Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 324: Top Seven Competition~
"Calm down my friend, we are all this age, what is there to be surprised about?"

Grindelwald, who was questioned by Dumbledore, was not at all flustered. He put down the gaming glasses in his hand, poured a drink for his old friend, and added four candies.

"Although I did want to take advantage of this opportunity to do something, it was mainly because I was bored. Don't think that this was my fault."

He looked at Dumbledore and grinned: "As far as I know, your Minister of Magic has been working on the restart of the Triwizard Tournament for a year."

"More recently, he has been frantically inviting all the mainstream magic schools in the world to join. He even sent a letter to Longhushan in China, but they declined."

Dumbledore held the teacup in silence. Grindelwald would not lie to himself about such a thing. It was meaningless.

As for Longhu Mountain, I have always wanted to visit there, but I have never found a chance!
In other words, while he was busy with his own affairs, Fudge was also busy with his affairs.

He could understand why the Triwizard Tournament was restarted in the beginning.

It is nothing more than the same as the Quito World Cup, by successfully hosting a large-scale event, to demonstrate his abilities and achievements during his tenure and to prepare for re-election.

But why did they bring in other schools like crazy later? The top seven competition?!
Do you feel that there is no hope for you?
You know what, Dumbledore knew Fudge very well.

I didn't know him well and it would have been impossible to push him up a few years ago. I thought that with his personality, he would be suitable for the position if he kept to himself and rested. However, human beings are very complicated.

……

"Hey! Did you hear that? The Triwizard Tournament!"

"I knew it a long time ago! Have you watched the video on the forum, 'The Origin of the Triwizard Tournament'? The author of the video is Hermione!"

The most recently launched feature adds video functionality in addition to text and pictures.

You can also record your own exciting gaming performances and post them on the forum for everyone to like.

Things like "TOP 10 Operations of the Week", "10 Most Unlucky People of the Week", "Tutorial on How to Pass the Humming Cave, Level 18 Dungeon in the Magic World" and so on.

"No! What did you say?"

"It is said that the Triwizard Tournament has existed for more than seven hundred years! It is a friendly competition between Hogwarts, Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Each school selects a warrior, and the three warriors compete in three magical projects at different times of each school year."

"They will test the warriors in many different ways, testing their magical talents, strengths, courage, theories, reasoning skills, and ability to overcome danger."

"They are scored based on the quality of their performance in each event, and the Warrior with the highest combined score in all three events wins. It is held every five years, with the three schools taking turns hosting."

"Everyone agreed that the tournament was a great way for young wizards from different countries to build friendships. But later, the death toll was too high, and the Triwizard Tournament was discontinued."

"I heard that during the last competition in 1792, they brought in a chicken-bodied snake-tailed monster. This time, not only did a large number of students suffer casualties, but even the principals of the three schools were seriously injured! Then the competition was stopped..."

In fact, several attempts have been made to revive the tournament over the centuries, but all have failed.

Now Fudge has succeeded and even made it bigger than it actually is!
"I heard that it's not the top three this time?" a classmate asked.

Another well-informed classmate whispered, "My aunt is the director of the Legal Department. She said that Fudge has gone crazy recently. He has contacted most of the magic schools to participate in the Triwizard Tournament together."

"so……"

"So this time, including us, there are seven in total!"

"Seven! The Seven's Contest!" The will of seven~
……

This time, Fudge extorted some money from some pure-blood families and managed to squeeze out a large sum of money.

The British Ministry of Magic contributed 3000 Galleons, and the Ministries of Magic of several other countries and the International Confederation of Wizards pooled together to come up with a huge prize of 7000 Galleons!

That’s right, the International Confederation of Wizards is behind this incident.

When the young wizards heard the prize of 7000 Galleons, they held their breath.

Everyone's eyes were shining with gold!
Before, Fudge had always been the one who benefited the pure-blood families, but now he has started to blackmail them.
Fudge: It's okay if you don't give me any money. It's not easy for everyone. I understand. I will put today's conversation in the newspaper to let everyone know that even a pure-blood family is in financial difficulty! The landlords don't have any surplus food either.
Fudge looks like a scoundrel who will blow himself up on anyone he catches. Just tell me, are you afraid?

If a toad sits on your foot, it may not bite you, but it will be annoying!

Just be patient with it. He is just a grasshopper in autumn and won't be able to jump for many more days.

Although the prize money was so generous that even many adult wizards were stunned, many young wizards were simply excited.

But in order to avoid casualties, Dumbledore, with his extremely high prestige and face, added a rule to the competition: contestants must be at least seventeen years old to be allowed to register.

In fact, according to his idea, he didn't want this group of best students to participate in this fool's competition.

As long as they can be taught steadily until graduation, the resurgence of the British wizarding world is inevitable.

Any unnecessary action at this time is unnecessary action!

The schools participating in the competition were also announced later:
1. Beauxbatons Academy of Magic (Pyrenees, France)

2. Durmstrang Academy (Scandinavia)

3. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Scotland, UK)

4. Kodos Doris (Russia)

5. Wagado (Mountains of the Moon, Uganda)

6. Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Massachusetts, USA)

7. Castrobusa (Brazilian rainforest)
There are only 11 magic schools recognized throughout the world, and the rest are some secretive educational training institutions.

