Hollow Knight: Hallownest

Mo Rong discovered a very shameless way of playing...

No, how can the affairs of scholars be called shameless?

Due to the peculiarities of the death mechanism, his strength would be weakened every time he was killed. Although this would provide some boost to the boss accordingly, through careful experiments in the previous levels, he discovered that the boss did not have the ability to regenerate.

This is extremely important, because it means that the price of exchanging injuries for injuries is almost infinitely reduced. Even if the boss gets an enhancement, the accumulated injuries will be far greater than the enhancement, which is a completely unprofitable deal for the boss.

Of course, since the first few bosses were too simple, the practicality of this theory has not been fully verified.

So, isn't now the time?

Just a second before the appendage landed on Mo Rong's skin, his body began to glow bloodily. At the same time, his powerful chops with full nail force also fell on Bumblebee's head.

After the two attacks landed at the same time, Mo Rong dissipated unwillingly on the spot, but Bumblebee still stayed on the spider web in front of him.

The beast's sensitivity to attacks made the latter realize immediately that something was wrong, and she turned her head to avoid the fatal nail. Even so, she was not completely uninjured. Just below her on the ground, the three appendages seemed to have not yet realized that they had been separated from the body and were still twitching.

Black particles floated where the ink disappeared, and then merged into Bumblebee's body.

In the center of the battlefield, a ball of void matter was floating, as if it was being kneaded by a pair of invisible hands, turning into the appearance of Mo Rong.

"What a pity, she actually dodged it just now."

His vision widened again, and Mo Rong opened his eyes and looked towards the place where the battle had just taken place. It was now empty.

The attack just now combined the bone nail technique and the ghost hero's will. If it had hit the target, it would have most likely killed him in one blow, and he wouldn't have to die.

But... he looked down at the appendages and curled up the corners of his mouth.

Without half a leg, Bumblebee's incredible speed might have lost its threat. Not only that, its web weaving and silk manipulation might also be greatly affected. Although its own strength and speed are also weakened accordingly, this is still a very profitable exchange.

As he expected, although the speed of the bone needle floating in the air did not decrease, its accuracy was much worse than before. Originally, almost every strike was aimed at his vital points, but now it was always aimed at his limbs, and the pressure of dodging was reduced a lot.

So Mo Rong jumped and ran to destroy the spider web.

If you ask who is stronger, the blackened Bumblebee or the normal Bumblebee, in terms of physical functions and skills alone, the former is undoubtedly the better one. However, a large part of the factors for victory in a battle do not lie in this. Unless the strength of both sides is very different, no one can ignore the weight of wisdom on the scales of victory.

This is exactly where the blackened Bumblebee is lacking - she doesn't have the wisdom of a real Bumblebee.

Seeing Mo Rong starting to destroy her spider web, she moved her few remaining legs and started to get closer. Even though she was aware of the defects of her limbs, she still didn't want to give up that piece of spider web.

However, this time she did not choose to get close again, but instead moved around to the side, as if she was enlightened by Mo Rong's previous attack.

As if she realized that there was no way to prevent the spider web from being destroyed, she selected a position with her appendage and hooked it suddenly. The crisp sound of the silk threads breaking rang out in front of Mo Rong.

This was the move they used when they first met. Now that it reappeared, it naturally could no longer pose a threat to Mo Rong.

After many twists and turns, until nearly half of the spider web was destroyed by Mo Rong, and the Bumblebee's weaving speed was obviously slower than the former, she finally couldn't help but stick to it again, and the natural ending was another nail that some rogue had prepared long ago.

The void matter scattered like birds and beasts, and the spider web collapsed and melted into the darkness, leaving only black particles floating towards Mo Rong after the death of Bumblebee.

This is his favorite part.

Seeing the black particles gradually being absorbed by his body, he closed his eyes and carefully felt the power of the void filling himself. He did not open his eyes until the burning sensation gradually faded away.

"what?"

Mo Rong subconsciously raised his doubts. He found that there seemed to be no changes before and after the absorption. Not only in terms of physical growth, but also in terms of strength and speed.

Was it in vain?

Someone seemed to have forgotten his original intention... Mo Rong ran around the field with the bone nail in his hand, unbelievingly, as if he wanted to refute the idea that had just come to his mind, but he soon gave up.

"No way, I have passed a stage after all, how come there is no increase at all?"

Could it be that he saw that he had taken advantage of a bug and confiscated the reward?

Mo Rong looked depressed. After sighing, he had to start to face the next fallen boss - Dark Maorik.

The boss at the beginning of each stage is not too difficult, but overall it is more difficult than the previous stage. Mauric in front of him gave him a warning as soon as he landed.

Its fang-filled mouth was like a machine gun, constantly spitting highly corrosive liquid into the sky. The interval between each liquid was almost negligible, forcing Mo Rong to enter parkour mode.

As if anticipating his movement, Mauric also began to move his short lower limbs, transforming from a standing turret into a mobile turret, constantly adjusting its direction to approach Mo Rong.

Seeing this scene, Mo Rong was very surprised.

He was just thinking about finding an opportunity to get close to Maurik, but he didn't expect it to come to him.

As soon as this thought came to mind, Maurik's body shrank a little, and he suddenly leaped into the shadow in the sky and smashed straight down at him.

"Oh my god, there's no need to be so enthusiastic!"

Mo Rong quickly dodged the spot, thinking that Maorik would give up, but it was as if the fast-forward button was pressed, and it compressed its body again with the trend of falling, like a spring constantly storing and releasing power, hitting Mo Rong to the ground and making him cry out in pain.

Fortunately, as he was smashing, he found that this attack pattern was very familiar. Thinking carefully, wasn't it the attack method of the second-stage soul master? So he jumped up together according to the pattern of Maorik's smashing, turned around and chopped.

Occasionally, venom would hit him, interrupting his attack rhythm, but perhaps because he had just faced the Bumblebee, Mo Rong felt that this battle was very easy, like a halftime break, and soon he shattered Maorik's body.

While absorbing the black particles released by Maorik, Mo Rong discovered that his body had changed this time, which made him even more puzzled.

At the other end of the venue, the void matter had already taken shape, transforming into a huge bone nail resting on the shoulder of the broad figure.

The ink-colored headscarf flutters without wind.