Cartenon Temple

The **Cartenon Temple**, also known as the **Double Dungeon**, was a mysterious hidden Dungeon that appeared within two separate D-Rank dungeons. It also served as the base of operations for the Architect, the moderator of the System, and was used by Ashborn to find a human who was worthy of serving him as his host and inheriting his powers as the Shadow Monarch.

## Overview

Unlike other Dungeons, the temple contains no Magic Beasts, but a series of gigantic statues designed by the Architect. Statues with weapons kill anyone who gets too close to them or tries to leave the temple.

The Dungeon itself is a trial that operates under a set of rules laid out in an epitaph as "The Commandments of Cartenon". These are: "Worship God. Praise God. Test your faith. Those who do not follow these commandments will not return alive".

"Worship God" implies that one must bow before the Statue of God, being immediately killed by its heat vision if they stand above a certain height. "Praise God" refers to the fact that to avoid being crushed by the Statue of God once it starts to move, one must stand in front of one of the statues carrying a musical instrument. "Test your faith" implies that once the altar appears in the center of the temple and the exit door opens, one must remain vigilant of the statues so that they do not move until the timer marked by the blue flames expires, however, the door closes more with each individual who crosses it.

Only those who survive and do not give in to the temptation to scape pass the trial.

## History

### D-Rank Dungeon Arc

In what seemed like just another ordinary D-Rank dungeon raid, Jinwoo and the rest of his raid party discovered a second hidden dungeon inside the gate and decided to scope it out. Unfortunately, they realized too late that the dungeon was a trap and found themselves locked in with no way out.

Although they were eventually able to satisfy the conditions to get the doors open (primarily thanks to Jinwoo), by that point only six of the seventeen hunters who had entered the dungeon were still alive, the rest of having been killed by the statues inside. Realizing that one person had to stay behind for the rest of the party to escape safely, Jinwoo volunteered to be the sacrifice, as he had already lost his right leg.

As the statues skewered him with their weapons and threw him around like a rag doll, a strange message suddenly popped up in front of Jinwoo's face, telling him that he completed the requirements for a hidden quest and asked whether he wanted to accept or reject his status as a Player. With no time or options left, Jinwoo accepted, making him the Player of the System and allowing him to survive the Double Dungeon.

### Double Dungeon Arc

When Jinwoo reached level 100, the Architect invited him back to the Double Dungeon so that Ashborn could take control of him as his vessel and finally descend into the human world as they had originally planned. After Jinwoo passed his test with flying colors by defeating both him and his statues in a series of brutal fights, the Architect put him in a trance and waited for Ashborn's arrival.

Unfortunately for the Architect, however, Ashborn had no intention of taking control of Jinwoo as his vessel and wished to transfer his powers instead to make Jinwoo his heir. As a result, he chose to betray the Architect by locking him out of the System and giving Jinwoo the black heart. Although the Architect eventually realized Ashborn's treachery when Jinwoo regained control of his own body, he was unable to do anything to defend himself, as Ashborn had stripped him of his power over the System, and was left wide open when Jinwoo sliced him to pieces, killing him on the spot.

## References

1. ↑ Solo Leveling Webtoon: Chapter 128
2. ↑ Solo Leveling Webtoon: Chapter 130