In fact, in Britain a hundred years ago, there was a wizarding tradition of apprenticeship passed down from master to apprentice.

Not to mention that in China, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, people don't call themselves magic schools.

For example, there are organizations like witch covens in the United States that train their own wizards.

For example, the secret school of Assassins in the Middle East.

These so-called 11 recognized magic schools should be said to be the magic schools in the mainstream perception of Western white people.

Just as Grindelwald said, Fudge actually tried to invite the famous Tianshi Mansion of the Celestial Empire to participate in the competition, but the other party declined.

He even invited the Onmyoji Ryo from Japan, but was also rejected.

The Onmyoji in Japan is called the "Magic Institute", so their principal is called the Director?
I heard that the school uniform of the magic school is red and white, and they also teach dancing!

I really want to see if it's a miko costume! It's a pity that they are not there this time.

There is not much communication between the East and the West in this regard. In addition, the East has always been more conservative and secretive in this regard.

It can be seen that Fudge really wants to make things a little more chaotic and have some fun!
……

According to previous rules, schools usually select their own warriors, who are then scored in three rounds, and the one with the highest score wins.

Even though the young wizards at Hogwarts all dreamed of the 7000 Galleons, this pile of money would be like a small mountain before their eyes!

But they all knew that they might not be able to become the Hogwarts warrior, so they all looked at Ted.

Someone asked, "Ted, when were you a Hogwarts Knight?"

Ted shook his head. To be honest, he didn't really want to get involved in this matter.

To improve my reputation, I no longer need to participate in student competitions like this.

7000 Galleons bonus, if you work hard and refine gold for two weeks, you can get more than that.

What’s the point then?
Although there will definitely be a task, it will most likely be of red quality.

It’s really boring to beat up children. If you save this time, you can do a lot of research on your own.

There are already twenty or thirty projects piled up on hand!
Although I have started to use experience to advance the progress, I am still too busy.

Forget about this kind of childish stuff!
Ted shook his head. "Who can say for sure about such things? And I'm not even 17 yet! Besides, in the past, there were only three schools participating, but this time it has been expanded to seven. Maybe the rules will change!"

This incident was a big one caused by Fudge!
It's really unexpectedly big.

A large-scale competition organized by seven magic schools around the world! Isn't this almost as good as the Quiet World Cup?

Not only the young wizards at Hogwarts think about this issue every day, wizards from all over the world are discussing it!

At present, the magic magazines and newspapers in Great Britain are publishing a lot of information about the competition of the top three, no! The top seven.

Those reporters desperately dig up inside information, or contact foreign contacts and write some specious information.

The teachers and students of Durmstrang are ready to win. They want to teach the British and French a lesson.

There was a fight at Ilvermorny in North America over the position of the team leader, and several teachers were sent to the hospital for treatment. The local Ministry of Magic has intervened to stop it.

What? Beauxbatons is planning to send out school beauties to seduce the best young people in Great Britain!
What about the teacher, Wajado, who made a bold statement that African wizards are the best?

Now on the Xianyuzhijia forum, replying to posts is so exhausting that smoke is rising.

Many people even began to change their impression of Fudge: Is this guy not completely useless? He did a good job this time!
Although the closing ceremony of the Quito World Cup was cancelled, the consumption and publicity effects brought by those 80,000 wizards to the British wizarding community were real.

And this time there is another top seven competition, isn’t this a seamless transition?

With so many big things happening one after another, is Great Britain going to become a great power again?!
But now Fudge has reached a higher level, and he just smiled faintly, not happy with things or sad with himself~
……

October is here in the blink of an eye.

"Ding~ Talent [Otherworldly Knowledge (Gold)] is triggered, and [Research Notes on the Ghost Bud Technique (Blue)] is discovered."

[Research Notes on the Demon Geranium Technique (Blue)] records a special ninjutsu of a self-taught biological ninja that has combined bloodline limits, as well as its experimental data and information. It costs 340 experience points to exchange.

what?
Fusion bloodline limit? I don't have that thing here!

But 340 is not expensive, so buy it and broaden your horizons.

Ted went through this knowledge briefly. Hmm! So, it's not as useless as he thought, is it?

The person who could imagine and create this ninjutsu is truly a genius!

Is there such a method of forcing integration by force by using the right time and place?

Ted: Damn, this young man is really reckless!

The good thing about this knowledge is that it not only gives you a ninjutsu, but also gives you all the data and information for conducting experiments.

This is very important to Ted.

This ninjutsu is not important, but the experimental data and information are very important.

In this document, not to mention the animal experiments, there were hundreds of animals of various sizes carried onto the experimental table.

What’s more important is that Ted was unable to conduct 86 human experiments!
From adults to children, from men to women, from civilians to ninjas!
There are also many so-called bloodline ninjas!
I'm so ruthless! So cruel!

