Hollow Knight (Blind) - Episode 33: From Warrior to Conqueror

In today's episode of the "Hollow Knight" playthrough, we complete the second arena challenge, get our hands on another piece of pale ore, and then use our geo winnings to buy every badge we can get our hands on. With how well we did in the Colosseum of Fools in the last episode, in today's video, we try our hand at the next round, the Trial of the Conqueror, which is definitely a step up from what we saw in the Trial of the Warrior. For one thing, this round has a greater emphasis on platforming and flying enemies, making it where you have less opportunities to safely heal, with one portion forcing you to rely exclusively on wall jumps to keep from falling in the spikes below. In addition, this round introduces two minibosses exclusive to it: the Oblobbles, large flying insects that take advantage of the confined fighting space to fire numerous infection blobs at you. And to make matters worse, upon killing one of them, the other gets enraged and fires out even more blobs at a faster pace. Nevertheless, we're able to clear the challenges posed by the Trial of the Conqueror and claim our next piece of pale ore. Though alas, our luck runs out when we try to take on the third and final round, the Trial of the Fool, which destroys us once it starts throwing out some mantis enemies that we haven't see before. As such, seeing what kind of threats this final round has in store for us, we go around Hollownest and use our newfound winnings to buy every charm we can so we can work on getting some extra charm notches and give us more options with our charm layout.