Chapter 471 Rowena Ravenclaw's Great Achievements Thousand Years Ago

Chapter 471 Rowena Ravenclaw's Great Achievements Thousands of Years Ago

The cold wind howled, and the surface of the Black Lake was frozen and covered with white snow. The audience in the stands wrapped their coats tightly and tied the scarves around their necks tighter.

In this weather, the contestants had to enter the Black Lake to search for treasure. Not to mention how to hold their breath in the lake for an hour, the water temperature close to zero degrees alone was enough to make them drink a pot of water.

Rice looked around and found that the contestants seemed to have special skills.

Daphne, who was standing beside him, took out a strange-looking box and put it on her face, fitting it perfectly with the contours of her face.

Rice:?

Daphne noticed Rice's gaze and smiled awkwardly.

"I cast a traceless expansion spell inside, opening up a space in the box to support my breathing." As she said that, Daphne began to apply waterproof ointment to the edge of the box to completely seal those tiny gaps.

Rice: Awesome.

He didn't expect Daphne to solve the problem in this way. He couldn't help but think of the Muggle diving equipment called oxygen tanks.

Rice looked around and found that some contestants actually wore Muggle diving suits - the students of Ilvermorny took off their wizard robes in unison, revealing the diving suits inside, and each of them carried an oxygen tank on their backs.

It seems that Ilvermorny School of Magic has not given up studying the "tricks" of Muggles!

After watching Ilvermorny, Rice glanced at the students of Hogwarts and found that Astoria did not do anything like him, but just kept taking deep breaths, while Hermione and Cedric had a huge bubble on their heads.

'Bubble Head Curse? Interesting. ' Rice saw the thinking of Hermione and the others. The essence of their operation was no different from that of Daphne and the students of Ilvermorny, all of which provided themselves with an oxygen supply environment underwater.

Harry, Neville and Luna were eating something.

As for the students of other magic schools, they also showed their magical powers. Some turned their heads into fish heads, some took magic potions, and some brought out the automatic combat dolls made by Helga. They chose a special doll with a manual mode, which was also a new type of doll developed by Helga. It can be used as a teaching tool. Unexpectedly, they used it in the competition.

Since this stage of the competition did not restrict the contestants from using external forces, the contestants could choose any operation, as long as they went into the lake to search for treasure.

Rice even saw a black-haired young man take out a yellowed paper from his arms. When he shook his hand, the paper burned, and a translucent big fish appeared in front of him.

The young man raised his hand and pointed at the Black Lake, and the translucent big fish sank into the lake and disappeared.

'It's interesting, it really opened my eyes. 'Looking at the young man's operation, Rice couldn't help but feel that he had learned a lot.

That guy seemed to be using a completely different system of power.

After the contestants were ready, they all walked towards the Black Lake.

With dozens of explosions, the surface of the Black Lake was blown open by everyone's joint efforts, and the broken ice was agitated, revealing the dark, deep and bottomless lake water under the ice.

Many contestants changed their expressions suddenly after seeing the lake water.

Even if they were mentally prepared, the instinctive fear imprinted in the depths of the human soul was still aroused after seeing such a lake water.

But as contestants, they had no choice.

After hesitating for a few seconds, the first contestant began to walk towards the Black Lake, followed by the second, the third...

Rice glanced at a few students standing in the corner of the Black Lake and rubbed his chin: that seemed to be the place where he buried the Dementors before. I hope these guys won't be unlucky enough to be affected by the residual power of the Dementors.

He looked back at Helga and found that her eyes were also wandering around those people, and he was relieved immediately.

With Helga there, there shouldn't be any deaths.

Rice also walked towards the Black Lake, and Harry followed behind him, looking like he was having difficulty breathing.

Les looked sideways and saw the narrow crack under Harry's ear. He had gills.

Now Les knew what he had just eaten.

Les slowly stepped into the water of the Black Lake, pushed away a few pieces of ice that floated over, and then sank into the water like a lead weight.

There were still a dozen contestants on the shore who had not entered the water. They sat on the shore with their eyes closed and rested as if they had given up. It seemed that the competition had nothing to do with them.

