Summary :
In Chapter 34, Jin-Woo and his team continue their mission to clear the Rank S dungeon. They reach the third level of the dungeon and are confronted by a boss monster: a giant spider known as Arachne. Arachne is incredibly strong and durable and can even summon smaller spiders to help her.
Jin-Woo and his team fight valiantly, but are quickly overwhelmed. Arachne is too strong for them to defeat, and the smaller spiders swarm them. Just when all seems lost, Jin-Woo activates his mysterious power and summons his Shadow Army.
Jin-Woo’s Shadow Army consists of all the monsters he has defeated in the past and are now under his control. Together, Jin-Woo and his shadow army attack Arachne and are finally able to defeat her.
The chapter begins with Jin-Woo and his team reaching the third level of the Rank S dungeon. They are immediately confronted by a boss monster: a giant spider known as Arachne. Arachne is incredibly strong and durable and can even summon smaller spiders to help her.
Jin-Woo and his team fight valiantly, but are quickly overwhelmed. Arachne is too strong for them to defeat, and the smaller spiders swarm them. Just when all seems lost, Jin-Woo activates his mysterious power and summons his Shadow Army.
Jin-Woo’s Shadow Army consists of all the monsters he has defeated in the past and are now under his control. Together, Jin-Woo and his shadow army attack Arachne and are finally able to defeat her.
When Arachne is defeated, Jin-Woo and his team clear the Rank S dungeon. This is a monumental achievement and proves that Jin-Woo is now one of the strongest hunters in the world.
Chapter 34 is an epic and satisfying chapter of the Solo Leveling manga. The battle between Jin-Woo and Arachne is one of the most exciting battles in the series so far. It’s great to see Jin-Woo finally using his Shadow Army to its full potential.
The chapter also does a good job of developing Jin-Woo’s character. He is no longer the weak and timid hunter he was at the beginning of the story. Now confident and powerful, he is determined to protect the people he cares about.
Overall, Chapter 34 is a great chapter of a great manga. Highly recommended for fans of action, adventure and fantasy.
A quick while later.
“Euph, euph, euph!!”
Jin-Woo found a lone convict struggling at the floor now not too some distance from him. His arms and legs have been all tied up with a rope, and there was a gag positioned in his mouth.
It changed into as Kahng Tae-Sik said, just before his very last breath.
[“I’ve tied up the rapist not too far from here. I was thinking of disposing of him last, after the victim’s father asked me to make him suffer for a bit.”]
Kahng Tae-Sik stopped respiration after those phrases.
The convict started to struggle even harder after seeing Jin-Woo. It became as though he changed into asking to be freed as soon as feasible.
“Euph! Euph! Euph!”
Now that Jin-Woo took a better look, it became none apart from the same guy who threw a grimy wink at Ju-Hui in advance on.
As quickly as Jin-Woo pulled the gag off the convict’s mouth, he breathed inside and out heavily and widened his eyes.
“Pant, pant, pant!! That, that loopy b*stard, Kahng Tae-Sik killed everyone! He killed all of us!! What the f*ck passed off?? Did he leave? There’s blood for your clothes?! Did you get accomplished in by means of him, too??”
Jin-Woo didn’t respond and surely raised his head to stare immediately ahead.
….toward where the boss became.
The convict’s phrases poured out in first rate urgency.
“Untie me first. Hurry! We gotta get away before Kahng Tae-Sik suggests up! God d*mn it!! There’s some sort of magic strength flowing within the ropes and i will’t tear them aside! you have got a few type of a weapon with you, right? Why aren’t you saying some thing? Can’t you pay attention me??”
while a backside-feeder Hunter from the association persevered to ignore him, the convict forgot approximately the location he turned into in and started frowning in dissatisfaction.
remaining expressionless until then, Jin-Woo subsequently opened his mouth.
“The boss must be just up beforehand.”
“What?”
A careworn, thinking expression floated up on the face of the convict.
“Feels like it’s a bit more potent than a ordinary rank D dungeon boss, too. I’m getting virtually curious about its assault patterns, you notice.”
The convict listened to those words and lost his cool, roaring out at the pinnacle of his voice.
“What the f*ck are you even speakme about?!”
Jin-Woo frivolously continued on with what he wanted to mention.
“before all that, although, I gotta ask you approximately some thing. You don’t forget the woman you raped before?”
“What? Which one are you speaking approximately? You a family member of the sufferer?”
Jin-Woo’s brows quivered.
simply now, this guy requested ‘which one’, in place of answering with yes or no. meaning, he had hurt well a couple of or two ladies.
Hunters possessed first rate strength, so if they wanted to, they might end up a scary monster at any time. And this b*stard used that strength to violate women till now.
With that, Jin-Woo’s thoughts become made up.
He coldly stared down on the convict and spoke.
“Now I recognize, so there’s that.”
“What?! Euph? Euph!!”
before the convict uttered out extra garbage, Jin-Woo swiftly gagged the b*stard once more. Then, he began slowly dragging the convict by the ankles toward the boss room.
