Summary :
In Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 15, the story continues with Sung Jin-Woo taking on the new S-rank gate. As he enters the gate, he encounters a powerful monster called a Frost Elf.
Sung Jin-Woo quickly realizes that the Frost Elf is much stronger than any monster he has faced before. He uses his Shadow Swap ability to switch places with one of his shadows and attacks the Frost Elf from behind, catching him off guard.
However, despite his surprise attack, Sung Jin-Woo struggles to defeat the Frost Elf. The monster’s ice attacks are fast and deadly, and Sung Jin-Woo finds himself on the defensive.
Just when it seems that Sung Jin-Woo may be defeated, he remembers the advice his father gave him to find the enemy’s weakness. He analyzes the Frost Elf’s movements and realizes that his speed comes at the expense of stability.
Using this knowledge, Sung Jin-Woo devises a plan to exploit the Frost Elf’s weakness. It lures the monster into a trap, causing it to slide onto the ice and lose its balance. Seizing the opportunity, Sung Jin-Woo delivers a powerful blow to the Frost Elf, defeating him.
When the Frost Elf is defeated, Sung Jin-Woo successfully clears the S-rank gate. He gains experience points and levels, further increasing his abilities. However, he will also get a warning from the system that he should be careful as the difficulty of the gates will keep increasing.
As Sung Jin-Woo leaves the gate, he is met by other hunters who witnessed his battle. They admire his strength and skill and praise him for his victory. Sung Jin-Woo modestly accepts their compliments and prepares for his next challenge.
in contrast to the dungeons of the Gates, there was a issue known as ‘respawn’ inside the instant dungeon. whilst he changed into sweeping away every unmarried monster located on the second one floor, all the monsters on the first respawned. even as he went returned upstairs to address them, monsters on the second floor respawned. So on and so forth.
[Level up!]
[Level up!]
Jin-Woo hopped among the primary and 2d ground and killed monsters till his degree not rose up.
‘Who is aware of after I’ll ever run into some other possibility like this one?’
alongside the way, he were given so used to this region that he changed into capable of predict from wherein and how the monsters could try to attack him.
“A monkey, falling from the ceiling….”
He gently avoided the claws of the monkey-kind monster falling from the ceiling and stabbed it within the chest together with his sword. after which….
“Kkiiieeck!!”
“….One cat every from left and proper.”
…and then, he orderly sliced the necks of the black panther-like creatures leaping at him from his sides.
“Kyahk!”
“Kkahk!!”
[You’ve killed a ‘Blade-Claw Briga’.]
[You’ve killed a ‘Black-Shadow Razan’.]
[You’ve killed a ‘Black-Shadow Razan’.]
And with these 3, he had arrived on the end of the second one floor.
He had cleared out the second one floor all over again. however, his stage hadn’t been transferring from 15 for a long term now. It seemed that reaching that excessive turned into the limit for the first two flooring.
“Stats.”
[Stat]
energy: forty five
Stamina: 24
Agility: 24
Intelligence: 24
perception: 24
(available factors to distribute: 0)
With him being degree 15, his Stats had risen up with the aid of pretty a lot. His Agility become now nearly at 25. He eventually were given to sense the difference among the Agility and the energy Stat whilst the former hit the value of 20.
The Agility did no longer boom his velocity, however as a substitute, it changed into as if the opponent’s movement had emerge as far slower in his belief, rather.
‘exactly like watching a slow-motion video.’
The scenes of the monkey falling from the ceiling and panthers pouncing on him performed out in gradual-movement.
have to he describe it as him being capable of manage the time float as he wanted? It became less complicated to evade enemies’ assaults, and it also have become less complicated to hit them as nicely.
because the word implied, he had certainly grow to be greater ‘agile’.
The so-referred to as velocity changed into totally dependant on who turned into looking at it. The higher his Agility Stat, the bigger the difference among him and his enemies could grow to be; from their attitude, he’d look as if he become shifting at an unbelievably quick velocity.
‘If each the energy and Agility boom concurrently, their synergy ought to be pretty notable.’
That turned into his final evaluation of the Agility Stat.
“besides all that…”
Jin-Woo shifted his gaze away.
“What need to I do now….?”
He changed into searching at the stairs leading down to the 1/3 floor.
there has been a motive why he persevered to seek within the first floors even though there has been a manner to head even lower.
‘It’s giving me the creeps.’
together with his belief Stat a lot better, he should sense the air of mystery of some thing ominous lurking down there a long way higher than before. sincerely, some thing in reality strong was hiding someplace down underneath.
He didn’t need to see it to realize.
Jin-Woo recalled the message he saw again with the aid of the entrance of this instantaneous dungeon.
[You can not exit the dungeon. Please defeat the boss first or find the return crystal.]
The existence of the ‘Boss’.
Jin-Woo have been roaming the first flooring so that it will boost his tiers till he couldn’t anymore, curious about the reason of preventing this ‘Boss’.
He had organized himself as much as he ought to but, while the time to really move down there got here, he turned into getting all sweaty and fearful.
