Summary :
In Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 198, Jin-Woo continues to train American fighters. He teaches them how to fight the Monarchs and how to use the Potion of Awakening. Jin-Woo is also training with the American Hunter Association research team to develop an awakening potion. They are able to improve the potency of the potion, but it is still not strong enough to defeat the monarchs. One day the Monarch will attack the United States. Jin-Woo and the American hunters fight against the monarch but are unable to defeat him. The Monarch is about to kill Jin-Woo when a mysterious figure appears and defeats the Monarch. The mysterious figure introduces himself as Adama, the king of the ants. He tells Jin-Woo that he is here to help him defeat the monarchs. In this chapter, Jin-Woo continues to train American hunters and develop an awakening potion. Monarch attacks the United States, but Jin-Woo and the American hunters are unable to defeat them. A mysterious figure appears and defeats the monarch. This chapter is a good start to the Adam arc of Solo Leveling. It introduces a new ally and shows the threat of the monarchs. The chapter is also well written and paced and the artwork is excellent. Overall, Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 198 is a good chapter for fans of the series to enjoy. It is well written, well paced and has excellent artwork.
“Hyung-niiiim!”
Jin-Woo lightly evaded the tearful Yu Jin-Ho’s try to bear-hug him. Then, he coolly addressed Woo Jin-Cheol within the identical health center room, who had volunteered to appearance after the child during the conference itself.
“What’s gotten into him?”
“well, I showed him this while he woke up, and now….”
The chief of the tracking department picked up the newspaper he turned into reading.
The front web page of the folded newspaper changed into plastered with the snap shots of Jin-Woo’s beatdown sufferers, the totally wrecked Scavenger Guild’s individuals, and that of the bloodied and subconscious Thomas Andre’s face.
it would had been something apparent to him, however the equal couldn’t be stated approximately Yu Jin-Ho who now had seen the article in its full glory.
just who on this international would conflict head-on against the world’s most powerful Guild as a way to rescue him? not best that, while that Guild’s grasp, ‘Goliath’ Thomas Andre was involved inside the shenanigans, too?
Yu Jin-Ho become dropping thick tears of heartfelt emotion after studying the object, so while Jin-Woo arrived within the hospital, he started expressing his happiness with his entire being.
“Hyung-niiiiim!!”
sadly….
Jin-Woo’s agility had handed a ways past what rank S Hunters were capable of via now. no matter Yu Jin-Ho concerted efforts, the target for his manly affection saved slipping out of his heartfelt hug.
Jin-Woo slipped past yet any other try of the kid trying to embrace him, and pointed a thumb at the stumbling Yu Jin-Ho’s again.
“Are you telling me he examine an editorial written in English?”
“Oh, that. I figured that it’s without a doubt uncool to permit our worker get paid with out doing a single aspect, so I informed her to translate the article for him.”
“Aha.”
The end of Yu Jin-Ho’s nose reddened as though he located Jin-Woo continuously dodging his strive at skinship as an alternative bloodless-hearted.
“Hyung-nim!”
“right here.”
Yu Jin-Ho took the tissues Jin-Woo surpassed over and blew his nostril on them.
Sniffle~.
Of course, Jin-Woo knew how the kid felt. Even then, he couldn’t stroll around with a snot stain at the luxurious fit he especially picked for the international conference, now may want to he?
Wiping his tears away seemed to have completed the trick and calmed Yu Jin-Ho down. He requested in a more even-sounding voice.
“by the manner, hyung-nim, considering while did you examine to talk English?”
It regarded that the kid should’ve heard Jin-Woo talking with Thomas Andre again within the disused manufacturing facility, despite the fact that his consciousness turned into wavering in and out.
“nicely, you’ve got a lot of free time as a low-ranked Hunter, you know.”
A Hunter with out a raid to go to changed into essentially an unemployed bum. Jin-Woo studied English every time he had time, trying to prepare for the eventuality of him quitting the lifestyles of a Hunter sooner or later.
‘I didn’t are aware of it’d are available in reachable in that sort of situation, although.’
He felt a piece harking back to the times back while he became reading the language. by no means in his wildest desires could he have imagined that the first time he used the language he self-taught to communicate turned into throughout the combat towards Thomas Andre.
“Oh…”
Yu Jin-Ho recalled that Jin-Woo was a low ranked Hunter once upon a time and nodded his head in information.
whilst he concept about his hyung-nim’s beyond in relation to the day past’s activities, he have become even more moved by way of Jin-Woo’s loyalty that propelled him to confront the Scavenger Guild and its complete catalogue of elite Hunters only for his sake.
Yu Jin-Ho began tearing up again as he emotionally declared his intentions.
“Hyung-nim! I’ll simply consider you and observe you until the ends of the earth!”
