Li Na
Names: Li NaNa
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 42 (42)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 32Li Na, sister of Li Jun, is a level 30 Changbi with the Slave Driver class who fights with several magic chains.
- Ch 32Li Na is sharp and blunt, pointing out flaws in Carl's plans; she suggests luring the province boss into the portal.
- Ch 32Li Na's chain can knock a mob unconscious for a full minute, up to five times before she must rest.
- Ch 33Li Na keeps the second mantaur alive as just a chained torso so he can safely be thrown into the portal.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 60Li Na's demonic Changbi race lets her see if someone worships a god, and which god at close range.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 13Li Na has a mystic card that cuts card draw time from ten seconds to five.
- Ch 16Li Na's team bought costly supplies at the Desperado Club for Carl, including Troll Smoke Mantles for his stun bomb.
- Ch 35Mordecai notes Li Na is of a demon race, so vorpals would follow her if they smelled her.
- Ch 70Li-Na summons a dragon during the battle.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 19Li Na was recruited thanks to Mordecai's aura-negating potion, and her squad will build defenses in Shanty Town.
- Ch 49Li Na lost five levels temporarily by giving blood for the tattoo but keeps the skill; she has barely spoken to Carl since he ate Li Jun's eye.
- Ch 59Li Na uses aura attacks called Dreads and mans the Extend Aura synergy tower, rigged with wires in an exploit devised by Mistress Tiatha.
- Ch 60Li Na's Dark Purpose dread, amplified by the Extend Aura tower and Tiatha's wire hack, drives everyone in the club lobby to gruesome self-destruction.
- Ch 60Li Na uses the wired tower to power-level her dreads, cycling from Dark Purpose to Defile Soul and next Bleeding Horror.
- Ch 61Li Na refuses to switch back to Dark Purpose, insisting on power-levelling her dreads; Carl finds her calm detachment chilling, almost sociopathic.
- Ch 66Li Na has shot up to level 84, second on the top-ten list behind Carl.
- Ch 67Carl gave Li Na his extra Ring of Divine Suffering after Donut begged him to; only Imani opposed it.
- Ch 67Li Na has apparently killed every prisoner in the brig except the one Carl asked her to leave alone.
- Ch 81Li Na installed her dead brother Li Jun's eye into herself and stopped a war mage from reaching Harpocrates.
- Ch 82Li Na reports changelings in the form of golden ogre basilica guards are stopping Harpocrates from entering Shanty Town.
- Ch 83Li Na gouged out her own eye and replaced it with Li Jun's eye, which lets her slow time.
- Ch 83Li Na duplicated the conscription potion for Carl and left to use the original on Harpocrates and rescue their friends.
- Ch 89Li Na maxes out all her base stats at 300, something the system says has never happened before.
- Ch 89Li Na used the Ring of Divine Suffering to mark every enemy, so she cannot heal while Tagg and Fang survive.
- Ch 94Li Na can now fly on ethereal chains and silently glares at Louis, the last mark she could reach.
- Ch 94Three marked targets escaped to the 18th floor, so Li Na now has a condition that will never let her heal.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 1The recap says Li Na can no longer heal and has gone 'cuckoo', and her brother Li Jun died.
- Ch 17Li Na killed almost every other team in her heat and is barely speaking to Zhang; their mount is an octopus-like creature.
- Ch 19Li Na killed five teams in her heat, so two crawler teams, including Tran's, now face her and Zhang in the next race.
- Ch 55Li Na sits meditating in her guild with health in the yellow, poisoned; Elle tries to talk her out.
- Ch 57Zhang says Li Na lost her humanity when her brother Jun died, even replacing her own eye with his.
- Ch 57Li Na is slowly being drained by poison and has stopped talking to Zhang.
- Ch 58Li Na's Left to Fester poison will worsen on the next floor; reaching the Cabaret, or a possible exit to Earth, might save her.
- Ch 62Elle reports Li Na silently nodded agreement to the plan to leave the dungeon.
- Ch 63Carl plans to send Li Na somewhere she can help rather than kill her, seeing her as someone who has lost her way.