Jin-Woo gently slapped each of his cheeks.
‘I suggest, I’ve entered a dungeon, so i’m able to’t simply go away with out taking a observe what this boss looks as if, now can i?’
A sure quantity of anxiety became a must as a way to keep the peak situation. And this amount turned into pretty much right for him.
Jin-Woo gripped the sword tightly with each of his fingers slowly descended the stairs. should he were incorrect when the steps felt strangely longer than earlier than?
He swallowed dried saliva down.
The lighting became worse than the first flooring, but there was no trouble with seeing in which he turned into going.
‘Is it due to my perception Stat?’
He couldn’t help however sense that his eyesight had improved significantly.
He carefully climbed decrease till ultimately recognizing the railway tunnel utilized by the subway trains.
No, he noticed wherein the railway was.
The tunnel that must’ve been used by trains become now filled with jet-black liquid, as a substitute.
‘what’s this?’
in place of a subway tunnel, it turned into…. more like a lake or a river now.
simply as Jin-Woo took one greater step forward to take a closer appearance….
a protracted log-like item shot out from the floor of the black ‘water’.
graceful!!
‘It’s rapid!’
The element that arrived in the front of his nostril in the blink of an eye fixed was now not a log, however a snake with the thickness rivalling one, in reality.
“Heop!!”
Taken by using surprise, Jin-Woo ought to only swing the sword and strike the pinnacle of the snake away from him.
Clang!!
Jin-Woo’s eyes opened wider.
“What the hell?!”
He did reach deviating that route of the lunging snake, but his trusty steel longsword ended up breaking apart from the impact.
Jin-Woo regarded again in surprise.
The snake have to’ve been surprised by means of his counterattack as well as it didn’t try and observe up right away, however instead chose to truely glare at him even as coiling itself up a distance away.
‘The ruler of the swamp, Poison-Fanged Blue Kasaka.’
Jin-Woo ought to honestly see the orange-coloured name of the monster.
It was a creature incomparably faster and hardier than those with their names written in white.
‘Even then, for a sword strengthened with magic electricity to interrupt like that….’
Jin-Woo swallowed nervously and cautiously studied the Boss monster called Kasaka.
Blue scales protecting its whole frame gleamed in an oily way. as if it had draped itself with thick armour, those scales had no gaps to talk of.
Sword moves wouldn’t have worked within the first place. It’d be the identical story for punches, too.
whilst Jin-Woo’s thoughts arrived there, the Kasaka need to’ve completed its personal evaluation on its prey, because it eventually lunged at him another time.
irrespective of how one looked at it, it changed into a frightening turn of velocity, that’s for sure.
Swwwiiiish!!
Jin-Woo narrowed his eyes.
‘It’s coming!’
while he concentrated tough, he could now truly see the assault of the Kasaka, which turned into some thing he couldn’t even properly decipher inside the starting. This became all because of the accelerated Agility Stat.
simply before the Kasaka opened its maws huge and tried to swallow him, Jin-Woo rapidly sidestepped and let the assault brush beyond him. on the equal time, he wrapped his palms across the creature and stuck it in a headlock. He then tightened his grip.
*SFX for bones breaking*
Jin-Woo’s electricity Stat become almost at 50.
An unbelievably effective pressure tightened around the snake’s major artery. The snake could not get away from his grip and thrashed around as though it changed into in pain. Jin-Woo gritted his teeth and strengthened his fingers even extra.
Slam!! increase!!
Jin-Woo’s frame slammed in opposition to the partitions and on the ground, but he in no way launched his palms.
‘If I didn’t boost my tiers as high as I could before coming here….’
there has been literally no cease to wondering approximately ‘what-ifs’ and ‘what could have beens’.
however, all varieties of mind still swirled in Jin-Woo’s head.
If he didn’t improve his degree to the restriction….
If his electricity Stat wasn’t so illogically excessive….
Then, he’d have long past thru super hell that allows you to kill the Kasaka.
No, he may even have died here.
So, his decision no longer to come back down right away proved to be the clever one. His preference became certainly the right one.
Crack!!
observed through a as an alternative lousy noise, the cranium of Kasaka gave in and cracked apart.
[You have killed the ruler of the swamp, Poison-Fanged Blue Kasaka.]
[Level up!]
[Level up!]
As predicted of a boss mob.
His level rose up by way of 2 after killing the Kasaka.
Jin-Woo tightly clenched his fists.
the extent that had been stagnating at 15 had jumped up to 17.
In only a single day, he crazily raised his degree from 1 all the manner as much as 17.
‘however!’
nobody hunted boss mobs for enjoy points!
indeed, if it turned into a md mob, then it’d be all about the loot drops!
while he started checking out the useless snake, spots of mild began gleaming from somewhere within its limp frame.
‘ gadgets, as it changed into a boss?’
His expression one of elation, Jin-Woo reached out in the direction of the spots of light.
Tti-ring.
[You have discovered ‘Item: Poison Fang of Kasaka’. Take it?]
