Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

After a sharp pain in his belly button and a few seconds of dizzying spinning, Rice was back on the ground of the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch.

In front and behind him, one little wizard after another fell from the sky and landed on the land of Hogwarts.

Thunderous applause erupted from all around.

"Congratulations!"

"congratulate!"

Praises for the contestants came in like snowflakes. The spectators were not only students from Hogwarts, but also visitors from outside.

The competition venue provided by Hogwarts gave them a little shock of being a thousand-year-old school.

Is this stadium setting really artificially made?! Did you, Hogwarts, secretly open a space channel to the magical continent of another world?

The extremely realistic world background also makes this competition very valuable. The principals present are even thinking about the candidates for the next competition, because everyone can see that this kind of competition is a great help to the growth of students.

There was no doubt about the venue for the next competition, it would definitely be held at Hogwarts, unless some other school could come up with a venue that was comparable to the venue for this competition.

After a while, the applause died down, and the audience noticed that several contestants had not returned to Hogwarts, and only their crystal balls, or fragments of them, had returned.

The fate of these people is self-evident.

Many people's hearts shuddered, and they couldn't help but recall what Headmaster Dumbledore and Mr. Henry had repeatedly emphasized before the game started: the game involves life-threatening situations.

This also diluted some of the excitement in the field.

However, Mr. Henry's actions soon made them forget about this unpleasantness.

He took a roll of parchment from Dumbledore, then walked to the commentary desk on the Quidditch pitch and began announcing the names of those who had passed the first stage of the tournament.

Although in Rowena's eyes, she set the passing conditions extremely simple, two-thirds of the contestants still failed to pass the preliminary round.

Hunting an adult fire dragon is still too difficult, and not everyone has strong social skills and can get help from the natives of the alchemy world. The crystal ball does help the young wizards to group, but it is not so easy to find teammates.

There are also some contestants who did not take the laws of the alchemy world seriously when they entered the game. In their eyes, this is a game that is almost like a reality show.

They also paid a price for this. Not everyone could come and go as freely as Les and be invincible. They either stayed in the cell for a full month, or had the defensive magic of the crystal ball directly knocked out and were forcibly sent back to Hogwarts.

The eliminated contestants can choose to go home or stay in Hogwarts to watch the game. Anyway, Hogwarts has enough knives and forks for them, and they have enough places to live.

While announcing the list, Mr. Henry waved his magic wand and the players' scores appeared on the big screen in the stadium.

Since there are no points awarded for completing the main mission, a very strange phenomenon occurred: the scores of some contestants who passed the first stage of the assessment were lower than those of the eliminated contestants.

Rice is one of the oddballs.

Since he neither obtained the title nor joined any of his teammates, his score was zero. But when he hunted the three dragon kings behind, he kept their hearts, so he actually completed the main task.

Rice was not disappointed because he was ranked last in the exam. He didn't care about that. He cared more about the ranking of Hogwarts.

Fortunately, the contestants from Hogwarts did not disappoint him, and Hogwarts ranked first in the standings. Although the gap between them and the following places was not too big, that was because the first stage of the competition allowed contestants from different schools to complete the tasks together, and Rice, a big zero, was dragging them down.

After the individual points list and the overall points list appeared, the whole stadium was immediately enveloped by a "buzzing" sound. It can be seen that everyone is very interested in these two lists.

Mr. Henry stood in front of the commentary desk and waited quietly for more than ten seconds. Seeing that the stadium showed no sign of quieting down, he lightly flicked the microphone in front of him. The microphone made a sharp bang and the stadium suddenly became quiet.

"Next, the competition will enter the off-season. Contestants can arrange their own time. Professor Dumbledore of Hogwarts asked me to tell you a message: he welcomes everyone to stay in Hogwarts to visit and study, and everyone is a distinguished guest of Hogwarts. The second stage of the competition will be held on New Year's Day, which is January 1st next year. Please don't forget the start time. Well, this is all I want to say, now let's save time for the post-match carnival!"

After this sentence, the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch turned into a sea of ​​joy.

The young wizards of Hogwarts poured into the stadium from the stands, surrounding the contestants from each school who had passed the first stage of the test and walked out.

As you walk, use magic to shoot out strings of sparks, or take out fireworks and light them.

Next, an even grander celebration was waiting for them in the lounge.

Students from other schools were no exception. After all, the points difference between the top few was only a little bit, so it was not difficult to overtake the opponent in the second stage of the competition.

Rice knew that there were two lonely old men waiting for him, but he really didn't want to miss the carnival of the Hogwarts students.

He felt that the kids of the new era seemed to have come up with a lot of novel gadgets, and he had to go and take a look to broaden his horizons.

Of course, he didn't expect the Slytherin guys to organize any interesting carnival. He could even predict what the students would do like a prophet: the girls would offer a bunch of rainbow farts to the Greengrass sisters, and then take the opportunity to drag down other contestants. The boys would try every means to get close to Daphne and Astoria, and would kneel down to lick their feet. After a lot of meaningless greetings, it was the so-called aristocratic ball.

None of these things had the slightest appeal to Rice.

So he quietly slipped into an inconspicuous corner, cast an Invisibility Charm on himself, and then squeezed into the Gryffindor team.

When it comes to fun and pranks, these overly energetic little lions are definitely the best. He has seen quite a few people taking out some clever little props from their robes that they will be using soon.

Gryffindor (Common Room), I'm coming in!

