Hollow Knight, a Metroidvania action-adventure game developed by Team Cherry, follows the exploits of a nameless warrior known as the Knight who travels over Hallownest, devastated by a terrible disease.

As the Knight goes around Hallownest, the Knight will be able to obtain new items, abilities, spells, and charms, allowing the Knight to explore new areas and defeat enemies.

Mask Shards are one example of this item. These Mask Shards are required to increase the Knight’s health Masks.

To create one Ancient Mask, the Knight must collect four Mask Shards. After completing one Ancient Mask, the Knight’s health will grow by one Mask.

Because there are 16 Mask Shards in the game, the Knight can have an additional four Masks of health, for a total of nine Masks (excluding Charm effects and Lifeblood Masks).

There is only one Mask Shard from Bretta, and this article will teach you how to obtain it.

Bretta’s Mask Shard

Bretta will reward the Knight with a Mask Shard in her house, which is the rightmost house on the right of Iselda and Cornifer’s house up in Dirtmouth in the northernmost part of Hallownest.

Before the Knight is rewarded with a Mask Shard, the Knight must rescue Bretta from being trapped somewhere in Hallownest.

Finding Bretta

Bretta is a beetle living in Dirtmouth but is stranded somewhere in Hallownest and waits for someone to free him. Bretta develops feelings for the Knight after the Knight saves her.

She will blush if the Knight sits next to her on the Bench for a while, and a couple of sketches and dolls of the Knight, as well as a diary in which she discusses the Knight, may be found inside her house in Dirtmouth.

Bretta is stuck at the end of a maze in the southeasternmost section of the Fungal Wastes and the Mantis Village area.

In the Fungal Wastes and the Mantis Village, the Knight will face a variety of creatures. Still, on the way to Bretta’s location, the Knight will mainly run into the following enemies: Mantis Youths, Mantis Warriors, Shrumal Warriors, Shrumelings, and a Sporg.

It is worth noting that finding Bretta after killing the optional boss in the Mantis Village, the Mantis Lords, will be significantly easier since all of the Mantis Youths and Mantis Warriors will become passive to the Knight and will only attack the Knight if provoked.

It is required that the Knight has the Mothwing Cloak ability, which allows the Knight to perform a horizontal dash forward, the Monarch Wings ability, which enables the Knight to perform a secondary jump mid-air, and the Mantis Claw ability, which allows the Knight to cling to walls and jump off of them, before attempting to find Bretta. Finding Bretta will be a piece of cake with these abilities.

To find Bretta in the Fungal Wastes, this is what the Knight must do:

1. Start from the middle of the main area of the Mantis Village (the room where it says Mantis Village on the map), head to the right where the Knight will run into a Mantis Youth, head up the tall platform above the pool of acid using the Mantis Claw ability or the Monarch Wings ability, continue to the right, drop down the gap, jump towards the next platform, continue to the right, and take the exit.
2. Upon entering the next room, the Knight will find a Mantis Warrior. Continue to the right, where the Knight will run into another Mantis Youth, drop down the gap, drop down to the bottom of the shaft, proceed to the left, jump across the gap where there is a Mantis Warrior below, continue to the left, drop down the gap, head on the path below using the small platform (look out for the pool of acid), and take the exit on the bottom left. It is worth noting that there is a Bench on the other side of the exit where the Knight can heal and save your progress.
3. After that, proceed to the left, drop down the gap on the left, drop down the gap on the right, drop down the gap on the left, continue to the left while also dropping down on the platforms, and drop down using the small platforms.
4. Next, proceed to the right and drop down the platforms to head to the bottom, then head to the left, where there is a statue at the bottom , wherethe Dashmaster Charm can be found.
5. Then, proceed to the wall on the left where there is a hidden narrow path at the bottom left of the wall; continue heading to the left through the hidden path where the Knight will encounter two Shrumal Warriors and a lot of Shrumelings, proceed to the wall of the room on the left, climb up the wall on the left with the help of the Mantis Claw ability, at the top, jump to the right and perform a secondary jump using the Monarch Wings ability to get to the wall on the left above, climb up this shaft again with the help of the Mantis Claw ability, then jump towards the platform above on the right where the Knight will run into a Sporg.
6. After that, jump to the wall on the right, climb up the wall with the help of the Mantis Claw ability; at the top, jump then dash with the help of the Mothwing Cloak ability towards the wall on the left, climb up the wall with the help of the Mantis Claw ability, and jump to get to the platform above on the right.
7. Next, proceed to the right, dash in between the spikes to get to the wall on the right with the help of the Mothwing Cloak ability, slide down the shaft while clinging to the wall on the right with the help of the Mantis Claw ability, dash towards the wall on the left before reaching the bottom of the wall and hitting the spikes, slide down the shaft while clinging to the wall on the left, dash towards the wall on the right before hitting the spikes at the bottom, slide down the shaft while clinging to the wall on the right, dash towards the wall on the left before hitting the spikes, slide down the shaft while clinging to the wall on the left, and dash towards the platform on the right before hitting the spikes at the bottom of the shaft.
8. Then, proceed to the right, jump to get up the slightly elevated platform, head up the wall on the right with the help of the Mantis Claw ability, and jump to the safe spot on the wall on the left of the shaft before hitting the spikes above, jump to the safe spot on the wall on the right above the spikes, continue climbing up the post, jump to the wall on the left before hitting the spikes above, continue climbing up the shaft, jump to the safe spot on the wall on the right before hitting the spikes above, climb up the shaft, then jump to the thin platform above on the right.
9. After that, drop down the narrow shaft on the right while clinging to the wall on the left, then dash towards the platform on the right before hitting the spikes at the bottom of the shaft.
10. Finally, head to the right, jump up the slightly elevated platform, and the Knight will find Bretta!

After finding her, talk to Bretta, and she will say that she does not know she ended up there, and she will be surprised that the Knight wanted to rescue her as everyone just ignores her.

After talking to Bretta, head to the right, where the floor at the end of the path will break, and the Knight can safely exit the maze.

Bretta’s house, which is the rightmost house, will be unlocked after the Knight returns to Dirtmouth. When the Knight enters Bretta’s house, the Knight will be rewarded with a Mask Shard!

After acquiring the Mask Shard from Bretta, the Knight requires three more Mask Shards to add one more to the Knight’s health!