"If you're looking for those merfolk, go over there, but I'd suggest you take a look outside, as there are more of these monsters in the lake." She pointed in the direction where the lobster monster was chasing her just now and said, "Those merfolk will definitely go crazy, and the merfolk who have passed out may forget their agreement with the professors and attack you with impunity." ”

"Uh-huh—" Hermione gave her two thumbs up in thanks, then turned around and set off again.

It's still dark in the Black Lake.

The turbid water of the lake has a faint salty taste.

Speaking of which, the Black Lagoon is not a lake in the first place. It is connected to the sea, and sometimes the sea water will pour in slowly, and at that time, a light mist will be lifted on the whole surface of the lake, and then the sea breeze will blow that wet and salty smell all over the school.

For the most part, though, the water in the Black Lake is freshwater.

There is a lot of water flowing down from the high mountains.

It is only at certain times of winter that the flooding happens.

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

The reason for her nervousness was not that those merfolk were very good or something.

It's really dark, and there are constantly mermaids jumping out of the surroundings, which really tests people's spirits.

"It's all petrified!"

After killing another mermaid. Fleur finally chose to stop.

She wears a mask-like thing in her mouth, transparent, with bubbles squeezing out from the sides of the mask from time to time.

A head of silver hair is firmly bound by a headband and wears a slim-fitting blue swimsuit.

It looked like some kind of light leather material wrapped around her perfectly curvaceous body, and although nothing was revealed, it was very seductive just by looking at it.

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

"Where the hell is it!" Fleur frowned.

She's a little lost

The black lake looked similar in all directions, and at first, she could tell where was the middle of the lake and where was the edge.

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

Just now she saw Krum's muscular guy walking this way.

She followed.

But the sudden sneak attack of the mermaid made her lose her way again.

Thinking in her heart, Fleur immediately glared at the mermaid who disturbed her viciously,

Then from the legs of the bundle a pocket.

Took out a piece of oiled paper.

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

Then there's the end point, which has a green dot. The same light is bright.

It seems very simple, after all, this is not a labyrinth in the sewers of the castle, in the water she can swim in all directions, unlike in the castle, which will be blocked by the wall.

But the reality is that the surrounding landscape seems to have been cast under some spell, and inexplicably, as she swims, the white dots on the map will suddenly disappear, and then appear elsewhere.

It's as if she's been disfigured by an apparition!

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

This annoyed her.

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

"Forget it!" Fleur had a sloppy face, which she hadn't wanted to do.

As he spoke, he still had a black ribbon-shaped pocket on his right leg.

She pulled out a glove made of metal and leather, with a gem set in each of the joints.

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

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

Only she knows that although this alchemy item is very powerful, it actually consumes very quickly.

These gemstones, as well as this glove, have very poor endurance, basically four or five times, there will be obvious damage, more than ten times, it is at risk of blowing up.

And there must be at least 30 seconds between each use.

With different effects of magic, the interval is longer, taking a few minutes.

In fact, the real magic comes from a metal collar on the mouth of the glove, and the glove and the gem function to divert the magic that originally belonged only to the collar.

This is not a creation of Nick Lemay, but his 'archaeological excavation'.

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

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

"Whew!" Fleur took a deep breath and looked in the right direction.

With her gloves on, she clenched her fists violently, and suddenly countless ancient runi characters appeared out of thin air, and they sliced through the space around them like sharp swords.

Then the lake poured back.

Fleur felt like someone had punched her in the lower abdomen, and then the blue void behind her engulfed her.

"Ahem!! Ahem, ahem! ”

She's so stupid!

At the bottom of another dimly lit lake, the water suddenly began to boil, and then countless tides gushed out, and the blue light flashed, and she was vomited.

"I forgot that this was the bottom of the lake." Fleur clutched her stomach pitifully, sore all over.

She felt as if she had broken a few ribs.

Even if it doesn't break, it must be all blue and red.

In the lake, she stroked her lower abdomen repeatedly, and after a while, she was in the mood to look around.

"Uh-that's."

She saw a figure.

It was very close to her, about a dozen feet or so.

The other party was leaning on a large bare stone at the bottom of the lake, and was tilting his head to look at her.

"Hermione?" Fleur had no doubts.

Although the other party wears a strange mask, it can still be seen from the figure that she should be a girl.

The only girls who slept were her and Hermione.