Mixed in with the Gryffindor team, Rice and the happy little lions entered the Gryffindor common room.

Compared with a thousand years ago, the place had not changed much, except for some more decorations and portraits, but the overall style had not changed. This gave Rice a sense of misplaced familiarity.

The tables and chairs in the lounge were piled with small mountains of cakes and pastries, as well as jugs of iced juice and butter beer. As soon as Lee Jordan came in, he couldn't help but set off a bunch of Filiba fireworks, making the sky above the lounge twinkle with countless stars and sparks.

"These are all sponsored by Fred and George!" Jordan took the opportunity to advertise for the Weasley twins. This was also a small condition they attached when giving away the fireworks.

"Where did they go?" Harry shouted at the top of his voice.

Since he saw the two brothers on the Hogwarts Express on the first day of school, he has never seen them again. Even Ron didn't know where they went. He only knew that they went to "realize their dreams."

"It's a secret, you will know soon!" Jordan kept it a secret.

Dean Thomas, who was good at painting, waved his wand and hung several huge canvases on the walls of the lounge. Most of them depicted the highlights of the Gryffindor contestants in the competition, and a small part was the scene of Cedric controlling the earth giant and the fire dragon to fight.

It has to be said that Cedric is the only heir who chose to live broadcast his own fighting scenes. That wonderful fighting scene made him gain a lot of fans.

Even the students of Gryffindor House had to admit that Cedric was really powerful.

Then, Jordan began to distribute various prank toys to everyone, which opened Rice's eyes: he saw nougat that would cause a rainbow nosebleed after eating it, cookies that would turn him into a canary after just one bite, syrup that would make people roar like a lion after drinking it, and small peppers that would spurt out flames when held in the mouth...

Rice discovered that many people like himself had mixed in, and the Gryffindor students didn't care much.

After carefully feeling the carnival atmosphere, Rice left the Gryffindor common room and went straight to Helga's office.

When he pushed open the office door, Rice saw the two of them sitting together enjoying afternoon tea.

"I told you he would come find us," Rowena said in a tone of expectedness.

"I just went to participate in a celebration. You two should go too. Don't stay in the office like old ladies and drink tea every day." Rice pulled out a chair and sat down on it. "Spend more time with young people, and your heart will become younger too."

Helga rolled her eyes: "But I am an old man now!"

Rowena nodded, too. She couldn't be any older.

Les didn't know how to respond to them, so he just put the various prank toys he took from the Gryffindor common room on the table and motioned Rowena and Helga to look at them.

"Interesting little gadgets." Helga showed great interest in these things, and Rowena's expression seemed to say: I didn't expect you to be such a Salazar.

Helga swallowed a fiery chili pepper and then suddenly spat out a string of flames.

"Cool!" After the effect of the candy wore off, Helga couldn't help but give it a thumbs up.

Rowena winked at Les, indicating that Les should ignore Helga and tell her about what he had gained in the alchemy world first.

When it comes to this, Les becomes excited.

"Royna, what did you do? There are many more powerful people in your little world than I thought!" Les told Rowena about how he had killed four dragon kings, several powerful humans and a god.

"It looks like the situation is more out of control than I thought." Rowena's reaction was calm, perhaps because she was not the one to clean up the mess.

"Your regular [cleaning] is not very effective." Rice shared the alchemical life forms' definition of "world-destroying catastrophe" with Rowena.

Rowena frowned slightly.

"I told you, I have basically lost control of that world. That's why you have to destroy that world. They know too much."

Les resisted the urge to scold Rowena and handed over the world origin he had collected to Rowena.

"These are not enough."

"I know." Rice waved his hand impatiently, "I will kill a few more gods during the second stage of the assessment."

After handing over the origin of the world to Rowena, Les started the main topic of today - if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have bothered to come here.

"I used the resurrection stone in the alchemy world and summoned Godric. His attitude softened and he was willing to be resurrected."

"That's great!" Helga couldn't help but smile when she heard the good news brought by Les.

When she heard that Godric didn't want to be resurrected, she was very sad. But fortunately, Salazar was strong enough to successfully convince Godric.

Rowena's reaction was quite calm. In her opinion, Godric's return was inevitable, it was just a matter of time, and it was not surprising.

But as soon as Rice said the next sentence, she immediately raised her long eyebrows.

"He will return as his true self!"

"Oh?" Rowena's eyes sparkled with a playful light, "You mean Godric will return as [Godric Gryffindor]?"

"Yes!" Les nodded excitedly.

At this moment, Helga also reacted: Gryffindor is actually willing to return to Hogwarts with a real-name system? !

This is wonderful!

"There's nothing we can do about it. There really is a 'Godric' in Hogwarts now! Godric wants to smash the fake's head."

Rowena and Helga looked at each other and instantly reached a consensus: they must help in this matter!

They couldn't wait to see the founder of Gryffindor return to Hogwarts.

As the founder of the school, it is reasonable to give him more responsibility, right? Thanks to the kind-hearted person who pretended to be him. Without his help, Godric might have reacted!

Rowena and Helga had even begun to imagine the days after Godric's return, and a smile appeared on the corners of their mouths.

"The most urgent task now is to find a way to revive Godric and figure out the purpose of the imposter." Les's voice broke the two's fantasy and brought them back to reality: Godric is still in the state of a soul, or even not in the state of a soul. He needs their help.

The three of them looked at each other and quickly reached a consensus: The Godric Resurrection Project Team is established from today!

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