Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 384 All Rescued
Upon seeing Xilun and the horse-shaped water monster, the mermaids were stunned; they hadn't expected anyone to arrive so quickly.

As Hogwarts Headmaster Dumbledore had told them, these student wizards would arrive in the vicinity in about half an hour, but only ten minutes had passed, and many of them hadn't even had time to grab their weapons yet.

"How can you swim so fast!" a seven-foot-tall mermaid with a long green beard and a necklace of shark teeth said in a hoarse, deep voice.

The mermaids actually knew where the wizards were starting from; Dumbledore had already told them before the second project began.

But it's precisely because we know this that we're even more surprised, because that distance is so great that even mermaids couldn't swim across it in just ten minutes.

Swim over here?
Xilun, who was surprised that the mermaid could talk, paused for a moment.

How could these mermaids think he swam over? The huge horse-shaped water monster was right there, didn't they see it?
Xilun lowered his head.

Well... when the horse-shaped lake monster is still, it really does look like a huge clump of lush seaweed, especially now that the lake water is all murky.

Xilun did not answer, nor did he need to.

As the surrounding silt was washed away, the lake water became clear again, and the mermaids saw the horse-shaped water monster beneath Xilun.

After a moment of silence, screams suddenly erupted from all around.

The mermaids seemed terrified of the horse-shaped water monster. They grabbed their spears, screamed, and swam over to surround Siron and the monster.

The atmosphere instantly became tense.

Xilun also sensed something was wrong and subconsciously tugged at the reins in his hand.

"Get out of here!" the leading mermaid glared at Xilun. "We don't welcome such brutal monsters here."

“Brutal?” Xilun subconsciously looked at the boulder behind the mermaid, which depicted their hunting scenes.

“Okay, I don’t mean any offense,” Celen said. “I just want to get through the second event of the Triwizard Tournament, which is the team I found.”

"Then hurry up...go and take your things!" one of the mermaids said, looking a little nervous, and even stumbled over his words halfway through.

They moved forward again, trying to scare away the horse-shaped water monster by waving their spears.

But the horse-shaped water monster didn't care at all, and even smacked its lips in disgust, as if it were looking at a pile of unpalatable, low-quality food.

To avoid agitating the already tense mermaid, Xilun could only tug on the reins again, urging it to come to the center of the village, in front of a large mermaid carved from a boulder.

Three people were tightly bound to the tail of the mermaid statue.

The person on the far left is Luna. It seems that Xiren's guess was correct; the referee for the Triwizard Tournament did indeed choose her.

At this moment, Luna had her eyes closed, her long hair flowing upwards, as if she were asleep.

Beside her was an even smaller girl, whose cloud-like silver hair convinced Siren that she was Fleur's sister, whose name seemed to be Gabrielle Delacour.

The person on the far right is unknown, and is the only boy. He is wearing a Durmstrang school uniform and is clearly Krum's 'treasure'.

Yes, a boy, a treasure.

He probably just picked one randomly... right?

"Hurry up!" the mermaids urged.

Someone threw a small bone knife from a distance, making it easier for him to cut the ropes woven from the water plants.

Xilun didn't pick it up.

Because he had just thought of something that would be very interesting.

The second task was to rescue people from the lake within a set time, and then score them based on their performance.

But what if he took everyone away at once? It's like two houses playing Quidditch; if he took the Golden Snitch, his side might not get many points, but the other side certainly wouldn't either.

Without further hesitation, Xilun immediately waved his hand.

"Take them all away!"

The horse-shaped water monster moved, arriving beside the three in the blink of an eye. Its appearance had changed; it was now a large fish with its upper jaw extending forward like a sharp, flat sword.

Without any hindrance, the sword-like upper jaw easily cut through the three seaweed ropes, then used the seaweed that was attached to its body to firmly bind them.

Only then did the surrounding mermaids finally realize what was happening.

"No, you can only take your own friends!" they screamed as they swam over, trying to stop Xiren.

However, only two...five increasingly smaller figures responded to them.

With the joy of an upcoming workday, the horse-shaped lake monster swam at its fastest speed ever. Despite dragging four people along, it only took a few minutes to burst from the lakebed to the surface.

Before Xilun could even properly enjoy the feeling of the sun on his body, he suddenly felt a blur before his eyes and was thrown ashore by a tremendous force.

The next second, Luna, Gabrielle, and the Durmstrang boy were also thrown over.

Dumbledore, sitting on the referee's stand, waved his finger lightly, and the three of them seemed to be caught by a piece of cotton, then floated lightly to the ground.

?

Xiren, who was sitting on the ground, subconsciously looked over.

Dumbledore looked away somewhat awkwardly... It's understandable that a man over a hundred years old like him would be a little slow to react.

Fortunately, at this moment, all three people who were dragged ashore opened their eyes.

“That was really fun.” Luna was the most excited, and showed absolutely no fear or apprehension. In fact, she was a little disappointed that Siren had rescued her so quickly.

Gabrielle, on the other hand, looked much more normal, terrified and confused, and instinctively wanted to find her sister.

As for the last Durmstrang boy, his expression turned gloomy when he realized that it wasn't Krum who had rescued him, and he immediately went to Siren.

"Do you even know what you've done?!" he asked through gritted teeth.

“Of course I know.” Xilun smiled and said, “Oh, you’re too kind. You’re welcome. It’s what I should do.”

His voice wasn't loud, but it was just loud enough for the referees nearby to hear.

"When will I thank you..." The Durmstrang boy was only halfway through his sentence when he suddenly realized something and abruptly turned his head.

Then he saw Karkarov's murderous gaze.

"No, Principal, let me explain. I wasn't thanking him..." the boy quickly explained.

But as soon as he said it, Karkarov's face turned even uglier, so dark it looked like he was about to kill someone.

The second project was originally about rescuing people, so no matter what Xilun's real purpose was, when he brought everyone out in front of more than a thousand spectators, they were bound to suffer this loss in silence.

"Principal, I just..."

The boy was about to say something, but was interrupted by a sharp shout from Karkarov.

"Shut up, you idiot!"

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(End of this chapter)