Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

cold!

Even though he had taken the enhanced warm potion specially prepared by Benjamin, and even though he had put on a professional diving suit, the huge temperature difference made Mike shiver involuntarily the moment he entered the Black Lake.

Mike hurriedly took out his wand, and silently cast a warming spell on himself, only to feel a lot better.

Until then, Mike had the energy to observe the surrounding scene.

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 goggle, allowing Mike to see more clearly.

At this moment, Mike's position is not far from the lake, and the outside light is difficult to pass down through the lake, illuminating Mike's surroundings into a hazy area.

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

Thinking of this, Mike shook his head, so what if he takes a step first? This small advantage is nothing at all.

'show me the way'

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

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

Mike laughed.

The guiding spell is also called the north spell, because its effect is that the tip of the wand will point to the north after casting the spell, and it is often used to identify directions.

But after being transformed by Mike, the function of this guiding spell also changed from pointing north to pointing to Penello.

To be precise, it pointed to the special pendant on Penello.

The pendant can continuously emit a unique magic wave to the surroundings, and the modified guiding spell can accurately track this wave within a certain distance, so that Mike can quickly find Penello.

After confirming the location, Mike retracted his wand, paddled his flippers and began to dive.

This is not a very good experience. At this moment, he is swimming in a hazy and strange scenery, his ears are silent, and the only light source is the faint skylight above his head.

Thanks to this faint skylight, he can still see some things temporarily, but the range of vision is not very large, only about ten feet in radius.

Thus, with each glide of his water, new vistas emerged from the darkness ahead: jungles of undulating, tangled black weeds, wide flat expanses of sand strewn with glittering pebbles, and so on. .

He swam deeper and deeper in the direction pointed by the wand, and the visible range around him became smaller and smaller, which made him have to open his eyes to carefully observe the surrounding environment.

Suddenly, Mike's pupils shrank suddenly.

In the darkness in front of him, it seemed that some huge object was slowly moving towards him.

Mike can guarantee that it is definitely not a human being, and no human being can grow to such a big size.

When normal people encounter this kind of situation, they will inevitably have a sense of fear in their hearts. This is the fear of ancient giant beasts engraved in human DNA.

But Mike is different. Since entering Hogwarts, he has not forgotten that he is a wizard.

Ever since, after confirming that it was not Harry and the others that were slowly drifting toward him, Mike raised his wand without hesitation.

'Thunderbolt explosion! '

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

"boom!"

There was a loud noise mixed with some faint screams, and the huge unknown object was blown to pieces in an instant.

A powerful current swept in, stirring up the lake and making it cloudy, and Mike's field of vision narrowed again.

At this moment, Mike didn't hold back anymore, and directly launched the magic perception. Although the magic perception was obviously suppressed underwater, it was better than seeing nothing.

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

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

Mike, however, stayed where he was.

He had guessed the identity of these creatures, mermaids.

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

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

I saw that they all had green beards and hair, and gray skin. The upper body was full of linear muscles, and the lower body was a fish body covered with scales.

It can be seen that they are quite intelligent, and have even learned to domesticate animals, because they are still holding a rope in their hands, and the other end of the rope is actually tied to a Grindyllo—a kind of animal with horns on its head. A water monster that likes to attack those who fall into the water.

To be honest, Mike was a little disappointed, because these murlocs were indeed the same as those written in the book, not only were they not beautiful, their faces even looked a little hideous.

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

A tall murloc with a mouth full of shark teeth carefully looked at Mike, who was dressed in a black frogman, as if he was trying to tell whether the strange creature in front of him was human or not.

Mike was about to show his identity and ask these mermaids to let them go, but he saw the Gundam mermaid pointing at the short golden hair on his head and screaming as if he had found something serious.

When the other mermaids around it heard this, they all grinned grinningly, and then let go of the tether they were holding in their hands, and pointed at Mike and let out strange screams. The next moment, the group of Grindylo It was like a hound running towards Mike.

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

Although he didn't know what was wrong with the brains of this group of mermaids, they dared to attack him, but Mike was not afraid of them.

‘Serial thunderbolt explosions! '

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

The mermaids in the distance widened their mouths and looked at the astonishing scene in amazement.

"This is different from what I said at the beginning! That human lied to us! That blond guy is not a human cub at all! Human cubs can't have such terrifying power! (Mermaid language)"

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

As soon as this remark came out, the remaining mermaids immediately became nervous.

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

Although their elders told them about the power of wizards every day, they, who had never seen the power of wizards with their own eyes, always thought that the group of humans living in the castle were nothing more than that.

In addition, the mermaids thrived in the Black Lake all year round, which also caused the resources and territory in the Black Lake to gradually dry up.

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

At this moment, they finally saw the power of the wizard, and Mike's amazing power made them terrified.

They looked nervously at the mike who had pointed their wands at them in the distance, and felt the urge to turn around and run.

But where can they go?

Judging from the continuous explosions just now, Mike's attack range is astonishingly wide, and they can't run out at all.

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

He just wanted to catch a few alive so that he could torture them to find out why they wanted to do it themselves.

It's a pity that the mermaids on the opposite side don't think so.

They chattered again for a while, and then the mermaid in the opponent's team, who was carrying a huge horn, took off the horn with a serious face, put it to his mouth, and began to blow it vigorously.

The deep, roaring sound of an ancient giant beast came out from the huge horn, and gradually drifted into the distance under the leadership of the water flow.

Of course, the frightened expressions on the faces of the mermaids who had finished blowing the horns disappeared, replaced by arrogant laughter and roars, as if they had already won the victory.

