Chapter 289: The First Level Ends

Hogsmeade is a small village, and there is a street in total. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoIt doesn't take much time to get from one end of the village to the other. The basilisk reached Hogsmeade through the secret passage of the screaming shack, destroying almost half of the village's buildings, and the attack was a great blow to the wizarding village of Hogsmeade.

If it weren't for Minister Fudge's insistence on rebuilding Hogsmeade, and the new forces led by Count Lee continued to invest, buy land, and rebuild Hogsmeade, I'm afraid Hogsmeade would still not be able to fully recover now.

Wizards can quickly get to where they want to be with Floo Powder and Apparition Shifting. Of course, if you have enough time, you can also take the Knight bus. By now, train travel isn't very popular among wizards, let alone plane travel.

Walking south of Hogsmeade into the village, there were a number of shops under construction, which were all new shops that the families were planning to invest in Hogsmeade. The relationship between wizards and Muggles is now more delicate, and the situation in Diagon Alley in London is getting more and more weird. Some stores, including Ollivanders, are also preparing to set up branches in Hogsmeade. A little further inside is Luna's clothing store, which is one of the many lots purchased by the Li family, and after renovation, it became the location of Luna's clothing store.

After passing through two houses made of stone and oak, you will come to another relatively small street, which is inhabited by foreign wizards, and in recent years, especially after the end of the first Voldemort War, many wizards like to gather together, Hogsmeade, High Jacket Valley, is one of the most popular places.

Queen Anne's apartment is on this street.

Sitting in a north-facing south-facing house, it is easy to enjoy the sun in winter. The house looks a little old. A small flower bed was encircled by a fence made of bamboo chips, and the stone slabs were piled up into a small step, and the morning glory climbed down the fence to the eaves, a small bird's nest, now empty.

One basement, one floor above, and an attic on top. The wood exudes a faint fragrance, and the wooden doors made of oak and the windows inlaid with crystal glass all show a sophisticated, serene temperament.

When you open the wooden door, you will see a vast African savannah with lions, giraffes, zebras and many other wild animals, low shrubs and a small water source, and you will think that this is a magical portal that will take you directly to the African savannah.

Not at all, you're still in Hogsmeade. Queen Anne's powerful magic amazed all wizards. But now all you can see is the empty floor, the room is empty, and when you look up, a huge round hole is in the middle of the roof. Through the round hole, you can see the table clock on the second floor.

The picture of hell is like a receding tide, leaving no trace on the beach. The fire-breathing floors and burning portraits were restored to their original state, and there was no trace of a picture of hell around them, except for the large hole in the roof.

The world repaired its wounds.

As you go up the stairs, the portraits will look at you curiously. The magical portraits chosen by Queen Anne are all animals, such as the sika deer from the Far East, a symbol of longevity, and the white elephant from Bodhi, all of which seem to have forgotten what had just happened: in the flames of hell, they all turned to ashes.

After turning a small angle, you can see the corridor on the second floor, after the corridor, the first room is where Queen Anne usually studies magic, most of the things in this room have turned into strange black things, the curtains of the room block the sun, and there is not a trace of wind in it. The magic materials collected by Queen Anne, the useful magic formations, and some treasures containing magical power have now turned into a strange black and gray, as if someone had splashed them with black ink.

Not all things destroyed by the Hell Picture can be repaired, and things with magical power may completely turn into this black appearance, and if they are slightly blown by the wind, they will turn into black ashes and completely dissipate with the wind.

Next to the laboratory is Queen Anne's living room. The huge hole seen from the first floor is on this floor. At that time, Queen Anne was floating in the living room on the second floor, and the entire living room was transformed by her galaxy realm until Xie An's arrival.

Precious carpet, comfortable sofa, Queen Anne sat on the antique sofa, looking at Xie An, who was sleeping opposite. After forcibly retracting the Hell Picture, Xie An'an's body was covered with Demon Pattern Formations and Hell Scenes, and terrifying distorted grimaces and Demon Pattern lines alternated. This situation has never been encountered by Queen Anne yet. Although she has the body of stars, she doesn't know much about Xie An's situation.

The ancient grandfather clock "bell" rang six times, and Xie An had been in a coma for several hours. During this time, the magic in his body continued to transform and fuse, and Queen Anne wanted to find out about Xie An's situation, but the magic in his body would instinctively fight back against all external magic.

After several attempts, Queen Anne failed. Every time the Demon Pattern and the Hell Picture were transformed, Queen Anne felt that Xie An's aura had become stronger. It seemed that the energy in Xie An's body was gradually being absorbed by him.

This continued until just after midnight. Xie An slowly woke up. There were no magic patterns or hell on his body, and instead he had the skin of the original wizard. Xie An opened his eyes, and he was just staring at Queen Anne.

"Andy, you saved me again this time. The queen said faintly.

Xie An didn't answer immediately, but wanted to do it, but he felt pain all over his body.

"Don't move, I've already stuck to your body, the magic is raging, leaving the cells of your whole body in a state of exhaustion, and you need rest and food at this time. I've told the elves to bring you something to eat. ā€

Xie An felt his mouth very dry, "Give it to me... Give me some water. Saying a word, Xie An also felt so hard. Queen Anne waved her wand, and a glass of milk appeared in front of Shea. After taking a sip of milk, Xie An felt better.

"What happened, why did I feel so much destructive power. Xie An lay back on the sofa, he felt a little better, so he asked slowly.

After seeing Xie An lying down, Queen Anne said: "I don't know what is going on now, it seems that the magic I extracted from your body started some special space, and in this special space, it is your special magic." There was some kind of fusion or teleportation between the two powers, and I was controlled. ā€

"Did you feel anything out of the ordinary. "When Xie An used the Hell Picture, he could obviously feel that those destruction magic powers were controlled by someone, otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly retreated and disappeared just when the Hell Picture was frantically absorbing the magic power.

