Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 407 Bombtail and Magic Trap
"Wait a minute, what just happened?"

"Isn't that unicorn-like thing a special Illumination Charm?"

The changes in the maze instantly drew everyone's attention.

In fact, when the unicorn spirit first appeared before everyone, no one thought of it that way. Even Ludo Bagman only thought it was some kind of special illumination charm.

Most people believed this claim.

But now it seems they were all wrong.

"Boggarts, they were eliminated so easily?" Harry rubbed his eyes, still reeling from the earlier events.

He remembered that when he was studying Boggarts last year, Professor Lupin had said that dealing with these creatures required a special spell, the incantation being "Humorous Humorous." Additionally, one needed to visualize their most feared things as comical and ridiculous.

The method isn't particularly difficult, but it's not exactly simple either.

Just now, Xilun destroyed a Boggart without even moving.

"Could it really be the soul of a unicorn?" someone asked uncertainly.

"Impossible!" several older students said. "In the magical world, only wizards can become ghosts after they die. I've never heard of unicorns being able to do that."

"How do you explain what happened in the maze?"

"That must be another kind of special magic."

The students were chattering away, and the entire stands were in chaos. Almost everyone's attention was focused on Xiren, as if they had completely forgotten about the other two warriors.

Meanwhile, in the labyrinth, Xilun breathed a sigh of relief.

That makes sense; how could there be no attacks in a maze?

Boggart's appearance also brought normalcy to the previously eerie atmosphere.

He continued walking forward and soon heard noises again.

The unicorn moved closer to the direction from which the sound came... It was a blasting snail that had run from the path on the right.

This little cutie must have hatched in the first round. It looks to be ten feet (3 meters) long, with long stingers curled on its back and thick carapace shimmering under the glow of the unicorn's soul.

Siron's eyes also sparkled.
"Are you lost?" Xiren flicked his wrist, switched to another wand, and pointed it at the Blasttail. "Don't worry, I'll take you back right away."

"Clear water is like a spring."

A stream of water gushed out from under the blasting snail, lifting it to a height of two feet above the ground.

Strangely enough, the huge and menacing-looking tadpole wilted immediately after touching water, lying there motionless like a slump of mud.

From the stands, people gasped in surprise once again.

"So this kind of monster is so easy to deal with?"

Just five minutes earlier, Viktor Krum also encountered a blasting snail.

Unlike Siron, he tried to put the Blasttail to sleep with a Stunning Charm, but the spell bounced off its hard shell. If he hadn't realized the danger and run away in time, he would probably have been stunned by the blast.

Even so, the explosion from the tail of the Bombshell still injured Krum.

"I protest! This is unfair!" shouted a Durmstrang student. "I know you learned about these magical creatures in your Hogwarts classes, so of course you know how to deal with them. This is cheating!"

Oh, we've studied that before?

The students who hadn't chosen the "Protecting Magical Creatures" course looked puzzled.

“Um…yes…we did learn it.” Some of the students who had taken Hagrid’s class stammered, “and we even raised that thing.”

"But Hagrid only told us to take it for walks and feed it, he never told us how to deal with it."

“Yes, Hagrid never said that.”

Durmstrang's students simply didn't believe this explanation... Did they think they were first graders? Such a lame excuse.
“You have no right to judge others when it comes to cheating,” someone shouted. “Don’t forget Ludo Bagman has already been disqualified as a referee!”

"That's his own business, it has nothing to do with Durmstrang!"

"Ridiculous!" "Wait, did any of you notice that Siron changed his wand?"

"Change your wand? You must be mistaken."

……

The stands erupted in chaos again, and the noise quickly carried to the front.

Ludo Bagman's lips twitched, pretending not to hear what was being said about him. He then raised his voice, trying to divert everyone's attention.

"Look, Furong seems to be in some trouble... Oh, get out of the way, that's dangerous, that's not a gentle guy."

Inside the maze, Xiren, who had just finished dealing with the blasting snails, was about to remove her carapace when a scream suddenly broke the silence.

It was Furong's voice.

Xilun looked up and around. The sound was coming from the left, but there were no red sparks in the sky.

In an instant, Furong lost the ability to resist?

Xilun thought to himself, then shook his head.

It should be impossible.

After all, the Boggart and the Blasttail he had just encountered were not particularly dangerous magical creatures.

For the Warriors, even if they can't win, it's unlikely they won't even have the chance to ask for help.

Xilun composed himself, put away his back armor, and continued walking forward.

“Give me directions.”

Turn left... turn right... turn left again... The closer you get to the depths of the maze, the more forks you encounter. Xiren has to keep using spells to determine his direction and make sure he doesn't stray too far off course.

At the same time, the troubles he encountered became increasingly difficult.

Besides magical creatures, the labyrinth also contains various magical traps. Once, Siren had just emerged from a dead end when he discovered a strange golden mist floating on the path he was meant to take.

Siren waved his wand, and the unicorn flew right through it; it seemed this trap wasn't part of dark magic.

Xilun was relieved and took a deep breath before going inside.

The world suddenly turned upside down. He was hanging there, with the boundless black night sky below him. He felt that if he lifted his foot, he would fall immediately.

Xilun knew perfectly well that it was fake, but the feeling that he could fall at any moment was really terrifying.

But as soon as Xiren took a deep breath and firmly lifted his foot off the ground, the world immediately returned to normal.

Further on, he encountered another cloud of purple mist.

This time it wasn't upside down; the surrounding hedges, including the ground and the sky, all turned into giant mirrors. When Xilun turned his head, he could see countless versions of himself in the mirrors.

And they were all doing different things; some were making wands, some were reading books, and some were watching him.

This feeling was too eerie. Xiren felt tense all over and just wanted to find an exit and leave immediately. But before she could even take two steps forward, she had already bumped into the glass three times...

After the glass shattered, there were more "selves" around him, each pointing in a direction, as if trying to tell him where the correct exit was.

One of these must be true, and he needs to find it now... What are the clues? What are they doing?
Xilun frowned.

No, there are too many. Even if he finds them, it will waste a lot of time.

Just as Siron was hesitating whether to use the Explosion Charm to destroy all the mirrors, a blue unicorn suddenly appeared beside him.

More importantly, those mirrors cannot reflect the soul of the unicorn.

“Take me away from here,” Xiren said with delight, then followed closely behind it.

After walking about ten meters forward, all the mirrors shattered, turning back into hedges.

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(End of this chapter)