Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 309: The Terror at Black Lake
cold!
Even though he had taken the enhanced warming potion specially prepared by Benjamin and had put on a professional diving suit, the huge temperature difference still made Mike shiver the moment he entered the Black Lake.

Mike quickly took out his wand and silently cast a warming spell on himself, and then he felt much better.

Only then did Mike have the energy to observe the surrounding scenery.

The transparent film formed by the bubble head spell not only provides Mike with the oxygen he needs to breathe, but also acts as a waterproof eye mask, allowing Mike to see more clearly.

At this moment, Mike was not far from the lake. The light from outside was difficult to pass through the lake, making the area around Mike hazy.

Harry and the others had disappeared long ago, they must have dived down early.

Thinking of this, Mike shook his head. What if he took the lead? This little advantage was nothing.

'Show me the way'

A vague voice came from the transparent film covering Mike's head, and then the blackthorn wood wand in Mike's hand floated up.

It spun rapidly in the water, and finally pointed obliquely towards the deep water below.

Mike laughed.

The Guiding Spell, also known as the North Pointing Spell, because its effect is that the tip of the staff will point to the north after the spell is cast, and is often used to identify directions.

But after being modified by Michael, the function of this guiding spell changed from pointing to the north to pointing to Penelope.

To be precise, it was pointing to the special pendant on Penelope.

The pendant can continuously emit a unique magical wave in all directions, and the modified guiding spell can accurately track this wave within a certain distance, allowing Mike to quickly find Penelope.

After confirming the position, Mike retracted his wand and began to dive with his fins.

This was not a very good experience. At the moment, he was swimming in a hazy and strange scenery. There was silence in his ears, and the only source of light was the faint light from the sky above his head.

Thanks to the faint light from the sky, he was still able to see some things for the time being, but the visible range was not large, only about ten feet in radius.

So, with every glision he made in the water, new scenery would emerge from the darkness ahead: a jungle of undulating, tangled black water plants, a wide, flat expanse of mud and sand scattered with glittering pebbles, and so on.

He swam deeper and deeper in the direction indicated by the wand, and the visible area around him became smaller and smaller, forcing him to open his eyes wide to carefully observe the surrounding environment.

Suddenly, Mike's pupils shrank sharply.

In the darkness in front of him, there seemed to be some huge object moving slowly towards him.

Mike could guarantee that it was definitely not a human being. No human being could grow to that size.

Normal people will inevitably feel fear in their hearts when encountering such a situation. This is the fear of ancient beasts engraved in human's DNA.

But Mike is different. Since entering Hogwarts, he has never forgotten that he is a wizard.

So, after confirming that the thing slowly floating towards him was not Harry and the others, Mike raised his wand without hesitation.

'Thunder Explosion!'

A muffled sound came out from the transparent cover again, and then a white light drew a clearly visible trace in the dark water and flew towards the unknown object.

"boom!"

A loud bang mixed with some faint screams was heard, and the huge unknown object was instantly blown to pieces.

A strong current swept in, stirring up the lake water into turbidity, and Mike's field of vision narrowed again.

At this moment, Mike was no longer arrogant and directly used his magic perception. Although magic perception was obviously suppressed underwater, it was better than seeing nothing.

After swimming forward again along the muddy lake bottom for nearly ten minutes, a large group of half-human, half-fish figures suddenly appeared in Mike's magical perception.

They moved extremely fast and were near Mike in a flash, as if they were afraid that Mike would run away.

However, Mike just stayed where he was and didn't move.

He had already guessed the identity of these creatures, mermaids.

This creature living at the bottom of Hogwarts Lake would never attack them, the students of Hogwarts, so he didn't need to worry at all.

The mermaids slowed down and swam slowly in front of Mike, and at this moment Mike finally saw these legendary mermaids.

They had green hair and beards, grayish skin, and their upper bodies were full of muscular lines, while their lower bodies were fish bodies covered with scales.

It can be seen that they have a very high level of intelligence and have even learned to tame animals, because they are holding ropes in their hands, and at the other end of the ropes are tied grindylows - a kind of water monster with horns on its head that likes to attack people who fall into the water.

To be honest, Mike was a little disappointed, because these fishmen were just like what was described in the book. Not only were they not beautiful, but their faces even looked a little hideous and scary.

While Mike was observing these mermaids, the mermaids were also observing Mike.

