Chapter 38

As evening sets in, Jinwoo slips into an out-of-the-way forest to raise the Instance Dungeon his Job Change Request demands. Lightning skitters across a huge purple void that forms ahead, and he enters even with his Daily Quest left undone. A notification soon spells out the rules: Store access is shut off, healing through Full Recovery is unavailable, and potions will not work either. On top of that, leveling brings no stat restoration, and the exit stays sealed until the quest concludes. He pulls Kasaka's Venom Fang out of his Inventory and braces himself as an armored Knight charges him, sword in hand.

His first cut does nothing, and a Fatal Strike aimed at the chest cannot break the plating, so Jinwoo turns to the raw-power method that once beat Kasaka and tears the Knight apart with his hands. The kill nets a level, though he regrets burning Fatal Strike. Fresh knights swarm in, and he fells them through sheer physicality until fatigue creeps in. Sensing a hidden attacker, he evades, drops the assassin, then sidesteps a mage's blast, deciding he must boost his intellect to deal with casters. Once the final enemy falls, he claims a B-Rank chestplate and, equipping his complete armor set at last, is glad to find the gear stays unseen. Heaving a colossal door open, he faces Knight Commander Igris the Bloodred, encased in vivid red plate before a vacant throne, the scene echoing the eerie double dungeon.

Belonging to the Job Change Arc and adapted as Episode 11, this Volume 3 chapter unfolds wholly inside the Job Change Quest Dungeon. It lays out the dungeon's punishing no-recovery conditions and closes on the entrance of Igris, the boss who will challenge Jinwoo over the chapters that follow.