114 Chapter 47, the Fairy in the Lake

The cold lake water poured into his facial features from all directions, and the surrounding was very quiet. Soon, he descended to a depth of twenty meters, the light disappeared, and the surroundings were completely dark.

Under the water pressure, Hoffa's magic power quickly began to convert into life to fight against the huge pressure, but he had no other way other than that.

He held his breath, tiny bubbles overflowed from his mouth and nose, and the feeling of suffocation gradually took over his brain.

In the darkness, something touched his back and wrapped around his waist in an instant.

Then, a strong force dragged him straight up.

Ten seconds later.

With his lungs about to explode, Hoffa rushed out of the water.

Coughed violently.

The cold air instantly froze his hair, and he lay tremblingly on Osivia's big snake tail, shaking his head vigorously, trying to shake off the cold.

The ice cracked very quickly, and Osivia was even faster in the half-snake state.

Finally, they escaped from the dangerous ice-crushing zone. Osivia swam sideways onto the ice, and quickly dragged Hoffa onto the unmelted ice.

Hoffa shivered and climbed onto the ice. This was the first winter swim in his life. The temperature of more than 20 degrees below zero made his teeth chatter when he was soaked.

At this moment, in the center of the Black Lake, large swathes of ice began to crack and fall off. A faint mist formed on the surface of the lake, which looked somewhat similar to a hot spring.

"What?

Osilvia didn't answer, she quickly pulled out her wand and tapped Hoffa.

"Remove water and prevent moisture."

Soon, the water on Hoffa's body was sucked away by the wand, and his clothes and hair became dry again. He felt much better, but the energy lost by the drop in body core temperature would not be able to make up for it in a short while.

Osivia tapped herself again, and the water that was about to freeze quickly evaporated away.

She looked at the collapsed ice surface in the middle of the lake, her brows were tightly furrowed.

"how so?"

After a while, Hoffa recovered. Looking at the smoky water surface, he turned over and plunged his hands into the lake water. The temperature was about zero degrees. Normal ice water temperature would not melt the half-meter-thick solid ice. .

"Are there any geothermal springs in Scotland?" Hoffa asked.

"wrong."

Osilvia said softly, "Look at the ice edge."

Hoffa looked down and saw a thin fiery red line engraved on the edge of the broken ice. This thin line stretched forward, but wherever it extended, the ice surface broke off and fell off.

"It was caused by magic." Osilvia said softly.

"Who used it here?"

Hoffa was puzzled. Judging by the scale of the ice break, a single wizard couldn't do it at all. At least dozens of wizards had to cooperate to do it.

"I don't know."

Osilvia drew out her wand and tapped the lake water.

The cold air gathered between the rods of her wand, and the lake water quickly condensed and transformed into a small transparent long and narrow ice boat.

She held out her hand to Hoffa: "Let's go, no matter what happened, go and find the library first."

After getting on the ice boat, Hoffa still shivered for a while before his body's core temperature gradually rose. Fortunately, he ate something before he came, and there was some stock in his stomach.

Osivia ordered the ice boat, and they quickly and silently glided on the lake where the ice had fallen off.

Soon, Hoffa looked sideways, and the two were already very far away from Hogwarts Castle at this moment. Looking back, there was only a vast mist behind them, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Looking forward, the small island in the middle of the lake has also lost its trace at this moment.

"Do you remember the directions?"

Hoffa asked Osivia, he knew that this senior had a poor sense of direction, and in such dense fog, he was not sure whether the other party could grasp the direction.

"I am very familiar with this area."

After a pause, she added: "When I was in school, I used to swim in the Black Lake every night."

Hoffa exhaled smoke, rubbed his hands, and said nothing.

Due to the inexplicable fall into the icy lake, Hoffa's mental force field has been turned on after boarding the boat.

Not long after, he felt a group of creatures entered his range of perception.

Looking down, I can vaguely see something swimming in the black lake, separated by the sparkling water, very hazy.

One of the underwater creatures sensed Hoffa's psychic force field, and it slowly swam to the surface.

Starts with just a light white dot, then gradually enlarges. It becomes an S-shaped graceful curve.

After approaching the surface, the creature made a noiseless flip and turned into a backstroke. There was a splash of water, and a naked creature came out from under the water.

She clung to the side of the boat and straightened up slowly, revealing a charming girl's face, with water dripping on her face, lying on the side of the boat and looking at Hoffa with a smile.

Her brown hair is wet, there is some hazy tulle on her chest, her bare forearm joints have raised fins, and her collarbone is dotted with transparent scales.

Under the dark water, Hoffa could see a giant wagging tail.

It turned out to be a mermaid.

The scene was indescribably weird.

The mermaid climbed onto the ice boat and looked at herself without blinking.

Hoffa could see a trace of longing and temptation in the eyes of the other party, as if she was silently inviting herself to swim with her.

At this time, an inexplicable sense of familiarity came to his mind, and then Hoffa remembered that this seemed to be the little mermaid that wrapped around his finger and sprayed water on his face when he entered the first grade.

How can it be so big?

"are you ready?"

The mermaid asked in a low voice.

Hoffa barely heard, he rubbed his ears: "Ah, are you talking to me?"

Osilvia frowned and glanced at the mermaid, and said coldly, "This is not where you should come."

The mermaid looked a little scared, she looked at Hoffa and whispered: "Be careful."

After finishing speaking, she turned her head and dived into the water with a plop. The tail shook a few times and disappeared into Hoffa's mental force field.

