The Admiral of Hogwarts

In the following period, the most important thing for most students was probably the first Quidditch match. Although the first game was Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff, the Ravenclaw team also entered training.

"Good job, Veneto," Roger Davies, who had just taken over as captain of the Quidditch team this year after the old captain graduated, shouted to Veneto, who had hit the Bludger across the field with one strike, on the Quidditch pitch. Then he looked at the group of rookies in front of him.

"We need a Chaser and a Seeker this year, so I need to give you a test to ensure that I can choose the two players who are most compatible with the current team."

Unlike Gryffindor and Slytherin, who like to choose the students with the best skills as players, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tend to choose players who are slightly less skilled but can cooperate well with the team.

Therefore, in addition to basic tests, the most important thing in the selection is to let the candidates enter the team and play for a while to determine whether they have enough tacit understanding with the entire team.

Veneto's task in the selection was to imitate the opposing team's Beaters and test the flexibility and courage of these rookies by hitting Bludgers.

Honestly, it was really fun to watch the Bludgers hit by Veneto fly past the rookies, scaring them pale and flying around the field.

Unfortunately, Hugo had only watched half of it when he received a notice from Firefly asking him to go to the fifth floor of the castle to meet her, so he had to leave.

Arriving on an empty corridor on the fifth floor, Hugo saw Firefly waiting there. Firefly was wearing a school uniform robe and standing in front of a mirror.

"What happened that you needed to call me over so urgently?" Hugo asked Firefly, who was standing there, as soon as they met. "What did you guys discover this time that you called me so urgently?"

"Some very magical things," Firefly said, taking out her wand and tapping the frame of the mirror. "Open to the left."

As soon as the words fell, the mirror, which was more than two meters high, moved to the left, revealing a dark tunnel entrance. Through the light in the corridor, Hugo saw a staircase spiraling downwards inside the entrance.

"Wait, this place seems familiar," Hugo thought for a moment, then quickly recalled a passage from the original novel in his mind.

"If I remember correctly, this should be a secret passage leading to Hogsmeade."

"That's right, this is indeed a secret passage. I think that besides us, only the Weasley twins know about this place in the school now," Firefly said through the Admiral Network as she walked ahead.

"But now only we should come here, because the central part of the tunnel collapsed last winter, so the Weasley twins gave up on this place."

"As for the reason why we came here, it's very simple, because we hope to use this abandoned tunnel to rebuild a new tunnel, and then use it as our exclusive secret passage."

"The reason why we called you over today, Admiral, is because we discovered something unexpected during the construction of the tunnel, so we need you to make the final decision."

Knowing that the ship girls would not harm him, Hugo followed Firefly down the spiral staircase. In his opinion, this should be the ship girls wanting to give him a surprise.

The two of them walked down the stone staircase for quite a long time before their feet touched the ground. If he wasn't mistaken, they were now located three or four floors underground.

Unlike the imagined secret tunnel, this tunnel was huge in height and width, and looked very straight. It even felt like a Hogwarts Thestral carriage could drive through it.

On both sides of the corridor were fixed stone braziers, with dim yellow flames burning on top. However, when Hugo curiously reached out to the brazier, he found that these braziers had no temperature at all.

"The flames burning in these braziers are not real flames, but the simplest magical light," Firefly explained, sensing Hugo's actions through the Admiral Network.

"And the whole thing is connected to the magic system of Hogwarts Castle."

"In other words, this tunnel was built together with the entire castle!" After hearing Firefly's answer, Hugo was first stunned, then relieved.

After all, the overall situation of Hogwarts Castle was very bad when it was built, so as a school, fortress, and refuge, it was very reasonable to have a secret troop transport and evacuation tunnel.

After advancing for about ten minutes, the road was completely blocked by a large pile of collapsed rocks and soil. At this time, Firefly walked to the side of the tunnel and then forcefully moved a large rock, more than one person tall, to the side.

"This place has a strange interference effect on various magic powers, and it is even more interference in certain aspects. However, we have not yet figured out the rules, so in order to avoid danger, we can only take pure physical means to solve the problem."

Firefly explained, then led Hugo into the newly dug hole. At the beginning, there was only dirt and rock around, but after walking for more than ten meters, a fork suddenly appeared at the front end.

"The tunnel on the right was dug by a few of us, trying to bypass the collapsed section in the original tunnel and reopen this tunnel. And the tunnel on the left is our new discovery."

The ship girls did not need lighting when digging in the dark, but used radar, sonar, and other detection methods to carry out their work. And it was because of the existence of sonar that they discovered this other secret tunnel located next to the ancient tunnel.

Turning left and stepping into the tunnel discovered by the ship girls, Hugo saw the full picture of this tunnel through the searchlight turned on by Firefly.

This was a tunnel that looked very old, and the overall construction was very refined. Unlike the tunnel that Hugo and the others had passed through before, the stones in this tunnel were trimmed very regularly, and even patterns could be seen carved on them.

As Hugo and the others continued to move forward, abandoned rooms began to appear on both sides of the tunnel. According to Firefly, these rooms may have been dormitories, warehouses, and some spaces containing magical instruments of unknown purpose in the past.

"The magic intensity in the entire area is unusually high, and in the previous exploratory excavations, we discovered some strange structures, and they are filled with magic."

"According to Indomitable and the others' analysis, those structures should be a part of the magic defense system that Hogwarts Castle is currently operating — —"

While reporting her findings, Firefly led Hugo forward. Finally, after walking for more than ten meters, they stopped at the entrance of a small cave.

Looking into the cave, Hugo was surprised to find that Renown, Indomitable, Illustrious, and St. George were waiting here. Behind them, a gate covered with runes and cast from some unknown metal stood there.