Wang Hao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Wang Hao’s family spent more than a million on resources for his training, yet he only narrowly entered the top ten of his year. Throughout three years of high school, Su Mu consistently outperformed him despite lacking comparable financial support. Their homeroom teacher’s repeated praise of Su Mu’s soul power and dungeon-design ability deepened Wang Hao’s resentment 11 12.

His S-rank awakening convinced him that their positions had reversed. He regarded Su Mu’s F-grade stone core as a permanent setback and saw an opportunity to establish his superiority 11 12.

His family continued to support his growth after awakening, supplying resources and a special card suited to his theme. His level-fifteen achievement impressed the school’s teachers, and the military had also taken notice of him 94 106 164.

Appearance

• Build: Tall 24.
• After his hard-difficulty clear: Pale and sweaty, though he straightened his posture and forced a composed smile when other students praised him 24.
• After his nightmare attempt: Frighteningly pale, with blue lips, heavy perspiration, and an uncontrollably trembling right hand. Su Mu identified these symptoms as backlash from damage to his core card 27.
• At the Goblin Camp nest: Wore a dark gray combat suit 72.

Personality

Wang Hao is status-conscious and competitive, placing considerable faith in awakening grades, family resources, and public recognition. His hostility toward Su Mu combines longstanding academic jealousy with a desire to impress Ye Qingxue. He interprets her defense of Su Mu as proof that she still considers him inferior 10 11 12.

Although quick to anger, he restrains himself when his reputation is at stake. He avoids attacking Su Mu in front of a teacher, abandons a planned taunt when he notices school leaders watching, and ultimately honors his lost wager rather than risk public disgrace or damage to his family’s business relationships 11 24 37.

Praise also makes him reckless. After clearing hard difficulty, the crowd’s admiration persuades him to attempt nightmare without recovering. Conversely, he refuses a first-wave wager when Su Mu appears unexpectedly confident, choosing a much higher threshold to protect his chances of winning 24 25 28.

His resentment grows into killing intent. He attempts to arrange an attack on Su Mu but abandons it when his father intervenes. During the Nest Cult’s attack, he openly cheers for Su Mu’s death even as the puppets threaten his own dungeon 76 149 167.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Soul Resonance Link

Wang Hao’s dungeon links six F-grade fighting creature cards with the Chaotic Hair Cloak Hammer 16.

• Collective enhancement: Resonance raises the combat power of all six creatures 16.
• Burst damage: The linked creatures complement the core card’s high attack, giving his build strong burst damage among comparable opponents 16.
• Coordinated deployment: He uses all six creatures and their chain bonuses to withstand the nightmare dungeon’s second wave 30.
• Recovery requirements: Teachers judge that resting and adjusting his resonance links after hard difficulty could have allowed him to survive at least one additional nightmare wave 25.
• Fourth-stage defense: After his creature cards are wiped out, he relies on the Chaotic Hair Cloak Hammer’s Martial Soul Resonance to buy time, though his core falls to fifteen percent health 146.

Dungeon Construction

• Soul-power efficiency: Embedding six F-grade creature cards costs sixty soul power altogether. By comparison, a single C-grade card would cost 150 and disrupt his early build 18.
• System completeness: Teachers regard his multi-card combat system as more complete than Su Mu’s early reliance on Little Drill Wind alone 18.
• Compatibility limit: Martial Soul core cards are inherently poorly compatible with demon creature cards, undermining his claimed reason for wanting the Mountain-Patrolling Lesser Yaoguai 10.

Equipment / Items

• Chaotic Hair Cloak Hammer — His S-grade core card and the foundation of his resonance system. The nightmare dungeon’s fifth-wave elite cracks it with repeated heavy blows; it is later shattered during the Nest Cult’s attack 7 28 153.
• Six F-grade fighting creature cards — The combat units enhanced through Martial Soul Resonance 16.
• Random-quality soul skill book — Purchased by his family at a black-market auction half a month before the wager and reserved for his own use. He loses it to Su Mu; it subsequently yields the S-grade time skill Years Like a Blade 37 39.
• Custom Martial Soul card — A special card provided by his family before the college entrance examination; its name and effects are not specified 94.

