Chapter 179： finals

To say that the players participating in the duel competition are silly and cute.

The school uniform robes that can cover the feet are obviously not suitable for combat, but the competition has been going to the finals, and none of them want to change clothes. Mike really wants to laugh about it, although he has always been I didn't think of this until the finals.

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

After all, the weight of a normal body armor is generally more than 3kg, that is, up to 6 kg. This weight will affect the speed of an adult man, let alone put it on Mike.

In this way, Mike wore a desert camouflage suit on the promenade leading to the playing field.

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

"Da~Da."

The army boots made a crisp sound when they stepped on the stone slab, and the sound echoed in the corridor.

With the reverberating footsteps, the road in front of Mike's eyes became brighter and brighter, and an arched light door appeared in front of him.

The corners of Mike's mouth pulled up and he kept moving forward.

"Huh!"

The moment he walked through the light gate, the world in front of Mike suddenly brightened up. Since this time the final was selected for a weekend with clear weather, the light that Mike saw this time was the same as the previous magic lights. The cold light is different. The golden sunlight casts on Mike, basking him all over.

Mike and Cedric arrived at the stadium almost at the same time, which caused the audience in the audience to boil, and Lockhart in the suspended attic also started the pre-match commentary at the right time.

"Audience friends! The much-anticipated duel contest finals are finally about to begin! You can see that our two players, Mike and Cedric have also arrived on the field, let us cheer for them!" Lockhart listened. The applause in the audience was very intoxicated, "In addition to President Dumbledore, we also invited two special guests this time, namely, the Director of the Sports Department-Mr. Ludo Bagman and the father of Cedric player. , And also the head of the Department of Fantastic Beast Management and Control-Mr. Amos Diggory!"

As soon as this remark came out, the applause in the stands rang out again, but the applause was obviously much weaker than when Mike was on the field before.

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

In their opinion, Bagman, the director of the Sports Department, is a villain who got into the eyes of money. As for Cedric’s father, I’m sorry, a team leader of the Department of Fantastic Animal Management, they really didn’t care in.

Lockhart and others in the hanging attic obviously ignored the ridicule of those Slytherin students selectively. Lockhart went on to say: "Then first, 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 is not to say that the rest of the students are not good, but Cedric is really It is excellent.

Do you know Mr. Bagman? The kid Cedric kept saying that Mike was a powerful little wizard at home, he was really a gentleman! "

"Of course, I am confident that Cedric can beat the Mike player, and just call me Ludo directly."

...

Listening to the mutual praise of Diggory and Bagman in the suspended attic, many Ravenclaw students in the stands began to protest loudly. In fact, it was not only them, but the students of Slytherin and Gryffindor. He quickly joined the condemnation team, and even many of Hufflepuff’s students stopped speaking this time. What Bagman and others said was really disgusting.

At this time in the arena, listening to his father's admiration of him and the cursing of his classmates in the stands, Cedric only felt his face hot and wanted to find a way to get in.

"Has he always been like this?"

Mike looked at Cedric with weird eyes and asked.

"Yes, he's just, uh, he's just kind of that." Cedric said awkwardly, "Mike, I'm very sorry, really, my father, uh..."

While Cedric was still organizing the language, Lockhart and the others in the hanging attic finally ended their flattery and announced the beginning of the duel etiquette.

Mike and Cedric stopped talking and began to salute each other.

Cedric wanted to say something to Mike when the two saluted, but Mike stunned him back.

"Needless to say, Cedric, see the truth under your hand."

Seeing Mike who turned to leave, Cedric opened his mouth and finally did not speak any more, but reluctantly looked up at the suspended attic above his head, and finally shook his head and returned to his position.

To be honest, he has experienced this embarrassing scene countless times since childhood.

His father, um, how do you put it.

To paraphrase a word Mike often said is that EQ is very low.

At every class gathering or family gathering, his father would say something embarrassing to both parties present, but he himself was very happy. This is why his father is only a team leader with the wealth and strength of the Diggory family.

On Mike’s side, facing Cedric’s father’s unabashedly degrading remarks, it is absolutely false to say not to be angry. You must know that although Mike is not the kind of person who will repay you, he is definitely not a broad-minded person. Good people'.

But he wouldn't just talk like Lockhart and Cedric's father did. He chose to slap them in the face with practical actions.

Seeing that the two 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 both 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 slab-paved ground into a thick stone wall, protecting his whole person in it.

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

In a short while, three cheetahs and two lions appeared on the field. With Cedric's order, the beasts howled and rushed towards the 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 agitating, and with the sound of howling wind, it melted through a dozen stone walls, and finally exploded on the last and thickest stone wall in front of Cedric. .

