Summary :
Chapter 13 of the Solo Leveling manga continues the exciting story of Sung Jin-Woo, a weak hunter who gained the ability to level up as a game character.
The chapter opens with Sung Jin-Woo joining a team of expert hunters to explore a dungeon shrouded in rumors. As they enter the dungeon, they encounter various dangerous monsters, but Sung Jin-Woo easily defeats them using his newfound abilities.
The team is impressed by Sung Jin-Woo’s strength and agility, and they begin to recognize him as a valuable asset. However, Sung Jin-Woo remains humble and focused on his mission.
As they delve deeper into the dungeon, the team encounters a powerful boss monster. Despite his best efforts, he tries to defeat him. Realizing that time is running out, Sung Jin-Woo decides to take matters into his own hands.
He activates his “Shadow Exchange” ability, which allows him to switch places with one of his shadows. With this strategic move, Sung Jin-Woo gains the upper hand and successfully defeats the boss monster.
The chapter ends with Sung Jin-Woo winning and the team members in awe of his abilities. They express their gratitude and admiration for his incredible abilities.
Overall, Chapter 13 shows Sung Jin-Woo’s growth as a hunter and highlights his unique abilities. He leaves readers excited to see what challenges and adventures await him in the coming chapters.
It turned into no longer suitable to be the centre of interest.
not handiest would he experience uncomfortable being positioned underneath the highlight, but he also didn’t want to let others recognize of this abnormal phenomenon.
Didn’t the old announcing pass something like, scratching unnecessarily results in more flakes to clean up, or something like that?
He wanted to increase his Stat points as quietly as feasible.
‘And it shouldn’t be a hassle for me to depart the health facility now, too.’
happily, checks had proven that he changed into ordinary and wholesome. meaning, he could go away at any time he desired. No, hold on a minute, it kinda felt like that each the medical institution and the affiliation wanted him to depart inside the first area.
nicely, it’d be a waste to spend that lots money as sanatorium fee on a measly rank E like him.
one of the special privileges the S-ranked Hunters loved become the authorities purchasing all in their health-associated prices. Of path, that become a tale going on in every other cosmos as far as Jin-Woo became concerned.
So, he figured that it wouldn’t be this type of terrible concept to depart this health center right approximately now.
And there has been some thing he desired to verify as well.
“Now, wherein did I put it….?”
Jin-Woo rummaged round his pockets and brought something out. It turned into a key gleaming in a golden hue. It featured this kind of simple design that it can be came about as an accessory at a informal glance.
Jin-Woo discovered the key for a long time earlier than he secured it again interior his pocket.
***
even as he turned into within the center of being discharged, a certain younger female nurse hurriedly ran to where he became.
“Pant, pant!! Mister Seong Jin-Woo, are you on the brink of be discharged nowadays?”
“Pardon? Ah, sure, i’m.”
She become the nurse in charge of his care, Choi Yu-Rah.
Yu-Rah formed a rueful expression while she heard his affirmation.
Jin-Woo didn’t recognise why, so he could only stand there searching instead careworn. He questioned if he had made a mistake somewhere, however he couldn’t think about whatever.
Yu-Rah hesitated slightly, before pulling out a small memo pad.
“can be k in case you provide me your touch numbers?”
“My contact numbers?”
“sure…. most effective if you’re ok with it.”
should there be a few take a look at consequences that had to be sent at a later date or some thing? Jin-Woo didn’t think an excessive amount of approximately it and took the memo pad. but, all he were given from her became just that, a memo pad and nothing else.
when Jin-Woo stared at her, her face reddened.
“W-what’s the problem?”
“Uhm, properly…. approximately a pen….”
“Ah? Ah, please wait.”
She need to’ve forgotten in her rush to get here; Yu-Rah have become flustered and hurriedly became round.
‘Uh? grasp on a minute. A pen, is it….?’
He didn’t ought to suppose for lengthy. before all people noticed it, he was already keeping a pen. the instant he thought approximately the pen nestled quietly within his inventory, it robotically seemed in his hand.
as soon as an object turned into positioned in the inventory, he ought to retrieve it freely with his mind alone.
What a handy function of the stock that changed into.
Confirming the pen in his hand, Jin-Woo called out to Yu-Rah.
“Wait. I looked and fortunately enough, I had a pen on me.”
“Oh, really? Whew, what a relief.”
Yu-Rah located a hand on her chest and sighed out in comfort.
Jin-Woo smiled at that and he jotted down his cellphone number.
This occurred all the time now – the gadgets that came out of the random container constantly noticed a few kind of utilization quite soon after he got them.
while a raincoat came out, rain fell day after today. He were given a cup the day before the health center inexplicably ran out of paper cups. Of course, stuff like a band-useful resource with no clean makes use of once in a while popped out, however most of the time, they did are available in accessible.
“right here it’s miles.”
Yu-Rah obtained the memo pad again from Jin-Woo with an elated expression etched on her face.
She then bowed her head as nicely.
