LEVEL UP: ALONE

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He takes responsibility for dragging his sister's friend, Han Song-yi, into an extremely dangerous dungeon, and promises to protect her. She starts respecting him as an elder brother from that point on. Morality Adjustment: Jin-woo is still a good person, but as he levels up as a hunter, he becomes colder and more of an Anti-Hero. The ice elves inside the red gate can use Stealth too. They follow Kim Cheol to Jin-woo's group's base, after finishing off the rest of Kim Cheol's group. However, Jin-woo immediately notices their presence.

I Work Alone: Well, Jin-woo does it because he's a One-Man Army. He also doesn't want to miss out on the experience he can gain, so he prefers to clear the entire dungeon alone.

Leveling Up Alone

Giver of Lame Names: Jin-woo doesn't really give too much thought about the names of his shadows. He removes the edgy-sounding "Blood Red Commander" title from Igrit, literally just uses Kim Cheol's given name in English, "Iron", and names his high orc sorcerer, Kargargan, after an orc's physical defining trait, "Tusk". When he tries to come up with a name for his new guild, he originally wants to call it Solo Play, which everyone else thinks is an awful name but they don't know how to tell Jin-woo. Jin-woo's Shadow Exchange allows him to switch positions with one of his shadows anywhere in the world. Given Jin-woo's propensity for leaving abruptly with nary a goodbye, this constantly causes people who want to speak to Jin-woo to unexpectedly bump into one of his shadows instead. Hilarity usually ensues. It Gets Easier: Since the time Hwang Dong-seok threatened his life, Jin-woo has stopped hesitating to kill when he has to. Degraded Boss: Many powerful monsters that might be found as Bosses can be found acting as the front-line troops for higher ranked Gates, almost always resulting in an Oh, Crap! moment for the Hunters. Not even Kamish, the most powerful monster previously encountered by humanity, is exempt from this; at least three similar dragons can be seen among the Shadows accompanying Bellion when the remaining members of the original Shadow Monarch's army arrive in Korea. Boss Battle: Every dungeon also has a boss. If the boss isn't defeated within a week of the gate's appearance, the gate will break, allowing the monsters inside the dungeon to pass through the gate and invade Earth. Once the boss is defeated, the humans have one hour to escape the dungeon before the gate closes.

Graceful Loser: Kang Tae-shik takes it well that he lost and died to Jin-woo. In the webcomic, he states that it is only the course of nature for the weak to fall to the strong. Expy: An army of powerful ants who eat humans, and assimilate human traits to mutate, whose queen eventually uses all her energy to produce a far superior son, who is eventually called the Ant King. Is the king's name perhaps Meruem...? Acrofatic: Vulcan, the 50th floor boss in the Demon Castle Dungeon is very large and fat, yet can easily Flash Step. The actor Lee Min-sung is an Attention Whore, who reveals his true despicable self when he doesn't get what he wants. Dual Wielding: Jin-woo initially only fights with one dagger, but starts to wield two after acquiring a second weapon.Nightmare Face: After the first trial, the Statue of God from the Double Dungeon contorts its face into a Slasher Smile that looks like it was taken straight off The Joker's face, and is just as terrifying. Another Dimension: The monster world is a dimension separate from the human world. Before its denizens can enter the human world, hunters are tasked to take the monsters inside down. He Cleans Up Nicely: Jin-woo cuts his hair and starts wearing fashionable clothes later on. Some people already noticed how attractive he looks, but after his makeover, he gets a lot more attention. Almighty Janitor: Jin-woo is consequently this, as he gets far stronger than his official E-rank implies. At least until he reevaluates his rank, and the Hunter Association officially declares him to be South Korea's tenth S-rank hunter. Chekhov's Skill: When Jin-woo has a look at his status screen for the first time, he notices in his list of skills an "Unknown" skill that is maxed out, but doesn't think too much about it, because the System gives him no info about it.