Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

Thanks to Rice's words and deeds, Astoria was definitely one of the contestants who hated the Secret Order the most. Coupled with the condescending attitude of the person in front of her, she could hardly suppress the murderous intent in her heart.

"It's a very nice look. I like it." The young monk from the secret order naturally caught the change in Astoria's eyes. Not only did he not feel angry about it, but he looked even happier.

"I watched you hunting the black dragon just now. I have to say that you are indeed on the right track." The young monk expressed his approval of Astoria's performance.

This made Astoria even angrier: Who are you? How dare you guide me?!

The young monk didn't care about Astoria's mood changes at all. He said to himself: "Blood accounts for about 1/13 of human body weight. What an interesting number! The gods in the dark have pointed out the importance of blood to us. Blood carries life. Whoever controls blood controls life and death--"

Having said that, he tapped his forehead lightly, as if he suddenly realized something.

"Oh! Did I forget to introduce myself? I was negligent. You can call me [Capricorn]"

Astoria narrowed her eyes slightly, she had heard Rice mention this code name before, and she also knew that the Secret Order had once sent Capricorn to lead two other monks to invade Hogwarts.

Of course, they were all dead.

"It's really unlucky to name yourself after a dead person." Astoria ridiculed Capricorn without hesitation, making the other person's face turn extremely ugly in an instant.

After a few seconds, he said in a muffled voice: "My grandfather's incident... was just an accident."

"Grandfather?" Astoria raised her eyebrows. It turned out that the young man in front of her was the grandson of the monk of the Secret Order who invaded Hogwarts in the past. No wonder he was eager to inherit the name of Capricorn. However, since the Secret Order allowed him to inherit this name, it meant that his strength had reached a considerable level - at least he had fused a divine corpse.

After learning that the girl in front of him actually knew about her grandfather, Capricorn's mood changed subtly.

What he wants now is not just the dragon heart in Astoria's hand.

His face turned red and a dangerous aura emanated from him.

The surrounding knights suddenly felt a throbbing sensation deep in their hearts and had an urge to kowtow to the young man in front of them.

Astoria was no exception, but she slightly stimulated the blood in her body to speed up the circulation, and then she forced away this strange feeling of admiration.

"You guys step back. The current dispute is not something you can interfere with." Astoria glanced at the knights around her and told them to step back in a deep voice, while at the same time using the power of manipulating blood to influence them.

The knights finally came out of that strange state and dispersed to both sides as if facing a formidable enemy.

Capricorn sneered: "It's better to let them stay here and serve as your ammunition depot. Blind kindness will only kill you."

As he spoke, some tiny scales gradually grew on his face.

Astoria would not be fooled by him. She felt that if these knights stayed any longer, they would be completely controlled by the monk in front of them and become his human shields.

"What an ugly thing." The wand slid into her hand, and Astoria fired an attack spell at Capricorn without hesitation, and at the same time tried to use her blood field to interfere with the opponent.

Capricorn moved sideways and easily dodged Astoria's attack magic. He even had the mind to mock her: "You have the ability to manipulate blood, right? It's a very powerful ability. It's a pity that I can restrain you completely because I have a drop of God's blood fused in my body!"

Astoria sighed secretly, and waved her empty hand behind her. The black dragon that was lying stiffly on the ground stood up all of a sudden, and its flesh and skin filled up again - Astoria injected the dragon blood hidden in the soil back into the black dragon's body, and used the blood to control the black dragon's corpse.

"The real battle has begun!" The black dragon pounced on Capricorn, and Astoria's spell followed closely.

Capricorn's eyes narrowed and his expression became serious: the current situation was a little beyond his control.

At the same time, other contestants also began their actions.

Cedric stood on the shoulder of a huge native, looked at the fire dragon lying in a pool of blood in front of him, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked down at the natives who had fought alongside him and gave a gentle smile.

"The battle is over."

"The battle is over." Hermione's figure disappeared for a moment, and then reappeared in the same place. The giant dragon that was just showing off its might had turned into a corpse.

