Hello there. I wrote this fanfic side story with everything I know about Solo Leveling(at least, from my perspective). I would like to apologize beforehand to the very knowledgeable SL fans and the staff who worked on SL if they happen to chance upon this story of mine and find several things I got wrong. As a fan myself, I have no intention of spreading misinformation on SL. On that note, I would like to state that this is a fan-made story of my own creation and there might be some parts that are inaccurate about SL. This is especially so for me since I only read a part of the Solo Leveling Ragnarok webnovel.
This story was the ending that I think Sung Jinwoo deserved. The state of Earth in the new timeline compared to the old one, where the apostles are playing with the life of humans by making them kill each other, was more tragic, and I think there were more casualties than the ones from the old timeline.
I added a few things that never happened in the original story. Jinwoo's abilities to create the shadow dungeons and entering the Sea of Afterlife. I assumed that he would not be affected with the 'death' status effect since he is the king of the dead. I also had Jinwoo's mother give life advice(it never happened in SL but I think it would be nice for her to do so), because it was something she was very familiar with, when the family lost Sung Ilhwan. And bringing him back as a shadow and being alive once again as a monarch, to be fair, might have been a stretch on my part.
I also thought of using that idea to bring back Go Gunhee as a powerful Monarch as well for Jinwoo's sake(and the fact that it would have been quite cool), but I hardly know anything about him(including his hunter abilities) to write enough content him.
As the story progresses with each chapter, it becomes faster and faster. I could only leave the story with an ambiguous ending, though. Sorry about that.
And that's about it from me. Thanks for reading.