Chapter 486: Hogwarts Destruction Plan, Started!

"So where did Les go?"

Before the final of the World Youth Wizarding Championship, Daphne and Astoria were talking quietly in the waiting area.

"I don't know, but it's definitely not the ridiculous and absurd St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Treatment as Professor Dumbledore said." Astoria responded in a very affirmative tone.

She asked someone to inquire, and St. Mungo's Hospital has not accepted any students named "Les Lint" these days!

Astoria specially sent a letter to her father for this reason, asking him to investigate Les's whereabouts, but what she got was a reprimand from her father.

Mr. Henry clearly warned Astoria in the letter and strictly prohibited her from continuing to investigate this issue.

It's no wonder that Mr. Henry made a fuss, mainly because he knew the true identity of Les Lint. That adult suddenly left Hogwarts without even leaving a note, so there must be something extremely urgent to do.

This level of matter, how could the two stupid girls of hers get involved?

After being warned by her father, Astoria restrained herself a lot and also vaguely realized the seriousness of the matter. So she limited the investigation to Hogwarts. Specifically, she went with her sister to harass Professor White.

"Anyway, it is likely that he has something important to do. Sister, didn't you notice? He didn't even pay much attention to the championship this year. I think we should play the final stage first-" Astoria tried to divert her sister's attention and let her focus on the upcoming game.

In the eyes of outsiders, Rice was the "seed player" of Hogwarts who was unfortunately eliminated in the second round. But Daphne and Astoria both understood that Rice was eliminated only because he felt there was no need to continue the game.

As for the reason why he thought so, it might be that there were more important things to do at hand, or it might be because Hogwarts had already won the game. It is not impossible to have both.

"Do you think that the flood during the game was caused by Rice?" Daphne was not distracted by her sister's words, and her thoughts drifted back to the second stage of the game.

The sudden natural disaster left a deep impression on the contestants.

All the competitions were interrupted midway. No matter where they were on the leaderboard, their only mission in those days was to escape and keep their eligibility.

After the disaster subsided, they all felt lucky to have survived.

Many people suddenly realized: No wonder a competition in the Black Lake was set up before the start of the second stage of the competition! If you don’t have strong enough diving ability, it’s better to withdraw early.

Unlike other confused contestants, Daphne and Astoria had some other ideas in their hearts when they saw the flood and the swamp.

They suspected that this was related to Rice, but they had no evidence, and the scene in front of them was really a bit too shocking.

"No way, have you forgotten the scope of the flood? Half of the continent was submerged..." Astoria said she didn't believe it, but in fact, she was inclined to believe that it was done by Rice in her heart.

She felt that even if the flood was not caused by Rice himself, he was inseparable from him.

"That's true." With Astoria's tireless efforts, Daphne finally shifted her attention to the upcoming game.

The contestants were just told that the organizers of the event would draw lots to divide them into groups, and then they would duel with their opponents on the Quidditch field that was transformed into a duel field, and the winner would advance. Then the draw continued to determine the top four, the champion, the runner-up, and the third place.

"It's really not surprising at all." Daphne shrugged her shoulders, then looked at her sister, "I hope to see you in the final."

Astoria smiled in response, but in her heart she said, sister, I hope you won't be eliminated by Cedric or Hermione halfway.

She felt that her sister was unlikely to beat Hermione, and Cedric couldn't win for sure.

She was very restrained against Hermione, and her winning rate was more than 90%.

Astoria didn't take the other contestants seriously at all.

Mr. Bagman had a sunny smile on his face, and he walked quickly to the contestants.

He quickly looked around and saw that all sixteen players were already there, so he smiled happily.

"Okay, everyone is here, now let's go to the player preparation room with me!" As he said that, he took the lead and led the sixteen players to the team lounge of the Quidditch field.

After entering the lounge, the players found that Mr. Henry was already waiting inside. Above their heads were the footsteps of the audience entering the venue and the buzz of talking and chatting.

In Mr. Henry's hand, he held a silk bag.

Seeing Bagman leading the players in, he raised the silk bag in his hand to the players.

"In the bag are the clay statues of the sixteen of you. Next, Mr. Bagman and I will each draw a statue, and the two people drawn will be the duel opponents and need to go on stage to compete. The winner will advance to the next round of the quarterfinals. I don't have much to say, but I wish you all good luck and a safe and sound game."

The players nodded solemnly. At this stage of the round, there are no weaklings among the contestants. They are all the best from each school. Those schools with weak strength have simply been eliminated.

I am talking about the two schools of Durmstrang and Beauxbatons. The only one left in Kodostoriz in Russia is Vice Principal Ekaterina.

They are also the last three schools in this competition.

The draw began.

Mr. Henry first drew out his wand, pressed against the silk bag, and then took out a clay doll through the levitation spell.

"Ms. Ekaterina." Mr. Henry looked at the vice principal of Kodostoriz School of Magic.

The faces of most of the contestants in the lounge became solemn.

Although there are no weak contestants, there are always differences in strength. Ekaterina is undoubtedly the most difficult one among the contestants.

Ekaterina walked to Mr. Henry with an expressionless face.

Kodostoriz had already lost miserably in the competition, and now she must regain the field in the individual competition.

Mr. Henry drew the lot, and then it was Bagman's turn.

He also took out his wand and randomly drew a contestant's clay sculpture with the levitation spell.

After seeing the face of the clay sculpture, most people present breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time believed that there was really no shady manipulation in this competition.

Because the contestant drawn by Bagman was Hermione Granger from the host Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In the eyes of contestants from other magic schools, Hermione had been eliminated.

