Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

Chapter 171 Identify the popular water monkey on the Internet (5/10)

"So what's the situation now?"

"Look for yourself, Louis' ship is still on the sea, and so are those monsters." Someone nearby handed over two telescopes. Ethan and Mendes took the telescopes and observed the movements on the sea in the distance.

A small fishing trawler was upside down on the sea, with several green humanoid creatures surrounding the boat. They swam back and forth around the boat with half of their bodies exposed.

"Marvin, where is Louis? Is he still alive?" Mendes took down the telescope and asked.

"It has been sinking for a long time. I guess there is no hope." Marvin was the one who just handed over the telescope. He shook his head and said a little frustratedly, "It's all my fault that I couldn't persuade him before..."

"Damn it." Mendes said angrily, turning to Ethan and asking, "Brother Ethan, can you deal with them?"

"I'm thinking of a solution, wait a moment." Ethan still used the telescope to look at the creatures swimming around on the sea, and frowned slightly.

These things are not sirens.

The appearance features don't match, the skin is too green, and the sirens have hair on their heads, and their heads are covered with tentacles of varying thickness. But it could also be a new subspecies of sirens or something, the distance is a bit too far, and it's really hard to see more details.

Whatever it is, we should lure them to the shore first. Fighting by boat at sea is not very advantageous to us.

"You retreat to a safe place first, and I will lead them to the shore. Make sure you stay far enough away, otherwise if you hear their voices, something bad might happen."

Ethan took the telescope away from his eyes and handed it to Mendes, then gave instructions to everyone.

"Did you all hear that? Hurry up!" Mendes took the telescope, turned around and gave orders, and then asked Ethan, "Brother, do you need any help? An assistant or a weapon?"

"An assistant is not necessary. I am enough on my own. As for weapons..." Ethan rested his chin on his hand and thought for a moment, then said, "Just leave me two harpoons."

"Okay, I'll put the stuff here." Mendes took two multi-toothed harpoons from the fishing boat on the shore and thrust them upside down next to Ethan. "Brother, if you can't handle it, just run away. There's no need to be brave. Safety is the most important thing."

"I know, uncle, you should retreat first."

Ethan watched Mendes drive a group of people away from the beach, then he pulled out a harpoon and weighed it in his hand. After testing the center of gravity of the harpoon, he put the harpoon back into the beach, picked up a sharp stone from the ground, swung his arm and threw it at the group of green-headed water monkeys.

The stone made a sharp sound of breaking through the air and hit one of the water monkeys solidly in the face.

The water monkey howled in pain, and then began to look around for the suspect who threw the hidden weapon. Soon, it locked onto Ethan, the only living creature on the shore.

Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—

A few more stones were thrown and hit the faces of the remaining water monkeys accurately.

The water monkeys uttered a few syllables, probably to communicate, and then swam towards the shore together.

"Have you taken the bait?" Seeing the strange creatures rushing towards him with unfriendly faces, Ethan pulled out the harpoon, held it in his hand, and retreated a distance toward the shore to leave room for the upcoming battle.

They were getting closer and closer to the shore, and finally their lower bodies, which had been submerged in the sea water, were exposed to the air - their lower bodies were not fish tails, but legs similar to those of humans.

They slowly walked up to the shore, transforming into naked human women with beautiful faces. Although Ethan was reluctant to admit it, the human appearances these guys transformed into were indeed within his strike zone.

Mainly big.

"From the looks of it, is it Rusalka?" Ethan guessed secretly.

Rusalka is another magical animal that lives in water. Most of them live in freshwater rivers near Russia. In the middle of the night, they will transform into human form and leave the river to dance on the shore. Once they see handsome men, they will attract them with singing and dancing, take them to the bottom of the river, kill them and eat them.

However, Rusalka is a creature that lives in fresh water. How could it appear in the salty water area near the coast?

The Rusalkas opened their mouths softly, sang beautiful and pleasant songs, and began to dance lightly, showing off their curves. During this time, they would tease Ethan with seductive eyes from time to time, as if to say, "I am like this, if you don't do it, are you still a man?"

All I can say is that most men simply can’t control themselves when they see this.

Ethan quietly watched these Rusalkas start to show off on the spot, with no emotion in his heart, and even wanted to laugh.

Knowing what these women's true bodies are like, facing this level of temptation, I can't muster any worldly desires at all, and I even just want to punch them a few times.

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However, he felt somewhat familiar with the songs of these Rusalkas, which were similar to the alluring voices he had heard in the fog before, except that the efficacy seemed to be a little weaker, which might have something to do with the venue buff.

The Rusalkas sang and danced for a while, but when they saw that Ethan was indifferent, they stopped and looked at the cold-faced man in front of them with some confusion.

What's wrong with this guy? The seduction that worked so well before has no effect?

