Summary :
Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 121 is titled “The Power of the Shadow Monarch.” In this chapter, Sung Jinwoo, also known as the Shadow Monarch, continues his journey to become the strongest hunter in the world. They arrive at the Gate of Jeju Island, a double dungeon that is causing a lot of trouble for the Korean government. Jinwoo meets a group of high-ranking hunters at the gate, including Cha Hae-In, an S-Rank hunter who is known as the “Monarch of Healing.” Hae-In is surprised to see Jinwoo as she thought he was still in Japan. Jinwoo tells her that he came to help with the Double Dungeon. The hunters are initially hesitant to let Jinwoo join them, but eventually agree after he demonstrates his immense strength. Jinwoo and the hunters enter the Double Dungeon and start fighting their way through the hordes of monsters. Jinwoo quickly proves to be the team’s most valuable asset. He easily defeats the monsters that other hunters are fighting. The hunters are amazed by Jinwoo’s strength and skill. Jinwoo and the hunters eventually make it to the Double Dungeon boss room. The boss is a huge dragon that is even stronger than the other monsters they have encountered. The hunters fight bravely, but are no match for the dragon. Just when all seems lost, Jinwoo summons his Shadow Soldiers. The shadow soldiers attack the dragon and defeat it easily. The hunters are impressed by Jinwoo’s strength and grateful for his help. After defeating the dragon, Jinwoo and the hunters leave the Double Dungeon. Hae-In asks Jinwoo why he is so strong. Jinwoo tells her it’s because he’s the Shadow Monarch. Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 121 is another great chapter in this popular manga series. Jinwoo continues to demonstrate his immense strength and skill, leaving the other hunters in awe of him. The battle against the dragon is particularly exciting, and it’s satisfying to see Jinwoo easily defeat it. Overall, Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 121 is a well-written and exciting chapter. It will surely please fans of the manga series.
The ant king speedy sensed the ‘adjustments’ taking place at the frame that it felt so happy with.
Crack.
Crack….
Its outer pores and skin, maximum probably harder and hardier than any known metallic on the earth, started developing cracks all around the region. alternatively, the enemy turned into without difficulty withstanding the ant king’s assaults.
‘it could’t be.’
An impossible hypothesis quickly entered the ant king’s head.
‘I… I’m dropping out on physical energy?!’
not best that, to a human much less than 1/2 its size?
but, proper at that second….
CRACK.
It realised that the clean wound on its waist from that powerful hit felt ‘incorrect’. Even the sound coming from there was now not too accurate to hear.
The exoskeleton lacked ache receptors, so the ant king needed to divert its attention for the briefest of moments to verify the fame of its shell down there.
Sneak.
The end result changed into as an alternative surprising to behold.
‘….It’s cracked open!’
The small crack that became no more than just a nick had spread out to everywhere and was developing large and larger. It became the identical issue as a caution sign, telling the creature that there wasn’t numerous time left.
The ant king speedy turned its head around. however, despite the fact that it was only for a brief moment, Jin-Woo wasn’t a few amateur who’d omit this golden possibility.
Ka-growth!!
The king’s face spun to its side.
‘…..??’
The ant king staggered unsteadily for a second or two from the ridiculous effect force that ignored the ant king’s cast steel-like shell on its face.
It managed to regain its stability before it took a step back, but by way of then, the comply with-up punch was already ultimate in from under.
KWAHNG!!
The ant king’s chin shot upwards.
‘How dare a human, who’s inferior than a malicious program…!!’
at the same time as its head nevertheless pointing up on the ceiling, the ant king shot a glare complete of murderous rage down below.
The electricity this human possessed – it changed into certainly exceptional. however, not like this human, who simplest had his physical electricity to fall again on, the ant king possessed a ramification of different effective manner at its disposal.
along with….
The ant king’s head snapped go into reverse, and at the equal time, it fired a poison needle out of its mouth. A tip lined in lethal poison attached to the tongue-like tentacle shot out like a bullet.
