Summary :
Titled “The Calm Before the Storm”, Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 157 is a transitional chapter that sets the stage for the final arc of the series. The chapter begins with a flashback to Sung Jinwoo’s funeral. His son Sung Ilhwan stands over his father’s grave and vows to protect the world in his honor. The chapter then cuts to the present, with Ilhwan leading the Hunters Association in the fight against a new threat. The new threat is a group of powerful beings known as the Overlords, and they are determined to destroy the world. Ilhwan and the other Hunters are able to defeat some of the overlords, but are quickly overwhelmed by their numbers. Just when all seems lost, Sung Jinwoo appears and defeats the Ruler with ease. Jinwoo tells Ilhwan that he came back to help him defeat the Overlord once and for all. He also tells Ilhwan that he is proud of the man he has become. The chapter ends with Jinwoo and Ilhwan leading the Hunters into battle against the Overlords. Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 157 is a transition chapter that sets the stage for the final arc of the series. The chapter focuses on the threat of the Rulers and the return of Sung Jinwoo. The chapter begins with a flashback to Sung Jinwoo’s funeral. His son Sung Ilhwan stands over his father’s grave and vows to protect the world in his honor. The chapter then cuts to the present, with Ilhwan leading the Hunters Association in the fight against a new threat. The new threat is a group of powerful beings known as the Overlords, and they are determined to destroy the world. Ilhwan and the other Hunters are able to defeat some of the overlords, but are quickly overwhelmed by their numbers. Just when all seems lost, Sung Jinwoo appears and defeats the Ruler with ease. Jinwoo tells Ilhwan that he came back to help him defeat the Overlord once and for all. He also tells Ilhwan that he is proud of the man he has become. The chapter ends with Jinwoo and Ilhwan leading the Hunters into battle against the Overlords. Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 157 is a good transition chapter that sets the stage for the final arc of the series. This chapter does a good job of raising the stakes and introducing the new threat of the Rulers. The chapter also has some great moments between Sung Jinwoo and his son Sung Ilhwan. It’s clear that Jinwoo is proud of the man his son has become. Overall, Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 157 is a good transitional chapter that is sure to please fans of the series. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the final arc of the series.
Jin-Woo arrived on the god statue’s eye stage immediately.
This was at the best factor of the jump before one’s body could begin its descent due to gravity. It felt as if everything around him had come to a stand-nevertheless.
The drops of sweat flying off of his body as he jumped sparkled underneath the mild. although gradual, they had been in reality getting in addition faraway from him.
He became in the state of top awareness proper now. The plain risk of losing his lifestyles from the smallest mistake pushed all of Jin-Woo’s abilities to their absolute limits.
‘this is the true power of the Agility Stat….’
His coronary heart pounded tough and fast as the realisation dawned on him that this become what the height kingdom of the Agility Stat ought to produce while pushed to the extreme. but, he manifestly did now not have the leeway to enjoy the fruit of his labour.
Even now, the eyes of the god statue were moving towards him, albeit at a crawling pace. Seeing up near the pink mild coagulating within the d*m aspect’s eyes sent shivers all over his frame.
just getting brushed by means of that aspect might suggest his stop.
Sensing the dizziness of the danger, his thoughts re-focused at the undertaking handy.
‘live calm…..’
He reached out along with his left hand, still now not maintaining any weapon.
‘Ruler’s Authority!’
The upgraded ability based totally on ‘Ruler’s reach’ commenced pulling on the shoulder of the god statue. He become deliberating reeling himself in, in place of sincerely dragging the god statue and its incalculable frame weight toward him.
Wuuoong-!!
however, his expectation turned into fairly shaken up because the upper frame of the god statue truly did creep forward just a little.
‘…..!!!’
What an remarkable pressure of appeal that turned into!
The energy of the talent must have long past up numerous notches when it advanced from ‘Ruler’s attain’ to ‘Ruler’s Authority’.
And all way to that, Jin-Woo were given to land on the god statue’s shoulder far less complicated than he predicted. He quick raised his head to look in the back of him.
Buzzzzing-!
The scarlet-red laser beam exploding out as it should be pierced beyond the region within the air he became floating in, most effective a second in the past.
‘satisfactory.’
For the following few seconds, he changed into secure from the god statue’s laser beam assaults.
