Descending Dark

Descending Dark is a Spell in Hollow Knight. Using it will strike the ground with concentrated SOUL and Shadow, breaking floors and damaging enemies.

Function
Press FOCUS/CAST or QUICK CAST while holding DOWN to cause the Knight to slam into the ground, creating a shockwave that spreads further upwards than Desolate Dive, and bursts twice. The dive deals 15 damage, while the two bursts deal 30 and 15 damage respectively.

Like Desolate Dive, using Descending Dark makes the Knight invincible for 0.4 seconds and allows breaking of some floors. Using Descending Dark in quick succession will cancel the invincibility frames of the spell if it was cast while the previous spell's invincibility frames had not yet run out.

Modifiers

 * Shaman Stone increases the damage dealt by Descending Dark by 47%.
 * Spell Twister lowers the SOUL cost to cast Descending Dark to 24 SOUL.

How to Acquire
An upgrade to Desolate Dive. Found on a snail shaman's corpse in Crystal Peak, within the Crystallised Mound. It is recommended to have the Lumafly Lantern in order to reach this area.

Trivia

 * Gained by absorbing the body of a snail shaman encased in crystal. Dream Nailing this snail will give the lines:
 * "...Free...me..."


 * Descending Dark and Desolate Dive, can be used to force out Dung Defender when he is under the floor and stagger him.

Нисходящая тьма 黑暗降临 Ténèbres Descendantes