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. Gatekeeper of Hell, Cerberus' eyes turn frighteningly red when it activates its Unstoppable Rage skill. Bullet Time: By increasing his agility stat, Jin-woo's thinking and reaction process gets a lot faster, giving him more time to think up a plan.

Any of the C-rank dungeons Jin-woo goes clearing with Yoo Jin-ho ends up being this. While a high-ranking hunter may need an hour or two, Jin-woo initially needs only thirty minutes and gets even faster once he advances to a class. In gaming terms, he is speedrunning. The Architect was running one on Jin-woo, using the leveling system to keep him distracted and slowly but surely build up his strength. At the appropriate moment, Jin-woo would be sacrificed and the true Monarch of Shadows would return. Unfortunately, for the Architect, the Monarch of Shadows had other ideas. When trying to get rid of the last witnesses to his murders, Kang Tae-shik's first target is Lee Ju-hee. Thanks to Jin-woo's reaction, he fails. He later tries again to kill Ju-hee while being preoccupied with Jin-woo, but since Song Chi-yeol is still around, Ju-hee is unharmed. 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.When Jin-woo realizes that Hwang Dong-seok's raid force consists of "lizards", he expects to be left behind as The Bait for the boss in the dungeon. However, this is exactly what he wanted in the first place, as he could then get the experience and the loot for himself. Kim Cheol leaves half the raid force (all hunters below B-rank) behind inside the red gate, as he doesn't want to get slowed down by them, calling them dead weight, and "subtly" gestures to them to not follow him. In an Ironic Echo, he is humiliated by "E-rank" Jin-woo and gets called dead weight, after suffering a terrible defeat at the hands of the monsters. 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.

The boss encounter in the double dungeon didn't even qualify as a battle. The hunters were nothing more than insects. The only reason any of them had a chance of escaping was because the boss amused himself by making a game out of it to see if they could solve his riddles. The Nose Knows: Hunters S-rank hunter, Cha Hae-in, can smell the magic power of a hunter. The more magic power they have, the stronger the foul smell becomes, which is why she doesn't like being near too many strong hunters. Jin-woo piques her interest when she smells him and finds his smell quite pleasant. Inside the red gate: Considering Kim Cheol, driven by his starving and freezing madness, tried to kill his fellow hunters, including Jin-woo, who was fighting the boss to save everyone, there is no doubt no one will miss him. Dual Wielding: Jin-woo initially only fights with one dagger, but starts to wield two after acquiring a second weapon. One day, however, things go awry for Jin-woo and his party when a low-level dungeon turns out to be far more dangerous than initially assumed. Alone, wounded and surrounded, Jin-woo faces his certain doom, until a voice suddenly appears that offers to make Jin-woo a "player". Having nothing to lose, Jin-woo accepts and loses consciousness. After waking up in the hospital, he notices a quest log that only he can see, which uses RPG-like terms. Soon after, he learns that unlike any other hunter, he can gain character levels and improve rapidly by hunting monsters and training every day. This is the story of Jin-woo changing from the weakest to the strongest hunter in the world.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. New Meat: Everyone inside the red gate, but Jin-woo, was basically a newly awakened hunter who received some classes, but basically never entered a dungeon before. Jin-woo notes how they are far too calm to grasp in what danger they are, especially since their combat experience is non-existent.

Adventure Guild: The Hunter Association serves as a modern organization for hunters. They measure both the dungeons and the hunters' strength and sell the rights of gates to private raid parties and guilds. They also take in lower-ranked hunters (like Jin-woo at the beginning of the story) and assign them to raids that higher-ranked hunters don't want to partake in before a dungeon break occurs. While larger guilds receive a lot of benefits from the Association, the Association also mandates them to take care of certain dungeons if an emergency occurs. This document is available under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 KR. (except for some documents and illustrations where licenses are specified) After noticing that the dungeon is going to be very profitable, Hwang Dong-seok leads Yoo Jin-ho and Jin-woo, who are fillers, to the boss room, so he can trap them there and let them die to the boss.Hopeless Boss Fight: The Statue of God and its minions trample Jin-woo's raid force like insects, and the challenge is more about surviving the encounter by following the commandments that they were given earlier. Pretty Boy: Jin-woo grows into one after leveling up. He gets noticeably taller and gains a muscular body. After earning more money, he decides to take better care of his appearance. When he visits his old school to talk with his sister's teacher, many girls in the school immediately crush on him.