A tall fishman with a mouth full of shark teeth carefully looked at Mike, who was dressed in a black frogman costume, as if he was trying to determine whether this strange creature in front of him was a human being.

Mike was just about to state his identity and ask the mermaids to let him go, but he saw the Gundam mermaid pointing at the short golden hair on his head and making a lot of noise as if he had discovered something extraordinary.

When the other mermaids beside it heard this, they all grinned grimly, then loosened the ropes in their hands, pointed at Mike and made strange noises. The next moment, the group of Grindylows rushed towards Mike like hunting dogs.

Seeing this, Mike's face darkened and he took out his wand again.

Although he didn't know what was wrong with these mermaids' brains that they dared to attack him, Michael was not afraid of them.

'Serial Thunder Explosion!'

Wave after wave of violent explosions appeared in front of Mike. The large number of Grindylows had no ability to resist at all under such explosions. They were either blown to pieces or knocked unconscious by the shocking water flow.

The mermaids in the distance opened their mouths wide in amazement as they looked at the shocking scene before them.

"This is different from what we said at the beginning! That human lied to us! That blond-haired guy is not a human cub at all! A human cub can't have such terrible power! (Mermaid language)"

"(Mermaid language) It's too late to say that now! That guy has already pointed his wand at us!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the remaining mermaids immediately became nervous.

They are all young mermen who have lived in the Black Lake since childhood.

Although their elders told them every day about the power of wizards, they had never seen the power of wizards with their own eyes and always thought that the humans living in the castle were no better than them.

In addition, the mermaids have been breeding and reproducing in the Black Lake all year round, causing the resources and territory in the Black Lake to gradually dry up.

So when the human in black robe found them and offered to exchange a larger lake for the life of the blond human, the mermaids agreed almost immediately.

At this moment, they finally witnessed the power of the wizard, and Mike's amazing strength scared them out of their wits.

They looked nervously at Mike, who was pointing his wand at them in the distance, and had the urge to turn around and run.

But where can they go?
Judging from the continuous explosions just now, Mike's attack range is incredibly large, and they can't escape at all.

However, Mike on the opposite side had no intention of continuing to use the large-scale blasting spell.

He just wanted to capture a few alive so that he could torture them to find out why they wanted to do it themselves. Unfortunately, the mermaids on the other side didn't think so.

They chattered for a while again, and then the mermaid in the other team who was carrying a huge horn took the horn with a serious face, put it to his mouth and started to play it vigorously.

A low, roaring sound like that of an ancient beast came from the huge horn, and gradually drifted away into the distance under the guidance of the water flow.

Of course, the fear on the faces of the mermaids disappeared after they blew the horn. Instead, they were laughed and roared with extreme arrogance, as if they had already secured victory.

Listening to the horn, Mike suddenly had a bad feeling.

The next moment, Mike, who was still using his magical perception, discovered a huge creature swimming quickly from a distance. From the general outline, it seemed to be a giant octopus!

The octopus monster from the Black Lagoon!
Mike suddenly had the urge to curse.

If Mike were facing a monster of this size on the ground, he would be confident that he could escape unscathed, and even have a chance to kill it.

But this was underwater, and his mobility was suppressed to the extreme, and he was unable to use the fire spell, which made him no match for the opponent at all.

Gritting his teeth, Mike waved the wand in his hand repeatedly, and the powerful magic power turned into golden chains. One end was held in Mike's hand, and the other end was automatically trapped on some of the surviving Grindylow monsters.

These Grindylows had obviously sensed the arrival of the giant octopus and were now swimming towards their master in fear.

With their help, Mike's speed increased by several levels, and the smiles of the mermaids who were originally excited froze on their faces.

"(Mermaid language) Run!"

I don't know who shouted this, but the mermaids immediately fled in all directions.

It’s a pity, how can a human outrun a hunting dog?
Similarly, these mermaids could not swim faster than the Grindylows that they trained as hunting dogs. In a short moment, the group of Grindylows took Mike and caught up with several fleeing mermaids.

The mermaids' faces darkened and they raised their tridents, wanting to fight to the death with Mike, but the next moment Mike had already raised his wand.

"The Divine Edge is Shadowless!"

As Mike roared, all the mermaids were suddenly cut in half, and large streams of green blood gushed out.

