Summary :
Sung Jin-Woo is now a hero to the world after saving Seoul from the Shadow Monsters. He is invited to meet with the leaders of the world’s major hunter associations to discuss the future of humanity.
Jin-Woo tells the leaders that the Shadow Monsters are a threat to all of humanity and that they must work together to defeat them. He also tells them that he is willing to help in any way he can.
The leaders are grateful for Jin-Woo’s help and agree to work together to defeat the Shadow Monsters. They also agree to give Jin-Woo the power to act independently if he needs to.
Chapter 69 Solo Leveling begins with Sung Jin-Woo’s invitation to meet with the leaders of the world’s largest hunting associations. The leaders want to thank Jin-Woo for saving Seoul from the Shadow Monsters and also want to discuss the future of humanity.
Jin-Woo tells the leaders that the Shadow Monsters are a threat to all of humanity and that they must work together to defeat them. He also tells them that he is willing to help in any way he can.
The leaders are grateful for Jin-Woo’s help and agree to work together to defeat the Shadow Monsters. They also agree to give Jin-Woo the power to act independently if he needs to.
Jin-Woo leaves the meeting feeling confident that humanity has a chance against the Shadow Monsters. He knows he has the support of world leaders and is determined to protect humanity from the Shadow Monsters no matter what.
Chapter 69 of Solo Leveling is a good chapter that shows Jin-Woo’s growing leadership and influence. Jin-Woo is now one of the most powerful hunters in the world, and world leaders look to him for guidance and protection.
The chapter also does a good job of building anticipation for the upcoming battle between humanity and the Shadow Monsters. It’s clear that the Shadow Monsters are powerful and dangerous enemies, but Jin-Woo and the World Hunters are determined to defeat them.
Overall, Chapter 69 Solo Leveling is a good chapter that will definitely please manga fans.
On the primary mild of the day, Jin-Woo headed to the Daesung Tower.
‘It certain is truly huge.’
looking to look up on the pinnacle of this a hundred-ground-tall skyscraper from nearby made his neck harm.
‘however, why are there so many people round here?’
unlike the remaining time, there have been manner too many people coming in and out of the Tower. The distinction in foot traffic among the middle of the night and daylight hours turned into some distance too big.
no longer best the building’s entrance but the streets surrounding it changed into packed full as well.
‘It’ll in all likelihood get actual noisy if someone vanishes in an area with so many human beings in it, right?’
now not handiest that, the media turned into casting a highlight on this thriller helper or anything, so there wasn’t any reason for him to go out of his manner and draw attention to himself, changed into there?
‘manifestly now not.’
Jin-Woo wasn’t a person who enjoyed the attention, to begin with.
He made his way to a place with no longer a whole lot foot traffic and pulled out the key to the Demon’s fort from his stock.
It become a long, slender, golden key. At a casual look, it even resembled a elaborate decorative item.
‘no person’s round me, proper?’
After scanning his environment, Jin-Woo nodded his head.
‘permit’s enter from here.’
Jin-Woo activated his ‘Stealth’ ability.
Shururuk…
After vanishing from view, he returned to the primary road and walked toward the Tower whilst brushing beyond the endless passersby.
faucet.
faucet.
As befitting the busy road within the middle of the town – and all through the daylight hours, no much less – the distance he had to walk wasn’t a ways but he nonetheless ended up bumping into pretty a few shoulders as he blended in with the crowd.
however, not one individual noticed it.
‘If I have been to abuse this Stealth talent, i’m able to do quite tons some thing, no?’
He even notion that this needed to be the motive why high-ranking Hunters possessing the Stealth skill had been carefully monitored always.
His aimlessly wandering mind didn’t live like that for lengthy. similar to the first time he got here right here, the encompassing view suddenly transformed as quickly as he stepped across the invisible boundary.
Rumble….
‘i can already listen the sounds of flames burning from this a long way away, so just how warm is it in there?’
The massive tower enveloped in flames – the Demon’s castle, changing the Daesung Tower, filled up his entire view.
The factor was, even though, people were supposedly capable of quickly adapting to their conditions.
‘properly, it’s not as awful because the first time.’
For certain, he didn’t feel as apprehensive because the first time he saw the Demon’s castle.
No, maybe…
‘maybe, it’s because i have levelled up sufficiently enough.’
Jin-Woo saved the key to the Demon’s fortress in his inventory, and summoned an ash-coloured key, instead.
[Item: Key to the Castle’s Gate]
Rarity: A
type: Key
the key to liberate the gates of the Demon’s citadel. may be obtained most effective after killing the Gatekeeper.