“Please cope with me any further.”
“Oh, uh, sure aspect. Me too.”
Yu-Rah spun round and hurriedly disappeared to somewhere. Jin-Woo looked at her departing back and tilted his head this way and that.
‘via the way…. how does she expect me to attend to her?’
She become this type of adorable nurse, first of all, but she turned into even courteous as properly. Jin-Woo idea as such and left the health center with a refreshed, ethereal mind.
***
the first region he visited become the HQ of the Hunter’s association, positioned in the district of Guro in Seoul.
The smartphones utilized by the Hunters were designed with special additives so, with a purpose to get one, he needed to apply for it at the affiliation.
The association employee spoke while looking on the computer monitor.
“seems like your telephone turns into available simplest after weeks, Hunter-nim.”
“Pardon me? Why so long?”
Jin-Woo’s eyes unfolded wider.
His old telephone was smashed to bits while he changed into getting chased around by using the god statue. however, he now had to wait for 2 weeks for a brand new cellphone to reach?
“in case you want a smartphone right away, we are able to loan you one on a transient basis, however the rate for each utilization is ₩50,000.” (TL: simply over $44)
50,000 won…. He wasn’t even buying one, just renting it for a bit even as, but it price that tons?
If he notion about his modern financial repute, that turned into way too large an fee.
‘nicely, it’s not like a person will contact me, besides.’
If the affiliation failed to get a hold of a person on his or her phone, they’d call the residence, instead. So, there has been no real reason for him to spend cash and get himself a temp telephone proper now.
Jin-Woo shook his head.
“I’ll just wait.”
“I recognize. As soon as your replacement cellphone arrives, we are able to ship it straight to your residence.”
“thank you.”
Jin-Woo were given up to depart. His commercial enterprise turned into performed here.
He had already completed the daily Quest that never failed to reveal up every day, and the software for the brand new telephone at the association additionally ended faster than he anticipated.
Jin-Woo exited from the affiliation building and pulled the golden key out once more.
‘Is it now time to check this little guy out, then?
The facts on the important thing floated up in green letters.
[Item: Dungeon Key]
Rarity: E (ED: also reflects the problem in acquiring the item)
type: Key
A key that transfers you to an immediately dungeon. can be used on the 3rd exit of the Hapjeong subway station.
He determined this key interior one of the random containers he got as the day by day Quest rewards.
in the beginning, he puzzled why a key could come out from there, however as soon as he saw the ‘rarity’ category, he immediately realised that this become no normal item.
This become one of the motives prompting him to get discharged from the health facility as well.
‘An front key to the instantaneous dungeon, huh….’
whether it became known as ‘instantaneous’ or now not, a dungeon become a dungeon.
If it changed into approximately dungeons, then he had masses of painful recollections regarding those.
This one time, he participated in a raid ranked E and ended up getting wounded so badly that he had to stay in the hospital for over per week.
returned then, he became capable of live to tell the tale due to the comrades that went with him, but….
but, if he used this key to enter a dungeon, then it meant that he needed to enter all of it alone. He deliberated for a long term, earlier than making up his thoughts.
‘I’m certain there will be no problems as long as I just take a short peek inside.’
If matters looked horrific, all he needed to do changed into run away, in the end.
He’d been strolling 10 kilometres each day for some time now, so he turned into pretty assured of strolling away, definitely.
***
Annnd, it became his mistake for taking it too gently.
Slam, slam!
“Is there…. a wall blocking me?”
He pounded at the invisible wall and shouted at the outside, however nobody spoke back back. human beings persisted to carry on with their very own lives, that was all.
occasionally, a person approached the Hapjeong station, however they really vanished as quickly as coming in touch with this invisible ‘wall’. It turned into pretty likely that the location he became in and the outdoor global were two separate dimensions.
Jin-Woo tried his toughest to pressure his way out of this area, which caused a brand new alert message to pop up.
Tti-ring.
[You can not exit the dungeon. Please defeat the boss first or find the return crystal.]
It turned into the equal message as earlier than.
the key in his ownership disappeared as quickly as he set foot inside the 3rd go out of the subway station and, by the time Jin-Woo realised matters had long past as a substitute awry and hurriedly became round to depart, it was already too past due.
He turned into thinking of locating a hidden Gate or a few kind of a doorway within the third exit that could delivery him to a dungeon, however his expectation become completely off the mark. And quite distinctive from the regular dungeons, he couldn’t even leave as he thrilled, too.
“It’s unique from different dungeons….”
Jin-Woo spat out a protracted groan and regarded in the back of him. What he ought to see now changed into the interior of the subway station that had transformed right into a jungle.
partitions were thick with twisting vines, and rancid odour similar to rotting corpses assaulted his senses. Hell, he even heard the cries of what gave the impression of wild beasts from afar now and again, too.
“…..”
It wasn’t that there has been a hidden entrance someplace near the doorway of the Hapjeong station, however the whole station had emerge as a dungeon, instead.
