Li Na is a Chinese crawler, a Changbi, and a Slave Driver who fights primarily with supernatural chains and debilitating aura effects called Dreads. She enters the dungeon with her brother Li Jun, Li Jun's best friend Zhang, and two other men from their warehouse group. Although Li Jun receives the group's earliest public ranking, Li Na develops into its most dangerous combatant. Her build combines restraint, forced movement, pain effects, status control, and eventually attacks capable of reaching entire formations through specially constructed towers.
Li Na is reserved and exacting rather than passive. When she first works directly with Carl, she immediately identifies weaknesses in his plans and insists on knowing enough to continue the mission if he dies. Her willingness to challenge him becomes as characteristic as her combat power. Across the Iron Tangle, the Hunting Grounds, the Eighth Floor, and Faction Wars, she remains closely tied to Li Jun and Zhang while also becoming a strategist, builder, and battlefield commander within the larger crawler coalition. The Ninth Floor transforms her most severely: Li Jun's death, the Engine of Tomorrow, and the Ring of Divine Suffering give her extraordinary power at the cost of permanent injury and increasing isolation.
The warehouse group and Death Watch
Before the collapse, Li Na was the only member of her five-person dungeon group who did not work at the same warehouse. Li Jun identifies her as his sister, while Zhang describes her as effectively his own sister because of his friendship with Li Jun. Their other companions are the warehouse manager and another employee. The preexisting bonds within the group help it remain intact under pressure, but they also give the dungeon's entertainment system a ready-made set of loyalties to exploit.
Li Na's first known crisis occurs while she, the manager, and the fifth crawler are trapped between troglodytes and Brindled Vespas. A production crew removes Li Jun and Zhang from the frozen encounter and places them on the Maestro's Death Watch segment. The game offers too few teleport points to save everyone and pressures the men to choose between themselves, Li Na, and their other companions. Li Jun refuses to accept the premise and insists that the group will die together; Zhang briefly offers to save Li Jun and Li Na, but Li Jun rejects that compromise as well.
Carl and Princess Donut disrupt the segment. Carl tells Li Jun and Zhang to recover Li Na and the injured manager, ignore the sword placed as bait, and run through the opposing monsters while the Vespas and troglodytes attack one another. Li Jun takes his sister, Zhang carries their manager, and all five reach a saferoom. The rescue establishes the debt that later brings Li Na, Li Jun, and Zhang into Carl's operations. It also leaves the group with a practical lesson: after surviving the Vespas, all three core members eventually choose builds that provide immunity to acid.
Changbi transformation and chain combat
By the Iron Tangle, Li Na has changed from a slight human woman into a level-30 Changbi with the Slave Driver class. She retains a recognizably human form but is taller and extremely thin, with pale skin, a widened mouth, a ridged brow, and short black horns. Her long red-and-white robe conceals or houses an array of chains with different properties. One ignites, another produces wind blades when swung, and others immobilize targets or place them into an unconscious state. Direct skin contact with her causes extreme pain and loss of bodily control; even allies avoid touching her.
The class and race make Li Na a control fighter rather than a simple brawler. She can wrap moving enemies, hold them in place, and create openings for her companions. Li Jun supplies rapid close-quarters attacks, while Zhang follows Li Na's restraints with earth magic. During the battle around the Gate of the Feral Gods, she tangles monsters in her chains so Zhang's Dirt Clod spell can batter them with rocks. Against a powerful mantaur, she uses a glowing chain to lasso its neck and render it unconscious for a minute, a control effect she can repeat only a limited number of times before resting.
Li Na, Li Jun, and Zhang volunteer for that operation before Carl has to ask. Li Na's first contribution is not an attack but a demand that Carl explain the whole plan so someone can continue it if he is killed. Throughout the mission she points out risks the others overlook. Carl recognizes that she is intelligent, intense, and unwilling to defer merely because he devised the operation. Their personalities make them poorly suited to a small permanent party, but her criticism improves the immediate plan and establishes an alliance based on frank disagreement rather than obedience.