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So they quickly changed their tactics, their delicate hands turned into sharp claws, and pounced towards Ethan.

“Haha, have you finally realized that your efforts were in vain?” Ethan held a harpoon in each hand and easily blocked the sharp claws that were stabbing towards him. “But I’m really not used to such activeness!”

After blocking the attack, Ethan began to rotate the harpoon in his hand back and forth with one hand, making the Rusalka afraid to approach easily. Then he stabbed the other harpoon to the front right, piercing the Rusalka closest to him.

Purple blood mixed with yellowish brain matter flowed down the fork tip. The other Rusalkas quickly retreated away from Ethan, wary of his actions.

This man is quite capable!

"So who will be the next lucky winner?" Ethan pulled the harpoon out of the dead Rusalka's head, and pointed the bloody metal fork tip back and forth at several Rusalkas not far from him, "Which one should I choose?"

The Rusalkas looked at each other, and their bodies suddenly returned to their original shape. They used their hands and feet and ran to the coastline like quadrupeds, jumped into the water and disappeared.

"Well, is this an escape?" Ethan had a vague feeling that things were not that simple.

Gumbling--

The sea surface suddenly surged with huge bubbles like boiling water.

Chapter 172 Which boss doesn’t have a second stage these days?

"Ok?"

Ethan looked at the foam constantly surging on the sea and the green flashes coming from under the water, and he sensed something was wrong.

What’s going on? This feeling of déjà vu is too Showa-like?

Is a 50-meter-tall Bermuda about to jump out of the water?

The next second, like a C4 explosive exploding in the water, a huge green water column shot up into the sky, reaching a height of two stories, and then suddenly fell down, splashing huge waves.

A huge snake head rose slowly from the center of the waves, spitting out its tongue and staring at Ethan. It opened its cone-like jaws and roared at Ethan, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth.

"Oh my god, why is there another Selma Lake Monster!" Ethan looked at the dense thorns on the giant snake's head and the thick blue shield scales with barbs all over its body, and recognized the true form of this thing at a glance. He felt a little headache because of this.

The Selma monster is a giant snake that lives in a cold lake in Norway. It is cruel by nature and likes to eat fish and human flesh. The scales on its body are incredibly hard and difficult to penetrate by ordinary attacks. It can be said that it is the best material for protection besides dragon skin and dragon scales.

First it was the Rusalka, then the Selma Lake Monster. How did you guys who live in fresh water end up in the sea? Don’t you find the sea water too salty?

The Magizoologist is going to cry!

The giant snake swam very fast in the water and reached the shore in just over ten seconds. Its sturdy body kept twisting and crawling forward, leaving thick and deep marks on the beach.

The body length of this thing is estimated to be about 20 meters. Although the Selma Lake Monster is not poisonous, being bitten by its mouth full of sharp teeth must be no less painful than being bitten by a poisonous snake monster.

Anyway, if you get hit like that you're going to die anyway, so there's no need to worry about so many details.

"This is not going to be easy..." Ethan scratched his hair and turned his head to glance at Mendes and his men who were hiding dozens of meters away.

But they must not let the giant snake notice them. They must be careful to control the battlefield and keep the eyes of this huge worm in front of them locked on them.

Eyes? Got it!

Ethan made up his mind instantly. He grabbed the harpoon and jumped on the spot, just like Runtu who was holding a steel fork to stab wild beasts in the melon field under the full moon. He stabbed the harpoon in his hand into the giant snake's eyes.

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Green blood burst out of the giant snake's eyes. Its huge body twisted violently due to the piercing pain. Its head swung left and right and threw Ethan directly to the coastline more than ten meters behind it.

White waves kept hitting his heels, and Ethan exhaled lightly and threw the bare harpoon shaft in his hand to the side. When the harpoon pierced the giant snake's eye just now, the tip of the fork broke into two pieces.

Ethan looked at the giant snake still clawing crickets on the distant shore, and tightly grasped the only remaining harpoon.

Just poking its eye just now had already broken a weapon. The skin of this long worm was extremely tough, and the ordinary steel harpoon in his hand could not pierce its scales at all.

Using ordinary magic is also not an option, as there is Trace watching, and you cannot run away immediately after casting the spell, otherwise you will be caught on the spot by the Ministry of Magic staff.

Did he mean to use ancient magic? Now? Here?

But ancient magic is too shocking. If used rashly, it might scare the ordinary people behind. Although I have tried to persuade Mendes beforehand, whether he can accept it or not is another matter.

But I don't have time to worry about so much now, just come on. Anyway, I will leave here after I finish this job, so it doesn't matter what they think of me.

Ethan took a deep breath, and a silver-white energy wrapped around his hands and onto the harpoon, with a white light emitting at the tip of the harpoon.

It is almost dusk now, and I believe that the white light in my hand should be quite eye-catching under the setting sun.

