Chapter 600
This is all Vidgrey’s design!
Chapter 600 This is all Vid Grey’s design!
Natasha, a contestant from Durmstrang, had just escaped the attack of a fire dragon and was leaning against the wall to catch her breath and rest when she suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the maze passage.
She stood up alertly and saw something that looked like a spider moving quickly with a golden egg in its arms.
Natasha was stunned for a moment, and quickly shot out a barrier spell, but the light of the spell only brushed past the body of the spider puppet and hit the stone wall beside it.
She was about to chase after him when she heard a roar: "Stop! The flames are blazing!"
The fire snake swept past, the spider puppet burst with a "crackling" sound, and the golden egg rolled out.
Abby from Salem rushed out immediately, her long reddish-brown hair flying in the air. She rushed towards the golden egg without hesitation. Halfway through, she met Natasha's eyes and was startled. She immediately changed the direction of her wand.
"All petrified!"
"Confinement quickly!"
The two spells collided in the air and bounced off each other.
At this moment, a mantis puppet suddenly shot out from the vines and grabbed the golden egg that rolled to the wall. When Natasha found it, it had already rushed into the passage on the other side holding the golden egg!
"Wait, leave the golden egg!"
The two of them didn't bother to argue with each other and chased after him together.
The next second, Samuel and Hope from Salem College also rushed out from the passage. Natasha immediately stopped, stood against the wall, and watched them run past her politely.
Three to one, the chance of winning is too low, so it’s better to give up as soon as possible.
……
"Split into pieces!"
The mantis puppet exploded in the middle, and the golden egg fell again. A locust puppet fell from the sky and pounced directly on Abby's face. She screamed, and without seeing the road, she ran into the wall!
Hope ran over, grabbed the locust's lower body and threw it to the ground, then stomped on the puppet and flattened it.
Abby was actually very afraid of insects. She slapped her face and clothes in fear. After being pulled awake by Hopper, she saw that Samuel had smashed another ant puppet that wanted to snatch the golden egg and took the golden egg away.
"It's not easy." A gloomy look appeared on Samuel's pale face. "That guy made us so busy with just a few puppets. If we face him head-on..."
"He brought the puppet in!" Abby frowned and asked, "Why didn't the referee count it as a violation?"
"Because his puppet should have been made here temporarily." Hope squatted down, moved the remains of the locust puppet, and said, "Look, these are the materials that are already in the passage."
Abby was a little angry just now, but after seeing the mess of dead leaves, vines and branches, she fell silent.
After a moment, she said with emotion and admiration: "His alchemy... is really amazing."
Hope nodded silently.
The three of them subconsciously did not want to face Vid Grey, so they wanted to return to the previous passage together. They were silent all the way, and their steps were silent and slow.
After returning to the Golden Compass room, Abby and others found that several people were there, including those who had just arrived and Natasha who had passed by before.
Everyone stared at the passage on the other side in amazement. Samuel walked over quickly and then opened his mouth wide.
A spider puppet used vines to weave a web at the entrance of the passage.
Of course, this kind of obstacle without magic power can be easily destroyed by anyone present. But what caught their attention was that several puppets lying on the net were pulling out the fibers that made up their bodies, forming a string of words -
Thank you for your enthusiastic cooperation
All the remaining golden eggs are with me.
——VG】
In fact, even if there is no signature, everyone will know who did it when they see the puppet.
"The flames are blazing!"
Mando's Ganesh used a fire spell, and an extremely hot and huge flame burst out, burning several puppets on the spider web into ashes.
He looked at the others and said loudly, "I don't believe he took all the golden eggs by himself. Who wants to go in with me to check it out?"
Everyone was silent for a moment, and after a while, Natasha whispered, "Ganesh, you came late, so you didn't see it... Just now, a puppet carrying several golden eggs entered the passage over there right under our noses."
She pointed to another passage.
Ganesh looked over, then turned his head back, his eyebrows twitched, and looked at them in disbelief and asked, "What about you? You just watched the puppet steal the golden egg?"