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

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

She knew very well that the girl should have no strength.

Seriously, if she can insist on competing, it is already very worrying!

her body

If Fleur had had tried a little bit of Muggle medicine, she should have known that Hermione was now suffering from anemia.

"Alas—" A thousand words were uttered, and only a sigh remained on his lips.

She looked at Hermione looking at herself.

And then

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

She seemed to be looking, her own gloves?

Just when Fleur was confused, thinking that Hermione was asking for her to take her.

Suddenly, the girl sitting on the stone slashed her right hand over her waist and swallowed something like a date.

Forehead???

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

Forehead?

Fleur held out her hand and just wanted to say hello to Hermione.

Then I saw the other man's right hand running across his waist.

And then pull out a surfboard?

Then he glared at his feet and stood on the surfboard, waving his wand lightly.

That surfboard looked like it was turbocharged, and it was fast! With a whoosh, twenty knots of acceleration took only three seconds.

Didn't wait for Fleur to come to her senses.

Hermione, who was on a surfboard, was no longer visible.

？？？

Fleur raised her arm, then stiffened it down.

I just thought so much about my feelings, and I was really moved by myself.

People have long had a perfect solution.

She rubbed her lower abdomen, and her gaze became tough.

Since this is the case, I can't take care of the sisters' affection. She's here for the championship.

As she spoke, Fleur clenched her right hand again, and a burst of red light flashed.

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

After a few seconds, the rubber hand seemed to grasp something in front of it.

Then he jerked her over.

It's fast, too, almost twenty knots.

And Hermione, who was galloping, finally saw a slight smile on her gloomy face for months.

She clutched a piece of parchment with a waterproof spell in her hand.

On it is George's handwriting.

"Hey! Hermione. ”

"What you told you in the Great Hall is just what Professor McGonagall has prepared for you."

"We've got something else for you."

"Yes—something else was prepared."

"I know you won't admit defeat, that surfboard is our latest masterpiece, and Fred and I were originally trying to invent a new broomstick."

"But it works in the water."

"The mantra to keep it moving is: Speed up."

"And finally—

You have to win! ”

In addition to resting on the stone just now, she was also engaged in a struggle of thoughts.

She didn't want to use what she thought was the equivalent of cheating, until she saw Fleur.

All of a sudden, Hermione took a step back and opened the sky!

When I gave up morality, I immediately received happiness!

The water in my ears was rattling.

Hmmm—that's fast!

Hermione, who had left a whirlpool in the water, thought.

Then she waved her wand, and the surfboard under her feet instantly accelerated, and her speed increased.

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On the other side, Owen, who was familiar with all kinds of wild food in the Black Lake, easily found a gathering place for mermaids.

This is a personal fish village.

And his position seems to be the square of a small mermaid village, surrounded by a number of houses, and in front of the houses floats - large schools of merfolk. In the middle, some merfolk are singing in unison, calling the warriors to pass.

Behind them stood a crude statue: a mermaid carved out of boulders. On the tail of the mermaid statue, four people are firmly tied.

There were only four of them, Cho Chang on the far right, Gabrielle, Fleur's sister, then a Durmstrang girl, and finally Harry.

It seems that the professors did not prepare Koyatl's hostages.

The hostages' faces were pale, as if they had been petrified, and their hands were flat, as if they had a cross behind them.

A silver chain passed through the right hands of the four men, holding them together, each carrying a large gold and gemstone ring on his right hand.

The colors of the gemstones vary and echo those of the four major colleges.

The two gems belonging to Cho Chang and Harry were both orange-yellow, and the background color of the Hogwarts school crest was this color.

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

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

Wait—if he hadn't been unconscious, Dumbledore wouldn't have taken him hostage.

Uh-I don't think the other principals would agree, after all, wouldn't that be the same as handing over the championship to Miss Granger?

Who can keep him in check?

I guess in the end it will have to be Harry or Ron to act as this unlucky guy.

"Huh-"

Owen chuckled.

And beside him, a steady stream of merfolk is converging.

It was like a storm that surrounded him.

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

Their skin is iron-gray, their black-green hair is long and unkempt, their eyes are yellow, their mutilated teeth are yellow, and they wear pebbles strung with thick rope around their necks.

They also don't use magic, they don't have any soul-seducing songs, and they don't see any fighting power other than a spear in their hands.

