#342 - Chapter 342: A New Duel Hall

Just after the start of the semester, the learning atmosphere on campus was extremely strong. Coupled with the excitement of the Five Champions Tournament, students were striving to practice every second.

As soon as class ended, many students rushed into the auditorium like a gust of wind. After hastily shoveling down a few bites to eat, they went straight to the dueling arena.

As soon as they entered the dueling arena, they were surprised to find a wide staircase to the basement on the right side of the main entrance.

Next to the staircase, a large sign hung on the wall, which read:

【Instance Zone, enjoy the fun of magic like in a game!】

The school renovated the dueling arena during the summer vacation!

Instance Zone?

What's this new thing?

Never heard of it.

The little wizards became interested and went downstairs in twos and threes, wanting to find out what was going on.

A spacious circular hall came into view, with a design that was quite grand and technological.

Several huge magic display screens hung high in the center, like movie screens, brightly displaying the walkthrough leaderboards of different instances.

More than a dozen names have already been recorded under individual instances, all of which are the results of students who had no classes in the morning. The rankings on it are constantly flashing, inspiring everyone to try.

There are also rows of consoles in the center of the hall, distributed in a scattered and orderly manner.

Each console emits a faint magical glow. The little wizards stood in front of each console, constantly tapping the magic screen.

There are many small rooms around the hall, each of which is a magic instance.

"Merlin's dueling arena," Ron said, looking at everything around him in surprise, "I bet this must be a new trick made by Professor Swann."

"Only he has so many novel and interesting ideas in his head."

"It should be him," Harry nodded. "He often ran to the school during the summer vacation. When I asked him, he always mysteriously told me that I would know when school started."

"Seriously," Ron said regretfully, "Hermione should have come with us instead of messing around with her house-elf club."

As he spoke, he rushed towards a free console: "Hurry up, Harry, let's go take a look. There are more and more students, and I don't want to wait in line when there are too many people."

The two came to a console and operated it excitedly.

"Harry, there are two options above, single-player instance and multiplayer instance. Which one should we choose?"

"Click on both and see!"

Clicking on the single-player instance, a list of instance names is listed, including 【Happy Elimination】, 【Magic Battle Zombies】, 【Little Wizards Rush Forward】, etc.

"That's so cool," Ron clicked on the description of 【Little Wizards Rush Forward】, his eyes glowing, "Dodging attacks while moving forward at top speed, this tests our reaction and agility, it's a bit interesting."

"It is even subdivided into different difficulty levels to meet the needs of different students."

"Harry, should we play this first and see what it is like?"

Harry pointed to the screen and said, "I think we should wait and see what the multiplayer instance is like."

Clicking on the multiplayer instance, there are many options such as 【Rescue Auror Ryan】, 【Battlefield Healer】, 【Protect the Potatoes】, 【Magic Expedition】.

At the very top of all the options, a copy 【Warrior's Glory】 is specially marked, with a line of small characters next to it, a multiplayer confrontation copy, designed for the Five Champions Tournament.

"Choose this one!" Ron couldn't take his eyes off this introduction, and stretched out his finger to click on it.

However, after clicking on the name of this instance, he realized that this instance was temporarily locked and would not be open to everyone until after the first Dueling Club.

There was no way, so the two had to choose again.

After picking and choosing, the two were troubled by 【Protect the Potatoes】 and 【Magic Expedition】.

After research, it was decided that the two unanimously agreed to choose 【Protect the Potatoes】 first, because according to the description, this instance is simple and crude, and only needs to constantly deal with the attacking monsters.

Unlike 【Magic Expedition】, this instance will comprehensively test the knowledge points of all subjects.

After finalizing the instance, Harry scratched his head: "Which difficulty should we choose?"

Ron immediately shouted: "Pull it to the max! The difficulty must be pulled to the max, choose the adult wizard difficulty."

As soon as he finished speaking, a mocking voice came from the side: "Weasley, you are quite confident. You want to choose the highest difficulty as soon as you come up. Aren't you afraid of failing and embarrassing yourself?"

"Malfoy," Ron retorted, "If you're afraid, you can start from the first-level difficulty. That's a playground for first-year children. You can definitely kill everyone there."

"Oh, by the way, activating the instance requires swiping the student card, and high-grade students passing low-level instances will not be recorded on the pass leaderboard."

"Even if you perform bravely, it will not be recorded."

Afraid?

What a hell joke.

There is no such word as fear in my Malfoy's dictionary.

Besides, since I was defeated by Potter for the first time, I, Malfoy, have never relaxed.

Every day, I am either practicing spells or on the way to practice spells.

In order to improve my strength, I even gave up Quidditch, even the holidays have been spent practicing.

"Heh heh — —"

Malfoy glanced at Ron contemptuously with his nostrils facing the sky.

"Do you know how much the first place in the two Dueling Tournaments weighs?"

"You, a nobody who can't even enter the finals every time, dare to come and touch me!"

"Do you dare to make a bet to see who performs better in the instance?"

Bet, then bet!

You are not a Gryffindor if you are afraid of you!

Ron did not hesitate and immediately selected 【Protect the Potatoes】 on the screen, and then put his student card on the screen.

A line of prompts immediately appeared on the screen:

【You have selected Protect the Potatoes. This instance is a five-person instance. Please choose to actively add team members or match freely.】

"It's your turn, Malfoy."

Malfoy did not hesitate and immediately registered his name with his student card, and then he looked at Harry.

"Potter, I'm just waiting for you, you are the opponent I want."

Harry shook his head helplessly. He wanted to try the fourth-level difficulty first to see what the difficulty was, but he didn't expect that these two had directly decided for him.

Decide, then decide!

If you don't even dare to choose the adult wizard difficulty, don't even think about signing up for the Five Champions Tournament.

Thinking of this, his pride arose, and he stepped forward and registered his name.

In this way, there are still two people missing from the instance quota.

Ron turned around in the crowd and soon pulled in his two roommates, Neville and Seamus.

After registering everyone's names, a new prompt appeared on the screen.

【The instance is being generated, please go to room 30. Time limit is three minutes, overdue this room will be reassigned.】

Seeing this prompt, the five people did not dare to neglect and hurried to the door of room 30 and opened the door with their student cards.