I’m going to … level with you. I simply do not care about Cha Hae-In, Baek Yoon-ho, or Choi Jongin’s quest to continue a raid on Jeju Island he believes never truly ended. The show has given us little tidbits of these characters, but it’s not nearly enough to get me invested, even if their battle costumes are pretty cool-looking.
I don’t really care about the Yoo brothers and their little tug-of-war for their father’s approval, either. I do care, however, that Jin-Ah has a good dinner and studies well before going to bed, though I was worried her one scene would indicate she’s being targeted by Hwang. Really, this episode is all about Jinwoo’s job-change quest.
His first opponent is a gray knight, and his best dagger can’t chip its armor. He is able to use his bare hands and brute strength to behead the knight and others like him, but he also ends up fighting mages and assassins, and without being able to use full recovery or potions.
It’s quite a handicap, but it’s a testament to how far Jinwoo has already come that he never really panics when the dungeon turns out to be tougher. He just steps up his game to match the intensity. And no foe has had such a threatening aura since the double dungeon than the dungeon boss, Knight Commander Igris the Bloodred.
Igris is as fast as Jinwoo, but much, much stronger, and also maintains his ridiculous speed while in some top-notch heavy armor. Like the other knights, his armor can’t be penetrated by a dagger, and even though it drops its weapons when Jinwoo drops his, Jinwoo can’t score a good hit, and has to do everything he can not to get hit himself.
Ultimately Igris wears him down, and even when Jinwoo gets a slight hit on the knight’s neck, he’s then pulled and twisted and tossed all over the throne room like a ragdoll being caught in a building implosion. It’s some of Solo Leveling’s best combat animation to date, as while violent chaos reigns I could still tell what’s going on and get a really good sense of the three-dimensional space.
Jinwoo ends up slumped over on the throne, which I thought was going to have some significance—perhaps the throne and Ignis, were waiting for a ruler? The knight summons its sword and prepares for a killing blow, but Jinwoo blocks it with his bare hand. He’s not ready to die, and he hasn’t lost yet.
Finding another gear, Jinwoo drives his dagger into Igris’ throat, and keeps hacking at it until it’s deep enough to defeat him. He scores a rune stone for something called “Ruler’s Hand”, Igris’ helmet, 1.5 million gold, and an instant teleportation stone.
Unfortunately, he also gets a rude awakening: defeating Igris didn’t clear this dungeon. Dozens of gates open, and knights, mages, and assassins start flowing out by the dozens. While no one of them is something he can’t handle after beating Igris, he’s extremely exhausted and there are dozens of them.
This is the true job-change quest, and it’s a test of endurance. The longer he survives, the more enhancement points he’ll earn, which are needed to be assigned a “higher class.” My educated guess for next week’s finale is that he’ll find a way to earn those points, reach that higher class … and I’m sure we’ll get another mandatory check-in with Jongin, Hae-in & Co.
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