But Ted gained a lot from these experimental materials and data.

Even more than the creator of this ninjutsu, the little dwarf covered in bandages.

There's no way, Ted is now a master in the field of biology!
It was as if he was a congenital master who had opened up both his Ren and Du meridians and could master all the martial arts in the world with ease.

In his hands, this data is like the Taizu Changquan in Qiao Feng's hands, which can defeat heroes all over the world.

Based solely on the unreasonable feedback and data anomalies in the experiment, Ted has deduced 14 anomalies in this knowledge!
We also see more directions for modification and optimization.

He even wondered if he could do some magical blood fusion?
In this regard, I have already achieved results in creating Pokémon. The next step is to develop new species!
Although Ted wanted to dive into the lab and experiment on him ruthlessly.

But the conditions don't allow him to do so!

The girl who had just fallen in love wished she could grow on her boyfriend.

Love and career have to be balanced, right?
Hermione leaned on Ted, looking at the thick "Secrets of the 13th Century Runes" in her hand, and asked, "Ted, I feel that my magic power has increased significantly recently. I'm a little worried."

Hermione's magic power has been growing a little too fast recently. Although this age group is a period of rapid development for young wizards, this speed also makes her a little panicked.

Her magic power is now at level 5!
As a wizard from a Muggle family, she was not known for her magic power, but her current magic power level had reached the level of an average sixth-grade student, not much worse than Harry. This made her a little overwhelmed.

Hearing this, Ted put down the pen in his hand, adjusted his posture while holding Hermione, let her fall into his arms, and whispered in her ear: "This is normal, and it will grow more obvious in the future!"

I am the “Healing Brave Man’s Dual Cultivation of Body Fluids and Magic Power”, I am just kidding you!
I just don't know if this thing can break the limit of level 9?

Learn from the Yellow Emperor to have sex with three thousand women and ascend to heaven in a hundred days? !
Three thousand times one hundred...that's three hundred thousand days!

If you can’t learn, you can’t learn!

Holding her fair and smooth face, he said, "Come here! I will help you make up for your weakness in magic power~"

... (ellipsis to make up for the weakness of magic power)

Time passed quickly, and the agreed day, October 10rd, arrived.

The teams from the two nearest schools, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, will arrive today.

Early in the morning, all the teachers and students of the school dressed up and stood at the castle gate to welcome them.

Professor McGonagall attached great importance to this reception and declared that anyone who was not dressed appropriately would be made to clean the toilet for a year!

She even wore an embroidered wizard robe given by Ted, which was smuggled from the East. In the past, only concubines in the palace were qualified to wear such robes!
After standing there for about half an hour, the excitement of the little wizards had subsided.

"When will it arrive?"

"What a shame to make us wait like this!"

"I'm hungry!" It was just two hours since breakfast time.

In short, the crowd began to stir, whispering to each other.

Professor McGonagall had no choice but to suppress the student with her eyes.

At this moment, someone suddenly said, "Look!"

Everyone looked up at the sky in the direction of his finger and saw a group of black spots approaching rapidly.

Ted's pupils began to adjust and zoom slightly, and the image in the distance became clear.

There were twelve huge winged Pegasus flying in the sky, pulling a huge chariot.

The speed of the flying car was quite impressive, and soon it was not far away. "Boom, da da da da~" the flying car landed steadily on the grass not far in front of the castle and slid forward for a while.

The hoof of the giant Pegasus must be as big as a small basin, and it would leave a pit when it stepped on the ground, plus the wheel marks of the flying car. The grass needs to be renovated!

As the Pegasus neighed collectively, the carriage stopped.

The door of the carriage opened, and the magic wooden ladder automatically extended down. A woman who was almost as tall as the carriage walked out first.

"Oh, long time no see, dear Madame Maxime." Dumbledore came forward and kissed her hand.

Dumbledore was a tall man of over 1.80 meters, and he didn't even have to bend down to do it. You can imagine how tall this woman must be!
Hermione and her friends all looked towards Hagrid obscurely - thinking of the issue of half-giants.

At this moment, Hagrid's two dark eyes were shining!
The girls from Beauxbatons hadn't gotten out of the car yet, but bubbles began to gurgle in the Black Lake not far away.

Soon the lake water surged like a fountain, and a huge black sailboat actually rose from the lake.

The Durmstrang people have also arrived...

I postponed my appointment yesterday because I discovered something terrible the day before yesterday - didn’t I make a homemade spicy hot pot just after recovering from a serious illness, but my cough got worse?
Later I found out that the fire had never been turned off! It had been burning on the lowest fire for at least 30 hours! The bottom of the pot was blue!
My mind was not clear at the time, my concentration was distracted and I almost got into trouble. I was so scared that I broke into a cold sweat.

Then I wanted to apply for a leave and found that I didn’t have enough points.

That is to say, my full attendance and 20% of subscriptions for this month are all gone. My 30% of income for this month has also been wiped out because of this illness.

My heart was broken right there. I almost canceled today's event.

Life is unpredictable. Take care of yourself, my friends!
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(End of this chapter)