The bloody dragon heart in her hand seemed to have stopped beating for a long time.

Daphne stood in front of the dragon's charred corpse, her face solemn.

"I accidentally used too much strength... Does the broken dragon heart still count?"

No one could answer her question.

Neville Longbottom lay on the steaming ground, gasping for breath, the air around him filled with the smell of blood and the sickening smell of roasted meat.

"The battle is over." A pale face appeared in Neville's field of vision. Neville remembered that this person was a wizard in the team, but he could not quite remember his name.

But as he said, the battle is over.

Some of the contestants have already completed the main mission. The best of them chose to go it alone and kill the target fire dragon with their own hands, but more people chose to cooperate with the local natives and fight side by side.

Some contestants succeeded, while others failed.

It didn't matter if they failed, as long as they could evacuate from the fire dragon's territory, everything would be fine. They could continue to seek help from the natives, or they could reunite with the players in the same group and then make a decision.

Outside the arena, the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch was filled with people.

In addition to the teachers and students of Hogwarts, many people from other magic schools also came to watch the game. Led by their respective principals, they formed small squares and looked for the figures of their own school's players on the screen in the stands.

From time to time, there would be exclamations of admiration due to a player's excellent performance, and from time to time, there would be sighs due to a player's mistakes.

Everyone watched the game as seriously as they would watch the Quidditch World Cup.

In the corner of the stands, Helga and Rowena sat together, admiring their masterpieces.

"You are amazing. You actually thought of letting these children hunt a fire dragon." Helga couldn't help but complain. In her opinion, this main task was a bit beyond the scope.

A powerful magical animal like a dragon requires the joint efforts of multiple adult wizards to subdue it. If you want to kill it, you need more efforts. For a group of students who have not yet graduated from school, the difficulty of this challenge seems a bit beyond the standard.

Rowena glanced at her old friend calmly.

"I think the difficulty is reasonable." She carefully analyzed what countermeasures there would be if she was not strong enough.

"You can seek help from the natives, or team up with other players. I even gave them a month. If they can't complete the task under such conditions, they should come back and watch the game as soon as possible." Rowena's attitude was very clear.

She wanted to eliminate all the contestants who were not worthy of participating in the competition in the first stage. In the second stage, she would start to increase the difficulty of the trial and provide some benefits to the contestants who passed the trial.

"By the way, do you have the players' data?" Helga asked in a low voice.

She didn't believe that Rowena didn't leave a back door in the crystal ball.

"Of course, let me see..." Rowena took out a crystal ball of the same model as the other contestants, placed her hand on it, closed her eyes and began to manipulate it.

"Among the Hogwarts contestants, Astoria Greengrass, Daphne Greengrass, Hermione Granger, and Cedric Diggory have all completed their tasks..."

"Are there only these few people?" Helga asked in surprise.

It's not reasonable to have Salazar without him, right? What is the old Viper doing?

"Oh! There's one more!"

Helga originally thought that this person was the old viper using the alias Les Lint, but she didn't expect Rowena to utter a name that made her a little unbelievable.

"Neville Longbottom, I remember he was also a student at Hogwarts, right?"

Helga:? ? ?

"Yes, but this is a bit too unbelievable..." Helga muttered to herself.

It was hard to say which of the two things surprised her more: Neville Longbottom had passed the main mission assessment, or Salazar had not yet passed the assessment.

After telling Rowena about her opinion of the student Neville Longbottom, Helga sighed and said that she might have made a mistake.

Neville is an extraordinary child.

He has qualities like gold, but before this, these beautiful qualities were covered by a mediocre stone shell and could not be revealed.

"I hope this competition can be like a grinding wheel, grinding away your ordinary shell and allowing you to be completely reborn." Helga prayed sincerely for Neville in her heart.

Rowena was totally unmoved.

In her opinion, her test was as simple as it could be, it was simply an open-book test. What was there for a candidate to be proud of after passing such a test?

Salazar deserves my attention, because he is carrying more important things. I hope he can complete the task I have assigned to him.