Her ruthlessness is already evident during the confrontation with Grull. After the first mantaur vessel summons the god, Li Na prepares a second vessel by severing the mantaur from most of its body and repeatedly healing it to keep it alive. The mutilated creature is easier to move and can be thrown through the Gate, forcing the sponsored manifestation of Grull to relocate. Li Jun is visibly sickened, while Li Na explains the solution without hesitation. The act saves the group from the god, but it also demonstrates her readiness to turn a living enemy into a tool when a plan requires it.
Flooded castle and the Hunting Grounds
On the Fifth Floor, Li Na and Li Jun fight through the last castle in a bubble whose water level rises throughout its storyline. By the time they defeat the final crab-like monster, the bubble is submerged. Its collapse releases the accumulated water into the lacuna. The siblings remain behind long enough to monitor a neighboring bubble containing a screaming tentacled creature and pass information to the wider crawler network before descending.
During the Hunting Grounds, Li Na's Changbi race provides more than combat abilities. At close range she can identify whether another person is affiliated with a god and determine which god they worship. The coalition uses that trait while tracking hostile hunters, including enemies who seek protection by affiliating themselves with Emberus. Li Na operates with Li Jun, Zhang, Chris Andrews, and the larger alliance rather than remaining confined to her original five-person group.
She also participates in the Butcher's Masquerade operation. Li Na, Li Jun, and Zhang enter the talent show as knife jugglers, using the performance as part of the crawlers' coordinated presence at the event. After the battle, she accompanies Katia Grim to find Eva, who is critically injured and buried beneath the wreckage but still alive. Li Na casts Preserve Injury, preventing Eva from healing, and identifies the ring on Eva's upper-right hand that would allow her to disappear. Katia removes that hand and Eva's concealed poisoned blade. When Eva wakes and asks for healing, Li Na tells Katia to kill her. Katia does so, but Eva uses her final movement to place the Crown of the Sepsis Whore on Katia. Li Na's intervention prevents Eva from escaping; it cannot prevent the crown from creating a new conflict between Katia and Donut.
Card battles and the loss of Li Jun's eye
Li Na's team is based in the Beijing region during the Eighth Floor's card-based campaign. She joins the cross-regional effort to stop crawler groups from fighting one another and later travels with more than twenty allied crawlers to Carl's position for the final operation. As a deckmaster, she brings twenty cards into the battle involving Ysalte and Amayon. Her totems include Xing Tian, a headless shield-and-axe fighter, and a Legendary Master whom she accelerates with repeated speed enhancements. She uses the cards for blocking, reinforcement, and protection as the building collapses and demons overrun its floors.
Her chains also serve as movement infrastructure. When Shi Maria takes control of Carl, Li Na fires a chain down through the damaged building and Li Jun slides along it to reach him. Shi Maria uses Carl's tattoo tool to tear out Li Jun's eye, consumes it through Carl's body, and incorporates what she has taken into the Eye of the Bedlam Bride tattoo. Li Na moves to her injured brother, but Shi Maria threatens both him and Carl if she approaches or attempts healing. Once Carl regains control, Li Na retrieves the supplied healing potion and tends to Li Jun, but the eye does not return.
At the beginning of Faction Wars, Li Na and Li Jun postpone joining the coalition's new command structure while they search for a healer capable of restoring the eye. Li Na does not blame Carl for an act committed while he was controlled. According to Katia, she instead blames herself for failing to protect her brother. That distinction does not make her more communicative; she largely stops speaking to Carl after the Eighth Floor.
Shanty Town and the Dread network
Once Mordecai creates a potion that suppresses her harmful aura long enough for recruitment, Li Na formally joins the Princess Posse's army. She immediately asks for her squad to take responsibility for constructing defenses around Shanty Town. Her unit becomes the 107th White Dragon Urban Defense Battalion, and she works with the builder Toyotomi on the settlement's towers. This role turns her personal magic into fixed infrastructure: instead of affecting only enemies near her body, her Dreads can be transmitted and enlarged through a synergy tower.
The key structure is an Extend Aura clock tower designed for a user whose magic has the required synergy. Mistress Tiatha adds an improvised network of capacitor wire. During the assault on Club Vanquisher, Li Jun and Zhang carry those wires through the entrance and keep an unbroken connection to Li Na's tower. The system extends her aura roughly twenty meters around the wire even though Li Na remains outside the club. Because Dreads are not classified as offensive magic, the effect works during the phase's ban on offensive spells.