Feeling unburdened now, Jin-Woo sprinted on pinnacle of the statue’s shoulder with all his may and arrived close to its neck. His right hand gripped the hilt of the ‘Demon King’s Shortsword’ tightly.
‘Violent curb!!’
several silver streaks of blade mild rained down on the goal just like the shells of a shotgun.
Dududududududu-!!
Dozens upon dozens of slashes landed on the statue’s neck. however, there was slightly any visible harm.
no longer one curb controlled to inflict a heavy sufficient wound; all of them stopped at in reality causing negligible, superficial nicks on the pores and skin.
‘So, the shortsword doesn’t paintings, is that it?’
It turned into that moment that the ‘Demon King’s Shortsword’, formerly capable of reducing up the metal-like scales of the boss-stage Naga into ragged bits, got here across as a mere and shabby toy.
It changed into then.
Jin-Woo determined a giant hand busy flying in his popular route. before it could draw close him, even though, he ran on the returned of the statue’s neck and changed his function to the alternative shoulder.
He took a brief look down as he ran and noticed how dizzyingly high he turned into proper now.
He raised his head up and glared on the aspect of the god statue’s face. This god statue wouldn’t be the primary enemy that his blades did not inflict any harm. As a be counted of truth, he had treated a limitless variety of them thus far.
‘If i can’t stab it, then I’ll just pummel it!’
He didn’t make investments all the ones Stat points in his power Stat just for a laugh. Jin-Woo’s eyes gleamed brightly with willpower. He gently jumped up and thrust his left hand on the temple of the god statue’s face.
Crack!!
All 5 fingers of his left hand dug deep below the floor.
‘It’s done!’
Jin-Woo clenched his left hand right into a fist. With that, he turned into firmly secured onto the god statue’s face like a rock climber placing onto the surface of a cliff with one hand. All this became honestly him getting equipped.
The actual component changed into starting now.
Jin-Woo’s proper lower back, his proper shoulder, after which his right arm all started out to balloon up to an unnatural size. That became the end result of an amazing quantity of magic electricity enveloping his proper arm.
As a check, he threw a unmarried punch first.
Ka-growth!!!
The god statue’s head, that didn’t even budge from the shortsword’s assaults, all of sudden and visibly trembled.
‘…..!!’
The angel statue staring at the unfolding situation became shocked beyond phrases from that.
The large quantity of magic strength spreading out from excessive up above controlled to shake the air inside the complete underground temple. The angel statue continued to appearance up whilst not even bothering to cover its extremely excited kingdom at all.
To suppose, that a human might cope with its masterpiece in such a manner.
a fair extra level of anticipation bubbled up inside the glowing mild of the angel statue’s eyes.
Ka-bboooom!!
Jin-Woo’s fist punched the god statue’s face for the second one time.
Stagger.
For a quick second there, the god statue lost its stability. The attacks had been in reality operating.
however, the god statue wasn’t making plans to face still and now not do anything at the same time as getting punched to demise with the aid of him.
Vuwoong-!!
as though it turned into trying to capture a mosquito, the god statue slapped its very own face with that massive hand.
growth-!!
Jin-Woo dodged that giant palm strike and accurately landed returned at the god statue’s shoulder, a mocking grin etched on his face now. That become no one-of-a-kind from this element busily slapping itself.
He didn’t wait and sprinted returned closer to the god statue’s face as quickly as its hand went away. after which….
growth!! Ka-growth!! Kwang! Kwang!! Kwa-increase!!!
Terrifying, deafening booms reverberated constantly during the massive dome-shaped temple.
Crack, craaack….
Cracks formed at the face of the god statue and unfold all around the surface like a spider’s internet. The tottering god statue attempted its fine to preserve its balance before it started walking towards one of the walls on this massive, open space.
Thud, thud, thud!!
The ‘creature’s huge legs viciously stomped on the ground. It changed into looking to crush Jin-Woo still sticking to its face by way of ramming into the wall.
‘but, before that happens….’
….He’d finish this combat!
Jin-Woo’s fist began pounding quicker, tougher, and with even much less mercy onto the face of the god statue.
Kwang!! Kwang!! Kwang!! Kwaaahng!!
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The god statue expanded its strolling speed and the gap to the wall changed into decreased in seconds.
Sneak.
