Chapter 290 Golden Crucible, You Are Mine!

On Thursday morning, Sebastian released his magical perception and found that the huge crowds outside the Ilvermorny campus had long disappeared.

The bustling noise seemed to be swallowed up by the night overnight, and replaced by silence.

"Interesting," he muttered to himself, the scene of last night reappearing in his mind, "It looked like the meeting was not about to end before going to bed."

"Are the members of the Magic Congress unable to bear it anymore? Have they all compromised?"

"Otherwise, the crowd outside the school will definitely not disperse."

"I don't know what the result will be." Sebastian grabbed the coat on the bedside and said, "I'll ask the principal later. He will definitely know all the information."

After breakfast, officials from the Potions Championship brought the latest news.

In yesterday's competition, all five Hogwarts students brewed the Living Hell Potion of perfect quality, so they all qualified for the third round.

Looking at other magic schools, their best results were only three students qualifying for the next round, and some schools even had only one contestant left to participate in the third round.

Hogwarts is unique among all magic schools in that all its members are promoted.

The detailed rules for the third game have also been released.

In Friday's competition, the officials no longer set unified test questions, but allowed the contestants to express themselves freely.

The contestants need to choose the potion they want to brew today, and then submit the name of the potion and all the required potion materials to the event organizer before 6 pm.

The organizer will prepare a set of potion materials for each contestant based on the information provided by the contestants.

As for the results of the competition, all judges will jointly score the contestants.

At the same time, considering that some high-level potions take a long time to brew, the competition time is no longer limited to a short hour and a half, but will last from 9 am to 6 pm on Friday.

Snape took the scoring rules from the staff and frowned almost imperceptibly. The densely packed rules were all things that the contestants needed to know before the competition.

It seems that the third round is where the level of the contestants is truly tested. The officials of the Potions Championship want to use this method to select the truly talented young people in the field of potions.

Different potions have different brewing difficulties, and the scores obtained for different brewing difficulties are also different.

It can be said that the choice of different potions completely separated the contestants' scores from the very beginning.

It is easy to get high scores by choosing difficult potions, but if you fail, you will be eliminated.

Therefore, it is not an easy task to let the contestants make appropriate choices within one day.

Thinking of this, Snape no longer hesitated. He called Harry and others to his dormitory and began to give them one-on-one guidance.

After a whole day of repeated research, the competition topics for several people were finally determined.

The potion that Percy, Penelope and Cedric chose was the Intelligence Enhancer, an advanced potion that was much more difficult to brew than the Living Hell Potion.

Harry chose Buffy's Brain Refresher Potion. According to Snape's inference, if Harry could brew a potion of perfect quality, then this year's Golden Crucible would be won by Hogwarts without any suspense.

As for Theodore, this guy wanted to challenge his limits. After hearing Harry choose Buffy's mind-awakening potion, he also chose the same potion.

Seeing the other party's persistent eyes, Snape finally didn't say much, but took him to do intensive study before the exam.

On Friday morning, Harry was so nervous that he could not eat a single bite of food. Today was the day of the final, and he really wanted to get the golden cauldron.

According to the professor, one of his mother's regrets when she was young was that she didn't get to fight for Hogwarts and win the golden cauldron.

Harry wanted to drink some sedatives to force himself into a calm state.

However, in such a large-scale competition, drinking sedatives is considered cheating, so his idea cannot be realized at all.

Under Sebastian's persuasion, Harry reluctantly drank some milk and ate some bread, then followed the staff to the stadium.

The audience seats were already filled with wizards who came to watch the game.

In addition to the judges, the principals of various magic schools also appeared on the podium.

Harry didn't pay much attention to it, but concentrated on reviewing the steps of brewing the potion over and over again in his mind.

The moment the competition bell rang, he began to preheat the crucible, then picked up a silver knife and skillfully chopped the silver leaves.

Only when the water in the crucible began to bubble slightly after being heated did he add the weighed silver leaf powder into the crucible.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the liquid in the cauldron turn a light green.

He did not dare to slack off at all. He took the chopped agave leaves, roasted them lightly over the fire for a few seconds, and then quickly added them to the crucible.

Suddenly, the liquid in the crucible emitted a shining golden light.

Although this was just the beginning, Harry had slowly gotten into the state. He was no longer nervous and began to process the remaining materials in an orderly manner.

He first ground the moonstone and blood-red crystal into fine powder, and then mixed them thoroughly in a certain proportion.

The addition of this mixed powder is also the first difficulty in the entire game. Once the operation is improper, the entire potion will be out of control in an instant.

While Harry was trying hard to use magic to sense the reaction of the potion in the crucible, he recalled Snape's teachings.

"Remember, you must first stir the crucible slowly in a counterclockwise direction for seven circles, and then quickly stir it in a clockwise direction for three circles."

"After completing the above operations, stir counterclockwise for the last time and slowly pour in the mixed powder of blood red crystal and moonstone during the stirring process."

Sensing that the potion in the crucible was beginning to react violently, Harry's eyes focused and he picked up the stirring rod and began stirring the crucible.

His movements were extremely standard and his timing was very accurate.

The liquid in the crucible gradually became thicker, its color slowly changed from light green to a dark purple, and it emitted a strange glow.

Taking this opportunity, Harry took four frogs and then skillfully took out four fresh frog brains.

After sensing that the potion in the crucible had completely stabilized, he extended his wand and let four portions of frog brains fly smoothly into the crucible.

In an instant, the potion began to boil violently, emitting bursts of purple steam.

A whole morning passed, and Harry's operation was still very steady, which made Sebastian nod repeatedly.

So far, the boy's operation has been perfect. As long as he keeps up the good work, he will definitely be able to brew the perfect Buffy Brain-Refreshing Potion.

The others also performed well. Percy and the other three had finished brewing the potion and received their scores from the judges.

Theodore was not bad either. Although it was his first time brewing Buffy's brain-stimulating potion, he did it very well and didn't make any fatal mistakes.

Of course, it was impossible for him to brew a potion of perfect quality on his first try, but for him, as long as he could persevere to the end, it would be a huge success.

Snape's vision was correct. Theodore was indeed a promising talent in potions.

Harry and Theodore's performance attracted many people's attention.

William, the potion professor of Ilvermorny, even went out of his way to find Sebastian and express his envy to him.

"Your students can actually brew Buffy's Brain Refresher Potion. It seems that they have already reached the threshold of becoming a potion master."

"I really don't know how your Potions Professor cultivated such outstanding students!"

Time passed slowly and Harry's forehead was covered with sweat.

After the last stirring, the potion in the crucible slowly stabilized and eventually took on a pure green luster.

This was clearly a perfect quality Buffy Brain Potion.

Looking at the crystal clear green potion in the crucible, Harry's mouth widened.

My hard work was not in vain.

Golden Crucible, you are mine!

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