Chapter 54: Scheming (4)
"—I heard from the students in the castle this morning that Fran shuddered at the sight of a mouse, and couldn't even pass the final exam to transform the mice...... Look at her pitiful appearance, if she can find a way to conjure a mouse to scare her, she will 100% run out of the stage and automatically abstain. ”
A few minutes ago, Wendy's 'earnest teaching' was still ringing in his ears.
Turn into a mouse and come out to scare girls...... This kind of thing is boring pranks, no matter how you look at it.
Brandi thought so, using this weakness to shamelessly win, he had some resistance, not to mention that the object of the prank was such a harmless girl.
But what if you can do this and end the game quickly? can not only give yourself a chance to leave the dueling arena, but also win a point for Hogwarts without blood, anyway, Britney's identity is fake from the beginning, even if she carries the cauldron in the end, she shouldn't be able to hold Brandi Barton accountable......
So, Brandi finally gave in to his ugly heart. At the very beginning of the duel, he used an ingenious transfiguration technique to turn a carpet on the stage into a mouse, which was made to look like a hairpit in his memory in order to ensure absolute realism.
Merlin was on top, and Brandy himself could be the size of a buffalo, but the spirit of an English gentleman was so bad that he couldn't see a girl crying in fear in front of him—so, maybe a normal size would be enough?
That's it...... Brandi looked at his vivid Transfiguration product with satisfaction, and began to look at Fran's expression, and could see that this Transfiguration had indeed achieved miraculous results, and the face of the girl opposite began to stiffen and be terrifying.
That's right, that's it, just hurry up and call the two voices to abstain and surrender.
But at this moment, Brandi clearly heard the uproar that erupted outside the stage.
"It's incredible, Miss Spears made an amazing move - he summoned a mouse! And we all know that Fran hates rats the most in her life, and she once had a precedent of blowing up the entire exam room because the spell object of the final exam of the fourth grade Transfiguration was a rat. Miss Spears is forcibly making the game more difficult for herself! ”
Ha? Brandi couldn't understand French, but the tone of surprise and schadenfreude was audible.
…… Why are they so happy?
Then, he couldn't think any further.
The girl in front of her waved her wand, and Brandi, who was extremely sensitive to magic, suddenly felt a surge of magic power latching onto the gray mouse a few feet away. He looked up and saw that above the dueling arena, a gloomy dark cloud was condensing out of thin air.
Cumulonimbus?
"Armor protection!"
Brandi gasped, reflexively blessed with the Iron Armor Charm, and with a slam of force on his feet, he jumped backwards, leaping backwards seven or eight feet in a row - thankfully he jumped in time.
Almost at the same time, there was a loud thunderous sound in mid-air, and he clearly saw a bowl of lightning bombarding straight down with a thunderous momentum, and the false spot, which was still dozing in place, was blown into ashes in the thunder and explosion before it could even stimulate its animal instincts. The blue-and-white lightning continued to dance on the ground within a radius of about three feet, and even ran along the surface of the ground with Brandy's iron armor charm, sending out bursts of surging light sounds on the magic armor.
For a full three or four seconds, the dueling arena was silent, and no one even dared to speak loudly.
A drop of cold sweat slid down Brandi's messy sideburns. After a while, Brandi suddenly came back to his senses, trembled and touched his body, and then confirmed that he had survived.
O Merlin's beard! Wendy-sensama, that's what you call being a scared mouse?!
He subconsciously looked at the audience with panicked eyes, Wendy was standing there, her expression looked like she was excited to open the door only to find that it was Little Red Riding Hood with a big bad wolf.
"I don't understand, this must be a fake news that Madame Maxim deliberately arranged for someone to spread!" She hurriedly said loudly while everyone was still immersed in the power of the spell just now. "Don't think about how to win, just fight her twice, and then abstain and surrender!"
"No, I-" Brandi had just said two words before he spotted the troops, and his voice stopped abruptly, and he covered his mouth in panic, frightened by the changes that were taking place in his body at this moment. Memories from yesterday to the present kept churning in his mind, and he finally remembered the important things he had forgotten.
It's over, he seems to have forgotten to drink today's voice-changing potion!
"Surrender? Do you want to run away......" At this time, the voices of people in the distance were as cold as the wind.
Belch! It's not like this!
Brandi swore it was the most terrifying sound he'd ever heard, like a demon just crawling out of hell. His hair stood on end, and he quickly turned his head sweating profusely, trying to show a flattering smile on his face.
This is the legendary house leak that happened to rain overnight???
"Fluff Elementary School... Don't be impulsive, it's actually a misunderstanding! Wendy was desperately trying to defend Britney offstage.