Relationships

• Su Mu — Classmate and rival. Wang Hao resents his academic superiority, tries to take his selected card, and later loses a valuable wager to him. His hostility escalates into an abandoned plan to have Su Mu attacked and, during the Nest Cult incident, a wish to see him killed 10 11 37 76 149.
• Ye Qingxue — The girl he seeks to impress. She rejects his attempt to belittle Su Mu by echoing Su Mu’s insult, but Wang Hao continues hoping that a public victory will earn her attention. She later exposes his lost wager when he disparages Su Mu outside the Goblin Camp nest 11 12 34 74.
• Teacher Chen — The academic affairs teacher overseeing the disputed card selection. He recognizes Wang Hao’s pretext and initially upholds Su Mu’s first choice 10.
• Family — Wealthy supporters who fund his training and purchase his skill book. His father, a prominent local businessman, stops Wang Hao’s plan to attack Su Mu, warning that the Dungeon Master Association could trace it back to the family 11 37 76 167.
• Uncle Zhang — The person Wang Hao contacts to deal with Su Mu in the wilderness. Wang Hao abandons the plan after his father intervenes 76.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Card-Selection Dispute

Wang Hao enters the academic affairs office after Su Mu selects the Mountain-Patrolling Lesser Yaoguai. Claiming an interest in demon cards, he invokes his S-rank selection privileges to demand the same card, despite being entitled to choose a higher-grade one. His actual purpose is to show off before Ye Qingxue 10 11.

When Su Mu insults him, Wang Hao issues a formal dungeon challenge. Ye Qingxue echoes the insult, leaving him humiliated. He withdraws from the office determined to prove himself during the trial; Su Mu ultimately receives the disputed card 11 12.

Awakening-Day Trials

Wang Hao clears hard difficulty alone but emerges visibly exhausted. Rather than rest, he immediately enters nightmare difficulty, prompting teachers to criticize his poor preparation 24 25.

He reaches the fifth wave but is overwhelmed by its elite monster. The trial’s protection mechanism ejects him after his core card sustains heavy damage. Outside, he conceals the extent of his defeat and boasts that he nearly killed the monster 27 28.

Wager Against Su Mu

After Wang Hao mocks Su Mu for supposedly relying on Li Ming, Su Mu draws him into a wager. Wang Hao rejects a first-wave survival bet and demands that Su Mu match his fifth-wave performance instead 27 28.

The stakes rise from an E-rank soul skill book to a random-quality book worth at least 500,000 Alliance Coins. Li Ming supplies his A-rank theme and core card as collateral, and both sides accept level six with over 50% experience as Su Mu’s victory threshold 29.

While waiting, Wang Hao insists that Su Mu is merely using terrain to stall. Su Mu instead clears ten waves and returns at level six with 83% experience, decisively winning. Under the scrutiny of students, teachers, and Ye Qingxue, Wang Hao hands over the book and leaves resentfully 30 33 36 37.

Goblin Camp and Abandoned Retaliation

After emerging from the hard lair with three teammates, Wang Hao sees Su Mu entering and tells the crowd that the F-rank dungeon master must have fled the normal lair. When Su Mu lasts in nightmare difficulty, Wang Hao again claims that he is hiding and using terrain to stall 72 73.

Ye Qingxue publicly reminds the crowd that Wang Hao lost his Awakening-Day wager to Su Mu. Another student confirms it, turning the spectators against him and deepening his hatred. After Su Mu and Ye Qingxue leave together, Wang Hao calls Uncle Zhang and asks him to attack Su Mu in the wilderness without leaving traces. His father intervenes, warning that Su Mu’s achievement has been recorded by the Dungeon Master Association; Wang Hao obeys and abandons the plan 74 76.

College Entrance Examination and Death

Before the examination, Wang Hao sees Su Mu and Ye Qingxue leaving a dungeon together and resents their closeness. He resolves to distinguish himself with his family’s support. At the school’s examination gathering, a second scan confirms that he has reached level fifteen, impressing the teachers 94 106.

Wang Hao earns a result outside the top fifty in the first round, while Su Mu places first. He initially hopes to overtake Su Mu in the remaining rounds, but fails against the five bosses of the fourteenth wave in the second trial. Seeing Su Mu still atop the leaderboard and learning that the third round tests dungeon design—Su Mu’s strongest field—leaves Wang Hao despairing of competing with him 121 129 131 132.

In the fourth stage, Wang Hao chooses an area with relatively few monsters, around level eighteen. Despite that advantage, his creatures are wiped out and his core card falls to fifteen percent health. When an evil soul attacks the examinees, he cheers for it to kill Su Mu. Evil Mist Puppets then strike his dungeon; one damages his core card and another pierces his chest, killing him. His shattered core card is found near his body 146 149 153 167.

The casualty list identifies Wang Hao as the only Rongcheng No. 1 High School student killed in the attack. The Dungeon Master Association issues a unified statement describing the dead examinees as warriors and promises compensation, but school staff reviewing Wang Hao’s battle recording see him celebrating the attack on Su Mu. Zhao Jianguo orders the recording sealed and decides that his parents should be told the truth of his death without describing him as a hero 164 167 168.

Notable Quotes

“We're both awakeners now. Matters between awakeners are settled by awakeners' rules. I'm formally issuing you a dungeon challenge. Do you dare accept?” 11

“You just wait.” — Mouthed silently to Su Mu after surrendering the wager’s prize 37

“Good! Kill him! Kill him! Kill Su Mu! That's what he gets for stealing my spotlight!” 167