Solo Leveling, by Chugong – The Complete Series | Free Audiobook

Sung Jinwoo is the E-rank hunter everyone looks down on, scraping by on the weakest missions with nothing to his name and no hope of ever ranking up. On a routine dungeon run, his party stumbles into a hidden double dungeon and abandons him to die at the hands of monsters far beyond his level. But instead of a final blow, he hears a sound no one else can: a System offering to make him a Player. The story of the underdog hunter begins, and nothing will ever be the same.

Armed with his System, Jinwoo is now strong enough to clear dungeons that once would have killed him, and he keeps that power to himself. When a mysterious quest calls him to change his class, he faces the blood-red knight Igris and earns a job no hunter has ever held. The quiet beginner becomes something darker: a summoner of shadows, a necromancer who can raise the dead as his soldiers. The shadow monarch begins to wake, and the System has plans for him that go far beyond leveling up.

Leveling up in low-ranked dungeons has become impossible for Jinwoo, but a hunter climbing higher would raise far too many questions. The time has come for a formal reevaluation, and the results shake the whole country: Jinwoo is ranked among the most powerful hunters in South Korea. A whole new world of elite hunters and fearsome beasts opens before him, but before he can lose himself in it, there is one thing he absolutely must do: secure the reward that could save his mother.

Headlines scream that Korea and Japan will join forces to wipe out the magic beasts on Jeju Island once and for all. For most people it is a historic moment; for Jinwoo, it has nothing to do with him. His only priority is bringing his recovered mother home at last. But when the raid on Jeju goes disastrously wrong and the ant king Beru tears through the S-rank hunters, even the country’s strongest may not be enough. Jinwoo is drawn into a catastrophe he wanted no part of.

A dungeon break at his sister’s high school is dealt with quickly, but not before Jinwoo makes a disturbing discovery: the magic beasts no longer register him as human. A warning from the grave, left by the deceased Byunggu Min, tells him his powers are far more frightening than he realizes. With too many questions and too few answers, his only lead is the key to the Cartenon Temple. Jinwoo is determined to learn what he has become, even if it means returning to the place where it all began.

Having witnessed the staggering power of the shadow monarch, Jinwoo cannot wait to reach those heights himself, and the fastest way is to send his army of shadows against a dungeon full of giants. Saving a country abandoned by the rest of the world brings him international fame, the growth of his guild, and an invitation to the most prestigious hunter conference on Earth. But the greatest prize is an unexpected meeting with another monarch, who brings news Jinwoo does not want to hear: a war is coming that even he may not be strong enough to stop.

The murders of several distinguished S-rank hunters rock the world, and Jinwoo knows it is only a matter of time before the killers strike again. The declaration of war comes sooner than expected, in the form of a colossal gate looming over Seoul. With the Hunter’s Association struggling to adapt and the monarchs picking off the strongest hunters one by one, Jinwoo must find a way to keep everyone safe from the greatest disaster humanity has ever faced.

The king of destruction and the armies of chaos have descended upon Earth, leaving nothing but death and carnage in their wake. The fate of all humanity now rests in the hands of the newly crowned shadow monarch, Jinwoo Sung. As the dust settles on a timeless feud, the question remains: who will claim victory, and will there be anything left of the world to save?