Online Games: Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 1 Initial
The north wind was bitter, and it was freezing cold.The snowflakes flying all over the sky are gradually thinning out.

"Huh! The snow is finally falling!"

Shaking the snowflakes on his coat and hat, Rosie let out a long breath.

However, in the next second, another gust of cold wind blew in front of him.

Even though she deliberately gave up her pretty skirt to resist the cold and put on a thick cotton linen dress, and completely hid her soft hair in the hood, she still couldn't help shivering under the biting cold wind.

"This broken game, is it really good to make the environment so realistic?"

Walking on the icy lake, feeling the coolness penetrating into the body along the gap of the collar and the cold air constantly passing upwards from the ice under the feet, Rossi couldn't help complaining.

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

In this era where holographic games are prevalent, the game "Harry Potter: The Age of Magic" is actually not outstanding. It can be called unique only because of its 100% realistic environment.

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

As for Rossi, since he accidentally heard about this game from someone else, he has been immersed in this game.

It's not that she loves the game, but it's for a particular reason.

Conforming to the trend of the 21st century, Rossi, who is just holding a tablet and reading dramas, has somehow become a member of the vast number of time-travelers.

During the five years that she lived in Blue Star, she wanted to go home from the beginning, gradually changed to homesickness, and finally became homesickness as time went by.

This is undoubtedly a kind of torture.

Although as a moderate game controller, Rossi is well integrated into this era of holographic games.

But she occasionally misses the novels, movies and entertainment variety shows she once chased.

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 aroused again.

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

Is it a fellow from Earth?

Or is it just pure coincidence?
In either case, Rossi felt the need to investigate.

However, after some searching, she found no clues except for a sales channel she knew nothing about: not only could she not find any news about the producer of "Harry Potter", she didn't even have the address of the game publishing company. turn up.

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

In such a situation, Rossi, who failed to investigate in reality, could only hope in the game, trying to find something in the game.

After all, the earth fellow, if there is such a fellow, he created this game, there is no reason not to experience it for himself.

So she immersed herself in this game world, while investigating various clues of the game, while working hard to increase the level, in order to get more information about the game.

However, the world seemed to have played 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 IP of "Harry Potter" 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 in the forum, and many wizard NPCs had mentioned Dumbledore's name, Rossi would have thought 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 Novice Village, she immediately embarked on the road to Hogwarts.

……

Tightening his collar with his left hand, facing the cold wind that hit again, Rossi hurriedly walked northward to the ancient English castle built on the cliff and towering into the sky.

creak!

With Rosie's foot stepping down, the ice suddenly cracked.

"Oh, here we go again!"

Sensing the change under her feet, she frowned a little depressedly, tapped her toes lightly on the ice that was about to shatter, and fell lightly to the side.

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

However, the lake water only churned for a moment before gradually returning to calm. In this cold weather, a layer of frost formed on the black ice holes visible to the naked eye.

"Huh? Did you give up the attack?"

Rossi paid attention for a while with some doubts, and just relaxed his vigilance, but saw the thin layer of ice shatter.

In the next second, a dark green strip came out of the lake, and struck her in the head like a long whip with the force of wind and thunder.

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

It wasn't some magical plant as she had guessed before, but the huge tentacles of a squid.

Since he failed to dodge when the tentacles broke through the ice, Rossi, who knew that he could no longer escape the opponent's attack range, could only raise his wand upwards:
"Armor protection!"

The arc-shaped barrier like an umbrella spread out from the tip of the wand, and then abruptly took the head blow from the giant tentacles.

With the sound of "pong", 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 power that exploded at that moment.

The aching hands that were shaken by the force rebounded from the wand didn't care to rest, Rosie waved the wand again and pointed at the tentacles that were about to fall into the ice.

"There are many obstacles!"

"There are many obstacles!"

"There are many obstacles!"

She cast all the impediment spells that could be stored three times at the same time. Seeing that the retraction of the tentacles slowed down, Rosie flicked her wand again.

"Burning flames!"

With a clear drink, seven or eight orange fireballs suddenly appeared with an explosion-like sound, and smashed heavily on the tentacles that were about to retreat into the lake.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Rosie was waiting for the effect of this spell, but suddenly there was a violent sound in the lake, and then, she also felt a turbulence in the soles of her feet.

This was the sound of the squid hitting the thick ice. Obviously, it was burnt by the flames and planned to break through the ice directly, letting its prey fall into the water before cleaning up.

"This monster has a high IQ!"

Rossi chuckled lightly, her slim figure quickly regained her balance from the shaking, then stepped on the lake with her toes, and the whole person jumped forward.

At the same time as she jumped up, she took out a somewhat tattered broomstick.

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

Just as Rossi flew out suddenly, a giant squid jumped out of the lake along with the burst ice.