- Ch 64Li Na agrees to leave the game by being sucked into a pet carrier, stored in a cleaner bot, and sold to Herot.
- Ch 64If the Cabaret is safe, Li Na will make a single flower bloom on the cactus; three flowers means it is not safe.
- Ch 64Li Na confesses to Zhang she used to imagine being married to him, and asks him never to lose his smile.
- Ch 70A single flower blooms on the cactus, the signal that Li Na reached the Pineapple Cabaret and it is safe to send others.
Connections
- family ofLi Junsiblings
- member ofChangbi
- ally ofLi Jun
- family ofZhecousin
- leads107th White Dragons
- member of107th White Dragons
- related to107th White DragonsLi Na's White Dragons guard the prisoners
- related toHarpocratescontrols him through conscription
- ally ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- ally ofPrepotente
- enemy ofKandy "Bigs" Newtondislikes her
- ally ofZhangsame team
- friend ofZhang
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 42Li Jun and Zhang sent back
Goaded by Carl, the Maestro angrily returns Li Jun and Zhang to their fight, but Carl's advice lets their group slip past the troglodytes to a safe room.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Province boss sent to the abyss
Donut shoots the province boss across the noodle with a magic missile; it attacks and is teleported away by the portal on the raised Def Leppard cart.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Ride to the trainyard
Carl's group reaches the portal cart, teleports a neighborhood-boss Krakaren at station 24, and stops at the edge of the monster-filled trainyard cavern.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Mantaur pushed into the portal
The group lures two mantaurs into the tunnel; as Carl's gauntlet triggers Grull's summoning, they shove the dying mantaur into the portal, but it drags Carl in with it.
- Book 3 · Ch 33Rescue and Grull's banishment
Katia and Elle decoy Grull while Donut, Li Na, Li Jun and Mongo come through the portal; they trigger a second summoning and throw the mantaur torso into the abyss portal, pulling Grull away.
- Book 5 · Ch 60Coordinated hunter raids
With hunters scattered by the brambles and blood bar, Carl, Donut, Katia's team and Imani's crawlers launch coordinated raids on hunter-held towns, starting another with traps, Ping and spider bombs.
- Book 5 · Ch 61Raid on the hunter town
The crawler alliance destroys the hunters' anti-air gun and kills nearly all hunters in a fast coordinated raid; Donut scores five kills.
- Book 5 · Ch 63The masquerade plan
Carl posts his secret plan for the masquerade in the cookbook and his allies sign it, each adding their own stance.
- Book 5 · Ch 76Katia kills Eva
Katia and Li Na find the wounded Eva, strip her escape ring, and Katia runs her through after Eva begs for her life.
- Book 6 · Ch 3Arrival on the eighth floor in Havana
After skipping a floor, Carl and Princess Donut start the eighth floor in Havana's capitol building; their friends check in from regions around the world.
- Book 6 · Ch 64Carl's mass appeal
Carl messages all crawlers to stop fighting over keys and clear around stairwell chambers; after doubts and infighting, Katia, Elle, Li Na and many others agree.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Friends arrive in Cuba
Imani leads over twenty crawlers, including Elle, Katia, Louis and Li Jun, out of the church via a Doggie Door to help Carl with his plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 69The final card battle
On the ruined 32nd floor, Carl's team battles Amayon's demon totems and Ysalte's deck while the building collapses, quickly emptying Amayon's hand.
- Book 6 · Ch 73Li Jun loses an eye
When Li Jun approaches, Shi Maria uses Carl's hand to stab out and eat his eye.
- Book 7 · Ch 24Enemies prepare an early assault
Prepotente, Elle and Florin report enemy troops and tanks moving on both borders despite the ceasefire; Carl orders a code red and tells Louis to launch the bomber.
- Book 7 · Ch 49Katia tattoos Carl
Katia uses ink made with Li Na's blood to tattoo a level-13 skill onto Carl's right arm as a dragon-shaped chain.
- Book 7 · Ch 57Edgar detects movement
Edgar senses non-corporeal movement rising in the castle, and Li Na climbs the clock tower as Carl's part begins.