It turned into the important thing he were given after killing the gatekeeper, the Cerberus. lower back then, he didn’t even dare to use it after getting almost bitten to death with the aid of the Cerberus, but now, he ought to use it.
Shururuk…
next up, he summoned his weapon.
On his left hand, the key; and on his right hand, the Baruka’s Dagger. Jin-Woo carefully approached the the front gate of the Tower.
He couldn’t see the Cerberus.
‘ought to it’s that monsters don’t respawn within the Demon’s fortress?’
He couldn’t make sure, however there was some opportunity that it might be, much like with the Cerberus.
‘in that case….’
in that case, the layout of this dungeon could be very one-of-a-kind from other immediate dungeons wherein monsters continually respawned.
Jin-Woo extended his notion to the limit.
Thump, thump, thump!
via expanding his belief Stat that had broke beyond the a hundred mark, he could even pay attention his own heart beating as loudly as thunderclaps.
‘but, I’m no longer scared in any respect.’
not like before, he turned into simply feeling lots more confident, understanding how robust he was presently. maintaining his vigilance and shivering from worry have been very distinct memories, in the end.
Tti-ring.
when he stood earlier than the fortress’s gate, a brand new message popped up.
[Will you use the Key to the Castle’s Gate to enter?] (Y/N)
‘….you suspect I’m going again home after coming this some distance?’
Jin-Woo snorted at this nonsensical question and selected ‘yes’.
Creeaaaak….
He didn’t even do some thing, but the big pair of doorways started out moving because the hinges issued loud creaks.
Slam!
‘Huh….?’
Jin-Woo turned into flustered subsequent.
He had had his belief expanded to the max, but he couldn’t experience a unmarried presence of monsters from beyond the fortress gates.
‘There are no monsters??’
Jin-Woo were involved approximately exactly the alternative situation happening to him.
He had even concept about going through a unique education by intentionally entering the penalty region to fight in opposition to the ones wilderness centipedes or some thing, in case monsters crazily rushed out as quickly because the fort gate spread out.
‘however, what the hell….’
What the hell became the meaning of this?
All his effort thus far appeared to be in useless.
The indoors was totally with out any existence.
‘Huh…. well, this is….”
Feeling somewhat dumbfounded, Jin-Woo saved ‘Baruka’s Dagger’ back to his stock and entered the Demon’s fort.
It took place, then.
Tti-ring.
As quickly as a mechanical beep rang interior his head, he immediately summoned each of his daggers. however, that beep become not anything more than an alert to let him realize that a new message had arrived.
‘Uh?’
[A new quest is available.]
‘a brand new quest, is it?’
It wasn’t a every day Quest?
nicely, it’d be extraordinary if it was, given that Jin-Woo made positive to finish the every day Quest and pocketed the rewards before coming here. that means, this had to be a ordinary quest….
And that might be his first, ever.
‘nicely, yeah, I’ve been getting most effective the Hidden Quests or Emergency Quests till now, so….’
except for the every day Quests that showed up every day regardless of how he felt, of direction.
Jin-Woo tilted his head barely and confirmed the contents of the message.
‘verify.’
Then, the records at the quest appeared before him.
Tti-ring.
[Normal Quest: Collect the Souls of Demons! (1)]
Demons are everywhere in the Demon’s castle. Kill the demons and gather their souls to acquire special rewards.
One soul may be accrued from a single demon, but on better floors, there are demons with a couple of souls.
Quest generation situation:
– access into the Demon’s castle
Quest clear situation:
– gather 10,000 souls.
Rewards:
1. any one item available in the shop
2. +20 bonus Stat points
3. An unknown praise
20 bonus Stat factors!
That became the first actual aspect that attracted Jin-Woo’s interest – the Stat points.
‘i can raise my Intelligence by using 20 factors!’
a grin instinctively shaped on his face.
He’d been feeling his lack of MP for quite a while now.
‘I want lots of Mana if the shadow soldiers need to regenerate.’
And, was Mana his handiest trouble? He had already confirmed that the variety of shadows he could extract, in addition to the range of infantrymen he may want to shop, extended while his Intelligence Stat also advanced.
So, for him, growing the ‘Intelligence’ Stat was a need to.
‘There usually has been a restrict to growing that Stat thru stage-united states of americaand each day Quests, however now….’
If he could get his arms on that 20 points thru the completion of this quest, then his troubles might be solved in a single fell swoop.
Gulp.
He was salivating already.
‘no longer best that….’
Jin-Woo’s gaze landed on different rewards.
