Hollow Knight: Hallownest

After Morong broke into the Sanctuary of Souls that night, they secretly launched a small city-wide manhunt.

Why is it being carried out in secret?

Not to mention that the sentries patrolling the city at night did not find the intruder. Even the guards in the Soul Sanctuary failed to stop Mo Rong, and he escaped unscathed.

The most shameful thing is that no one remembers what the intruder looked like.

So this time the city-wide manhunt ended in a hurry. After learning about it, Soumas immediately recruited a new group of guards to guard them and reprimanded them.

What made him feel lucky was that there was no damage in the sanctuary that night. As for the injured sentries, it didn't matter.

After several days of eager anticipation by Mo Rong, the notice board at the bottom of the Soul Sanctuary finally posted the recruitment list of volunteers for the experiment, and the experiment will begin tomorrow.

Mo Rong has not been idle these days. With his own feet and memory, he roughly figured out the layout of the tower and planned an escape route.

He is now worried that when the experiment is carried out, he will not be assigned to the laboratory where the shaman is located, so that it will be difficult to implement the plan.

He was lucky to be able to find the room where the shaman was on the day of his sneaking, but other than that, he knew nothing about the layout of other places in the Soul Sanctuary.

Once he breaks out elsewhere, the shaman's room may be sealed, and not only will he return without success, but he may also be thrown into jail.

With an uneasy mood, Mo Rong lay in Ida's room and fell asleep.

......

"Lurien what do you mean?!"

In the room above the spire, besides the watcher and his butler, there was one more person, and that person showed no fear as he asked Lurian.

"what do you mean?"

Lurian looked out the window and said lightly.

"Okay, you really want me to explain it clearly, right?!"

The man slammed the table and stood up tremblingly, obviously very angry.

"Just a few nights ago, a man swaggered into the Soul Sanctuary and knocked out many of my sentries. They almost stepped on my head. Don't tell me you don't know about this! "

"I really don't..."

"What the hell are you talking about! If you can lull those stupid people with your words, they might believe them. Are you using them to try to frustrate me?!"

"If your thing is useless, I will destroy it for you and make room for you!"

This furious figure was none other than Soul Master Soumas. The ball of light appeared in his hand and he was about to throw it at the telescope.

After saying this, Lurian's face darkened, and he spoke in the same unceremonious manner:

"Somas, did I give you face?!"

A wave of coercion suddenly spread from the top of the tower, and the tea set on the table exploded instantly. The tea dripped slowly down the edge of the table. For a while, the only sound on the steeple was the dull sound of water dripping to the ground.

"For the sake of the king's respect for you, I will be courteous to you. Let's not mention that you broke into the steeple without permission. Based on the disrespectful words you just said to me, it is not an exaggeration for me to kill you here!"

Soumas was not afraid at all when he saw this, and turned his head with mocking eyes.

"Come, I want to see how you are going to kill me here?"

The two sides were in a stalemate, and the housekeeper was frightened and panicked.

Finally, after a moment, the light ball in Soumas' hand disappeared and slowly floated towards the elevator.

"It's best not to let me see what happened yesterday again, otherwise you see if I will care about your status as a watcher, huh!"

Thomas took a long breath in the elevator and felt extremely comfortable.

"I really don't know why the king would let such a guy guard the main city..."

On the other side, the housekeeper hurriedly brought cleaning tools to clean up the mess, and carefully said to Lurian:

"Sir, is there anything else you need to order?"

He has been the watchman's steward for many years, and this is the first time he has seen someone other than the king so rude to an adult.

"After you finish cleaning, go down and leave me alone."

"Yes."

Lurian walked to the floor-to-ceiling window next to the telescope and looked across the clouds toward the ground. The person being stared at also raised his head and looked at him as if sensing something.

"You think I don't know what you are doing? I really don't know why the king wants me not to care about your actions."

His admiration for the king and his love for Hallownest are as confident as anyone in this land, but because of this, he must not let Soumas do whatever he wants.

He was not a foolish and loyal person, but he never disobeyed the king's orders.

But Soumas needed to be hammered.

So, it's up to you.

champion.

......

On the day the experiment started, the four or five people who successfully passed were waiting at the door of the Soul Sanctuary early, and Mo Rong was among them.

"Brother Champion! You were also chosen!"

The person who talked to him during the exam looked at Mo Rong with surprise and said.

