Chapter 475 The Devil is actually me
Professor Sprout had already guessed the contestants' reactions. She didn't rush to reveal the answer, but looked at Neville, Luna and Harry.
"In the competition just now, three students used gillyweed. This is a very smart countermeasure, because gillyweed will make you grow gills of fish and webbed feet of frogs, allowing you to move freely underwater like real aquatic magical animals.
This is to use the power of plants to change the shape of your body. This effect can also be achieved by using Transfiguration, but the disadvantage of Transfiguration is that it is too difficult." Professor Sprout's eyes turned around among the contestants who arrived here, and then sighed.
That Viktor Krum really failed the mermaid test.
He tried to transform himself into a shark, but only completed most of it. His head and torso were transformed, but his legs did not change, which made him quite clumsy in the water. Arriving at the mermaid village on time is not a problem, but catching small fish is unlikely.
Of course, even if he completely transformed, it would be extremely difficult to catch fish in the fish basket with the huge body of the shark.
Professor Sprout gathered her thoughts and continued her explanation.
"What Hogwarts will provide you is a fruit similar to the gillywort. It has the ability to partially transform you into a magical animal. After the transformation is completed, you will also partially inherit the abilities of the magical animal."
The contestants were immediately shocked.
The transformation of the gillywort only gives people some amphibian characteristics, but the fruit provided by Hogwarts actually gives people the characteristics of magical animals? !
This is incredible!
"What kind of magical animal is it?" A cautious contestant asked.
After all, there are differences in the strength of magical animals. If you turn into a fox, it is better not to change.
"There are many kinds, such as fire dragons, basilisks, phoenixes and unicorns, as well as other magical animals. I won't go into details one by one."
The contestants were surprised when they heard these names.
These are all extremely powerful magical animals. Although the ones with bad reputations are not mentioned, they are already quite impressive.
Everyone present was instantly moved, and at the same time, they were glad that they had worked hard to pass the mermaid trial.
Sure enough, you get what you sow.
Just as the contestants began to consider which magical animal fruit they would choose, Professor Sprout brought them bad news.
"The fruit chooses the wizard?" The contestants heard a familiar sentence.
"Yes. The transformation fruit also has its limitations. If you cannot resonate with the fruit, the fruit will cause great harm to the body. So you must first communicate and exchange with the fruit on the tree to see which fruit recognizes you before you can choose to take it."
More than one contestant sighed.
Now they have just calculated in vain, and can only leave everything to fate.
"Who is willing to come first?" After explaining the characteristics and precautions of the transformation fruit to the children, Professor Sprout also opened the main topic of today.
The students looked at each other, and finally a student from Vagadu raised his hand carelessly, indicating that he was willing to be the first person to eat crabs.
"Okay." Professor Sprout didn't waste any words and took him directly to the transformation fruit.
"Stretch out your hand."
The student from Vagadu stretched out his hand without knowing why, and circled around the transformation fruit tree under the guidance of Professor Sprout. As he turned, the fruits on the fruit tree began to react.
Some fruits were motionless, some fruits were trembling slightly, and some fruits were shaking violently.
"Choose this one." Professor Sprout gestured for him to pick the fruit with the largest vibration amplitude.
"It's a dragon fruit, the fruit that suits you best."
The student from Vagadu blinked: Did he win the jackpot?
Before handing over the fruit tree, Helga had communicated with Professor Sprout and told her how the transformation fruit was produced, so Professor Sprout understood the difference in the preciousness of the fruits.
Pitaya is the cheapest among the transformation fruits because the raw materials are the easiest to obtain. For example, the Riem Niu fruit is an extremely precious fruit. Phoenix fruit was also originally a precious one, but who let Professor Dumbledore have a phoenix?
Seeing that the contestant in front of him got the dragon fruit, Professor Sprout also had the idea of demonstrating it to everyone.
"It just so happens that you are the first one to come up, so I will give you a unique benefit - you can eat this fruit, and then demonstrate the magic of the transformation fruit to everyone. Don't worry, I will make up for the dragon fruit you ate."
The contestant from Vagadu swallowed the dragon fruit without hesitation, and then completed a transformation under the guidance of Professor Sprout.
Seeing that the Vagadu man completed the dragon transformation in front of everyone, the contestants present immediately believed in the transformation fruit mentioned by Sprout.
While feeling that Hogwarts has a profound heritage, they are also eager to try.
The contestants came forward one by one to see which fruit they can resonate with.
Those students who came with their friends and did not get the challenge reward could only watch their friends go up to receive the treasure.
Rice was also one of the few people who were not qualified, but his mentality was very peaceful. He now just wanted to see which fruit the contestants from Hogwarts would resonate with.
Among the students from Hogwarts, the first one to go up was Harry.
He just stretched out his hand, and a phoenix fruit fell into his palm.
Professor Sprout didn't feel too strange. She knew that the core of Harry's wand was the phoenix tail feather, and coincidentally, the phoenix that provided the phoenix tail feather and the phoenix blood was the same phoenix.
In this way, it was reasonable for Harry to be favored by the phoenix fruit.
Professor Sprout led Harry to pick two more phoenix fruits from the tree, and let Harry go down with three phoenix fruits - the reward given by Hogwarts to the contestants who passed the mermaid trial was three transformation fruits.
This would leave room for the contestants to explore the ability of the fruit and increase their tolerance rate.
After Harry, Cedric and Neville came to the tree together.
Looking at the two students from Hufflepuff College, Professor Sprout's eyes were full of admiration.
The two of them are undoubtedly the pride of Hufflepuff College!
Cedric resonated with the extremely rare Riemniu fruit, and Neville, like Harry, was recognized by the phoenix fruit.
