I, Hogwarts Second Week

"If you want to find that group of mermaids, go over there, but I suggest you wait and see outside first. Suddenly there are these monsters in the lake." She pointed to the direction where the lobster monster was chasing her just now and said, "Those groups The mermaid will definitely go crazy, and the fainted mermaid may forget the agreement with the professors and attack you unscrupulously."

"Yeah..." Hermione gave her two thumbs up to express her gratitude, then turned around and set off again.

It was still dark in the black lake.

The turbid lake water has a faint fishy and salty smell.

Speaking of which, Black Lake is not a lake in the first place. It is connected to the sea, and sometimes seawater will slowly pour in. At that time, a light layer of mist will rise on the entire lake, and then the sea breeze will blow the wet and salty smell all over the college.

But in most cases, the water in Black Lake is fresh water.

The streams flowing down from the mountains are full of water.

Only at certain times in winter does seawater flooding occur.

At this time, on the other side of the lake, Furong was nervously handling this group of mermaids.

The reason why she was nervous was not because those mermaids were very powerful.

It was so dark that mermaids kept jumping out of the surroundings, which really tested one's spirit.

"All petrified!"

After killing another mermaid. Fleur finally chose to stop.

She wore something like a respiratory mask in her mouth, which was transparent, and air bubbles would be squeezed out from both sides of the mask from time to time.

Her silver hair was tightly bound by a hairband, and she was wearing a slim-fitting blue swimsuit.

There was something like some kind of thin leather material wrapped around her perfectly curved body. Although nothing was exposed, it was very tempting just to look at it.

It's a pity that no one has a chance to see it in this dim black lake.

"Where on earth is it!" Fleur frowned.

She's a little lost

The black lake looked similar in all directions. At the beginning, she could still tell clearly where was the center of the lake and where was the edge.

But after several battles, she couldn't tell the difference at all.

Just now she saw the muscular guy Klum walking towards this side.

She also followed.

But a sudden mermaid attack made her lose her way again.

Thinking in her mind, Furong immediately glared fiercely at the mermaid who had disturbed her.

Then there is a pocket tied from the leg.

He took out a piece of oil paper.

On the paper, a white dot representing her own position lit up.

Then there is a green dot at the end point. Also bright.

It seems very simple. After all, this is not a maze in the castle sewer. She can swim in all directions in the water, unlike in the castle where she will be blocked by walls.

But the reality was that some kind of spell seemed to be cast on the surrounding landscape. Inexplicably, as she swam, the white dots on the map would suddenly disappear, and then reappear elsewhere.

It was as if she had been apparated!

But she clearly didn't feel like she was being squeezed into the pipe.

This made her very angry.

Time passed by minute by second, and it seemed that there was less than twenty minutes left before the end of the game, but she was still spinning around in the black lake.

"Forget it!" Furong showed a messed up face, which she originally didn't want to do.

Speaking of which, it was still the black ribbon-shaped pocket on the right leg.

She took out a glove made of metal and leather, with a gem set on each joint.

The largest blue gemstone is set on the back of the hand.

The shape of this glove is not the Egyptian-style glove from the first game.

Only she knew that although this alchemy item was very powerful, it was actually consumed very quickly.

The endurance of these gems and this glove is very poor. Basically, obvious damage will occur after four or five uses. If it is used more than ten times, there is a risk of it exploding.

And there must be more than thirty seconds between each use.

Using magic with different effects takes longer and takes a few minutes.

In fact, the real magic comes from a metal ring at the mouth of the glove. The function of the gloves and gems is to divert the magic that originally only belonged to the ring.

This is not Nick Flamel’s creation, but his ‘archaeological excavation’.

Hundreds of years ago, he found an ancient magical ruin in Mesopotamia that was at least three thousand years old.

The metal ring was a souvenir he brought out of it.

"Huh!" Furong took a deep breath and then looked in the right direction.

Wearing gloves, she clenched her fists suddenly, and suddenly countless ancient runes appeared out of thin air, and they cut open the surrounding space like sharp swords.

Then the lake poured in violently.

Fleur felt as if someone had punched her in the stomach, and then the blue void behind her swallowed her up.

"Ahem!!! Ahem! Ahem!"

She is so stupid!

In another dim lake bottom, the water suddenly began to boil, and then countless tides surged out. A blue light flashed past, and she was spat out.

"I actually forgot that this is the bottom of the lake." Furong held her stomach pitifully, feeling sore all over.

She felt as if she had broken several ribs.

Even if it wasn't broken, it would definitely be covered in blue and red.

In the lake, she repeatedly stroked her belly and waited for a while before she was in the mood to look around.

"Uh-that's right."

She saw a figure.

It was very close to her, only about ten feet or so.

The other party was sitting on a large piece of exposed stone at the bottom of the lake, turning his head to look at her.

"Hermione?" Fleur didn't have any doubts.

Although the other party was wearing a weird mask, it was still obvious from her figure that she was a girl.

She and Hermione were the only girls sleeping.

