The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 310 Black Lake Tour

When the whistle sounded, Ryan grabbed Harry who was about to take off his clothes, shook his head slightly, and then looked at the others.Competitors from other schools seemed to be getting ready, each of them wearing a bathing suit under their wizard robes.Now they all took off their coats in the cold wind and moved their hands and feet, ready to go into the water.

Within a few minutes, people from other schools had already entered the water.It was just Ryan and Harry standing by the lake in their coats.

"Harry, why don't they take off their clothes now?" "Maybe they can appear at the bottom of the lake in an instant—" "By the way, I heard that Harry has a good figure, has anyone seen it?" Ryan heard the last sentence At the end, he suddenly felt a sense of embarrassment, because he heard that the person who asked this question was a man.

"Okay, now it's our turn." Ryan waved his wand a few times, and soon, a boat made of blue ice floated up from the water.

"The Hogwarts players chose an unprecedented method to try to pass this competition. We don't know what their results will be. Let us wait and see." Bagman's excited voice came from the referee table.

After climbing aboard, Ryan tapped the ship's side with his wand.The boat rushed towards the center of the lake like an arrow leaving the string.

"Take this and listen carefully to the movement in the water, and tell me if there are any abnormal sounds." After getting into bed, Ryan took out a long flesh-colored string from his waist bag and stuffed one end into Harry. ear, and put the other end in the water.

"What is this?" Harry asked while listening to the movement in the water according to Ryan's instructions.

"Extensible ears, a new product invented by me and the Weasley brothers, will soon be added to their mail-order sales list," Lane explained.

"That's cool, wait, I seem to hear singing." They were already a certain distance from the shore at this time, and Harry suddenly heard singing coming from underwater.

"It should be a mermaid. I think we have found the place. Show me which direction is it?" Ryan pointed his wand at the stern of the boat and asked Harry. Harry quickly pointed out that the sound was from the north, near the center of the lake.

Ryan waved his wand to adjust the direction of the boat, and Harry asked at this time: "How can you be sure that the place where the mermaid sings is the place we are looking for?"

"The Black Lake is too big, so they will definitely put our things in a conspicuous place. As far as I know, the most conspicuous place under the Black Lake is the mermaid village, and it happens that their singing can also guide everyone. You must know that the bottom of the Black Lake is full of mud and water plants, and the road signs placed are not easy to be seen. Moreover, for wizards, the mermaid's singing voice is more magical."

Soon, the ice boat was getting closer and closer to the approximate place where the song came from, and the lyrics began to become clearer.

"To find the objects we took, you need to move forward—yes, this is the place." Harry said happily to Ryan, because now the mermaid's singing has clearly indicated the destination.At this time, it was only about 10 minutes before they left the starting point.

Soon the ice boat came to the top of the singing, and at this time Ryan and the others took off their coats and took out a potion containing a sky-blue liquid from their armed belts and drank it down.

As soon as the potion entered the stomach, Ryan felt that his mouth and nose began to have difficulty breathing, and at the same time, gills grew under his ears.Enduring the discomfort, he said to Harry who was on the opposite side: "I adjusted this underwater breathing potion, and it only has an effective time of 20 minutes. Go down and take the things and come up immediately." After hearing this, Harry said OK Gesture, and then the two plunged directly into the water.

Probably because of the medicine, they didn't feel the water was as cold as when they touched it just now.The lake was dark and the visibility was very low. Ryan could only see things three or four meters away.

"Follow me." Ryan used his wand to draw a phrase composed of several light spots in the water, and then swam towards the place where the singing came from.Five or six minutes later, they saw many rough stone dwellings appearing on the bottom of the lake below their bodies, covered with algae.There were faces in those dark windows... faces not at all like the ones in the legend...

It is said that the half-length of a mermaid is in line with human aesthetics. Unfortunately, this legend is only half correct. Only mermaids in the Mediterranean region are more beautiful, and because the civilization of ancient Europe originated from the Mediterranean coast, so The legend of the mermaid has spread all over the world.

And those guys at the bottom of the lake belonged to a branch of Atlantic mermaids, their skin was iron gray, and their dark green hair was long and unkempt.Their eyes were yellow, their broken teeth were yellow, and around their necks were pebbles strung on thick ropes.Looks more like a murloc.

The singing place is directly below Ryan and the others, which looks like a small square.Mermaid houses surround the square, and there is a huge, crude statue of a mermaid in the square.A group of mermaids gathered under the statue and sang the song Ryan and the others heard just now.

Well, they are still different from murlocs, at least the song is as beautiful as the one in the legend.However, these murlocs never expected that someone would rush straight down from the water above their heads. After seeing Ryan and the others, the murlocs' singing even paused for a moment: the singing murlocs looked curiously at the top of their heads. .

When he swam to the square, Ryan discovered that there were six bags made of water plants on the stone platform under the statue, which were tied to the stone platform by water plant ropes.There is a palm-sized rectangular gold medal in each cage. After getting closer, you can see that each gold medal has their signatures on the golden egg at that time.

It is indeed faster to walk on the water by boat than to swim. After counting the bags on the stone platform, Ryan came to a conclusion.After that, Ryan and Harry quickly found their gold medal, and then pulled out the dagger on their thighs, cut the bag and took out the gold medal.There is a groove on the top of the gold medal. When Ryan embedded the crystal pillar into the groove, the surface of the gold medal immediately emitted white light, and then the crystal and the gold medal became one.Seeing this, Harry did the same to complete his gold medal.

With the gold medal in hand, Ryan gestured upwards to Harry, and within a few minutes they were back on the surface.It was only at this time that I realized that there were still five or six minutes before the effect of the medicine ended, and the two of them still needed to soak in the water for the time being.

In order not to waste time, Ryan made a few handles on the bottom of the ice boat, and then the two of them grabbed the handles and let the ice boat take them to the Forbidden Forest near the Black Lake.

When the boat was halfway through, it was time to breathe the potion.Ryan and Harry hurriedly pushed the boat with both hands to help jump into the boat, and then under Ryan's command, the two drank an orange potion in their waists for the first time.Within a few minutes, traces of water vapor emerged from the bodies of the two of them, and the chill in their bones was swept away.

"It's great, so you don't have to change clothes in a small boat." Harry gave Ryan a thumbs up after feeling the warmth from his body. "How could you think of preparing this potion?"

Ryan looked at Harry with a foolish look, "It is said that this competition is in the lake, so going into the water is a high probability event. In mid-February, the water temperature is so cold and you can find something to warm up after coming out of the water. It is definitely necessary. I think with so many players, you probably can’t think of this.”

"Er—" Harry smirked and rubbed his head. "You know I was brought into the game by accident, I'm definitely not as prepared as you guys."

After hearing these words, Ryan could only shake his head helplessly.

(End of this chapter)