Hogwarts Summoning Guide

Bai Lin gritted his teeth and swam with all his might, moving forward alone. He suddenly felt that although Zemurus was super powerful, his own insignificance could sometimes be turned into an advantage. It was as if he had become an intelligent mosquito, wanting to suck the blood of the humans in the room. Bai Lin felt that he could completely outwit and outmaneuver the other party and not be at a disadvantage.

Although Zemius didn't turn around, it seemed that another consciousness had detected Bai Lin's approach. When Zemius's giant conch shell was less than a kilometer away from Bai Lin, a group of dark shadows rushed out from the churning mud and rocks on the seabed. Bai Lin looked and exclaimed, "Holy crap!" They were clearly dozens of sharks of various sizes, controlled by mind control, including great white sharks, tiger sharks, hammerhead sharks, and deep-sea megamouth sharks, forming an underwater guard team that came towards Bai Lin.

Bai Lin gritted his teeth, gathering dark green death energy in his palm—this was not uncommon in the ocean, but the effect was uncertain. Just as he was preparing to fight to the death against the oncoming swarm of sharks, a figure swam quickly behind him. He turned to look and saw that it was Krum and Kiki rushing out from the swarm of mermaids.

Qiqi gestured to Bai Lin with the hand holding the scimitar, indicating that the shark should be given to her and Krum. Bai Lin was somewhat touched and nodded to them.

Krum swung its tail sharply, accelerating forward. Bai Lin lowered its stance, handing the duel over to Qi Qi.

Although Krum's transforming shark was only about three meters long, half the size of an adult great white shark, it was full of fighting spirit. Facing the encirclement of the shark swarm, it was fearless and charged directly at the largest shark in the swarm.

It was a fully grown great white shark. Seeing Krum's size, it didn't take it seriously at all. From a distance, it opened its blood-red maw. Judging from the momentum, if Krum charged forward, it could swallow more than half of his body in one gulp.

However, Krum was an absolute star on the Quidditch pitch, with unparalleled agility and speed. He wouldn't blindly walk into the shark's mouth. He was incredibly fast, and when he was still a few meters away from the great white shark, just when he was about to die in its jaws, he suddenly flipped to the right, dodging the great white shark's head. However, while he dodged, Kiki on his back swung her knife from the side without hesitation, using the speed of the two sharks colliding to slash a gash more than a meter long in the great white shark's body.

Fresh blood flowed freely from the great white shark's wound, instantly staining a large area of ​​seawater red. The stench of blood immediately aroused the ferocity of all the sharks around. However, in the murky water, the sharks lost their target for a moment and rushed towards the wounded great white shark like a swarm of wasps, tearing at it indiscriminately.

Although they are mind-controlled, the sharks' nature still has a decisive influence on their behavior patterns. The strong smell of blood is enough to drive them crazy. When they are in a frenzy, they have no time to observe the location of their target. They only have a bloodthirsty frenzy to kill all the creatures around them.

Kiki clung to Krum's back, weaving swiftly through the sharks. Krum would occasionally bite off a shark's fin, but more often Kiki used Krum's speed to slash at everything in sight.

Bai Lin plunged directly into the muddy waters churning up sand on the seabed and continued rushing towards the giant conch shell not far away. He felt that with just a little more effort, he could climb that conch shell mountain and successfully install the positioning system.

But the other party obviously wouldn't let him go so easily. He seemed to have entered an omniscient and omnipotent realm. No matter how he hid, as long as he got close to Zemers, he would be discovered by some being.

A dark shadow came rushing towards him from the muddy water. Bai Lin quickly pulled himself up and narrowly dodged it. Looking down, he saw that it was a giant mutated octopus that was at least ten meters long. It was no smaller than the Tyrant Octopus in the Black Lake, and it had at least a hundred fist-sized eyeballs on its head, which made people feel uncomfortable.

The giant mutated octopus spread its tentacles out like a huge umbrella, and in the very center of the umbrella was its enormous mouth full of sharp teeth. Like a giant sack, it nimbly chased after Bai Lin.

Without saying a word, Bai Lin gathered a ball of death energy in his hand, forming a skull the size of a soccer ball, and hurled it fiercely at the octopus. This was Bai Lin's signature move, "Death Binding."

