Chapter 443: Rice: Feeling the Malice of the World
After the contestants arrived, Dumbledore appeared with a group of principals.
Regardless of how anxious and anxious the principals were last night, they all maintain a calm and confident look now, and they all took out the good clothes and accessories they had packed in their bags. They will never let themselves be in this situation now. Lose your share at this critical moment.
The efforts of the principals were not in vain. Soon after everyone gathered, Bagman and Henry walked into the stadium with several reporters from the Daily Prophet and a group of officials from the Ministry of Magic.
After taking dozens of photos, the reporters huddled in the corner with notepads. They also understand who the protagonist is today, and they cannot take over the role.
As for interviews and exclusive interviews, let’s wait until the competition starts before contacting the principals of each school.
After the reporters left, Mr. Henry walked up to everyone.
"The first Global Young Wizards Championship is about to begin. I want to emphasize again that the competition is very risky. The lives of the players may even be in danger. It is not too late to withdraw now."
None of the players said a word.
It’s already reached this point, who is willing to quit? Can the principal look good on himself after withdrawing from the competition? How will you explain to your classmates after returning to school?
[People may die in the game, so I quit the game]
They feel their scalps go numb just after hearing these words in their minds.
Even if some of the independent contestants wanted to withdraw, they quietly settled the matter last night. How could they wait until the opening ceremony before withdrawing?
After saying the words, they waited quietly for a few seconds. After seeing that no one was willing to withdraw from the game, Henry and Bagman each took out a small bag from their arms and distributed the contents to the contestants.
The thing in the bag is a multifunctional crystal ball provided by Hogwarts, which can be used to broadcast the encounters of the players. Various tasks are also issued through the crystal ball, and the crystal ball is also used to communicate with the event organizers.
"The crystal ball is equipped with a defensive spell. Once triggered, it will launch a defensive spell for you. This is the life-saving means we have prepared for you." Mr. Henry distributed the crystal ball and said loudly: "You must pay attention to these crystals. The ball has also been made into a portkey by the Ministry of Magic. Once the defensive spell on it is triggered, the portkey will be activated and bring you back from the field - which means that you, of course, are eliminated. After completing certain tasks, you may get the opportunity to repeat the game.”
These crystal balls are naturally the joint work of Rowena, Helga and Les: Rowena and Helga used the new technology that Les had previously developed as the base, and combined them with their own characteristic magic spells to make them. This batch of crystal balls with complex functions.
When Mr. Henry walked up to Les, he paused slightly. Then, with a complicated expression, he took out a crystal ball and stuffed it into Les's hand.
When he learned that Les Lint was also on the list of contestants, Mr. Henry was stunned. Later, when he learned about the selection method of Hogwarts, he felt relieved: in this case, it was an accident that Lord Slytherin failed.
This was also one of the reasons why he allowed Ekaterina to participate. After all, even this ancestor was dismissed from Hogwarts. He would not stop Kodosdorez no matter what he wanted. It would have no impact anyway. .
But Henry was also a little confused. He didn't understand why Lord Slytherin wanted to participate in such activities among children. Is it to ensure that Hogwarts won the first place?
Henry felt that this was not impossible, but it was undoubtedly very good news for him.
The title of the world's number one magic school is in deep water. Other magic schools cannot grasp it, so Hogwarts, which has a long history and rich teaching staff, has to do it.
What's more, his two daughters have to represent Hogwarts in the competition. With Lord Slytherin here, he can finally help and take care of them.
Can Lord Slytherin still sit back and watch the descendants of the Greengrass family fall into dire straits?
Soon, each contestant received a crystal ball.
"Please follow me." Mr. Henry led a large group of people towards the direction of the Forbidden Forest.
At this time, a large area of forest outside the Forbidden Forest has been enclosed. Rowena's magic has completely isolated the situation inside, so that even if someone stands on tiptoe and stretches their neck to see, they cannot see the specific situation in the arena. .
In fact, last night, the principal from another school secretly came over to spy on the layout of the stadium, but even if they tried their best, they couldn't get even a little bit of information.
"Enter the arena from here." Henry stretched out his wand and tapped the air in front of him, and an arch appeared out of thin air.
He told the contestants that as long as they walked through this arch, they would enter the competition venue.
The contestants and principals from other schools on the side were dumbfounded: Is this the heritage of a thousand-year-old prestigious school?
This concealment spell alone is enough to become the foundation of a magic school.
Godric also stared, looking intently at everything in front of him, a deep thought that was not in line with Gryffindor's character flashed across his eyes.
This competition venue is not simple...
But soon, he returned to his old ways, laughing and talking to the wizards around him who were like him and were guardians of independent contestants:
"How about it? This is my Hogwarts heritage!"
The principals of the surrounding unpopular magic schools, the talkers of magic families, and the leaders of magic organizations would naturally not disobey the legendary wizard. After Gryffindor spoke, he immediately echoed.
The contestants walked into the archway one after another.
In the eyes of students from other schools, this archway is strange and mysterious, but for most of the contestants at Hogwarts, this archway is quite familiar.
Isn't this an enlarged version of the archway that Professor Arius used when teaching alchemy? ! Then the students remembered that Professor Arius seemed to be a member of the competition project planning, so everyone suddenly understood.
At the same time, they also roughly understood how the competition would be conducted.
The contestants stepped through the archway and disappeared.
After all the contestants entered the venue, Mr. Henry nodded slightly to the Ministry of Magic employees he brought with him, and the employees got busy, hanging one large screen after another in the Hogwarts Quidditch Stadium.
Judging from the appearance of the screens, they were all screens used in the previous Quidditch World Cup, and now they are just right to be reused. The audience outside the stadium can use the screen to watch the situation of the contestants.
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A small group of people are trudging through the dense forest.
