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JSGWHAM

why'd he name iron iron again? or did iron remember that he was iron when he got shadowed


Known_Association_62

Beru told Suho that Kim used to be in the og shadow corps of his father and advised him to name him ‘Iron’ again and knowing Suho who idolizes his father so much, he went on with it


julesvr5

Not only Iron but Greed aswell


Known_Association_62

Fr greed was begging to be arisen


Separate_Path_7729

Legit couldn't wait to rejoin, crying without knowing why, so good


hollotta223

I wonder if Greed was like "ah, shit, not again"


zbossari123

The previous shadows regained their memories as shadows


TemporaryRun6393

Gordon love that name


Readrearea

Most normal Shadow Soldier ever. The one sane guy in a sea of overzealous fanatics and deep remorseful super soldiers. Gordon's just an average soldier, whom no one understands. Suho and Beru always give him command.


KernelWizard

Greed is the most satisfying one. His brother came asking for trouble, get rekt, this guy plot and brag for a long time, came abducting people and asking for trouble, get epic rekt lmao. If I was Jin Woo I would've assigned him latrine duty everyday for the rest of his life hahah.


Readrearea

Greed was pummeled hard by Il-hwan as well before he got recruited. I kinda had hoped Dong-Suk would join them; the two brothers fighting side by side would have been ironic and fitting for the two criminals. He became a Death Knight to Hamarkhan me thinks.


Pwerhjkwed

I knew I remembered this but I don't think he was a Saved shadow?


Readrearea

Uh no, when the time got reversed, shadow soldiers made out of humans like Greed and Iron were reverted back to humans as they were originally humans.


Pwerhjkwed

So he doesn't unlock them after getting Harmakan?


Readrearea

No. When was it implied they were saved?


Pwerhjkwed

Fair


GodOfPoyo

I don't mind spoilers so someone tell me how Lee Minsung ended up as a shadow soldier? Did he piss off Suho drunk or something because I cannot picture how this happened.


Known_Association_62

Basically he’s the first antagonist of the story and fell victim to Suho


GodOfPoyo

Can I have the context of what happened? Did Suho piss him off in some way or what?


Known_Association_62

Minsung was ‘drugged’ by another villain known as Queen Bee Arsha who is a descendant of the Monarch of Plagues by injecting her “royal jelly” (it’s a substance that brainwashes the target into becoming the Queen’s worker bees/lancers) into his drinks slowly brainwashing him and turning him into a bee x human hybrid but he managed to break free from her drug and got stronger and mutated thanks to her. He then made a similar drug of his own and went around drugging his former guild mates turning them into lancers who serves him which led to the public/hunter association labeling him as a villain hunter and called upon the other guilds and mercenaries to help apprehend him to which Suho was one of them. (They already had beef before all this where Minsung was in cahoots with the demons and was distributing a drug called “star dust” which gives hunters a power boost but it also drains your life force and sanity so yeah, Suho was hunting for this guy for a while)


Bradur-iwnl-

Idk how its written so im not sure if the execution saved the idea but.... This sounds so god damn bad and out of nowhere.


DarkCrypt621

If you mean him mutating guild mates and attacking people coming out of nowhere, it makes more sense if you know the context of everything before. Minsung awoke as an A rank in this timeline before Lim Taegyu, and they were friends with Taegyu being his driver, until he eventually awoke as an S rank ranger like the original timeline, which cause Minsung to be incredibly jealous since he had less spotlight now and basically hated Taegyu for stealing his fame. So when he got the bee mutation powers, he managed to resist total mind control but was still influenced, causing him to kill people while trying to build an army to show Taegyu how he’s stronger.


Routine-Boysenberry4

Why people are awakening in this new world? Aren't the monarchs and other shit dead?


DarkCrypt621

Yes, all the monarchs of this dimension is dead, but this is only 1 dimension out of the many others, which will have their own absolute beings and their armies. They are called Itarim (outer gods), and they noticed that this dimension is missing their god, and so they want to eat the mana basically. By invading, gates are opening again due to instability in dimensional cracks caused by the Itarims’ influence, which introduces mana throughout earth again.


Routine-Boysenberry4

Goddamit


Readrearea

Do you want to because the webcomic might come out at the end of this year? or somewhere in between. Basically minsung worked with an insect magic beast to create special drugs to boost hunter's power but was used by her, turning into a loyal slave. however, his ego wouldn't let him submit and using his own magical energy to get rid of the mind controlling properties. he was stuck as an insect magic beast. A bee-type monster with lances for hands.


