Hollow Knight: Hallownest

Green, the Queen's Garden.

As it was almost isolated from the outside world, this peaceful place was not affected by the plague, and no obvious changes occurred until the plague faded. If one had to say something, it would be that there was one less graceful figure walking on the green grass on ordinary days.

In front of his stone-egg-shaped residence, Malmu lay on the ground with a lack of interest, looking at the entrance covered by shadows, and calling out weakly from time to time.

She hadn't felt a warm touch or embrace for several days. Even though she wanted to enter the Stone Egg to look for the warm white figure, the cold knight stationed at the entrance would always stop her. She couldn't beat him or run away, so angry...

Like Malmu, Delia has been feeling a little down in recent days. She was caught off guard by the White Lady's sudden house arrest. When asked the reason, she refused to answer, and at most she would only tell herself that her actions were to atone for her sins.

Atonement?

She had racked her brains these past few days but had not come up with a clue. She just connected it to the earliest period of overseas deployment and guessed that it should be closely related to this atonement.

The breeze blew through the yellowed grass leaves, making my face feel a little dry. It felt like it was no longer as pleasant as it was a few days ago. Silence has always been the main theme of green, but today it was broken by a sudden visitor.

The pattern of the teleportation array appeared right in front of the stone egg residence with a sudden burst of white light. Malmu, who was lying on the ground in shock, jumped three feet high, curled up into a ball, and rolled hurriedly behind Delia, staring at the ground tremblingly, as if something terrible was about to come out from there.

Delia glanced at her sideways, then turned her eyes away, her face serious and respectful, and she lowered her head a little.

She didn't react much. She was very familiar with the formation, both in its patterns and the aura it emitted, so there was no need for her to panic.

"See Your Majesty."

As soon as the words fell, a distinguished figure indeed walked out of the white light curtain, but this time the figure's steps were rather hurried. He took two steps at a time and passed Delia, and walked straight into the Stone Egg Residence, which surprised the latter.

The king is extremely particular about etiquette and basically would not ignore her greetings like he did just now. Besides, she seemed to have seen something extraordinary just now?

Delia turned her head silently, and at the last moment when the White King disappeared outside the stone egg, she caught what she wanted to confirm, and her pupils suddenly contracted.

She saw that the spotless robe that the king wore in her memory was actually dyed half black and was tattered, completely losing its original sense of holiness.

What happened in Hallownest during my absence?

Before she could think more, a slightly larger figure appeared in the light curtain. Drya was startled and her reaction was similar to that of the other knights. However, Malmu, who was hiding behind her, suddenly froze with his trembling body, as if a pause button was pressed, and he looked forward motionlessly.

"Mabuuuuuu..."

Her eyes were shining, and she slowly moved her body out from behind Delia and moved towards Wuen.

For all creatures born in the green, the sense of familiarity brought by Wuen comes from the roots of blood. Even if Malmu doesn't know him at all, it is difficult for her to feel wary of him, not to mention that she had already caught a glimpse of Wuen's figure in her dream.

As for Malmu's approach and Drya's hostility, Uon completely forgot about it at this moment, and only thought about how to solve the current problem -

To be precise, it is not a problem, it is a disaster.

On the worst-case scenario, without the suppression of the seal, perhaps the Radiance had already broken free from the seal of the container, and the ancient war between the Old Gods was about to take place, and Holy Nest might be devastated; on the bright side, the Void God would not miss this opportunity to destroy the Radiance, but even with his strength as an Old God, he and Wyrm would already be unable to resist, let alone seal another Old God?

Her expression was gloomy. Even though they had escaped through Worm's magic circle, this place was no longer a safe place. The Void God would never let them go. After all, there could only be one god who dominated this land.

On the other side, Worm hurriedly passed through the corridor, crossed the roots all over the ground and reached the deepest part of the stone egg residence. However, the short journey brought back memories of the temple not long ago, making his face look even uglier.

Just as the narrow corridor came to an end, the space in front of him suddenly opened up, and the source of all the roots appeared in front of him, Worm suddenly stopped in his tracks, his expression was stunned, and after reacting, he said in a deep voice: "What are you doing?"

In front of him, the White Lady was standing quietly in the center of the space, with countless roots entwined around her side. What attracted the most attention was the thick cloth wrapped around her body. Her originally voluptuous figure now looked like a cocoon, appearing particularly bloated.

"Atonement, atonement for shame."

"Nonsense!"

Worm growled, his tone filled with anger, reprimand, and a bit of anger at the lack of resistance.

Of course he knew what the White Lady meant, but that happened so long ago, why was he still brooding over it now? !

As the mother of a country, why is your mind so narrow? !

The resentment from all that had happened before was about to explode at this moment. Worm no longer had the indifferent look he had as a king. Now he was more like a bug eager for quick success, but he was unwilling to face the reality because of his failure.

The White Lady's expression remained the same, just as when she proposed the relocation to the man in front of her in the White Palace. She was calm and seemed to have nothing to lose.

"Your Majesty, if you do not wish to see me behave in this ugly way, then please stop here and return."

"I will pay for your sins together with you."

Worm raised his head, with a faint bloodshot look in his eyes, looking somewhat ferocious. The White Lady frowned when she saw this, realizing that something was wrong.

Even if he was angry with himself, he would never show such an inappropriate and hysterical expression.

That's not the emotion a god should have.

Perhaps realizing his own gaffe, or perhaps for some other reason, Worm's heavy breathing slowly subsided. Although the emotion in his eyes had not faded much, he finally realized that now was not the time to settle responsibilities.

He walked forward, and with a wave of his hand, he cut off all the sealing cloth strips wrapped around the White Lady, and pulled her out without saying anything. However, he just took the latter's hand and failed to pull it away at the first try.

"In the end what happened?"

The White Lady was still resisting Worm subconsciously. As soon as she saw him, the hellish scene in the abyss of the past appeared before her eyes.

Besides, shouldn't he be carrying out the sealing plan at this moment?

Worm looked back at her and uttered a few words indifferently.

"The seal failed."