Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Q: When a Primaris Astartes who is a little bit over the top and has mastered psychic powers breaks into a pre-2k era ship with bare hands to deal with some possible cultists who only have pre-2k era conventional armed forces, will there be any accidents?

Anyone who knows something about the Warhammer world, after asking that Primaris warrior whether he was injured or poisoned, whether there were any God-chosen people among the cultists, whether there were any hidden cunning people, etc., and getting negative answers to all the questions, probably eleven out of ten people would look at the person who asked the question as if he was a madman.

How could this be a surprise?

However, the incident that Bourne encountered today was like a Tzeentch incident, and an unexpected incident occurred.

Just as he was about to conduct a stealth reconnaissance—whether to use Kang's stealth was something he had planned to do depending on the situation—something actually forced the crew of the dry cargo ship out first...

This Muggle dry cargo ship named "Free Trader" was sailing slowly on the blue sea.

It has a huge hull, with its deck piled high with containers and its hull painted with blue anti-rust paint, making it appear to blend in with the ocean.

Of course, this is only from the sea surface. If you look up from the bottom of the sea, no matter what color the hull is painted, it is a shadow like a dark cloud covering the top.

Suddenly, there was a dull thumping sound from under the hull, followed by a series of vibrations.

Several crew members in work clothes rushed out of the cabin and ran to the side of the ship with walkie-talkies to see if the hull had hit something under the water.

"Holy Shit!"

A sharp-eyed Muggle crew member saw some figures passing by on the water, but because he didn't know what those things were and his cultural level was not high enough, he could only use the word "Houlishet".

Standing on the top of the container deck, Bourne saw clearly what those things that hit the "Free Trader" were: they were some mermaids!

Bourne recognized it at the first sight, because there was a tribe of mermaids living in the Black Lake of Hogwarts, and many young wizards had seen them.

Of course, not all mermaids are as ugly as the mermaids in the big lake next to Hogwarts. Those mermaids living in warm waters are more beautiful than those in cold waters. For example, the Irish Myrow Mermaids and Scottish Selki Mermaids in the north are famous for their ugliness, while the mermaids in the warm south, such as those in the Caribbean, are true mermaids.

However, the mermaids he saw at this moment were many times uglier than the mermaids in the Black Lake of Hogwarts - even according to the aesthetic standards of mermaids, they looked extremely ferocious, and their skin was the dark blue of the deep sea, as if blending with the surrounding sea water.

Their silver-white eyes flashed coldly in the sea water, and their sharp teeth reflected a terrifying light in the sunlight.

These mermaids have extremely strong bodies, with smooth and powerful muscles, and some of them hold weapons made of underwater volcanic glass and shark teeth.

Logically speaking, these weapons could not have much impact on the steel-made hull of a dry cargo ship, the crystallization of modern industry - let alone breaking the steel, even making a dent in the hull would be very difficult.

But the problem is, this is a world where magic exists, and mermaids, as a magical race, naturally have their own unique magical methods.

With loud noises, these mermaids seemed to be able to control the water flow in the ocean after they started to swim. After accumulating power, a mermaid could create huge waves several meters high on the sea surface and slam them against the ship.

Moreover, while these mermaids were waving their weapons and smashing the hull hard, some "flesh worms" with arthropods would occasionally run towards the hull.

This is the Lobaworm.

They are a magical animal that can be found on the bottom of the North Sea. They are about ten inches long and consist of a flexible nozzle and a venom sac.

When the Lobaworm is in danger, it will contract its venom sac and use venom to drive away the attacker.

In "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", Professor Newt Scamander recorded that many mermaids living in the Atlantic Ocean use lobaworms as weapons.

Wizards also extract its venom for use in potions, but this practice is now strictly restricted.

Because the venom is so dangerous and can react with water to produce impressive and terrible destructive power, the magical creature rating of the Loba worm is "XXX", which means "only capable wizards can deal with it."

It was the first time that Bourne had seen a living Loba worm; before that he had only seen the venom extracted from its venom sac.

These Lobaworms are like "high-explosive grenades" used by mermaids, and they can also understand the minds of their mermaid masters.

When thrown onto the hull of the Free Trader, these Lobaworms will continuously spray venom, crawling along the hull and spraying out grids formed by venom.

They seem to be able to calculate how long it will take for their venom to react with seawater. When the time is up, they will fall off the hull on their own and swim back to hide in the mermaids.

Then, the reaction between the venom and the sea water reaches its limit, and then it will explode along the "grids" that have just been drawn like an explosion.

Dozens of mermaids projected a large number of Lobaworms, which immediately blew a lot of holes in the hull of the tens of thousands of tons of dry cargo ship.

The containers on the ship began to slide off as cracks appeared in the hull and seawater began to pour in. Although the watertight compartments worked, the cargo ship did lose balance.

At this time, some "crew members" came out of the dry cargo ship's cabin again, but this time they were not wearing work clothes, but a fully armed, live-fired rapid response team.

They were wearing bulletproof vests, life jackets, and holding automatic rifles, and quickly set up a position on the deck. A commander-like person, carrying a device similar to a "mine sweeper", scanned and calmly issued orders, and the soldiers began to shoot into the water, trying to kill or at least drive away these mermaids.

However, these mermaids seemed to have experience in dealing with hot weapons. As soon as they saw humans with guns running out, they immediately dived into the sea and would never show their heads to be attacked.

"No way? With such tactical adaptability, Eagle Sauce is so weak now?"

Bourne looked on in amazement.

The armed personnel on the ship each had a set of American automatic weapons from the late 1k era. In terms of individual equipment alone, being able to equip these things in this era was definitely a wealthy unit.

However, using only these things to "fish" was not his fault, but this rapid reaction force was indeed poorly prepared and did not have the style of an American hawk at all.

"What about triple the firepower, triple the mines and depth charges?

If guns can be used in naval warfare, then why would we need to build huge ships, cannons, aircraft carriers, and submarines?"

Fortunately, just when Bourne began to doubt whether the "Free Trader" was a disguised reconnaissance ship of the United States, the people on the ship finally took out some decent things.

Some people who did not look like combat soldiers also ran out of the cabin. They directed some workers to throw a machine with cables along the side of the ship into the sea.

"Sonar weapon activated, test begins, everyone put on noise-canceling headphones!" the man shouted loudly while holding the walkie-talkie.

The man's voice was so loud that even Bourne could hear their communication.

They didn't seem to worry at all that the mermaids in the sea would understand.

Perhaps, in these people's stereotypes, mermaids and the like are actually magical creatures in legends, and they know nothing about anything related to humans.

But in fact, this is wrong. If these mermaids had not been summoned by a certain woman, they would not have come to this sea area to hunt. The chance that they could encounter this dry cargo ship was a very small chance among small chances.

Not only can these mermaids understand what humans say, they can even understand the languages ​​of several countries!