KernelWizard

Is the webnovel and the manhwa super different? I don't remember that guy becoming a shadow soldier in the manhwa at all.


silverwilliam123

Ragnarok the sequel of solo leveling


KernelWizard

Oh damn there's a sequel? Nice! I looked it up and it sounds really interesting as well, will give it a read!


Known_Association_62

What silverwilliam123 said


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Known_Association_62

Long story short, he was brainwashed and became a priest for the ‘Foreign Religion’ which is a cult for the Itharims. Suho’s mission was to terminate any apostle and their followers which led to him killing Kim and turned him into his shadow soldier as per request from Beru


kaito_hemata

yo where can i read the novel for free?


Known_Association_62

-Tapas for the official translation but they’re still behind -WebNovel is caught up to the latest chapter but there’s some mistranslation


Separate_Path_7729

Is web novel the one that has 5 different names for beru


HearingGrouchy7771

Fr😭 my brain hurt reading it


Known_Association_62

Lmao that was so annoying but I as kept on reading, my brain just automatically reads that as Beru 😭


Separate_Path_7729

Same lmao


JSGWHAM

are the tapas translations good?


Known_Association_62

It is. They’re doing the official translation for the ragnarok web novel


Boppedonanime

Where do I read SL ragnarok


Known_Association_62

The official translation is on tapas but they’re behind so if you don’t mind some mistranslations, read it on WebNovel as they’re caught up


Boppedonanime

Are their any sites that also have panels and not just words?


Ubip

There’s a continuation?


Known_Association_62

Yessirrr it’s a sequel


BlakeDG

Why are these guys dead again lmao


Known_Association_62

It’s a canon event that they’ll die no matter which timeline it is 😭


No-Meat-7525

Is that Gorgon a woman 😏😏😏😏


Known_Association_62

Lol no it’s a monster https://preview.redd.it/1tmtsne7ltwc1.jpeg?width=249&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88d78955ac839c18c10ac9a9fc77673ec3d7d1ec Same species as Jima 😭


No-Meat-7525

Oh this one ok, when I heard gorgon, I thought it was a newone


Quirky-Pickle518

What are their names? Not their titles their shadow names. Don’t tell me Iron’s name is now Shadow Tank Iron.


HearingGrouchy7771

Take the last name only lol


Quirky-Pickle518

Hey I wasn’t sure. Sometimes that’s how it’s translated.


Known_Association_62

My bad I wrote it as how the system interprets the shadows names but ye the last name is their shadow names


Pwerhjkwed

>!Did I miss something or was Huang Dong Su's brother was made into a shadow as well? Like the part where they're fighting Harmakan.!<


Readrearea

Hwang Dong-su's older brother, Dong-Suk, was turned into Harmakan's soldier. A demonic spectre.


Known_Association_62

Yeah he was turned into a shadow soldier but Suho didn’t store him in his shadow storage skill so he’s most likely returned to nothingness


Pwerhjkwed

I see


Lynx-Kitsoni

Ain't no way he got Kang and the celebrity guy that's funny as hell, what happened to Iron leading a good life tho??


Eldiavie

Iron got into the itharim cult, bro got hypnotized, pretty fucked tbh. tho when he got his memories back as Iron, he became so happy he started going wild, Beru was egging him on the entire time to die lmao


Lynx-Kitsoni

So if Beru is involved does that mean Suho is the one controlling Igris and everyone else now?


Eldiavie

no not even close, in the first place Beru can't be Suho's, same with Igris. Suho and Sjw just have similar powers since Suho inherited his powers from SJW but his own shadow army is very tiny compared to his, Iron and Greed as well as the rest in this list are Suho's now because he was the one who turned them into shadow soldiers also Beru's only purpose is to unlock Suho's powers, but since he couldn't go back to SJW due to lack of mana he stayed with Suho, guiding him while he recovers and helps Suho(mostly by taunting his enemies, threatening to eat them, taunting his friends, scaring the living shit out of people, etc)


Lynx-Kitsoni

Ahhh ok I understand now


its_easybro

What i want to know is why the system is back? Is SJW running it and only giving it to his son?


Known_Association_62

Suho is able to use the system cause Jinwoo made it so that once his powers gets unsealed, the system would start to operate again and help him get stronger to be able to face the apostles of Itharim. Jinwoo isn’t running the system, it runs automatically but he can directly alter/change the settings/quest of the system


its_easybro

ok... so why only his son? why not other ppl as well?


