Hollow Knight: Hallownest

"What the hell?!"

Mo Rong quickly picked up Fast and ran outside. It wasn't until he left the ancestral hill that the light particles on Fast's body stopped overflowing.

"I just asked why Wusi is the only one in this place..."

After placing Fast on the ground, Morong realized that this phenomenon might be due to the ancestral hills. As for why this was the case, he had to ask Wu Si.

After picking up some stones from the side and hiding Fast, Murong walked into the ancestral hill alone.

"Oh! Look who's back?"

Hearing his voice before hearing his person, Wusi's surprise came from the cave.

Murong took out the mask from his body and handed it to Wu Si.

"How is it? Is it that mask of yours?"

"Oh ho ho ho, I noticed that familiar aura from you from a long way away, this is my fault!"

"I said, why did you leave the mask in a place where those monsters gather?"

Wu Si smiled sheepishly and did not explain to Mo Rong. He just took the staff in his hand and started shaking it.

"My friend, since you have completed my test for you, I should also fulfill my promise..."

"No need to say more, friend. I'm going to give you a gift, a vicious little spell of my own invention. It's perfect for a little guy like you. Oh ho ho!"

It is very similar to the scene when Wu Ma taught him. Many light particles appeared out of thin air, but this time they formed a face-like spell crystal.

"This won't be painful."

Mo Rong pointed to the spell crystal on it and asked Wusi.

"Don't be afraid. Be confident! The spell is yours, you just need to take it with you!"

He just asked. No matter how painful it was, he had to take this spell. Mo Rong jumped up high and reached out to touch it. The spell crystals immediately turned into a large number of light particles and poured into Mo Rong's body. It was still that familiar Mo Rong fainted easily from the pain.

But before he fainted, he still tried his best to say to Wu Si:

"A friend of mine fainted outside the hill. Please help me take care of it. Please..."

Then he fell to the ground covered with debris.

......

"Oh! Are you awake?"

Mo Rong's eyes slowly opened, and Wusi was sitting aside looking at him.

"Hey~, my head still hurts..."

"How's it going? Do you feel the mystery of the little spell I researched? Oh ho ho ho ho!"

Nodding perfunctorily, Mo Rong looked around, not finding Fast's figure, and hurriedly got up and walked out.

"Don't worry, your little friend is safe, no one will break into this territory, oh ho ho..."

Hearing what Wusi said, he was still a little doubtful, but now his headache was really severe, so he had no choice but to sit down and rest.

"What's going on in this place? Why did my friend faint as soon as he came in?"

Wusi tapped the ground with his staff and said:

"Do you know what these things are under your feet? And around my neck."

"Isn't it just some masks and bones?"

"Oh! You can actually see it, so where do you think these things come from?"

Wusi's voice was pretending to be low, so scared that Mo Rong couldn't help but move back a few steps.

"No...you couldn't have killed him..."

Wusna's staff hit Mo Rong's head and said angrily:

"Although my clan believes in the void, those savage bugs who only know how to fight and kill are far from my clan."

"The things under your feet are all collected from the remains of those ancient bugs over the years. Those bugs that have believed in the void all their lives, the void has also penetrated them."

"So if you are not a person who also believes in the void and steps into this land, your soul will gradually be captured by the void material. This is why no one dares to set foot on this land, oh ho ho ho ho!"

After hearing this, Mo Rong picked up some bones from the ground and looked at them for a while, but he didn't see anything special about them.

"Aren't you snail shamans quite strong? After all, you have developed such powerful spells, so why do you still need to create such complicated formations..."

"Oh! I will accept your compliment!"

"Actually, setting up this formation is also my personal reason. I am the one in my clan who is most seriously penetrated by void matter, so I need to maintain the stability of my soul at all times. This formation can help me very well, oh ho ho ho .”

"This formation can not only defend against enemies, but also stabilize your soul?"