Jin-Woo showed the final distance along with his eyes and, for the cause of touchdown the very last blow, despatched all of his strength to his proper arm.
Thick veins bulged on his ballooning arm muscle tissues as a scary amount of magic electricity crammed his limb up.
‘….superb.’
The bodily energy of a stage 103. Jin-Woo poured all of that into this unmarried fist of his. just earlier than he turned into about to collide against the wall….
KWA-boom!!
CRACK!!!
at the side of the loud noise of a ripened watermelon shattering into portions, half of of the god statue’s face become blown away. It in the end faltered and fell down on its knees.
RUMBLE-!!
the entirety of the empty dome-formed arena rumbled spectacularly. and then, the gigantic body of the god statue powerlessly tilted over to the ground.
RUUUMBLE-!!
A thick, choking cloud of dust kicked up into the air as the huge parent collapsed, tough, to the dry floor. Jin-Woo walked out from there even as waving away the dust masking up the room like a thick fog.
“Fuu-woo.”
Jin-Woo set free a soft sigh underneath his breath.
Ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump….
Even now, the sound of his wildly beating coronary heart noisily rang round in his ear canals. The god statue that nearly made him moist his pants the primary time he stood earlier than it, had fallen face down at the ground, unmoving.
nobody else did that. He turned into answerable for this spectacle.
‘i can without a doubt do that.’
….no matter what that turned into.
He recalled the Hunters who lost their lives inner here and a effective emotion welled up from deep inside his heart. alas, the ultimate stone statues persevered to move speedy, as though they didn’t need him to have this quiet moment to himself.
They surrounded him in a circle and closed the distance. just earlier than they had been about to pounce on him, though….
Jin-Woo stopped looking at his two fingers… and raised his head.
“Ruler’s Authority.”
boom-!!
every single stone statue slammed their heads down on the ground and stopped moving altogether. This was the strength of the invisible hand, additionally called the ability ‘Ruler’s Authority’.
Jin-Woo back his gaze lower back to his arms.
‘I’ve turn out to be even more potent thru these days’s battle.’
He clenched his fists and unfurled them, earlier than repeating his moves once more.
An great strength was overflowing out of his fists, no, from his complete frame. He could truly experience this flow of strength now.
on the equal time, his coronary heart confirmed no signs of slowing down in any respect. It felt as if something napping deep within him had awakened via this existence-or-loss of life war.
It changed into then.
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.
He heard gradual handclaps. Jin-Woo raised his head inside the course of that clapping noise. The angel statue become clapping its hands in an exaggerated way, that repulsive smile nonetheless etched on its face.
“clearly wonderful.”
quite not like the words leaving its mouth, although, the light oozing out of its eyes were of rather nefarious origins. Jin-Woo frivolously spoke to the statue.
“Don’t you’ve got an agreement to uphold, first?”
The d*mn thing definitely announced that, so long as Jin-Woo managed to face on his two feet after the quit of this very last take a look at, all the answers he wanted to understand would be furnished to him.
So, he desired to listen them proper now.
unfortunately, a stiff smile formed on the angel statue as though it had no intentions of letting him understand that easily.
“Hah, hah.”
It took a step towards him.
“Your check isn’t finished yet.”
Then, another step closer.
“In here….”
but any other step.
The angel statue closed the distance with numerous massive strides and eventually stood before Jin-Woo’s nostril.
“….I’m still here, aren’t I?”
Dududuk, dudududuk!!!
The lengthy wings on the returned of the angel statue all at once twisted and writhed round earlier than reworking into hands. hands popping out of its shoulders, and 6 more sprouting from its lower back – eight hands in overall started clenching into tight fists.
“i’m your final test.”
Jin-Woo frowned deeply. before he may want to say anything, even though – the angel statue cut him off.
“there’s no need to fear approximately my ‘lifestyles’.”
flinch.
Jin-Woo’s eyes widened in wonder. This issue knew what he wanted to say earlier. He changed into about to elevate his voice in irritation, telling the creature that its demise could result in him now not getting any solutions ultimately.
“Are you surprised?”
The angel statue raised one in every of its hands and pointed at its own head.
“all your information is in here.’
‘….may want to it be?’
bloodless sweat drops rapidly shaped on Jin-Woo’s forehead.
