Sung Jin-Woo persists in completing the daily task. His temperament is changed in Solo Leveling Episode 5. He grows taller again and his whole body is full of explosive muscles. He reaches 18th level after he passed the Instance Dungeon.
Sung Jin-Woo gets twelve ability points. He distributes it on STR and AGI. Although strength can improve damage, it’s meaningless if he cannot hit the target. He gets a lot of strength and he can earn money easily. But he’s still an E Rank hunter. He cannot go to advanced Teleportation Gates for earning money.
He can get into advanced Teleportation Gates if he goes to hunters guild to accept review. But he gives up the mind soon. Because the person who has second awakening is rare. He worries that he will bring unnecessary trouble because he can get stronger as he levels up. He thinks he should be low profile before he masters the power.
Sung Jin-Woo receives an invitation. He runs to the destination. The captain Hwang Dong-Suk takes the team members to walk to Sung Jin-Woo. The team is lack of team members. Hwang Dong-Suk sent an invitation to Sung Jin-Woo because there’s a headcount requirement raid C Rank Teleportation Gates. After all, E-rank hunters don’t count as combatants. So there’s no need to split the loot.
The key fighters in the team are four C-rank hunters and two D-rank hunters. Sung Jin-Woo is in charge of carrying their luggage. Sung Jin-Woo asks Hwang Dong-Suk if he plans to raid without a healer. Hwang Dong-Suk explains it to Sung Jin-Woo that it’s hard to personal raid team recruiting healer. But Sung Jin-Woo still feels uneasy.
He signs the agreement that he won’t ask Hwang Dong-Suk to compensate him if he has an accident in the dungeon. The guy Yoo Jin-Ho shows up. He’s a D-rank hunter. Sung Jin-Woo takes a look at Yoo Jin-Ho. He finds out that the guy wears top gear. He knows he’s very rich.
The team is going to step into the Teleportation Gate. They find out that the entrance is very huge. They think it’s B-rank teleportation gate if the guild didn’t review it as C-rank teleportation gate. They walk into the dungeon. They don’t find any magic beast.
Yoo Jin-Ho wonders if there’s dungeon without magic beast. Sung Jin-Woo closes his eyes and he senses it. He hears the footsteps. He tells Yoo Jin-Ho that the magic beasts don’t appear. The team enters battle mode. Sung Jin-Woo realizes that it’s insect type magic beast.
The magic beast is horror because they show up together. They will be in trouble if the magic beast is ant type. There’re many caves. They don’t know where the magic beasts will attack them. The magic beasts rush to the team from above.
Sung Jin-Woo reminds the team. The magician attacks the magic beasts. Hwang Dong-Suk uses Taunt skill. He draws the ants to attack him. He earns the time for the team. The team members have a good cooperating even if there’s no healer.
Sung Jin-Woo has doubt after he witnessed the cooperating. He wonders if the guys’ fight method is so rough because they haven’t found healer. It’s Yoo Jin-Ho’s first time to get into C-rank dungeon. But his top gear makes up the strength insufficient.
Everyone does a good job when they face the attack. The ants are killed soon. Hwang Dong-Suk thanks Sung Jin-Woo for his reminding. He thinks they wouldn’t have an easy fight if they found it out later. He wonders how did Sung Jin-Woo know the magic beasts would appear from above.
Sung Jin-Woo claims that he did it because of his instinct. The team member finds out that the ants’ injury is weird. It doesn’t look like sword injury or magic injury. There were many ants bitten to death. It seems that the magic beasts had a fight for the land.
It proves that there’s a power magic beast who treated ants as food. Sung Jin-Woo asks Yoo Jin-Ho if his sword and shield are expensive. Yoo Jin-Ho reveals his father bought him the top gear because it’s his first time to do task. Sung Jin-Woo tells Yoo Jin-Ho to be careful even if he cannot explain it.
The team continues to explore the dungeon. They don’t encounter any magic beast. Sung Jin-Woo thinks it’s weird that he gets high reward without fighting. They run into some dying ants. It seems that the boss is there. The magician lights up the cave ahead.
They sees the cobwebs and they walk into the boss room. They’re excited when they see the Mana stones. Yoo Jin-Ho asks Sung Jin-Woo to show him the agreement he just signed. Yoo Jin-Ho knows a little about the law. He thinks Hwang Dong-Suk should give some Mana stones to Sung Jin-Woo. Because Mana stone isn’t loot.
Hwang Dong-Suk agrees to it. But he thinks they should deal with the boss first. The teleportation gate will be closed if they kill the boss. So they should carry the Mana stones out of the dungeon before they kill the boss. Fortunately, the boss giant spider is sleeping. It’s a good chance to dig. But they didn’t take the tools.
So Hwang Dong-Suk asks Yoo Jin-Ho and Sung Jin-Woo to guard there. He decides to take other members to go to take the tools. He thinks there’s no problem as long as Yoo Jin-Ho and Sung Jin-Woo don’t disturb the sleeping giant spider.
Hwang Dong-Suk shows his real face after he walked out of the boss room. He asks the magician to blow up the cave entrance. Yoo Jin-Ho realizes that he and Sung Jin-Woo were betrayed by the team. Sung Jin-Woo remembers Mr. Song told him that some hunters used the teammates as bait to tempt enemies.
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Yoo Jin-Ho feels guilty. He mistakes that the people want to kill them because of the Mana stones. He thinks he got Sung Jin-Woo into trouble. Sung Jin-Woo explains it to Yoo Jin-Ho that those guys would kill them if they took action.
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The ending was destined when they stepped into the dungeon. He thinks it’s meaningless to think about it. The most important thing is the boss who was woken up. The entrance is blocked. They cannot flee.