It changed into an unavoidable assault aimed toward the enemy’s face in this point-blank range.
graceful-!
The human deftly tilted his head out of the manner to avert the needle, but a smile nonetheless crept up on the face of the ant king because the end result of its assault have become clear. The needle nonetheless managed to scratch the human’s cheek and left a small wound there.
‘It’s performed!’
That on my own changed into extra than sufficient.
once, the ant king devoured a sea snail and rather coincidentally, absorbed a ability referred to as ‘Paralysis Poison’.
one of the most deadly poisons secreted by using the recognized lifeforms on this global were converted into an even more deadly substance inside the ant king’s body after it have become a focused mix that contained the magical energy of the host creature.
It was indeed the worst poison conceivable, developed forcibly by means of the talent, ‘Gluttony’.
‘You’ve honestly given me so much hassle, you human b*stard.’
Even the slightest scratch might result in whole paralysis in one’s nervous gadget inside seconds; the victims could lose all sensations of their bodies and lose control of themselves.
The simplest aspect closing could be to systematically destroy the resistance-less enemy.
“….?”
as if the poison was doing its element, the human shaped a flustered expression.
“this is the electricity of the genuine king!”
The ant king smiled broadly and smacked the human’s face. but….
Kwahng!!
The human raised his left hand and blocked it.
‘…..??’
The question of ways he changed into nonetheless able to flow lasted best for a second.
Ka-booooom!!
The human’s proper fist flew in from the other facet and struck the ant king so difficult that the monster became shoved all the way down to the ground rather unceremoniously.
“Kiiiehk!!”
For the primary time ever, a pained yelp shot out from the king’s mouth.
Tti-ring.
Jin-Woo showed the device message popping up in his view as that acquainted mechanical beep rang out.
[Detoxification has been completed.]
‘i used to be thinking why it changed into celebrating all alone, but huh, is that this why?’
perhaps that become the case because, for some motive, he could feel that the ant king confirmed lots extra panic when he moved without a trouble simply now.
What a mystifying aspect this become.
He wasn’t speakme approximately the all-effective Buff putting off the poison, no, however the truth that he should clearly sense the insect-like monster’s feelings.
before he had realised it, he should sense what different monsters have been feeling approximately.
‘Wait, changed into it from around the time I fought those high Orcs?’
again then, he thought that he become able to decipher what the ones creatures had been feeling by means of looking at their facial expressions and their gestures. but, that ant monster wasn’t even what you’d classify as a humanoid creature.
certainly, that component had no different facial expressions other than crumpling it in anger.
‘is that this because of my perception?’
simply as his Stat values had all accelerated via so much currently, his notion Stat additionally had improved by using a lot, too. It became possible that a few different unknown, hidden abilties to his Stats had been unlocked after they went past a certain threshold.
however….
‘….Now isn’t the time to reflect onconsideration on that, is it?’
indeed, his priority lay with killing this element and getting out of this place. Jin-Woo sprinted toward the ant king trying to push itself off from the ground.
‘…..!!’
He may want to genuinely experience the ant king’s anxiety on his skin now. His continued pounding resulted within the creature’s exoskeleton nearly being cracked open. just a little bit extra now!
He thought like so and closed the distance within the blink of an eye, earlier than jumping up slightly within the air. after which, he kicked down.
Kwa-growth!!
but, the ant king had already vanished from the spot. best the terrible ground caved in from the impact.
“in which did it go?!”
“It disappeared??”
while the other Hunters hurriedly looked for the ant king, Jin-Woo lightly appeared above him. The monster became flying in the air the usage of its wings.
‘nicely, I bet this is handy.’
Jin-Woo smirked to himself.
What with him being capable of sense the monster’s fluctuating feelings, searching for its presence had turn out to be a step simpler now. The emotion of misunderstanding felt had modified to fear, before it modified yet again to happiness.