This result was quite surprising to Professor Sprout.
Luna's situation was quite special. It seemed that each fruit had a good fit with her, but there was no outstanding one. This made Professor Sprout feel troubled, and in the end she could only let Luna choose one herself.
"Is there a crooked-horned snorlax fruit?" Luna thought for a moment and made her choice.
She did not pursue the strength brought by the fruit, she just wanted to observe the characteristics of this rare magical animal by taking this fruit.
"Curved... what? Do you want to say the poisonous horn?"
"No, it's the crooked-horned snorlax." Luna began to popularize the existence of the crooked-horned snorlax to Professor Sprout.
Professor Sprout was silent.
She felt that there should be no, neither the fruit nor this magical animal.
After getting a negative answer, Luna finally chose the unicorn fruit.
"Next, Miss Granger, it's your turn." After Professor Sprout sent Luna away, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
She couldn't wait to change to a more normal contestant to communicate.
Hermione resonated with a strange-looking fruit, and Professor Sprout recalled it carefully before remembering that this was the Sphinx Fruit. Like the Riembeau Fruit, only one contestant has been recognized by it so far.
"The Sphinx is a very smart and knowledgeable magical animal, so it is unlikely to bring you powerful power, but it may enhance your thinking ability. But it is not absolute, because the Sphinx's force is actually very strong." Professor Sprout kindly told Hermione about the characteristics of the Sphinx.
Daphne and Astoria were the last to appear among the Hogwarts contestants. When Professor Sprout found that Rice did not pass the trial, he was also a little surprised.
Looking at Daphne and Astoria walking up, Rice's emotions fluctuated a little: So far, no one has been recognized by the Basilisk Fruit...
He didn't count on Daphne, but Astoria might really be able to!
Watching a dragon fruit fall into Daphne's hands, Rice's emotions did not fluctuate at all.
He had expected this result, and he focused all his attention on Astoria. When she reached out her hand, Les even held his breath.
The fruits on the fruit tree began to tremble, and some of them trembled particularly violently. Les looked carefully at the color and pattern of the fruits, and then was overjoyed: That was the basilisk fruit! He would not make a mistake!
In the end, Astoria lived up to Les's expectations and had a strong resonance with the basilisk fruit.
"I tell you, this basilisk fruit should be the fruit with the strongest combat ability among all fruits." On the way back to the castle, Les was very excited and even began to tell Astoria about the magical uses of the basilisk fruit.
"Why do you know so much about the transformation fruit?" Daphne was a little confused. Didn't Les arrive at the greenhouse at the same time as her and Astoria? Why did he seem to know the characteristics of the fruit very well?
"Because the basilisk fruit was cultivated with the basilisk blood I provided. I knew there was such a tree before Christmas." While telling the truth, Les also revealed a little about the cultivation method of the transformation fruit tree.
Daphne now understood the reason.
"Go back and prepare for the next game. The next stage of the game is expected to be very difficult." Les told the two a few words, and then returned to his dormitory.
Soon, seven days passed in a flash, and the second stage of the championship officially began.
The players gathered in the Quidditch field again, waiting for the officials of the Ministry of Magic to take them to the entrance of the stadium.
The stands were full of spectators who came to watch the game. At the moment when the players set off, the stadium was filled with long-lasting applause and cheers.
Amid the cheers of the audience, the players from various magic schools took their prepared equipment through the transmission channel and entered the alchemy world.
The first time is new, the second time is familiar. Les thought he was very familiar with the transmission method to enter the alchemy world, but after turning on the transmission this time, he felt an extremely unfamiliar experience.
As soon as he entered the channel, he felt as if there was a voice calling him, and when the transmission was turned on, there was a force pulling him to a specific place.
'Huh? ' Les immediately became alert.
He knew very well that he was not welcomed by the world, so what was waiting for him might be a very dangerous situation.
When Rice was ready for battle, the teleportation ended and he landed on a building similar to an altar. Two people were kneeling in front of him, and under the altar was a strange-looking humanoid creature.
The creature was roughly like a human, but its skin had many pustules like a toad, and its overall color was blue-gray. What was even more strange was that there was a crater-like structure on its head, and white smoke kept coming out of it.
Rice felt that this monster seemed to have some connection with himself.
‘Where is this? How long has it been since I left last time? What’s going on in this world? ’ These were the three questions Rice wanted to ask the most.
The appearance of Rice seemed to shock the two people on the altar and the creature under the altar.
It took them several seconds to react.
A person kneeling in front of Rice immediately said a lot of words. Seeing the confused look on Rice’s face, he seemed to have suddenly realized something and immediately changed his language.
"Widad... Lord of Demons, I respond to you - Xintu's gift of power!"
Les frowned.
He could tell that the person in front of him seemed to be trying to communicate with him, but his spoken English was so bad that his accent was heavier than that of an Indian.
Les guessed that he regarded himself as some kind of god and hoped that he would give him power.
Seeing that the other party seemed to want to say something, Les quickly stopped him and cast a translation spell on himself.
"Who are you?" Les asked patiently.
Seeing that the Lord of Demons who responded to his call could finally communicate, the two of them flashed with uncontrollable joy in their eyes.
They hurriedly introduced themselves.
After listening to their long-winded nonsense for a long time, Les finally figured out their origins.
These two people longed to gain power from an ancient god named "Lord of Demons".
"Demon Lord, it has been six hundred years since you destroyed the Eternal City, killed the false god of light, and spread blessings on this land. The creatures on this land have not been bathed in your divine power for six hundred years. Fortunately, you finally responded to our prayers..."
Les listened and suddenly felt that something seemed wrong.
The "Demon Lord" you mentioned is not referring to me, right? The demon god is actually me? !
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