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Paper Tiger: Lee Min-Sung is an A Rank Hunter, which makes him extremely powerful, however he is utterly terrified of actually fighting monsters that's close to his own strength. Spoiled Brat: Lee Min-sung's father is the vice president of Yoojin Construction, who spend considerable amounts of money to support the Hunter Association. Min-sung tries to point this out, when Association President Go Gun-hee and Woo Jin-cheol don't let him get his way. During the Jeju Island raid, Jin-woo switches places with a shadow soldier that he left inside Baek Yoon-ho's shadow, when he learns that the raid went awry. He ends up saving all Korean hunters except Min Byung-goo, who died before Jin-woo realized anything was wrong due to the live feed being broadcast on a ten-minute delay. 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. Kang Tae-shik was an assassin who tried to kill Jin-woo, Ju-hee, and Song Chi-yeol, because they witnessed him murdering other people, who he murdered because they witnessed him murdering other people, who he murdered because he was paid to. Of course, he also admitted he enjoys torturing and killing people, so he probably wasn't trying very hard to avoid collateral damage.

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. Gatekeeper of Hell, Cerberus' eyes turn frighteningly red when it activates its Unstoppable Rage skill. Furthermore, Goto's plan was to use this event to indicate to the world that he was a National-Rank Hunter, as the only requirement he hadn't completed was clearing an S-Rank Dungeon, and he would have "cleared" it on a technicality. Instead, it simply showed the world Sung's true power, and made many across the world speculate if HE could be considered a National-Rank. Dark Is Not Evil: Jin-woo wields shadows, and while they are very scary, neither they nor him are evil. Jin-woo has killed before, but he only kills the worst people. Kim Cheol's first name literally means metal or iron. And like iron, he broke before he bent (i.e. accepting his failure as raid leader and making up for it).Fighter, Mage, Thief: While the common roles in a raid are Damager, Healer, Tank, there are other official roles that describe a hunter's class further, like support. Jin-woo is officially a "fighter", and his necromancer skill makes him a mage in his remeasurement, but he is actually a Master of All. Go Gun-hee later shows Jin-woo that there has been an increase in Gates at the same time more Hunters have been awakening. Jin-woo suspects it is this trope.

Secret Secret-Keeper: Baek Yoon-ho is the first one to figure out Jin-woo's ability to grow in power. He keeps it to himself, though.Retirony: Min Byung-goo only came out of retirement to complete the Jeju Raid and then was planning on quitting permanently. He becomes the only Korean Hunter to get killed. Armor-Piercing Response: A case of Rhetorical Question Blunder. When Jin-woo refuses to become the Hunter Association's future president, President Go Gun-hee is visibly disappointed and asks Jin-woo for his reasons, fully expecting it to be money, since the Association can't pay well. Jin-woo says that he's doing it because he wants to kill the monsters and clear the dungeons, which catches Go Gun-hee completely off-guard. He interprets this as Jin-woo being The Cape who only wishes to protect humanity, and from then on fully supports Jin-woo and asks his employees to do the same.

Playing with Fire: Most mage hunters and many monsters can use fire magic to some degree. This is also the reason why fire resistance equipment is the most common type. 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. Honor Before Reason: Igrit decides to accommodate Jin-woo not showing a weapon and fights Jin-woo barehanded. Igrit loses, but Jin-woo later remarks that he definitely would have lost to Igrit, if the knight had used his sword. Go for the Eye: When Jin-woo encounters the C-rank Giant Spider boss, he defeats it by going for its eyes. He also stabs Igrit in the eye with great effects. The ant king's Cannibalism Superpower allows it to talk after eating Min Byung-goo's head. Since his level was so high, Beru is the first shadow soldier that Jin-woo raised, who can speak. Not even Iron can speak, despite originally being human.

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The Japanese Hunter Association's plan to weaken Korea and conquer them, ends up with them weakened instead after losing many of their S-rank hunters. Instead of Korea losing most of their S-Ranks, including the leaders of a good portion of their top Guilds, they lost a single S-Rank that was retired. To contrast, most of the 11 Japanese S-Ranks that participated were killed, including Ryuji Goto, the nation's strongest. Shortly after entering his first instant dungeon, unlike inside regular dungeons, Jin-woo realizes that the monsters respawn. He uses this opportunity to level up for several hours before facing the dungeon's boss. Eventually, the System rewards his perseverance with the title "Wolf Slayer", which comes with a significant stat boost when he's fighting beast-type monsters. Red gates are special gates that are shut both from the outside and the inside as soon as a hunter enters it. These gates are especially dangerous because of the drastically different environment (possibly including extreme temperatures, something hunters don't normally prepare for in dungeon raids), the fact that time flows different inside, and help can't arrive until a dungeon break happens. Because of the difference in time, hunters may have to survive for nearly half a year or kill the boss before they can leave. The fight with the high orc sorcerer is less onesided in the Web Comic and while Jin-Woo is still far stronger than the sorcerer, his summons have a more difficult time handling his minions and the tide is only turned once Jin-Woo starts raising the high orcs he killed to fight against their own. Hwank Dong-soo arrives in Korea in Chapter 47 of the webnovel, where he encounters Woo Jin-cheol. The two of them go to Jin-woo's location at the red gate, where they encounter Baek Yoon-ho, and Hwang Dong-soo provokes a short-lived fight.