At this moment, Rowena's expression suddenly became playful.

"What's wrong?" Helga noticed the change in her friend's expression.

"Someone is trying to crack the crystal ball."

"Who is so bold?"

"Salazar."

"That's okay."

Rowena understood that Salazar wanted to obtain information about the players through the crystal ball, or even communicate with them through it. And during the investigation, she also discovered a very interesting detail.

Salazar's position overlaps with that of a player from the Secret Order.

This is really interesting.

Rowena swore to God that she really did not tamper with the grouping of the contestants. The fact that the monk from the secret order was assigned to Salazar's group only showed that he had extremely bad luck.

"I have to give Salazar some fun." Rowena didn't hesitate and started to play with her crystal ball.

Les felt that he was about to break the spell on the crystal ball.

The moment the spell was broken, Les's hand bounced off the crystal ball.

"What happened?" Godric asked puzzledly.

Rice was silent for two seconds, then told him that he had been electrocuted.

Godric: ???

"Is this the crystal ball's defense mechanism?"

"I don't know."

But Les immediately knew what was going on because he saw Rowena's face in the crystal ball - to be precise, it was Aries' face.

"Salazar, you look very relaxed! Do you know that several Hogwarts students have completed the main quest, even Neville Longbottom has completed the quest, but your quest is still not completed. What have you been doing these days?"

When it comes to this, Rice gets angry.

He was most likely the first one to complete the task, but because he failed to take out the dragon heart, the task had to be redone. Who could stand this?

After he vented his dissatisfaction, Rowena frowned.

"Maybe you completed the task too quickly, and the main task hadn't been issued yet."

Les:…

"After all, under normal circumstances, no contestant would be sent directly to the fire dragon's lair."

Les: . . .

"Forget it. I'm too lazy to continue talking nonsense with you. Things are a bit tricky. There are too many strong people in this alchemy world..." Les counted on his fingers: the Four Dragon Kings, the Pope, the Emperor, the Chief Magician, and the suspected gods. It seemed that there were too many people he had to fight.

Rowena on the other side of the crystal ball fell into silence, so much so that Les thought for a moment that the picture transmitted by the crystal ball was stuck.

"Help me, Mr. Salazar!" Rowena's voice came through the crystal ball.

Les was stunned for a moment, and after a few seconds he slowly said, "I forgot to tell you that Godric is here too, but you can't see him because I summoned him with the resurrection stone ring."

Now the picture on the other side of the crystal ball was completely disconnected.

Les smacked his lips and retrieved the locations of the remaining six secret order monks from the crystal ball.

Then he noticed the location that was almost identical to Astoria's.

"Interesting, let's start from here!" Rice began to meditate with his eyes closed, silently outlining the coordinates of the secret order monk in his mind.

The next second, with a loud bang, he disappeared from the tavern.

"Hu...Hu..." Astoria gasped, her face extremely pale.

Capricorn on the opposite side was not much better. The clothes on his upper body had been completely shattered, his skin was covered with scales, and one of his hands hung at his side at a strange angle, appearing to be broken.

There was a big hole in his stomach, which was caused by the attack magic stored in Astoria's necklace.

“Looks like we’re going to have to fight to the death…” He revealed a smile that was uglier than crying, and then completely let go of his control over the divine blood.

The monk's momentum began to surge, the wound on his stomach healed rapidly, and his broken arm reconnected on its own.

The blood of the gods stimulated the potential in his body and brought out all the vitality in his life.

Thirty seconds! The winner must be decided within thirty seconds! Capricorn's eyes were extremely sharp.

Seeing this, Astoria realized that the moment of the decisive battle had arrived, and she also raised her wand -

Snapped!

Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the air, and then a figure appeared next to the monk. Before the monk could react, a hole appeared on his forehead.

His rising momentum came to an abrupt halt, and his life also dissipated.

Capricorn was killed by Les.

After throwing the monk's body aside, Les smiled at Astoria.

"The hunting time begins."

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