“Euph! Euph!! Eeuuuph!!!”
The convict struggled even greater desperately as he were given dragged alongside. both of his extensive-open eyes had been now absolutely bloodshot.
no longer even barely fazed with the aid of the criminal’s desperate struggle, Jin-Woo successfully dragged him into the boss room.
“Euph! Euphhh!!”
And within the boss room, there was a large group of Hobgoblins anticipating their arrival. those monsters seemingly enjoyed snacking on human entrails. reputedly.
“Euph! Euph!! Euphhh!!”
The convict eventually realised what Jin-Woo was planning to do here.
He cried out and shook his head around wildly after seeing the group of Hobgoblins. The blue convict’s pants commenced dyeing in a yellow color, as nicely.
“Fuu-woo.”
Jin-Woo took a deep breath, and he chucked the convict a few of the waiting Hobgoblins.
“Eeuuuph-!!”
“Kiiiigiik.”
“Kiihit.”
“Kiiieekk!”
selecting up on the scent of a sparkling, living prey, Hobgoblins pounced on the convict all at once and commenced tearing into his stomach.
“Eeeuupph!! Euph! Euphhh!!”
as the convict desperately struggled on and thrashed approximately, the vessels in his eyes burst open one at a time, dyeing his eyes wholly red crimson.
“Eeeupphhh….. Euh, euh…..”
even though the convict progressively lost his consciousness, Hobgoblins greedily and restlessly tore into him.
just what would it experience like to be wolfed alive through the disgusting monsters?
Jin-Woo frowned deeply as he quickly scanned the interior of the room, searching for the boss.
‘There it is.’
A big Hobgoblin, without a doubt the boss of this dungeon, sat arrogantly over yonder on the alternative aspect of the boss room.
With its subordinates all too preoccupied with the sparkling prey, there was no longer one defend around the boss itself, which supposed that this became the best possibility.
‘sprint!’
Jin-Woo right away dashed beyond the Hobgoblins within the blink of a watch and arrived before the boss.
“Kkieehk?!”
The surprised Hobgoblin boss fast stood up, but before it could entire the action, its head fell and rolled on the ground.
Plop.
Tumble, tumble.
Tti-ring!
[You’ve killed the owner of this dungeon.]
[Level up!]
‘Ah, hold on a sec.’
handiest after he had sliced the boss’s head off did Jin-Woo bear in mind the existence of the Rune Stone.
‘there has been no want to entice them out with a bait, became there? I should’ve just learned the Stealth ability and sneaked nearer, couldn’t I?’
Jin-Woo shifted his gaze over to what little remained of the convict and clicked his tongue.
Of course, he wasn’t feeling any sympathy for the b*stard there.
‘nicely, something…..’
in any case, his plan turned into a achievement.
part 5. Cogwheel
It wasn’t difficult to cope with the institution of careworn and leaderless Hobgoblins.
“Kiiieek!!”
“kiiieaahhk!!!”
“Kyahk!!”
The Hobgoblins ran around looking to get away from Jin-Woo, however were all hunted down quickly afterwards.
“Kkyaaahkk!”
while he killed the very last one, some other sense-appropriate message popped into his view.
[Level up!]
‘It rose up again?’
His expression brightened up after this as an alternative unexpected reward of the day’s labour fell into his lap.
Jin-Woo wiped clean all of the blood off the Poison Fang of Kasaka, and at the side of all of the magic crystals extracted from the Hobgoblins, stored them internal his inventory, before summoning his popularity Window.
Tti-ring!
name: Seong Jin-Woo
stage: 27
elegance: None
title: Slaughterer of Wolves
HP: 5,114
MP: 548
Tiredness: zero
[Stats]
energy: seventy two
Stamina: forty three
Agility: eighty two
Intelligence: 39
perception: sixty nine
(available factors to distribute: 5)
physical damage reduction: 20%
[Skills]
Passive abilties:
– (Unknown) Lv. Max
– Tenacity Lv. 1
active abilities:
– dash Lv. 1
– Intimidation Lv. 1
[Equipped items]
Gatekeeper’s Necklace (A)
before he knew it, his level turned into nearly close to the ’30’ mark.
Jin-Woo wasn’t awaiting a lot from this dungeon on the time of searching down the vulnerable Goblins with the aid of the entrance. but, properly, he were given a level up by using killing the Hobgoblin boss, and then another one from looking down each unmarried one of the Hobgoblin underlings, as nicely. His stage rose up by way of two in the sort of short time.
What a fortunate day it changed into for him, each single robust monster being inside the boss room and all.
‘No, hold on a bit right here. It’s a chunk too much to name this true success, huh.’
3 diverging pathways, and the problem of the boss room….
If the low-ranked Hunters got too immodest after looking down vulnerable Goblins and arrogantly stepped into the boss room, then they could have met with a extreme twist of fate from the advent of a majority of these Hobgoblins.
in contrast to the Goblins, Hobgoblins were quite tough monsters to deal with.