Fran didn't want to listen to her, her face buried in her waist-length brown hair, and an ominous black aura swirled all over her. "Misunderstanding! Oh, that dirty, ugly thing... Kill, kill you, definitely. Solve it practically! No, I won't let you run away - hehehe, he~"
The empty laughter that she didn't smile at all made Brandi's stomach shrink nervously.
This is the devil, you must have been a devil in your last life, right?
"Broken bones! The flames are blazing! Faint! Flying sand and rocks! ”
Fran responds to Brandi's thoughts with a barrage of flowing syllables, and she pronounces words so fast that she thinks she's saying tongue twisters. But every syllable was clear and smooth, and it just added up to form a powerful spell, and in the blink of an eye, six or seven spells had been fully formed, crackling like a torrential rain on the iron armor spell that Brandy had hastily blessed before—how could the iron armor spell without the supermagic prefix completely block such an attack, if it weren't for the reflexes and intuition that Brandi practiced in the fifth seal to dodge most of these spells, he would have been lying on the ground in a scorched body by this time.
"Surrender, Britney! You can't beat her! ”
To put it mildly, Sister Wendy, I want to surrender too!
Brandi, who is holding his head and running around, wants to cry without tears, but it is better to be beaten by Fran than to be tied up by the Aurors and lose all of his Azkaban!
…………
"It looks like Miss Spears was successfully attacked by Franmer's silent spell? Merlin is on top, this is a terrible magic skill, Fran successfully stopped Miss Spears's follow-up counterattack, she seems to have no way to open her mouth to chant the spell! ”
The commentary doesn't seem to understand what's going on, after all, it's okay to say silent spells, but the original blue silent spell can't even see the light of the spell now, which is a bit mysterious. But he soon reintegrated into his job, and lightly covered up the strange things that had just happened.
Beauxbatons students' cheers echoed through the crowded arena, mixed with the worries and screams of a handful of people.
"How could such a thing be! The voice of Britney's last half of the sentence suddenly became strange. Audrey was puzzled, "Even his voice has completely changed—he must have been poisoned." Anna, what do you think? ”
Anna looked at the stage with a frown, not saying a word. There was a little confusion in her expression.
"Anna?" Audrey patted her strangely, and Anna woke up from a dream.
"Ahh yes, Britney's voice just now was indeed strange, or rather familiar...... Now that I think about it, I suddenly realize that I seem to have seen her face somewhere. Anna stared at Britney's face and recalled, the more she looked at it, the more familiar it felt. When you think about it, I feel like I've known her before, but where is it? ”
"After all, you're all British, and you may have happened to meet them during the holidays, so don't take it so seriously." Audrey said helplessly that her older friend is good at everything, but she will be too serious on some small problems, so that she often needs to find ways to pull her out of the horns.
Maybe it's the same this time, if she doesn't quickly divert her attention, maybe she can be entangled in tea and not think about food, and she won't even be able to sleep.
So she began to look near the stage for something that would appeal to Anna – and she quickly found one.
"Anna, Anna!" Audrey suddenly shook Anna's robe in a hurry. Brought her out of her memories. "Look there!"
She pointed to the other side of the stage, where Beauxbatons had a teacher's seat, and Madame Maxim sat in the center of the row.
"What's wrong with Madame Maxim?" Anna said. "It would be strange if she didn't laugh so happily, Britney is so disadvantaged now, it's almost a loss."
"It's not Maxim," Audrey said anxiously, "it's Deken, the professor who taught you ancient magic patterns. ”
"Deken?"
Anna blinked, looking in the direction of Audrey's finger, and finally found the professor she hated the most between the two rows of seats. And then—
"What is he doing that?" Anna said in surprise.
Deken's expression looked very hideous, as if he was in some big trouble, and he seemed to curse a few words before looking around suspiciously, and saw that the teachers around him didn't seem to be paying attention to him. Then he got up and quietly left the teacher's seat.
They both saw that the moment he looked up and left, Professor Deken's eyes seemed to glow red.
"Professor Dekken was just in ...... Spellcasting? ”
Before Anna could finish her words, a large exclamation suddenly erupted in the dueling arena. The narrator's loud voice echoed through the arena, as if he didn't want to celebrate Beauxbatons' first victory.
"What's going on...... If I'm not mistaken, just after Fran had taken the lead in showing the silent surprise attack, Miss Spears, who was almost doomed, seemed to suddenly begin to put up silent resistance? She's starting to fight back! Merlin is on top, and she can cast spells silently, but she's only in the third grade! ”
14:32
The counterattack begins.