[Rewards]
1. anybody item available in the shop
2. +20 Bonus Stat points
He changed into feeling grateful for the bonus Stat points, however now, he may want to even pick one object from the store, too?
‘am i able to sincerely pick out anything?’
Jin-Woo recalled the ones ultra-luxurious gadgets he saw in the store’s menu.
‘I certainly noticed….’
There were some S-rarity objects that price billions, hell, even tens of billions there. properly, those billions weren’t the actual-international currency however Gold that best existed inside the gadget, although.
nevertheless, simply how extraordinary become this?
The ‘Knight Killer’ he’d been using so properly until now cost handiest 3 million Gold.
‘A 3 million B-rarity object already possesses this excessive high-quality and attack power, so simply what will the ones costing billions be like?’
His interest were stoked for positive.
by no means mind the mystery third praise, just from looking at the ones rewards by myself, he knew right away that he couldn’t permit this quest slip through his palms.
‘For this type of rewards, killing one or monsters is a walk inside the park.’
Jin-Woo became simply elated now and idea approximately completing this quest actual speedy to acquire the ones rewards, best for his eyes to bulge out after confirming the quest clear circumstance.
“10000?!”
He gasped out in sheer shock.
This become already a ways past the perception of killing one or monsters.
‘What the hell, what form of slave labour is that this?!’
He had no concept what sort of a monster those demons can be, however hell, 10000 turned into a horrifying-high range, certainly.
nevertheless, a smile crept up on Jin-Woo’s face.
‘properly, that would have been, if i used to be alone.’
presently, the variety of shadow soldiers he possessed was 50.
If every one killed 2 hundred, this quest could be cleared. If he driven his soldiers to paintings difficult, definitely this form of quest would prove to be nothing however a cakewalk.
[Will you accept the ‘Normal Quest: Collect the Souls of Demons! (1)’?]
‘Of route.’
He had no motive to refuse.
[You have accepted the quest.]
The penalty for failing this quest might be him wasting a chunk of time, that’d be all.
‘compared to different quests, uh-whew…..’
actually, this became truely a outstanding quest whilst compared to the elegance trade Quest or Emergency Quests in which his life changed into on the line.
Jin-Woo raised his head.
‘i ponder, is that aspect speculated to display my progress any more?’
As quickly as he everyday the hunt, a counter he hadn’t visible earlier than seemed within the air, just above his line of sight.
[Collected souls of demons: 0/10,000]
‘ten thousand… so far away….’
A bitter giggle leaked out of his mouth as soon as he were given to bodily verify the wide variety that were floating interior his head as not anything but a vague perception till now.
It became then that he observed a unique counter to the left of that one.
‘Huh?’
[Exp. needed for the next level up: 60,000]
There it become, sixty thousand virtually displayed thru the holographic display.
As soon as he met that, he’d stage up, or at least that’s what was written there.
‘Even my experience factors are being displayed now?’
however, he had by no means seen some thing like that previous to his entry into the Demon’s castle.
‘maybe….’
To ensure, Jin-Woo took a step backwards and left the Demon’s citadel.
positive sufficient, both the counter for souls and experience points disappeared. whilst he stepped again internal, they showed up once more as if that they had never disappeared within the first area.
‘Yeah, they simplest display up in the Demon’s fortress.’
although it become unfortunate that he couldn’t see them out of doors the fortress, however at the least, it’d be quite handy to have them inside, that’s for positive.
If he looked at it from another attitude….
‘Does this suggest that it’ll take a long, long time for me to conquer this place?’
That was a wonderful possibility.
Jin-Woo carefully read through the hunt info one greater time and closed the message windows.
‘That should be enough training, I assume.’
subsequently, he had a few leeway to take a closer examine the indoors of the Demon’s citadel.
‘Heok?!’
Jin-Woo’s eyes widened right now once he did.
Wuuuuu-….
interior of the fort was…. a ruined city. pretty unexpectedly, it changed into a subject-type dungeon.
‘what is this location? is that this Seoul?’
If absolutely everyone in Seoul died and a hundred years had surpassed by way of, might the metropolis seem like this?
within this lifeless, ash-grey cityscape, simplest the lonesome road lights flickered as though they had been having a seizure.
‘I never expected it to be a subject-kind dungeon, although….’
now not handiest that, a dungeon created to look like the metropolis of Seoul.
This turned into the form of scale that thoroughly disallowed any comparison to different on the spot dungeons that were primarily based around a special place together with subway stations or department stores.
Jin-Woo’s eyes narrowed to a slit.
‘So, like, wherein need to i’m going now?’
wherein should be his vacation spot?
