Summary :
In Solo Leveling Chapter 4, the story continues with Sung Jin-Woo receiving his first official solo assignment as a Hunter. He is tasked with clearing a dungeon known as the Double Dungeon.
Before embarking on his mission, Sung Jin-Woo visits the Hunter Association to register for the quest. There he meets some hunters who mock him for being an E-rank hunter. However, he remains calm and confident.
As Sung Jin-Woo enters the Double Dungeon, he encounters various monsters along the way. He shows off his exceptional fighting skills and dispatches creatures effortlessly. With each battle, he becomes more determined to prove himself and rise in rank.
Inside the dungeon, Sung Jin-Woo discovers a hidden room full of treasures. He realizes that this dungeon is different from the others because it contains secret rewards for those who find them. This motivates him even more to explore and conquer the Double Dungeon.
As Sung Jin-Woo dives deeper into the dungeon, he encounters a powerful boss monster known as the Red Gatekeeper. Despite his strength, Sung Jin-Woo manages to defeat the creature with his strategic thinking and quick reflexes.
After defeating the boss, Sung Jin-Woo finds himself surrounded by an overwhelming number of monsters. Just when it looks like he might be overpowered, a mysterious figure appears and helps him take out the remaining enemies.
The chapter ends with Sung Jin-Woo realizing that the mysterious figure is another hunter named Yoo Jin-Ho, who is the son of the influential Yoo Myung-Han. Yoo Jin-Ho reveals that he observed Sung Jin-Woo’s progress and was impressed by his abilities.
Overall, Solo Leveling Chapter 4 shows Sung Jin-Woo’s growth as a Hunter and his determination to prove his worth. It introduces new challenges and allies while setting the stage for more adventures in the Double Dungeon.
part 4: The 3 legal guidelines
Jin-Woo shouted out towards the rest of the Hunters.
“anyone!”
Their interest shifted toward him in an instantaneous.
Jin-Woo spoke as he met their gazes.
“You need to kowtow closer to the god statue!”
Hunters started out tilting their heads after hearing him.
“Kowtow….?”
“You want us to kowtow to that statue?”
Hunters exchanged glances with each different, earlier than loudly cussing out at Jin-Woo.
“F*ck you! What bullsh*t are you spewing right here?!”
“What the hell! how are you going to say something like that underneath the present day situations?!”
“have you misplaced your thoughts, Seong Jin-Woo?!”
Kim’s face became boiling-crimson as he began snorting like a bull.
“I had no concept you, Mister Seong, might be like this! If I may want to move, then I’d have punched you within the face already!!”
Jin-Woo bit on his lower lip.
Six in their comrades have been killed by using the god statue. So, it become rather obvious that the surviving Hunters could cuss him out while he told them to kowtow towards that abominable factor.
It wasn’t difficult to apprehend what these Hunters had been feeling in the interim.
‘And, the most crucial component is….’
The most critical aspect turned into, he had no logical evidence to back his theory up. He only had his intestine emotions.
indeed, that changed into the most effective manner to describe it.
however…
“I’ll do as you assert.”
That voice got here from Jin-Woo’s returned. all people’s eyes right now shifted there.
It was Mister music, effectively the leader of this institution.
“Mister track ahjussi?”
“you’re going to kowtow to that f*cking statue?”
just as other Hunters started to freak out, music seemed instantly at Jin-Woo.
“young guy. You’ve determined some thing, haven’t you?”
Jin-Woo resolutely nodded his head.
“Is it your instinct once more?”
“…..yes. for the time being.”
“I see.”
just now, eleven humans survived thanks to Jin-Woo’s instincts.
well, with the death of Mister Joo, there had been ten now, however still – if it became Jin-Woo’s instincts, then wouldn’t or not it’s well worth believing it at the least once more?
That’s what tune idea.
while music knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of the god statue, the mood had end up solemn and silent.
“….He’s absolutely doing it.”
Seizing upon this opportunity, Jin-Woo shouted out over again.
“absolutely everyone, i beg of you! Please kneel earlier than the god statue. We is probably capable of get out of right here alive!”
would possibly live.
is probably able to get out alive.
The effect the ones simple words carried was quite explosive.
‘we might stay?’
‘we are able to get out of here?’
‘With simply one kowtow?!’
The hesitant Hunters started to plop all the way down to the floor, as though they had been without a doubt kowtowing. The wide variety of them appearing the act gradually elevated. in the end, even the complaining Kim bowed his head toward the statue.
but, there has been no seen alternate to the god statue. indeed, those chilling crimson mild nonetheless shone from the eyes of the statue.
Jin-Woo felt his heart pass bloodless.
‘turned into I wrong?’
It become here that his gaze shifted to Ju-Hui next to him.
irrespective of how generous one turned into, it changed into tough to explain her posture of squatting on the floor shivering, at the same time as preserving her head in her arms as her kowtowing.
‘What if….’
