Sung Jinwoo receives the message from the system that he has received the purified Blood of Demon Monarch in Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 9. He collects the last material of Elixir of Life. But he notices that the success rate depends on his intelligence.
Sung Jinwoo sighs. He decides to make the Elixir of Life. The system informs him that he made it. The potion can cure all diseases. He can heal his sleeping mother with it. Iron is thoughtful to carry Kaisellin’s dead body to our hero. Sung Jinwoo extracts a new shadow and he needs to name the shadow. He doesn’t remember Kaisellin’s name. He names him Kaisel.
The wyvern growls. Esil thinks they can go home soon in the wyvern’s help. She wants to go home and have a party. But Sung Jinwoo only wants to go home and let his mother drink the Elixir of Life. He remembers he got a mysterious rune stone after he completed the task. The rune stone can help him exchange locations with shadow soldiers. He can teleport to the shadow’s location no matter where he is.
He takes off his cape and he lets Esil go home on her own. After all, her clan is on 80th floor. It’s too complicated to visit her clan and go home. He uses Shadow Exchange skill and he says goodbye to Esil. She want to confess her feelings to him. But she opens her eyes and sees the shadow soldier who’s patrolling. They’re not meant to be. Sung Jinwoo appears somewhere in the city. He can only use the skill again after three hours. He needs to walk home on his own. But he summons the wyvern Kaisel.
We go to Korean Hunters Association. Go Gunhee and Woo Jinchul are talking about the daytime plan. They plan to tempt the ants out with the magic of the people. They use a special electric wave to cut off the ants’ connection then. The special forces enter ants’ nest and they will kill Ant Queen. The problem is that if the electric wave will work. Go Gunhee worries about it as well. He thinks they need to take the hunters to the island since Draw Sword Guild has a retreat plan. He asks Woo Jinchul about Sung Jinwoo’s whereabouts. Woo Jinchul couldn’t reach our hero.
Baek Yoonho is drinking with Min Byung-Gyu at a bar. Min Byung-Gyu is a S-Rank healer. He’s a young and healthy retired hunter. He was Baek Yoonho’s partner ever. He got invited by Go Gunhee about the Jeju Island Raid. He and Baek Yoonho witnessed another S-Rank hunter Eunseok being eaten by the ants in the last raid. Min Byung-Gyu still remembers the scary scene.
Baek Yoonho thinks he needs to go to take part in the raid because of it. He thinks the whole nation will be in a mess if they leave the ants alone. But Min Byung-Gyu claims that he won’t take part in the raid. He tells Baek Yoonho not to persuade him. Baek Yoonho didn’t come to force Min Byung-Gyu. He came to say goodbye to his best friend. After all, he has a chance not to come back. Min Byung-Gyu learns that Baek Yoonho is resolute.
He reveals he’s going to take a civil service entrance exam. Because he doesn’t want to see the bloody scene anymore. Baek Yoonho realizes that hunters may be abnormal beings. He’s rarely seen the hunters who dislike to fight magic beasts. The fights become a meal of them. Some people enjoy it even. He wonders if it’s the condition of awakening. Min Byung-Gyu notes that Baek Yoonho frowned again. He teases him.
Sung Jinwoo comes to his mother’s ward. He sees his mother’s scar. He’s stuck in his memories. It’s the burn he did it to his mother. But his mother didn’t blame him at that time. She hugged him and she told him that she’s fine. He doesn’t know if the Elixir of Life can save his mother. But he witnessed the miracle the system brought. He became S-Rank hunter from E-Rank hunter.
He decides to give it a try. He pins her mother’s hopes on the Elixir of Life. He lifts his mother and he puts the Elixir of Life into his mother’s mouth. His mother glows. Her burn disappears. The wrinkles on her face are gone. She’s much younger. Sung Jinwoo lowers his head. He begs his mother to wake up. He fought constantly and got stronger for letting his mother recover.
Sung Jinah senses something. She hasn’t been able to concentrate. Maybe it’s a mother-daughter bond. The brightly moonlight shines on the mother. Sung Jinwoo’s mother gets up on her son. She recognizes that our hero is her son. She learns that she’s slept for four years. She feels relieved after knowing Sung Jinah is fine. She thanks her son for keeping the promise.
