Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 1 Initial

The north wind is biting and the sky is freezing. The snowflakes flying all over the sky are gradually becoming sparse.

"Phew! The snow has finally stopped falling!"

After shaking off the snowflakes on his clothes and hat, Rosie let out a long breath.

However, the next second, another cold wind blew in my face.

Even though she deliberately gave up her beautiful skirt and put on thick cotton and linen clothes to resist the cold, and completely hid her silky hair in her hood, she still couldn't help but shiver under the biting cold wind.

"This is a crappy game. Is it really okay to make the environment so real?"

Walking on the ice lake, feeling the coolness that penetrated the body along the gap between his collars and the cold air constantly transmitted upward from the ice under his feet, Rossi couldn't help but complain.

That's right, the place she is currently in is a large-scale online holographic game called "Harry Potter: The Age of Wizardry" launched by an unknown game manufacturer in the Blue Star Super United States.

In this era of popular holographic games, the game "Harry Potter: Age of Wizardry" is actually not outstanding. The only thing that can be called unique is the 100% realistic environment.

But for ordinary players, it is not a point that can attract them.

Rossi, on the other hand, has been immersed in this game since he accidentally heard about it from others.

This is not to say that she likes this game very much, but because of a special reason.

Following the trend of the 21st century, Rosie, who was just holding a tablet and watching TV series, somehow became one of the vast number of time-travelers.

During the five years she traveled on Blue Star, she first wanted to go home, then slowly turned into homesickness, and finally, as time went by, she became homesick.

This is undoubtedly a kind of torture.

Although he is a moderate gamer, Rossi has adapted well to this era of popular holographic games.

But she occasionally misses those novels, movies, and entertainment variety shows that she once followed.

Until she heard the name of this game and thought of the famous IP "Harry Potter" that she was familiar with before time travel, the longing for her hometown in her heart was once again aroused.

Harry Potter, this masterpiece that has never appeared in Blue Star, has been directly made into a holographic game!

A fellow countryman from Earth?

Or is it just a coincidence?

No matter what the situation was, Rossi felt the need to investigate clearly.

However, after some searching, except for finding a sales channel that she knew nothing about, she could not find any clues: Not only could she not find any information about the producer of "Harry Potter", she didn't even have the address of the game publishing company.

turn up.

In an era of information flood, this is undoubtedly an incredible phenomenon.

In this situation, Rossi, who had failed to investigate in reality, could only place his hope in the game and try to find something in the game.

After all, fellow Earthling, if there is such a fellow, he created this game, so there is no reason why he shouldn’t experience it for himself.

So she immersed herself wholeheartedly in the game world, investigating various clues in the game while working hard to level up in order to gain access to more information about the game.

However, the world seemed to be playing a joke on her.

Although the name of this game is "Harry Potter: The Age of Magic", and the world view of wizards and Muggles is almost the same as the "Harry Potter" IP before time travel, there is no Harry Potter in this world.

If he hadn't learned the location of Hogwarts from the descriptions of high-level players on the forum, and if many wizard NPCs had mentioned Dumbledore's name, Rossi would have thought that these were just a wonderful coincidence.

With the last glimmer of hope, after reaching level 22 and barely being able to deal with some monsters outside the novice village, she immediately embarked on the road to Hogwarts.

…

He tightened his collar with his left hand, and facing the cold wind that came again, Rossi walked eagerly towards the northern English castle that was built on the cliff and towered into the clouds.

Creak!

As Rossi stepped down, the ice suddenly cracked with a crack.

"Oops, here we go again!"

Feeling the changes under her feet, she frowned somewhat depressedly. She gently tapped her toes on the ice that was about to break, and her whole body fell lightly to the side.

As soon as she landed, she immediately took out her wand from the wand bag on her left waist and pointed at the cracked ice with a vigilant expression.

However, the lake only churned for a moment and then gradually returned to calm. In this cold weather, a layer of frost was visible to the naked eye on the black ice holes.

"Huh? Have you given up the attack?"

Rossi paid attention for a moment with some doubts. Just when he relaxed his guard, he saw the thin ice suddenly shattered.

The next second, a dark green strip emerged from the lake, and struck her head-on with the force of wind and thunder like a long whip.

Because the snowflakes were not as dense as before, Rossi, who had been harassed many times by this "whip", finally saw its full picture clearly this time.

