Admiral of Hogwarts

After breakfast the next morning, Hugo and the others set off. The twins kept clamoring to follow during breakfast, but were easily suppressed by Mrs. Weasley.

When several people walked to the door, Sirius was too preoccupied to pay attention to his steps, and accidentally tripped on the large umbrella stand made of one of the troll's severed legs. As a result, he grabbed the two velvet curtains covered with insect holes and pulled them open.

"Oh, shit -" Before Sirius could finish his words when he realized what he had done, a terrible, deafening, blood-curdling scream came from a portrait behind the curtain.

"Beasts! Bitch! Dirty and sinful scoundrels! Bastards, freaks, ugly monsters, get out of here! How dare you desecrate the home of my ancestors--"

"Shut up!" Sirius grabbed the curtain, "You terrible old witch, you killed Regulus and killed my brother. Now I finally found him and I'm going to take him home."

"What, my child, Regulus, is dead?" The old lady suddenly turned pale, showing a sad expression. Every portrait in the wizarding world has its own incomplete consciousness after being drawn, many of which are slowly instilled by the prototypes of these portraits.

This portrait of Sirius's mother was probably drawn before she died. Apart from a set of pure-blood concepts, the rest is dissatisfaction with her eldest son Sirius and longing for her missing younger son.

So after hearing the news of Regulus's death, this portrait immediately showed a sad feeling.

"Yes, it's all you, my good mother. It was you who caused him to die." After saying that, Sirius closed the curtain with force, but at this time, the woman in the portrait did not roar as usual, but stayed blank. Sitting there blankly.

In silence, four people and a house elf walked out of the mansion. After that, they met up with Guanghui and the other three, and Kreacher took them one by one to a large cave.

When Guanghui raised the cane in his hand, Hugo could see a pool of water at one end of the cave under the milky white light.

A stone staircase extends up from the water. The surrounding air was silent and cold, with a fishy smell of the sea. It means this place should be by the sea.

"This is it." Kreacher's deep voice came over. "The door that requires blood is right in front. Unfortunately, there is strange magic inside. Even Kreacher's Apparition cannot accurately locate the space inside, so we can only come out from there, but there is no way to enter from the outside."

"That's enough." Radiant said in a deep voice, then stepped forward and tapped the rock pointed by the house elf with his stick.

Suddenly, the outline of an arch appeared there, and the inside of the outline radiated dazzling white light to the surroundings, as if there was a strong light shining behind the crack.

"That's right, it's right here." Guanghui nodded, then took out the wizard's blood he bought before and poured it on the outline of the arch. In an instant, the entire rock surface was covered with shiny, dark red blood beads.

After the rock wall absorbed the blood, the outline of the arch did not disappear as before. The blood-stained rock in the arch suddenly disappeared, revealing a doorway, which seemed to be endless darkness.

"Saint George, you're at the end. It's best for everyone to get closer. Something seems to be wrong here." Guanghui explained to everyone present seriously, and then raised the cane in his hand to emit light to guide everyone.

Because they heard the glorious reminder, everyone was ready for battle.

For example, Sirius raised his wand, and Hugo and the others not only raised their wands, but also held a handful of silver talismans engraved with runes in their free hands and activated them, ready to use at any time.

Under the illumination of the light source in their hands, what appeared before their eyes was a very strange image: they were now standing on the shore of a large black lake. The lake was extremely wide and endless, and they could not see the other shore in the distance.

The cave they were in was so high that even when they looked up, they couldn't see the top of the cave. In the distance, as if in the center of the lake, there was a hazy, green light, reflected in the dead water below.

What's even more sinister is that, except for the light source in their hands and the green light in the distance, the surroundings are completely filled with darkness. Even the light with divine power emitted from the glorious staff cannot shine very far.

Guanghui tried to increase the input of magic power into his account, but unexpectedly found that the light from his cane actually conflicted with the surrounding darkness, and a large number of sparks emitting white light burst out at the junction of the two.

Obviously, the surrounding darkness is not because this place is very sealed, but because of the accumulation of some kind of magic with dark attributes in the area.

"Keep moving forward." After feeling the rejection of the surrounding environment, Guanghui immediately narrowed the scope of his magic to a suitable range and then reminded everyone.

"But everyone had better stay vigilant, especially be careful not to touch those lakes, because I can feel that the evil power mainly comes from the lakes."

After adjusting their formation, they stepped on the narrow rocks beside the lake and started walking around the lake shore. Finally we came to a section of the lake shore.

This shore is no different from other places, it is all the same dark and cold. However, Kreacher somehow recognized this place. Under his guidance, several people found the boat where Voldemort was hiding here.

"We have to go to the island, where Regulus was dragged into the water. But only one wizard is allowed to ride this thing across the lake, so-"

As the only alchemist present, Hugo naturally stepped forward to check the ship and brought not-so-good news to everyone.

"Just let me go." After hearing what Hugo said, Sirius said impulsively before he could finish his words, but was immediately stopped.

"Don't cause trouble. We are here to take your brother home, not to leave you here." Guanghui said seriously, and then looked at the small island in the lake in the distance.

"We'll go there together in a while. After all, this place is too weird. It's not a good idea to act separately. If we encounter any dangerous situation, it's easier for us to take corresponding countermeasures together."

"But how do we get there?" Sirius asked helplessly as he looked at the boat in front of him. "You just made it clear that this thing can only be ridden by one person."

"Can't you just listen to what I have to say?" Hugo looked at Sirius helplessly and said, "We have a way to cross directly from the lake, so only you and Kreacher need to take this boat."

"But there are inferi in the lake!" Sirius' eyes widened.

"It's okay, we have a way to solve this problem." Veneto said next to him, and at the same time, after checking the lake water, he walked towards the lake. "We have a way to isolate our breath and not trigger a counterattack from the Inferi."

Even as he spoke, Veneto stood on the water under Sirius' surprised gaze.

"Okay, let's go!"