Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

After Cedric, the remaining contestants were attacked one after another.

Some individuals were caught off guard and knocked unconscious by the spell, and thus lost their competition rewards, but most of the contestants escaped this final disaster.

After avoiding the sudden attack, the threat from the players on the shore was greatly reduced. For the players underwater, it was not difficult to successfully reach the shore.

If it really doesn't work, several people can come forward at the same time!

A person could attract dozens of spells, but if he showed up with other people, it would be a completely different situation. Some lucky people wouldn't even have a single spell cast on them.

When the players on the shore began to attack the players in the water, the rhythm of the game became weird.

Logically speaking, the contestants who were attacked should have been extremely angry, but most of them did not retaliate against the contestants on shore after getting ashore.

Perhaps they didn't want to cause trouble, perhaps their classmates were among those who participated in the sneak attack on the shore, or perhaps they wanted to use these people to help them eliminate some competitors.

In short, the situation of the game formed a strange balance. The contestants on the shore would attack the contestants who appeared on the lake without hesitation, but when these contestants came ashore, they would tacitly stop attacking them to avoid arousing public anger and retaliation. This led to dozens of people coming ashore after Cedric, but only one contestant was knocked out, and that person was knocked out by Cedric!

Cedric was also stunned when he saw the game situation taking a miraculous turn.

"If I had known earlier, I would have knocked them all down!" He couldn't help but slap his thigh, feeling extremely regretful.

In his opinion, these despicable guys were not qualified to continue participating in the competition!

The Hufflepuff classmates around him tried to comfort him.

"It's okay. Who would have thought that these people behind would do this?"

"Why bother with so much? This is also a test of the competition!"

"It would be nice to have them help eliminate the competition."

Listening to the noisy sounds in his ears, Cedric couldn't help but sigh.

He felt bored when he thought about competing with these people who used unconventional means in the next game.

While Cedric was regretting, the situation that had been maintained for a long time was broken by a student from Durmstrang.

Before him, after the contestants successfully broke through the lake, they would go to the referee for certification and complete the competition. But he was different. After he successfully got ashore, he did not rush to the referee, but stopped on the shore to watch.

Now the contestants on the shore became alert all of a sudden: Is this guy trying to get revenge?

But what they didn't expect was that the Durmstrang student took two steps forward and joined the hunter team on the shore!

At this moment, even the contestants who were waiting on the shore were stunned for a moment. When they reacted, everyone's face showed joy.

It's a good thing that he is willing to join! One more person means more strength. Besides, this person has already cleared the game and won't compete with them for the cleared treasure chest. It's simply a profit without any investment.

The audience was shocked: How could this be done? But when they saw the referees not far away did not make any movement, they realized that this kind of operation was actually within the scope of the rules.

The principals sitting on the referee's bench were far less united than the students imagined. In fact, the principals also had a discussion about what had just happened.

"Karkaroff, you have taught a good student!" Seeing the people from Durmstrang take the initiative to join the hunters, Madame Maxime couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark to Karkaroff.

Karkaroff laughed: "I didn't teach him to do this. This kid came up with this idea on his own. And from what I see, he didn't seem to violate the rules of the game. He just came to us for certification later!"

Since it was not against the rules for the contestants to stay on the shore and intercept those who entered the lake and completed the race, then this Durmstrang student was blameless. After all, there was no rule that forced students to complete the race in the first place.

After Karkaroff said this, the other headmasters fell silent.

There were some who were unable to refute Karkaroff because they had not spoken out before, and there were a few headmasters who were simply unable to refute because their own students were also among the hunters.

Soon, a shark head emerged from the lake.

The hunters attacked one after another, but the Durmstrang student cast an Shield Charm, buying Krum time to react.

Krum was startled, but he reacted in a very short time and immediately rushed to the shore to escape the pursuit.

Watching the student's operation, the audience widened their eyes again.

The principals also realized the advantage of this model: the "insiders" who stayed in the hunter team could cover their classmates to get ashore!

As the game progresses, the more players there are, and the harder it is to get ashore. But if there are some of your own people in the team at this time, the result will be very different.

And since the eight major magic schools have the most contestants and the force they form is the strongest, this may very well be the best time for the eight major magic schools to join forces to eliminate other individual contestants!

From today onwards, only contestants from the eight major magic schools will remain in the competition.

When the principals thought of this kind of benefit, they kept silent. They all hoped to take this opportunity to eliminate a group of people and reduce the intensity of competition.

There are still nearly a hundred people who have not been eliminated, which is a bit too many.

It can be said that if nothing unexpected happens, the course of the game will really develop in this trend.

However, the accident still happened.

After watching the mermaid village for a long time and not seeing any new tricks for a long time, Rice didn't want to continue watching. He began to float up and gradually moved away from the mermaid village.

On the way back, he also saw two beautiful silver shadows.

Daphne and Astoria were swimming slowly together not far ahead. Under the water of this black lake, the two girls looked more like mermaids in myths than those mermaids.

The two swam slowly, not because they were bad at swimming. Any wizard who had mastered the flow of magic would not be troubled by this. Even if there was no water domain, it was still possible to let magic push you to swim.

The two of them fell behind because they were playing.

Anyway, there was no rule that the earlier you finished the race, the higher your score would be, so why not take the opportunity to have some fun in the Black Lake? All you had to do was get back before the one-hour deadline.

After hearing her sister's suggestion, Astoria readily agreed, and the two even figured out a way to communicate underwater.

