Chapter 473 They really played the game well

After Cedric, the remaining contestants were attacked one after another.

Some were caught off guard and knocked unconscious by the spell, and thus lost their prizes, but most of the contestants escaped this final disaster.

After escaping the sudden sneak attack, the threat of the contestants on the shore was greatly reduced. For the contestants underwater, it is not difficult to successfully get ashore.

If it really doesn't work, several people can show up at the same time!

One person will attract more than a dozen spells, but as long as he shows up with others, it will be completely different. Some lucky people will not even have a spell hit him.

When the contestants on the shore began to attack the contestants in the water, the rhythm of the game became weird.

In theory, the contestants who were attacked should be extremely angry, but most of the contestants did not retaliate against the contestants on the shore after they got ashore.

Maybe they didn't want to cause trouble, maybe there were their classmates among the people who participated in the sneak attack on the shore, or maybe they wanted to use these people to help them eliminate some competitors.

In short, the situation of the game formed a weird balance. The players on the shore would attack the players who showed their heads above the lake without hesitation, but when these players came ashore, they would stop their attacks in a tacit understanding to avoid public outrage and retaliation. This resulted in dozens of people coming ashore after Cedric, but only one player was knocked out, and that person was knocked out by Cedric!

Cedric was also stunned by the magical situation of the game.

"If I had known earlier, I would have knocked them all down!" He couldn't help but slap his thigh, regretting it.

In his opinion, these despicable villains were not qualified to continue participating in the game!

The Hufflepuff classmates around him comforted him.

"It's okay, who would have thought that these people behind would do this?"

"Why bother so much, this is also a test of the game!"

"It's not bad to have them help eliminate competitors."

Listening to the noisy voices in his ears, Cedric couldn't help but sigh.

He felt bored when he thought about competing with these people who took unconventional means in the next game.

While Cedric was regretting, the situation that had been maintained for a long time on the field was broken by a student from Durmstrang.

Before him, after the contestants who came out of the lake successfully broke through, they would go to the referee for certification and complete the game. But he was different. After he successfully got ashore, he did not rush to the referee, but stopped on the shore and watched.

Now the contestants on the shore were alert: Is this kid trying to retaliate?

But what they didn't expect was that the student from Durmstrang took two steps forward and joined the hunter team on the shore!

At this time, even the contestants who were originally guarding the shore were stunned. When they reacted, everyone's face showed joy.

Willing to join, that's a good thing! One more person, one more strength, and this person has passed the level, and will not snatch the clearance treasure chest from them, it is simply a profit without investment.

The audience was shocked: Can it be played like this? But when they saw that the referees not far away did not make any movement, they realized that this kind of operation was actually within the scope allowed by the rules.

The principals sitting in the referee's seat were far less united than the students imagined. In fact, the principals also had a discussion about what had just happened.

"Karkaroff, you taught a good student!" Seeing that the people from Durmstrang took the initiative to join the hunters, Madam Maxim couldn't help but say something to Karkaroff.

Karkaroff laughed: "I didn't teach him to do this. This kid came up with this method on his own. And in my opinion, he didn't seem to violate the rules of the game, right? He just came to us later for certification!"

Since the players who stayed on the shore to intercept those who entered the lake and completed the game did not violate the rules, then this Durmstrang student was even more blameless. After all, there is no rule that forces students to complete the game as soon as possible.

As soon as Karkaroff said this, the other principals fell silent.

Some people were unable to refute Karkaroff because they had not spoken out before, and some principals simply did it because their students were also in the hunters' team.

Soon, a shark head emerged from the lake.

The hunters attacked one after another, but the student from Durmstrang threw an armor spell, buying Krum time to react.

Krum was startled, but he reacted in a very short time and immediately rushed to the shore to get rid of the pursuit.

Watching the student's operation, the audience widened their eyes again.

The principals also realized the advantage of this model: "their own people" who stayed in the hunter team could cover their classmates to go ashore!

The further the game goes, the more players there are, and the harder it is to go ashore. But if there are some of their own people in the team at this time, the result will be very different.

And because the eight major magic schools have the most players, the power they have formed is also the strongest, so this may be the best time for the eight major magic schools to join forces to eliminate other individual contestants!

From today onwards, only contestants from the eight major magic schools will remain in the competition.

Thinking of this benefit, the principals kept silent. They all hoped to use this opportunity to eliminate a group of people to reduce the intensity of the competition.

There are still nearly a hundred people who have not been eliminated, which is too many.

It can be said that if nothing unexpected happens, the trend of the game will really develop in this way.

However, the accident still happened.

After watching the mermaid village for a long time, Les, who had not seen any new tricks for a long time, did not want to continue to watch. He began to float up and gradually moved away from the mermaid village.

On the way back, he also saw two silver shadows.

Daphne and Astoria swam slowly together not far ahead. Under the water of this black lake, the figures of the two girls are more like mermaids in myths than those mermaids.

The two swam slowly, not because they were bad at swimming. Any wizard who has mastered the flow of magic power would not be troubled by such a problem? Even if there is no water domain, it is still possible to let magic power push oneself to swim.

The two of them fell behind because they were playing.

Anyway, there is no rule that the earlier the game is finished, the higher the score, so why not take the opportunity to have a good time in the black lake? As long as they return before the one-hour deadline, everything will be fine.

After hearing her sister's suggestion, Astoria readily agreed, and the two even figured out a way to communicate underwater.

