Sung Jin-Woo visits his mother Park Kyung-Hye in the hospital in Solo Leveling Episode 8. He swears to make the Elixir of Life for saving her mother. But he needs to challenge the S-Rank tasks for getting the three materials.
Sung Jin-Woo knows he’s not those demons’ rival. Because he almost got killed even if he attacked the weakest Hell’s Gatekeeper. So he needs to level up for getting stronger. He visits Yoo Jin-Ho. He agrees to raid C-Rank dungeon 19 times.
But he has one condition that they go to the dungeon alone. But there’s a requirement to raid C-Rank dungeon that the team should be at least eight people. Sung Jin-Woo thinks they can use the method Hwang Dong-Suk used to team up with some hunters.
Although Yoo Jin-Ho worries that there will be an accident, he decides to give it a try since he can own Sung Jin-Woo. It’s the best chance that he gets accepted by his father.
Meanwhile, Cha Hae-In is running in the morning. Yoo Jin-Ho sends his follower to give a business card to Cha Hae-In. Because he needs a S-Rank hunter for building a guild. Yoo Jin-Ho’s father Yoo Myung-Han is a rich real estate developer. But the world has been changed since the teleportation gates appeared ten years ago.
Everything is related to dungeon. It means hunter is very important. The ones who manage the hunters are the hunter guilds. The five big guilds take the lead. It means those guilds occupy all national resources. Yoo Myung-Han cannot ignore it. So he needs to create a S-Rank guild. But all the pressure is passed to the B-Rank hunter Yoo Jin-Ho.
Sung Jin-Woo persists in the daily task. He completes his running and he finds out that there’s no reward. It means that he cannot enter the hidden dungeon to level up. He takes a look at his level. He finds out that he’s only 26. He has to wait for the message of Yoo Jin-Ho’s C-Rank task.
He receives a message from the nation. The nation invites him to join the D-Rank teleportation port team. Sung Jin-Woo needs to take part in the task with others. There’s a big risk that Sung Jin-Woo will expose his talent of second awakening. But he still decides to go to the destination because he needs to get stronger.
Meanwhile, Song Chi-Yul decides to retire since he came back from the double dungeon. He receives the invitation. The one who abandoned Sung Jin-Woo for survive Kim Sangshik receives the message as well. Lee Joo-Hee gets the message. But she doesn’t walk out of the traumatic from the double dungeon. She doesn’t know what to do when she faces the message. She remembers our hero. She decides to join the D-Rank task.
Song Chi-Yul is surprised to see Sung Jin-Woo. He finds out that the guy is changed after he hasn’t seen him in months. They have a talk and they know they got same invitation. They don’t expect that the nation also invited the survivors of the double dungeon.
The five survivors gather together. A black car appears at this time. Three prisoners get off the car. They tangle Lee Joo-Hee. The guy Kang Taeshik stops the prisoners. Song Chi-Yul thinks it’s weird that the three prisoners appear there.
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Female Investigator explains it to Sung Chi-Yul that the prisoners wish to reduce the sentence. The problem is that the area is lack of hunters. But the B-Rank hunter Kang Taeshik will go to the dungeon with the three prisoners for suppressing the three C-Rank hunters.
Sung Jin-Woo persuades Lee Joo-Hee not to join the task. But she insists on joining the team after knowing he’s going to take part in the task. Song Chi-Yul becomes the captain of the team. The team begins to enter the dungeon.