Osivia: "The Scottish lake monster, a 4X-level magical creature. Its lifespan is only 10 years. When I was in school, I often swam with them. Their saliva is the material of the love potion. If you kiss it, you will be killed by it." Confused, dragged into the water."

"How do you know, you kissed?" Hoffa murmured.

"No, only low-spirited wizards are lured by merfolk. Also, they're not interested in female creatures."

Osylvia paused, and said with doubts: "Something is wrong, the lake monster won't come and go in winter, what happened?"

At this time, the surface of the lake narrowed, and the ice layer that fell off gradually narrowed into a waterway.

Hoffa, who had been tense all the time, saw some moving shadows on the ice in the hazy mist.

He immediately wanted to remind Osilvia, but the other party covered his mouth and motioned him to keep quiet.

With his mouth and nose covered, Hoffa could only stare at her.

Osivia took out her wand and tapped her arm: "Disler Falconment."

Suddenly, she and Hoffa disappeared into thin air.

As the fog thinned, Osylvia stopped the iceship.

They saw the shadows moving in the mist.

The creatures were half man, half fish, tall and burly.

It's the lake monster.

But it was very different from the girl lake monster I just saw.

Although these lake monsters have the same human bodies and fish tails, they are extremely ugly and hideous, but there are spikes all over their bodies. Still clutching some rusty but sharp anchors.

Among them, some lake monsters have curved and protruding spines, holding sticks with barnacles and algae in their hands, and sliding on the ice with the sticks. Wherever they crossed the ice, faintly visible red lines were engraved.

The ice that fell off just now was actually the masterpiece of these creatures.

They didn't notice the two intruders, Hoffa and Osylvia, who were engraving red lines while communicating with each other in a completely incomprehensible lake demon language.

Looking around, after the thick fog cleared, the surrounding ice surface was actually full of male lake monsters. There are at least several hundred of them.

Hoffa swallowed, feeling his lips dry.

He had almost never heard of this scene, combined with the warning from the female lake demon, he thought with his toes that these guys must be planning some unknown and dangerous plan.

The situation took a turn for the worse. In the Black Lake, his combat power would drop by at least 90%, and he still didn't have any transformation techniques that could be cast in the water.

Seeing that the thick fog is getting thinner, those lake monsters will soon find the two people on the ice boat.

Hoffa looked at Osilvia, who shook her head, pointed to the ice in the distance, and then pointed to the lake, making a swimming posture.

Hoffa's eyes widened. He understood what Osilvia meant. She wanted to swim across.

Hoffa pointed to the boat.

Osilvia shook her head and pointed to her ear. Wave your hands.

She meant that the sound of the boat would attract the attention of the merfolk.

Hoffa nodded through gritted teeth.

Without the slightest hesitation, Osivia put her hands under Hoffa's ribs.

Immediately, the ice boat under his feet turned into liquid.

The two fell into the black lake silently, and the endless cold swept Hoffa's body again.

One meter below the water, Osivia swung the tail of the snake and led Hoffa to dive. The two of them wiped off the falling ice blocks and entered under the thick ice layer.

There was no sound at all, only the rumbling sound of water.

The bone-piercing temperature made Hoffa's brain almost ossified.

He felt that he would definitely have a psychological shadow on swimming in the future.

The madness of life has always exceeded his expectations. An hour before, he was still eating Christmas turkey in the school hall, and an hour later, he was speared by someone and swam under the half-meter-thick ice of the Black Lake. Above the head is an impenetrable block of ice, and beneath the feet is an unknown abyss with no light at all.

As long as Osilvia is a little careless, even if her body cramps, she and herself will definitely die without a place to bury them.

Fortunately, the Transfiguration teacher didn't make any mistakes. After swimming for about a minute, when Hoffa was holding his breath and was about to choke on water, she covered Hoffa's mouth with one hand, took out her wand with the other hand, and placed it on the top of her head. A circle was drawn on the ice.

The ice circle fell off.

Osivia pushed Hoffa, and he jumped out of the water like a seal and collapsed on the ice.

At this moment, Hoffa's face was pale and he was too cold to speak. His teeth and bones rattled.

He struggled to get up, pressed the ice surface, and started to do push-ups crazily. While doing push-ups, he activated the activated state. Constantly repairing the frozen cells of the body.

Osylvia crawled out of the ice hole, and her condition was not much better. Her lips were purple from the cold, and she pinched her wand with trembling fingers. She tapped on herself, and then tapped on Hoffa. Sucked up the dreaded icy water.

Then, she held her shoulder with one arm, and drew a green magic circle in the air with the fingers of her right hand, and a lot of information was engraved on the magic circle.

After finishing the drawing, she pressed it with one hand, and the magic circle spun and disappeared into the air.

Then, she stared intently at the thick water vapor in the distance.

Half an hour later, Hoffa's brain regained consciousness, and the first thing he did was to ask Osivia:

"What's the situation, what are those lake monsters doing?"

Osivia shook her head: "I don't know, this situation is very strange. I notified the Aurors of the school and asked them to be on full alert. If something goes wrong, someone will come to support us immediately."

"Are those Aurors guarding the hunting grounds your subordinates?" Hoffa asked with a frown.

"Some of my father's colleagues at the Wizengamot, to be precise."

Osilvia stood up, "Let's go without delay."

Osylvia took Hoffa's arm, and the two stepped on the skates and rushed towards the small island in the middle of the lake.