Hogwarts Summoning Guide

The enraged Diana sped across the sea, sailing south for just two hundred kilometers when everyone felt the temperature drop sharply. Soon after, they discovered that the air they exhaled had turned into white mist.

"I bet you didn't bring any warm clothes," Lulu said, looking the Hogwarts group over. Hermione blushed slightly, but stubbornly insisted, "I brought a scarf and a coat!" As she spoke, she couldn't help but shiver. The coat she was referring to was a British-style overcoat, open at the chest.

Krum, on the other hand, expressionlessly pulled out a sheepskin cloak and a sheepskin hat from his magical pack, wrapped himself up tightly, and handed Hermione a women's leather coat. Despite being a man of few words, he turned out to be a warm-hearted guy.

Lulu winked at Krum and distributed down jackets used by the Antarctic expedition team to everyone. Bai Lin put them on without hesitation, but Harry, who was not tall, was at a disadvantage because the sleeves and trouser legs were a bit too long and looked a bit comical when rolled up.

Small ice floes gradually appeared on the sea surface, and the temperature had dropped to minus seven or eight degrees Celsius. Lulu used her instruments to check the positions of the moon and the Southern Cross constellation, and then compared them with the position of Orion.

Lulu said, "We're getting close to the location where the expedition team last spotted the target. It seemed to be searching for something nearby. It was moving very slowly, like a moving mountain on the seabed, probably conducting a circular search along the Antarctic continent. According to my calculations, it will remain in this area for the next three days. We'd better switch to underwater navigation, like in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."

Krum, standing nearby, nodded and said, "Everyone, let's go to the captain's cabin. I'll convert the Diana to underwater mode!"

The people on deck quickly went into the cabin. Krum took one last look at the cabin door and cast a sealing spell. Everyone rushed into the captain's cabin, where Lulu saw that the spacious captain's cabin seemed to be made of glass, allowing a clear view of the outside.

Krum explained, "The Diana has undergone magical modifications to all parts. From the outside, it looks like it was salvaged from the seabed, but the inside has been completely renovated, and the outer shell has been coated with powerful protective magic. No sea monster can harm her!" He spoke with great confidence.

When they arrived, Bai Lin had already witnessed the Diana's transformation, but Harry and Hermione (who had been hiding in a cabinet in the cargo hold) and many of Lulu's wizards were seeing such a wondrous sight for the first time.

The sails of the Diana were the first to be retracted into the mast, which then slowly retracted into the hull. The railings gradually sank down, and in no time, the Diana had become a conical, mastless vessel, somewhat resembling the ancient Eastern "mengchong". Then, the monster statue at the stern also changed, with two magical thrusters, each a meter in diameter, extending from the statue. Immediately afterward, the Diana seemed to suddenly gain thousands of tons of weight and sank into the sea. The seawater gradually submerged the deck and then the captain's cabin, and the Diana transformed into a submarine.

Even more miraculously, through the transparent bulkhead, the dark seawater outside suddenly lit up, as if it were daytime.

"The Diana can absorb the faintest light and amplify it, even converting light that humans cannot see (infrared and ultraviolet rays) into visible light, so everyone can see very clearly underwater!" Krum introduced with some pride. This ship indeed made the usually taciturn tough guy quite proud. However, he did not know that this ship was not lent to Bai Lin, but was already Bai Lin's private property.

However, no one listened to what Krum was saying; everyone was completely awestruck by the wondrous underwater world before them.

The seawater in this area is at least several hundred meters deep. The seawater is not a single color, but rather a mixture of various ocean currents, composed of different hues such as blue-purple, dark blue, sky blue, emerald green, and turquoise, like a palette formed by ocean currents.

Looking further down into the sea, the scenery becomes even more magnificent. The seabed is not a monotonous plain, but rather composed of countless towering peaks, hills covered with underwater forests, and dark, mysterious canyons... This beautiful landscape is rarely seen in the world.

This landscape is far from tranquil; countless marine creatures swim, frolic, and hunt... colorful fish, a wide variety of crustaceans, and occasionally, hardy little sharks swim through the underwater "forest."

When he set off from England, Bai Lin was so anxious that he only used underwater teleportation and high-speed travel modes and did not take a good look at the underwater scenery. This scene shocked him, and he secretly told himself that once he resolved the current situation, he must take Catherine and Youxi on an underwater trip.