Li Na begins with Dark Purpose, normally a short-range effect associated with physical contact. Through the tower and wire network, it drives defenders into confusion and self-destructive violence. She uses the mass exposure to train the ability from level four to level fifteen, then cycles through Defile Soul, Bleeding Horror, and Succulent Decay. Bleeding Horror allows blood already under her control to attack enemies, including opponents protected against the original aura. Li Na treats the raid as both an objective and a rare training environment, refusing to switch effects prematurely when she believes the next Dread will be more useful against incoming mantaurs. Her calculation is effective, but the scale and emotional detachment disturb Carl.
The Club Vanquisher victory helps Li Jun obtain the Engine of Tomorrow, a celestial replacement eye that detects the beginning of muscular movement and briefly accelerates his perception. Li Na trains with him as he learns to use it. Around the same period, she asks Carl for his spare Ring of Divine Suffering. Carl hesitates because the ring rewards its wearer for marking and killing targets and prevents healing while any mark remains alive. After consulting Katia, Imani, Elle, and Donut, he gives it to Li Na. She declines the Necklace of Indelible Woe rather than risk losing the level-fifteen Dreads she has just developed.
Li Jun's death and the Engine of Tomorrow
During the final phase of Faction Wars, Harpocrates advances on Donut's tower while she is trying to complete a battlefield plan. Li Jun realizes that one surviving speaker remains on a cart and tells Donut to mute the others and play a song through it. The sound draws Harpocrates toward him instead of the tower. Li Na immediately understands the danger and protests. Li Jun claims he will jump away before the god reaches him, but his final message thanks Carl for the additional time he had with his sister and Zhang. The system identifies the message as coming from a deceased crawler.
Li Na initially collapses into hysterical grief. She later tells Donut that Li Jun's death is her fault because her plan placed him in danger, although Zhang rejects that blame and emphasizes that Li Jun made his own choice. Li Na takes the Engine of Tomorrow from her brother, removes one of her own eyes, and installs the celestial replacement. The act gives her its accelerated perception and preserves a part of Li Jun's combat legacy, but it also marks the point at which grief and power become almost inseparable in her conduct.
She uses Li Jun's scroll of potion duplication to copy a Conscription potion, gives the copy to Carl, and takes the original to Harpocrates. Despite the danger of attempting to conscript a level-250 god, she succeeds. Harpocrates enters the White Dragons as a legionnaire under her direct control, and she turns him against Yarilo and later prepares him to oppose Eris. These actions keep the coalition's plan moving after Li Jun's death, but Li Na carries them out with a cold urgency directed at saving Zhang, Elle, Katia, and the other people she still has left.
The Ring of Divine Suffering
Li Na's use of the ring reaches its extreme when Donut's War Crime spell gathers a mass of hostile forces. Li Na marks thousands of eligible targets before Carl can mark them himself, and her chains help destroy the formation. The resulting rewards bring every one of her base statistics—including strength, intelligence, and charisma—to the cap of 300, the first time the system records a crawler maxing all base statistics. She is level 87 at the time; the unprecedented achievement concerns base attributes, not reaching level 100.
The gain leaves a permanent cost. Several of Li Na's marks escape. Three outworlders return through the Cosmic Lounge to the Eighteenth Floor, beyond her reach, so their marks can never be cleared. Left to Fester therefore prevents Li Na from healing indefinitely. Every use of her chains consumes a small amount of health, turning her signature ability into a finite resource despite her enormous attribute totals and health pool.
After the battle she can fly, with ethereal chains moving around her like wings, but she withdraws from ordinary conversation and continues hunting remaining marks. Her choices also damage trust within the coalition. One survivor reports that she attached a potion to a sluggalo and ordered him into Harpocrates as a living delivery system. Carl does not dismiss the moral danger: when he considers using his own ring to kill surrendered mercenaries and reproduce Li Na's statistical gain, her condition convinces him that survival cannot be reduced to power. He gives his ring to Donut to destroy. Li Na remains one of the coalition's strongest surviving crawlers at the end of Faction Wars, but her unhealable wound, depleted relationships, and grief make that strength inseparable from the price paid to obtain it.