The icy cold lake water poured into his face from all directions, and the surroundings were extremely quiet. Soon, he had descended to a depth of twenty meters. The light disappeared, and the surroundings were dark.
Under the water pressure, Hoffa's magic quickly began to transform into life to resist the huge pressure. But other than that, he had no other way.
He held his breath, and small bubbles overflowed from his mouth and nose. 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.
Hoffa, whose lungs were about to explode, rushed out of the water.
He coughed violently.
The cold air instantly froze his hair, and he shivered as he lay on Ossivia's tail, shaking his head hard, trying to shake off the cold.
The speed of the ice breaking was very fast, and in the half-snake state, Ossivia was even faster.
Finally, they were out of the dangerous area of broken ice. Ossivia swam sideways onto the ice, and then quickly dragged Hoffa onto the unmelted ice.
Huo Fa shivered as he climbed onto the ice. This was the first time in his life that he had ever swum in winter. The temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius made his teeth chatter. The difficulty of the swim was indescribable.
At this moment, in the center of the black lake, large pieces of ice began to break and fall off. A faint mist rose from the lake, and it looked somewhat similar to a hot spring.
"What, what the hell, how could the ice just collapse like that?" Hoffa's teeth chattered, and he was shivering from the cold. No matter how strong his power was, it was useless in the face of the natural cold.
Ossivia did not answer. She quickly took out her magic wand and tapped on Hoffa's body.
"Remove water and moisture."
Soon, the water on Hoffa's body was sucked away by the magic wand, and his clothes and hair became dry again. He felt much better, but the energy lost from the core temperature of his body could not be recovered in a short time.
Ossivia tapped on her body again, and the water that was about to freeze on her body quickly evaporated.
She looked at the collapsed ice in the center of the lake and frowned.
"How could this be?"
After a while, Hoffa recovered. He looked at the surface of the lake that was emitting smoke. He flipped over and plunged his hand into the lake. The temperature was about zero degrees. Logically speaking, the normal temperature of ice water should not be able to melt the solid ice that was half a meter thick.
"Is there a geothermal spring in Scotland?" Hoffa asked.
"Something's not right."
Ossivia said softly, "Look at the ice edge."
Hoffa looked down and saw a fiery red line engraved on the edge of the broken ice. This line extended forward, and wherever it went, the ice would break and fall off.
"It's caused by magic," Ossivia said softly.
"Who used it here?"
Hoffa did not understand. Looking at the scale of the ice cracking, it was impossible for a single Magus to do it. It would take at least a dozen Magi to do it.
"I'm not sure."
Ossivia took out her wand and tapped the lake water.
Cold air gathered at the tip of her wand, and the lake water quickly condensed into a transparent, long, and narrow ice boat.
She reached out her hand to Hoffa. "Let's go. No matter what happened, let's find the library first."
After sitting on the ice boat, Hoffa still shivered for a while before his core temperature gradually rose. Fortunately, he had eaten something before coming, so he had some food in his stomach.
Ossivia tapped the ice boat, and they quickly and silently glided on the surface of the lake.
Soon, Hoffa looked to the side. The two of them were now very far away from the Hogwarts Castle. When he looked back, there was only a vast expanse of mist behind him. He could not see anything clearly.
Looking forward, the island in the center of the lake had disappeared.
"Do you remember the direction?"
Hoffa asked Ossivia. He knew that this senior did not have a good sense of direction. In such a dense fog, he was not sure if she could grasp the direction.
"I'm very familiar with this area."
After a pause, she added, "When I was in school, I would swim in the black lake every night."
Hoffa exhaled a puff of smoke, rubbed his hands, and did not say anything else.
Due to the inexplicable fall into the ice lake, after boarding the boat, Hoffa's mental force field had been activated.
Not long after, he felt a group of creatures enter his perception range.
Looking down, he could vaguely see something swimming in the black lake. It was very hazy through the sparkling lake water.
One of the underwater creatures sensed Hoffa's mental force field, so it slowly swam out of the water.
At first, it was only a light-colored white dot, but then it gradually enlarged. It became a beautiful S-shaped curve.
When it was close to the surface, the creature silently flipped and turned into a backstroke. With a splash, a naked creature actually came out of the water.
She grabbed the edge of the boat and slowly straightened up, revealing a charming young girl's face. Her face was dripping with water as she leaned on the edge of the boat and looked at Hoffa with a smile.
Her brown hair was wet, and there was some hazy gauze on her chest. Her exposed forearm joints had erect fins, and there were specks of transparent scales on her collarbone.
In the dark water, Hoffa could see a huge swaying fish tail.
It was actually a mermaid.
The scene was indescribably strange.
The mermaid climbed onto the ice boat and looked at him without blinking.
Hoffa could see a trace of desire and temptation in her eyes, as if she was silently inviting him to swim with her.
At this moment, an inexplicable sense of familiarity welled up in his heart, and then Hoffa remembered that this seemed to be the little mermaid that had wrapped around his finger and sprayed water on his face when he entered the first grade.
How could it be so big?
"Are you ready?"
The mermaid asked in an inaudible voice.
Hoffa almost didn't hear clearly. He rubbed his ears. "Ah, are you talking to me?"
Ossivia frowned at the mermaid and said coldly, "This is not a place you should be."
The mermaid's expression was a little fearful. She looked at Hoffa and whispered, "Be careful."