‘There are some instances of Hobgoblins appearing in dungeons complete of Goblins, however….’
well, it was still very rare to peer this kind of massive institution of Hobgoblins in a single vicinity because it became inside the case of this dungeon.
truely now, it turned into totally impossible to expect what would possibly happen inner a dungeon. someone’s fortunate day may turn into someone else’s worst nightmare.
The simplest safety one had in this area became the one’s own electricity.
That turned into why Jin-Woo wanted to get more potent. Surviving inside a dungeon became one aspect, but what if there has been a dungeon spoil close to the medical institution wherein his mother turned into staying?
What if, he got sneak-attacked via a monster while out taking walks on the road?
No, the monsters wouldn’t be the simplest issues to fear approximately, both.
Hunters were also risky existences, just as a good deal as the monsters themselves. although numerous establishments have been looking to manipulate them, there would always be a limit.
indeed, he needed to own the vital power to guard himself.
‘There are limits to how effective a Hunter could grow to be.’
however, there has been no such issue for himself.
Theoretically, he ought to grow stronger indefinitely so long as his Stats extended and he found the right sort of equipment to put on.
And nowadays, one more method of getting more potent had been added to his arsenal. It become none other than the Rune Stones!
Jin-Woo pulled out the Rune Stone from his pocket.
just like with other objects, the records on the stone floated up like a hologram projection.
[Rune Stone: Stealth]
you may take in the talent by way of breaking this Rune Stone.
To folks that didn’t recognise, this thing could’ve come upon as a small pebble with bizarre letters carved at the floor, but in case you have been a Hunter, you’d be salivating like crazy regardless of what your rank turned into.
excessive-ranked Hunters could’ve used it for themselves, at the same time as the decrease-ranked ones would’ve offered it to the better ranked Hunters.
And a Rune Stone containing rare skills, including this one with the ‘Stealth’ skill, might’ve particularly fetched a massive sum of money. while placed in an auction, this unique stone should fetch as a minimum a few billion won, and while offered thru the black marketplace, numerous instances greater than that.
there has been only one purpose why it would be more expensive inside the black market. due to the fact, there might be no official report of who bought what with how a good deal cash, that became why.
Having a hidden talent turned into the same aspect as possessing one greater powerful weapon.
‘….much like how Kahng Tae-Sik have been hiding his Stealth ability.’
If it weren’t for his high notion Stat, Jin-Woo could’ve been killed for certain. considering that sent chills down his spine.
‘let’s overlook approximately promoting this. i can usually make cash afterward.’
He’d no longer fall for the monetary temptation right now. His contemporary priority changed into to become more potent than ever before, in spite of everything.
there has been no need to even point out just how beneficial this rare ‘Stealth’ talent might prove to be inside the destiny.
“And to suppose, this little stone is well worth several homes, no, several buildings, even.”
nevertheless, Jin-Woo quickly did some thing he’d never have dreamed of doing inside the past.
whilst he squeezed his hand tightly, the Rune Stone shattered into portions without an awful lot resistance.
Crack.
A reddish air of secrecy seeped out from the cracks of the Rune Stone and slowly wrapped round his frame.
It changed into nearly the same as while receiving the outcomes of the healing magic. handiest the colour became wrong, being red and not blue.
anyhow, it wasn’t a terrible sensation.
The reddish air of secrecy circling round him easily entered through his nose and turned into absorbed into his lungs. proper away, he should feel an unknown power well up internal of him.
A familiar mechanical beep went off quickly afterwards, too.
Tti-ring!
[You’ve learned ‘Skill: Stealth’.]
[You can now use ‘Skill: Stealth’.]
‘excellent!’
He managed to successfully absorb the talent.
He become feeling rather anxious since this will be his first time the usage of a Rune Stone to study a talent, however the complete procedure became out to be all at once quick and easy.
‘So, does this imply that i can use Stealth now?’
His heart commenced pounding more difficult from the feel of feat after gaining knowledge of an extraordinary ability.
nicely, the wise elders, they stated that seeing became believing, so….
Jin-Woo activated his new talent right away.
‘Stealth.’
just as he completed thinking about activating it, his frame vanished from his very own view. From the tips of his palms proper down to his ft, every part of him became obvious.
What a unusual feeling it become, not able to peer his own palms proper in the front of his eyes.
‘What would take place if I do this?’
because he idea approximately it, Jin-Woo speedy summoned his dagger from the inventory to affirm.
Then, he sensed gripping something in his hand. alternatively mystifyingly, though, he could feel it but couldn’t see it.
‘As anticipated….’
much like the knife that Kahng Tae-Sik were wearing round, the ‘Stealth’ ability became also implemented to his Poison Fang of Kasaka.
As he idea, it wasn’t that Kahng Tae-Sik’s weapon changed into odd, it became definitely the electricity of this skill, rather.
‘i ponder, simply how far does this talent cover?’