@Leo a statue who gave a riddle and who desnot anwer it right get killed. so the question should be "wy is solo leveling a reference of the SPHINX?"
there were several storys with statues that gives one a task and punished everyone who desnot do it, hunderts and thousends of years before the solo leveling story, why dont the sl fanboys and girls say that sl is a ripoff of them? with the sphinx is one of the oldest.
and if we are at that, the "quest" think was used in the heracles storys, the "gods" gave him 12 quests, so is every story with a quest in it a ripoff of that? (i know that there were even older storys with heros who had "quests" to do, but that is the most well known one and i dont remember the names of the athers at the moment)
there were several storys with statues that gives one a task and punished everyone who desnot do it, hunderts and thousends of years before the solo leveling story, why dont the sl fanboys and girls say that sl is a ripoff of them? with the sphinx is one of the oldest.
and if we are at that, the "quest" think was used in the heracles storys, the "gods" gave him 12 quests, so is every story with a quest in it a ripoff of that? (i know that there were even older storys with heros who had "quests" to do, but that is the most well known one and i dont remember the names of the athers at the moment)