Jin-Woo’s gaze scanned the environment and the distant horizon. fortunately, his quandary didn’t final for lengthy.
in the some distance-off distance, within the path where the famed Namsan Tower have to had been, there stood a huge pillar of light stretching past the sky.
‘permit’s head over there.’
Jin-Woo started out strolling in that route. He additionally made sure to memorise the surrounding place of the fortress’s gates in case he got lost at the manner, too.
however….
His steps had to come to a prevent no longer long after.
“Kekeke.”
“Kekekek.”
Monsters with smallish bodily sizes started creeping out from the gaps of ruined homes, one after the other.
[Low-Ranked Demon]
Jin-Woo right now acknowledged what they have been from the dark-purple name floating above their heads.
‘They seem like….’
those creatures reminded him of Gargoyles, however with out wings. There were a complete of 8 of them.
Seeing them, the corners of Jin-Woo’s lips arched up.
‘nicely, for starters, I got myself 8 souls.’
proper away….
Kwajeeck!
The ‘Baruka’s Dagger’ pierced deeply into the brow of one of the demons.
[You killed a Low-Ranked Demon.]
[You have earned 100 experience points.]
[You have collected (1) Soul of Demons.]
“Kiaahk?”
“Kiieehk?”
the instant the demons’ attention had shifted to the only with the dagger stuck to its forehead, Jin-Woo hastily approached another one to separate its head from its body.
Slice!
[You killed a Low-Ranked Demon.]
[You have earned 100 experience points.]
[You have collected (1) Soul of Demons.]
This one additionally gave him one hundred EXP.
‘and that i need sixty thousand enjoy factors….’
If he hunted down six hundred Low-Ranked Demons, then he’d get to raise his level.
The closing demons were looked after inside the blink of a watch.
“Kiiiiehhk?!”
“Khek!!”
He had accrued eight souls, and the revel in factors earned were eight hundred.
‘hello, this isn’t too horrific.’
and they said that the adventure of 1000 miles started with step one – Jin-Woo’s eyes started glowing brightly as he began looking for his next prey.
***
inside the workplace of the White Tiger Guild’s Guild grasp.
Baek Yun-Ho become browsing thru numerous files he had been neglecting within the beyond few days due to his busy agenda.
Beep-!
He picked the smartphone up after hearing that beep.
– “grasp, Min Byung-Gu Hunter-nim desires to talk to you. What must I do, sir?”
“permit him via.”
– “yes, sir.”
A quick whilst later, a familiar voice came from the telephone’s speaker.
– “Baek Hyung, why did you turn your cell off?”
Baek Yun-Ho spat out an extended sigh.
“due to the d*mn newshounds. i used to be considering being out of the public’s eye until this whole issue dies down.”
– “Ahh, that! The purple Gate incident! Yeah, I saw the news here in Japan, too. Hyung, I had no concept that you have been that photogenic, you already know?”
“prevent riling me up, man. I’m not inside the temper to youngster round. If I find out simply who leaked it to the media, I’m gonna…”
– “Hyung, don’t sweat over it an excessive amount of. the whole lot’s gonna get buried quickly, anyway. you notice, there is going to be bigger information, quickly.”
“huge news, is it? From Japan?”
– “yes. that is going to be a larger issue than you may consider. You’ll maximum probably pay attention approximately it quickly in Korea, too.”
“What befell?”
approximately a week in the past, the japanese Hunter’s association secretly contacted numerous of Korea’s huge Guilds. They stated that they needed recommendation from the Korean Hunters.
And so, days after that, a few of Korea’s elite Hunters travelled to Japan. The Hunter Min Byung-Gu changed into one in every of them.
Baek Yun-Ho had been curious about that count number for some time now.
“forestall constructing up the suspense and tell me what happened already. This was the primary time the Japs have requested for advice from us. What made them do this? What did the ones prideful b*stards want?”
– “Baek hyung….. I’m sure you still recollect the ants of Jeju Island, sure?”
four years ago, a rank S Gate unfolded at the island of Jeju. Ants got here out of there.
There were three separate subjugation operations considering then, and they all resulted in failure.
ultimately, the Korean government gave up at the island, and it became now a barren land ruled by way of monsters.
“How may want to I overlook? I almost died again then.”
– “properly, looks like there’s been a few form of a mutation.”
“A mutation, is it? however, what does it depend to us? Aren’t they simply going to fight among themselves while being confined to that island?”
– “nicely, the component is….”
The voice coming from the cellphone sounded alternatively stricken.
– “The Japs found a corpse of a winged ant at the coast of Japan, simply.”