Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts

As expected by Rice, he only waited in the corridor for a short while before hearing two footsteps.

The next moment, Helga and Rowena appeared in his sight.

Rice smiled and nodded at the two of them, Rowena didn't respond with a wooden face, and Helga smiled and waved.

The three of them walked back to Helga's office silently without any communication - outside, the three of them were still very restrained and would not shout out each other's true identity in public.

When the door of Helga's office closed, Rice took the lead and said: "Royna, I didn't expect you to think of this method."

"It's not difficult to operate, or the material you chose is good." Rowena finally spoke. While she was answering, she pulled out an armchair and sat on it.

"After occupying someone else's body, you can still be so shameless, you are really amazing."

Rowena shook her hand, indicating that the situation today was special, and she would let Aries go out for a walk in the future.

Rice was skeptical of her words.

"Want some dessert?" Helga took out a silver plate with more than a dozen exquisite desserts on it, and took out three gold cups and filled them with wine and drinks.

"Thank you, I want a bottle of sweet wine." Rowena accepted all the food provided by Helga. She had not eaten normally for a long time since she turned into a ghost. Last year, Salazar only allowed her to taste the food, but could not let her really eat it.

After such an experience, Rowena, like Helga, developed a love for food.

Helga poured Rowena a full glass of Canadian ice wine. This kind of wine made from frozen grapes has an extremely amazing sugar content. The sugar content in one liter of wine is more than 125 grams, which is higher than the sugar content of cola. This also makes the wine look quite thick, even a bit like syrup. After that, she poured a glass of orange juice for Les.

Les: ...

Although there is nothing wrong with orange juice, it is still very unpleasant to pour orange juice for him without asking.

"I dare not provide alcohol to minors, but you can tell me what flavor you want to drink, and I guarantee that your orange juice will taste like that."

Rice felt even more speechless after hearing what Helga said. With such a big premise, he could faintly detect a hint of orange juice in everything he drank, so it would be better to drink orange juice honestly.

After the drinks were served, the three-person night snack began.

"What? You two really want me to participate in that championship?" Rice spoke first. He looked at his two old friends with a smile, and his eyes kept wandering on their faces.

"Hogwarts needs your strength." Rowena also adjusted her mentality and replied to Rice with a glass of wine.

"If Hogwarts needs my strength to become the world's number one magic school, then I feel that it does not deserve the title of the world's number one." Rice directly retorted back.

Royna's hand kept rubbing the bottom of the cup, and finally told Rice to win the championship first, and talk about the future later.

Rice sneered, saying that he didn't care whether Hogwarts could win the championship this year. If they didn't win, they could wait for the next one. It was no big deal! He said it as if the competition would only be held once. Anyway, the three of them would continue to stay in Hogwarts. If they failed in that year, they would wait for the next one until they could train enough excellent students.

Helga silently sipped the wine in the glass. The positions held by the two of them were beyond her expectation.

The person who wanted to win by any means was actually Ravenclaw, and Slytherin actually wanted to follow the rules. This simply overturned her cognition.

What Helga didn't know was that people's positions were constantly changing. For example, Rice now had sufficient confidence in the strength of Hogwarts' students, and secondly, he needed to take the opportunity to squeeze enough benefits from his two old friends. So of course he had to stick to his principles, otherwise how could he raise the asking price?

Rowena was different. She didn't know the status of Hogwarts very well, and she didn't have the confidence like Salazar, and she really needed a strong enough person to come in and help her maintain the situation. So Rowena needs Salazar to participate in the competition.

This is also the reason why Les insists on principles.

Les' words made Rowena clench the wine glass in her hand. She felt as if she was being controlled by Salazar.

"Let's set the conditions. What do we want you to do to participate in the competition?"

"What conditions are needed? I'm already a contestant! Can I still regret not going?" Les didn't respond to Rowena's words, but instead went around in circles.

Are you kidding! Of course he can't take the initiative to make the request. Helga and Rowena should list the benefits first and then he can add them up little by little.

Otherwise, what if he puts forward a condition and the other party agrees in seconds? Wouldn't it be a loss.

"You know what I'm talking about." Rowena sighed secretly.

Salazar has the absolute initiative. Yes, he has indeed become a contestant, but he can completely give up and be eliminated as soon as the game starts. Rowena and the others have no way to deal with him.

"I need you to help me conduct some experiments and do some things." Rowena finally revealed her true purpose.

"I have an idea about this competition..." Rowena shook the ice wine in her glass and poured out her true thoughts.

This was an idea she had when she was still trapped in the dungeon.

Royna wanted to take this opportunity to popularize the concept of magic flow to young wizards around the world, and strive to let as many new generation wizards as possible master the flow of magic after the competition, and even see the power of the field, so as to realize the revival of the magic world.

After listening to Rowena's words, Rice couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: I didn't expect Rowena to be so visionary. Want to take advantage of the Global Youth Wizard Championship to realize the revival of the magic world? You are really good...

After hearing this, even he was a little moved.

"Royna is right, we really want to take this opportunity to give some "benefits" to the magic world. Other magic schools also brought some treasures, which will be given to students participating in the competition as rewards during the competition. This is also one of the reasons why they are willing to actively participate in the competition."

It's interesting.

Even Rice had to admit that Rowena and Helga made a brilliant move.

Those who participated in the Global Youth Wizard Championship were originally elites selected by various schools. Although talents in the modern magic system may not be able to adapt to the flow of magic, it is an opportunity to promote the flow of magic again.