Jin-Woo carefully grasped Ju-Hui’s wrist.
She raised her head like a scared cat. Seeing her, Jin-Woo wordlessly nodded his head. simplest then did she loosen up her muscle groups incredibly.
With that, Jin-Woo became capable of slowly exchange her posture.
‘accomplished.’
there has been simplest one man or woman final now. And that might be him.
Jin-Woo knelt down towards the god statue, positioned his fingers at the ground, and slowly reduced his head.
sooner or later, some thing commenced to trade.
“Huh? Uh, uhh?!”
Hunters who had noticed the trade first raised their voices.
“The god statue!! observe the statue!!”
“It’s eyes!”
The pink light buzzing in its eyes become progressively weakening.
“What the hell? is that this simply going to paintings??”
subsequently, the purple light absolutely vanished.
“Oh!! Ohhh!!”
Hunters started rejoicing loudly.
“The purple light is long gone!!”
“We made it!!”
The excited Hunters commenced standing up one on the time. Even then, the statue didn’t fire the purple beam.
Jin-Woo belatedly raised his head and spat out a sigh of relief.
“Whew….”
just as he suspected – this chamber operated strictly in the set guidelines.
‘If that’s the case….’
Then, this recreation was a ways from over. greater ‘laws’ still remained. the second one regulation, exalt the god. And the 1/3 regulation, show one’s piety.
It changed into then.
RUMBLE!!
accompanied by means of a goosebump-inducing noise, the whole chamber commenced to shake.
Jin-Woo’s expression hardened straight away.
‘As I concept….’
His suspicions proved to be correct another time.
matters had been only getting started.
The humongous god statue turned into slowly rising up from the stone throne.
“Huh?! Huhhh???”
Hunters had been hugging every different while dropping tears of joy until then, however once they realised this flip of events, all of them froze up like statues themselves.
“What…. what the hell!! It wasn’t over yet?!”
“This, this may’t be!!”
None of them ought to articulate what they desired to mention. melancholy unexpectedly dyed their expressions.
“Ah…..Ah, ah…”
quickly, the god statue absolutely stood up from the throne.
The ‘creature’ swept its gaze around as soon as, and started taking walks in the direction of the Hunters.
***
THUD!!
each time the god statue stepped on the floor, the entire international regarded to shake.
THUD!!
It was so tall that its head changed into almost scraping against the chamber’s indescribably excessive ceiling.
THUD!!
even when the Hunters have been overwhelmed with the aid of the statue’s sheer length, the element become progressively last its distance to them.
“Mister Seong!! Mister Seong Jin-Woo!!”
“What can we do??”
The Hunters who were cussing at Jin-Woo simplest a brief even as in the past hurriedly started crowding round him.
“Is there a way out of this?”
“Say something!!”
a lot of these adults had been forming tearful expressions as if they’d begin breaking down in sobs and wails very quickly.
presently, Jin-Woo was their handiest hope.
Jin-Woo helped the frozen-stiff Ju-Hui up from the floor and started out talking approximately the second law.
“Exalt the god. That’s the important thing.”
“Wait, isn’t that…?!”
Kim suddenly butted in as if he knew some thing others didn’t.
“Isn’t that what’s written at the slate?”
“correct. Worship the god. Exalt the god. And eventually, prove your piety. We need to meet all three laws.”
Jin-Woo commenced speakme quicker and quicker.
Why? The god statue changed into already a stone’s throw far from them.
THUD!!
all and sundry’s complexion paled because the huge shadow loomed over them.
“permit, let me try something.”
A young male Hunter who commonly stored to himself all at once took a step forward.
“What the?! What are you trying to do?”
“I’ve been in a church choir. I’m assured if it’s approximately ‘exalting’ some thing.”
The young Hunter slowly improved towards the statue whilst disregarding the dissuasion of Kim. He regulated his respiration at the same time as looking up at the god statue earlier than he took a large gulp of air.
“I come to you, Lord….”
His clear voice commenced reverberating inside the chamber.
“….Renew my faith once more….. Bless me along with your grace, Lord…”
The statue stopped its march in front of the singing Hunter.
“Oh!! Ohhh!!”
Hunters commenced gasping out in elation. The god statue didn’t pass from the spot as though it became absorbed via the making a song.
all of the different noises within the room vanished. best the young guy’s voice will be heard within the chamber’s interior.
The younger Hunter changed into endorsed by using this and carried on.
“all the weak spot found in me… thru your love, I shall triumph over…”
most of the Hunters, handiest Jin-Woo turned into shuddering from this ominous sensation filling him up.
‘This… this is incorrect.’
Jin-Woo swallowed up his phrases numerous instances.
The chamber featured its own set of guidelines. however the young Hunter changed into ‘exalting’ the god statue with the ‘rule’ of Christianity, no longer with the policies of this chamber.
happily, the statue wasn’t moving – however, ought to making a song that hymn qualify as upholding the rules?
