couldn’t stop that choirboy Hunter from stepping forward, and also, he knew Mister Kim turned into in the incorrect, but he couldn’t help Mister tune in any respect.
due to the fact he wanted to live on, he turned his gaze away despite the fact that he knew what turned into right. If he didn’t need to feel embarrassment about himself again, then he genuinely needed to become stronger.
And in the end….
‘there is no room for needless kindness.’
What he got after his acts of kindness was the betrayal of his comrades.
3 of them deserted him, who couldn’t even move nicely, and ran away. He desperately called out to them but none back to help him.
None of them may want to remember simply who had stored their lives only a few moments ago.
‘….deliver and take.’
He swore not to take on any unnecessary danger out of some unconditional act of kindness. The most critical issue at the end of the day was his personal lifestyles, in any case.
the ones were important existence training Jin-Woo got to engrave in his coronary heart after experiencing a near-demise event.
To grow to be stronger than earlier than, and to come to be greater egocentric than before.
“i will do that.”
Jin-Woo turned into one of those sorts of those who might by no means forget what he were taught.
***
internal a sure ‘pojangmacha’. (TL: the Korean-style included avenue stall)
The nurse Choi Yu-Rah turned into busy chatting to a chum she hadn’t seen in a long time as the night time wore on.
“Ahh, I almost forgot.”
Yu-Rah belatedly recalled that her pal changed into an employee of the Hunter’s association. The purpose for her locating paintings within the Hunter’s medical institution become in no small element because of this buddy.
“you already know loads about Hunters, proper?”
“well, greater than the general public, positive. What’s up?”
“Is there a Hunter with an capability to heal their personal wounds surely quickly?”
“Aren’t those Healer-type Hunters? One healing spell later, every wound goes bye-bye~!!”
“No, no, not like magic and stuff. I imply, like, unconsciously.”
“Like, unconsciously?”
“for example, while the character has misplaced recognition, or while… he’s in the center of sleep.”
Yu-Rah’s pal shook her head.
“Eii~. There’s no way. That’d be some thing like regeneration, and that’s an superb potential, you recognize? That’s a unique trait only the rarest of all top-tier monsters exceeding the ranks of ‘A’ possess.”
“There’s no human who possesses it, even though?”
“Ng. I’ve in no way heard of a Hunter who has such an ability.”
“R-really?”
may want to she have made a mistake, then?
Yu-Rah slowly nodded her head.
It changed into at this factor that her buddy spoke once more.
“however, alternatively… I don’t know. maybe it’s feasible if you’re talking approximately S-ranked Hunters.”
hearing her friend’s phrases, Yu-Rah raised her head.
“S ranks?”
“There are masses of freakish monsters inside the S-ranked Hunters, and also, no longer a good deal is thought about them, proper? What have been they announcing? proper, the Hunter Baek Yun-Ho from the White Tiger Guild can seemingly morph into a real monster.”
but, Seong Jin-Woo turned into supposedly a Hunter ranked E.
The ranks of the Hunters were publicly viewable at the affiliation’s website, so if every person were involved, they could take a look. Yu-Rah have become curious from the morning’s incident and she or he searched for Seong Jin-Woo’s facts.
‘His rank is just too low for him to possess such a unique abi…. Ah!’
The Re-Awakening of a Hunter!
She then remembered listening to hushed whispers of ‘Re-Awakening’ coming from Jin-Woo’s room when she turned into strolling past it the previous day.
‘ought to it be that he had long past via a Re-Awakening?’
For maximum ordinary people, it become genuinely not possible to befriend an S-ranked Hunter, never mind encountering one. no longer simplest were there too few of them, however in addition they passed off to be crazy busy most of the time as nicely.
So, just what kind of a scenario become this? someone as awesome as that was a affected person she became searching after. A guy who simply entered the S rank having moved up from the lowly E.
‘If there are just a few folks that realise his proper value, then….’
