Hollow Knight: Hallownest

Mo Rong only felt that his body was suddenly lifted up by something and fell on a soft mass.

Could it be that he hit Marcos...

His hands were trembling as he prepared to reach down, but as soon as he stretched out his hands, the wind passing through his fingers reminded him that he had not stopped moving.

After opening his eyes, Mo Rong discovered that the nail marks left by his own bone nails in the distance were beginning to enlarge in his field of vision!

It was at this moment that he realized that the bumpy scenery was caused by vibrations coming from beneath his body.

Da da da--

The sound of footsteps on the ground came one after another as dense as raindrops. Mo Rong lowered his head and saw several sturdy pectoral legs coming into his sight. They were constantly rooted in the rock wall, alternating back and forth, as if they were walking on flat ground.

Is this... a stag beetle?

From the iconic pointed head in front and his unique climbing ability, it is not difficult to guess his identity even though the insect beneath him is covered in shadows.

This Stag is slightly different from the Stag beetles that we remember traveling back and forth in the Stag Trail. The muscles of this Stag are not well developed and its trunk is slightly hunched. Even though its steps are still agile, its beard blowing back in the wind can hardly hide its old age.

These discoveries did not surprise Mo Rong, but there was another point that he could not understand -

How could the bugs assimilated by the void lend a helping hand to me?

Mo Rong was puzzled, and doubts grew in his heart. He wanted to find out the truth, but was afraid that if he said too much, something unexpected would happen, so he had no choice but to sit obediently on the old and rotten cushion and wait for the stag beetle to stop him.

Compared to his own climbing speed, the professional stag beetle was obviously faster. Just when he was about to fall to the foot of the mountain, Mo Rong found that he could clearly see the base of the stone statue on the top of the mountain again.

At the same time, he also saw the culprit who caused him to fall off the cliff!

According to the situation just now, if he rushed forward headlong, the thin film that was like a barrier would still not allow him to pass through. The only one that could pass through was the stag beetle under him. Then the situation would return to the previous one, and it would seem like a wasted effort.

If he wanted to reach the top of the mountain right now, he had only one choice—to become a void creature.

In other words, at least make that layer of barrier think that they are void creatures.

If he was still in the same body as before, he wouldn't be so embarrassed now... Seeing that the barrier was approaching, Mo Rong searched his whole body but couldn't find anything connected to the void, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

What to do? What to do...

He wanted to dig deep into his brain and shouted at the sleeping Radiance countless times in his heart, but he just couldn't come up with any idea.

"Void, void..."

Mo Rong held his head, as if he wanted to grab something out of it, but his eyes now noticed the stag beetle that was still running.

If the only one who can connect with the void right now is him, and if he wants to connect with the former, he must establish some kind of inseparable connection with the stag beetle.

The mountains are high and the rivers are deep, and there seems to be no way out. Recalling the radiant light in his dream just now, an idea flashed in his mind!

Since Radiance can enter my dreams, then now as a pure dream-body, can I also enter the bodies of other insects like her?

The only uncertainty now is whether the Void Clan will react to the Dream Nail like ordinary bugs, but he remembered Dageno who turned into a corpse at the bottom of the abyss long ago, and when the Dream Nail hit him, there was also Dream Language.

I just don’t know if I can enter the dream world, and I don’t know if the empty dream world is any more dangerous than an ordinary dream world.

"No matter what, at this point, there is no other choice."

As the barrier got closer, Mo Rong no longer hesitated. He summoned the Dream Nail and chopped it towards the stag beetle under him.

In an instant, there was a flash of light, and the figure on the cushion disappeared without a trace. In a brief moment, even Bai and the Void God who were fighting did not notice Mo Rong's trace. They only felt that his breath suddenly disappeared.

It was called a battle, but it was completely a one-sided crushing by the Void God. Bai could only defend with difficulty. However, after noticing the change, both heads stopped their actions tacitly. It was at this time that the Void God discovered that there was a black shadow rushing upwards on the cliff of Crystal Mountain.