He was confused and thinking: Could it be that the puppet that stole the golden egg was particularly powerful? The few puppets here are all crispy!
"It's mainly because it's disguised too well." Zahid of Aketim touched his nose embarrassedly and whispered in defense: "That puppet looks exactly like a vine. If it hadn't accidentally dropped a golden egg at the end, we might not have discovered it after entering the passage."
Who would have thought that there was a plant among a group of insects? Other puppets were as rough as beggars, and no one would pick them up if they were thrown on the ground, but the vine was so realistic that it was difficult to distinguish even if observed closely, not to mention that there were already a lot of vines in the secret room and the passage.
"Accidentally?" Ganesh rubbed his brow and said with a headache: "Have you ever seen a puppet that can be 'accidental'? It must have deliberately exposed the golden egg to lead us over!"
Natasha sighed: "Then can we not go?"
Everyone was silent for a while, but Ganesh still went in to explore without giving up. Not knowing what the others were thinking, they followed him in.
The traps of the Ultimate Wizarding Level Exam level were certainly not a problem for such a group of people. They entered smoothly and found, as expected, that there were no golden eggs in all the mechanisms that stored the golden eggs, so they had to go back the same way.
"We've been set up." Samuel lowered his voice and said to Abby, "If we hadn't been lured out just now, maybe we could have discovered the mechanism... or at least found the vine puppet that was behaving abnormally!"
Abby looked sullen and said nothing.
When everyone returned to the secret room, they found that there was one more person here - Olga Las from Kodos Doris.
He had a grumpy expression on his face, but his words were relatively gentle: "It seems that something unexpected happened here?"
He turned his gaze and asked after looking at the expressions of several people.
After understanding the situation, Olga was very decisive: "Let's go. Since the competition requires the golden egg, and only Wade Gray has the golden egg, we naturally have to go find him." As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't care about other people's reactions, and took the lead to walk into the passage where Wade was.
Everyone: "..."
Although...but...we all understand the truth, but can't we discuss countermeasures?
They hesitated and paused for a moment before following one after another.
The three people from Salem College didn't say much the whole time. They deliberately walked slower and naturally fell to the back of the line.
Abby blocked the view of others, and Samuel casually waved his arm, and the golden egg fell lightly into Hope's robe pocket.
Even though the material was not pure gold, this was still a very valuable golden egg. As soon as it fell into the bag, Hope felt it immediately and looked at the two of them in surprise.
"Be quiet." Samuel said with his lips slightly moving, "Take this golden egg and leave first."
Abby nodded slightly, "That's it. Hope, this isn't for me or you, this is for the honor of the school."
"Among the three of us, you have the best chance of winning. We can't fail in the first event." Samuel said softly, "Go back quickly while no one else is paying attention to us, okay?"
Hope touched the golden egg in his pocket, nodded vigorously, and couldn't help shedding a few tears.
"Why are you crying?" Abby chuckled, "It's not like we're parting forever."
……
The frail-looking girl touched the compass and disappeared instantly. As for the others, they had already entered the depths of the passage and could no longer be seen.
Harry breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Cedric: "How do you feel?"
At this moment, he was very glad that he ran to rescue Cedric after getting the golden egg. Otherwise, he would have run into that group of people head-on. Not only would he lose the golden egg, but he might also be the target of their anger.
Cedric, who was limp all over, dragged his two leather-bag-like legs and smiled bitterly, "Still alive."
Harry looked at Cedric's legs sympathetically, patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Madam Pomfrey can cure it in just one night."
"When did you learn such...such dangerous magic?" Cedric asked curiously.
He was trapped in a trap just now, and both of them were helpless against the magic. Suddenly Harry said that he had thought of a way that would cause a little damage to the body, and asked Cedric if he was willing to try it.
If he didn't get away, Cedric would definitely be eliminated, so he nodded naturally. Unexpectedly, Harry cast two consecutive spells and pulled out all the bones in his legs!