The leading knight was nearly two meters tall, wearing a heavy armor. He used the long sword in his hand to cut through the vines and thorns blocking the road. In the dense forest, wearing such armor was obviously not very convenient, but the knight moved naturally and smoothly, as if the armor on his body did not exist.
Behind the knight, followed a tall black-haired woman in a blue robe, holding a staff in her hand, and a short girl with brown curly hair and a book in her hand. At the end of the team was a pale young man who had nothing but a shoulder bag on his back.
Suddenly, the knight stopped, and the black-haired woman behind him also stopped and stuck her staff into the soil.
"What's wrong?" The short girl realized the change in the atmosphere in the team and immediately asked.
"A person suddenly appeared in front." The black-haired woman responded.
"There is an extra breath." The knight's voice sounded immediately. He shouted to the direction where the breath came from: "We are adventurers who come to defeat the evil dragon Enrique on the orders of Duke Dibilis. Please come out for a while!"
After the knight shouted, the dense forest was still quiet. The owner of the breath did not respond, but gradually approached them.
The knight narrowed his eyes, and the muscles all over his body were tense. A layer of flames came out directly on the knight's sword in his hand.
Soon, a handsome black-haired young man wearing a black robe appeared in front of them.
"Human?" The knight frowned: The guy who appeared alone in the Dragon Forest should not be underestimated.
This black-haired young man is Les. He looked at the four people in front of him and was also confused: Is this another test given to me by the alchemy world? Why are they speaking English?
But Les soon realized that the language they spoke was somewhat similar to English, and it felt like a variant of English after hundreds of years of development.
'It may be some strange worldview implanted by Rowena. 'Rice quickly put aside the sense of disharmony in his heart. In his opinion, it was a good thing that the alchemy world also spoke English, so that he would not have to cast translation magic again.
His eyes swept across the four people, and then he was a little speechless: Why is the configuration of this four-person team so familiar? Rowena, how much private goods have you stuffed into this world?
"I have no ill intentions." Rice said calmly.
Although he was carrying Rowena's mission and his own unique purpose, Rice still didn't want to have a conflict as soon as he landed. Of course, the sense of déjà vu that the four-person team in front of him brought to Rice was also related.
To put it in a very tacky way, looking at them, Rice remembered himself when he was young.
The voice of Rice made the four people stunned, and the brown-haired girl said softly: "Classical Common Language, he may be a priest of a shrine."
"In that case, Iris, come and talk to him?" The black-haired woman gently pushed the brown-haired girl.
"Oh, okay." Iris took a few steps forward, came to the side of the knight, and saluted to Rice.
"Respected priest, hello." She spoke authentic but stiff English.
"Hello."
"Excuse me, which country are you from? Which god do you serve?"
"I have no faith, I don't believe in God."
Iris:?
Damn it, he speaks the Classical Common Language better than the archbishop of the capital, but he is an unbeliever?
At this time, she heard a rustling sound from the person opposite her, and then a small emerald green snake crawled out of his sleeve.
The black-haired young man grabbed the snake's head and smiled at Iris apologetically.
"My pet snake, I hope I didn't scare you."
Watching the young man stuff the snake back into his sleeve, Iris felt goose bumps all over her body. However, the other party's intimate attitude with the snake made her realize that maybe the guy in front of her was not a good person.
According to their customs here, snakes are extremely evil creatures, and only people who are born evil will be partners with snakes.
Iris raised her head and met the dark eyes of the black-haired young man. She felt as if she was looking into a deep pool of water, and at the same time, she felt that everything about her was seen through.
Les cursed Ravenclaw silently in his heart.
Damn it, why add so much drama to the world view? What happened to the snake? Les decided to have a good chat with Rowena after going out about what "snakes are extremely evil creatures, and eagles that prey on snakes are sacred."
"Let's get to know each other, my name is Les."
Just when Iris wanted to say something, Les took the initiative to speak and introduced himself first.
"Oh, I'm Iris, a priest, he is Joseph, a knight in the team, this is Sister Alexandra, a magician - the guy standing at the end is our pharmacist, Traton." Iris introduced the members of the team to Les one by one.
Hearing this, Les' eyebrows jumped: This team configuration...
"You just said that you are here to fight the dragon?" Les remembered what the knight Joseph shouted when they first met. He landed in a dragon's nest when he just landed. It can't be such a coincidence, right?
"Yes, the evil dragon Enrique has attacked nearby villages many times, and last month it burned Blackstone Castle to ruins. We must get rid of it." Joseph responded.
Les: "I just killed a dragon. Do you want to go and see if it is the evil dragon Enrique?"
Team of four: ???
A few minutes later, looking at the huge dragon corpse in front of them, the four fell into silence: this time they had gone there in vain, the evil dragon Enrique had actually been killed!
More importantly, Enrique had no wounds on his body, and they had no way of judging how the young man named Les killed the evil dragon.
'Is it the power of the curse? 'The most likely guess emerged in the minds of several people.
At this time, a strong wind came from the depths of the cave.
Les's face changed instantly.
"Eh? Is this the first time you've seen this? Don't worry, this is a very common natural phenomenon in the Dragon Forest. Sometimes the wind blows in the cave for no reason. We call it [the breath of the deep mountains]." Iris noticed the change in Les's expression. She thought Les was scared when he saw this phenomenon for the first time, so she kindly explained this local natural phenomenon to him.
Les:...
"No, in all these years, no one of you has realized that this mountain is actually alive?" He couldn't help but complain.
Team of Four: Huh?
At this moment, the ground under their feet suddenly shook, as if there was an earthquake.
Les sighed: Now he felt what the malice of the world was.
The birth point was arranged in the dragon's nest just as an appetizer, now it's the main course!
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Thanks for the gift, good night~
