It was the end of February, and the warriors had to face far more than just the fish-man guards, and the icy waters of the lake were draining their already small physical strength.

Realizing this, Harry and Krum swam frantically towards the center of the lake almost as soon as they fell into the water, not daring to delay for a moment.

The black lake was so large that an hour was of the essence, and they had to spend some time trying to find the location of the fish-man village.

Ivan, who was left behind, looked relaxed, he had already stepped on the point in advance, he had been here more than a dozen times, and even if he closed his eyes, he could swim to the place where the hostages were held.

But now it's a game, so many spectators are watching, and Ivan can't cheat directly, so he waved his wand to transform some rocks at the bottom of the lake into swimming fish, pretending to let them be in charge of pathfinding, and waited for about a minute before starting to act.

However, within a few minutes of swimming, Ivan was keenly aware that something seemed to be following him all along.

At first, Ivan thought that the group of merfolk in the lake had come to his trouble, but when he looked back, he realized that it was not a mermaid at all, but the warrior of Beauxbatons, Fleur Delacour......

Despite the deep water of the Black Lake, the visibility was not high, and the other party was far away, Ivan easily guessed the identity of the other party based on his body shape.

"Are you planning to follow me through the customs?"

Ivan suddenly understood the other party's plan, and couldn't help but smile, he wanted to take advantage of himself, how could it be so easy!

Seven meters away, Fleur was staring intently at the figure in the distance, swinging her body hard behind the other party, not far away, not close, just hanging so far away.

After seeing the crystal ball on the shore, Fleur worries about her sister Gabrielle's safety, but her eagerness does not destroy her sanity.

The Black Lagoon at Hogwarts was so big that she had never been there, and it was a fantasy to find the mermaid's village quickly, and the guards there were not so easy to deal with.

So she came up with the bold idea of following someone who was sure to finish the game, like Ivan Hals, who made a splash in the first game and cleared the game with a perfect score!

When she was at Hogwarts before, for the purpose of collecting information about her opponents, Fleur asked some Ravenclaw girls about some of each other's deeds, and the information she got was extremely shocking, enough to refresh her cognition!

Especially when she heard that he had killed a twelve-foot-tall troll when he first entered the first year and killed a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor before the end of the final semester, she almost thought that these people were telling an absurd fairy tale.

But the experience of the first game made Fleur have to admit that these stories are likely to have happened, because the other party did something even more outrageous - defeated a fire dragon head-on!

Because of this, Fleur thinks that Ivan will definitely be the first warrior to find the location of the mermaid village and successfully rescue the hostages, and she only needs to follow the other party to successfully clear the level.

It's very easy and safe......

If there is danger ahead, you don't even need to do it yourself, because the other party will naturally solve it.

The only caveat is that the Hogwarts Warrior could attack him, after all, it's a match, and they're now against each other!

Fleur held her wand tightly, carefully maintaining a distance that she could react quickly without losing it.

In this way, Ivan will have to waste a lot of time if he wants to subdue himself.

And in today's race against the clock, wasting time is the equivalent of handing over victory to other warriors.

So she's betting, betting that the other party won't do it to herself in order to make sure she wins!

Even so, when she noticed Ivan stop to look at her, Fleur's heart couldn't help but tense.

Fortunately, Ivan's next reaction was as she imagined, and he didn't mean to make a move, and he paused for a few seconds before continuing on.

Fleur slowly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly followed, with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, and she was very proud.

However, what made her vaguely feel that something was wrong was that Ivan was heading deeper into the Black Lake, the surroundings were getting darker and darker, the visibility was slowly decreasing, and the field of vision was reduced to less than ten feet, which forced her to close the distance between her and Ivan so as not to be thrown away.

What made Fleur even more unsettling was that there were some strange sounds faintly coming from the surrounding darkness, and from time to time something could be seen surging in the darkness.

"Lumos~" Fleur waved her wand slightly, and the faint blue fluorescence spread in all directions, revealing hideous, ugly fish faces and faintly flickering steel forks in their hands.

It's a mermaid!

Fleur almost couldn't help but exclaim, because there were so many of them that she couldn't compete with herself, and she immediately turned her head to find Ivan's figure, which she thought was the only way to escape from here if she joined forces with Ivan.

It's a pity that when she turned around, she was dumbfounded, because Ivan had long since disappeared......

"He must have done it on purpose!" Fleur gritted her teeth and said, she immediately realized that Ivan had deliberately brought her here, and now she was afraid that she would have run away a long time ago.

Ivan's ruthlessness was far beyond her expectations, and she couldn't bear to leave her here alone, Fleur scolded a few words secretly, but there was nothing she could do.

After being illuminated by the light, the surrounding fish people attacked Fleur one after another, as if they had been stimulated by something, throwing countless black shadows over.

"Impedmenta~ (Obstacles)" Fleur waved her wand and unleashed an obstacle spell, which quickly broke through a large number of rocks and corals.

Fleur hurriedly blessed herself with a phantom spell, wanting to escape the pursuit of the mermaids, but she obviously underestimated the perception ability of these monsters in the lake, and this magic was easily recognized, so she had no choice but to fight and escape with these monsters.

At this moment, Ivan was watching from afar with the illusion spell from afar, with his magic level being much higher than Hibiscus, so he would naturally not be discovered.

"These mermaids are too cowardly, they only dare to throw stones far away against a wizard..."Ivan looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but complain in his heart.

I don't know if these merfolk are so cowardly because of the fear of wizards, or because of Dumbledore's orders before.

Maybe it's both......

Ivan shook his head, realizing that Fleur's life was not in danger, and he turned around and plunged into the jungle of black aquatic plants in front of him, with the mermaid's village in front of him.

(End of chapter)