Of course, the main group of mermaids is ugly, but at least they don't have tongue studs, earrings, nose studs, and dark skin, dirty braids, and an authentic Seattle accent.

Maybe the mermaids in the lake below the mountain of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry look like this, but this is Hogwarts, at least not yet, the species has not been invaded.

"Hiss!"

The merfolk surrounding Owen were each opening their mouths and baring their fangs at him, staring at him with fierce eyes, if it weren't for the powerful iron armor spells around them, I am afraid that these merfolk would have rushed up and bit his neck.

"Strange—"

Owen frowned slightly.

The mermaids of the Black Lake, he is an old acquaintance.

I wanted to sizzle squid before

But it's annoying that the merfolk can talk.

Not all of them speak English, but there are a few of them.

When it comes to ingredients, being able to talk is really unappetizing.

So Owen had to put down the mustard, black pepper, and tahini. Very unhappy, he turned his gaze to other places in the castle where there were ingredients.

But even if these unpleasant things happened, the relationship between him and the merfolk was not bad.

After all, he only caught a few, and he didn't bite it.

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

There's no need to be so angry with him

The atmosphere around me was a little weird.

It can be seen that this group of ingredients wants to rebel.

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

Its causal principle allows the magic to form a ring and then seep into the merfolk like dominoes.

"Huh?"

Imperius Curse!

He guessed.

Because the strong smell of black magic and strange movements on the merfolk made him immediately associate this spell.

In addition to this, he also found something interesting.

"Boom !!"

Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the lake churned, and the waves hit his iron armor spell, pushing Owen around in the water.

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

No matter how hard they struggle, they can't stir up.

"! Are you sick. ”

It was the hapless boy Koyatl who swam violently in the water.

She dives with a bubble head charm.

The Bubble Head Charm 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 out the dirty air around it.

Of course, this magic has a small drawback, that is, it does not purify the air, which means that the wizard will always have a time when he has finished breathing the oxygen in the bubbles, and then you have to reach out to the surface of the water and cast the spell again.

And if a wizard happens to eat a leek box and then uses this spell, then it is obvious that he will change bubbles much faster than normal people.

Owen, on the other hand, uses magic items.

He had something like a Muggle oxygen mask on his mouth.

There is a cavity in the chin, and inside is the alchemy machinery that filters the water of the lake, wearing this, he can live in the sea for the rest of his life.

"It's sick!"

The bubbles wrapped around Koyatl's head, and in Owen's sight, she was pulled from side to side, looking very funny.

Owen's voice rippled like a magic force into Koatl's head.

"Isn't it only possible to live for half a year?"

She said through the bubbles, in a mocking tone.

The voice was very quiet, after all, she didn't know how to use the magic technique used in this 'Thousand Miles of Voice'.

"What do you want to do?" Owen looked up at her, "There are no hostages of yours here, you have abstained from this competition." ”

"Huh—abstain?" Koyatl sneered: "Miss Ben doesn't have this word in the American dictionary!" ”

"Maybe the abstention is unique to you British?"

She suddenly waved her wand loudly.

Then the lake boiled, as if it had encountered something hot, and in the next second, a thick red spell headed straight for the mermaid statue holding the hostage.

Then "Boom! There was a dull thud, like a torpedo explosion. The statue was blown to pieces in an instant.

"Tsk - looks like they're going to have to reschedule this game, aren't they?"

"6-" The corners of Owen's mouth twitched.

Jumping into the lake with you is actually trying to disrupt the game!

!

Dude thought you were going to get involved and take someone hostage, but according to Dumbledore's temperament, he would probably admit her game and give her a good score.

On one side, losing the restraint of the mermaid sculpture, the four hostages were floating quickly towards the water like balloons.

When they completely surfaced, it is estimated that this game will have to be scrapped.

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

For him, the game was too easy, not fun at all, not challenging at all!

He also wanted to see a bigger piece of fun.

But there was one reason why he must not let the game go untenable.

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

"First, I'm French, and secondly, does the United States have a language? Am I mistaken? It seems that there is no language in the world called American language. ”

"Huh!" Koyatl gave a noncommittal expression, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. "Oh, the French."

"No wonder." Her expression gradually changed to sympathy, and then she asked in an uncertain, somewhat goofy tone, "I heard that you haven't resisted Wuna-Tsui for as long as Sue-'s building, is that true?" ”

(End of chapter)