The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower: How to Read It

The boss that Episode 2 of The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower says has killed more than half of all trainee hunters goes down in Episode 1 in three seconds, to a slipper stomp. The man who did it sighs that he is running out of new things to try. That is the joke the opening runs on, and WEBTOON's website lets you read exactly seven episodes of it before the page says "Read more episodes on the app!"

Header art: the WEBTOON series poster for The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower. Image: WEBTOON, Bangguseok Gimssi, Topp.

This is not The Tutorial Is Too Hard, a different series that is also published in English as The Tutorial Is Too Tough! We reviewed that one separately.

What the seven free episodes of The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower cover

The synopsis is one sentence: Hyeonu Kim spent 12 years trapped in a tower of regenerating monsters, and once free he wants to know who put him there. Episode 1 tells it through a TV broadcast and a guild-leader Q&A until the tower's final test, a Balrog, dies in 3 seconds. Episode 2 is the flashback: the tower loops him back to floor one each time he clears it, until the screen reads "ENDLESS LOOP REMOVED!" Episode 3 gets him out and has the exit officially confirmed.

Image: WEBTOON, Episode 1 of The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower. The last two beats of the episode.

Episode 2's best detail is the count. A caption says "THIS IS THE 1349TH CLEAR", and a few panels later the next caption adds "...ALSO THE 1350TH START." He is not fresh out of a tower; he has done it 1,349 times.

Image: WEBTOON, Episode 2 of The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower. The loop count.

How to read The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower in order

1. Open the series page on webtoons.com and start at Episode 1. It is a long scroll, 160 image slices in the viewer against 118 for Episode 7, and roughly the first hundred of Episode 1's are the broadcast and the guild-leader Q&A before the Balrog fight. Don't judge the series by those.
2. Read Episodes 2 and 3 straight after. They answer the question Episode 1 raises, how a man ends up clearing a tower over and over, and Episode 3 ends as the new hunters walk into their grade assessment exam.
3. Skip to Episode 7 if you're unsure. It is a conversation, not a fight, and it shows what the series does with a hero this strong. A guild contract with a ten-billion-won signing bonus (the page footnotes it as "about 9 million USD") is on the table, and Hyeonu says "From the start, I didn't want to sign up with a guild." In bed afterwards he thinks "They wouldn't just offer me ten billion won for no reason." and "I'm going to live a relaxing and comfortable life..."

Image: WEBTOON, Episode 7 of The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower. Hyeonu on the signing bonus.

4. Check the likes before you commit. The seven rows are the same age, so they compare fairly: Episode 1 has 178,298 likes, Episode 2 has 157,079 and Episode 7 has 146,637. Most of the loss is the step from Episode 1 to Episode 2; from Episode 3 (157,689) to Episode 7 it falls about 7 percent. People who get through the opening mostly stay.
5. Install the app for the rest. I could not open the app, so I can't tell you what the later episodes cost today. A poster wrote in July 2024 that "on the WEBTOON app you have access to chapter 210" while their other platform stopped at 202, adding "Granted you need coins for any chapter past 204". That was over two years ago and the series has since finished, so check the app yourself.

What readers say about the ending and the cameos

Mythology cameos are one thing readers argue about. In an r/manhwa thread on October 22, 2026, the poster said the story uses "greek gods, norse story and more and the jesus". A commenter who had read about 30 chapters answered that the Jesus depiction is "kinda offensive to me because Jesus is a real person". I haven't read that far, so I can't judge the scene or tell you where in the 223 chapters it falls; it is a reason to know before you install the app, not a verdict.

The ending draws a different complaint. In the same thread, u/Random_Access_Memer wrote: "Good read, unfortunately they rushed the ending or something..." The original poster agreed in part: "the pace was good, they could have given 20 more chapters". The same poster called the final chapter's epilogue good.

Our take

I'd judge it on Episode 7 and the last page of Episode 1, not on Episode 1 as a whole. The reason is structure: Episode 1 is told as a broadcast about the rumor of an advanced player, so the hero is a legend before he is a person, and Episode 7 is where I got a sense of his attitude. If that scene, where a man turns down ten billion won because he expects work to come with it, makes you want the next one, the series is built for you.

The free seven also leave out the ending, which two commenters in one thread call rushed. For other tower stories, best tower manhwa lines them up, and Tower of God's reading guide covers the long one. The sites that limit free episodes are covered in how to read manhwa free legally.

What we don't know: the second half of Episode 7, what the app charges for the later episodes today, where in the 223 chapters the religious cameos fall, what "(Censored)" changed in the English edition, and what the ending looks like.

How we checked this: on November 8, 2026 we read Episodes 1 to 3 and the first part of Episode 7 on WEBTOON and checked the key panels by eye, read the MangaUpdates entry, and read two Reddit threads, one at a time.

References

• The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower on WEBTOON: episode list, credits, banner
• MangaUpdates entry: chapter count, status, English edition note
• r/manhwa: the advance Player of the tutorial tower, Oct 22, 2026
• r/webtoons: Why does the app have access to more chapters, Jul 30, 2024

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• Best Tower Manhwa: the tower stories compared.
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• How to Read Manhwa Free Legally: what the free tiers offer.