Once you enter the "jungle at the bottom of the lake", the road becomes difficult, and the visibility around you is reduced to a minimum, and you can only see the black aquatic plants that ripple and tangle in the lake water, which occupy all the sight.

While swimming, a dark creature suddenly poked out of the aquatic grass in front of it, and its sharp claws stretched out to hook Ivan's naked feet, but before it could touch a dazzling red light, it blasted over first, and blasted the claws into two.

A painful, high-pitched wail rang out through the black lake, and then the strange creature with horns and sharp teeth fled into the weeds and disappeared.

"Another one!" Ivan shook his head helplessly, put away his wand and didn't bother to chase it.

This green-skinned, horned water monster Ivan had seen in a book describing magical creatures underwater, named Grindillo.

This magical creature usually likes to lurk in dense aquatic grasses, and when its prey passes by, it suddenly reaches out its claws to hook the opponent, and finally drags it into the aquatic grass to enjoy it slowly.

They are arguably the most dangerous creatures that warriors have to face, after all, they have sharp fangs and sharp teeth, and their low IQ is terrifying, unlike the fish-men who know how to show mercy.

The rest of the road was also full of troubles, Ivan solved a giant squid more than four meters long along the way, and stunned two mermaids who stood in the way, before finally successfully reaching the mermaid's village.

There were more and more stones around him, and in the distance, Ivan saw the huge statue of the mermaid, and the four hostages were firmly tied to the tail of the statue.

The merfolk guards nearby, after seeing Ivan approaching, took action one after another, holding shiny steel forks in a semi-ring shape to surround Ivan in the center, and let out a threatening roar.

"Stupefy ~ (Faint) Petrificus Totalus ~ (All Petrified)"

In the face of at least dozens of mermaids, Ivan did not flinch at all, and quickly waved his wand to defeat several fish-man guards armed with steel forks.

The stones that fell on him were all resisted by the Iron Armor Charm.

Just when Ivan thought that there would be a big battle next, he was surprised to see the rest of the merfolk show frightened expressions, screaming and throwing their weapons aside, and fleeing in embarrassment.

This made Ivan speechless, it seems that these merfolk fear wizards more deeply than he thought, and run away once the war is unfavorable.

But it also just saved him some effort.

Ignoring their fleeing merfolk, Ivan swam all the way to the giant statue, ripped off the weeds that bound Hermione, and nodded on her forehead with his wand to lift Dumbledore's spell of stun.

Hermione's tightly closed eyes moved, and after a moment they opened, but her brain was still a little groggy, and her memory seemed to remain in the moment before she fell asleep.

Hermione was anxious to say something when she saw Ivan, but as soon as she opened her mouth, the water poured into her mouth.

Fortunately, Ivan added a bubble head charm to her in time to avoid the fate of suffocation.

"Don't be in such a hurry, Hermione, we still have a lot of time, you can talk slowly......" Ivan said softly, patting Hermione on the back.

Hermione coughed up the water she choked on in her throat in pain, then looked around blankly and realized that she was now in the deep waters.

"Are we in the Black Lagoon?" Hermione instantly understood where she was, looked at Ivan and asked.

"Yes, that's right!" Ivan nodded, then asked. "Do you remember how you got here? Hermione? ”

"Professor McGonagall approached me last night and said that Game 2 was special and that the Warriors needed an assistant and asked me if I would like to help, and I agreed...... And then nothing is known. Hermione explained in a daze.

Ivan wasn't surprised, it was basically the same as he had expected.

"Are you playing right now? So what should I do? Hermione, after a dizzy head, quickly came back to her senses and hurriedly asked.

"Don't do anything, as long as I take you ashore and the game is over!" Ivan said with a smile, and then saw that Hermione seemed a little confused, so he continued to remind. "Have you forgotten the hints given in the mermaid's song? Warriors need to find their most cherished treasure at the bottom of the lake! ”

Hermione naturally heard the underlying meaning of Ivan's words, and her face, which had been a little pale under the lake immersion, suddenly became rosy, and she stammered. "So I'm ......"

"The most cherished treasure of Ivan Hals, the Hogwarts Warrior!" Ivan replied solemnly.

As he spoke, Ivan also pointed to the giant statue behind him. "According to the script, you were kidnapped by those mermaids, so I'm here to save you now!"

Hermione turned her head to look over, only to realize that there were three hostages tied to the statue of the mermaid, a man and a woman, one of whom she was very familiar with.

"Ginny! She's here too? Hermione exclaimed.

"Ginny is Harry's "treasure". Ivan explained, and then spoke again. Alright, time is running out, let's get out of here! ”

"And what about Ginny?" Hermione hesitated for a moment, then couldn't help but say.

"That's Harry's mission, if I get all the hostages out, the others won't be able to continue playing......" Ivan has no intention of rescuing everyone, because this is strictly a violation of the rules of the game, unless a warrior voluntarily abandons the game.

Hermione nodded, a little worried, but didn't say anything more.

Considering the limited time, Ivan did not delay any longer, and directly reached out to wrap his hand around the little witch's slender waist and hugged her in his arms.

After soaking in the cold lake for so long, Hermione's body was a little cold and a little scary, even though he knew that Dumbledore's cold spell was there, Ivan was still a little distressed.

Hermione obediently shrunk into Ivan's warm arms, greedily drawing heat from him.

Then, as if thinking of something, Hermione hesitated for a moment, and finally blushed and quickly kissed Ivan on the side of the cheek.

The warm and glutinous touch made Ivan bow his head.

Hermione ducked back into his arms like a frightened rabbit, but the trembling voice reached his ears as it were.

"According to the script, this is a reward for the Warriors!"

Ivan touched his cheek and couldn't cry or laugh for a while, he was just joking just now, but he didn't expect Hermione to come for real.