With that, she turned around and dived into the water with a splash. With a few swings of her tail, she disappeared from Hoffa's mental force field.
Ossivia said, "Scottish lake demons, level 4x mystical creatures. They only have a lifespan of ten years. When I was in school, I often swam with them. Their saliva is the material of an aphrodisiac. If you kiss it, you'll be bewitched and dragged into the water. "
"How do you know you've kissed one?" Hoffa murmured.
"No, only wizards with low mental strength will be seduced by mermaids. Also, they're not interested in female creatures. "
Ossivia paused and said doubtfully, "Something's wrong. Lake demons don't appear in winter. What happened?"
At this moment, the lake narrowed, and the ice that had fallen off gradually narrowed into a channel.
Hoffa, who had been tense all this time, saw some moving shadows on the ice in the hazy mist.
He immediately wanted to warn Ossivia, but she covered his mouth and signaled him not to make a sound.
With his mouth and nose covered, Hoffa could only stare at her.
Ossivia took out her magic wand and tapped her arm. "Dessler Falcon Munt."
Instantly, she and Hoffa disappeared into the air.
The mist thinned, and Ossivia stopped the ice boat.
They saw the shadows moving in the mist.
Those creatures were half-human and half-fish, tall and burly.
They were lake demons.
But they were completely different from the young lake demons they had just seen.
Although these lake demons also had a human body and a fish tail, they were extremely ugly and ferocious, and there were sharp thorns all over their bodies. They also held some rusty but sharp anchors in their hands.
Some of the lake demons had curved and protruding spines, and they held wooden sticks with barnacles and algae in their hands, using the sticks to slide on the ice. The places where they had scratched on the ice were carved with faint red lines.
The layer of ice that had just fallen off was actually the work of these creatures.
They didn't notice the two intruders, Hoffa and Ossivia, who were carving the red lines and communicating with each other in the language of the lake demons that they didn't understand at all.
Looking around, after the mist thinned, the surrounding ice was actually filled with male lake demons. There were at least a few hundred of them.
Hoffa swallowed and felt that his lips were a little dry.
He had never seen such a scene before. Combined with the female lake demon's warning to him, he didn't need to think with his toes that these guys were planning some unknown and dangerous plan.
The situation had taken a turn for the worse. In the black lake, his combat ability would be reduced by at least 90%, and he still didn't have any transformation spells that could be used in the water.
Seeing that the mist was thinning, the lake demons would soon discover the two people on the ice boat.
Hoffa looked at Ossivia. Ossivia shook her head, pointed at the ice in the distance, and then at the lake water, and made a swimming posture.
Hoffa's eyes widened. He understood what Ossivia meant. She wanted to swim over.
Hoffa pointed at the boat.
Ossivia shook her head and pointed at her ears. She waved her hand.
She meant that the sound of the boat would attract the attention of the merpeople.
Hoffa gritted his teeth and nodded.
Ossivia didn't hesitate at all, and put her hands under Hoffa's ribs.
Then, the ice boat under their feet turned into liquid.
The two silently fell into the black lake, and endless coldness once again swept through Hoffa's body.
One meter below the water, Ossivia waved her tail and dived down with Hoffa. The two rubbed against the falling ice and entered the thick layer of ice.
There was no sound in their ears, only the muffled sound of water.
The bone-piercing temperature almost froze Hoffa's brain.
He felt that he would definitely be traumatized by swimming in the future.
The craziness of life always exceeded one's expectations. One hour ago, he was still eating Christmas turkey in the school hall, and the next hour, he was being held by someone and swam under half a meter of ice in the black lake. Above them was an indestructible ice, and below them was an unknown abyss without any light.
If Ossivia was the slightest bit careless, even if her body cramped a little, he and she would definitely die without a burial place.
Fortunately, the transformation teacher didn't make any mistakes. After swimming for about a minute, just as Hoffa was about to choke on water, she covered Hoffa's mouth with one hand, took out a magic wand with the other, and drew a circle on the ice above them.
The circle of ice fell off.
Ossivia pushed Hoffa, and like a seal, he jumped out of the water and collapsed on the ice.
At this moment, Hoffa's face was pale, and he was so cold that he couldn't speak. His teeth and bones were chattering.
He forced himself to get up, pressed against the ice, and crazily started doing push-ups. As he did push-ups, he activated the activated state. He kept repairing the frozen cells in his body.
Ossivia climbed out of the ice cave, and she wasn't in a better state. Her lips were purple from the cold, and her fingers were trembling as she held the magic wand. She tapped herself and Hoffa. She sucked away the terrifying ice water.
Then, she hugged her shoulders with one arm and drew a green magic array in the air with her right finger. A lot of information was engraved on the magic array.
After she finished drawing, she pressed with one hand, and the magic array spun and disappeared into the air.
Then, she stared at the thick water vapor in the distance.
Half an hour later, Hoffa's brain regained consciousness, and the first thing he did was ask Ossivia, "What's going on?"
"What's going on, what are those lake demons doing?"
Ossivia shook her head, "I don't know, this situation is very strange. I informed the school's Aura to be on full alert. If anything happens, someone will come to our aid immediately."
"Those Aura guarding the hunting ground are your subordinates?" Hoffa frowned and asked.
"To be precise, they are some of my father's colleagues in Wissengammon."
Ossivia stood up, "There's no time to lose, let's go."
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