Ancient Wizards Return to Hogwarts...

Chapter 39 Slytherin and the World-Eating Serpent

"Splash!"

The icy seawater surged, and waves leaped from the dark, murky surface, carrying a chill as they lapped against the hull of the wooden boat, breaking into countless tiny splashes that soaked the hem of Daphne's robe.

Daphne was stunned. She bent down and touched her slightly damp robe. Combined with the fishy smell of the sea, a look of confusion flashed in the girl's eyes: Wasn't she just in the Chamber of Secrets in Slytherin with Rice? How did she suddenly get teleported to the sea?

The incredibly realistic experience made Daphne unable to distinguish between illusion and reality until Rice patted her on the shoulder, which calmed her down.

"Everything will be alright." Rice's voice seemed to possess a magical power, soothing Daphne's restless heart, which was as turbulent as the sea.

She surveyed her surroundings, then a figure standing at the bow of the ship caught her attention: a middle-aged wizard dressed in a green robe trimmed with silver, holding a serpentine staff almost as tall as himself. The wizard's face bore a resemblance to Rice, and also bore a striking resemblance to the statue in the Chamber of Secrets of Slytherin.

The boat slowly moved forward, propelled by the waves.

boom!!!

A blood-red flash of lightning streaked across the distant horizon, followed by a barrage of thunder as dense as raindrops. The flash of lightning briefly illuminated the dark sea, and Daphne noticed a small island not far ahead.

The island is not large, only a hundred meters in diameter. The entire island is covered with black rocks, barren of any vegetation, except for some mottled green moss.

The distant thunder and lightning foreshadowed an approaching storm. Under such circumstances, navigating a small boat on the boundless sea would undoubtedly be extremely unlucky, but encountering a small island would be considered fortunate.

As the only living person on board besides Rice and Daphne, the middle-aged wizard was naturally the helmsman of the small boat. Upon seeing the island in the sea, a slight smile appeared on his lips, looking quite relieved. Instead of sailing towards the island to anchor and take shelter from the rain, he tapped the deck of the boat with his staff. The small boat beneath him immediately came to a stop, remaining motionless as if glued to the sea, regardless of the rising and falling winds.

Light raindrops began to fall from the sky.

Perhaps because they were at sea, the rainwater carried a slight fishy smell. Rice raised his hand, and a transparent barrier appeared above him and Daphne, shielding them from the wind and rain.

Rice would use spells to help keep out the rain, but the middle-aged wizard acted like a Muggle who couldn't use magic, letting the rain soak his robes.

Time ticked by, the distant thunder grew more intense, and the raindrops falling from the sky became increasingly dense. Finally, as a crimson bolt of lightning ripped across the sky and a thunderclap, like an angry roar, exploded on the horizon, the situation changed.

The small island in front of the boat suddenly trembled, and the next moment, the sea split open with a deafening roar. Time seemed to freeze for a moment, and then the fragments of the sea transformed into boundless giant waves.

Even a massive ship weighing tens of thousands of tons would capsize in the face of such giant waves, but the small wooden boat that Rice and his companion were standing on, no more than two or three meters wide and no more than ten meters long, remained as steady as a rock, firmly "stuck" to the sea surface amidst the giant waves.

"That island!!!" Daphne suddenly screamed in terror, completely abandoning any semblance of ladylike manners.

You can't blame her, because the sight before her was truly horrifying: the island was rising, and as it slowly emerged from the sea, its true form was revealed—it wasn't an island at all, but the head of a giant serpent that defied human imagination.

After lying dormant for a long time, it finally stretched out its body. Seawater cascaded down like a waterfall, and its magnificent body, as majestic as a mountain range, was exposed from beneath the sea. A mountain range suddenly appeared in the sea.

A movement resembling a stretching motion stirred up a raging storm, causing the heavens and earth to change color.

It takes extraordinary courage for Daphne to still be standing after witnessing such a scene.

The middle-aged wizard laughed and said something in a language that Daphne couldn't understand. Then he floated up into the air, and the giant snake opened its eyes.

The small boat beneath them was even smaller than the snake's eyeballs. Those orange-red eyes were filled with a cold, bestial rage, as if everything in the world was merely its prey.

However, faced with such a behemoth, the middle-aged wizard took the initiative to attack.

He held his staff horizontally, pointing it at the giant snake's eyes, and immediately a green light the thickness of a fist emerged from the tip of the staff.

The green light flew towards the giant snake's eyes. Faced with the attack of the ant in front of it, the giant snake was too lazy to dodge and simply closed its eyes. Just as a person is not afraid of a mosquito's attack, the giant snake did not take the thin thread released by the little thing in front of it seriously. Even its eyelids were not something that a person in front of it could break through.

The giant serpent paid the price for its arrogance; light pierced its eyelids and exploded inside its eyeballs.

A transparent, gelatinous liquid splattered everywhere, and the giant snake writhed in agony. In an instant, it was as if the end of the world had arrived; the entire North Sea roared, and a violent gale arose out of nowhere on the sea, sweeping everything around it into the sky.

The giant serpent was enraged beyond measure. Its fury caused the heavens and earth to change color, and even the thunder and lightning on the horizon were drowned out by its power.

A storm descended upon this sea, merging the sky and the ocean. At that moment, the giant serpent transformed into a moving natural disaster; before it, the middle-aged sorcerer appeared utterly insignificant…

However, just the fact that he injured the giant snake and damaged its eyesight, even if he were to perish at the bottom of the sea the next moment, was enough for him to be proud of.

But the wizard wasn't satisfied. He hadn't come all the way to the North Sea just to give the World-Eating Serpent acupuncture. With a wave of his wand, some of the raindrops around him suddenly began to defy gravity and linger.

The rain, defying gravity, increased until it formed an area a hundred meters in diameter around the wizard. Within this area, the rain seemed to become part of the wizard's body, and the giant serpent's earth-shattering power could no longer affect him in the slightest.

After carving out a small "pure land" for himself between heaven and earth, a green light shone from the tip of the wizard's staff. He wielded the staff in his hand, using it as a pen and the sky as a scroll, quickly sketching out the outline of a magic circle.

As if sensing a threat, the giant serpent began to attack the wizard, but the wizard was more agile. In his maneuvering, several powerful attacks missed their mark—one of his tail whips even cleaved the seawater, exposing the seabed to the air.

The magic circle finally took shape, and the space between the sky and the sea even began to distort. A green light, like lightning, streaked across the sky, turning half of it green.

The giant snake twisted its body, trying to avoid the attack...

As the storm subsided, the sea returned to calm, but the water was now stained red. The middle-aged wizard retrieved his small boat and continued to drift on the sea as if nothing had happened, except that he now held a white "rope".

(End of this chapter)