At this time, Daphne used magic to write a line of words in front of her: [The college lounge is at the bottom of the Black Lake. Do we want to go and have a look? I haven't seen our lounge outside yet]

After seeing what her sister wrote, Astoria was also quite tempted.

In the past, they always stayed in the lounge to look at the scenery at the bottom of the lake. Now that they have the opportunity, how can they not switch perspectives and take a look?

After calculating the time and finding that there was still plenty of time, the two changed direction and swam underwater.

However, after swimming for a while, the two found a very serious problem: they seemed to be lost.

It is not easy to find the small windows of the Slytherin College common room at the bottom of the huge Black Lake? It is almost as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

At this moment, the two heard a voice.

"The lounge is over here."

The two of them were like cats whose tails were stepped on, and their fur was blown up.

It was indeed a bit scary to suddenly hear such a sound underwater. The two of them reached for their wands at the same time, but they soon identified the owner of the sound.

[Les?! ] Daphne deliberately added two punctuation marks to convey her feelings.

"Yes, you two are really not afraid of missing the final deadline!" Les complained about the two careless sisters.

It would be funny if they missed the deadline because they were too focused on finding the lounge window underwater.

[It's okay, I have a timer, it will automatically ring when it reaches 50 minutes! ] Astoria took out a golden pocket watch from her arms, indicating that she had taken foolproof safety measures.

Daphne smiled and said that she would just follow her sister.

Seeing that Astoria was still so reliable, Les's hanging heart fell back into her stomach.

The two looked at Les, who was moving freely underwater and had no difference from being on the shore, and couldn't help but flash a trace of envy in their eyes.

Les had no way to deal with this. Unless he had the water domain, no one could be like him.

"Come with me, I'll take you to see the view of the lounge." Les motioned for the two to follow him.

For Les, it was much easier to identify the direction and find the lounge.

He swam towards the castle for a while, and then quickly found the location of the lounge through the message transmitted in the water.

After identifying a direction and swimming there for a few minutes, several gorgeously decorated floor-to-ceiling windows appeared in the eyes of the three people.

The windows were simple in style, and the frames were full of traces of time.

"Here, this is it. Don't get too close, there is a spell attached to it." Les waved at the two, indicating that they could go up and take a look.

He also spent a lot of effort to get these large pieces of glass in the Slytherin College lounge. Although glass is not valuable in modern society, these floor-to-ceiling windows were definitely top luxury goods back then.

Many pure-blooded little wizards who were assigned to Slytherin College were still making a fuss, but they were silent after seeing the windows of the lounge.

Large, transparent glass!

This was a sight in the academy back then.

Through the French windows, Daphne and Astoria could see the interior of the lounge clearly.

Armchairs, fireplaces, marble floors...

Those familiar furniture decorations became new again through this special perspective.

But it was not very interesting after all. After the two of them watched for a while, the novelty faded.

[It's time to go back] Astoria took out the timer and said that time was running out.

"Well, let's go." The three of them floated to the surface of the water together.

A few minutes later, the three of them poked their heads out of the lake together.

The moment he showed his head, Les felt that something seemed wrong, and then he saw more than a dozen spells coming at him.

He waved his hand, forming a wall of water in front of him, and the next second, more than a dozen ripples appeared on the wall of water.

He blocked all the spells fired by the hunters on the shore.

"Oh? Interesting." Les quickly understood the intentions of these people, and felt from the bottom of his heart that they really found the right way to open the game.

If he were really an ordinary contestant, he would do the same.

Astoria's eyes lit up. She felt that she should hurry up and join the group.

Since they can intercept here, it means that this method is allowed by the referees! Then this is a great opportunity to eliminate other players! After this vote, the game will be stable!

However, before Les and Astoria moved, Daphne took action first.

She rushed to the shore like a flash of lightning, and the spells shot at her were either deflected or blocked by her defensive magic.

When she rushed to the shore, the hunters stopped one after another, but Daphne had no intention of stopping. Her hands turned red, and her every move even caused air fluctuations due to the high temperature, and the spells were thrown out like a string of cannons.

The hunters were caught off guard, and several people were directly knocked out by Daphne's spells.

This was the first time they encountered such a person!

Couldn't she see that we were helping her relieve pressure?

Just as they were about to fight back, they suddenly found that the ground under their feet became hot.

"What's going on?"

"Get out of here!"

The originally neat formation on the shore suddenly became chaotic.

Looking at Daphne who rushed to the shore to fight, Les and Astoria sighed in unison.

What else can they do? Since Daphne has already joined, they can't just stand by and watch, right?

Les casually waved a few disarming spells, knocking away the wands of the contestants who tried to fight back, and Astoria also helped her sister deal with a few opponents.

Then it was Daphne's personal performance. In front of all the students in the school and the principals of the other seven major magic schools, she knocked down the contestants who had just attacked her on the shore one by one and threw them into the Black Lake.

Any resistance was powerless in front of her. Those who were lucky were just knocked out by her spells, and those who were unlucky would be punched!

"This, this--" Karkaroff was stunned.

When he found that Daphne had taken away the clearance treasure chest of his own students and thrown it into the lake, he couldn't sit still at all.

"Albus, should we--"

"It's not against the rules of the game, is it?" Dumbledore smiled.

"But, but--" Karkaroff felt his eyes go dark: as time passed, many Durmstrang students mixed in with the hunters by the lake! If this little girl continues to fight like this, Krum will be the only one left in Durmstrang in the next game!

"It seems that this little girl also has a [flash of inspiration] idea!" Madam Maxime made up a knife in time, making Karkaroff's eyes go dark and collapse directly in his seat.

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