The ant king had changed its strategy now.
‘If that human’s speciality is his power, then there’s no need to face him head-on.’
The ant king’s authentic weapon became its pace. Even that silly human who lied and stated he changed into the king of humans, couldn’t even react to the ant king’s movements and lost his neck.
From the onset, the reason why the creature wanted to use physical electricity to suppress the human turned into a form of desire to show off its kingly powers.
however, proper now, the ant king had decided to throw away that egocentric reasoning and awareness all of its being in this struggle to any extent further.
Shushushuk….
The enlarged body reverted back to its original length, even as the claws in its palms grew even longer and sharper, like well-honed blades.
‘Its claws….’
Jin-Woo studied the changes taking region in the ant king and realised that the creature could change how it attacked from here onwards.
Shururuk….
two shortswords he summoned from the stock landed in Jin-Woo’s palms.
Swiiiish-!!
The airborne ant king shot down closer to Jin-Woo. Its pace turned into incomparable to simplest a minute in the past.
‘…..!!’
Jin-Woo focused his senses.
Time slowed down, and every single movement the monster made entered his imaginative and prescient. In all honesty, Jin-Woo felt maximum confident whilst it came right down to the competition of velocity. He effortlessly deflected the ant king’s claw slashing down from above together with his shortsword.
The follow-up attacks from the ant king landing on the floor, in addition to from Jin-Woo spinning round, clashed violently.
Clang!! Claaaang!! Clang!!
As they exchanged offence and defence infinite instances, the ant king become now completely beset with unbridled surprise.
‘How can this be?!’
The enemy turned into clearly matching its speed. No, it wasn’t most effective that – as the seconds ticked by, his movement speed become truly picking up as if his muscle groups had subsequently loosened up sufficiently sufficient.
‘How… How can any such….’
The ant king were driven lower back in the course of the contest of raw electricity, and now it turned into also being step by step pushed back in the contest of velocity, too.
One step, another step….
as the quantity of withdrawing steps taken accelerated, so did the wounds acting on the exoskeleton. The more the monster’s retreating distance have become, the extra assured Jin-Woo grew.
‘i’m able to finish this.’
The mental surprise this monster, this so-called ant king felt right now, it become being transmitted in complete to Jin-Woo. right now, that monster was greatly shaken up.
compared to the Demon King Baran, this monster’s energy, velocity, and abilities fell some methods in the back of. No, maybe, it changed into on the equal stage as the useless Demon King, or even handed it in some regards.
sadly, the modern Jin-Woo wasn’t similar to the Jin-Woo of again then.
certainly, he had stepped up into a much higher realm with the rewards he had received after finishing the Demon’s citadel dungeon.
‘here’s the fruit of all my labours.’
Jin-Woo were given to fully enjoy just how much his Stats had grown through this precise opponent. along with the satisfaction derived from knowing that his Stats had been significantly enhanced now, even extra stirring emotions welled up from deep interior his chest.
whilst the ant king took another step lower back, Jin-Woo took steps forward. after which…
‘important Spot Targetting!’
Jin-Woo’s skill stabbed straight into the ant king’s torso.
The ‘crucial points Targetting’ turned into a ability that inflicted additional damage if he had controlled to stab the enemy’s susceptible spots. With the monster’s exoskeleton broken in numerous locations, it become not an exaggeration to mention that the creature’s complete frame was now the so-known as weak spot.
Pa-ba-bak!!
Dozens of ‘crucial factors Targetting’ landed on the hapless monster.
[‘Skill: Vital Points Targetting’ will now be upgraded to the ultimate version, ‘Skill: Violent Slash’.]
‘….Violent slash?’
Having unlocked a new talent, Jin-Woo directly used it.
It became then, his shortswords at once sought out all of the ant king’s openings and, actually inside the blink of an eye fixed, slashed out dozens of instances.
Tadadadadada!!
“Kiiiieeeehhckkk?!”
