Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 182 Finals
Speaking of the contestants participating in the duel competition this time, they are all so silly and cute.

The school uniform robe that can cover the feet is obviously not suitable for fighting, but the competition has been going on until the finals, and none of them want to change their clothes. Mike really wants to laugh at this, although he has always been I didn't remember this until the finals.

Mike originally planned to buy a pair of body armor, but he gave up the idea after careful consideration.

After all, a normal set of body armor generally weighs more than 3kg, that is, 6kg or more. Putting this weight on a big adult man will affect his speed, let alone putting it on Mike.

In this way, Mike, wearing a desert camouflage suit, stepped onto the promenade leading to the competition venue.

Mike has walked through this corridor many times, so it can be said that he is very familiar with it, so even if the lights in the corridor are very dim, Mike is not uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, Mike still feels that this dim environment still makes his original Some nervousness eased down.

"Tap ~ tap."

The crisp sound of military boots on the stone floor echoed in the corridor.

Accompanied by the echoing footsteps, the road in front of Mike became brighter and brighter, and an arched door of light appeared in front of him.

The corner of Mike's mouth pulled an arc, and he continued to move forward without stopping.

"Shh!"

The moment he passed through the light gate, the world in front of Mike suddenly brightened up. Since this final was specially selected on a sunny weekend, the light Mike saw this time was different from those emitted by magic lamps in the past. Different from the cold light, the golden sunlight shone on Mike, making his whole body warm.

Mike and Cedric arrived at the arena almost at the same time, which made the audience in the auditorium all excited, and Lockhart in the suspended attic also started the pre-match commentary at the right time.

"Friends from the audience! The much-anticipated finals of the Duel Tournament are finally about to begin! You can see that our two contestants, Mike and Cedric, have also arrived on the field, let us cheer for them!" Lockhart listened The applause from the audience was very intoxicating, "In addition, besides Principal Dumbledore, we also invited two special guests this time, namely the director of the Sports Department-Mr. Ludo Bagman and the father of Cedric the player. , and Head of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures - Mr Amos Diggory!"

As soon as the words came out, the applause in the stands rang out again, but it was much weaker than when Mike and Mike played before.

In fact, only Hufflepuff students and a small number of students from other colleges were applauding in the stands, and the rest of the people were not too impressed with the two people Lockhart had invited.Many Slytherins even laughed.

From their point of view, Bagman, the director of the Department of Sports and Sports, is a villain who gets into the eyes of money. As for Cedric's father, I'm sorry, a group leader of the Department of Magical Creatures, they really didn't pay attention inside.

Lockhart and the others in the hanging attic apparently selectively ignored the ridicule of the Slytherin students, and Lockhart continued: "Then, first of all, Mr. Diggory, do you think your son can beat Mike to become a player?" Champion?"

"There is no doubt about it. I think my son is definitely the best student in Hogwarts, both in terms of strength and morality. Of course, this does not mean that the rest of the students are not good, but that Cedric really It's too good.

Do you know Mr. Bagman?Cedric has been saying that Mike is a powerful little wizard at home, he is really a gentleman! "

"Of course, I am also full of confidence in Cedric's ability to defeat Mike. In addition, just call me Ludo."

……

Listening to Digory and Bagman boasting to each other in the hanging attic, many Ravenclaw students in the stands started to protest loudly. In fact, it wasn't just them, the students of Slytherin and Gryffindor He also quickly joined the condemning team, and even many Hufflepuff students stopped talking this time. What Bagman and the others said was really disgusting.

But at this time on the field, listening to his father's flattery to him and the curses of his classmates in the stands, Cedric only felt his face was hot, wishing to find a crack to get in.

"Has he always been like this?"

Mike looked at Cedric with strange eyes and asked.

"Yeah, he's just, uh, he's just kind of like that," Cedric said awkwardly, "Mike, I'm so sorry, really, my father is, uh…"

While Cedric was still organizing his words, Lockhart and the others in the hanging attic finally stopped flattering each other and announced the beginning of duel etiquette.

Mike and Cedric had to stop talking and began to salute each other.

Cedric wanted to say something to Mike while the two were saluting, but Mike turned back.

"Stop talking, Cedric, let's see the truth."

Seeing Mike who turned and left, Cedric opened his mouth and finally didn't speak again, but looked up helplessly at the suspended attic above his head, finally shook his head and returned to his position.

To be honest, he has experienced such embarrassing scenes countless times since he was a child.

His father, well, how should I put it.

To paraphrase a word that Mike often says is very low emotional intelligence.

Every class reunion or family reunion, his father would say something embarrassing to both parties present, but he himself was very happy.That's why, with the wealth and power of the Diggory family, his father was still only a group leader.

As for Mike, facing Cedric's father's undisguised belittling words, it would be absolutely false to say that he was not angry. You must know that although Mike is not the kind of person who will take revenge, he is definitely not a big-hearted 'Day'. good man'.

But he will not just talk like Lockhart and Cedric's father, he chooses to slap them in the face with practical actions.

Seeing that the two players on the field were already in their positions, Lockhart in the suspended attic finally announced the official start of the game.

"Okay! We can see that Mike and Cedric are ready, so... let's get started!"

"boom!"

The moment Lockhart announced the start of the match, Cedric used the transfiguration technique to transform the stone-paved ground into thick stone walls, protecting his entire body within it.

After conjuring more than a dozen stone walls in a row, Cedric may have had some sense of security, so he began to turn the rubble brought out by the stone walls into ferocious beasts.

