Chapter 396: Rice: I feel like this is cheating

field!

In Cedric's opinion, this is a very sacred ability. He didn't expect that it would appear on a seemingly ordinary doll, which made him quite surprised.

But considering that this was something in the teacher's locker, he was relieved. After being associated with the ancient name of Hufflepuff, everything seemed to become reasonable.

But thinking of the fierce blood in the puppet's eyes, Cedric felt that it was unlikely to be the teacher's collection. If anything, it looked more like a prisoner held by the teacher.

Thinking of this, Cedric couldn't help but complain about his teacher: Teacher, your storage method is too perfunctory for such a deadly thing, isn't it?

But on second thought, Cedric realized something again.

The teacher was extremely powerful, so where else could she be safer than in her office? This monster would probably be safer in her office than in the vault at the bottom of Gringotts, right?

It was a pity that she met a group of students with overly strong curiosity. Cedric did not put the blame on Daphne, because he knew very well that he also wanted to know what was in the cabinet at that time. Daphne just did what everyone present wanted to do.

And maybe in the teacher's eyes, this doll is nothing special, so she just put it in the cabinet without setting up any complicated protection spells.

Helga had taught Cedric the strength and restraint between domains, so Cedric understood that the puppet in front of him, who was related to the domain and soil, was nothing more than a lamb to be slaughtered in front of his teacher.

But to Helga, the puppet is meat on the chopping board, but to Cedric and others, this guy is a well-deserved rival.

Cedric could feel that he was losing control of the clay - the puppet's ability to manipulate the clay was superior to his.

"Daphne, help me!" The teacher had told him before that Daphne had also put half a foot into the gate of the domain, so Cedric did not hesitate and went straight to Daphne for help.

Daphne hummed, squatted down, and inserted her hand covered in lava into the ground.

She also began to expand her magma field with all her strength, and together with Cedric, she suppressed the puppet again.

The two sides were deadlocked and the situation was at a stalemate for a while.

But what Daphne and Cedric possessed were not real domains, but "pseudo-domains". Compared with real domains, the endurance of pseudo-domains was far inferior.

So about a quarter of an hour later, Daphne and Cedric's faces were covered with beads of sweat.

Astoria and Hermione were standing there anxiously, but they couldn't help.

The fight between the realms was not something that could be interfered with by ordinary spells. If the two of them cast a spell incorrectly, it would aid the enemy. As for the brooch given by Rice, Astoria would not dare to use it until the last moment.

Well, they can cast a spell on Daphne or Cedric from behind, which can indeed work and help the puppets achieve victory more quickly.

Cedric had inadvertently helped the puppet by smashing it into the ground.

Seeing that her companions were losing, Hermione became more and more anxious. Then a light bulb went off in her head: they were both exhausted now, so wouldn't it be better if they just took a break?

This may seem like nonsense, but it is different when combined with Hermione's field.

After figuring it out, Hermione directly opened her domain and took Daphne and the other two in.

Daphne:?

Cedric:?

The two were struggling with the puppet with all their might, but suddenly their position was moved, making them feel as if they were punching cotton.

"You can recuperate in my territory first, and then go fight that monster after you've rested. Anyway, time in my territory is almost stagnant compared to the outside world." Hermione quickly introduced the tactics she had come up with to the two of them, and handed over two bottles of energy potions.

"Okay!" A look of joy appeared on Daphne's face.

She didn't expect Granger's domain could be used in this way. When she heard Rice mention Hermione's library domain before, she was a little disdainful.

Cedric silently opened the potion bottle and drank the energy potion inside.

"What about me? Can I do something?" Astoria looked at Hermione hopefully, hoping to get some "tasks" to do. She felt that since she entered the Forbidden Forest, she had been watching the show almost the entire time, without any sense of participation.

This really stumped Hermione.

She didn't know what to arrange for Astoria to do. She couldn't just let her read a book here, right?

"By the way, what is the competition between domains like?" Hermione changed the subject.

Although she is the only one among the four who possesses a complete domain, her domain is a functional domain, not an elemental domain. The game between domains is something completely unfamiliar to her.

"It's a bit like two people each holding a bucket of paint, competing to paint a field. First, they grab each other's empty space that is not covered by paint, and then start to erase each other's color after the empty space disappears. Whoever paints the field with his own color first wins." Cedric thought for a moment and gave a very vivid answer.

Daphne added, "In a contest between domains, the party with the advantage can easily snowball and win."

"So you and that monster—" Hermione asked anxiously.

"If Cedric and I work together, we can gain a slight advantage..." Daphne stopped talking halfway.

"Let me put it this way. You can assume that the paint in the puppet's paint bucket is unlimited, while the paint in Daphne's and my buckets is limited. So even if we have a slight advantage, we will still lose after a long time. Fortunately, you have your domain, Granger. Otherwise, the two of us can only hold on for three minutes at most."

"We can recover our magic here, and then go out and continue to stalemate with the puppet until Les arrives." Daphne proposed what seemed to be the most practical solution at the moment.

"Eh?!" Hermione suddenly thought of a very serious question. If she suddenly pulled Daphne and the others into her field, would it cause the situation that they had worked so hard to maintain to collapse directly?

A layer of fine beads of sweat suddenly appeared on her forehead.

"That won't happen. Even if Daphne and I disappear, our remaining strength will continue to fight the puppet, but it will be eroded much faster." After learning of Hermione's concerns, Cedric comforted her.

Cedric felt relieved when he learned that for every hour he spent here, only one second would have passed in the outside world.

As the three of them were discussing the battle mode between the realms, Astoria was listening quietly on the side.