The ant king screamed out.
as the creature writhed around in ache, Jin-Woo swung his shortsword yet again and sliced off its arm.
Slice.
The monster’s lengthy, black-coloured arm fell to the ground with a stupid thud.
“Kiiehhk!”
through now, the ant king misplaced all semblance of pride or desire for revenge, and hurriedly fled to the air. Its instinctive preference to live to tell the tale overruled the entirety. unluckily for it, Jin-Woo didn’t permit for one second of respite.
Sensing the method of any other being, the ant king took a look at the back of.
‘A human… is flying?!’
Jin-Woo flung himself up using the ‘Ruler’s attain’ skill and proceeded to cut off one of the ant king’s wings.
Plop!
The ant king crash-landed in an ugly way. for the duration of that quick time of its fall, the ant king constantly concept about a manner to get away from this incredibly risky predicament, even though confusion and worry threatened to paralyse it.
‘I, I want to provide you with something to crush the enemy!’
bodily electricity, speed, and even its hidden trump card, ‘poison’ all didn’t paintings. It couldn’t provide you with anything.
Did it no longer own something that changed into better than what that human possessed?
just before the despair set in, the ant king sooner or later arrived on the proper answer. It recalled the one component that it held a bonus in over the enemy.
And that would be…. the headcount.
there was handiest one enemy. but the ant king possessed heaps of soldiers. indeed, didn’t it have brave warriors watching for its orders by using the doorway of the chamber right this second?
The ant king staggered again to its toes, earlier than pointing at Jin-Woo with its one closing arm.
“Kiiiieeeehhhkk-!!”
as if they had been expecting that rage-stuffed screech, the waves upon waves of ants commenced flooding into the chamber.
‘Take this, human!!’
“Kiiieeehhk!!”
The king endured to screech out. It become to restore its beaten delight, and also to awaken the combating spirit of its endless infantrymen, as nicely. And so, as it confidently glared at the impudent human….
“…?”
From that aspect, a black ‘wave’ turned into rushing out now.
‘go!’
Jin-Woo issued an order to his Shadow squaddies.
The ‘Sovereign’s Territory’ he had activated previous to the war changed into still lively. The Shadow soldiers, stronger a step in addition with the aid of this skill, marched towards the ants at a frightening velocity.
Dududududu….!!
The loud footsteps reverberated all through the ant tunnel.
‘and then…. you come out, too.’
ultimately, Jin-Woo summoned Fangs out, as nicely.
as if it become feeling sheepish for being summoned all alone, Fangs appeared around himself and scratched the returned of his head. Jin-Woo surpassed over the Bead of Avarice and warned him in no uncertain terms.
“purpose most effective at the ants. best at them. If even a unmarried lick of flames land on the humans sitting over there, i’m able to by no means summon you out ever once more.”
Fangs enthusiastically nodded his head as though he become assured of doing precisely that.
soon, Fangs grew first-rate-huge with the ‘track of the large’ and spewed out that great pillar of flames.
Kuwaaaaaaahhhh-!!!
although he had seen that masses enough times via now, Jin-Woo couldn’t assist however feel impressed via the sight regardless.
‘It’s kinda like his flame pillar is getting bigger each day, isn’t it?’
become it because his stage was also rising up?
handiest Jin-Woo should provide you with the sort of reaction due to the fact that he had visible this spectacle earlier than, but well, different human beings were thinking of totally different things.
The Hunters hiding in the far corner holding their breaths even as witnessing the warfare among Jin-Woo and the ant king could simplest gasp out in natural astonishment at the emergence of this new ‘monster’.
A instead extreme reaction additionally got here out from their midst, too.
“T-this is his summoned creature?! What?! That’s a summon?!”
Im Tae-Gyu pointed at Fangs and raised his voice.
As for the opposite Hunters, no person could respond to him as their jaws have been still resting on the floor at that second. however, all people become taking into consideration kind of the identical aspect.