The freezing cold water did not make Les feel uncomfortable. For him, there was no difference between water and land.

After sinking, Les opened his eyes, identified the direction, and drove the water to send him to the bottom of the lake.

Just as Les was drifting with the waves, he felt a wave, and the next moment, three figures passed by him.

They were Neville, Luna, and Harry. Their gills were opening and closing to swallow the lake water. Their hands and feet became like frogs, with slender fingers and webbed fingers in the middle.

"How does the gillywort taste?" Rice joked to the three of them.

After hearing Rice's voice, the three of them stopped. It was obvious that Harry and Luna wanted to reply, but they opened their mouths and no sound came out. They only spit out a big bubble from their mouths.

"It's like this underwater. Your organs have changed a little and become like fish." Rice also gave the three of them some knowledge about the characteristics of gillywort.

Watching Les swimming and talking unimpeded underwater, the three of them were stunned, and a question flashed through their minds: How did he do it?

Neville made a gesture with great effort, asking if he wanted to act together, and Les naturally agreed.

The four of them swam towards the center of the lake together.

As the few people gradually dived, the surroundings began to become dark. Les snapped his fingers, and a faint blue light ball appeared beside him to provide him with lighting. Harry and the other two also pulled out their wands, and a little fluorescence appeared on the head of the wand.

In the dark water, the light is likely to attract predators and other fish, but Les didn't care. Any creature that tried to get close to them would be swept away by a strong current and taken dozens of meters away.

At the same time, the eliminated people have appeared.

As Les expected, the unlucky guys who chose to go to the water where the Dementors were buried had been fished out by Dumbledore at this time.

A few minutes after the four of them went into the water, a large string of bubbles appeared on the surface of the lake. Dumbledore, who had been warned by Helga, acted decisively and pulled the four people out of the water.

All four of them fell into a coma, and it was obvious that they would not be able to participate in the next game.

Even if the Dementors suppressed at the bottom of the lake could not escape, the effects on their bodies would form an area in the water, which would negatively affect those who strayed into it.

However, none of this had anything to do with Rice and the other four. They had arrived at the center of the lake without any obstacles.

At this time, the water plants at the bottom of the lake had disappeared, replaced by large areas of black mud. A large rock appeared in front of everyone, with many mermaids painted on it. They were holding spears in their hands and chasing something that looked like a giant squid. The singing of mermaids could be heard faintly in the distance.

"We're here. This is the location of the capital of the ancient mermaid kingdom." Rice grinned and pointed to the mud under him.

Mermaid Kingdom? It was the first time for the three of them to hear this term. Perhaps it was mentioned in the history of magic, but it was very likely to be drowned in Professor Binns' boring tone.

He could even make people sleepy by talking about the bloody goblin rebellion, so it was normal for him to just mention the Merman Kingdom.

Seeing the confusion in the eyes of the three people, Les's teaching habit was immediately triggered.

"When Hogwarts was first founded, there were many more magical animals around the school than now, and there were even many intelligent magical animal settlements. There were dragons, centaurs and goblin tribes in the Forbidden Forest, and the Black Lake was ruled by the Merman Kingdom.

The ancient Merman Kingdom at that time was not as lame as the current Merman Tribe. They had their own language, writing, system, and culture - they even had things like gillyweed and bubble head spells that allowed them to come to the ground and move around."

Looking at the shocked eyes of the three people, Les' eyes flashed with a hint of satisfaction.

"Is it surprising? This is normal. The history of mermaids is longer than you think. The earliest records of mermaids can be traced back to ancient Greece, when they were called sirens, but I personally think they existed in ancient Egypt."

Several bubbles came out of Luna's mouth.

"You want to know why the mermaid tribe now only lives at the bottom of the Black Lake, and the level of civilization has not developed further, and has even regressed?"

Luna nodded repeatedly.

"That's because the ancient mermaid kingdom had a conflict with the founders. At that time, the newly founded Hogwarts was poor and had to find ways to get food. Either go outside to trade with Muggles, or open up farmland and go hunting in the Forbidden Forest. Compared to the Forbidden Forest full of dangerous magical animals, it is undoubtedly much safer on the Black Lake.