If she scored a few factors with him now, wouldn’t or not it’s much more likely that she’d be offered extra possibilities later down the road?
A chance to emerge as pals with a rank S Hunter didn’t take place each day, after all. They had been an existence that human beings couldn’t easily meet even supposing they have been prepared to shell out masses of cash.
As her creativeness took flight, a shiny smile slowly bloomed on Yu-Rah’s face.
“Oh my gosh?! You lady, did something first-rate show up? Why are you grinning like that out of the blue?”
“Oh, uh, it’s nothing, you understand. nothing a good deal.”
Yu-Rah continued to shake her head, however the smile on her lips didn’t need to move away that without difficulty.
component eight: degree up!
“Oh my goodness. take a look at that man’s body.”
“became that affected person’s frame that correct before?”
two young lady nurses walking within the hall whispered to every different as soon as they noticed Seong Jin-Woo.
He pretended to have now not heard them and quietly again to his room.
It had been per week considering he began taking over the each day Quests. numerous changes befell for the duration of this time. certainly one of them took place to be the transformation of his frame.
Jin-Woo stood before the replicate hooked up at the hospital room’s wall through the corner.
“Hmm. Hmm.”
He looked at his whole frame in the front of this complete-length replicate.
He got a chunk embarrassed with the aid of doing something that a girl university scholar could much more likely end up doing, and most effective after clearing his throat two times turned into he able to stare instantly on the reflect.
The component changed into, even though…. He had truely changed.
His frame was inside the middle of a metamorphosis.
‘I’ve were given muscle mass now.’
The maximum 32012fd371b2d8bbf6e5e631dc96cdaf change was the drastic growth of his muscle groups. The ordinary-searching flabby flesh turned into progressively disappearing, simplest to get replaced via tough muscle tissues. thanks to that, his shoulders had widened extra and his standard body had grown larger as nicely.
‘Even then, doesn’t seem heavy and gradual.’
only the essential quantity of muscle groups in the essential locations. If he were to explain the overall impression his body gave off, then would it not be kinda like ‘looking fast and athletic’?
He become a guy and even he observed this alternatively appealing, so it wasn’t the sort of strange factor for younger nurses to whisper approximately him.
‘And it’s all due to this guy over here.’
Jin-Woo summoned his Stat Window.
Tti-ring.
call: Seong Jin-Woo
level: 1
class: None
name: None
HP: a hundred
MP: 10
Tiredness: 0
[Stat]
power: 31
Stamina: 10
Agility: 10
Intelligence: 10
perception: 10
(to be had points to distribute: zero)
[Skills]
Passive capabilities:
– (Unknown) Lv. Max
– Tenacity Lv. 1
energetic abilties:
– dash Lv. 1
His energy stat had long past past 30 already.
given that he notion that it’d be hard to tell the sort of consequences the increases in different Stats might bring, he ended up making an investment all of the factors he earned at the strength Stat, which regarded to be the easiest manner to feel the exchange taking place inside.
besides, energy played a key function whilst preventing monsters, in order that turned into like killing birds with one stone.
‘My frame wouldn’t have transformed by using this tons simply because I exercised for some days.’
if so, there could be handiest one clarification.
along with his electricity value constantly growing up, the muscular tissues have been changing their shapes a good way to show the maximum quantity of impact, too.
He couldn’t think about every other reason besides that one.
He turned into inwardly worried approximately making an investment too many points to the strength Stat, but after seeing his transformed body, he have become instead glad and all of the concerns in his thoughts were forgotten for now.
‘however, it’s miles way too 32012fd371b2d8bbf6e5e631dc96cdaf, isn’t it?’
The wide variety of times he become cited by the nurses became continuously at the rise. It turned into pretty in all likelihood that, in view that their task involved searching after human our bodies, their levels of discernment might have been higher than maximum.
Jin-Woo possessed pretty a eager experience of hearing, so every time his call became referred to inside the place, he took notice of it.
‘I guess it’s time for me to leave this sanatorium, no?’