Jin-Woo shook his head.
The best purpose why he didn’t say anything become totally due to the fact he couldn’t consider a higher manner to prevent the god statue himself.
It become proper then!
THUD!!
The weighty noise reverberated at some point of the chamber.
“k, kkkkyyyyaaahhhk!!”
The girl Hunter screamed at the pinnacle of her lungs.
when the stone statue lifted its leg up, bloody mess of what used to be the young Hunter could be located on the floor in addition to on the lowest of its foot.
other Hunters began screaming in panic and surprise, too.
“Ahhhhh?!”
“Uwa, uwaaaahk!!”
The face of the statue, emotionless until then, became now crumpled in natural rage.
“It’s irritated!!”
“Run, run away!!”
Hunters dispersed away from the statue in a hurry.
alas for the female Hunter, she misplaced her reasoning and stood on the spot at the same time as screaming loudly after for my part witnessing the death of the young male Hunter.
“ok, kyaaachk!!”
‘D*mn it…..’
Jin-Woo turned into running away at the same time as wearing Ju-Hui in his arms, but he became around so he could move and assist that lady out.
but then, song stopped the children.
“however, ahjussi…?”
“It’s too overdue.”
as if slapping a fly down, the god statue slammed its palm down on the woman Hunter.
SLAM!!
“Keuk…”
Jin-Woo inadvertently shifted his gaze away. It turned into a honestly gruesome sight and he couldn’t undergo to look at it spread.
“there is no time to waste like this. Are you planning to allow this lady die, too?”
track’s words sobered Jin-Woo up in an on the spot.
It changed into as he stated.
THUD!!
“Uwaahk!!”
THUD!
THUD!!!
“help me!!”
The statue was not on foot around anymore.
No, it become really walking round and stepping at the people it discovered nearby. on every occasion the element stepped at the ground, the whole chamber shook around, hard.
THUD!! THUD!!
Jin-Woo gritted his teeth and began jogging again. Ju-Hui squeezed her eyes close and held onto him for her pricey lifestyles.
“allow’s split up!”
“yes!”
wondering that moving round collectively became risky, Jin-Woo and tune ran in separate guidelines.
Jin-Woo made positive to run closer to the furthest nook from the frenzied god statue. but, there was every other Hunter who had arrived there before he did.
It was Mister Park.
Park turned into walking with everything he had.
Tears fashioned on the rims of his eyes whilst he recalled his circle of relatives.
“Sob…”
back home, a son who resembled him a lot and a wife pregnant with their second child become expecting him. He couldn’t die right here, now not like this.
possibly because he ran with the whole lot he had, he became capable of run the furthest away from the statue out of each person right here.
“Pant, pant….”
As Park tried to manipulate his heavy respiratory inside the corner, his friend Kim urgently shouted at him.
“Mister Park!!”
Park raised his head after hearing the familiar voice.
“Yeah?”
Kim pointed on the spot at the back of Park and cried out.
“Your again!! appearance behind you!!”
It became then, some thing sharp gleamed coldly in the back of Mister Park.
“Uh…?”
Slice!
Park was sliced in half from the pinnacle of his head proper down to his groin. His cleanly-reduce halves fell to the ground.
“PARK!!”
The stone statue that killed Park with its greatsword lower back to its role as though not anything had came about, precisely like how the doorkeeper did earlier than.
Kim started out tearing up after witnessing this scene.
“You sons of b*tches….!!”
THUD!!
THUD!!
at the back of him, the humongous god statue changed into stepping on and killing people one on the time, and if you ran closer to the nook so as to avoid it, then the stone statues located there could start attacking you.
“U, uwaaaah!!”
“My arm!! My armmmm!!”
The interior of the chamber hastily fell into chaos.
“Heok, heok….”
bloodless sweat dripped down from Jin-Woo’s brow.
His legs had been getting heavier. His breathing was getting rougher and rougher. but, his head was packed with best one chain of concept.
‘Exalt the god. Exalt the god. Exalt the god….’
The phrases of the second one regulation circulated in his mind non-prevent. the key to unravelling this mystery definitely existed inside this chamber.
some thing within this chamber that they may use!
however, whilst the Hunters first entered this place, they’d searched every corner and cranny, but didn’t find a single contraption nor matters that is probably a few sort of tools.
‘No, returned then or now, the handiest things right here which could move are the stone statues.’
It became then.
A idea raced past Jin-Woo’s brain simply then.
‘simplest matters moving in here are the statues?’
D*mn it.
Jin-Woo’s eyes widened.
“Why haven’t I idea of that before?!”
If the handiest things that could pass had been the stone statues, then the best aspect he should use had to be them, too.
these statues activated while humans were given near them, meaning he had to take gain of this rule.
‘What if….!’
even though he became running short of breath, Jin-Woo roared out loud enough to shake the whole chamber.
“Run towards the statues preserving musical contraptions!!”