Queen Anne looked at Xie An, "This is exactly what I am worried about, I feel a will to destroy, it seems that they have been coveting us here, if they find this place, they will definitely find a way to capture it." ā€

Xie An also felt the distortion and greed of that will, and he had an even more uncomfortable feeling in his heart, as if this will would have a great relationship with future destruction.

"Same feeling as me. How are you feeling now, is that power still there?"

"Now they're completely gone, including the magic you gave me, and I guess they've been swallowed up by your strange magical realm. ā€

This is the first time Xie An has seriously considered the picture of hell. The only effect of the previous picture of hell was to drive Xie An crazy. Now that he suddenly discovered this strange ability, Xie An also had to consider all kinds of doubts in it.

After the first wave of destruction began eerily and disappeared eerily, Hogsmeade returned to normal. The wizard who went to the tavern early in the morning to drink, continued to drink, and today the tavern business is particularly good, in addition to the wizards of the village, there are many more fresh faces. Of course, there are many Aurors among them.

Kingsley Shackel sat in the corner of the bar, looking carefully at the parchment in his hand. Tonks looked bored, looking for something interesting.

At the moment, the Ministry of Magic is very serious about the situation of Hogsmeade, which is related to the future of the wizarding world. Shackel was tasked with investigating the ins and outs of the matter. He didn't go directly to Dumbledore, but went to Hogsmeade first to see what was going on.

If it were Muggle procedures, they would go door-to-door to ask and search, after all, Hogsmeade was not big. It's a pity that this is the wizarding world, and Shaker's first thought is to find clues through the traces of magic.

Shackel struggled to read a clue from the parchment line in his hand, but the record was too confusing for Shackel to comprehend the way wizards thought of thinking of those who thought of themselves as something, like a teapot. So he could only sit in his place again in disappointment.

A few days passed quickly, and the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, except for those who were really aware of the danger, were about to forget about it. They all looked excited today, because the professor had already announced that the deadline for the first item of the tournament was today, and the students from the six schools would gather tonight to determine whether the potions configured by the three teams of warriors were qualified.

As nervous as the warriors, the students of each school sweated slightly for the warriors of their school. In the evening, although the dinner was rich, with mixed fish soup, pudding, fruit salad, cakes, etc., there were still students who were excited and did not want to eat.

After the professors had finally finished eating, Dumbledore happily talked to a few school principals or tutors for a while before the elves took all the food.

Dumbledore summoned a table, "Kids, it looks like you're excited today." I know why you're excited, so I won't say much about it here, twelve warriors, please come to the front desk. ā€

Twelve warriors, divided into three groups, arrived in front of the rostrum together.

Dumbledore looked at each of the twelve warriors before asking, "Have you prepared any potions?"

"Ready. ā€

"Okay, put it in this place. Dumbledore asked the three groups of warriors to take out their creations and put them on the table. The three warriors took the potion and placed it on the test tube value of the table.

Dumbledore didn't comment on any of the potions. He used his magic to make the flames burning in the auditorium smaller, and the three potions emitted three kinds of fluorescence. The three potions of blue, red, and yellow all look very beautiful.

"Alright, the potions are ready, let's start our judges' evaluation. Wizard Zeeman, will you come first?"

"Ladies first, let's ask Principal Lan first. Wizard Zeeman excused. Several mentors discussed the order with each other, and then they came up one by one to identify the potions. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was not attended by Dunledore, but Severus Snape.

Dumbledore and Barty Sr. stood next to the table, both of whom were notaries, making sure that no cheating could be made.

Ilvermorny's mentor came up for the first time, and he carefully examined the color, fragrance, and appearance of the three potions, and took out a little with his wand, and examined the three potions very carefully.

Later, Principal Igor Karkaroff of Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the northwest corner of Europe picked up three potions at random, looked at them casually, and went down to score them.

Then came the tall and burly Madame Maxim, who also examined the three potions very carefully before going back to score them.

Then the tutors of the six schools each reported to Barty Sr., and after Barty summarized it, he quickly gave the result: Team No. 1, including Cedric Diggory, Rose Kossazy, Victor Krum, and Cody, did a good job, and made the most perfect potion, temporarily in the first place.

The third team, Zhou Shang of the Vermilion Bird School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the African wizard Shaman Dokru, and the four potions of Bubbaston's Fleur and Durmstrang's Mira were slightly second, but not much different from the first time.

The second team, Penelo Crivat of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Lina of Suzaku School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Paul of Ilvermorny, and Vera are composed of four people, and the potion is the least effective, according to Severus Snape, although the potion configured by the second group cannot be used as poison, I am afraid that it will not be of much use to wizards if they eat it.

Old Barty announced the results on the spot, some surprised, some ashamed, some happy. Vera glared at Paul with an ugly face. They didn't do it until the last minute. If it weren't for Paul's random experiments, they would have been able to do it calmly.

Paul turned a blind eye to Vera's resentment, and his gaze wandered around the Hogwarts students, as if looking for something.

Cedric Diggory's team took first place for the time being, and the Hufflepuff students cheered. After all the students had quieted down, Dumbledore announced that the second level was about to begin.

"I believe everyone has realized that the difficulty of the championship is far more difficult than imagined, and some warriors have even encountered a life-and-death crisis. Everyone must do their best to pay for it in the future, otherwise they may not only be eliminated, but they may also die. ā€

"The potion configured in the first level will play an extremely crucial role in the second level, but unfortunately, most students may not be able to see the situation in the second level. Because the second level is provided by the Suzaku Magic School, it lasts for three days to explore the ancient ruins of the East China Sea!"