Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Speaking of the contestants participating in the duel competition this time, all of them are simply silly and cute.

The kind of school uniform robe that can cover the feet is obviously not suitable for fighting, but the competition has continued until the finals, and none of them wanted to change their clothes. Mike really wanted to laugh about this, although he also kept doing it. I didn’t think of this until the finals.

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

After all, the weight of a normal body armor is generally more than 3kg, which is more than 6 pounds. This weight will affect the speed of an adult man, let alone Mike.

Just like that, Mike stepped onto the corridor leading to the competition venue wearing a desert camouflage outfit.

Mike has walked through this corridor many times and is very familiar with it. Therefore, even if the lighting in the corridor is very dim, Mike is not uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, Mike also feels that this dim environment has made his original Some of the nervousness in my heart calmed down.

"Ta~ta."

The military boots made a clear sound on the stone floor, which echoed in the corridor.

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

The corners of Mike's mouth curved, and he kept moving forward.

"Uh-huh!"

The moment he walked through the light door, the world in front of Mike suddenly brightened up. Since this final was specifically chosen on a sunny weekend, the light Mike saw this time was different from the previous ones emitted by the magic lamp. Different from the cold light, the golden sunshine shone on Mike, making his whole body warm.

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

"Friends in the audience! The much-anticipated duel competition finals is finally about to begin! You can see that our two contestants, Mike and Cedric, have also arrived at the arena. Let us cheer for them!" Lockhart listened. The applause from the audience was very intoxicating, "In addition, this time in addition to Principal Dumbledore, we also invited two special guests, namely Mr. Ludo Bagman, Director of the Sports Department, and Cedric's father. , who is also the head of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures - Mr. Amos Diggory!"

As soon as these words came out, the applause from the stands rang out again, but it was obviously much weaker than when Mike and Mike came on the stage.

In fact, only Hufflepuff students and a few students from other houses were applauding in the stands, and the rest were not too impressed by the two people Lockhart invited. Many Slytherin students even jeered.

In their view, Bagman, the director of the Department of Sports and Sports, is just a villain who has an eye for money. As for Cedric's father, sorry, he is a team leader of the Department for the Management of Magical Creatures. They really don't take it seriously. inside.

Lockhart and others in the hanging loft obviously selectively ignored the taunts of the Slytherin students. Lockhart continued: "Then first, let me ask Mr. Diggory, do you think your son can defeat Mike and become the Slytherin player?" Champion?"

"There is no doubt that my son is definitely the best student in the entire Hogwarts, both in terms of strength and moral character. Of course, this is not to say that the other students are not good, but that Cedric is really It's so excellent.

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

"Of course, I am also confident that Cedric can defeat Mike. In addition, just call me Ludo."

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Listening to Digory and Bagman complimenting each other in the hanging loft, many Ravenclaw students in the stands began to protest loudly. In fact, it was not just them, but also the students from Slytherin and Gryffindor. He soon joined the condemnation team. Even many Hufflepuff students stopped talking this time. What Bagman and the others said was really disgusting.

At this time, on the field, listening to his father's praise of him and the curses of his classmates in the stands, Cedric felt his face was hot and he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.

"Has he always been like this?"

Mike looked at Cedric with strange eyes and asked.

"Yes, he just, uh, he just has a little bit of that." Cedric said awkwardly, "Mike, I'm very sorry, really, my father, uh..."

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

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

While the two were saluting, Cedric wanted to say something to Mike, but Mike pushed him back.

"No more words, Cedric, let's see the real deal."

Looking at Mike who turned to leave, Cedric opened his mouth and finally said no more. He just 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 this embarrassing scene countless times since he was a child.

His father, well, how should I put it.

To use a word that Mike often says, his emotional intelligence is very low.

At every class reunion or family gathering, his father would say something that would make both parties present very embarrassed, but he himself was very happy. This is why, with the wealth and power of the Diggory family, his father is still just a group leader.

On Mike's side, it would be a lie to say he wasn't angry when faced with Cedric's father's unabashed disparagement. You must know that although Mike is not the kind of person who will retaliate, he is definitely not a broad-minded person. Good people'.

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

Seeing that the two people on the field were already in their respective positions, Lockhart in the suspended attic finally announced that the game had officially begun.

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

"boom!"

The moment Lockhart announced the start of the game, Cedric used transfiguration to turn the stone-paved ground on the field into thick stone walls, protecting his entire body within them.