However, the giant octopus did not dodge or evade at all. One of its tentacles, as thick as Bai Lin's waist, went straight for it. Death Coil almost blew the giant octopus's tentacles off, but even with one less tentacle, the mutated giant octopus still had seven tentacles. Bai Lin could not cast Death Coil again for the time being.

Without turning his head, he fired a petrification spell behind him, successfully petrifying a two- or three-meter-long section of an arm that was about to wrap around his legs. However, this was not a fatal injury to the giant octopus, which was more than ten meters long.

Bai Lin felt quite frustrated. Ordinary magic was too weak to deal with such a giant sea monster. In the deep sea, the most destructive spells, such as fire magic, could not be used. Non-aquatic summonable beasts such as thunderbirds and longhorn dragons could not be summoned. The Ogre Fist, a powerful weapon on land, could knock out a fire dragon with one punch, but it had no effect on the slippery and soft octopus in the face of the strong resistance in the water.

The mutated octopus suddenly opened all its limbs, as if it had taken a deep breath of seawater, and not only did it cover Bai Lin like a cage, but it also formed a vortex behind Bai Lin.

A tremendous suction force began to pull Bai Lin away. If he didn't use Apparition here, the giant octopus would probably get close and entangle him within seconds. However, if he used teleportation, he would once again lose the protection of the Water Shield and suffer the impact of water pressure. He didn't know if his ribs and lungs could withstand it, nor did he know if there was some other monster waiting for him ahead.

In the nick of time, Bai Lin suddenly heard a muffled thud that drowned out the sounds of the wizards fighting the mermaids behind him. He thought of the bow cannon of the Diana, which meant that Harry and Hermione were on board sending him reinforcements.

A blue orb the size of a round table was launched from the Diana, quickly traversing more than two kilometers of seawater, leaving a trail of crystalline ice in its wake. It slammed heavily into the giant octopus behind Bai Lin, instantly enveloping it in icy energy. The giant octopus's tentacles, which were desperately trying to close to Bai Lin, were forced to stop. When Bai Lin looked back, he saw that the giant octopus, along with the surrounding seawater, had been completely frozen into an ice sculpture.

"Shatter to pieces!" Bai Lin roared, unleashing a crushing spell at the giant octopus. This kind of mutated monster couldn't be eliminated by simply freezing it; it might break free of the icy energy and become lively again. Only by annihilating it completely could the threat be eliminated.

The Shattering Spell exploded like a torpedo on the giant octopus ice sculpture, and the huge shockwave also pushed Bai Lin, further increasing his swimming speed.

The giant octopus behind him was no longer a problem for Bai Lin to worry about. The Shattering Spell, created with 104 points of magic power, could not be used on animal bodies, but it was enough to blast the mutated giant octopus into pieces while shattering the ice.

This kind of deep-sea diving is very physically demanding, but Bai Lin is very resilient. He is confident that after installing the tracking device, he can go back to help his teammates who are fighting against the deep-sea fishmen. However, when he was about to reach the vicinity of the giant sea snail that was as high as a mountain on the seabed, he suddenly felt a moment of mental confusion.

"WTF! Not again?" he cursed inwardly. He knew that he had been targeted by Grakua or some other monster from the Church of Hastur and was being attacked with mind magic. It was only because his mental resistance was far superior to that of ordinary people and his equipment was forged with mind magic resistance runes that he was not immediately hit. However, he didn't really have any tricks to counter or resist this kind of mental attack. He could only try to hold on for as long as possible.

However, this mental attack was different from the previous ones. It seemed that there was not one intruder in his mind, but two completely different consciousnesses. One seemed to be trying desperately to penetrate his mind, while the other seemed to be driving away the first one, rather than trying to harm him.

He gritted his teeth, stared intently at his target, and swam with all his might towards it. Only when he managed to climb onto the giant conch's mottled, rock-like shell did he catch a whiff of victory.

However, immediately afterward, a person suddenly appeared in his mind, someone he had never seen before. His mind went blank again, and he knew something was wrong. He felt his eyes were blurry. In a panic, he drew his sword, Jade Dragon Hilt, and stabbed his sleeve hard into the rocky shell of the giant conch. Then everything went black, and he entered the mental plane again.