With more wizards mastering the flow of magic, there will naturally be a few wizards who will open the door to the field in the future, which is undoubtedly a good thing for the magic world.

"So I hope you can participate in the competition as the final insurance for the competition. You know, the situation of this competition is very special, and I can't take care of all aspects."

At this point, Les has decided to get involved in this competition, but he is still waiting for the two old friends to make an offer.

His willingness to participate is one thing, and getting paid is another thing. These two things cannot be confused.

The office fell silent for a while.

Rowena and Helga were waiting for Salazar's statement, and Les was waiting for them to make an offer.

"I will provide you with one pound of unicorn cheese products every month this school year, how about it? There are also other magic foods I have recently developed, and I will provide you with a portion every month." After a moment, Helga decided to take the lead herself.

Les felt that this condition was quite good. The magic food Helga made was good stuff. Even if she couldn't eat it herself, she could give it to her students. It was good for the body. And as long as she didn't study the source of these ingredients carefully, everything Helga made was delicious.

In Rice's heart, Helga had passed the test.

But the highlight was Rowena. He decided to give Rowena a little supervisor shock.

"The magic you used tonight was time magic, right?" Rice didn't start bargaining with Helga at the first time, but pointed the finger at Rowena who had remained silent.

Rowena could have argued, but she didn't want to do so. In terms of daring to act and take responsibility, she can be said to be a role model for all Hogwarts teachers and students.

"Yes, it was indeed time magic. I disrupted the timeline around your little trick, allowing the sound from the future to appear in the present."

Rice's expression suddenly became serious.

"Royna, you should remember our agreement back then, right? You shouldn't do research in this area anymore, it's too dangerous - it's a forbidden technique." Les turned to look at Helga, "What do you think, Helga? I have also given up the development of several spells."

Helga lowered her eyes, indicating that Rowena was indeed wrong.

"I didn't restart the research in the time field, I just used the existing research results."

"The bottom line was broken step by step like this." Rowena's excuses could not convince Les.

"I think any research you do next needs to be reported to me and Helga, and can only be carried out with our permission." Les stated his requirements.

The research conducted by Rowena is too dangerous and must be jointly controlled by them!

A glimmer of light flashed in Helga's eyes: she agreed with Salazar's proposal. It would be great if we could take this opportunity to strengthen the control over Rowena.

After thinking carefully for a while, Rowena finally accepted Les's proposal and agreed to report her research to her two old friends.

"What a pity..." Rowena shook her head regretfully: "Time, space, prophecy and death, these mysterious fields we cannot touch."

Les only needed to listen to know that Rowena still hadn't given up, but it was a pity that the direction of her research was too profound and dangerous.

Any of these fields alone could kill wizards of their level, but Rowena actually wanted to explore each of them. She was simply a master of death.

However, these fields do have their charm. Just like the black hole theory proposed by Muggles, it is extremely dangerous, but it attracts people to unconsciously approach it.

"It's getting late, I'll go back and rest first - Rowena, I hope you keep your promise." Les stood up from his seat and left Helga's office first.

Rowena looked at Salazar's back and couldn't help sighing: If I had known earlier, I should have supported Salazar to continue his research, so that he would have no reason to stop me.

"I'm going back too. Dumbledore has vacated an office for me, and I have to go back and renovate it." Rowena felt that it was time for her to go back to the office and rest.

"Can I visit your place?" Helga was a little curious about what Rowena's dormitory looked like.

"Of course, no problem." Rowena had no objection and took her old friend directly to her office.

After opening the door, the first thing that caught Helga's eyes was a large platform with a strange shape. It was about five meters long and three meters wide, with a model of a manor on it, and mountains, rivers and lakes were arranged around it.

Somewhat surprisingly, there were a few clouds floating above the platform, and above the clouds was a yellow-orange ball - Helga recognized it, it was the moon.

There was also a light source under the platform, illuminating the entire office.

Helga leaned over and saw that it was indeed a blazing fireball.

"As expected of you, you even simulated the sun and the moon, so where do you usually sleep?" Helga asked curiously. She didn't see any bedding such as a bed in this office.

Rowena didn't say anything, just pointed to the platform.

Helga looked over along Rowena's finger and suddenly widened her eyes: There is actually such an operation? ! Why didn't she think of it?

The next morning, the front page of the Daily Prophet was occupied by the global young wizard competition announced by Dumbledore.

Apparently, the Ministry of Magic had communicated with the Daily Prophet in advance. The rules of the competition reported in the Daily Prophet were quite detailed and there were no mistakes. As a wizard newspaper rooted in the UK, the position of the Daily Prophet was undoubtedly inclined to Hogwarts. In the report, they even directly stated that the suspense of the competition lies in which school can win the second place.

At the same time, magic newspapers in other countries also put the news of the global young wizard competition on the front page.

Suddenly, the whole magic world knew the news.

In addition to the eight major magic schools that had already taken action, some unknown small schools and magic families and magic organizations also took action...

For a time, a large number of wizards poured into the UK, just like the previous Quidditch World Cup finals.

In an unknown manor, Polaris also picked up the newspaper that had just been delivered, and then his eyebrows raised.

"Magic organization... In that case, isn't the Secret Society also a magical organization?" His voice echoed in the empty room: "It's time to hold another meeting. I wonder if Hogwarts will welcome us country bumpkins?"

The Secret Society is also taking action.

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Updated, good night~