Chapter 659 I Was Just Joking, I Didn’t Expect You to Be Serious.

After entering the "Lake Bottom Jungle", the road ahead became difficult. The surrounding visibility was reduced to the minimum. All you could see up, down, left and right were the undulating and tangled black water plants in the lake water. They occupied all the sight. .

While swimming, a dark creature suddenly poked its body out from the water plants in front of it. Its sharp claws extended and tried to hook Ivan's ankles, but before it came into contact with it, a dazzling red light struck it. He came over and blasted his claws into two pieces.

A painful, sharp wail resounded in the black lake, and then this strange creature with horns on its head and sharp teeth fled into the water plants and disappeared.

"Another one!" Ivan shook his head helplessly, put away his wand and chased after it lazily.

This kind of water monster with green skin and horns, Ivan once saw it in a book describing magical underwater creatures, named Grindylow.

This magical creature usually likes to lurk in dense aquatic plants. When its prey is passing by, it suddenly stretches out its claws to hook it, and finally drags it into the aquatic plants to enjoy it slowly.

They can be said to be the most dangerous creatures that warriors need to face. After all, they have sharp fangs and teeth, and their IQs are terrifyingly low. They are not as merciful as fishmen.

The rest of the journey was also full of troubles. Along the way, Ivan solved a giant squid that was more than four meters long, and knocked out two mermaids who blocked the road before finally successfully reaching the mermaid village.

There were more and more stone dwellings around. From a distance, Ivan saw the huge mermaid statue, and the four hostages were tightly tied to the tail of the statue.

When the nearby mermaid guards saw Ivan approaching, they took action. They held up shiny steel forks and formed a semi-circle around Ivan in the center, and let out a series of intimidating roars.

"Stupefy ~ (fainted) Petrificus Totalus ~ (all petrified)"

Facing at least dozens of mermaids, Ivan showed no intention of backing down. He quickly waved his wand and knocked down several murloc guards holding steel forks.

The stones that fell on him were all blocked by the Iron Armor Curse.

Just when Ivan thought there was going to be a big battle, he was surprised to see the remaining mermaids showing frightened expressions, screaming, throwing their weapons aside, and running away in confusion.

This made Ivan very speechless. It seemed that these mermaids were more afraid of wizards than he imagined, and they would run away once the war went unfavorably.

But this also happened to save him some energy.

Ivan ignored the escaping mermaids and swam all the way to the huge statue. He tore off the water plants that restrained Hermione, stretched out his wand and nodded on her forehead, lifting the coma set by Dumbledore. Curse.

Hermione's tightly closed eyes moved, then opened them after a moment, but her brain was still a little groggy, and her memory seemed to still stay at the moment before falling asleep.

After seeing Ivan, Hermione was eager to say something, but as soon as she opened her mouth, water poured into her mouth.

Fortunately, Ivan added a head soaking charm to her in time to avoid the fate of suffocation.

"Don't be so anxious, Hermione, we still have a lot of time, you can talk slowly..." Ivan gently patted Hermione on the back and said softly.

Hermione coughed up the water in her throat in pain, and then looked around blankly, only to realize that she was now in a deep lake.

"Are we in the Black Lake?" Hermione immediately understood where she was, looked at Ivan and asked.

"Yes, that's right!" Ivan nodded and then asked again. "Do you remember how you got here, Hermione?"

"Professor McGonagall found me last night and said that the second game was special. The warriors needed an assistant. He asked me if I would like to help. I agreed...and then I didn't know anything else." Hermione was fascinated. He explained vaguely.

Ivan was not surprised, this was basically consistent with what he had expected.

"Are you competing now? Then what should I do?" Hermione quickly regained her senses after being dizzy for a while and asked hurriedly.

"You don't have to do anything, as long as I take you to the shore, the game will be over!" Ivan said with a smile, and then seeing that Hermione seemed a little confused, he continued to remind her. "Have you forgotten the hints given in the mermaid's song? The warriors need to find their most cherished treasures at the bottom of the lake!"

Naturally, Hermione heard the underlying meaning of Ivan's words. Her face, which had seemed a little pale after being soaked in the lake water, suddenly turned rosy, and she stammered. "So I am..."

"The most cherished treasure of Hogwarts Warrior Ivan Hals!" Ivan replied seriously.

As he spoke, Ivan pointed to the giant statue behind. "According to the script, you were kidnapped by those mermaids, so I'm here to save you now!"

Hermione turned around and looked over, only to realize that there were three hostages, one man and two women, tied to the mermaid statue, one of whom she was very familiar with.

"Ginny! Is she here too?" Hermione exclaimed.

"Ginny is Harry's "treasure"." Ivan explained, and then said. "Okay, time is running out now, let's leave quickly!"

"What should Ginny and the others do?" Hermione hesitated and couldn't help but ask.

"That is Harry's mission. If I rescue all the hostages, the others will not be able to continue the game..." Ivan has no intention of rescuing everyone, because strictly speaking this is against the game. According to the regulations, unless a warrior voluntarily gives up the game.

Hermione nodded, although she was still a little worried, but didn't say anything else.

Considering that time was limited, Ivan no longer delayed and directly put his arms around the little witch's slender waist and hugged her in his arms.

After being soaked in the cold lake for so long, Hermione's body was frighteningly cold. Even though she knew that Dumbledore's anti-cold spell was there, Ivan still felt a little distressed.

Hermione huddled in Ivan's warm arms obediently, greedily gaining heat from his body.

Then, Hermione seemed to have thought of something, hesitated for a while, and finally kissed Ivan quickly on the side of his face with red cheeks.

The warm and glutinous touch made Ivan lower his head.

Hermione hid in his arms again like a frightened rabbit, but the trembling voice still reached his ears.

"According to the script, this is a reward for warriors!"

Ivan touched his cheek and couldn't laugh or cry for a moment. He was just joking, but he didn't expect Hermione to be serious.