She understood a truth from Hermione's attitude: without a field, she is nothing and can only listen, unable to help at all.

She really wants to have her own field!

But after hearing the latter part, Astoria narrowed her eyes: She seemed to have come up with an idea to break the deadlock?

"Granger, you should be able to control who enters your territory, right?" Astoria asked a question out of the blue.

"Of course." Hermione didn't understand her intention and just nodded.

"Then why don't you try to pull the puppet into your domain? According to what 'paint' said before, this place should have been occupied by your color. My sister and Cedric can take advantage of the opportunity when it is pulled in to turn the situation around a little." Astoria felt that Hermione could use the advantage of her own domain to delay the puppet, buy some time for Cedric and the others, and interfere with the puppet's actions by repeatedly pulling the puppet into the domain.

The time when the puppet disappears is just a bonus, because even if Hermione can hold off the opponent for an hour, it is only a second in the outside world. The key lies in the "stiffness" that occurs after the puppet enters and leaves the field. Hermione will not explain the characteristics of her field to the puppet, nor will she tell it when she will pull it in and put it back, which will naturally cause great interference to it.

After hearing Astoria's idea, Cedric's first reaction was to object because it was too dangerous. But Hermione thought she could give it a try.

Her confidence did not come from what Astoria said, "This place has been occupied by my own color," but from the shadow of Les in the field.

Thanks to her unremitting efforts, Rice's phantom is now able to communicate with the outside world and make physical contact.

In other words, Rice's Phantom is already combat-ready!

This is Hermione's greatest reliance.

The four of them were in such a mess this time, wasn't it because Les was trapped? If he were here, the puppets would definitely not be a match for Les, who had a complete domain.

The naive Hermione did not think of one question, that is, why would Les, who possessed a complete domain, be trapped by a spell for so long?

She now focused all her attention on the plan she was about to implement.

After some communication, she sent Cedric and Daphne out of the area, and Astoria was left here to help her control the puppet.

The moment Cedric and the others disappeared, the doll was sent in.

The puppet was also stunned when it suddenly appeared in an unfamiliar place.

Before it could react, Astoria launched a barrage of attacks. In order to maximize her value, she even released the attack spells in her magic items.

The sudden change and a series of attacks stunned the puppet, putting it at a complete disadvantage.

Hermione took advantage of this opportunity to silently recite Rice's name in her heart. Soon, Rice's figure appeared at the table behind the bookshelf.

"The library is really lively today." Phantom Rice smiled, drew out his magic wand, and started fighting with the puppet.

His spell was much more mature than Astoria's, and it completely suppressed the puppet.

Only then did the puppet react and try to expand its own domain within Hermione's.

But this was Hermione's territory after all, so the puppet field unfolded much more slowly, and at first it just created some more gravel on the library floor.

"Oh? It actually has a domain, that's amazing." Seeing this, Phantom Rice couldn't help but praise the puppet in front of him.

While Phantom Rice was suppressing the puppet, Hermione tried to summon Astoria's phantom as well.

Although it hurt her a little to say this, Hermione felt that no matter how small a mosquito was, it was still a piece of meat, and no matter how weak Astoria's shadow was, it could still have some restraining effect.

But to her slight surprise, the attempt to summon Astoria's phantom failed.

Glancing at Astoria who was casting a spell on the puppet not far in front of her, Hermione suddenly realized: as long as she was in her own domain, she could not summon her shadow.

As the puppet's territory gradually unfolds, Astoria and Phantom Rice begin to be slowly suppressed by it.

As the fight went on, a bold idea came to Astoria's mind.

"Huh? Since this phantom is the Rice in Hermione's memory, can this phantom control Rice's domain?"

She thought she could try it.

Just now in the Forbidden Forest, she didn't dare to open Les's domain at will, fearing that it would cause too much impact. But in Hermione's domain, these concerns no longer exist.

Even if we take a step back, aren’t there puppets here to “clean up the mess” for them?

Astoria directly grasped her yellow crystal brooch and activated the domain fragment inside that belonged to Rice.

As soon as the water drop appeared, Phantom Rice turned his head, with a flash of surprise in his eyes. The next second, he took over the authority of the domain.

"Thank you for your help." After he said this softly, the water ball, which was originally only half a person's height, expanded rapidly.

In less than a minute, Hermione's library was filled with mist.

Puppet:?!

It was not surprised for long, because the little bit of gravel it had just created was completely cleared away by Phantom Rice's water mist.

Countless small droplets of water mist penetrated through the joints and gaps of the puppet. The puppet, which was originally running smoothly, suddenly became stuck.

After a few loud bangs, the key parts responsible for the operation of the puppet were destroyed by Phantom Rice.

Astoria and Hermione stared at what was happening before their eyes in amazement, even forgetting to close their mouths.

After quickly clearing the puppet's territory and destroying its action center, Phantom Rice's body had almost become transparent.

Needless to say, it can't hold out for much longer.

The phantom first glanced at Hermione and Astoria, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if to say "You still need to practice more, little students", and then his eyes were fixed on the remaining trace of blood in the puppet's eyes.

The next moment, the blood began to burn violently, and then like fireworks, it shone brightly for a moment before completely disappearing.

The puppet was completely destroyed by Phantom Rice and has been restored to its original state.

Before disappearing, the phantom began to take in the domain.

After a burst of white mist, Phantom Les disappeared, leaving only a beautiful yellow crystal on the ground.

Astoria and Hermione fell silent.

I wanted to contain the enemy, but ended up killing him. Is that okay?!

Granger, you are simply cheating in this field!

----

Here is the update, muah