His eyes reddened again and snot once more drooped out from his nostril tip, which became cleaned barely a minute ago.
Jin-Woo turned into grinning outwardly, however too horrific…
‘….Having a excessive belief Stat isn’t constantly useful, is it?’
way to his supernatural-level of senses that allowed him to examine each little trivia of Yu Jin-Ho’s feelings, even Jin-Woo’s nose started out stinging a touch bit now. He intentionally averted meeting the kid’s gaze and shifted his attention over to Woo Jin-Cheol.
“looks as if there’s no trouble for him to get discharged, doesn’t it?”
“Agreed. As a count number of truth, the health practitioner in rate become quite surprised that Mister Jin-Ho had absolutely recovered from his accidents in just one night time.”
“in that case, permit’s simply undergo with the discharge method and go back to the hotel. We even have transportation lent to us by using the Hunter Bureau, so might as nicely.”
“Understood.”
“I’ll get geared up too, hyung-nim.”
Jin-Woo quietly stared on the nevertheless-swollen-eyed Yu Jin-Ho packing up his stuff to leave and felt thankful for the truth that the kid changed into safe now. And at the equal time, his anger closer to the wrongdoer answerable for this whole chaos ballooned up in an on the spot.
‘Greed, when we get returned to the hotel, you know what you have to do, right?’
[….I understand, oh, my king.]
As he became leaving the hospital room, Jin-Woo inwardly ‘comforted’ Greed with an warranty that all the former rank S Hunter could need to do was to plant his head on the ground for around two hours, which changed into neither too long or too short in his opinion.
***
There have been two automobiles prepared via the Hunter Bureau.
given that Jin-Woo had some thing non-public to speak about with Adam White, he got within the vehicle in the front wherein the yankee agent become anticipating him, at the same time as Yu Jin-Ho and the 2 Korean affiliation employees climbed into the automobile at the returned.
whilst Jin-Woo opened the rear passenger door with a noisy clunk, Adam White flinched unsleeping from his short nap taken while leaning against the window body and urgently shook his head to ward off the drowsiness.
“You’re right here, Hunter-nim.”
the american’s face was haggard, to say the least.
Unmistakable darkish circles thickly lined the spots underneath his eyes. He became totally exhausted from the breakneck-pace of all of the activities taking location, as well as the packed itinerary, of the beyond couple of days.
Jin-Woo appeared on at him with pitying eyes, however Adam White didn’t even note that and surely ordered the driving force to start the car.
Now that they were moving once more, Jin-Woo were given all the way down to the primary subject matter.
“can you get me the listing of the Hunters you humans wanted me to guard?”
those phrases regarded to have chased away all strains of sleep from Adam White’s thoughts due to the fact his expression brightened in an immediate.
“have you modified your mind?”
“No, but I’m curious approximately something else.”
“Oh….”
Adam White struggled to cover his unhappiness.
He got his hopes raised up earlier than being shot down. nevertheless, he didn’t suppose this became all terrible information. as it indicated that Hunter Seong Jin-Woo turned into nevertheless interested in this problem one manner or the alternative.
Adam formed a grin and answered back.
“I shall draw up a listing as quickly as i get lower back to the Bureau.”
As quickly as he got again, he said. Jin-Woo snuck a look at the time. It became already nine inside the nighttime.
He briefly puzzled whether or not he made a mistake or not whilst he noticed Adam White’s complexion waning only a little bit more after the bad man become asked to carry out but some other assignment.
not noticeably, the american agent attempted tough to preserve his sleepy eyes huge open to ensure he’d no longer flow away to dreamland in front of the Hunter he was presupposed to escort.
‘Tsk, tsk.’
Jin-Woo couldn’t watch on to any extent further and reached out in the direction of him.
“Uh? Uhh?”
Adam White’s panicky voice cracked up a little when Jin-Woo’s left hand included his eyes.
“H-Hunter-nim?!”
Too bad for him, although, simply a couple of words from Jin-Woo and he became petrified in the spot.
“Will you just stay nonetheless?”
A everyday character doing something comparable could send creeping chills down the hapless sufferer’s spine. however, the only doing it proper now became Hunter Seong Jin-Woo, arguably the person most some distance eliminated from a ‘ordinary’ man or woman.
He even beat the residing crap out of Thomas Andre till the latter become nearly lifeless.
Gulp.
suddenly having his vision blocked by way of the hand of a rank S Hunter, Adam White ought to only swallow dried up saliva of anxiety.
Jin-Woo leaned the yank agent’s head lower back along with his left hand and along with his proper hand, poured the healing potion he just sold from the shop down the now-open mouth.
‘W-what’s this?!’
Adam White turned into manifestly very traumatic from forcibly swallowing the unidentifiable liquid at the same time as his vision had been blocked. however even he changed into able to experience that, as more and more of this liquid slid down his throat, his stamina appeared to recover more and more.