“As predicted of a quick-witted human. Hah, hah.”
The angel statue issued out extra of that stiff, mechanical laughter. after which, carried on with what it desired to say.
“in case you try and control your energy to prevent me from dying, in an effort to make it tough to properly measure your actual power. So, to save you that…”
proper in that second – the angel statue’s lips moved at a brief tempo.
however, the voice of the angel statue didn’t pop out from there. It came out from someplace else.
[An ‘Emergency Quest’ has been issued.]
[If you fail to defeat the enemy within the designated time limit, your heart will stop operating altogether.]
[Remaining time: 10:00]
just as the quest message finished saying its piece, one 2nd ticked down from the final time.
Tick.
[Remaining time: 09:59]
Jin-Woo’s eyes started out trembling tough as he stared at the angel statue.
“That’s right.”
[That’s right.]
each time the angel statue spoke, he additionally heard the machine’s voice on the same time as nicely.
Jin-Woo’s heart that appeared to have recovered a few calmness just now started out madly pounding away once more. His breathing quickened and his fingertips trembled.
The angel statue studied Jin-Woo’s reaction earlier than answering one of the first actual questions he requested earlier – “What are you?”
“i am the architect of the gadget.”
[I am the architect of the System.]
***
“Mister Kim, you’re a reporter. There’s a dungeon wreck taking place in Japan right now, so is it k for you to be camping out right here like this?”
Woo Jin-Cheol threw that question out as if he became feeling greatly irritated with the aid of something in the meanwhile.
The reporter named Kim yawned grandly while scratching the vicinity around his sideburns.
“That region is already packed complete of different reporters. nothing will change even supposing I display up there, wouldn’t you agree? It’ll be higher for me to stick with the folks of the tracking department and get myself a scoop or .”
“…”
Woo Jin-Cheol became tempted to endorse this reporter that he need to both keep on with yawning or scratching his face, but gave up and sighed inwardly.
This became because Kim changed into one in every of a totally few newshounds that wrote beneficial articles regarding the association when all of us else regarded to be hell-bent on ‘uncovering’ wrongdoings of the organization or developing with provocative gossip portions on the personal lives of diverse Hunters.
‘No need to turn an ally into an enemy, now could be there….?’
That became why Woo Jin-Cheol turned into keeping this reporter named Kim organisation as the latter paid a visit to the tracking department’s offices.
Kim ultimately completed his lengthy yawn and threw a query again.
“besides that, chief Woo. Our whole u . s . goes via a piece of upheaval proper now, so is it excellent which will be sitting here and doing not anything in the office like this?”
Woo Jin-Cheol closed the quilt at the report he was operating on and spoke in a smooth voice that sounded almost like a gentle sigh.
“someone has to live at the back of to guard his assigned station, you notice.”
“Ohhh.”
Reporter Kim’s eyes opened up wider in knowledge and responded while speedy pulling out a palm-sized memo pad and a pen.
“, that’s a fab soundbite. I need to make sure no longer to overlook out on a single phrase, so are you able to repeat them for me, please?”
“Mister Kim, you actually….”
Woo Jin-Cheol become about to raise his voice better however with amazing timing, his telephone went off.
‘…Mm?’
It became a call coming from the report centre. If it was a call not coming via the hotline of the monitoring department but to his private smartphone, then that would simplest imply the problem at hand wasn’t simple in nature.
Woo Jin-Cheol fast answered the decision.
“that is section chief Woo Jin-Cheol speakme, monitoring department.”
– “leader, we just obtained a report, sir. looks as if your presence is required on this one.”
Woo Jin-Cheol’s eyes narrowed to a slit.
“What happened?”
– “Do you don’t forget the excessive faculty wherein those Orcs came out?”
“Did some thing appear in that location again….?”
– “It doesn’t appear like whatever fundamental had long past down there yet, but a Gate appearing in that faculty’s athletic subject a few days in the past turned out to be a dual dungeon, sir.”
‘A twin dungeon?’
Woo Jin-Cheol’s eyes grew wider.
– “but, the thing is….”
It regarded that the employee charged with receiving the reports nevertheless had something else to say. Woo Jin-Cheol’s voice have become more urgent.
“okay, so what else is there?”
– “I heard that Hunter Seong Jin-Woo has entered the Gate, sir.”