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One cited deathSolo Leveling
Does this death move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

The higher-ranked entity killed the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.

Tarnak vs Christopher Reed

The killerTarnakSolo Leveling · rank 7
15 places
The victimChristopher ReedSolo Leveling · rank 22

Being seen was the assignment, and he did it — Reed was looking at the front of his own house while two Monarchs came in behind him. That earns a share of a kill and demonstrates almost no fighting, which describes his record here generally: he declined the attempt on Sung Jinwoo as suicide without Antares, then chose Thomas Andre off the battlefield in Canada. Bellion and Beru rose from that hunter's shadow, and the three of them killed him.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling

Tarnak killed Christopher Reed in Solo Leveling.

His was the face that arrived first, which is the whole job — the other two came in from behind while the man was looking at him.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Tarnak · rank 7

King of Monstrous Humanoids, Monarch of the Iron Body

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomic

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.

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  • 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.

Tarnak on the Solo Leveling ladder

The victim · Christopher Reed · rank 22

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomic
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 149

    Described as one of the two strongest hunters in America and third in the world among the National Level Hunters.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 139

    Norma warns him of his own death from a vision and gives him a number that reaches Sung Jinwoo.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    Tarnak appears in front of him in his own home while Rakan and Querehsha come in from behind.

All 7 citations
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    He had been trapped inside a dimensional gap without knowing it.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    Putting out his flames took 1,800 firefighters and 14 top-tier mage hunters.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 148

    Sung Il-Hwan is named the primary suspect in his murder.

  • statedSolo Leveling: Ragnarok · ch. 211

    In the revised timeline the Itarim possess him and Thomas Andre kills him in battle.

Christopher Reed on the Solo Leveling ladder

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.