The connecting record
shownundoneSolo Leveling
Beru killed Tarnak in Solo Leveling.
Fielded out of somebody else's shadow for this one, next to Bellion, against a Monarch who could no longer call for help.
What each of them is ranked on
The killer · Beru · rank 13
The Ant King
Took the heads off five Japanese hunters with one strike each on Jeju, swallowed a healer's head and came up carrying the man's language and his healing technique both, and then killed Goto Ryuji, who lasted exactly one hit longer than the men in front of him. Asked for a name once the extraction was done, before anybody had thought to give him one.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 97
Beheads five Japanese hunters with one attack each.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 99
Devours Min Byung-Gyu's head.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 99
Gluttony takes the healer's language and healing technique along with him.
All 8 citations
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 100
Kills Goto Ryuji, who lasts one hit longer than the hunters before him.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 85
Goto Ryuji is the strongest hunter in Japan.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 105
Sung Jinwoo extracts the Ant King's shadow.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 164
Recorded at Marshal grade after Sung Jinwoo's ascension.
statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 124
The name Beru is taken from the author of The Ants.
The victim · Tarnak · rank 7
King of Monstrous Humanoids, Monarch of the Iron Body
Sat out the attempt on the Shadow Monarch's vessel and told the others it was suicide with Antares still away, which cost him nothing at the time. Picked Thomas Andre out of the Canadian battlefield after Antares came through, and found Bellion and Beru rising at him out of that hunter's shadow with the line back to Antares already cut.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 178
Tarnak is among the Monarchs the Cup of Reincarnation brings back from the dead.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 152
Refuses to join the attack on Sung Jinwoo, calling it suicide without Antares.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140
Appears in front of Christopher Reed while Rakan and Querehsha come in behind him.
All 7 citations
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 172
Bellion and Beru rise out of Thomas Andre's shadow in front of him.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 172
Tusk has cut his telepathic link to Antares.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 173
Thomas Andre, Bellion and Beru overpower and kill him.
statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 182
Iron Body Reinforcement strengthens his soul against life-draining effects.
What this does not settle
One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.
The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.
Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.