Wusi nodded without denying it. Looking at the bones and masks scattered around, Mo Rong couldn't help but marvel at the wisdom of the shaman clan.

correct! Mo Rong slapped his head and almost forgot the other purpose of this trip.

"Wusi, let me ask, can you who believe in the void absorb the souls of others through attacks?"

"Of course, although it is very slow, it is still a way."

There was joy in Mo Rong's eyes, and he took out the bone nail from his back and handed it to Wu Si.

"Then can you help me see why my weapon doesn't work?"

Wusi didn't take it, glanced at it and said:

"You haven't been using this weapon for long."

Mo Rong nodded. The bone nail had only been used for a month, which was indeed not a long time.

"That's okay, just use it more. It doesn't have much aura of void in it, so naturally it can't absorb the soul, oh ho ho ho."

"Is that so?!"

Mo Rong blushed, and kept wrapping the bone nail with something. He was too precious.

After resting for a while, the headache was no longer so serious. After saying hello to Wu Si, Morong was ready to go out to find the little guy. He felt uneasy leaving it alone outside.

"Oh! Just wait a minute. As a friend, I want to give you something!"

Mo Rong said doubtfully:

"But haven't you already taught me spells? That is already the best gift..."

Wusi ignored it and walked deeper into the hill.

He had no choice but to wait a while. To be honest, he was ready to refuse Wusi's kindness. He didn't bring any gifts when he came to study this time, so why did he have the nerve to take other people's things.

But when Wu Si came out and handed the things to him, Mo Rong's mentality suddenly changed.

Really fragrant!

"Oh! My friend, accept this amulet and become a witness of our friendship."

The thing Wusi handed over was the talisman - the soul catcher.

"This...this is so embarrassing..."

Mo Rong activated his unique spell, the Red Envelope Rejection Technique!

While holding Wusi's hand and pushing him back, he put the amulet into his pocket.

When he left, Wu Si was still sighing, if only people who believed in the void were so polite.

Leaving the ancestral hill, Murong looked at the place where Fast was. It was still lying there quietly. As he got closer, Murong found that its breathing was very steady, and it seemed that it was just asleep.

"Fast, Fast, wake up."

Mo Rong shook it, then saw it slowly opened its eyes reluctantly, propped up his body and asked:

"Why am I sleeping here?"

"Sorry, I might have been sleepy just now. Let's keep walking."

After saying that, Fast wanted to turn around and enter the ancestral hill, but Mo Rong quickly grabbed it and pointed in another direction.

"Let's not go here, let's go in another direction."

Morong took Fast towards the Maggot Village and rested there for one night before setting off again tomorrow.

......

"Fast, you said before that you didn't want to run the route? What did that mean?"

The two of them walked side by side at the crossroads meeting. Morong planned to look for a map of the Fungus Wasteland for sale here. If there was one, he would go straight to find Mantis Claw.

"Well, we stag bugs are almost always taken with us by our elders from birth, and we are familiar with many of the routes dug by them here."

"As we grow up, sooner or later we will replace our elders and become a new generation of stag beetles."

"No wonder you don't want to go. It would be so boring. Then there must be a lot of your peers sneaking out."

Fast ate the food Mo Rong bought for it before, chewing and shaking his head.

"Gulu~, actually I was the only one who ran out."

"what?"

"We have been taught since we were young that it is a glorious thing to be a stag bug. We can carry the residents of Hallownest to various places. This is something that no one except us can do."

"Our elders also often say that this is the mission given to us by Hallownest. They also say that becoming a stag beetle will give you a chance to be patronized by the king."

"So my friends are all looking forward to becoming the next generation of stag beetles."

"Don't you admire it?"

Fast still shook his head.

"Although some of my elders have worked hard all their lives and have been to every place in Hallownest, they are not familiar with the scenery here. They only run in the dim tunnel again and again."

"I don't really know what's holding them up, and I hate that."

After hearing this, Mo Rong did not echo Fast's words, and said calmly after a long silence.

"Your elders were also like you. How do you know they never thought like you?"

"Some things may really require someone to stick to them."