Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

After a period of spinning, Mike and others appeared in a dark, humid environment.

Mike reacted quickly as soon as he landed, and a transparent shield silently enveloped them.

It was a completely instinctive reaction from Mike, but it caused serious distress to someone at the scene.

"My lord! Woohoo! You are finally here...bang...ah!"

After hearing this series of familiar voices, Mike and others lit up their wands. When the light returned, everyone saw that they were now in a damp and blocked cave, not far from them. There, the second and fifth son of the Everly family was squatting on the ground, covering his nose with his hand, and kept screaming.

"Did this guy hit the armor body?"

Franklin asked with some doubts, and upon hearing this, Mike and others all looked dumbfounded.

Shaking his head expressionlessly, Mike silently unfolded his mental power. Through the perspective effect of magic perception, he could clearly perceive that the cave he was currently in was actually a super large underground space transfer station. , with this cave as the center, there are a large number of paths leading to everywhere. This makes Mike worried. You must know that they are racing against time and have no time to explore this cave little by little.

But just when Mike and others were in trouble, a strange thing silently appeared in Mike's perception.

"The Upside Down Golden Bell!"

Mike almost instinctively shot an upside-down golden bell in the direction of getting the thing.

Mike's magic spell flew so fast that no trace could be seen with the naked eye, and it hit the enemy almost as soon as the spell was uttered.

Franklin and Benjamin also realized that someone was invading. The two of them held up the wands that were constantly blooming and cautiously approached the enemy. It was not until they saw the true face of the hanging enemy that they finally relaxed. Take a breath.

"Mike, it's just an ant, but this ant is a bit strange. He is different from the soldier ants and worker ants we saw before. He actually has wings!" Benjamin reported what he saw, but he just said Halfway through, he suddenly became excited, "Wait a minute, Mike! His behavior is very strange, he seems to be signing with us!"

Hearing this, Mike's expression became a little strange, and he asked with some certainty:

"Are you kidding me?"

"No! I swear, he was indeed gesturing. Damn it, does anyone here know sign language?"

Sign language is an extremely niche language that Mike and others naturally don't know, but Benjamin's words still aroused Mike's curiosity. He and Arthur strode over quickly, and sure enough they saw a black and shiny one. And a giant ant with two wings on its back was being dumped.

His situation was very strange. He neither struggled nor had any intention of attacking Mike and others.

He just hung there quietly, constantly gesturing with the pair of slender tentacles on his head and the pair of forelimbs on his upper abdomen.

Seeing this, Mike and others looked at me and I looked at you, and they were all at a loss.

Finally, Mike pulled the Erwu boy who was still on the ground holding his nose, pointed at the ant and said:

"Do you understand?"

"Well, this...he seems to..."

"get out!"

After kicking away the young man who obviously didn't understand but wanted to make up some random information to fool himself, Mike decided to use the stupidest method.

"The golden bell fell to the ground."

As the magic spell was uttered, the flying ant fell to the ground with a thud.

Benjamin and others on the side all raised their wands and pointed them at him. As long as he had the slightest sign of wanting to attack, a cruel death would be waiting for him.

But that ant was obviously different. After landing, he slowly stood upright and knelt down on one knee in front of Mike. Then he stood up, nodded to Mike, and pointed to an ant in the cave. The dark passage.

"Is he... giving us directions again?"

Arthur said in disbelief. Even now, he still can't accept that a mere ant can have such high intelligence.

Franklin was obviously not as pretentious as him. He stared directly at the ant, but slowly moved towards Mike and said:

"Are we going to believe him?"

Faced with Franklin's inquiry, Mike was silent.

He looked at the expressionless face covered by the carapace of the flying ant, as well as the deep black eyes that reflected light, and finally said:

"Let's go with him, we don't know the right way now anyway."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mike took the lead and walked towards the passage pointed by the ant.

When Benjamin and others behind him saw this, they also followed him.

There was no way, Mike was their boss, and although they still felt something was wrong deep down in their hearts, since their boss had spoken, he had no choice but to follow.

When the ant saw Mike walking in the direction he was pointing, he clapped his paws excitedly, then flapped his wings and came to the front of Mike, and began to lead the way for Mike.

Under his leadership, Mike and others turned corners one after another and passed one fork after another.

During this period, Mike left a unique magic mark on every fork in the road. If they didn't do this, given the complexity of this underground passage, they probably wouldn't be able to get out in their lifetime.

I don't know how long it took, until Mike felt a little impatient, a brand new cave finally appeared in front of everyone.

Different from the darkness before, this cave is very bright, and the light source that brings light here is the many luminous mushrooms growing wantonly on the walls of the cave. The light emitted by these mushrooms individually is not very bright, but the combination of countless mushrooms Together they illuminated the entire cave.

But the most eye-catching thing in the entire cave is not the glowing mushrooms, but a huge figure in the deepest part of the cave!

It was a huge ant that was more than ten meters tall and almost reached the top of the cave. Her abdomen was extremely huge, almost occupying most of her entire body, and the snow-white abdomen was glowing under the surrounding pale light. A strange luster, just like jade.

The front end of her body is not much different from a normal ant except that it is too huge. The pair of huge but blunt giant claws are opening and closing from left to right, making people feel an inexplicable palpitation.

Mike recognized her true identity almost as soon as he saw her - the ant queen!