It was not some kind of magical plant as she had guessed before, but the huge tentacles of a squid.

Because he failed to dodge when the tentacles broke through the ice, Rossi, knowing that he could no longer escape the opponent's attack range, had no choice but to raise his wand upwards:

"Armor protection!"

An arc-shaped barrier like an umbrella spread out from the tip of the wand, and then withstood the blow from the giant tentacle.

With a "pong" sound, the defensive magic also known as the Iron Armor Curse was instantly broken, and the tentacles covered with suction cups were bounced back by the magic that exploded at that moment.

The force that bounced back from the wand shook her hands, which were a little painful, and they couldn't rest. Rossi waved the wand again and pointed at the tentacle that was about to fall onto the ice.

"There are many obstacles!"

"There are many obstacles!"

"There are many obstacles!"

She cast all the obstacle spells that could be stored three times at the same time in an instant. Seeing that the tentacle's retraction slowed down, Rosie flicked her wand again.

"The flames are blazing!"

With a loud shout, seven or eight orange fireballs suddenly appeared with an explosion-like sound, hitting the tentacles that were about to retreat into the lake.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Just as Rosie was waiting for this spell to take effect, a violent sound suddenly came from the lake, and then she felt a turbulence on the soles of her feet.

This was the sound caused by the impact of the squid on the thick ice. Apparently, it was burned by the flames and intended to directly break through the ice and let the prey fall into the water before cleaning it up.

"This monster has a very high IQ!"

Rossi chuckled lightly, and his slim figure quickly regained balance from the shaking. Then she stepped hard on the lake with her toes, and jumped forward.

As she jumped up, she took out a somewhat shabby looking broomstick.

"Broken broomstick: speed 25 km/h. Since the broomstick is broken, for safety reasons, the flying height of this broom is limited to three meters, and it can be used for 30 minutes every hour."

Just as Rosie suddenly flew out, a giant squid jumped out of the lake following the exploding ice.

Finding that the prey that had injured itself seemed to be trying to escape, it immediately rolled up a few ice cubes with its tentacles and threw them at Rossi hard.

Hearing the sound of breaking through the air, Rossi, who knew that his flying skills were not dexterous enough, immediately pressed the broom towards the ice in front of him on the left, and his upper body completely leaned on the broom.

The next second, almost grazing the edge of the ice that was flying towards her, she dodged at the last moment and then rolled to stand on the ice.

At this time, the giant squid behind him had already caught up.

"Giant Squid: Level 30, a giant creature living in the large lake south of Hogwarts..."

"What bad luck!" Thinking of the introduction of this squid in the game forum, Rossi couldn't help but muttered.

Although the monster's level was much higher than hers, there was no trace of panic on Rosie's face.

She was seen dodging and running on the ice with dexterity, avoiding the attacks of ice blocks one after another.

Seeing that the giant squid following behind him was getting farther and farther away from the ice cave he had broken through before, Rossi suddenly turned around and drew a circle in the air with the wand in his hand:

"Detention quickly!"

As the spell was completed, orange magic ropes appeared out of thin air, and instantly tied up the giant squid's torso and tentacles.

The next moment, Rossi raised his wand and pointed it at the bulging eyes on the squid's head: "Flying sand and moving rocks!"

"boom!"

When the giant squid was struggling desperately and was about to break free from the confinement spell, a light blue cyclone suddenly exploded in front of its eyes, and blue-green blood suddenly splashed up.

The severe pain caused the giant squid to struggle and twist crazily, and the orange magic rope was instantly broken by it.

Immediately afterwards, it was freed from its restraints and jumped up on the spot. Before its body landed on the ground, its eight tentacles hit the ice with a loud bang.

"No, we can't let it escape back into the water!"

Seeing this, Rossi's heart trembled, and she pointed the wand at the opponent in the distance:

"Expelliarmus!"

A continuous beam of red light suddenly shot out from the top of the wand, and the disarming spell that switched the output mode rushed toward the giant squid like a torrent.

The giant squid tried to return to the lake, but under the magical impact of the disarming spell, its body slid sideways uncontrollably against the ice.

"The flames are blazing!"

As soon as he pushed the squid away, Rossi immediately turned his wand, and the flame spell that had finished cooling was instantly cast again.