Murong nodded. When the people nearby heard the name of the champion, they were still wondering who it was. When they saw that it was the guard selection competition, they also came over to chat with Murong. It was quite lively for a while.

After a while, several staff members finally came out to greet them at the gate of the Soul Sanctuary and led everyone inside.

Not far away, the staff divided the crowd into two groups, with Mo Rong alone.

"This is?"

When everyone saw this, they couldn't help but ask the staff, and the other party did not avoid the question.

"This volunteer's physique is relatively special, so his experiment is different from yours."

"Oh~"

They believed what the staff said. After all, he was a champion and his physique must be different. Without doubting his presence, they followed him into another room.

"Hello, please follow me here."

Another staff member said to Mo Rong, the urgency in his eyes made him feel disgusted.

As expected, the place they were heading to was the room where the Snail Shaman was imprisoned that Mo Rong had discovered not long ago.

"I never thought, old guy, you actually have something like this hidden in your body..."

"Give that thing back to me, you filthy bitches! Shameless plunderers! Despicable thieves! Damn bastards! You will not die..."

The words were loud enough to reverberate throughout the entire space here, but the further back they went, the more Mo Rong could feel how weakened the voice was.

Stepping into the secret room, in front of the Snail Shaman not far away, many scholars gathered around a figure, holding a white crystal in his hand. He did not care about the anger of the person in front of him, and his eyes were shining brightly.

"That thing!"

Mo Rong frowned and squinted his eyes to look carefully, hoping that he had misjudged his eyes, but the more he looked at him, the more frightened he became.

Others may not know what the white crystal is, but he is very familiar with it. If his guess is correct, it is the crystallization of the snail shaman's spell in front of him.

Desolate dive!

How did they get this thing out?

Mo Rong was puzzled, but the next moment a scene happened that he didn't want to face.

The man raised the magic crystal and put it into his mouth, intending to swallow it directly.

"No!"

Mo Rong quickly activated his moth-wing cloak and rushed towards the man. It was not until he got closer that he saw the man's true face, the curved corners of his mouth, the pearl decorations on his head and chest, and the red silk around his neck.

Soul Master!

Unforeseen events were like waves hitting Mo Rong one after another, catching him off guard.

That's too late.

After the soul master swallowed the spell crystal, his whole body lit up with white light, and a powerful soul energy burst out from his body, also repelling Mo Rong who wanted to attack.

"Where's the stiffness?!"

Looking at the menacing Soul Master, Mo Rong couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Every time he absorbed spell crystals, he was overwhelmed by the huge amount of knowledge...

Yes, if it was the infusion of knowledge, then no wonder nothing happened to the person in front of him. As the leader of the Soul Sanctuary, how could he faint for this reason?

"This power! As expected of the shaman clan, your use of souls has actually reached this level, which is beyond my imagination!"

After Soumas absorbed the Desolate Dive, he looked at Mo Rong, who had just been knocked back not far away.

"Oh, the new experimental subject has been found."

"Yes, my lord, fortunately I have lived up to my command!"

The staff member who had just led Mo Rong hurriedly came to Soumas and bowed to him.

Seeing this, the snail shaman who was tied to the experimental device hurriedly shouted to Mo Rong:

"The survivors, run away! These bastards are going to..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was knocked unconscious by a ball of light from Somas.

"There's so much nonsense. Now that we've arrived at the Soul Sanctuary, of course we have to fulfill our duty as landlords."

"Come here, take him down for me!"

After giving the order, many sentries ran in from outside and set up bone nails towards Mo Rong.

"Is this how you treat volunteers?"

Mo Rong lowered his face and asked, Soumas looked at him with undisguised malice.

"Hmph, you are a group of ancient remnants. If it weren't for my king's mercy, how could you survive in this land?"

"Since you survived, of course you have to provide some value to Hallownest, right?"

“To provide value is to sacrifice one’s life?”

Soumas curled his lips and did not answer Mo Rong's question. He only gave his men a look, then walked aside and sat down.

"Stop talking nonsense, you should feel honored to sacrifice your life for Hallownest, do it!"

Upon seeing this, his subordinates immediately gave orders, and the sentries picked up the bone nails and attacked Murong.

Looking at Soumas sitting not far away, murderous intent appeared in Mo Rong's eyes.

"Soul Master, you deserve to die."