"Hi! Hermione." She wanted to speak, but this was in the lake, and through the mask, her voice was just a meaningless whimper.

Immediately, Fleur swam towards Hermione, she wanted to go forward and comfort Hermione.

She knew very well that the girl probably had no strength left.

To be honest, her ability to insist on participating in the competition is already very worrying!

her body

If Fleur had had any experience with Muggle medicine, she would have known that Hermione was suffering from anemia.

"Alas -" After a thousand words, there was only a sigh left on his lips.

She watched Hermione look at her.

Then

Slowly, Fleur suddenly realized that Hermione didn't seem to be looking at her.

She seemed to be looking at her gloves?

Just when Fleur was confused, thinking that Hermione wanted to ask him to take her.

Suddenly - the girl sitting on the stone quickly passed her right hand across her waist, and then swallowed something like a gulp.

Forehead? ? ?

Then the other party's eyes stopped on his gloves again.

Forehead?

Fleur stretched out her hand and was about to say hello to Hermione.

Then he saw the other person's right hand crossing his waist again.

Then he took out a surfboard?

Then he stood on the surfboard with his feet wide open and waved the wand in his hand.

That surfboard seems to be equipped with a turbocharger, so fast! Whoosh, it takes only three seconds to accelerate to 20 knots.

Before Fleur could calm down.

Hermione, who was riding a surfboard, could no longer be seen.

? ? ?

Fleur raised her arms, then put them down stiffly.

I just thought so much about my feelings, and it was purely because I moved myself.

People already have a perfect plan.

She rubbed her belly, her eyes hardened.

In this case, there is no need to take care of the affection of the sisters. She came here to win the championship.

After saying that, Furong clenched her right hand again, and a burst of red light flashed.

She threw the red light forward fiercely, and the next moment an arm made of pure magic power stretched infinitely like rubber.

After a few seconds, the rubber hand seemed to grab something in front of him.

Then he violently pulled her over.

The speed is also fast, almost twenty knots.

And Hermione, who was galloping, finally saw a smile on her face that had been gloomy for several months.

In her hand she held a piece of parchment charmed with a waterproof spell.

It's George's handwriting on it.

"Hi! Hermione."

"What I told you in the Great Hall was just what Professor McGonagall prepared for you."

"We've prepared something else for you."

"Yes - prepared something else."

"I know you won't admit defeat. That surfboard is our latest masterpiece. Fred and I originally wanted to invent a brand new broomstick."

"But it can also be used in water."

"The mantra that keeps it going is: hurry up."

"at last--

Must win! "

In addition to resting on the stone, she was also engaged in an ideological struggle.

She didn't want to use magic items that she considered cheating, until she saw Fleur.

All of a sudden, Hermione took a step back and had a brighter future!

When I gave up my morality, I immediately gained happiness!

The water in my ears was rushing.

Well - that's really fast!

Hermione thought as she left a turbulent eddy in the water.

Then she waved her wand and the surfboard under her feet accelerated instantly, making her faster.

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On the other side, Owen, who was familiar with all kinds of wild food in the black lake, easily found the gathering place of the mermaids.

This is a mermaid village.

The location he was in seemed to be the square of a small mermaid village, surrounded by some houses, and floating in front of the houses - a large group of mermaids. In the middle, some mermaids were singing in unison, calling for the warriors to come over.

Behind them stood a crude statue: a giant mermaid carved from boulder. Four people were tightly tied to the tail of the mermaid stone statue.

There were only four people, namely Qiu Zhang on the far right, Gabrielle, Fleur's sister, then a Durmstrang girl, and finally Harry.

It seems that the professors did not prepare Koatl's hostage.

The hostages' faces were ashen, as if they were petrified, and their hands were spread out as if there was a cross behind their backs.

A silver iron chain passed through the right hands of the four people, connecting them together. Each of them wore a large gold-set gemstone ring on their right hand.

The colors of the gems vary and will correspond to the four major colleges.

The two gems belonging to Qiu Zhang and Harry lit up orange at the same time, which is the color of the Hogwarts school emblem.

To be honest, seeing Harry here, Owen suddenly felt a little funny.

From warrior to hostage, he thought Harry Potter wouldn't have much involvement in the Goblet of Fire episode this time.

Wait - if he hadn't been unconscious, Dumbledore wouldn't have let him be a hostage.

Well - I guess other principals wouldn't agree. After all, doesn't that mean handing over the championship to Miss Granger?

Who can lock him up?

It is estimated that Harry or Ron will have to be the unlucky guy in the end.

"hehe--"

Owen chuckled.

And around him, a steady stream of mermaids were gathering.

Layers like a storm surrounded him.

The mermaids in the Black Lake are different from the traditional mermaids.

Their skin is iron-grey, their black-green hair is long and disheveled, their eyes are yellow, their incomplete teeth are also yellow, and they wear pebbles strung with thick ropes around their necks.

They don't know how to use magic, they don't have any songs that seduce their souls, and apart from a spear in their hand, they don't have any fighting ability.