‘but, how can something like this….?!’
by the point Seong Jin-Woo withdrew his arms, Adam White realised that the deluge of drowsiness plaguing him changed into completely long gone.
No, cling on. became that every one?
He felt so refreshed and ethereal as though he have been asleep in a secure mattress the complete night time and changed into roused from his slumber by the mild warmth of the morning sun.
as if his fatigue had been a lie, he couldn’t sense a unmarried hint of it everywhere on his body.
“H-Hunter… nim?”
‘….How did you do this??’
That become the question Adam White’s appearance appeared to be asking, however Jin-Woo simply shrugged his shoulders as a respond.
“It’s a exchange mystery, so….”
“Oh. I see.”
because it changed into this kind of mystifying event, Adam White observed it fairly simpler to just accept. He moved his body this manner and that to verify and expressed his admiration in a greatly surprised-sounding voice.
“you’re… properly, how have to I phrase this…. It feels like, you’d have significantly succeeded irrespective of what you selected to do, even if that become unrelated to being a Hunter.”
even though this praise appeared a bit excessive while coming from a ‘unique agent’ of the Hunter Bureau, someone so particularly educated that he was capable of speaking ten one of a kind languages in line with himself, Jin-Woo nevertheless fashioned a content smile regardless, after because look of delight on Adam White’s face.
With this, it’d be less difficult to invite for the subsequent a part of the favour. certainly, asking for the list of the Hunters was simply the beginning of his plan.
“And also, are you able to organise an possibility wherein i’m able to meet those found on that listing?”
Now turned into his chance.
due to the fact all the powerful Hunters from around the world had gathered in one area, simply by him inserting his Shadow soldiers in their shadows might allow him to respond fast to the attacks of the Sovereigns once they came about.
but, Adam White began shaking his head, alternatively.
This changed into what Jin-Woo turned into concerned approximately. even though the Hunter Bureau became a effective, influential corporation, it have to still be quite tough to mobilise that many pinnacle-ranked Hunters of the sector.
Jin-Woo’s expression hardened step by step.
“As I thought… I wager it’s too hard.”
“No, in no way. on the opposite, I supposed to say that there’s no motive to organise such an occasion within the first vicinity, Hunter-nim.”
Adam White grinned refreshingly and explained the itinerary for the final day of the international Guild convention.
“Don’t forget, there’s the ‘night time of the Hunters’ nevertheless left.’
He all at once referred to a mixture of words that would’ve worked properly for a video game’s name. For a few cause, he seemed quite hyped up over it, too.
“there is a big birthday celebration organised by means of the Bureau. all of the Hunters attending the conference are invited. if you want to meet them, you may maximum probable do this there, Hunter-nim.”
a celebration, became it?
turned into there a higher occasion to satisfy the Hunters ‘clearly’ and fix Shadow squaddies on them than a party? Jin-Woo clenched his fist tightly.
‘This is good.’
through different Hunters, he’d get to meet these mysterious Sovereigns. And from that encounter, he’d get to research who his real enemies and allies were, and additionally, how he ought to pass approximately preventing them, too.
“i will try this, then.”
Jin-Woo smiled and leaned against the returned seat.
The night time sky of the united states became getting darker past the window of the speeding automobile.
***
The ‘night time of the Hunters’.
the world’s pinnacle Hunters and related events started flocking closer to a massive banquet hall, able to housing almost 1,500 people.
“Wow….”
Yu Jin-Ho’s eyes threatened to come out in their sockets as he soaked in the sight of the mythical accumulating of Hunters that he only were given to see thru tv displays.
Funnily sufficient, though, the gazes of other Hunters looking at Jin-Woo have been pretty similar in nature to Yu Jin-Ho’s reaction. the moment he stepped into the ceremonial dinner hall, every body’s attention turned into laser-targeted on him in an on the spot.
“appearance, isn’t that….”
“yes, I saw.”
“He’s proper in front people, however i will’t even experience his presence.”
“He’s on a very different stage.”
And with all the eye being poured on him, it turned into only natural that even Yu Jin-Ho might be subjected to their severe scrutiny, as well.
“in that case, the Hunter next to him ought to be….”
“He fought Thomas Andre in an effort to rescue that younger fella?”
The state of affairs had settled down relatively by now after the Hunter Bureau had released the general public declaration.
On one hand, every Hunter in right here turned into deeply greatly surprised by way of the fact that Jin-Woo became inclined to clash towards the whole thing of the Scavenger Guild for the sake of his rank D Hunter comrade. but at the turn side, they have been also getting a heavy case of goosebumps, knowing that the announcement he made closer to the give up of the conference’s first day was not a bluff in any respect.