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

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

The next second, almost brushing the edge of the flying ice, she dodged at the nick of time, and then rolled and stood on the ice.

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

"Giant squid: Level 30, a huge monster that lives in the big lake on the south side of Hogwarts..."

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

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

I saw her dexterously dodging and running on the ice, avoiding one piece of ice attack after another.

Seeing that the giant squid following behind was getting farther and farther away from the ice hole that had been broken before, Rossi suddenly turned around and drew a circle in the void with the wand in his hand:
"Quickly imprisoned!"

With the completion of the spell, orange magic ropes appeared out of thin air, and instantly bound the giant squid's torso and tentacles firmly.

The next moment, Rossi raised his wand and pointed at the bulging eyes of the squid's head: "Flying sand and flying stones!"

"boom!"

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

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

Immediately afterwards, it jumped up on the spot without being restrained, and before its body landed, the eight tentacles slammed into the ice first with a bang.

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

Seeing this, Rossi's heart trembled, and the wand in his hand pointed at the other party:

"Except your weapons!"

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

The giant squid trying to return to the lake, under the impact of the disarming spell, its body slid uncontrollably against the ice to the side.

"Burning flames!"

As soon as he pushed the squid away, Rossi immediately turned his wand, and the flame curse that had finished cooling down was cast again in an instant.

The fireballs burning with raging flames immediately hit the giant squid's head one after another. Its blood volume had dropped by half, but because of its weak points being attacked one after another, its blood volume was emptied in an instant.

"Huh, 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 a short rest, she turned her gaze to her destination again. At this moment, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft was right in front of her eyes.

It seems that the castle itself is endowed with some kind of magic. The closer it is to Hogwarts, the more oppressive and tense this huge castle will be.

"No wonder the freshmen in "Harry Potter" have to walk this way to enter Hogwarts. This kind of pressure from the building itself is also a kind of test for those freshmen?"

Rosie murmured to himself, lowered his head through the ivy curtain covering the cliff, and came to an open entrance covering an area of ​​a thousand square meters.

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

I saw some kind of irregular lines engraved on the stone wall, and these lines converged on the rock above the head to form a group of fancy but not difficult to recognize characters——fireplace.

It is obviously between the rocks and cliffs, and it has nothing to do with the equipment for heating and heating, but it is named "fireplace". If someone who comes into contact with it for the first time, he will definitely feel puzzled.

But Rossi, who has experienced more than [-] hours of games and has seen many weird "fireplaces", is no longer surprised by this:

The "fireplace" that has been lit up in the Floo panel of the system is equivalent to the portal and resurrection point of this game.

Rossi reached out and swiped 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 mixed emotions and excited when she entered the game, so she just changed her name a little and clicked to confirm when naming her name.)
Rating: 22
Race: Human (half-blood wizard)

Occupation: Probationary Detective of the Ministry of Magic (Level [-])
Basic attributes:
Power: 32
Agility: 44
Constitution: 39
Intelligence: 57
Spirit: 48
Remaining points: 0
Wand: Pear Wood Wand (+2)

Skipping other data and options, Rossi flicked his fingers and clicked on the interface of Floo Network.

A huge map that was almost shrouded in fog appeared in front of her eyes in an instant, except Godric's Valley, the novice village where she was born, and Westminster in Blantania, which she had visited once when she obtained her identity profession. Except for the Ministry of Magic in DC, which is clearly visible, only the road she took all the way to Hogwarts is clearly visible on it.

At this time, on the map of Floo Network, at the underground pier of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the fog had been dispelled due to his arrival, a green light spot kept flickering.

Click to activate.

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

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

"Any other players are here?" Rossi muttered in his heart, but he didn't have any extra thoughts.

After all, she is not the first batch to enter the game. Compared with most of the main players, Rossi's level is not high. As far as the current top 35 level rankings are concerned, the lowest level player is already level [-].

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

Although they were neatly dressed and their equipment looked normal, the unhappiness and depression mixed in their expressions could be seen by anyone with a discerning eye.

"What mission did they fail on?"

Maybe it's because the agent's identity task has been done too much, and Rossi, who passed by them, subconsciously made a simple guess in his heart.

"The male player wearing a western hat, with a wand bag on his right side and a pistol on his left waist, should be an explorer whose initial race is a human (half-blood wizard). Look at the positions of his wand and guns, um, He is a physical output type... Uh, it is not ruled out that he has been added to be 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. Seeing Rossi's gaze, he immediately looked at Rossi with scrutiny, and saw that Rossi was just a low-level The female player then turned to talk to his teammates.

"Being able to equip three weapons at the same time, is it a hunter whose initial race is a human (Muggle)?" Rossi thought to himself, "It's very rare to choose a player of this birth."

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

(End of this chapter)