Chapter 495: The End of the School Year and Dumbledore's Promise

Astoria thought Les would show up the next day, but she miscalculated.

When the finals resumed the next day, Rice was still missing. Not only him, but also Professors White and Arius were missing.

When Dumbledore learned that the two professors were going out to fight the remnants of the Secret Order, he was somewhat opposed.

It is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. He has become accustomed to the days when these people are guarding Hogwarts. Now that they are leaving suddenly, Dumbledore really feels empty.

However, he quickly got into a familiar state, said goodbye to the two professors calmly, and turned to go to the Quidditch field to preside over the game.

Although yesterday's game was interrupted midway, the previous game results were still retained - Ekaterina was unwilling to compete with Hermione again.

Next, the game continues.

Two of the five contestants from Hogwarts have advanced, and the remaining three are Daphne, Cedric and Neville.

No one was surprised that the first two made it to the top sixteen, but it was quite surprising that Neville could fight all the way here.

This gentle, round-faced boy with a poor memory seemed to have received incredible training in the world of alchemy, and he felt as if he had been reborn.

If Neville was still a typical Hufflepuff student when school started in September this year, then after the baptism of the competition, he became more like a Gryffindor.

His opponent is also very interesting, the Black Pearl of Vagadu.

The two sides fought back and forth, and finally Neville won with a slight advantage. However, in the eyes of many people, it is better to say that Neville is more durable than his opponent, and finally he outlasted his opponent.

Hermione, who had advanced and was watching the battle in the audience, noticed some details revealed by Neville during the battle. He seemed to have learned the flow of magic.

This made Hermione sincerely happy for him.

She knew very well that in the current wizarding world, if one did not understand the flow of magic, one could not become a top wizard. The flow of magic was like mathematics to Muggles, and it was even more prestigious.

If you are not good at math, you can’t become a scientist; if you can’t flow magic, you can’t become a top wizard.

Neville didn't even get to sit in the audience seats. He and Black Pearl were taken away by Madam Pomfrey to heal their injuries.

After the next few games, the Hogwarts player was drawn again.

This time it's Cedric versus the independent contestant who claims to be from Longhu Mountain.

He was one of only two contestants from non-mainstream magic schools to make it to the finals. The other was a monk from the Mahabodhi Temple, but he had been eliminated by a student from Ilvermorny in the qualifying round of 16 to 8.

Cedric was not in a hurry to fight with the opponent. He was very interested in this opponent named "Qingyue Yang".

"Are you from Longhu Mountain? This is the first time I've heard of this place. Is it in the East like the magic house?" Cedric asked curiously.

"About that." Yang Qingyue shrugged. After being asked questions like "Are the Mahabodhi Temple and the Institute of Magic very close?", he no longer had any hope for the geographical knowledge of these British wizards.

Cedric nodded in confusion - he couldn't even tell the exact location of the magic house, he only knew that it was in the far east.

Seeing that Cedric was not going to take action immediately, Yang Qingyue simply started chatting with him.

"I'm not actually from Longhu Mountain. I just think Longhu Mountain is a little more famous, and you might have heard of it. And if you're unlucky and get eliminated in the first round, it won't bring shame to our sect."

"So you're not from Longhu Mountain?!" Cedric was shocked: There are people pretending to be students from other schools to participate in the competition?!

"Yes and no." Yang Qingyue shrugged his shoulders. "It's very complicated, and I can't explain it in a short time. To put it simply, my ancestor was born in Longhu Mountain, but he later went to other places to develop."

Cedric understood immediately.

Isn’t this the Eastern version of Hogwarts and Ilvermorny!

"I feel like I rarely hear about you in the magic world..." Cedric couldn't help but complain. If it weren't for this competition, he probably wouldn't have seen this group of mysterious visitors from the East in his life.

"We are indeed relatively low-key and don't like to go out."

"Eh? I remember a friend of mine said that the way you cast spells is a little different from ours?" Halfway through the conversation, Cedric remembered what Les said about Eastern magic when they were chatting before.

Yang Qingyue nodded.

During the six months at Hogwarts, he had indeed felt the difference between magic and his own Taoist magic. It was really cool to be able to cast spells by just shaking the wand, and it gave him a lot of inspiration.

He also copied some practical talismans based on the wizards' spells, and he would probably be able to give Cedric a little "surprise" later.

"Anyway, you're welcome to visit us after the game!" Yang Qingyue was still in a very good mood to talk, but considering that they were on the court now, the two of them certainly couldn't just chat like that, so he extended an invitation to Cedric, and then tactfully indicated that it was time to start the game.

"Sure!" Cedric responded seriously.

……

"So who won between the two of them?" At the graduation ceremony, Dumbledore was speaking on stage while Les was chatting with Daphne and Astoria in the audience.

On the last day of the school year, Les Lint, who had been missing for half a semester, returned to Hogwarts and sat at the Slytherin House table which he had been away from for a long time.

Daphne and Astoria were extremely surprised by his sudden appearance. However, after the surprise, they still couldn't help asking him what he had been doing during this time.

Rice also answered truthfully that he really was going to recuperate.

I had been seriously injured in the alchemy world before, and had no choice but to recover and recuperate in it.

Daphne believed it, but complained to Les why he didn't tell them in advance. Astoria seemed to be thinking about something.

Injured in the alchemy world? The natural disaster they encountered before was probably related to Rice. But since Rice was unwilling to reveal it, she didn't intend to ask.

It's better for everyone if we give each other some privacy.

After a brief greeting, the topic naturally shifted to the championship.

Daphne quickly told Rice what she saw and heard during the finals, with the focus naturally falling on the mysterious visitor from the East.

"His spell is very... unique." After thinking for a moment, Astoria finally found the right adjective.

