Warning: The following contains spoilers for Solo Leveling Season 2 and Manhwa chapter 111!!
the finale already sets up Jinwoo’s future challenges, teasing new characters while additionally revealing a major twist and antagonist for a possible Solo Leveling Season 3 with a clever hidden detail that most viewers could have missed.
Even though it’s quite subtle, as has become the norm in recent anime adaptations, Solo Leveling Season 2’s final episode includes an Easter egg, important for the development of Jinwoo’s character in the new season. While the small easter egg teases the new arc of the series, where Solo Leveling’s overarching plot finally comes together, it also takes the story back to its origins with a revelation that would change what fans thought they knew about the anime.
Solo Leveling's Easter Egg Tease At Jinwoo Facing His Trauma in Season 3
Sung Jinwoo Will Finally Find the Reason Why He Was Chosen by the System
In final episode, when Jinwoo reaches level 100, there’s a glitch showing a system notification where the information about the item from the cursed random loot box he obtained in the Demon Castle in episode 15 can momentarily be read, revealing it is the Key to the Cartenon Temple. As viewers might , the Cartenon Temple is the double dungeon where Jinwoo died and became a player for the system, which was revealed in episode 3 to have disappeared when the White Tiger Guild and surveillance found Jinwoo.
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Because of this, the glitch in a system notification serves as an easter egg that sets up the most important arc in Season 3, the Double Dungeon Arc, since this isn't shown in the manhwa but rather noticed by Jinwoo himself in Solo Leveling chapter #111 when he reaches level 100.
Jinwoo is able to read the item’s information because he has met all the conditions, hinting that the system had a reason to make him stronger. Also, the key’s information includes a countdown to when the gate with the double dungeon will appear and Jinwoo affirms that the system is actively calling him back to the double dungeon as if everything was planned from the start.
What Fans Should Expect from the Double Dungeon Arc in Solo Leveling Season 3
Double Dungeon Arc Is One of the Most Awaited Arcs in Solo Leveling’s Story
Even though Jinwoo returning to the Cartenon Temple might be sooner than viewers expected, he was destined to come back at some point to unveil the mysteries of what the system is and for which purpose he was made a player, which has been hinted at several times throughout the anime run with multiple glitches and ominous system notifications. That means that Double Dungeon Arc will shine a light on all the questions of viewers, revealing that Solo Leveling's story is more than just random fights with strong enemies but has been carefully planned from the start.
The system is calling me back. Back to where it all started. But now I have changed. If this whole thing was planned from the very beginning. If someone is there, waiting for me to return. Then you just wait. I’ll be coming for you soon.- Sung Jinwoo, Solo Leveling Manhwa chapter 111.
Moreover, although at the beginning Jinwoo wasn’t even close to reaching the power of the statue of god in the Cartenon Temple, he had put his life on the line in multiple battles, gaining incredible strength and building his own shadow army since then, changing from his scary and powerless old self. So the results shouldn't be the same as before. Nevertheless, this Easter egg, in addition to the cameos of the National Level Hunters, Liu Zhigang and Thomas Andre, builds up anticipation for Solo leveling season 3, where fans should expect the story to get even better.
Solo Leveling
- Release Date
- 2024 - 2025-00-00
- Directors
- Shunsuke Nakashige
- Writers
- Noboru Kimura
Cast
Taito BanShun Mizushino (voice)-
Genta NakamuraKenta Morobishi (voice)
WHERE TO WATCH
Based on a webtoon series, Solo Leveling is an action-adventure fantasy anime originally created by Chugong. When Sung Jinwoo is slain in the depths of a high-level dungeon, he is reborn, intending to use his newfound strength to reach the heart of the dungeon and uncover its secrets.
- Creator(s)
- Chugong
- Seasons
- 1
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