At this time, Daphne used magic to write a line of words in front of her: [The college lounge is at the bottom of the Black Lake. Should we go take a look? I haven't seen our lounge outside yet.]

After seeing what her sister wrote, Astoria was also quite moved.

In the past, they always stayed in the lounge and looked at the scenery at the bottom of the lake. Now that they have the chance, how can they not change their perspective and take a look?

After calculating the time and finding that they still had plenty of time, they changed direction and swam underwater.

But after swimming for a while, the two discovered a serious problem: they seemed to be lost.

How easy is it to find the few small windows of the Slytherin College common room at the bottom of the huge Black Lake? It's almost as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

Just then, the two heard a voice.

"The lounge is over here."

The two of them were like cats whose tails were stepped on, with their fur standing on end.

It was indeed a bit scary to suddenly hear such a sound underwater. The two of them reached for their wands at the same time, but they soon identified the owner of the voice.

[Les?!] Daphne deliberately added two punctuation marks to convey her feelings.

"Yes, you two are really not afraid of missing the final deadline!" Rice complained about the two careless sisters.

It would be hilarious if they missed the deadline because they were so focused on finding the lounge window underwater.

[It's okay, I brought a timer, it will automatically ring when fifty minutes have passed!] Astoria took out a golden pocket watch from her bosom, indicating that she had taken foolproof safety measures.

Daphne chuckled and said that she would just follow her sister.

Seeing that Astoria was still so reliable, Les's heart fell back into his stomach.

The two men looked at Rice, who was moving freely underwater and no different from on shore, and couldn't help but feel a hint of envy in their eyes.

Rice couldn't do anything about this. Unless he had the water domain, no one could be like him.

"Come with me, I'll show you the view of the lounge." Les motioned for the two to follow him.

For Rice, it was much easier to get his bearings and find the lounge.

He swam towards the castle for a while, and soon found the location of the lounge through the information transmitted in the water.

After identifying a direction and swimming towards it for a few minutes, several ornately decorated floor-to-ceiling windows appeared in front of the three people.

The windows are of simple style, and the frames are full of traces of time.

"Here, this is it. Don't get too close, it's cursed." Les waved at the two of them, indicating that they could go up and take a look.

He spent a lot of effort to get these large glass panels in the Slytherin College lounge. Although glass is not valuable in modern society, these floor-to-ceiling windows were top-notch luxury goods back then.

Many of the pure-blood young wizards who were sorted into Slytherin house were originally very noisy, but when they saw the window of the lounge, they all fell silent.

Big, clear glass!

This was a common sight in the college back then.

Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Daphne and Astoria could see the interior of the lounge clearly.

Armchairs, fireplace, marble floors...

Those familiar furniture decorations become novel again through this special perspective.

But this was ultimately not very interesting, and after the two of them watched for a while, the novelty wore off.

[It's time to go back] Astoria took out the timer, indicating that time was running out.

"Well, let's go." The three of them floated towards the surface of the water together.

A few minutes later, the three of them poked their heads out of the lake.

The moment he showed his head, Les felt something was wrong, and then he saw more than a dozen spells coming towards him.

He waved his hand, and a wall of water formed in front of him. The next second, more than a dozen ripples appeared on the wall of water.

He blocked all the spells fired by the hunters on the shore.

"Oh? Interesting." Rice quickly understood the intentions of these people, and felt deeply moved that they had found the right way to open the game.

If he were really an ordinary contestant, he would do the same.

Astoria's eyes lit up. She felt that she should hurry up and join the group.

Since they can intercept here, it means that this method is allowed by the referees! Then this is a great opportunity to eliminate other players! After doing this, the game is secure!

But before Les and Astoria could make a move, Daphne made the first move.

She rushed to the shore like a bolt of lightning, and the spells fired at her either missed or were blocked by her defensive magic.

When she reached the shore, the hunters stopped, but Daphne had no intention of stopping. Her hands turned red, and the high temperature even caused the air to fluctuate with her every move. She threw out spells like a string of cannonballs.

The hunters were caught off guard, and several of them were sent flying by Daphne's spell.

This was the first time they had encountered such a person!

Can't she see that we are helping her relieve stress?

Just as they were preparing to fight back, they suddenly found that the ground beneath their feet became hot.

"what's the situation?"

"Get out of here!"

The originally strict formation on the shore suddenly became chaotic.

Looking at Daphne who rushed to the shore and started fighting, Les and Astoria sighed in unison.

What else could they do? Since Daphne was already doing it, they couldn't just stand by and watch, right?

Les casually cast a few disarming spells, knocking away the wands of the contestants who tried to fight back, and Astoria also helped her sister deal with a few opponents.

The next step was Daphne's personal performance. In front of all the students and the principals of the other seven magic schools, she knocked down the contestants who had just attacked her from the shore one by one and threw them into the Black Lake.

Any resistance is powerless in front of her. Those who are lucky will just be knocked unconscious by her spell, while those who are unlucky will be punched!

"This, this--" Karkaroff was stunned.

When he found out that Daphne had snatched away her student's treasure chest and thrown it into the lake, he could no longer sit still.

"Albus, should we—"

"This doesn't violate the rules of the game, does it?" Dumbledore smiled.

"But, but——" Karkaroff felt his eyes go dark: as time passed, many Durmstrang students mixed in with the hunters by the lake! If this little girl continued to fight like this, Krum would be the only one left in Durmstrang in the next game!

"It seems that this little girl also has a flash of inspiration!" Madame Maxime stabbed Karkaroff in time, causing his eyes to turn black and he collapsed in his seat.

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