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Chapter 189 - 86: Hollow Knight Not Hollow, Hardcore Gamers Have a Tender Side!_4

Chapter 189: Chapter 86: Hollow Knight Not Hollow, Hardcore Gamers Have a Tender Side!_4

The map, it seemed, was already etched in his heart.

Viewing this expertly executed scene, the barrage of comments erupted in astonishment.

"Damn! Isn’t his ability to memorize the map a bit excessive?"

"Strong! Go Mr. Miracle!"

"Mr. Miracle seems to be in great form today, I can see from the camera, his hands aren’t even shaking."

"Keep it up, Mr. Miracle! You’re far ahead!"

"Charge, charge, charge! We’re the champions!!"

Soon, the little Knight controlled by Mr. Miracle swiftly took down the first boss, the False Knight, with agile and evasive tactics.

And learned the first skill, Soul Blast, commonly known as White Wave.

Then, relying on his remarkable map memorization capability,

he briskly passed through Verdant Path.

Under the stupefied gazes of everyone,

they saw him leap into the air, and while hovering, send out a reverse wave, using the slight recoil to precisely land on a high platform’s edge!

This stretch of the road, according to conventional gameplay, required a long detour before a player could circle around from the left to the location of the final boss, Hornet Woman.

But with Mr. Miracle’s maneuver, he could directly take the shortcut on the right and enter her lair!

He saved a significant amount of time, reaching the final boss much quicker.

This brand-new strategy that was just developed stunned all the viewers!

"What the hell? You can actually get up this way??"

"Don’t you need double jump for this spot?"

"Damn, isn’t this going to leave the other competitors in the dust?"

"I used to wonder why everyone keeps yelling ’Mr. Miracle’ all day. Shouldn’t speedrunning be about skill? Isn’t it wrong to just follow whoever’s the most ill? But now I see, dude, the skill level is way ahead too... So nevermind. From now on, I’m a ten-year die-hard fan of Mr. Miracle!"

With the chat swirling intensely, Mr. Miracle also swiftly and proficiently defeated Hornet Woman.

And acquired the core game item, Sprint.

Speeding up the game’s progress even further!

Under everyone’s watchful eyes,

he quickly navigated through Fungus Wasteland with GPS-like precision and promptly arrived at Mantis Village.

After obtaining another key core item,

under the trembling gaze of the audience, he wound his way through and directly arrived before the statues of the three Dream Guardians that sealed the Hollow Knight.

Everyone was dumbfounded!

According to the game’s standard progression, defeating these three Dream Guardians would unlock the seal on the Hollow Knight, granting the player the qualifications to challenge him.

Defeating the Hollow Knight would signify the end of the speedrun.

But the problem was...

It had just started!

Everyone instinctively glanced at the current time checkpoint.

minutes...

In these 16 minutes, other players were still exploring various angles to meet the conditions for speedrunning, and some were only just starting their fight with Hornet Woman.

He was already preparing to challenge the Hollow Knight??

Could someone with ALS achieve such a speed?

These exquisite techniques and strategies, if not for relentless study of the game day and night, would have been impossible to discover.

Many even began to feel a sense of shame.

"If Mr. Miracle can keep breaking his own limits, and here I am slacking off every day..."

"Damn it! From today on, I quit smoking and start exercising!"

"From today on, I refuse to be a simp!"

And very soon, just a few minutes later,

Mr. Miracle had already unsealed two of the Dream Guardians.

Only one remained.

He needed to venture into Deep Nest to find the wild beast among the Dream Guardians, defeat it to successfully break the seal, and then he would face his predecessor.

One more step forward, and the championship would be his!

But before that,

he had to first make a trip to the Abyss, far from Holy Nest, to acquire Super Sprint (Black Rush), necessary to break through the Void Black Door that guarded the entrance to Deep Nest.

In the process of acquiring Black Rush, he would enter a short but extremely difficult jumping section, accompanied by a narrative kill.

This long screen jumping puzzle features an upwards continuous elevator structure, with platforms not interconnected, similar to those "100 levels down" mini-games for men.

However, what’s more challenging is that these stone elevators are wrapped with spikes.

There’s only a small segment on almost every elevator where one can leverage themselves.

Any mistake would result in being knocked by the spikes and falling back to the valley, all efforts gone in vain.

During the process, there would even be some spiked creatures on the elevators to interfere.

The difficulty level was undoubtedly daunting.

During this time, many players were tormented by this Abyssal jumping joy.

At this moment, Mr. Miracle had reached the valley floor of this elevator cliff.

At his feet lay the bones of failed vessels that resembled little knights, which was also the birthplace of the Hollow Knight.

After taking a deep breath,

he flexed his somewhat stiff fingers.

With a bounce of the start, he was unstoppable!

At the beginning, he jumped quickly and his steps were stable.

Avoiding spikes was a piece of cake.

He agilely interweaved through this deadly terrain.

But by the middle part,

perhaps due to the sustained high concentration, or maybe because he hadn’t properly rested during this period,

his pace became erratic.

Some attentive viewers noticed.

Mr. Miracle’s fingers, steady for more than ten minutes, were now beginning to tremble on and off again.

"Damn... come on, just a stone’s throw away!"

"Hold on! Steady! After getting past this part, you can fight the third Dream Guardian, then the Hollow Knight! Then after that, you become the champion!!"

Everyone started cheering on their screens.

And indeed, Mr. Miracle continued to grit his teeth and push through.