After conjuring more than a dozen stone walls in succession, Cedric, perhaps because he felt a sense of security, began to turn the surrounding rubble brought out by the stone walls into vicious 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, at this time Mike's attack also arrived.

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

As a huge explosion sounded, a miniature mushroom cloud rose into the sky. The location where Cedric was originally located immediately turned into a deep pit, with dark red magma flowing freely in it.

"Cedric!"

Mr. Digory in the suspended attic was no longer as calm and confident as before. He stood up from his seat with a loud shout and looked at the mushroom cloud below for a long time without being able to speak.

"Well, there seems to be some accidents at the scene. Player Mike's fire spell is very powerful." 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. Diggory wanted to die. Not only him, but many spectators in the stands also had their eyes widened at this moment. No one expected that Mike would use a magic spell like compressed fireball from the very beginning!

Unlike others, there was no relaxed look on Mike's face at this time. On the contrary, he was even more vigilant.

Using compressed fireballs at the beginning was originally a tactic that Mike came up with after thinking about it. Cedric has a higher magic capacity than Mike. Coupled with Cedric's superb transformation skills, if the game time is prolonged, Cedric is likely to use transformation 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 more disadvantageous it will be for Mike.

So instead of being slowly consumed to death, it is better to use powerful moves from the beginning to 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 correct. None of the professors on the sidelines have taken action 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 just released. The compressed fireball can seriously injure Cedric.

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

Mike was unfazed when faced with the feathers that looked like raindrops. The armor protection spell blessed by multiple spell-casting skills was quietly released, and in just a moment, several layers of translucent shields enveloped Mike.

Listening to the crisp sound of feathers hitting the 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 that was vigorously moving in the thick smoke. After a while, the thick smoke there was blown away, revealing Cedric inside.

But Cedric looked completely different from his usual appearance now.

I saw that its originally upright body had been 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 turned into a pair of huge wings with a wingspan of 7 meters. Cedri Ke turned into a monster with the head of a human and the body of a bird!

Perhaps because he was injured in the explosion, Cedric had numerous large and small wounds on his body at this time. Not only was his originally white feathers dyed gray by the smoke, but even his pair of huge wings There were also wounds all over, and there were faint drops of blood falling down as he continued to flap. You only need to look at the painful expression on Cedric's head, which was the only one that still maintained a human shape, to know how serious his injuries were at this time.

"Animagus? No! No! It's Human Transfiguration!" Professor McGonagall said, "He's crazy! He actually dares to transform his entire body! If he's not careful, he will remain in this ghostly appearance forever. Got it!"

Listening to Professor McGonagall's exclamation, other professors nearby also showed shocked looks in their eyes, especially Pomona Sprout, the dean of Hufflepuff House. This kind old lady had a look on her face at this moment. Worry is already written all over it.

Seeing Cedric's figure hovering in the air, Mike was startled at first, but he quickly adjusted his mentality. No matter what kind of monster you become, just raise your hand and cast a bone-shattering spell. Shot over.

Cedric, who had transformed into a bird with a human head, became extremely maneuverable and moved at an astonishing speed. He just flapped his wings violently and moved more than ten meters away, avoiding the magic spell shot by Mike, but from him The look on his face that even the facial features were twisted together and the large amount of blood falling in the air showed that Cedric's current physical condition could not continue such a high-intensity displacement for too long.

Mike on the ground looked at Cedric's movements in the sky, with a smile of success on his face. At the same time, with a thought, he saw that the curse that Cedric had avoided suddenly turned around in mid-air. He continued to shoot towards Cedric at an exaggerated speed.

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

As time went by, the wounds on Cedric's wings became larger and larger under his constant fanning, blood continued to fall, and Cedric's movement speed became slower and slower. Finally, the crushing curse finally Under Mike's control, he caught up with Cedric.

The crushing spell in mid-air suddenly split into two slightly thinner beams of light, hitting Cedric's wings hard.

Suddenly, blood splattered.

Cedric's wings, which were dyed gray, broke apart, and he himself screamed in pain and fell from the sky.

"No!"

Mr. Digory in the suspended loft exclaimed and rushed towards the exit of the suspended loft. However, Professor Sprout on the edge of the arena was faster than him. With a wave of his hand, he appeared in the center of the arena without even using his wand. A vine quickly grew out of the ground, and like the legendary towering tower that could reach the sky, it instantly grew to dozens of meters high, and was able to catch the falling Cedric.