Mike kept controlling the group of Grindylows to continue swimming in the direction indicated by the magic wand at the beginning. If the Grindylows deviated from the direction, Mike would whip them severely with the golden chains.

Time passed little by little, and with the help of the Grindylows, Mike had already heard the familiar and beautiful singing, and the outline of a village vaguely appeared in front of him.

But at this moment, a dull roar sounded from behind him.

Mike knew that it must be that damn octopus that had caught up with them.

Turning his head, he saw that a huge black shadow had indeed covered him, and a huge tentacle stretched out from the shadow and grabbed Mike.

"The Divine Edge is Shadowless!"

The huge tentacle suddenly stopped moving, and then a line of blood suddenly appeared on the tentacle.

The blood line expanded rapidly, and large streams of blue blood spurted out of it. Finally, the entire huge tentacle was broken.

"Roar!"

The horrifying roar was heard again, but this time there was clearly some anger in it.

There was no need for Mike to urge them at all. The Grindylows swam desperately towards the village.

Mike, on the other hand, was concentrating on looking behind him, resisting the monotonous tentacle attacks of the giant octopus.

This attack mode is really monotonous. Mike swung his magic wand repeatedly, and all the tentacles that the giant octopus stretched out would be cut off by Mike's sharp sword and invisible spell.

The surrounding waters had been completely dyed blue by the octopus' blood. Feeling the pain, the giant octopus began to twist its body frantically, and under its influence, the entire Black Lake became turbulent.

The mermaids in the mermaid village naturally noticed such a big noise. A large number of mermaids holding tridents swam out of the village. At the same time, a horn sounded in the village with a significantly different tone from the previous one.

Hearing the horn, the giant octopus suddenly stopped moving, but then it continued to rush towards the village.

Today, it must kill the blond boy who hurt it!
The group of mermaids holding tridents were stunned when they saw that the horn had no effect. After they reacted, they gritted their teeth and rushed towards the giant octopus.

Their home is right behind them, and they will never allow a giant octopus to rush in and destroy it!

Mike was delighted to see that these mermaids not only had no intention of attacking him, but even took the initiative to help him stop the giant octopus. He retracted his wand and quickly urged Grindylow to enter the village.

From a human perspective, this is an extremely strange village.

The village is full of caves and some strangely shaped boulders. These boulders seem to be the homes of the mermaids, because there are doors on the boulders!
In the center of the village is an open space where a large number of mermaids are gathered, looking worriedly at the soldiers who are fighting the giant octopus.

Behind them stood a crude mermaid statue, and four people were tied tightly to the tail of the mermaid.

Ron was tied between Hermione and Penelope, and there was also a little girl who was no more than eight years old. Her cloud-like silver hair made Mike sure that she was Fleur's sister.

All four of them looked like they were sleeping soundly, their heads drooping limply on their shoulders, and strings of tiny bubbles constantly coming out of their mouths.

Next to these four people is a half-human, half-shark monster.

That's Krum!
At this moment he was pulling and biting the rope on Hermione, but the problem was that Krum's shark teeth had a very strange structure. He felt very uncomfortable with anything smaller than a dolphin. Such delicate work as biting the rope was obviously not suitable for him.

Mike swung his magic wand, and the ropes binding the four people broke at once.

Krum was stunned at first, then he gave Mike a grateful look and grabbed Hermione's waist and was about to rise to the surface.

Mike screamed, "Stop! Get the others up there, this place is not safe anymore!"

Krum stopped. Of course, it wasn't Mike's words that made him stop. Neither of them could hear what the other was saying in the water.

What really made him stop was the wand Mike pointed at him and the cold look in his eyes.

Krum believed that if he dared to swim forward any further, Mike would attack him without hesitation.

Krim swam back tremblingly, feeling extremely embarrassed.

Michael didn't care what he thought. He tied all four of them to Krum, and then tied Krum with magic ropes just like he tied up Grindylow before.

"Come on!"

Mike shook the rope, and Krum understood. He gritted his teeth and dragged the four people to the surface with difficulty.

With a sigh of relief, Mike looked towards the direction of the mermaid village before leaving.

The mermaid soldiers still failed to resist the giant octopus. At this moment, the monster had already rushed into the mermaid village and was wreaking havoc in the village.

Houses collapsed, screams were heard, and mermaids were fleeing everywhere.

Mike mourned for these mermaids for a while, and continued to be led by Krum towards the surface of the water.

(End of this chapter)