Admiral of Hogwarts

206 Discovery

Summer came quietly to the grounds around the castle; the sky, like the lake, turned into a light blue with purple light, and flowers as big as cabbages bloomed in the renovated greenhouse.

Because of the destruction of mandrake and the fire attack, the school board finally stopped wrangling and was willing to allocate funds to purchase mandrake or petrification-removing potions.

But unfortunately, it was too late for the school to place the order. So there are no more mandrakes or prepared potions on the market. And if you want to get these items, you have to wait until the end of summer when the mandrake matures.

However, while Hugo was calmly directing the ship girls to search those suspicious areas and learn about ancient runes step by step, the interior of the castle had become a mess.

Every faculty member strictly requires the students to act in accordance with the previously established regulations. For example, all students are ordered not to act independently, and even if they go to the toilet, more than three people can do it.

For most students, being with everyone and being escorted from one place to another by professors is a joyful thing, but for Hugo, this obviously affected his actions.

At this time, only a few supporters of the blood theory from pure-blood families seemed very excited, and among these people, Malfoy was the most prominent.

He walked around the school with as much air as if he had just been appointed Head Boy. But there is a reason why he can be so arrogant at this time.

After all, Malfoy, as a pureblood, was basically at no risk in an attack. My father is also the school director and can decide who will be the final principal. What's more, Dumbledore, the headmaster he now hates, has been kicked out of the school by his father.

"Why do you think those school directors are willing to let Professor Dumbledore leave?" Seeing Malfoy walking past everyone in a high-spirited manner, Hermione showed an expression as if she had swallowed a fly, and then asked Hugo and the others.

"The school is obviously in danger now. Why would they, as school directors, choose this plan that is obviously detrimental to the school and their interests?"

"Most of the people who can serve as school directors at Hogwarts are ancient pure-blood families, so they don't really agree with Principal Dumbledore's teaching philosophy. I have been trying to kick him out of the school for more than a day or two."

Veneto whispered as he stared at Malfoy's back as he walked away. "Now is the perfect time to use this attack as an excuse to kick the principal out of the school."

Although the other small group supported Principal Dumbledore in their hearts, with the connections the Malfoy family made when they were Death Eaters, they naturally had a way to force them to support their opinions. "

"This is simply terrible." Hugo shook his head subconsciously. "Even fighting for power is not a good idea at this time. At least I think life should be more important -"

But before he finished speaking, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, because the counterattack and unicorn who had previously searched in the Black Lake successfully found the target.

"Are you okay?" Seeing Hugo suddenly smile, Hermione suddenly became nervous. "I know that basilisks are scary, and some people in Hufflepuff were even frightened and were hospitalized, but you shouldn't be -" "

certainly. Of course not, my dear sister. Realizing that the smile he suddenly showed just now was indeed a bit scary, Hugo quickly comforted his sister. "Your brother is not that fragile. I just thought of an interesting thing." "

After saying that, Hugo told a joke that would later be used to amuse Hermione, finally avoiding her continuous questioning out of concern.

And when everyone came to the Defense Against Dark Arts class, their mood suddenly became worse. Because at this time when everyone is more serious than usual, Lockhart's relaxed and cheerful performance is extremely eye-catching.

Seeing Lockhart bragging endlessly, Hugo sighed helplessly, and then followed the exploration of the pipeline under the Black Lake by his ship girls through the Admiral Network.

The outlet of this pipeline is located underwater more than 300 meters away from Hogwarts Castle. It is surrounded by rocks and water plants as cover. If you don't look carefully, it can easily be mistaken for an underwater reef.

In addition, the castle also has its own purification system to avoid discharging sewage into the Black Lake. This also makes it impossible for the ship girls to find the drainage pipe outlet by tracking the sewage.

This is not to say that these wizards have a strong environmental awareness, but that wizards often pour some magical items, such as various potion residues or failed potions into the sewers.

When this drainage system was first built more than a hundred years ago, there was no purification system, which resulted in a serious ecological disaster in the lake. Therefore, the purification system has been installed here since then and is in operation today.

Through the Admiral's network, Hugo saw that the terrifying people who came from London quickly deployed a magic circle underwater to control the early warning magic circle at the sewer outlet, and then counterattacked and the unicorn immediately destroyed the fence at the sewer outlet. Got in.

Next is a winding section of underwater sewer pipe that is more than a kilometer long. This pipeline is located in many places within the magical security circle of Hogwarts Castle. Any magical presence other than the basilisk will activate the castle security system.

"I think if a wizard comes, maybe only someone wearing a magic cloak, one of the Three Hallows of Death, can get here without alerting anyone."

After landing from a platform surrounded by water pipes, Kewei looked at the surrounding situation and said to Firefly and Counterattack.

Obviously, the pure-blood wizard who designed this pipeline did not consider the possibility of crossing more than a thousand meters without using magic at all, so the ship girls were able to reach here smoothly.

After using the ship's suit space to quickly change into dry clothes, the three ship girls began to walk forward along a wide tunnel whose entrance was covered with snake-shaped reliefs.

It can be seen that this tunnel has been carefully repaired before. The tunnel is surrounded by various reliefs that highlight the greatness of pure-blood wizards and belittle all living creatures except pure-blood wizards.

It's just that because they have never been maintained for a long time, and because the basilisk often passes by here, many places of these sculptures have become blurred due to wear and tear.

Following the ground that was obviously much smoother than other places because the Basilisk often passed by it, they trotted upward while three pairs of eyes stared at the surroundings with vigilance.

From time to time, a ship girl would stop and take out pieces of palm-sized basilisk scales from the gaps in the corridor bricks and put them into her ship's installation space.

Along the way, some slime-like molluscs crawled out of the gaps around the tunnel, and then tried to attack them.

At the beginning, the ship girls were a little confused when facing these monsters that were difficult to kill with physical attacks. In particular, they also spray a highly acidic mucus that can hang on the enemy and enchant them.

But after discovering that every slime has a core that can be fatal with one blow, the ship girls with powerful vision easily used pistols to smash those cores that were not much different from the surrounding ones and eliminate them.