How may want to that issue be classified as a mere summon??
From the manner it appeared, or the powers it possessed, that factor no longer gave the impression of a easy summoned creature, but a demon king that had descended to this earth.
regardless of the case may additionally were, that absolutely nonsensical pillar of flames roasted the swarm of ants like there has been no the following day.
The ant king commenced shuddering over again.
‘these… those are that human’s squaddies….??’
less than one minute later, hundreds of the ant king’s squaddies have been evaporated into ash and dirt. It wasn’t some metaphor, both. The ant monsters coming into touch with that strange pillar of flames honestly did evaporate wherein they stood.
For the primary time ever….
The ant king felt actual terror in the direction of every other being for the primary time in its life.
It also sensed an unscalable wall. The ant king finally found out that there has been an enemy that couldn’t be triumph over, no matter what strength it tried to use.
This became a whole defeat, in each feel of the word.
but, how may want to such a aspect be…?
‘i was born to combat towards the sturdy human beings, so why….’
That became its sole calling. It hurried with its growth for that purpose. It even absorbed human’s powers so one can facilitate that goal.
but to assume, it nevertheless couldn’t win towards this one human….
The ant king started shivering and grew to become around to run. It just had to run away a long way, a ways far from this human. as a minimum in this very moment, the mind of its superb nation and its squaddies had absolutely disappeared from the ant king’s head.
the usage of the recovery talent taken from one of the dead human beings, the ant king fast regenerated its lost wing and took to the air once more.
‘despite the fact that it’s handiest a touch bit similarly away…..’
however, it took place then.
Khu-woong!
all of a sudden, a powerful force driven it down and planted the ant king flat on the ground.
“Kiiieeehk!!”
It spat out a mouthful of physical fluid.
Having utilised the talent ‘Ruler’s attain’ like a flyswatter, Jin-Woo fast walked over to where the downed ant king became.
‘i will’t permit this guy get away, glaringly.’
It become a robust monster. He wanted to turn it into his Shadow Soldier regardless of what. however, in an effort to try this….
‘Killing it comes first.’
After discovering Jin-Woo drawing close it, the appearance of sheer terror crammed up at the face of the ant king, so much so that the creature regarded nearly pitiful to the onlookers.
“Kii, kiieeehck!!”
in the end, the ant king started out crawling at the ground to get away from him. That smug, dignified appearance it displayed lower back whilst it proceeded to toy around with the Korean Hunters – it was now lengthy, long long gone.
“Now you look like a proper insect.”
Jin-Woo closed in fast, took aim in the back of the ant king, and activated his talent, ‘critical factors Targetting’ – no, ‘Violent scale down’.
That brought up the message window.
Tti-ring!
[You have killed your enemy.]
[Level up!]
[Level up!]
‘Niiice!’
Jin-Woo clenched his fist. but his celebrations lasted best for a quick at the same time as.
“Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim!”
He quickly turned around after Baek Yun-Ho referred to as out to him, and found the latter’s complexion to be extraordinarily poor. Jin-Woo quick ran over to him.
other Hunters rejoicing on the defeat of the ant king stopped and shifted their gazes over to Baek Yun-Ho, as well.
in the meantime, Baek Yun-Ho continued to speak to Jin-Woo.
“Hunter Cha Hae-In is….”
just as his unfinished sentence implied, Cha Hae-In’s power had declined a lot that it changed into hard to even experience it now. The situation had deteriorated even further than earlier than.
Jin-Woo’s expression quickly hardened.
Time had nearly run out.
despite the fact that he rode on Kaisel, simply while might he arrive in his destination and simply how long might he take to find a Healer to heal her?
‘I need any other manner….’
After a few brief considering, Jin-Woo got here up with a method to shop Cha Hae-In.
He completed checking her complexion and stood lower back up. He then turned in the direction of the cameraman.
“Can you switch off the camera for a minute or ?”