Yoo Jin-Ho asks Sung Jin-Woo out in Solo Leveling Episode 7. Yoo Jin-Ho plans to create a strike team. He wants to invite Sung Jin-Woo. Because his father Yoo Myung-Han wants to form a guild. But he needs a license for being chairman.
Yoo Jin-Ho tells Sung Jin-Woo that he needs a hunter who joins twenty strike tasks for the guild license. Sung Jin-Woo realizes that there’s a lot of treasure in the dungeons. Magic stone and Mana stone are just part of it. The dead body of advanced magic beast can be all kinds of gear materials.
Yoo Jin-Ho reveals his father plans to hire S-rank hunters as chairman and let Yoo Jin-Ho’s older brother be vice-chairman. But Yoo Jin-Ho’s older brother isn’t an Awakener. So Yoo Jin-Ho wants to gain experience for getting the chairman license. He plans to compete with his older brother.
He persuades Sung Jin-Woo that he needs partners if he wants to conceal his true power and join strike tasks. He adds that he can convince his father if he takes E-rank hunter to raid dungeons. Yoo Jin-Ho knows Sung Jin-Woo’s power reaches B-rank. He thinks he will get betrayed if he teams up with advanced hunter.
He gives him a paper and he promises to give him 300 billion won if he completes twenty strike tasks for him. But Sung Jin-Woo thinks the 300 billion won is nothing because he knows the system can help him become S-rank hunter. He doesn’t want to take the risk to team up with others because he doesn’t know if the leveling up will hurt his body for not. He rejects Yoo Jin-Ho’s offer.
Yoo Jin-Ho doesn’t give up. He promises to keep the secret all his life for Sung Jin-Woo if Sung Jin-Woo helps him. But Sung Jin-Woo glares Yoo Jin-Ho with killing intention. Yoo Jin-Ho realizes that he said something wrong.
Meanwhile, Hwang Dong-Soo is told that his brother is dead in Scavenger Guild. Hwang Dong-Soo looks into the two survivors immediately. He asks her secretary Laura about the consequence of killing people outside. She reveals he will be punished. He thinks the survivors are the ones who killed his older brother.
Sung Jin-Woo runs with his younger sister Sung Jin-Ah. The system informs him that he has completed the hidden task. He gets a reward. The reward is a box. Sung Jin-Woo opens the box. He gets a dungeon key again. It’s called The Demon Castle’s Key.
He can enter Demon Castle with the key. He smiles after he read the introduction of the key. Because he can get the material of Holy Water of Life in Demon Castle. Holy Water of Life can cure all illnesses with her powerful magic. He thinks he might heal his mother’s illness if he owns the item.
Sung Jin-Woo goes to the destination for opening the dungeon. He thinks the dungeon in front of him is S-Rank. He guesses that the ones who wait for him are the magic beasts the S-Rank hunters couldn’t deal with. He walks into the dungeon and he sees the burning ruins.
I think he asks for death to raid the dungeon with his level. Fortunately, he got a teleportation stone before. He can flee from the dungeon if he cannot defeat the magic beasts. A huge magic beast appears in front of Sung Jin-Woo suddenly.
The system leaks that the beast is “Hell’s Gatekeeper Cerberus”. The name is red. It means that the magic beast is stronger than Sung Jin-Woo. Sung Jin-Woo wears the title “Wolf Assassin” immediately. The title improves his power 40 percent when he deals with beast type enemies.
He activates his ability “Dash”. He plans to test Cerberus’s defense. He doesn’t expect that his full power hit just bruises the beast. Although he tests Cerberus’s weak point with his speed constantly, he cannot hurt the beast even if he has the title.
He uses the ability “Murderous Intent”. It reduces the Hell’s Gatekeeper’s stats by 50 percent. But Cerberus has a high attack resistance. Sung Jin-Woo cannot suppress the magic beast. Cerberus is provoked. He hits Sung Jin-Woo. Sung Jin-Woo catches the chance to stab Cerberus’s nose.
Although he launches paralysis and bleeding debuffs, Hell’s Gatekeeper has a very high resistance. The effects are cancelled soon. The system informs Sung Jin-Woo suddenly that Cerberus is going to use his ability “Rage”. All his stats will triple within three minutes.
Sung Jin-Woo sees Cerberus rushing to him. He uses the ability “Will To Recover”. His arm which was bitten off recovers. He jumps on the beast’s head and he stabs his eye. But Cerberus doesn’t feel pain at all because he’s in anger.
He throws Sung Jin-Woo away. Sung Jin-Woo looks up. He finds out that Cerberus is in front of him. Cerberus gives Sung Jin-Woo a heavy attack. The system reminds Sung Jin-Woo that he’s going to die. Sung Jin-Woo knows the system doesn’t wish him to die.
He thinks it’s impossible to hang in there until Cerberus’s rage effect ends. What he can do is to leave the dungeon. Hell’s Gatekeeper attacks Sung Jin-Woo at this time. Sung Jin-Woo’s teleportation stone drops. Sung Jin-Woo tries to pick the stone. But Cerberus slaps it away.
Sung Jin-Woo has to flee when Cerberus attacks him. He finds out that his HP is only 500 points. He knows he will be killed if his HP continues to reduce. He remembers there’s a shop in the system. One bottle of healing potion costs 300 gold coins.
But three bottles of healing potion can only recover 300 points HP. He checks the items and he finds out that Kasaka’s Venom Gland can reduce physical damage by 20 percent. He remembers the task he completed when he was in double dungeon. He got the blessing from the Grand Magician. It helps him recover and be immune to all toxins.
He drinks up Kasaka’s Venom Gland. The system detects the harmful ingredient. The blessing launches. Cerberus finds Sung Jin-Woo before Sung Jin-Woo is happy. He rushes to him. Sung Jin-Woo fails to flee. He gets hit. He’s bleeding but he’s firm.
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Hell’s Gatekeeper’s rage effect ends. His eyeball begins to bleed because it was stabbed. Sung Jin-Woo catches the chance to kill Cerberus. He gets the key to open the gate of the demon castle and the recipe to make Elixir of Life.
Sung Jin-Woo needs three kinds of materials to make Elixir of Life. The materials can be obtained in the demon castle. Sung Jin-Woo knows his power after the fight. He will die if he gets into the demon castle.