The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 345 Maze
When it was time for dinner, Len and Harry returned to the Great Hall. Ludo Bagman and Cornelius Fudge sat at the staff table. Bagman looked happy, but Cornelius Fudge, who was sitting next to Madam Maxime, had a sullen face and said nothing.

Because of Crouch's accident, the judge of the last game was replaced by Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge. However, due to recent events, his relationship with Dumbledore had reached a stalemate. Ryan could see that although the two sat side by side, they only talked to other people.

Dinner was more sumptuous than usual, and both Ryan and Harry ate a lot. When the enchanted ceiling turned from blue to dark purple twilight, Dumbledore stood up at the staff table and everyone fell silent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in five minutes I will invite you all to the Quidditch pitch to watch the final event of the Triwizard Tournament. Now please ask the champions to follow Mr. Bagman to the playing field."

Ryan and Harry stood up, and the Gryffindor students applauded them. The Weasleys and Hermione wished them good luck. The six contestants from the three schools walked out of the hall together amid applause.

Bagman even pulled Harry aside to talk to him for a few words, but now it seemed unlikely that his bet would make money.

They walked into the Quidditch pitch, which was completely unrecognizable. A twenty-foot-high hedge surrounded the edge of the field. In front of them was a gap, which was the entrance to the huge maze. The passage inside was dark and a little scary.

Five minutes later, people began to enter the stands. Hundreds of students filed into their seats, and the air was filled with excited voices and chaotic footsteps. The sky was now a clear deep blue and stars were starting to appear. Hagrid, Professor Moody, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick walked into the playing field and approached Bagman and several warriors. Their hats were adorned with large, shining red stars, except for Hagrid, whose star was on the back of his terry vest.

"We will patrol outside the maze," Professor McGonagall said to the warriors, "If you get into trouble and want help, just shoot red sparks into the sky and someone will come to help you. Do you understand?"

The warriors nodded in unison.

"Okay, let's go!" Bagman said happily to the four patrolmen.

As the six men walked off in different directions, spreading out around the maze, Bagman pointed his wand to his throat and said "loud," and his magically amplified voice echoed off the stands.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the final event of the Triwizard Tournament is about to begin! Let me tell you the order of appearance, based on their previous points. The order of entering the venue is Harry Potter, Ryan Liang, Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum, Diane Dupont, and Gustav Anderson."

"Now ... Harry, listen to my whistle!" said Bagman. "Three - two -"

Following a short whistle, Harry rushed into the maze. Five minutes later, the second whistle sounded, and Ryan also plunged into the maze.

The tall hedges cast dark shadows on the path. Perhaps it was because the hedges were so tall and dense, or because of magic, but as soon as Ryan entered the maze, the audience's voices could no longer be heard.

Ryan drew a few runic symbols in the air with his wand and injected magic power. Soon, a golden symbol like an eye floated above Ryan's head and emitted infrared light to the surroundings. At the same time, Ryan activated the eagle eye in his left eye and looked at everything in the darkness around him through the reflection of infrared light from surrounding objects.

This spell was derived from the study of fluorescent flickering combined with alchemy, and its principle is equivalent to the first generation of active infrared night vision devices. When walking in the dark, it is at least more concealed than fluorescent flickering, and it can be regarded as a work that combines the research results of magic and Muggle technology.

"We don't know what kind of magic Ryan used, but it's clear that he can see everything in the dark now." Bagman explained. Before the start, special surveillance magic was placed on each player, and a huge light screen was formed outside the competition venue facing the sky above the audience so that the audience could see what the players did. This was a lesson learned from the last game. In the last game, because this aspect was not considered, everyone could only stare at the lake and the forest in a daze in the biting cold wind. So in this game, the organizers used screens and tracking shooting to make up for the previous shortcomings.

The next step was to find the way. Ryan held the wand flat on his palm and whispered to it, "Show me the way." The wand pointed one end to the north. Ryan knew that the end was southeast of him, so he turned right in the general direction.

As soon as he turned to the right passage, Ryan saw a group of Cornish elves blocking the road and chirping. These little guys were not very lethal but extremely annoying. After seeing them, Ryan pointed his wand at a piece of hedge and said, "Grow quickly."

Soon the flying branches formed a large net, and Ryan directed the net to suddenly jump out of the hedge and cover most of the Cornish elves. Then he turned the net into a cage and completely trapped the group of Cornish elves on the road.

In this way, the remaining few fish that escaped the net also fled in fear, and Ryan successfully passed this road. At the same time, the sixth whistle sounded, indicating that all the contestants had entered the maze.

After using the Stunning Spell to get rid of the two red hats blocking the road, Ryan heard the sound of a fight ahead. He first walked along the hedge to the corner, and then quietly conjured a reflective mirror on the other side of the road. Through the mirror, he saw two people on the road attacking each other with spells.

From the clothes and hair color, it can be seen that the silver-haired girl is Fleur from Beauxbatons, and the other is Miss Dupont from the same school as him. After watching for a while, Ryan found that there is still a big difference between the backup candidate and the real one. Dupont has been completely suppressed by Fleur at this time, especially Fleur has mastered some kind of mind control spell, which makes Gustav have delays or confusion from time to time during the battle.

Although each problem lasted for a short time and was corrected quickly, due to the overall inferior strength, these problems were enough to make DuPont lose all resistance in a short period of time.

After Fleur cast a Barrier Charm, Miss Dupont was once again slowed down. Fleur took the opportunity to cast a Leg Softening Charm, hitting her leg where she had no time to defend herself. Instantly, Miss Dupont fell to her knees.

This change also made Du Pont panic, and Furong took advantage of the opportunity to launch control again. In the chaos, Du Pont was directly hit and stood there in a daze.

"Pah." After receiving a Stunning Curse from Fleur with his face, Dupont fell to the ground and was eliminated gloriously. Fleur gave her a red spark for the sake of being a classmate to prevent her from being eaten by the monsters in the maze.

Just then, a red light shot out from another direction, and a flame shield popped out of Fleur's body to block the attack.

"Krum." This time Ryan recognized the person walking towards him from a distance. He should have wanted to take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, but he didn't expect that Fleur used a triggered protective spell to block this determined attack.

But judging from Furong's expression, this protective method should not be easy to come up with. It can even be said that this is her trump card.

"Hurry up and fight." Ryan said to himself, but at this time Krum suddenly turned his head and looked at the small mirror that Ryan conjured up.

(End of this chapter)