"I'm telling you guys, are you ever going to stop? You always use this trick, it's so annoying!" Bai Lin opened his eyes and found himself in a rather magnificent palace. The stone pillars and dome were made of white jade, and there were colorful corals and beautiful seashells everywhere. Various beautiful fish swam leisurely around the palace, while in the center of the palace, a tall and imposing old man was sitting on the crystal floor.

If the old man stood up straight, he would probably be four or five meters tall. Bai Lin would look like an infant in front of him. But the old man seemed to have no strength left to stand up. His withered face told Bai Lin that he was nearing his end.

"Human child..." The old man didn't speak, but he slightly opened his eyes and looked at Bai Lin, and his voice rang in Bai Lin's ear.

"Old man, who are you?" Bai Lin couldn't help but ask. He didn't sense any malice from the other party, and this place didn't seem to be the Shadow Dream created by the Hastur cultists at all. It was more like a higher-level spiritual barrier.

"Human child..." The old man didn't speak, but he slightly opened his eyes and looked at Bai Lin, and his voice rang in Bai Lin's ear.

"Old man, who are you?" Bai Lin couldn't help but ask. He didn't sense any malice from the other party, and this place didn't seem to be the Shadow Dream created by the Hastur cultists at all. It was more like a higher-level spiritual barrier.

The giant elder closed his eyes, seemingly very tired, but his voice continued to echo in Bai Lin's ears: "I am... I seem to have a very ancient name... Serenas... the oldest inhabitant of the Earth's oceans..."

Suddenly, a holographic projection-like image unfolded before Bai Lin's eyes. In a vast blue ocean, a small conch was born in the seawater along with millions of its kind. They hunted, played, and were also preyed upon by larger marine creatures. As time passed, the world went through an ice age and experienced various natural disasters. The conch grew bigger and bigger, but its companions slowly disappeared into the ocean.

The video was only a few dozen seconds long, but Bai Lin already understood the old man's identity. He was neither a person nor a god, but the giant conch shell that was as big as a mountain. It was not that the conch shell had entered his mind, but that the conch shell had pulled his thoughts into its mind.

Serenas did not remember how many years it had lived through, but it had personally experienced the war between the gods and the Great Old Ones Cthulhu. Although its body was greatly damaged in the war, it survived.

The gods sealed Cthulhu in the ancient city of R'lyeh in the deep sea and left Earth. However, Serenas soon discovered that Cthulhu's pet, Zemurus, had also survived. At that time, Zemurus was not that big, but it was enough to pose a fatal threat to the severely injured Serenas. Zemurus needed a place to hide to avoid the gods' "inspection". Thus, the two deep-sea behemoths began a battle that lasted for millions of years.

As expected, Serenas lost most of its body, but Zemurus did not completely destroy it, because that would have deprived Serenas's shell of its repair mechanism, and it would have disintegrated and dissolved in the ocean within tens of thousands of years.

Despite losing control of his body, Serenas achieved some victories in the spiritual realm. He constructed this palace in the spiritual realm, blocking the lingering whispers of Cthulhu and the will of Zemurus. In turn, he locked Zemurus's mental power, causing Zemurus to fall into a deep sleep. Even when he occasionally awoke, he was like an ordinary beast, no longer possessing Cthulhu's ambition or the consciousness to save Cthulhu.

And so, an unknown amount of time passed, until the arrival of an evil spirit. Although he had only a tiny human body, he possessed extremely powerful spiritual strength. Under his influence, Zem'ers awoke and accepted his mental suggestion, beginning to search for the ruins of the ancient city of R'lyeh on the seabed.

"Child of humans...you have come at just the right time...any later, and I'm afraid I would be gone..." the old man said slowly.

"Zemuers is too big for me to hurt. I'm afraid I'll have to put a tracking device on you and then use the power of human technology to perhaps destroy Zemuers." Bai Lin didn't hide his intentions; in the spiritual world, he couldn't lie at all.

"I know...which weapon you want to use..." the old man said, his tone devoid of emotion or fear. But suddenly, an image of a mushroom cloud appeared before Bai Lin.

"I don't know if it will work, but I will do my best to hold back the spirits of Zemurus and that extraterrestrial evil spirit... so they can't escape!" The old man's tone was unwavering, yet it carried a resolute air, as if he were completely indifferent to his own life and death. This creature, who had lived for countless eons, seemed to be weary of life; the years had left him extremely exhausted, and his struggle with Zemurus had brought him to the brink of collapse countless times.