Ethan grabbed the glowing harpoon and rushed towards the giant snake, raising a meter-high cloud of dust under his feet, which looked quite spectacular.

Looking at Ethan running towards him with the white light, the giant snake's only narrow pupil shrank suddenly, as if it had sensed the danger of the white light in Ethan's hand. Its body quickly turned on the beach, intending to bypass Ethan and return to the sea.

However, such a huge body is not as flexible on land as in water.

Ethan quickly caught up with the giant snake, swinging the harpoon in his hand back and forth like a magic halberd. Wherever the silver light passed, there were bloody scars, which were shocking.

At one point, the scene was even more cruel than lingchi.

The giant snake dragged its wounded body but was ultimately unable to return to the sea. It let out a wail and fell heavily to the ground.

"Is this the end?" Ethan leaned the broken harpoon on the ground and frowned as he thought.

I don’t know where those Rusalkas went before, and I always feel a little concerned about them.

"Hey, Ethan!"

In the setting sun, Mendes ran towards him waving his hand. The scene was very much like a human body that had just transformed back into a human after defeating a monster.

"Hey, don't come over here yet!" Ethan waved his hands hurriedly, "Let me check if this guy is dead first!"

Mendes stopped immediately upon hearing this, and slowly backed away, his voice trembling a little: "Then you take your time to check, we don't need this much time."

Just then, something incredible happened.

The giant snake's body melted into a blue-green liquid like a slug sprinkled with salt. The liquid seemed to have self-awareness, quickly gathering into a ball, constantly changing its shape, and finally turning into a cylinder about two meters thick and more than five meters high.

The cylindrical liquid emitted a dazzling green light and quickly condensed into a giant lizard-like monster. Its body was covered with fine scales, its thick fish tail kept slapping the ground, its fingers with sharp claws were connected by webbed objects, its huge dorsal fin extended from its waist to both sides of its head, and between its eyes hung a glowing fleshy protrusion like an anglerfish.

"Damn it, is this ever going to end!" Ethan roared, and clenched his right hand slightly, and a silver-white spear of light appeared in his palm.

Just use this thing to open its eyes.

But the monster in front of him didn't seem to have any intention of accepting the challenge. It didn't even pay any attention to Ethan. It immediately turned around and ran to the beach, diving directly into the water.

Ethan: “…”

No, so you changed your form just to run away?

Chapter 173 The Fisherman is Ecstatic

Ethan stood on the shore, holding the spinning spear in his right hand, looking awkwardly at the huge waves splashing on the sea surface. The cool sea breeze, carrying the moisture in the air, hit his face, making him look more vicissitudes of life, like a tidal sea spirit.

Mr. Monster, you're going to make me look stupid by doing this.

No, I have to do something to save my image.

"Hmph, want to run away?"

Ethan let out a click of his tongue, and rubbed the surface of the light spear with his left hand. A silver-white light rope extended from one end of the light spear.

He raised the spear of light, and swung it forward with the same action as a fisherman swinging a fishing rod, and the light rope at the front end of the spear shot into the water.

The light rope moved rapidly underwater, and as if it had eyes, it immediately locked onto the position of the fleeing monster, rushed to the monster's eyes, and hooked the glowing fleshy protrusion on its forehead.

"Oh, this feeling is that the prey has taken the bait." Ethan's eyes lit up, and he raised the light spear that was used as a fishing rod and pulled the monster to the surface of the water.

The monster was struggling back and forth on the sea level like a hooked fish. Seeing this, Ethan lifted the spear up again and threw the monster into the air.

The light rope was quickly retracted, and the fishing rod turned back into the original light spear. Ethan raised the light spear above his head and threw it hard at the monster in mid-air. The light spear flew out of his hand, pierced into the base of the monster's tail, and then came out from the top of its head, directly piercing it through.

The huge energy contained in the light spear released strong heat energy, roasting the monster to perfection like a quick dish, emitting the unique aroma of seafood. Then, the monster's charred body exploded and turned into brilliant fireworks in the sky.

Ethan watched the monster's body explode into pieces in mid-air, then he let out a long sigh, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned to walk towards the village.

Finally we solved it. If we hurry up and get on the road now, we can still reach Red Tomb City tonight.

After all, I had already said that I wanted to leave quickly, so it would be a bit embarrassing to change my mind and stay overnight.

And I guess it would be difficult for them to agree to let me stay here.

"Hurry up! Otherwise, Brother Ethan will be in danger!"

Mendes was holding a pump-action shotgun in his hand, followed by a group of villagers who were also armed with weapons, and they were running towards the village in a mighty manner.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Mendes froze in place when he saw Ethan, as if he had seen a ghost. He looked at Ethan, who was intact in front of him, in a daze, with confusion written all over his eyes that had experienced many vicissitudes of life.

"Mr. Mendes? What are you doing?"