Character · from book 1
Li Na
Li Jun's sister: a face on the Maestro's show in book 1 and, from the fourth floor, a Changbi Slave Driver, level 30 — horns, a wide mouth, four chains from her sleeves — who tells Carl his plans' flaws to his face, lassoes one mantaur unconscious, and keeps the other alive in pieces as a god's second vessel.
Race and class, since book 3: Changbi · Slave Driver
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
As of book 7. The sister in the frozen hallway in book 1, four chains in book 3, 'Kill her' in book 5, a dragon's rider in book 6; in book 7 the war's most frightening soldier. Dark Purpose over twenty metres of wire turns the club's guards and priests on themselves — a ram pulls out his own eyes, a mantaur stabs himself in the throat; a massacre is her training; she installs her dead brother's celestial eye in her own socket, conscripts Harpocrates with a hell-kissed potion and lives, rides him, builds a lattice of chains for Donut's paw, and marks everyone in the ball with the Ring of Divine Suffering — every base stat at 300 at level 87, a thing that has never happened. Tagg and Fang escape her marks and so do three of Rust's harem, to the eighteenth floor; she can never heal again. She tells Donut Li Jun's death is Donut's fault, floats over the plain glowing black and purple, and goes down the stairs without a word.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Li Na: every base stat maxed, three marks unpaid, no healing ever | B7 ch. 82 | open — She marked everyone in the ball and three of Rust's harem reached the eighteenth through the Cosmic Lounge; the AI on 300s: 'we don't actually have a plan to deal with this'; her brother's eye in her socket; she blames Donut and does not speak. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 1
Li Jun's sister, named on the Maestro's show as one of the two people left in the frozen hallway whom Li Jun and Zhang are told to choose between with their teleport points (B1 ch. 42). She is on screen reaching for the sword, and runs with her brother when the scene unfreezes.
Through book 3
Met in person on the last day: Li Jun's sister, a Changbi Slave Driver, level 30, with horns and four chains from her sleeves, who asks for the whole plan 'In case you die' and lassoes one mantaur unconscious while the other is broken and carried to a portal (B3 ch. 32). In the trainyard she comes through the wall with a second mantaur kept alive in pieces and tells Carl to get punching (B3 ch. 33). Carl's own comparison is to Imani, Chris and Hekla: she does not talk often, and when she does, everyone pauses.
Through book 4
Stays with her brother to watch a screaming god in the next bubble, and goes down with him (B4 ch. 33).
Through book 5
Through book 6
Through book 7
Dark Purpose over twenty metres of wire; a blasphemer who pulls out his own eyes and guards who stab their own throats (B7 ch. 51); a massacre as training (B7 ch. 52); her brother's eye in her socket (B7 ch. 71); Harpocrates conscripted (B7 ch. 72); a lattice of chains (B7 ch. 76); every base stat at 300 at level 87 (B7 ch. 77); three marks on the eighteenth floor and no healing ever (B7 ch. 82). She tells Donut Li Jun's death is Donut's fault (B7 ch. 75) and goes down without a word (B7 ch. 86).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 1/48 | Ch. 42 · the book's own page |
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 6/35 | Ch. 3, Ch. 21, Ch. 32, Ch. 33, Ch. 34, Ch. 35 · the book's own page |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 3/35 | Ch. 20, Ch. 33, Ch. 34 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 14/78 | 11, 21, 36–37, 51, 60–64, 72, 75, 77–78 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 26/74 | 1, 3, 8, 10–11, 13–14, 19, 22, 24, 26–27, 33, 47–48, 52, 62–65, 67–72 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 36/89 | 5, 14, 18, 29, 32, 39–40, 45–46, 48, 50–53, 55–59, 65, 67–79, 82, 85–86 · the book's own page |
By book
Li Na in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Li Jun's sister, named on the Maestro's show as one of the two people left frozen in the hallway scene, whom her brother and Zhang are told to choose between; Zhang, pressed, says to save the Li siblings (ch. 42). She is on screen reaching for the sword, and runs with her brother when the scene unfreezes.
Li Na in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Li Jun's sister, in his recap clip as 'an odd, demon-like race who fought with chains' (ch. 3), and met in person on the last day: a Changbi Slave Driver, level 30, taller and rail-thin, horns through black hair, a mouth twice as wide as it should be, four chains hanging from the sleeves of a white-and-red robe (ch. 32). She is the plan's best critic — 'In case you die, then we will know what the mission is and can carry on' — lassoes one mantaur unconscious while the other is broken and carried to the portal, and warns Carl off a high five: 'you will experience excruciating pain […] and lose control of your bladder and bowels' (ch. 32). In the trainyard she arrives through the wall with a second mantaur reduced to a chained head and torso, kept alive through every amputation — 'Similar concept with what you did with that gnoll' — and tells Carl to get punching (ch. 33).
Li Na in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Stays behind with her brother to watch a screaming tentacle god in the next bubble, and goes down the stairs with him (ch. 33). Slit's chain whip reminds Carl of hers.
Li Na in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
The demonic sister who can track Eva (ch. 21), turns to smoke (ch. 36), sees which god every hunter worships (ch. 60), and cannot be touched without a curse. Her spore-smoke puts the mushroom guards to sleep (ch. 62); her chains carry her brother across the ballroom (ch. 75). She goes with Katia to find Eva, casts Preserve Injury, and says 'Kill her' (epilogue).
Li Na in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Li Na in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
She has not spoken to Carl since the eye (ch. 40); she gives her blood freely for Katia to ink a chain tattoo on Carl's arm (ch. 40) and climbs the clock tower to cast a touch-range dread over twenty metres of wire into Club Vanquisher: Dark Purpose, and Mork the ram pulls out his own eyes while a mantaur guard stabs himself in the throat (ch. 50, ch. 51). She power-levels through a massacre — Defile Soul, Bleeding Horror, Succulent Decay — second on the leaderboard by the interview (ch. 51, ch. 52, ch. 56), and is the one Donut begs Carl to give the second Ring of Divine Suffering to (ch. 57). She installs her dead brother's celestial eye in her own socket (ch. 69, ch. 71), hands Carl a duplicated hell-kissed potion — 'before they, too, fall victim to your chaos' — and conscripts Harpocrates without exploding (ch. 71, ch. 72). She rides the god, builds a lattice of chains for Donut's paw, and tells Donut that Li Jun's death is Donut's fault (ch. 73, ch. 75, ch. 76). She marks everyone in the ball and maxes every base stat at level 87, a thing that has never happened, but Tagg, Fang and three of Rust's harem escape her, the last to the eighteenth floor, and she can never heal again (ch. 77, ch. 82). She floats over the espresso stand glowing black and purple, chains like wings, and does not answer Elle (ch. 82); she goes into the stairwell without a word (ch. 86).