Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 319 Facing the Fire Dragon

In an instant, Avada felt an unprecedented amount of pressure.

Now, it was separated from the giant dragon surrounded by a bunch of outrageous rules by a barrier and a distance that the fire dragon could probably cross with ease. All around it were stands set up like a stadium, with hundreds and thousands of faces looking at it with eyes full of various emotions...

At the other end of the field, the gigantic and terrifying Ukrainian Iron Belly, as large as a castle, crouched idly. Perhaps the chains on its wings were making it quite grumpy; its vicious, vertical pupils were fixed on Avada directly opposite it, while it violently thrashed its nearly ten-meter-long tail, the resulting gust of wind causing a large patch of grass behind it to flatten neatly...

"Are you ready?"

The professor beside him watched as he buttoned up his cloak one button at a time with his slightly pale hands, then forcefully pulled his wand from his sleeve and asked a question.

"...That's fine."

A chill filled Avada's lungs and quickly spread to the top of his head, helping him calm down all his emotions and distracting thoughts. Now that it had been confirmed for the time being that there was no additional danger in this level, what he needed to do now was to give full play to his strength and wisdom and do his best to clear this abnormal level!

There was also something that worried him—the rules stated that the golden egg would play a crucial role in the third project.

In his prediction, the time when the conspiracies painstakingly planned by the pure-blood families would completely erupt was likely the same time as the third project, and the third project itself was very likely part of the trap. Since they were already seriously planning to kill Dumbledore, why wouldn't they use the ready-made hostage, the champion, and the energy-consuming props like the competition level?

Therefore, even if it's just to unravel the pure-blood family's conspiracy, he must obtain the 100% complete golden egg, and then try his best to uncover all the secrets and uses it contains, so as to gain the upper hand to the greatest extent possible!

"Then, please pass through the barrier and enter the arena."

Seeing Avada's calm demeanor, the professor nodded slightly and pointed to the barrier in front of Avada, which had now become passable: "The match will officially begin the moment you fully enter the barrier."

"Um."

Avada Kedavra agreed, then gripped his wand tightly and stepped into the barrier without hesitation. He immediately sensed the barrier's structure rapidly reinforcing behind him—he was now imprisoned inside along with the enormous fire dragon.

"roar!--"

The next moment, a terrifying roar exploded in the distance—the "Enrage the Fire Dragon" curse on the cloak, previously blocked by the barrier, began to take effect the instant Avada crossed it. The muscles on the Ukrainian iron-bellied dragon's limbs visibly swelled, effortlessly supporting its massive body, over twenty meters long and likely weighing over a hundred tons. Sparks erupted from the depths of its roaring maw, and the ensuing heat even distorted the air…

"...Let's begin."

Avada tilted his head, causing his cervical spine to crack loudly, and fearlessly met the fire dragon's ferocious vertical pupils. Countless spells to enhance himself began to flow from his slightly drooping wand, allowing a reassuring power to quickly spread throughout his body.

Then, almost the next second, he felt the ground beneath his feet begin to tremble noticeably—the hundred-ton behemoth above him had begun to move its limbs, charging straight toward Avada, and from dozens of meters away he could vaguely feel a gust of wind mixed with a stench rushing toward him...

"Obstacles are numerous!"

A Barrier Charm imbued with over ninety percent of Avada's mental power struck the dragon's charging left foreleg with tremendous force, instantly disrupting its clumsy and fragile balance. With a deafening roar, the iron-bellied creature crashed to one side, and the audience outside the barrier erupted in cheers—the barrier blocked out the sounds from outside, but Avada knew that his attack had earned him a great deal of applause…

"It's not very useful, though."

He glanced quickly at the golden egg floating high in the sky, and before the dragon could rise again, he quickly flicked his wand, first casting a Bubble Head Charm on himself, and then summoning a large area of ​​thick, pungent white mist to cover the area where the dragon was, while he himself concealed himself in the thick fog—he needed to buy time.

Everything on the field has been magically reinforced, rendering his favorite burrowing technique and Professor McGonagall's Polymorph spell, which he used to deal with the basilisk, useless. The Distortion Charm is not convenient to use openly, so he can only temporarily create some obstacles to delay the enraged fire dragon and try to find out what is most important to him in the first phase—the stone pillars and the fire dragon's breath.

How tall and wide are those stone pillars? Are there any differences in their appearance? Can they be affected by my magic? How many can appear at the same time? What exactly do those light signals look like? And how exactly do I guide the fire dragon to breathe fire instead of just rushing at me...? Figuring out these questions is the real key to winning this match.

However, what he didn't know was that it was even noisier outside than he had imagined...

"A brilliant first strike!"

The commentator, "Ludo Bagman," was flushed with excitement, waving his arms and shouting at the top of his lungs, because otherwise the already boisterous audience wouldn't be able to hear him: "Did you see that? Mr. Ken single-handedly took down a hundred-ton Iron Belly! It was even wearing armor! It seems that besides his intelligence, Mr. Ken's strength far surpasses that of ordinary people!"

"What will he do next? Look, he doesn't seem to be planning to press his advantage. Instead, he summoned a mist to throw the fire dragon into chaos—don't worry, everyone, our barrier has the function of removing obstacles. You can still clearly see what's happening inside the mist... Oh, that mist seems to have a smell. You can see the fire dragon seems to be coughing. No wonder Mr. Ken used the Bubble Head Charm on himself..."

"Iron Belly has begun to breathe fire! By Merlin, as expected of the largest fire dragon—how far did those flames travel? Eighty feet? Or a hundred feet?"

Just as Bagman said, the flames sprayed by the Iron-Belly Dragon had an astonishing range, given its own length of sixty feet. Such a vast flame naturally engulfed Avada's location, only to be promptly blocked by his Ironclad Charm…

"Such powerful flames..."

Feeling the pressure emanating from the Ironclad Curse, Avada frowned slightly: "Fortunately, we finally managed to lure out its breath... What's the main factor? The pungent smell? Or does the loss of vision cause the fire dragon to attack indiscriminately? We need to figure these things out before the charging pillars appear... Hmm?"

Suddenly, his magical senses detected a disturbance underground, causing him to shift his gaze slightly towards that location. There, he saw a circular, green light, about a meter in diameter, illuminating the area.

(End of this chapter)