Sung Su-ho is a college student with no awakening, no hunter license and no plans. His parents disappeared three years ago, right before the gates started opening. The only strange thing about him is a recurring dream in which he beats monsters and levels up like a video game. Then monsters break out on his campus, he turns back instead of running, and a window appears in front of him: Congratulations on becoming a Player. His father saw the same sentence.
That is the opening of Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, the sequel to the webtoon that made hunter fantasy a global export. You do not strictly need the original to follow it, though the emotional weight of the first chapter depends on knowing who the missing parents are.
The web novel came first. It was written by Daul, known for Infinite Reset and Dungeon Reset, and ran on KakaoPage from April 10, 2023 to January 21, 2026, ending at chapter 375. It crossed a million readers on the platform and topped KakaoPageโs 2023 ranking for new fantasy serials. It also fell behind schedule from mid-May of that year and went on hiatus in August, which turns out to be a recurring theme.
The webtoon adaptation launched on July 31, 2024 with weekly Thursday chapters. Art is by JIN of Redice Studio, with adaptation by Dodang. That studio credit carries some weight: Jang Sung-rak, who drew the original Solo Leveling, died in 2022, so the first question readers brought to chapter one was how much of the house style survived.
Now the part worth knowing before you start. Season 1 ended at chapter 47 on April 2, 2025. Season 2 opened on August 6 and closed at chapter 68 on January 8, 2026. Since then the series has been on hiatus, because JIN left to complete mandatory military service. Season 3 is expected to be drawn by a different artist at the same studio, reportedly one who worked alongside him. As of August 22, 2026, no return date has been announced. Read it today and you stop at 68 with nothing on the calendar.
The finished novel helps here. Because the source material is complete, you can find where chapter 68 lands in the text and keep going in prose, or read the ending first and treat the webtoon as an illustrated version you catch when it resumes. If you would rather meet the story as art, waiting for the return notice is the reasonable call.
Translations run on their own schedules. English chapters are on Tapas and Tappytoon, with print volumes from Yen Press. The Japanese edition on Piccoma, titled Ore dake Level Up na Ken: Ragnarok, started later than the Korean run and came back from a pause of its own on October 29, 2025, with three daily chapters over the first three days. Chinese platforms carry it as Solo Leveling: Ragnarok under the title ๆ็ฌ่ชๅ็บง : ่ฏธ็ฅ้ปๆ. In Korean it is on KakaoPage and Kakao Webtoon. (As of August 22, 2026)