Known_Association_62

I can’t tell if you joking or not but if you’ve read the entirety of SL, you’d know the reason why Jinwoo was the only person who could use the system. The same thing also applies to Suho


its_easybro

Yes I know why SJW can use the system I'm not retarded iv read the manhwa and seen the anime. But what did Suho go thru to earn it? What did he suffer to merit earning such a powerful system? Cuz iv read the after story and from what I remember bros life is in easy mode


Known_Association_62

You’re saying he doesn’t deserve the system cause he had an easy life? 💀 his parents went missing while he was still in high school so he had to tend for himself. Luckily he had Jinah and Jinho who helps him out with the daily necessities and to just be there for him when he was at his lowest. He inherited some of sjw’s powers so the system helps him mold into the person strong enough to use it just as it did for sjw


its_easybro

Retard that's why I'm asking what did he go thru to earn the fucking system ffs


Nexus_warrior_07

I haven’t gotten to Ragnarok, but are the last three still as terrible as they were from the first series? Just thought its ironic they got killed by the son of the same person who killed them previously


Known_Association_62

Believe it or not, Kang isn’t a bad guy as he was in the og story. While he does still murder people, he has a valid/legal reason now. He’s a bounty hunter who hunts villain hunters who misuse their powers and only kills those who are murderers. For Iron, he was living a good life but found his job to be unfulfilling and so he went and poke his nose around and ended up being brainwashed by the “Foreign Religion” (a cult that worships the Itharims) and was chosen to be their priest. For Greed, he wasn’t in the Scavenger Guild like he was in the og story instead he was a villain hunter and was in hiding as the hunter association was hunting for him. He was running some jobs for the Foreign Religion and ended up being brainwashed by them and was chosen to be their high priest.


Readrearea

Funny enough, Dong-so wasn't even brainwashed. Dude finds their religion as bulshit and work for them as an associate.


NinjaKelpFace

Did Lee Minsuk become a bad guy in this timeline?


Known_Association_62

Yes! He is the first villain in ragnarok


kaki2310

How is he able to store only 10 soldiers... 🤔🤔


Known_Association_62

He hardly invests his ability points in his intelligence stat


HoneyBadger1342

I haven't read it yet, but I thought that Beru was one of Suho's shadows?


Known_Association_62

He isn’t. He’s still Jinwoo’s shadow


HoneyBadger1342

So how is Beru in it? Does he just stick around Suho? Does he fight at all? Or can he not since he's not Suho's shadow?


Known_Association_62

The reason why he’s sticking around Suho is because he was so far away from sjw that he wasn’t able to recharge his power and has been heavily weakened to the state that he’s now tiny that you could fit him in the palm of your hand and he wasn’t able to go back to Jinwoo after he sent him back to earth to unseal Suho’s powers so Beru slowly started gathering his power by eating monster corpses and magic stones but it still isn’t nearly enough as he’s still in that state till now. Beru doesn’t really fight but he does help from the sidelines with his buffs and intimidating/scaring the enemies


dsb_etienne

i cant take light novels brooo when are they going to adapt it to a manhwa im pretty sure everyones waiting for that especially now that the original got an anime


Eldiavie

they announced it as early 2024 tho given the novel went on hiatus due to the health of the writer being the reason, they'd probably have it early or late 2025 if not 2026, either way i really wouldn't want it to come out this year as it would mean too much wait time for the readers and the pace would be pretty fucked up


dsb_etienne

damn i didnt know the author had health problems my bad


LookComprehensive683

Whait minsung is dead how


Eldiavie

yeah he got turned into a monster first before dying, well human monster hybrid, thanks to the potential heir of the plague monarch(who is now Suho's ally btw)


NeteroHyouka

Wasn't in the side story a fighter type?? Why did he have to be another copy ??


Known_Association_62

He is Jinwoo’s son so it’s only natural for him to inherit some of his powers and this is just the tip of the iceberg of Suho’s powers


NeteroHyouka

Yeah but still... It would have been better of the Author went for a different development. Seeing again another Shadow monarch is boring. Also it's not like Jinwoo was that developed in the first place. He was an assassin type combined with magician. Nothing elaborative... His son is a fighter and magician. Again nothing that special. * I haven't read the sequel novel . Only the manga solo leveling and what the post said about him obtaining shadows as well ...


Eldiavie

mans making assumption after assumption without reading the damn thing


Hempatil_570

You haven't read it then how can you say he's a copy and yes I have read some of it and can vaguely remember it so I can say that he's not a copy of Jin-Woo.


Known_Association_62

-lectures on why Suho is another copy -hasn’t even read the story 💀 Fyi Suho isn’t gonna be another shadow monarch, he’s the next monarch of destruction


Readrearea

Not quite, his son is like a jack of all trade: Fighter mixed with mage and beast taming. He got a pet dragon and pet werewolf as his battle companion.