Sung Jin woo's abilities/haxs
Sung Jin woo's abilities/hax
Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 2 [Aspect Type 1, 2, 3 & Possibly 5 (Concept Type 1 & History)] - (The Shadow Monarch is one with the Darkness of the Abyss, the <World of Nothingness> where even one's <True Soul>, their Nonexistent Self is reduced to <Nothingness> along with the memories of them ever existing, lacking and transcending the concept of Death, which in turns dwarfs the World Tree, the Omnipresent Principle sustaining all existence across all dimensions)
Regeneration (Low-Godly - As a spiritual body (Monarchs are not physical beings), he regenerated from being stabbed through the chest multiple times and having his heart destroyed when he was a normal being. Monarchs can regenerate from a state that resembles a 'torn rag'. In his Spiritual Body Manifestation, he easily reformed an arm after it was erased by the Breath of Destruction.)
High Godly Regeneration & Resurrection (Higher-Degree of high-Godly conceptual & nonexistent) - (Can resurrect from death as a monarch, Normally, death results in the soul being reduced to nothingness as it goes to the Sea of Afterlife, returning to your <True Soul>.
However, when a Monarch dies, their spiritual body, the essence of their existence embodying laws that uphold the world as well as their <true soul> is annihilated and returned to nothingness.)
- Explanation: The Shadow Monarch can bring back one's Nonexistent Soul from the Sea of Afterlife, .However, if said Nonexistent Soul is destroyed, like what happens upon the death of Monarchs and Rulers, they cannot be resurrected.
- Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 - T1 With the power of the true Shadow Monarch, he will live an eternal life. He does not age unless willed. T2 Monarchs can survive with injuries to their spiritual forms that would kill any normal human. Jin-Woo's transformation into the true Shadow Monarch was completed with his death. T4 If the shadow monarch dies, their concept, such as Primordial Darkness, is inherited by someone else, in which they fuse with each one and become one T5 The Shadow Monarch and his army are the only beings that are truly immortal as the Shadow Monarch rules over and transcends Death, making it impossible for him and his army to die. As he (their Monarch) embodies Eternal Rest, the World beyond Death. T6 Monarchs and Rulers can possess another body upon physical death. T9: Death results in the soul being reduced to nothingness as it goes to the sea of afterlife, returning to your <True Soul>)
- Explanation: your true soul exists in the sea of afterlife,a universe that dwarfs the world tree that governs all of existence. Meaning your true soul that exists there is outside of all other dimensions that the world tree contains.
- Existence Erasure and Regeneration Negation (Low-Godly - By focusing their magic energy, Monarchs can erase beings from the fabric of existence altogether. Monarchs are able to permanently erase Shadow Soldiers, which are incorporeal darkness entities capable of coming back from disappearance)
Cosmic Awareness, Acausality (Type 1 & Type 2- Monarchs are aware of changes in the timestream. They withhold all their original memories and abilities even if the timeline is reversed or reset, and their memories transcend time Madam Selner who is capable of perceiving destinies and future outcomes was unable to view his future at all. Can turn anything that happened to him, that is, actions themselves, into nothing, as if turning whatever happened into a dream that never happened in reality, and realizing nightmares into Reality)
- Causality Manipulation, Subjective Reality, and Power Nullification (Sung's existence can twist even Causality. Can turn anything that happened to him, that is, actions themselves, into nothing, as if turning whatever happened into a dream that never happened in reality, and realizing nightmares into Reality)
- Time Stop (Can stop Time itself)
- BFR (Can trap people in the World of Death forever. Sucked the Dragon Monarch into his shadow and brought it to Japan.)
- Healing (At least Low - Healed Cha Hae-In's swollen ankle)
- Power Nullification and Memory Manipulation (Sealed away his sons' memories and abilities with a touch. Can hypnotize people and manipulate their memories with the snap of his fingers. Shared his memories from the previous timeline with Gun-Hui. Erased Jin-Yi's memories of abuse.)
- Law Manipulation (Removed the concepts of pain and death from his dimension)
- Fate Manipulation (His existence twists destiny as he sees fit, which rendered Madam's precognition useless.)
- Corruption (Type 2) and Transmutation ([Mana can corrupt one's Soul and turn their physical bodies into monsters, such as <Mist Burns>)
- Creation (Can create armor from darkness)
- Age Manipulation (Can freely manipulate his own age)
- Telekinesis (Can physically influence and move objects without touching them with Ruler's Reach.)