Lulu quickly pulled everyone back from "sightseeing" mode, saying, "Gentlemen, I'm afraid we have another purpose for this trip. Krum, could you help me locate it on the map? Kerry, please take the helm; we'll head west!"

Bai Lin nodded and waved his wand in the middle of the captain's cabin. Following the spell taught by Karkaroff, the ship's rudder and a gearshift lever similar to a car's gearshift instantly rose in the captain's cabin. The furious Diana moved freely underwater, just like driving a car on land.

Following Lulu's instructions, Bai Lin steered the ship westward. Due to the high latitude, the ship was essentially circling the Antarctic continent.

The underwater scenery was breathtaking, with various landforms and wonders that existed on land or not. Harry and Hermione were so excited they were speechless. Hermione even took out a sketchbook to record these sights and show them to Ron when they got back. Meanwhile, Ron had just woken up from his sleep, only to find that his two best friends had abandoned him and gone off on an adventure.

Looking at the note Harry had left him, Ron felt like five hundred stag horses were galloping through his mind: "I'm cutting ties with both of you!"

Lulu kept recording their location and carefully observed signs of marine life on the seabed.

"Have you noticed that there are fewer and fewer large animals?" Lulu asked abruptly.

"Yes, Miss Lulu!" Hermione was the first to answer, "but there are more octopuses!"

"Octopus? Where?" Lulu couldn't help but ask, because she didn't see any octopus swimming in the nearby water.

"Octopuses are masters of disguise in the sand at the bottom of the sea, Miss Lulu," Hermione said, pointing to the deep seabed.

Lulu's expression hardened, and she said to Bai Lin, "Dive down, stay close to the seabed!"

Bai Lin gave Krum a wink, and Krum immediately came over to assist Bai Lin in piloting the ship. The Diana dived deeper and deeper, and as it went further, the underwater plants decreased significantly, and large areas of sand appeared.

"Look, there's a big guy over there!" Hermione pointed to a patch of sand. Everyone looked closely and sure enough, the sand churned slightly, revealing the body of a mollusk. It was clearly an octopus that was over a meter long, and it even glowed as it churned.

"Did you know that many scholars believe that octopuses are not creatures that originated on Earth? Octopuses have three hearts, blue blood, and nine brains—each of their eight legs has a secondary brain, a complex nervous system, intelligence that surpasses most animals, and many special abilities, such as changing skin color and a heightened sense of danger… But they haven't evolved at all in hundreds of millions of years…" Hermione said enthusiastically. In her eyes, octopuses were practically a wondrous natural history book.

"I'm afraid that's not much of a big deal..." Harry said, pointing in another direction.

As everyone looked, they saw an octopus more than three meters long swimming under the Diana. Its color was so dark that it was not easy to spot without careful observation.

"Its eyes seem strange..." Hermione said, her face full of doubt.

Bai Lin handed the helm to Krum and strode to the bulkhead. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the octopus, which was over three meters long, seemed to have several black ring-shaped markings on its head. However, he then realized that these were not ring-shaped black markings at all, but rather more than a dozen eyes of varying sizes.

"WTF! That's not an octopus, that's a monster from Hastur!" Bai Lin roared.

"Watch out!" Krum shouted, and everyone looked straight ahead of the Diana. A dark shadow was coming from the front. Upon closer inspection, my God, it turned out to be hundreds of giant octopuses, each over three meters long.

"Turn to the left to avoid it!" Bai Lin shouted. Krum quickly turned the rudder and pushed the gear lever hard.

The Diana's power increased dramatically, and with a turn of its head, the group of octopuses brushed past it.

The large number of octopuses managed to avoid the attack, but they weren't like the enemy soldiers left behind in a shooting game. They immediately scattered and surrounded the Diana.

Soon, the nearest octopus slammed against the bulkhead of the captain's cabin, startling everyone inside. The octopus's long tentacles, covered in suckers, spread out against the glass-like wall, revealing a large mouth filled with layers of fangs in the center. If it pounced on a person, their head could be instantly minced into a bloody pulp.

"The Diana has super strong defensive capabilities. Even if a sperm whale crashes into it, it will be fine!" Krum quickly said to reassure everyone.

