Hollow Knight: Hallownest

To the four knights, everything that just happened was unfamiliar and questionable to them.

Even though Hera usually kept her aura restrained and hadn't revealed it just now, their intuition as knights told them that Hera's strength was extraordinary, just as mysterious as her identity.

But the doubt arises from this - what did the king say to her and what did he promise to make her sacrifice her life?

Also, what is all this for?

The white light faded, and the four knights looked at the huge venue in front of them. It was much more familiar than when they entered the Deep Nest before.

The Teachers' Archives, where the teachers of Holy Nest live, have always respected the two right-hand men of the King, even though they don't have many opportunities to meet. But at this moment, a not-so-good thought suddenly came to the minds of the knights.

Could it be that the teacher would also...

Following the White King's steps, the knights walked towards the depths of the archives.

They had been here before, but not often, so they naturally didn't know about the changes in the archives. The places that seemed relatively empty were now filled with bottles and jars filled with green liquid, and even the water flowing in the reservoir was the same. The smell of contempt for life made them unhappy, but they sighed inwardly.

Is this the kind of environment teachers live in?

It's really hard.

dong dong dong-

The White King knocked on the familiar door again, and soon, a loud explosion was heard from inside the door. The sudden change scared the knights, and they quickly took a fighting stance, staring at the door of the laboratory.

"I'm coming......"

As they looked on with a little nervousness, the door of the laboratory was slowly opened, and a soft, haggard and tired voice came out from the crack of the door.

As the door opened more and more completely, the interior of the laboratory came into the knights' sight.

Coinciding with what they had imagined, there were also many bottles and jars in the laboratory, but they were placed in a very messy manner, not at all as orderly as outside. There was some liquid stuck on the dark yellow floor and walls, with black and yellow patches, and many familiar green blocks. All these accumulations gave the laboratory a dirty and messy look.

After Monomon opened the door, he didn't say much. He just walked to the experimental table and continued with the next experiment.

Seeing this, King Bai glanced at her sideways without saying anything, and followed her into the laboratory.

And just as the knights followed the former's steps and entered the laboratory, their doubts were naturally resolved.

Isma looked at Monomon in the distance with a frown on his face, a look of doubt and surprise in his eyes, and when he looked closely at the other knights, they had similar expressions.

They might have difficulty identifying the mixed smells in those blocks of color, but they were familiar with the smell of the liquid in the test tube held by Monomon.

One is the dream liquid that endangers the people of Holy Nest, and the other is the void substance buried in the abyss that almost caused a disaster.

The next moment, their pupils suddenly widened, and they looked at Monomon's actions in disbelief, and secretly shouted in their hearts -

What is she doing?!

How dare she add two tubes of such violently powerful liquid to the acid?!

In their understanding, being contaminated by any one of the three would cause them considerable trouble, let alone all three at the same time. They did not dare to imagine the scene when the test tube fell down. It was at this time that they figured out where the explosion had come from.

Hegemer and other knights silently took a few steps forward and used their bodies to protect the White King. The latter did not react and just waited quietly.

As they watched with extreme tension, the black liquid and the orange-yellow liquid simultaneously dripped into the green liquid, mixing into a dark brown liquid. The mixture of the three smells unexpectedly produced a rare sense of balance.

Success...success???

The knights' eyes widened as if they had seen some wonder of the world, and they stared motionlessly at the shaking test tube in Monomon's hand.

This, how is this possible?

They didn't understand why the mixture of several incompatible forces such as water and fire became so calm at this moment, as if the violent energy contained in them was dissipated by an invisible hand, causing it to transform and purify.

Different from the knights' reaction, the White King sighed lightly and looked at Monomon in the distance with a complicated expression. The latter's eyes were still full of hope, and even reached an unprecedented peak at this moment.

"It's going to...it's going to succeed. This time the stability will last longer than any other time!"

Monomon was so excited that he forgot to hide behind the protective wall for a moment. The whole insect moved much closer, less than an arm's length away from the test tube.

Her bloodshot eyes stared at the liquid in the test tube, like a drowning person clinging to the dogtail grass on the shore and refusing to let go, her eyes full of hope and desire.

"How many times has this happened? More than five thousand times? It should be successful..."

Monomon kept muttering to himself as he watched the liquid in the test tube becoming increasingly stable.

She had not rested since the last time the White King came here. She had been toiling in the laboratory day and night, almost doubling the number of experiments.

Fortunately, all this was not in vain...

Monomon finally relaxed a little, but just as she was about to further test the effect, something strange happened!

The liquid in the test tube suddenly boiled to an unprecedented degree, exploding almost at the moment of the fluctuation, without even giving Monomon a chance to react.

boom--! ! !

A loud noise several times louder than the previous one suddenly echoed throughout the laboratory, but it fell silent the next moment and returned to silence.

A layer of white light shield appeared around Monomon at some point, protecting her entire body.

Looking in front of him, there was another layer covering the test tube, absorbing all the shock waves generated by the explosion.

Monomon looked dazed at this moment, as if she had not yet reacted to what had just happened. After waiting for a long while, she lowered her head blankly and looked at the test tube fragments stuck to the tentacles, her eyes suddenly dimmed.

The greater the hope, the greater the frustration.

She failed again.

The White King was not surprised at all. The liquid just now was like the fuse of a firecracker that had burned to the bottom but was still in a gap before exploding. Even if it was calm, it was just a warning before the explosion.

"Want to try again?"

The White King's voice was neither hurried nor slow, and it had a magical power to calm people's annoyance. After hearing this, Monomon in the distance smiled bitterly, bent down and pulled out two jars from the bottom of the laboratory table.

The two jars looked very familiar to the White King. They were the jars containing void matter and dream liquid that he saw when he came here last time.

At this moment, it is empty.

"I have failed completely."