[“I shall protect my family, even if that means every single Hunter in the world becomes my enemy.”]
The photos accompanying the thing certainly confirmed what had passed off to the Scavenger Guild. No wonder everybody in this room was dearly praying that what he said wouldn’t come proper.
anyways – now that the Bureau had cleared up the air, lots of Hunters were beginning to are seeking for out a threat to interact Jin-Woo in a communication, busy waiting for the right second to strike.
This become the end result of his public photograph going via a revamp of types, going from a monster capable of pummelling the freakishly sturdy Goliath, to that of a monster who’d now not hesitate at whatever to defend his comrades.
The element turned into, even though – the very first man or woman to pluck up his braveness and made his approach turned into not a Hunter, however a chairman of a totally famous global company specialising in managing monster remains.
“It’s my honour to meet you want this, Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim.”
The businessman brought himself first, and then…
“We’d like to buy the remains of all of the massive-kind monsters you’ve got hunted down in Japan. Do you have got a while to speak about this remember in greater element?”
large-kind monsters maximum of the time seemed as bosses in rank A Gates, so it changed into very uncommon to find a completely intact corpse of such creatures.
This guy’s choice and acute business acumen led him to make his move a step faster than all people else present within the banquet hall.
‘This is a superb possibility.’
Jin-Woo grinned affably and added Yu Jin-Ho subsequent to him to the businessman.
“I’m in rate of the raid component of the Guild. I usually depart all the business-associated discussions to my relied on Vice-master over right here.”
“Ah, is that so?”
Yu Jin-Ho have become a long way bolder than ever before from Jin-Woo propping him up like that. He straightened his again proudly and extended his hand out.
“I’m Yu Jin-Ho, Vice-Chairman of the Ah-Jin Guild.”
“Ahh, yes. hey. It’s a pleasure.”
“I don’t commonly discuss commercial enterprise-associated subjects in occasions including this one, but if it’s you, Mister Chairman….”
Jin-Woo watched on as Yu Jin-Ho expertly guided the businessman to someplace higher proper for a communique like the one they were about to have, and formed a happy smile.
‘This child. He’s eventually acting like a proper Vice Chair now.’
but, Jin-Woo’s eyes sharpened almost right away afterwards. Now that the pair of capacity obstructions went away, the real aspect might begin now.
Adam White got close to Jin-Woo.
“right here is the listing you requested for.”
The display screen of the pill computer he surpassed over displayed the 10 names of the Hunters who ought to all legitimately be known as the arena’s nice in numerical order.
“We at the Bureau had taken all of the feats every Hunter had finished and transformed them into points so we can assign them numbered ratings. these ten human beings are those with the highest quantity of ‘Hunter factors’ within the world.”
The ‘Hunter points’, he said.
Jin-Woo turned into intrigued by the reality that the feats and achievements of a Hunter were represented via a points device. He then realised that his call wasn’t on the listing and asked Adam White.
“in which am I in this list?”
“If we have been to consist of your feat in looking down the large-type monsters inside the points tally, then… you should be round here.”
the yankee agent pointed within the spot between third and 4th. The names of Liu Zhigeng, Thomas Andre, and Christopher Reid occupied the spots above.
The mere fact that he changed into already positioned beneath the ones 3 while he hadn’t been a rank S Hunter for long attested to all of the great feats he controlled to reap to this point.
‘The 4th area is… India’s Siddharth Bachchan. And the fifth spot is….’
the primary five spots naturally belonged to the 5 surviving unique Authority-rank Hunters. As for the spots under, they were additionally occupied through some of the maximum decorated, celebrated Hunters within the world.
It changed into then, Jin-Woo stopped studying the list and raised his head after he heard a bit of commotion growing up.
Noisy, noisy….
An unexpected appearance of a sure visitor had thrown the birthday celebration goers into confusion and chaos. Confirming who this visitor became, Jin-Woo surpassed the pill again to Adam White.
“H-Hunter-nim….”
“You don’t need to fear.”
As he anticipated, this visitor displayed no longer one hint of hesitation as he strode instantly towards Jin-Woo.
He even proceeded to step aside Liu Zhigeng seeking to dissuade him in the center of the way and stopped proper in front of the Korean Hunter, earlier than disposing of his shades.
Jin-Woo mouthed the person’s call.
“Thomas Andre.”
Jin-Woo didn’t lose his comfy manner even if Thomas Andre become standing earlier than him. but, the same couldn’t be stated approximately quite lots all the onlookers watching him, and the yank along with his arm wrapped in bandages. They have been getting properly freaked out now.
The burly American looked at his Korean counterpart, who became at least a good head shorter than he turned into.
“Hunter Seong Jin-Woo… I need to ask you a query.”
< Chapter 198 > Fin.