The fireballs burning with raging flames immediately hit the giant squid's head one after another. Its health volume had already dropped by half, but due to the continuous attacks on its weak points, its health volume was emptied in an instant.

"Phew, it's finally solved!"

Rossi breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the materials dropped by the giant squid, and put them into the inventory.

After taking a short rest, she turned her attention to her destination again. At this moment, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was in front of her.

It seems that the castle itself has been endowed with some kind of magic. The closer you get to Hogwarts, the more oppressive and tense this huge castle gives people.

"No wonder the freshmen in Harry Potter had to take this path to enter Hogwarts. This kind of pressure stemming from the building itself is also a kind of test for those freshmen, right?"

Rosie muttered to herself, lowered her head and walked through the ivy curtain covering the cliff, arriving at an open entrance covering an area of ​​1,000 square meters.

Shaking off the thin snowflakes on his body, Rossi raised his eyes and looked at the stone walls on both sides of the entrance.

I saw some irregular lines carved on the stone wall, and these lines intersected on the rocks above my head to form a set of fancy but easy-to-recognize words - fireplace.

It is clearly located between rocky cliffs and has nothing to do with fire-making equipment for heating, but it is named "fireplace". Anyone who comes into contact with it for the first time will definitely feel puzzled.

But after playing the game for more than a hundred hours and seeing many weird "fireplaces", Rossi is no longer surprised by this:

The "fireplace" that is lit in the system's Floo network panel is equivalent to the portal and resurrection point of this game.

Rosie reached out and drew in the void, and a virtual interface that only she could see immediately appeared in her field of vision.

Name: Rosie (Because she was in a complicated and excited mood when entering the game, she just changed her name slightly and clicked to confirm.)

Level:22

Race: Human (Mixed-blood wizard)

Occupation: Trainee Agent of the Ministry of Magic (Level 3)

Basic attributes:

Strength:32

Agility:44

Physique:39

Intelligence:57

Spirit:48

Points remaining: 0

Wand: Pear wood wand (+2)

Ignoring other data and options, Rossi moved his fingers lightly and clicked on the Floo Network interface.

A huge map that was almost entirely shrouded in fog appeared in front of her in an instant, except for the novice village Godric's Hollow where she was born and the city of Westminster in Brantania, which she had visited once when she obtained her status.

Apart from the Ministry of Magic in the District, which was clearly visible, only the road she was walking towards Hogwarts was clearly visible on it.

At this time, on the Floo Network map, at the underground dock of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the fog had been dispersed by his own arrival, a green light spot flashed continuously.

Click to activate.

Rosie skillfully lit up the light point at this location, so that she could use this fireplace as a teleportation point and use Floo powder to teleport to Hogwarts.

As soon as the fireplace was activated, several rapidly rotating green flames suddenly appeared in the open space not far away.

"Are there other players here?" Rossi muttered in his mind, but he didn't have any extra thoughts.

After all, she is not one of the first to enter the game. Compared with most major players, Rosie's level is not high. As far as the top 100 in the current level rankings are concerned, the lowest level player is already level 35.

As the swirling green flames gradually subsided, three players, two men and one woman, suddenly appeared from where the flames disappeared.

Although they were neatly dressed and the equipment on their bodies looked normal, the unhappiness and depression in their expressions were clearly visible to anyone with a discerning eye.

"What mission did they fail on?"

Maybe the agents had done too many identity tasks. Rossi, who passed by them, subconsciously made a simple guess in his mind.

"The male player wearing a Western hat has a wand bag hanging on his right side and a pistol hanging on his left waist. He should be an explorer whose initial race is human (a mixed-race wizard). Look at where he wears his wand and firearms. Well,

He is a physical output type...well, it is not ruled out that he is left-handed, but the probability of this is not high..."

Thinking of this, she looked at another male player.

I saw that he was carrying a shotgun on his back, and there were firearms hanging on the left and right sides. When he saw Rossi's gaze, he immediately looked at Rossi with a scrutinizing look. He saw that Rossi was just a person who didn't seem to be of a high level.

The female player then turned around and started talking to her teammates.

"Can he be equipped with three weapons at the same time? Is he a hunter whose initial race is human (Muggle)?" Rossi thought to himself, "it is very rare to choose a player born this way."

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw that after a brief exchange between the three of them, the female player, who was covered in translucent pearly white, quickly chased after Rossi.

(End of chapter)