After a while, three cheetahs and two lions appeared on the field. Following Cedric's order, these beasts howled and rushed towards Mike on the opposite side of the field.

However, Mike's attack also arrived at this time.

I saw a purple compressed fireball that was still stirring, with the sound of howling wind, directly melted through a dozen stone walls, and finally exploded on the last and thickest stone wall in front of Cedric. .

With the sound of a huge explosion, a cloud of miniature mushrooms rose up.Cedric's original location immediately became a deep pit, and dark red magma flowed wantonly in it.

"Cedric!"

Mr. Diggory in the suspended attic had completely lost his calm and confident appearance before. He yelled and stood up from his seat, staring at the mushroom cloud below, speechless for a long time.

"Well, there seems to be some accidents on the scene. The power of the flame curse of player Mike is amazing." Lockhart stammered, "But since none of the professors on the sidelines intervened in the game, then player Cedric should There's no danger, right?"

Hearing the uncertain tone in Lockhart's words, Mr. Digory wanted to die.Not only him, but many audiences in the stands also stared wide-eyed at this moment. No one thought that Mike would use the magic spell of the special skill level of compressing fireball from the very beginning!
Unlike the others, Mike's face didn't look relaxed at this time. On the contrary, he became more vigilant.

The use of compressed fireballs at the beginning was originally a tactic that Mike came up with after thinking about it. Cedric's magic power capacity is higher than Mike's. In addition to Cedric's superb transformation technique, if the game time is prolonged blindly It is very likely that Cedric will use the deformation technique to turn the entire playing field into a swamp, an environment that is not suitable for Mike to fight at all.

It can be said that the longer the battle with Cedric drags on, the worse it will be for Mike.

So instead of being slowly consumed to death, it is better to magnify the move from the beginning and defeat Cedric. Even if Cedric cannot be defeated, he must be injured in order to end the game quickly.

And what Lockhart said is actually not wrong. The professors on the sidelines have not shot yet, which means that Cedric's life is not in danger. Now Mike only hopes that the one that consumed nearly half of his magic power was released just now. The compressed fireball is capable of severely wounding Cedric.

Just when everyone on the field thought that Cedric was in danger, the pitch-black smoke suddenly rolled up, and then countless feathers emerged from the smoke, attacking Mike.

Faced with the raindrop-like feathers, Mike was not in a hurry, and the armor protection spell blessed by multiple spellcasting skills was released quietly, and several layers of translucent shields enveloped Mike's body in an instant.

Hearing the crisp sound of the feather hitting the upper shield like an arrow hitting a shield, Mike's eyes were fixed on a corner in the thick smoke. There seemed to be some creature in the thick smoke that was moving violently. After a while, the thick smoke there was blown away, revealing Cedric inside.

But Cedric looked nothing like he usually did now.

I saw that its originally tall and straight body was completely covered with feathers, a pair of long legs had now turned into a pair of sharp eagle claws, and a pair of arms had become a pair of huge wings with a wingspan of 7 meters. Ke turned into a monster with the head of a man and the body of a bird!

Perhaps because he was injured in the explosion, Cedric had countless wounds, large and small, not only the original white feathers were stained gray by the smoke, but even the huge pair of wings There were also wounds all over, and there were faint drops of blood falling when he kept flapping. You only need to look at the painful expression on Cedric's only human-shaped head to know the severity of his injuries at this time.

"Animagus? No! No! It's Body Transfiguration!" Professor McGonagall said, "He's crazy! How dare he deform his entire body! If he's not careful, he'll keep his ghostly appearance forever Already!"

Hearing Professor McGonagall's exclamation, the eyes of other professors beside him showed shocking looks, especially Pomona Sprout, the dean of Hufflepuff College. Worries are written all over.

Seeing Cedric hovering in the air, Mike was taken aback at first, but he quickly adjusted his mentality, no matter what kind of monster you turned into, just raise your hand and cast the Bone Crushing Curse Shot it.

The mobility and speed of Cedric, who had transformed into a bird body and human head, became astonishing. With just a sudden flap of his wings, he moved laterally for more than ten meters, avoiding the magic spell shot by Mike, but from his Judging from the twisted expression on his face and the large amount of blood falling in midair, Cedric's current physical condition cannot continue this high-intensity displacement for too long.

Mike on the ground looked at Cedric's movements in the sky, and a tricky smile appeared on his face. At the same time, when he thought about it, he saw that the curse that Cedric had dodged suddenly turned around in midair. Continue to shoot towards Cedric with exaggerated speed.

Cedric was shocked when he saw this, and quickly flapped his wings to continue to move, but the glowing red curse was biting behind him like a maggot attached to the bone.

As time passed, the wound on Cedric's wing became bigger and bigger under his constant flapping, blood kept falling, and Cedric's moving speed became slower and slower. In the end, the shattering spell finally Under Mike's manipulation, he caught up with Cedric.

The shattering curse in midair suddenly split into two thinner beams of light, hitting Cedric's wings hard.

Suddenly, blood spattered.

Cedric's gray-stained wings broke apart, and he himself fell from the sky with a cry of pain.

"No!"

Mr. Diggory in the hanging attic screamed and rushed towards the exit of the hanging attic, but Professor Sprout on the edge of the arena was faster than him. He waved his big hand and saw the center of the arena without even using his wand. A vine quickly grew and drilled out of the ground, just like the legendary Tongtian Teng that can reach directly into the sky, it grew to a height of tens of meters in an instant, firmly catching Cedric who was falling.

(End of this chapter)