As a huge explosion sounded, a miniature mushroom cloud rose up. Cedric's original location immediately became a deep pit, in which dark red lava flowed freely.

"Cedric!"

Mr. Diggory in the suspended attic had completely lost his calm and confident look before, and he got up from his seat with a loud yell, looking at the mushroom cloud below, unable to speak for a long time.

"Um, there seems to be some accidents in the scene. The power of the Fire Curse of Mike player is amazing." Lockhart stammered, "But since the professors on the side of the stadium did not intervene in the game, then Cedric player should There is no danger, right?"

Listening to the uncertain tone in Lockhart's words, Mr. Diggory had a desire to die. Not only him, but the many spectators in the stands were also staring at the moment. No one thought that Mike would use a nirvana spell like a compressed fireball from the beginning!

Unlike the others, Mike did not have the slightest relaxed look on his face at this time. On the contrary, he increased his vigilance even more.

Using the compressed fireball 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 polymorphism, the game time would be prolonged blindly. Cedric is likely to use polymorphism to turn the entire playing field into a swamp, which is not suitable for Mike's combat environment at all.

It can be said that the longer the fight with Cedric is delayed, the more disadvantaged Mike is.

So instead of being slowly consumed, it is better to zoom in at the beginning and defeat Cedric, even if Cedric cannot be defeated, he will be injured in order to end the game quickly.

And Lockhart’s words are actually not wrong. The professors on the sidelines have not taken any action, which means that Cedric is not life-threatening. Now Mike only hopes that the one that just consumed nearly half of his magic power was released. Compressed fireball can hit Cedric seriously.

Just when everyone on the court thought that Cedric was already fierce, the dark smoke suddenly rolled, and then countless feathers came out of the smoke and struck towards Mike.

Faced with this rain-like feather, Mike didn't panic. The armor curse blessed by multiple spellcasting skills was quietly released, and in an instant, several layers of translucent shields enveloped Mike.

Listening to the feather hitting the upper shield with a crisp sound like an arrow hitting a shield, Mike's eyes were fixed on a corner in the thick smoke. There seemed to be a creature in the thick smoke that was actively moving. After a while, the dense smoke there was blown away, exposing Cedric inside.

But Cedric now looks completely different from his usual.

I saw that his upright body was completely covered by feathers. The pair of long legs had now become a pair of sharp eagle claws, and his arms had become a pair of huge wings with a wingspan of 7 meters. Ke turned into a monster with a bird's body!

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

"Animagus? No! No! It's a human body transformation technique!" Professor McGonagall said, "He is crazy! He dared to deform his whole body completely! As long as one is not careful, he will always remain this ghost forever Up!"

Listening to Professor McGonagall’s exclaim, the eyes of other professors nearby also showed shocked expressions, especially Pomona Sprout, the dean of Hufflepuff College, the kind old lady’s face at the moment. The above is full of worries.

Seeing Cedric's figure hovering in the air, Mike was shocked at first, but he quickly adjusted his mentality. No matter what monster you have become, raising his hand is a bone shattering curse. Shooting past The maneuverability and movement speed of Cedric, who has turned into a bird's head, have become very amazing. Just a violent fan of his two wings moved horizontally for ten meters and avoided. Mike’s curse, but from the look on his face that even the facial features are twisted together and the large amount of blood falling in the air, it can be seen that Cedric’s current physical state cannot continue to carry out this high-intensity displacement for too long. .

Mike on the ground watched the movements of Cedric in the sky, with a tricky smile on his face. At the same time, he saw that the curse that Cedric had already avoided suddenly fell in mid-air. Continue shooting towards Cedric at an exaggerated speed.

Cedric was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly flapped his wings to continue to move, but the curse that gleamed with red light bitten behind him like a bone-attached maggot.

As time went by, the wound on Cedric’s wings became bigger and bigger under his constant fanning, blood kept falling, and Cedric’s moving speed became slower and slower. In the end, the smashing curse finally Under the control of Mike, he caught up with Cedric.

The smashing curse in midair suddenly split into two thinner beams of light, which hit Cedric's wings hard.

Suddenly, blood splashed.

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

"Do not!"

Mr. Diggory in the hanging loft exclaimed and rushed towards the exit of the hanging loft, while Professor Sprout at the edge of the field was faster than him. With a wave of his big hand, he saw the center of the field without even using his wand. A Vineman quickly grew and drilled out of the ground, just like the legendary Tongtianteng that can reach the sky. It grew tens of meters high in an instant, and it stably caught Cedric who was falling.