[You have discovered ‘Item: Poison Sac of Kasaka’. Take it?]
“Take all of them.”
As quickly as he said the ones phrases, a dagger made out of a bone and a small pouch with liquid in it regarded on his arms.
[Item: Poison Fang of Kasaka]
Rarity: C
type: Dagger
attack +25
A dagger usual from the poison fang of the Kasaka. There are lines of the Kasaka’s poison on it, so when attacking, it will motive Paralysis and Bleeding status outcomes. can be saved within the inventory, or may be offered at the shop.
repute effect ‘Paralysis’: the goal can be not able to transport. success rate is fixed.
fame impact ‘Bleeding’: the target’s stamina will be decreased by way of 1% according to second.
Jin-Woo nodded his head.
‘A dagger made not out of bone, but from the fang, huh. It’s now not a terrible item with those alternatives, yeah?’
next up turned into the pouch.
[Item: Poison Sac of Kasaka]
Rarity: A
type: medication
A pouch containing the refined poison of the Kasaka. can be observed very rarely whilst hunting Kasakas. consuming this poison will give you strong skin, but the toxicity will completely damage your muscular tissues.
impact ‘The Iron Scales of Kasaka’: 20% discount in physical damage.
facet impact ‘damaged muscle tissue’: electricity -35
Jin-Woo’s expression alternated among pleasure and anguish.
The Poison Fang of Kasaka turned into an amazing weapon to update the damaged longsword. not handiest did it own over twice the assault energy, but he truly appreciated the two reputation outcomes of Paralysis and Bleeding, too.
‘but, this poison sac is a piece….’
to start with, he changed into honestly pleased to discover an object with the ‘A’ Rarity score, however while reading the description, he realised this was now not some thing he should feel absolutely satisfied about.
Of route, that effect of decreasing all physical harm taken by 20% changed into a wonderful choice befitting an A-rank object. but, it also carried a fatal penalty of decreasing his energy Stat by 35.
It’d be a clearly painful loss for him specifically whilst he invested all of his factors on increasing his power stat.
become this the famed double-edged sword, then?
No, the expression of ‘chicken ribs’ applicable this object some distance better, as a substitute. (TL: a Korean idiom. It manner some thing like ‘human beings no longer giving up on chicken ribs even though there isn’t all that a whole lot meat round there’.)
perhaps, he is probably able to use this aspect best while his energy Stat had risen so high that the lack of 35 points wouldn’t affect him inside the slightest, which must be in the remote destiny. It become impossible to drink it proper now.
“…..at the moment, I should simply maintain onto it.”
With a rueful expression, he stored both interior his stock.
perhaps, if an A rank dagger and a C rank medicine got here out, then he would possibly have felt now not as horrific as he did now. properly, he’d have simply gotten rid of the C-rank medication if it changed into useless, in any case.
It turned into then, a new message popped up.
[With the death of the Boss, the interior of the dungeon will revert back to its original state.]
, his attractions blurred for a bit, and then, they had been restored again to everyday, together with a mild bit of dizziness assaulting his senses. whilst he took a go searching, he observed himself inner a everyday subway station.
The lights overhead shone brightly, and the black liquid filling up the tunnel became all long gone, too.
“….but, wherein is all and sundry?”
not just people, but even trains had been strangely absent.
He even checked the time at the same time as questioning that the trains had stopped running for the day because it was so overdue already, but the clock became indicating 10 PM.
He entered the Hapjeong station around the lunch hour, so he had spent over nine hours inside that dungeon.
‘i used to be in there for a long term, wasn’t I?’
If it weren’t for his Tiredness Stat being refreshed each time he levelled up, he’d have keeled over from the gathered fatigue several instances by means of now.
‘anyway. Isn’t it still too early for the trains to stop going for walks?’
Jin-Woo tilted his head as no longer one train showed up, irrespective of how lengthy he stood there ready. He determined to leave the station in the meanwhile.
while he became trudging toward the exit, he couldn’t spot a single person. but, as he climbed up the stairs to get to the floor, a person shouted at Jin-Woo from above.
“Who goes there?”
Who knew that the voice of some other man or woman might sound this welcoming?
Jin-Woo quickly raised his head. He saw a soldier wielding a rifle.
“who are you? Why are you coming out from there? Haven’t you heard the announces?”
The expression of the soldier became so severe that even Jin-Woo’s own expression hardened in an immediate.
“Did some thing take place?”
“What the? how are you going to even say that?”
The soldier approached closer, however then, he spotted the broken sword in Jin-Woo’s hand.
After it broke, it can no longer be stored in the inventory, and Jin-Woo didn’t sense like leaving it at the back of, so he simply carried it outside like this.
since, the mild inside the soldier’s eyes changed hastily. He then cautiously studied Jin-Woo’s present day look.
Now that this soldier had taken a more in-depth appearance, Jin-Woo’s clothes displayed diverse tips of the adolescents collaborating in lots of fierce battles these days.
The crumpled expression of the soldier lightened up in an immediately.
“Are you a Hunter by way of any threat?”