Of course, although the most important group of mermaids are ugly, at least they don't have tongue studs, ear studs, or nose studs. They have dark skin, dreadlocks, and an authentic Seattle accent.

Maybe the mermaids in the lake at the foot of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry look like this, but this is Hogwarts, and at least it hasn't been invaded by species yet.

"Hiss!"

The mermaids surrounding Owen were opening their mouths and baring their fangs towards him, staring at him fiercely. If it weren't for the powerful iron armor spell around them that made it difficult for them to move forward, I'm afraid these mermaids would have rushed up and bit him to death. neck.

"strangeness--"

Owen frowned slightly.

He was an old acquaintance of the mermaid from the Black Lake.

I wanted to have sizzling squid before.

But it’s annoying that these mermaids can talk.

Although not everyone can speak English, there are always a few who can.

As for food, talking is really unappetizing.

So Irving had to put down mustard, black pepper, and sesame sauce. Very unhappy, he turned his attention to other places in the castle where ingredients existed.

But even though these unpleasant things happened, the relationship between him and the mermaid was still quite bad.

After all, he only caught a few and didn't eat them.

And in the end, they were let go under Hannah's condemnation instead of being made into dried mermaids.

There's no need to be so angry with him, right?

The surrounding atmosphere is slightly weird.

It can be seen that these ingredients want to rebel.

Owen narrowed his eyes, and the ancient magic slowly penetrated into the lake.

Its causal principle makes the magic power form a ring, and then penetrate into the bodies of those mermaids like dominoes.

"Um?"

The Imperius Curse!

He guessed.

Because the strong smell of black magic and weird movements of these mermaids made him immediately think of this curse.

In addition, he also discovered an interesting place.

"boom!!!"

Suddenly there was a loud noise, the lake was churning, and the waves hit his armor spell, pushing Owen back and forth in the water.

Immediately afterwards, the group of mermaids surrounding him suddenly lost their buoyancy and sank one by one, like squid falling from the sky.

No matter how hard they struggled, they couldn't stir.

"Fuck! Are you sick?"

It was the unlucky child Koyatel who swam violently in the water.

She used a head soaking charm when diving.

The Bubble Head Spell creates a large bubble around the caster's head, making it look like a goldfish bowl is upside down on the head. This spell can be used to breathe underwater, or to block the foul air around you.

Of course, this magic has a small flaw, that is, it cannot purify the air. In other words, there will always be a time when the wizard runs out of oxygen in the bubbles. At this time, you must come out of the water and cast the spell again.

And if a wizard happened to eat the leek box and then used this spell, then it would be obvious that he would change the bubbles much faster than ordinary people.

Owen is different, he uses magic props.

He wore something like a Muggle oxygen mask over his mouth.

There is a cavity in his chin, which contains an alchemical machine that filters the lake water. Wearing this, he can live in the sea for the rest of his life.

"It's a disease!"

The bubbles wrapped around Koyatel's head, and in Owen's sight, she was being pulled left and right, looking very funny.

Owen's voice was like ripples, driven by magic power and penetrated into Koyatel's head.

"Don't you only have half a year to live?"

She said through the bubbles with a mocking tone.

The voice was very low. After all, she didn't know how to use the magic technique of "thousand-mile sound transmission".

"What do you want to do?" Owen looked up at her, "There are no hostages of yours here. You have forfeited this game."

"Haha - abstain?" Koyatel sneered: "This word is not in the American dictionary I am learning!"

"Perhaps abstention is something unique to you British people?"

She suddenly waved her wand widely.

Then the lake water boiled, as if it had encountered something with high temperature. The next second, a thick red curse went directly towards the mermaid statue with the hostage tied up.

Then there was a dull sound of "Boom!", like a torpedo exploding. The statue was blown to pieces in an instant.

"Tsk tsk - it looks like they have to reschedule this game, don't they?"

"6——" The corner of Owen's mouth twitched.

I actually wanted to disrupt the game by running and jumping into the lake with you!

grass!

I thought you were going to join in and take someone hostage. According to Dumbledore's temperament, he would probably recognize her game and give her a good score.

On one side, without the restraints of the mermaid sculpture, the four hostages were floating rapidly towards the water like balloons.

Once they completely surface, it is estimated that this game will have to be cancelled.

To be honest, Owen didn't want to stop the hostages at all.

For him, this game is too easy, no fun at all, and completely unchallenging!

He also wanted to see a bigger fun.

But there was one reason why he never allowed the game to be suspended.

The next moment, he waved his magic wand, and then the hostages stopped and stopped rising, as if they had been immobilized.

"First of all, I am French. Secondly, does America have a language? Did I remember it wrong? It seems that there is no language in the world called American."

"Ha!" Koyatel showed a noncommittal expression, and then raised the corners of his mouth slightly. "Oh—French."

"No wonder." Her expression gradually turned to sympathy, and then she asked in an uncertain and somewhat cute tone: "I heard that the time you spent resisting Wu Na-Cui was not as long as Su-- Chief, is this true?"