Seeing this, a hint of death appeared in the depths of his eyes.

As the God of the Void, he can dispose of the life of any void insect at will, at any time.

But just after he had this thought, the black shadow in the distance did not react much, but its speed slowed down visibly. The eyes of the Void God trembled.

Here it comes again, the link is broken again!

His eyes fixed, and there was a hint of surprise in his expression.

There was originally a powerful barrier set up by Radiance at the top of the Crystal Mountain. Any Void Clan connected to his will had to expend enormous strength to enter, and even he himself was no exception. How could he not be surprised when he saw an ordinary Void Bug breaking in as if it were entering a bug-free land?

Could it be that the moth's barrier has failed?

In order to verify this, he deliberately let the void barrier covering the light barrier extend downwards, but as soon as the two came into contact, the latter quickly retracted as if it had been burned.

The Void God’s expression darkened.

The light barrier had not failed, and the void barrier was also intact. Even if he was slow-witted, he realized that this unusual change had happened to the disappeared Mo Rong!

But what about others? !

After passing through two layers of barriers, especially after passing through the light barrier, the speed of the stag beetle dropped visibly, as if the air around it had turned into a sticky quagmire, every strand of which was pulling hard on his thorax. But even so, the stag beetle did not stop until it reached the top of the mountain, when it collapsed to the ground.

A flash of light appeared, and Mo Rong rolled out of his body and fell beside him.

The dreams of the Void Clan were different from any dream he had ever entered. Rather than a dream, it was more like another abyss. Apart from darkness, there was only endless coldness, which was completely different from the dreams of ordinary creatures.

When he entered with the dream nail, the feeling that wanted to pull him into endless darkness that he had felt in front of the void altar in the God's Residence resurfaced. If it were not for the only remaining light in the dream that allowed him to see the direction to escape, he would probably have been trapped in it forever.

"Uh......"

Mo Rong propped himself up, the empty matter on his body and the coldness inside his body were completely dispelled by the warm power of the barrier. The rough feeling of the gravel under his palms and everything in his sight made him overjoyed!

Arrived!

finally reached!

He stood up excitedly, then suddenly thought of something and turned around to look behind him.

The void barrier to him was equivalent to the light barrier to the stag-horned beetle. Without him, the warm power of the light was like poisonous arsenic, constantly invading the stag-horned beetle's body.

He saw that those forces were like the void maggots that had been gnawing at his body in the black ball not long ago, ruthlessly tearing at every bit of flesh and blood in the stag beetle's body. He knew too well the pain that was like being tortured by slow slicing, but he was amazed at the stag beetle's will, or whether the other party had lost consciousness, not even making a sound, only those dim eyes staring at a certain place without blinking.

Following his gaze, Mo Rong saw a glittering object, which was not far in front of the stag beetle. The beetle was still trembling as it stretched out its front legs, trying to pull it back.

That is a gold coin.

Mo Rong was stunned, as if he remembered something. His pupils first shrank, and then trembled violently.

He walked forward, stretched out his hand to pick up the thing, and rubbed it again and again with trembling hands, wiping off the dust on it, but the stains could still be seen.

It was a stain embedded in the gap. Compared with the golden light on the side, it seemed out of place and extremely eye-catching, just like the faint light that guided him out when he entered the empty dream just now.

The stain had a shape, a big smiley face.

He raised his head, looking at the stag beetle with a blurry vision for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at the howling cliffs in the distance.

In a trance, he heard a childish shout from the other side of the river, clear and innocent -

"Brother Mo Rong! Can I still follow you from now on?!"

Mo Rong knelt down slowly, picked up the drooping head of the stag beetle whose breath was gradually weakening, and held Jingio in his palm in front of his eyes. With a muffled voice, he responded to the words in his heart over and over again.

"Of course, of course..."