However, the mermaids had a lot of opinions about this. They thought that the wizards' behavior was plundering their pastures, which triggered several small-scale conflicts and eventually led to a war."

Harry and the other two listened attentively. If they were on land, they would definitely ask: What happened next?

"As for the result later..." Les spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders: "The mermaids were defeated by the teachers and students of Hogwarts on land, and the two founders, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin, rushed into the lake. Ravenclaw destroyed the capital of the Mermaid Kingdom with the assistance of Slytherin, and Slytherin destroyed all the outlying strongholds of the Mermaid Kingdom.

While destroying the capital, Rowena Ravenclaw also wiped out the writing and system of the Mermaid Kingdom and killed all the royal family members. Slytherin destroyed the herbs they needed to land on the ground. Thus, the Mermaid Kingdom, which was once powerful and occupied the entire Black Lake, was destroyed.

The remaining mermaid tribes are the survivors of the Mermaid Kingdom back then, and they are the ones who escaped the net in that war. It seems that they did not inherit the culture of the Mermaid Kingdom back then."

Harry blinked. He wanted to ask what Gryffindor and Hufflepuff were doing at the time, but considering that he could not make any sound underwater, he had to give up.

Neville and Luna were fascinated by the story, and the "tragic" war a thousand years ago almost appeared before their eyes. They even had the illusion that what was beneath them was not black mud, but a prosperous underwater city.

"This is what I saw in the letters of ancient wizards. You may think it's a bit cruel, but this is the characteristic of that era. The competition between species is life-and-death, and there is almost no compromise. Even Godric Gryffindor's sword is stained with a lot of blood." At the end, Les did not forget to add a sentence to explain the source of his knowledge.

Les looked at the stone not far away, and a smile appeared on his face.

The water flowed, and the stone was turned over, raising a piece of mud.

When the mud dispersed, the three were shocked to find that the back of the rock with a mermaid hunting picture on the surface was actually carved with a strong Greek-style relief.

However, there was an extremely horrifying wound on the mermaid on the relief, as if it had been chopped by something, and the cracks were full of black mud.

Harry tried to control his mind and not let himself imagine what would happen if this knife was chopped on a person.

Les used the water flow to put the rock back in place, and stirred up a large piece of mud again. At this time, a golden light flashed in the mud, and immediately seduced Les who was about to leave.

He waved his hand towards the mud, and a golden object floated out from it.

Rice took it and took a closer look, and found that it was a golden scabbard with a string of inscriptions engraved on it. The sword in the scabbard disappeared, and only this half of the scabbard was left in the mud.

If it weren't for Rice's impulse to move the big stone today, it would have been sleeping at the bottom of the Black Lake.

"There are a lot of good things at the bottom of the lake. After all, it was the ancient mermaid kingdom that was once prosperous. It is said that the lost treasure of the mermaid king is buried in the depths of the Black Lake!" Rice was not interested in this scabbard, but since it was an object with inscriptions, he couldn't let it stay here. So he threw the scabbard to Neville.

This kid helped me a lot last semester, so this is a small reward for him.

Maybe he can find the missing treasure of the mermaid king through this? The battle was fierce, and the capital was destroyed thoroughly. They searched afterwards, but they couldn't find the legendary mysterious treasure house full of gold, silver and jewelry.

After telling the story of the mermaid kingdom, the four swam towards the singing.

Not long after, many rough stone dwellings appeared on the ground at the bottom of the lake, and water plants grew on the stones. Some faces flashed in the dark windows from time to time. Those faces were very different from the images of mermaids described in the literary works of wizards and Muggles on the ground. They looked very ugly - their skin was iron gray, with a messy dark green hair, and each mermaid had a mouthful of uneven, deformed and rotten teeth, which made their image even worse.

Looking at this group of mermaids and their shabby houses, Les couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: he knew that the mermaids were very poor and backward after the fall of the kingdom, but he didn't expect them to fall to this point!

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