- Book 7 · Ch 60Li Na's dread massacre
Li Na's wire-amplified Dark Purpose makes guards and trophy heads destroy themselves, their ghosts dragged away by chains, defiling the lobby.
- Book 7 · Ch 67Carl visits the brig
With an hour until chaos begins, Carl, Li Jun and Zhang go to the brig and find only one prisoner left; Carl realises Li Na has been using the Ring of Divine Suffering on the others.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Li Jun draws off Harpocrates
As Harpocrates marks Donut for death, Li Jun lures the god away with a speaker so Donut can finish moving the ball, and sends Li Na a goodbye.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Li Jun dies
Carl receives a message from the deceased Li Jun thanking him for more time with his sister and best friend.
- Book 7 · Ch 81Carl stops the ball breaking
Fearing the war mages will conscript Eris or Meatus, Carl and Li Na tell Donut to stop, and Carl heals the battle formation before retreating to a saferoom.
- Book 7 · Ch 81The ball is sent toward Larracos
Carl has Donut steer the intact ball toward Larracos and orders everyone free to defend the city, while the adjutants theorise about Agatha's aims.
- Book 7 · Ch 83Li Na gives Carl the potion
In the Nest, Li Na, wearing her brother's eye, gives Carl a duplicated Hell-Kissed Conscription potion and leaves to use the original on Harpocrates.
- Book 7 · Ch 84Gods clash at Larracos
Li Na's conscripted Harpocrates swings the ball by Meatus at the war-mage-controlled Yarilo.
- Book 7 · Ch 87The ball is dropped into Larracos
Harpocrates throws the ball into the Larracos funnel while Britney's side turns the castle moat to acid and starts draining it.
- Book 7 · Ch 88Donut casts War Crime
Donut's War Crime pulls thousands of enemy soldiers and Meatus into a giant Astral Paw; she slams it repeatedly through Li Na's lattice of chains until everyone trapped is dead.
- Book 7 · Ch 89Li Na storms the castle
Li Na maxes her stats and tears through the Larracos castle; the War Mages flee by portal, and the throne room returns to Team Retribution's control.
- Book 7 · Ch 94Li Na's marks escape
Prepotente reports that three of King Rust's harem, marked by Li Na, fled to the 18th floor, leaving her permanently unable to heal.
- Book 8 · Ch 5Prepotente's warning
Prepotente warns in chat that killing more than one opponent per heat could force crawler-versus-crawler races; Zhang hints Li Na may already have killed one.
- Book 8 · Ch 19Zhang reports Li Na's killings
Zhang messages that Li Na killed five teams and her heat's replacements include two crawler teams, including Tran's; Li Na sits unresponsive while Zhang drives.
- Book 8 · Ch 53Li Na's dread in Tran's race
Tran's messages reveal Li Na cast a dread that made racers kill each other, leaving only five surviving teams.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Zhang's despair at the Lollipop
At the Lollipop, Zhang breaks down over Li Na's killings and reveals his plan to kill Torpedo so the system kills them both; Carl says it won't work.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Carl's plan for Li Na
Carl realizes Li Na can be pointed in a useful direction and asks Bodi to jockey for Zhang, announcing Li Na is leaving the dungeon.
- Book 8 · Ch 58The cleaner bot plan is a go
After Mordecai's test succeeds, Carl approves a plan to send Li Na to the Pineapple Cabaret via Herot's cleaner bot purchases.
- Book 8 · Ch 64Li Na sent out of the dungeon
Zhang sucks Li Na into an XL pet carrier, the cleaner bot Suckira stores it, and Donut sells Suckira at the shop terminal so Herot can take her to the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 64Li Na's farewell to Zhang
Zhang apologises for failing to protect her; Li Na tells him he has nothing to apologise for and confesses her feelings.
- Book 8 · Ch 70Cactus signal from Li Na
Mordecai reports a single flower on the cactus, meaning Li Na made it to the Pineapple Cabaret and it is safe.
- Book 8 · Ch 104The contenders are shown
The AI shows images of gods and contenders, including Taranis, Eris, Odette as Nekhebit, Princess Donut, Carl, Lucia Mar, Samantha, unknown figures and finally the Unwashed, before a one-hour countdown to the Ascendency.