Jisan Prison Break Arc

Fourteenth among the Solo Leveling: Ragnarok arcs, this stretch follows the Glacier Dungeon events and opens onto the Woojin Guild storyline. Coverage runs roughly from chapters 137 to 156 of the novel and chapters 48 to 55 of the webtoon. A huge escape at Jisan Prison turns 500 dangerous convicts loose, throwing the country into disorder. At the same time Suho sets about building a guild of his own. The government's terms give him a choice, clearing twenty dungeons or capturing fifty escapees, and he opts for the quicker path of running down the Jisan fugitives.

The hunt pits Suho against criminal hunters, a Death Knight, and the beast Harmakan, all of whom he overcomes. Teaming with Kang Taeshik, he routs a band of criminal hunters in a fight that ends up costing Taeshik his life. Fresh faces enter the story here, Harmakan, Baek Yoonho, Hwang Dongsuk, and Kang Taeshik among them, and the action ranges across Jisan Prison and the nearby grounds of Pocheon and Yamri village, with passing references to local rivers and mountains.

Harmakan slays Hwang Dongsuk during the chaos. The wolf Gray, meanwhile, devours two weapons: Kasaka's Venom Fang plus the Fang of Rakan. From the dead Suho raises two shadow soldiers, naming the one taken from Kang Taeshik as Kira and pulling another out of Harmakan, while also learning Martial Arts at its opening level. A major secret breaks when Arsha works out Suho's lineage, recognizing the Shadow Monarch as his father. Through Querehsha's power the two then bind a Vow of Sincerity, a pact that bars either side from lying to the other until both choose to dissolve it, and Suho admits that he stands as Querehsha's priest, blessed by her.