After losing his bones, Cedric was easily pulled out of the trap by Harry. But at this moment, dragging two limp legs, even "walking" had to rely on Harry's levitation spell, he didn't know what else he could do.
"Vade taught me." Harry said, and after a pause, thinking that this should be considered a dark magic, he added: "Professor Gilderoy Lockhart once used this magic on me. After seeing it, Vade remembered it and later taught it to me."
"How terrible." Cedric sighed, "I feel like these two legs are not my own... You two, don't learn any spells!"
"We just thought it was interesting and we haven't used it on anyone else."
When they reached the compass, Harry placed the golden egg that the golem had thrown to him into Cedric's hands.
Cedric refused: "This is the golden egg you got, I can't take it!"
"The people in Salem are right. We should make sure that those who have a better chance of winning the championship pass this project first. And I'm going to go see Wade...see if I can help him a little."
Harry said seriously, and with a wave of his wand, Cedric, who was floating, was helplessly sent to the compass despite his resistance, carrying the precious golden egg.
According to the rules, whether he is willing to admit it or not, he has already passed the level.
Harry was momentarily lost in thought when he saw Cedric disappear from the compass.
He seemed to see himself leaving with the golden egg, and soon he would hold up the trophy, with countless people cheering for him. Qiu Ye kept looking at her, with an unprecedented light flowing in her eyes and a sweet smile on her face;
Then the protagonist of the fantasy became Cedric again. The girl he liked stood next to the Hufflepuff, looked at him and said, "Thank you, Harry, you helped us a lot..."
Harry couldn't help but regret his noble character, and was angry with himself for a moment, so he slapped his face hard from both sides.
The fantasy disappeared, and the dimly lit secret room was still in front of me, with many more traces of spells around it than before.
Harry held his wand and walked deeper into the passage.
……
"It's not easy! The third warrior passed the competition smoothly... Oh, it seems not so smooth, healer! Healer! Take a look at Mr. Diggory's legs... Let's see what the other warriors are busy with..."
As Bagman was explaining, the Scottish Black Dragon was roaring and stomping angrily, slapping the barrier that trapped it with its tail.
Just now he saw another person emerging from the entrance of the passage, but that person suddenly disappeared!
The Scottish Black Dragon had accumulated some experience and knew that every time a new wizard was spit out from the entrance, it would suffer a round of pain.
Not only did these wizards try every possible way to tease it, they also used magic to poke its eyes, cut its belly, knocked off a lot of its scales, and one even almost blew its anus into pieces!
The Scottish Black Dragon was almost going crazy. It madly breathed fire at every inch of the land, trying to burn the disappeared wizard to death. Then it flapped its wings and flew to a certain height, landed, and stomped on the land hard!
If there really was someone on the ground, after being roasted into charcoal, he would be trampled into black ash by it!
One of the irritable black dragon's eyes was still bleeding, so it didn't notice at all that a gerbil that looked very much like a mouse had just jumped onto its paw, climbed up its thigh, and finally had the audacity to stand on the black dragon's back!
When the black dragon jumped, Jabari, a student of Uagadu who had turned into a gerbil, climbed up a bit, grasped the bone spurs on the back of the black dragon with his claws, and looked into the distance.
He didn't hear the commentary either, but in the stands, a student from Uagadou suddenly held up a sign with three big "Come on!" written on it in glittering paint.
"Only three players made it out?" Jabari muttered in his heart, "It seems that the competition is more brutal than I thought! Are the referees really ready for such a result?"
Although he said this, the look in those black bean-like eyes remained calm.
As the black dragon fell to the ground again, the gerbil slid down the black dragon's tail and rushed towards the compass extremely agilely, with its limbs changing positions rapidly, like a shadow rolling on the ground.
Soon, the gerbil jumped onto the compass and looked at the last few contestants who were still trying to pass the fire dragon. It blinked and the vision in front of it changed rapidly.
(End of this chapter)