She feels sorry after she saw the injuries on Sung Jinwoo’s face. She guesses Sung Jinwoo did many things that forced himself. She thinks he suffered a lot. He hears his mother’s gentle words. He tears up and he thinks everything he did was worth it. He’s like a kid who cries in front of his mother.
The next day, the news of the Eternal Slumber patient waking up spreads in the hospital. The dean hears the patient is fine. He doesn’t believe it. Sung Jinwoo asks to be discharged from the hospital. Sung Jinah comes to the ward. She jumps on her mother and she cries after she found out that her mother woke up. Sung Jinwoo thinks all that hard work paid off. He obtained the reward in the end.
Go Gunhee is holding a press conference. The ants in the Jeju Island gave them sleepless nights. He announces that they’re going to begin the fourth Jeju Island raid. Japanese Hunters Association sent many S-Rank hunters to take part in the raid. The hunters below A-Rank will be in charge of local defense.
Min Byung-Gyu looks at the news on his cell phone. He remembers the talk he had with Eunseok before the raid. Eunseok feared the dungeon like him. But Eunseok thought those people who cannot fight are more scared than they are. It’s their duty to get rid of the monsters who hurt the world. He thought they shouldn’t let the nation be the nests of ants. Eunseok worried about Baek Yoonho. The only ones who will support Baek Yoonho are him and Min Byung-Gyu when Baek Yoonho is in the thick of it.
Sung Jinah turns the home into a garbage heap because Sung Jinwoo went to raid Demon Castle. It makes Sung Jinwoo and his mother not have a place to stay after they returned home. But his mother Park Kyung-Hye doesn’t care for it. She offers to clean the house. The three begin to clean the house. Sung Jinwoo sees his mother and his sister in the home. Although it’s the scene he has expected, he’s fear and trepidation.
He crossed the line he shouldn’t cross when he lived as a hunter. Park Kyung-Hye asks her son if his husband contacted them when she slept. She misses her husband very much. She was told from the news that Sung Jinwoo is a hunter. It reminds her that Sung Il-Hwan was a firefighter before he became a hunter. She saw the spirit of Sung Jinwoo’s father so that she married him. She thinks Sung Jinwoo got his father’s genes. Sung Jinah claims that she wants to be a doctor. She wants to save more people.
Sung Jinwoo’s phone is ringing. Woo Jinchul reaches him in the end. Go Gunhee returns to his office after he held the press conference. He didn’t expect that the national level hunter Thomas Andre visited him. Woo Jinchul wishes Thomas Andre to help them. But Go Gunhee thinks the national level hunter won’t step in another nation’s raid. He guesses the guy came for Hwang Dongsoo.
Sung Jinwoo visits the Hunters Association. Go Gunhee claims that the raid is their long-cherished dream. He wants to know if Sung Jinwoo will join the raid. Sung Jinwoo knows it’s a good chance to level up. But he wants to get along with his mother. He tries to reject it. But he senses a magic power. Go Gunhee doesn’t expect that Sung Jinwoo can sense it since it’s far away.
The S-Rank hunters are working out in the gym. Go Gunhee persuades Sung Jinwoo to go to the gym if he’s interested in it. Baek Yoonho is fighting the S-Rank hunter Ma Dongwook in the gym. Sung Jinwoo sees that Baek Yoonho is suppressed. Choi Jong-In explains that Ma Dongwook cannot block it if Baek Yoonho uses full strength. The guy who wears the white clothes is Ma Dongwook.
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Sung Jinwoo doesn’t understand why they didn’t use full strength. Choi Jong-In reveals Baek Yoonho will turn into a monster in the fight if he does that. Sung Jinwoo confirms the rumor that Baek Yoonho is a transformation hunter. The Japanese hunters come to the place as well. One of the hunters pays attention to Sung Jinwoo. He’s told that the guy is the new S-Rank hunter.
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The guild master Goto Ryuji is interested in Sung Jinwoo. He mistakes the guy for an outstanding assassin. But he’s told that Sung Jinwoo is a mage. He thinks the guy isn’t a mage, according to the murderous spirit on his body. The interpreter watches the show. She thinks it’s not the fight of S-Rank hunters. The master of the Knights Guild overhears it. He thinks the woman is looking down on the hunters of his nation. They almost have a fight. Fortunately, Cha Hae-In stops them. Goto Ryuji offers to let the S-Rank hunters have a challenge. Go Gunhee thinks the idea is good. But he wants to exclude mage.