- Greater Telekinesis (Can use Ruler's Authority to bind and crush opponents), Flight (Has mastered flight with Ruler's Authority)
- Illusion Creation (The World of Death can be made to look like reality, making it impossible to discern when one even got there)
- Empathic Manipulation (Can use his authority to calm people down)
- Fear Manipulation (The Shadow Monarch strikes crippling terror into all beings. Can paralyze all weaker beings in despair with Dragon's Fear)
- Pocket Reality Manipulation (Rules over the World of Death/Territory of Eternal Rest. He has omnipotent control over everything that happens inside this endless reality)
- Transformation (Can enter his Spiritual Body Manifestation form using the power of darkness])
- Large Size (Type 3 with Spiritual Body Manifestation - Described as mountainous, and being tall enough to touch the skies)
- Magic manipulation, Soul manipulation, transmutation, soul erasure, death manipulation (Jin-Woo became very familiar with Demonic Spirit sorcery. Even his own sentient illusion with a minute amount of power could create quests for Suho by mixing the powers of Shadow Storage level 2 with Demonic Spirit magic. He could augment the sorcery of Javier to the point that it was perfected. He could also reverse engineer Javier's magic to turn his illusion into an avatar linked to his real consciousness. He turned Javier's corrupted soul into a soulstone that kept Suho alive in Antares' Domain and stabilized Woo Jinchul's body. He could link Ammut's soul with his NPC body by using Kandiaru's magic circles. He could create a black beam capable of destroying souls that leads to the Sea of the Afterlife.)
Resistances to:
- Mind Control (After multiple attempts, Kandiaru's blessing blocked Tiel's attempt at controlling Suho. His attack did cause errors in the Leveling System though. Jin woo was able to resit Valdier's Mana Threads which allows him to control someone mind and puppeteer them as he sees fit.),
- Damage Amplification and Energy Absorption (Kandiaru's blessing protected Suho from Harmakan's Curses of Damage Amplification and Exploitation. Damage Amplification can turn normal attacks into fatal wounds. Exploitation heals the caster by 2% of the damage they cause to their opponents),
- Illusion Creation (Saw through the illusion world he was in when he first entered the world of death. He tore through Yogumunt's illusions through sheer power alone. After learning magic from Demonic Spirits in his army, even illusions based on him can defy their caster and link with Jin-Woo's actual consciousness),
- Memory Manipulation (The memories of the Monarchs transcend the boundaries of time),
- Power Nullification (The Nightmare Apostle's attempts at restricting Suho's access to darkness was useless because darkness belongs to Jin-Woo)
- Pain Resistance (Had no reaction getting his foot chopped off and ignored the pain of getting impaled by a giant spear in his chest which also cut deeply his shoulder)
- Existence Erasure and Conceptual Erasure (Type 3; Layer 1 - Blocked the Breath of Destruction with his left hand which also has conceptual erasure)
- Fear Manipulation (1 Layer - Developed an immunity to the Dragon Monarch's Fear)
Intelligence: Intellectually Gifted (Jin-Woo has displayed incredibly keen instincts and intuition even in stressful situations, his deductions having saved multiple people from certain death. Is capable of noticing the gaps within a group's ranks, and is capable of deciphering the faults and errors of his comrade's movements and strategies. He has shown to be very analytical and observant, being able to decipher and mirror the techniques of others down their muscle movements, breathing patterns, and postures, after only a moment of observation. Further into the series, Jin-Woo demonstrates the ability to easily predict and counter even the most minute movements of his opponents, sensing both the flow and trajectory of attacks. He is especially experienced at going up against an overwhelming amount of opponents, even by himself, and could defend and counter eight weapons being swung at him at once with a single sword and dodged the nigh-undetectable gaps between the attacks.)
Additional HGR reasoning
More reasoning for HGR
Using this just to get the basic premise that the soul in Solo Leveling counts for both soul and mind aspects. If it helps, we also know that these souls contain memories and people can think/speak to each other while operating as souls and whatnot. I think this is pretty obvious. Should also be noted that Monarchs are usually 'spiritual bodies" which is just a non-physical soul form. (Stated to be the "essence of your being")
So, from that alone, we can conclude from this scan that when the soul is destroyed, it counts as the soul/mind being destroyed.
This much by itself already grants Jinwoo Mid-Godly Resurrection capabilities. It is stated in that same scan that he can pull souls back from nothingness. This also applies to himself.
Now let's go further. That "nonexistent soul" that exists in the Sea of the Afterlife counts for NEP Type 1 (Aspects 1 and 3), since it is a state where the soul is nothingness (non-existent).
This is the "true soul" that Jinwoo mentions, which is explicitly separate from the other soul mentioned in the same sentence. It is very clearly a deeper aspect than the soul.
It is explained that everything about a Monarch vanishes when they die. Alluding to the fact that even the "true soul" is destroyed ([When a spiritual body dies it is destroyed. "dying" already means becoming nonexistent, as we established. It is then destroyed in that nonexistent state as well). This is why Jinwoo is unable to resurrect them despite him possessing Mid-Godly resurrection capabilities.
Monarchs exist in a further state of nonexistence when they die. They are in these realms that are described as nonexistence itself (Beyond the dead means it would be more nonexistent than the already nonexistent souls).
Despite this, the Original Shadow Monarch, "Ashborn," was able to ARISE himself and come back from that level of destruction. And Sung Jinwoo possesses all the abilities of Ashborn. They are even considered the same person.
Conclusion: the "True Soul" should be considered a deeper aspect than the normal body/soul/mind, and thus resurrecting from its destruction should count for High-Godly.
Furthermore, there is also this interesting bit: You can presume that Jinwoo can resurrect people who are killed by the World Devourer, which erases you from memory.