Jin-Woo pulled the metal longsword out from his stock.
Tti-ring.
[Item: Kim Sang-Sik’s steel longsword]
assault +10
His again became blocked off, and he had no method of contacting outdoor, so the only alternative left was to go ahead.
Jin-Woo nervously swallowed his saliva and slowly descended the steps. He held his breath and surveyed his environment, however he couldn’t feel whatever unique.
however, it changed into honestly forbidden to underestimate the dangers in a dungeon.
some of the low-ranked monsters, there have been pretty some that knew a way to mask and conceal their presence thoroughly. No, perhaps due to the fact they were so low ranked that they’d no choice however to hide and wait to ambush their prey.
beyond the toilets, he entered deeper and encountered the underground purchasing centre.
stores have been worn down and in entire disarray, looking extra like a wreck than something else. Seeing the human-less ruined shells of the stores dimly illuminated by using the flickering overhead lamps, some thing felt rather ominously creepy and sinister.
Flicker, flicker….
most of the lamps endured to flicker as though their life became nearing the quit.
Jin-Woo cautiously stepped at the overgrown weeds jutting out from among the cracked ground tiles and persevered on ahead, but he picked up on a general air of mystery of unease and scanned his environment.
“….”
everything appeared so quiet and nonetheless, however he did experience a gaze of some thing.
after which, there has been this odor, too.
A severely rotten odour of an animal carcass with flies buzzing round changed into coming from someplace. For Jin-Woo, who had often entered dungeons, this become a instead familiar scent.
‘This scent…. An animal-kind monster.’
but, he nevertheless couldn’t discover its whereabouts at all. just like how a predator could stalk its a prey.
‘Oh, so you want to stay hidden and look ahead to your risk, is that it?’
if so, he should give it one.
Jin-Woo intentionally became around and offered his lower back. and really slowly, retread the route he had taken until now. An animal would try pounce at the prey as quickly as its again was proven. An animal-kind monster might be no exceptional.
And so, it came about while he took his third step.
spoil!!
the store window of a clothing store in the back of him shattered into portions and some thing jumped out. And this something, as soon because it landed at the floor, leapt toward Jin-Woo’s exposed neck in a single pass.
“Roar!”
Jin-Woo were getting equipped for a sneak assault like this one, so nearly immediately, he swung the sword in the direction of the sound.
It become a perfectly-executed instinctive counter!
graceful!
the pointy edge of the blade sliced open the creature’s maw.
The monster spat out a pained cry because it flew away from Jin-Woo and crashed at the ground, rolling round in a heap.
*SFX for a dog-type whimpering, repeated*
It became a massive wolf with a reddish coat of fur.
The wolf with its maw sliced away wiggled around and threw a seizure-like match as though it changed into beneath a extremely good deal of pain. whilst he took a more in-depth look, its name also seemed on pinnacle of its head, just like the centipedes from the penalty zone.
‘Iron-Fanged Lycan.’
however, not like before, its name became in white letters, now not red.
‘there’s no time to waste right here!’
This was the ideal possibility at the same time as the monster couldn’t circulate from its wound. Jin-Woo threw his frame forward.
He ran hard and fast, and chopped down with his sword, setting apart the creature’s head from its body.
“Rawr!”
Lycan spat out the very last roar and stopped respiratory afterwards.
[You’ve killed an Iron-Fanged Lycan.]
“good!”
but, the pleasure of victory became transient!
extra Lycans jumped out from their hiding area from behind the shop’s darkness.
‘D*mn it, it turned into in a %?’
Jin-Woo’s eyes grew wider.
They bared their huge fangs and closed the gap in an instant.
Jin-Woo’s expression crumpled dismally.
He must’ve chopped down too difficult from all of the exhilaration, because the sword turned into lodged on the ground too deep and it stubbornly refused to pop out.
‘It’s caught somewhere.’
It was at this second that one of the Lycans aimed for his face and leapt up.
“D*mn it!!”
Jin-Woo ducked low. The Lycan flew over his head and landed face-first at the floor after failing to prevent in time.
Stab!!
while its fangs stabbed into the stone ground, cracks instantly shaped on the hard floor.
‘I guess it’s not referred to as Iron-Fanged for nothing, huh.’
Of course, he didn’t have the leeway to stay there and respect this scene. One greater monster became still walking toward his front in the intervening time, too. His sword showed no signs and symptoms of coming free from its earthly prison in the mean time.
“Screw this!”
Jin-Woo had no desire however to give up at the sword for now and threw a difficult punch at the Lycan ultimate in.
WHOOSH!!
followed by a bone-chilling sound of wind parting approaches, his fist flew uncomplicated.
POW!!
It took simply one hit and the top of the Lycan clearly exploded.
The corpse of the now-headless Lycan slammed into the ceiling above and then, powerlessly fell all the way down to the floor.
Thud!
“….??”
Jin-Woo’s eyes opened up very extensive and he stared dumbfoundedly at his own fist.
What an surprising negative energy that turned into.