And in front of this super-large ant queen stood a human wearing a windbreaker.

The human seemed to be emotionally unstable, waving his arms and roaring at the ant queen.

After arriving at the cave, the flying ant that led the way for Mike and others silently came to a shadow not far from the queen.

There are a large number of worker ants, soldier ants and flying ants densely gathered there.

Mike looked closely and saw that there was a loophole-shaped device installed on the top of the cave far away from the shadow. Snow-white mushroom residues were constantly falling from it, and the job of the worker ants was to remove these mushroom residues. Collected to serve as food for the queen ant.

‘That funnel should lead directly to the huge mushroom residue pool on the first floor of the ant factory, and this cave should also be underground in the ant factory! ’

After making this conclusion, Mike quickly withdrew his gaze, and then he raised his hand and made two quick tactical gestures.

"Stealth, attack."

Soon, Mike and others disappeared, entered the invisible state and walked towards the direction of the human wizard.

Along the way, Mike and others encountered large swaths of crouching ants. They originally planned to go around them, but the few flying ants among them seemed to have some keen ability to break concealment. They commanded Mike and others the moment they approached. The other ants moved out of the way.

Seeing this, Mike and the others did not hesitate, and followed the path vacated by the ants unobstructed to reach behind the man.

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"Lilith, let me tell you, there is no benefit in going against us. We have at least a hundred ways to make you die without even knowing how you died! So now, immediately, send your ants to me. Attack those intruders!"

In the cave, the human wizard looked extremely angry. He waved his arms desperately and roared at the huge monster above him.

However, his roar did not receive any response. The huge monster just looked at him quietly. The constantly shaking tentacles and the strange black light in its eyes gave him a strange feeling that the other party was laughing at him.

This made him even angrier. He took out the wand from his arms and pointed it at the monster above his head.

However, at this moment, a strange voice came from behind him.

"Good evening, Mr. Avery."

The human wizard's expression suddenly changed, and he turned around and wanted to attack backwards.

However, it's too late.

"Expelliarmus!" "The Upside Down Golden Bell!"

Two magic spells were fired from Franklin and Benjamin's wands at the same time, hitting the wizard one on the left and one on the right, causing his whole body to be knocked up and the wands to fly out.

Seeing this, the queen's antennae above his head began to tremble faster, as if she was gloating about her misfortune.

Without any hesitation, after subduing the human wizard, Mike immediately pointed the wand at the ant queen above everyone's heads.

This behavior caused all the surrounding ants to riot. They screamed and swarmed in, but they did not dare to actually attack Mike and others.

As for the queen ant, when Mike's wand pointed at her, she froze as if a petrification spell had been cast, and the pair of tentacles above her head stopped shaking.

The scene became strangely quiet. At this moment, a voice suddenly rose in Mike's heart.

"Dear wizard, please don't hurt me, we are friends."

This is a very gentle and young female voice, and it seems to have some kind of magic power. It not only penetrates the Occlumency constructed by Mike and is directly transmitted to Mike's brain, but also seems to have some kind of ability to soothe people's hearts. Mike felt a sense of peace for no reason.

Mike felt something in his heart, looked at the huge ant queen above him and said:

"Is it you who's talking?"

"Yes, my friend."

"I don't think we are friends." Mike said teasingly, still pointing the wand in his hand at the queen, "After all, this is the first time we have met."

"Oh, this really makes me sad. I thought we were already friends." A trace of sadness flashed through the eyes of the giant ant queen in a very humane way, and then she turned her head and said, "But it doesn't matter. , I think it’s not too late for us to get to know each other now, and I believe you will be willing to be friends with me, after all, I have given you a lot of help.”

Hearing this, Mike shook his head in confusion and said:

"You mean the flying ant that led us? I admit that he did save me some trouble, but it was just some. If you want to be my friend, this is not enough."

"I noticed that you just used 'him' to refer to my guard. This is a good sign for our friendly communication. It means that you are a good person and I like it very much."

The queen ant seemed really happy. She was waving her tentacles happily, and her mouthparts were still making squeaking sounds. After hearing this sound, the surrounding ants all became quiet and slowly faded away. .

However, Mike remained unmoved and still stood upright.

"Okay, powerful wizard, although you may not realize it, we have been helping you. Don't you feel strange? Why is the defense of this secret realm so weak? The wizards are not Set up any sentries, but all of them gather in the building above our heads?

The reason is simple, it's simply not necessary. Because the brains of every ant in this secret realm are linked to mine, I can clearly perceive everything they see. This is equivalent to all the ants being my eyes. As long as an intruder enters, I will immediately notify the wizard upstairs and mobilize all my children to attack the intruder.

Remember that worker ant you met when you first came in? In fact, I have discovered you since then, but I did not do anything. Instead, I let the child guide you and lead you to your destination. Don’t you think this is a big help? "

After chewing the Queen Ant's words carefully, Mike nodded thoughtfully, and then chuckled:

"I admit, this is indeed a big help. But what about it? As I said at the beginning, even if you provide help, it will only take more time for us to win. That’s it. Moreover, the reason why you are helping us is actually to use our hands to get rid of your masters, the Everly family, right? After all, their attitude towards you is not very good."

As soon as these words came out, the tentacles on the queen's head that had regained their vitality froze again, and the surrounding ants also gathered again, and the dense buzzing sound made people's hair stand on end!