Solo Leveling: Ragnarok

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It was only about a year ago that my friend told me that a sequel to Solo Leveling featuring Jin Woo's kid was in the works. I was like "What the hell, that's gonna ruin the series". And well, here I am, reading this.

The story is very similar to its predecessor in the holistic sense, blame it to the prequel's horrible ending of everyone forgetting about everything. Well let's not go to that aspect. This one expands in on the story left behind by the saga of Jin Woo. The story now focuses on our protagonist Sung Suho, the son of Jin Woo. He has ... innate powers of the Shadow Monarch so it makes him pretty busted and a bit less interesting to watch. The immediate evil here is now Itarim as opposed to the Monarchs. So you can witness a little tweak here and there in the story but the overall structure is still similar, you are the weakest player but only you have the power to level up. The story relies a bit too much on the plot armour and the survival aspect of the original being missing dissapoints me, as that was arguably the best part. So it is now purely action fantasy. But still it does not prevent it from being a fun little read. The action is top notch, art is still better than almost the entirety, the story is still fun to read, it has still got its humorous tones, the characters are also good, where seeing past characters genuinely puts me on a simle. So I see plenty good reasons for you to read this. Only time will tell if it will live up to its expectations.

Solo Leveling: Ragnarok is the thrilling sequel to our beloved Solo Leveling series. This time, the spotlight shifts to Sung Suho, the son of Sung Jinwoo. As Suho steps into a world filled with dangerous gates and monstrous foes, he embarks on a journey to uncover his father's legacy and face new and formidable challenges
This story starts after the events of solo leveling.

Sung Su-ho, the son of Sung Jin-woo and Cha hae-in inherited some of his father's powers as the Shadow Monarch. However, his powers and memories were locked as a child, so he can have a normal life.
The system doesn't want him to become ... a new shadow monarch (chapter 14) cause the current shadow monarch can't be replaced.
The system wants Sung Su-ho to become something else.

I don't know why Solo Leveling : Ragnarok manhwa got such low rating but the world building , character development , plot development , pacing and the story of Solo Leveling : Rangnarok Webnovel is really veru good. Even minor characters gets character development in this manhwa.
Each plots of this webnovel connects with each other perfectly.
This manhwa is going to become far better than Solo Leveling.

At first, you will think the pacing of this manhwa is fast but believe me , the pacing of this manhwa will become really stable as the series progresses and you will love it.
The first arc of this manhwa needs fast pacing to develop the next arcs of this manhwa perfectly.
All the arcs of this Webnovel is perfect and really enjoyable.

The art is great as always.
I can say it without any hesitation that Solo Leveling Ragnarok Webnovel is even better than Omniscient reader's viewpoint webnovel.
At first I also didn't believed that they can write this manhwa this much perfectly.

Since I read Webnovel , I can say that the rating of this manhwa is 10 out of 10.
I know all readers of this manhwa will love it.

1 word, Disappointing. 2 words, Fucking Disappointing.

While I get the take on zero-to-hero like in the first book, the protagonist of this sequel has a disappointing start.
Not only was his father a monarch, his mother has the potential of an S-Ranker. Going by that logic, even if Jinwoo's E-rank potential pulled Hunter Cha's leg, Suho's potential should have been either a C-rank or a B-rank. His innate ability to utilize Monarch's Authority(even though its an Authority given to the top creations of the Creator, I dunno, probably Inheritance), is outright useless since it consumes Mana every second, couple that with maintaining shadows as weapons, his ... starting line was a Joke. Suho, as a baby can utilize that authority with no hardship, now, he can barely sustain that for half a minute(baby Suho is literally a genuine monster, what's with adaptation?).

Another disappointment was the team up with monarch descendants setting. What are Monarchs? They are destruction Incarnate, borne to destroy everything their Creator created and everything else in existence. It would have made more sense for the Monarch's descendants to ally with Itarim's apostles, take control of the now ownerless universe and spread destruction to others after everything's over. I guess it still makes sense a little, with the monarch duking it out with Itarim, its still a type of destruction that they'll be doing.

tl:dr; It has a disappointing start compared to the first book and they are overturning our understanding of SL's Universe.

PS: I now understand why they forgot what Monarchs are, this is not a story that came out of the original author's hand, but was written by someone else.