Once the first one appeared, the second one followed. Although the Diana was powerful and maneuverable, it was still too big and not as agile as the octopuses. Soon, more than a dozen octopuses pounced on the bulkhead of the captain's cabin. Looking out from inside, everyone saw tentacles covered with suckers and huge mouths that were constantly wriggling and biting, which made people's spines go cold.

"I hope you're not exaggerating, there are just too many of these guys!" Harry felt his scalp tingling. He couldn't imagine what would happen if the protective magic of this bulkhead disappeared and they fell into this swarm of octopuses.

"I hope you're not exaggerating, there are just too many of these guys!" Harry felt his scalp tingling. He couldn't imagine what would happen if the protective magic of this bulkhead disappeared and they fell into this swarm of octopuses.

"I hope the Diana's attack is just as powerful!" Bai Lin said to Krum.

Krum turned to Lulu and said, "Someone needs to go to the gun emplacement to direct the attack, placing different magic crystals into the central magic-activated device's attack chamber, or infusing it with wizard magic. This will activate the Diana's attack mode!"

Lulu waved her hand and said, "I'm going down!" With that, she descended the stairs to the middle cabin under the protection of two of her men. Harry gritted his teeth as he looked at the octopuses around him and followed Lulu down to help.

Soon, Bai Lin could see with his naked eye that the Diana was emitting a faint green light, and the hull seemed to come alive, expanding and contracting like an animal breathing. Then, many vines as thick as bowls grew from the hull, wrapping around the ship like Spider-Man's webs. Once they encountered an octopus, long spikes grew from the vines, and some of the octopuses that pounced on them were immediately impaled by the spikes and turned into octopus skewers.

"Ha, Miss Lulu must have used a wood-attribute energy crystal," Hermione exclaimed in surprise. "There are no wood-attribute energy crystals in Europe. I heard that they were brought over from their country by fairies..." She was passionate about sharing knowledge with everyone, no matter what environment she was in.

However, the vines had limited effect, as the octopuses skillfully avoided them, and the octopus shadows flying everywhere gradually blocked the view of everyone in the captain's cabin.

"I have to slow down, otherwise if we hit the reef, I can't guarantee the safety of the boat!" Krum said as he slowed down.

Lulu called up from the lower deck, "It was my oversight; I brought too many fire crystals. They're useless underwater. I'll use an ice attack once. If that doesn't work, we'll have to send a wizard out to fight!"

Before long, Bai Lin saw that the Diana was emitting a faint blue light, and the hull was gradually turning white. The cold air spread outward, instantly forming many ice arrows and ice spikes. Some octopuses were pierced by the ice arrows and instantly turned into blue ice sculptures.

Despite this, the ice-attribute attack was still of little effect against the thousands of octopuses, killing only a few dozen in one wave.

At this moment, Kiki, who had been silent until now, said, "Captain, using high-voltage electricity should be very effective!"

Looking at the swarm of octopuses dancing wildly outside the cabin, Bai Lin suddenly thought of the giant mist eel he had encountered at Dongfang Yunhu Lake. He had even obtained three "mysterious eel teeth" from the mist eel, and a shiver ran through him.

At this moment, the system also issued a new task to all team members present:

Obtain the epic quest: Cthulhu's Pet

Cthulhu's Pets: The Great Old One Cthulhu possessed many pets, with Zem'rus being his favorite. Billions of years ago, Cthulhu brought a virus from the world of Vol in the Twenty-Third Nebula, transforming Earth's squid into more intelligent, agile, and ferocious octopuses. Because their size was very similar to Cthulhu's original form, Cthulhu adored these little creatures. However, when the gods sealed Cthulhu away, they also destroyed some of the octopuses' abilities (lifespan limitations, elimination of sociality, etc.), preventing the octopuses from further evolving. Except for the escaped Zem'rus, Cthulhu's pets were all slaughtered.

Defeating Zem'ius will bring the blessings of the gods, along with endless glory and wealth.

Defeating Grakua will grant you the Sun God's Treasure and increase your world development level to 10 (current world development level is 10).

Repetitive reward 1: Kill the mutated octopus monster and earn 10 contribution points.

2. Earn 300 contribution points for each ordinary member of the Hatas Order killed.

3. Earn 800 contribution points for each Hatas elite member killed.