How could this little girl, who was not even seventeen years old, be a match for Ekaterina? When she graduated from Kodos Doritz, did Miss Granger receive an admission letter from Hogwarts?

Hermione looked quite nervous. Under the sympathetic eyes of other contestants, she walked out of the lounge with Ekaterina and went to the duel field accompanied by Mr. Henry and Mr. Bagman.

A few seconds later, there was a commotion above everyone's head, which meant that the two contestants had entered the venue.

Then, the voice of the Minister of Magic, Ms. Bones, rang out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the first round of the quarter-finals of the final stage of the World Youth Wizard Championship is about to begin. Please welcome our contestants: Miss Hermione Granger of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Ms. Ekaterina Feodorovna of Kodostoriz School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

Everyone has seen our contestants, so now please welcome our referee, the champion of the dueling competition, Professor Filius Flitwick!"

A round of applause and cheers broke out in the arena. Minister Bones raised his voice and continued to preside over the applause: "Duelists bow to each other, three-two-one, the duel begins!"

Listening to the cheers from above her head that were much louder than before, Astoria frowned.

"How can the school allow so many people of questionable character to come in?" She complained dissatisfiedly, "It's okay for teachers and students from other magic schools, but why are people from the Secret Society allowed in?"

Daphne waved her hand.

"It's okay. Professor Dumbledore and so many headmasters are here! If they dare to make trouble, they will be sent to Azkaban. Moreover, their boss, Mr. Gryffindor, also said that it was all misunderstandings before. Now that he has come to apologize in person, the misunderstanding has been resolved."

Astoria was silent. Although her sister's words made sense, she always felt a little uneasy deep in her heart.

While Minister Bones was presiding over the game, Bagman and Henry returned to the lounge.

Just as they were about to draw the second round of lots, there was a sudden exclamation from above.

Both of them couldn't help but stop and try to figure out what happened.

Soon they knew.

Another male voice sounded-it was the voice of the host of the famous American wizard radio station "Global Magic Voice", who was the commentator of this game.

"Oh my god, what did we see?! Ekaterina fell down in an instant! What happened? I didn't even see what spell Miss Granger used - but no matter what, the first quarter-finalist of this game, and also the dark horse, was born! She is Hermione Granger from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -"

Boom!

The Quidditch field erupted in a tsunami of cheers, and it sounded like an earthquake in the lounge.

Bagman couldn't hide the smile on his face at all. He smiled and said to Mr. Henry: "Let's hurry up and draw lots, don't let the audience wait anxiously..."

"Okay." Mr. Henry didn't waste any words and directly took out the clay sculpture of the next player to play.

This time, Astoria was touched.

It's not surprising that Hogwarts was selected for two consecutive rounds, because they are the magic school with the most people in the top 16, with five people, accounting for more than a quarter of the number of players.

Astoria's opponent is the albino wizard Yamashita Ying from the magic institute.

Seeing that he was chosen, Yamashita Ying smiled at Astoria, his eyes narrowed into a line.

Astoria ignored him and walked straight to the duel field.

After the same announcement, Astoria looked at the Japanese wizard in front of her calmly.

"Admit defeat, otherwise you may lose your life." Astoria was ready and quietly prepared.

She didn't expect that one or two words would make her opponent give up, but delaying time was in her favor.

"Oh my, what a terrible statement." Yamashita Ying was still smiling, "I have observed you in that world, your magic is terrible - is it the ability to control blood? You really didn't lie."

Astoria's face darkened: the other party knew her information, which was not good news.

But she didn't think it would have any impact on the result of the game.

"If it was before the second stage of the game, I would definitely admit defeat without hesitation, but now... I also had adventures in that world." Yamashita Ying said in English with a heavy accent.

At the same time, he reached into his robe and pulled out a long sword from it - God knows how he hid such a long sword on his body.

Astoria's eyes widened suddenly, and she felt a very strong magical fluctuation from the sword, as if the sword was attached to a domain.

"Rise, Yunwuwan!"

Instantly, a thick mist burst out from the blade, and in just a few seconds, it enveloped Yamashita Ying's body.

"Sweep away the whirlwind!" Astoria attacked without any hesitation.

She was taught by Rice that she could not let the opponent's mist spread, so she immediately used magic to try to dispel the mist, and at the same time used her ability to manipulate blood to try to interfere with Yamashita Ying.

Yamashita Ying suddenly felt a sweetness in his throat, and his nose was suddenly filled with the smell of blood.

But he was prepared, and directly wrapped the mist emitted from the knife on his body, forming a layer of protection on the surface of his body, which immediately reduced Astoria's influence on him by half.

However, he understood that this was only a stopgap measure. If the stalemate continued, the protective effect of the mist on him would only become weaker and weaker, but it was not a big problem, because his goal was not to win the game-

Astoria's spell shattered the mist emitted from the knife, but something unexpected happened: the shattered mist turned into thousands of thin white silk threads, floating in the air, and then expanded instantly. Soon, the entire stadium was filled with mist.

Her spell helped Yamashita Ying spread the mist!

The spectators were shocked at first, but later found that the fog was just ordinary clouds, which had no harm except making their robes wet.

Little did they know that Godric Gryffindor, who was standing with the students of Gryffindor College, had already curled his lips.

Hogwarts Destruction Plan, Start!

The fog was just a trick, the real trick was hidden behind it!

Facing the thick fog, many spectators took out masks from their arms and put them on their faces. I don’t know why they carry such things with them.

What the audience didn’t know was that several inconspicuous small boxes in the corner of the stadium also emitted white smoke. The smoke mixed with the white fog that filled the entire stadium, and gradually spread from top to bottom.

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