"He didn't even use a wand at first. He took out a lot of yellow paper from his pocket and threw it out to summon some puppets. He could also use that thing to create effects like armor charm and disarming charm. Later, he threw a few flags onto the field, and he and Cedric were both covered by a thick fog.

But during this period, Cedric has always had the upper hand, and his area is really suitable for defensive pressure. "

Les listened with a smile on his face, and he roughly knew what happened next.

"That guy found that he couldn't penetrate Cedric's defense, so he used his trump card and summoned a dark cloud. Thunder and rain fell on the duel stage, splitting half of the stage.

But Cedric had been stubborn and refused to admit defeat. In the end, the man didn't know why, but he dispersed the thundercloud and admitted defeat. "Astoria's face showed a puzzled look. She felt that Yang Qingyue didn't blush when he admitted defeat, and it seemed that he could still fight for a while.

"Cedric himself said it was luck. If that man had held on a little longer, he would have been the one to admit defeat," Daphne added.

Les shook his head.

“You can insist, but you don’t have to.”

"Tell me about it in detail?" The Greengrass sisters' interest was immediately piqued.

"The magic in the East is amazing. They give me the feeling that they focus more on the background. For example..." Les pointed to the necklace and brooch on Daphne's chest.

"The stronger their ancestors are, the stronger their strength will be. Through talismans, they can borrow strength far beyond their own strength, but the consumption is also very high. That guy must have felt so distressed after the fight that he really couldn't bear to continue consuming his talismans."

"I see." Astoria finally understood why Yang Qingyue chose to give up halfway through the fight: if he continued fighting, he would go bankrupt.

After talking about Yang Qingyue, Rice didn't want to continue the conversation because he felt that there was basically no suspense about who would win the championship.

But unfortunately, there was Tietouwa among the people present.

"Les, aren't you curious about who the final champion will be?" Daphne asked in a tone that Les found difficult to understand.

"Have you hit Hermione? Is that true? That's impossible!" Les was shocked.

Hermione could summon her own shadow in her domain, so how could Daphne possibly defeat her? Could it be that the girl had made great progress while she was away?

Daphne's face froze when asked so directly by Les.

“Well, this——um…”

"I didn't win." Astoria answered Les' question for her sister.

Les:…

Look at you, why are you bringing up something else?

The individual champion in the final stage of the competition was naturally Hermione.

Her way of winning the championship was extremely legendary, she would stand in front of her opponent, and then both of them would disappear for a moment. When they came back, the winner would be decided.

No one except the contestants knew what happened.

Now, Hermione was suddenly shrouded in a veil of mystery.

It’s not that no one tried to find out what happened, but after the quarterfinals, Hermione met only “their own people” and they all kept their mouths shut. Vice-Principal Ekaterina of Kodosdoriz also refused to reveal what happened at the time, so this became a mystery that no one knew.

After a brief chat, Rice began to daydream.

Dumbledore on the stage was talking about some meaningless nonsense, and the young wizards below the stage didn't listen carefully. They were just thinking about where to go for the holidays.

Rice set his sights on the visitor from the Far East.

As far as he knew, Eastern wizards had done in-depth research on the soul, and the ancestors of those wizards might even be alive in another form, otherwise the principles of the talismans could not be explained.

Since he knew a lot about souls, Les felt that he should go visit them and see if he could get some help from them to remove Loki's soul from Gryffindor's body as soon as possible.

While recuperating in the alchemy world, Les was thinking about how to save Godric, but so far he has not made any breakthrough progress. Because Loki is not an ordinary person, he possessed Gryffindor and made the problem quite tricky.

It just so happens that Yang Qingyue invited Cedric to visit him. Rice thought that since they decided to entertain guests, it should be okay to have one more guest, right?

As my thoughts were drifting, Dumbledore's speech came to an end.

"Students, you may have heard about this. In the final stage of the tournament, dark wizards from other schools attacked Hogwarts. Although we successfully thwarted their plot, the impact of the attack has not completely dissipated. The outside world has become more dangerous, so I sincerely suggest that you do not travel abroad this summer." Dumbledore's eyes swept across the faces of the guests in the audience, "I also give this sentence to you. I can assure you that it is safe in the UK."

Karkaroff, who was sitting next to Snape in the teacher's seat, blinked.

This was the happiest time of Karkaroff's life.

The mysterious man, his former master, had fallen! Could there be better news than this? When he woke up from his coma and heard the news, he almost fainted again from excessive excitement.

Now when he heard Dumbledore say that "the influence has not completely dissipated", he immediately thought that the mysterious man was not dead yet, which made him nervous.

But after hearing Dumbledore's assurance, he immediately felt relieved.

This is the first time Dumbledore has made such a statement!

As a legendary wizard who defeated the Dark Lord many times, how many Dark Lords have been replaced? How many times has the Dark Lord made a comeback? In front of Dumbledore, it's just a change of soup but not a change of medicine. His guarantee is still reassuring.

What Karkaroff didn't know was that Dumbledore wasn't referring to Voldemort, and that the confidence he had in making the promise didn't come from himself, but from Professors White and Arius.

With the two of them here, safety in the UK can be guaranteed, if nothing else.

Dumbledore's words sparked a heated discussion.

Many young wizards immediately decided to change their holiday arrangements and cancel their plans to travel abroad with their families. Guests from other regions were skeptical, some decided to listen to Dumbledore, and many others did not take his warning to heart.

In such an atmosphere, this school year ended as usual.

Countless students stood up and walked towards the common rooms of their colleges, and Cedric was no exception.

However, a familiar voice called him.

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Here is the update, good night!

I'm afraid the next update will have to wait until tomorrow night. If I have coded it out in advance, I will definitely post it as soon as possible.