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

The next moment, Mike, who was still unfolding his magic power perception, found a huge monster swimming fast from a distance. Judging from the rough outline, it seemed to be a huge octopus!

The monster octopus of the Black Lake!

Mike suddenly had the urge to scold his mother.

If he is facing a monster of this size on the ground, Mike is still sure that he will be able to retreat completely, and even have a chance to kill the opponent.

But this was underwater, his mobility was suppressed to the extreme, and he couldn't use the flame spell, which made him no match for the opponent at all.

Gritting his teeth, Mike waved his wand again and again, the powerful magic turned into golden chains, one end was held by Mike, and the other end was automatically trapped on some surviving Grindylow water monsters.

These Grindylows obviously also sensed the arrival of the giant octopus, and they were swimming towards their master in fear at the moment.

With their help, Mike's speed increased several steps, while the cheerful mermaids froze with smiles on their faces.

"(mermaid language) run!"

I don't know who yelled such a sentence, and the mermaids immediately scattered and fled.

It's a pity, how can a person outrun a hunting dog?

In the same way, these mermaids also couldn't swim these Grindylos who were domesticated by them as hunting dogs. In just a short while, the group of Grindylos led Mike to catch up with several fleeing merfolk.

The faces of those mermaids sank, and they raised the trident in their hands and wanted to fight Mike to the death, but the next moment Mike had already raised his wand.

"Shenfeng Wuying!"

Following Mike's roar, those mermaids were all cut in half, and large streams of green blood gushed out.

Mike stopped and controlled the group of Grindylos to continue to swim in the direction guided by the wand at the beginning. As long as those Grindylos deviated from the direction, Mike would beat them severely with the golden chain.

Time passed, and with the help of Grindylows, Mike had already heard the familiar beautiful singing, and the outline of a village appeared indistinctly in front of his eyes.

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

Mike knew that this must be the damn octopus catching up.

Turning his head to look, sure enough, a huge black shadow had enveloped him, and a huge tentacle stretched out from the black shadow, grabbing towards Mike.

"Shenfeng Wuying!"

The huge tentacles were suddenly suffocated, and then a line of blood suddenly appeared on the tentacles.

The blood line expanded rapidly, and large streams of blue blood spurted out from it, and finally the entire huge tentacle broke off.

"Roar!"

The terrifying muffled roar came again, but this time there was obviously some anger in the muffled roar.

There was no need for Mike's urging, and the Grindylos swam desperately towards the village.

Mike, on the other hand, looked behind him intently, resisting the monotonous tentacle attack of the big octopus.

This attack mode is really monotonous. Mike swung his wand again and again, but all the tentacles drawn by the big octopus would be cut off by Mike's Shadowless Curse.

The surrounding waters have been completely stained blue by the octopus' blood, and the big octopus began to writhe crazily under the pain, and driven by it, the entire Black Lake became choppy.

The mermaids in the mermaid village naturally noticed such a big movement, and a large number of mermaids holding tridents swam out of the village, and at the same time, horns sounded in the village with a significantly different pitch than before.

At the sound of the horn, the gigantic octopus froze, but then it continued to charge towards the village.

Today, it must kill the blond boy who hurt it!

The group of mermaids holding tridents were taken aback when they saw that the sound of the horn didn't work. After they realized it, they gritted their teeth and rushed towards the giant octopus.

There is a home behind them, and the giant octopus is absolutely not allowed to rush in and cause damage!

When Mike saw that the group of mermaids not only did not intend to attack him, but even took the initiative to help him stop the big octopus, he was very happy, took back his wand and hurried Grindylo into the village.

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

There are grottoes everywhere in the village, and there are some huge rocks with strange shapes. These rocks seem to be the homes of the mermaids, because there is this door on the rocks!

And in the center of the village was an open space. A large number of mermaids were gathering in the open space at the moment, looking worriedly at the soldiers who were fighting the giant octopus.

Behind them stood a rough mermaid statue, four people were tightly bound on the tail of the mermaid stone statue.

Ron was tethered between Hermione and Penelope, and there was a little girl, at most eight years old, whose cloudy silver hair convinced Mike that she was Fleur's sister.

The four of them seemed to be in a deep sleep, their heads shrugged weakly on their shoulders, and strings of thin blisters kept popping out of their mouths.

And beside these four people, there was a half-man, half-shark monster.

That's Krum!

At this moment, he is pulling and biting the rope on Hermione's body. The problem is that Krum's shark tooth structure is very weird. Anything smaller than a dolphin is very awkward for him to bite. The job was clearly not for him.

Mike flicked his wand repeatedly, and the ropes binding the four people all snapped.

Krum was taken aback for a moment, then gave Mike a thankful look, grabbed Hermione's waist and was about to rise to the water.

Mike yelled: "Stop! Save the others, this place is no longer safe!"

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

What really stopped him was Mike pointing at his wand and that icy look in his eyes.

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

Trembling, he swam back again, and Kerim felt ashamed and thrown home.

Mike didn't care what he thought, he tied all four of them to Krum, and then tied Krum with a magic rope like he tied Grindylow before.

"Go!"

Mike shook the rope, and Krum understood, gritted his teeth and dragged the four of them to swim to the surface with difficulty.

Relieved, Mike looked in the direction of the mermaid village before leaving.

The mermaid soldiers still couldn't resist the huge octopus. At this moment, the monster had rushed into the mermaid village and was wreaking havoc in the village.

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

Mike mourned for these mermaids for a while, and was led by Krum to rush to the surface of the water.