At Kargalgan’s castle, Son Kihoon and his team of Hunters are stunned by the sheer number of High Orcs. But what really catches their attention are four individuals powerful enough to wipe out an entire city on their own. As captain of the strike team, it’s Kihoon’s job to close the Gate and prevent a Dungeon Break. When he finally decides to attack, Kihoon barely has time to process the fact that he’s the only one moving. His team is frozen in fear, leaving him to charge the Dungeon Boss alone.
Then Kargalgan unleashes his killing intent, and it’s painfully clear—none of them are getting out of here alive. But that terror reaches another level when Kargalgan reveals the real reason he lured them in: this isn’t just a battle. It’s a game. They’ll be picked off, one by one, purely for entertainment. Even so, with the odds stacked against him and the High Orcs treating human life like a joke, Kihoon still refuses to back down.
Kihoon defeated
Kargalgan didn’t waste any time, slamming Kihoon into the ground and ceiling over and over with gravity magic. The other Hunters could only stand there, watching their leader get tossed around like a ragdoll. Eventually, Jinwoo stepped in, saying he had waited this long because the Hunters Guild technically owned the Dungeon, but now, with their lives on the line, that didn’t matter. He turned to Kihoon, who was battered and bleeding, and asked if he could handle the rest of the monsters.
Without hesitation, Kihoon agreed—like he already knew Jinwoo was their best shot at survival. Confident, Jinwoo called the fight a bad matchup for the High Orc shaman and summoned his Shadow Soldiers. Meanwhile, deeper in the Dungeon, Cha Hae In kept moving toward the Boss Room, cutting through High Orcs like they were nothing.
Sung Jinwoo vs. Kargalgan.
The shaman, seeing his army struggle, finally gets up from his throne to fight for real. The strike team tries to jump in, but Kargalgan shuts them down instantly, cursing them and mocking their audacity to “claim the stage” when they’re just the audience. He attempts to throw curses at Jinwoo, but Kindairu’s Blessing blocks them, letting Jinwoo counter with his Shadow Mages—now supercharged thanks to the Orb of Avarice—firing back in full force.
Kargalgan is at his limit. His forces are crumbling, his strongest warriors reduced to Shadows. Furious, he gigantifies, towering over the battlefield in a way that instantly calls back to the Cartenon Temple Double Dungeon Incident—something Jinwoo himself points out. Wasting no time, the High Orc shaman unleashes a devastating spell, summoning countless dragon maws across the field that rain beams of fire, wiping out Jinwoo’s Shadows and even his own orc allies in one brutal attack.
The bigger the better
Jinwoo doesn’t flinch. Instead, he pulls off his signature midair dagger twirl-and-catch, driving it straight into Kargalgan’s eye. To him, a bigger enemy just means a bigger target. Kargalgan is throwing everything he’s got into this fight, but at the end of the day, the difference in power is just too massive.
Woo Jinchul enters the Boss Room right as Jinwoo wraps a giant chain around Kargalgan—just like he did with the golem in the season 1 opener. Kargalgan makes one last stand against his own four strongest generals, but it’s hopeless. As he falls, he sees a vision of his own death at their hands, eerily mirroring Jinwoo’s fate at the Cartenon Temple altar.
With the fight over, Jinwoo extracts Kargalgan’s Shadow and names him “Tusk,” already forgetting his original name. He was so locked into the battle that he didn’t even notice Woo Jinchul and Cha Hae In arrive—meaning they, along with the entire strike team, just got front-row seats to his full power.
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