Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 329 Why did it turn out like this?

"...Truly a genius worthy of becoming a warrior."

As Hibiscus's flowing silver hair gradually fell to the ground, and her wings, which had been carrying her body, slowly closed and folded back down as if they had never existed, Avada couldn't help but sigh. While the other spectators were still in a daze, he had already vaguely guessed what had just happened.

If he was not mistaken, Furong had indeed deciphered the method of making the charged stone pillars generate repair magic by analyzing the scattered fragments of the charged stone pillars and the dragon breath simulation potion in her hand.

Moreover, she herself possesses Veela blood, so in addition to mental charm, she naturally inherited another Veela talent magic, which is the form with wings on her back that can throw fire—if she were a pure Veela, a sharp beak would also grow from her mouth when she transforms into this form...

Fortunately, Hibiscus did not inherit 100% of this talent.

As flames released by magical creatures, Veela's fireballs and dragon breath share some of the same characteristics. Furthermore, Fleur, who has fully understood the structure of the charged pillars, can slightly modify her flames with her wand and the dragon breath simulation potion to create flames that the pillars recognize as dragon breath. She then completes the first stage of the test in an extremely flamboyant and incomprehensible way—it can only be said to be very much in her style.

As for the second stage after the dragon's wings were unsealed, Fleur's performance exceeded Avada's expectations even more—he hadn't expected that the transformed Veela would possess such formidable firepower and flight capabilities, even enough to suppress the world's largest dragon, preventing it from even taking off from start to finish... It's likely that even Avada himself would have found it difficult to achieve this without using those forbidden techniques.

"Look! Under Miss Delacour's suppression, this poor fire dragon hasn't been able to fly once from beginning to end!"

After the staff responsible for looking after the Fire Dragon rushed into the arena for the second time, thoroughly inspected the Ukrainian Iron Belly, placed it in a box, and carried it off the field, Bagman's excited voice rang out again: "Such astonishing strength! I can hardly tell who is the Warrior and who is the Fire Dragon!"

"Well, describing a beautiful girl like that seems a bit inappropriate, but only such an analogy can truly capture the breathtaking performance she delivered earlier... Now, the judges will begin scoring!"

"Alright, considering the scores from all five judges, I hereby declare Miss Delacour's final score for this match to be..."

"Bagman" ran down from the stands and spoke with the four referees for a while, then returned to his seat with a booklet in hand, loudly announcing Furong's final score: "Forty-six points!"

Standing in the center of the arena, Hibiscus's face was somewhat pale, indicating that her previous transformation had taken a toll on her. After hearing her score, she shook her head slightly as usual, causing her long hair to sway back and forth, without showing any excitement or dissatisfaction—there was no way around it; although it was indeed amazing that she had used her talent to fill the golden eggs in one go, it had taken her far too long, more than three times that of Ken, and she had also lost a stone pillar.

Therefore, in her eyes, getting this score was already quite good.

……

"Now, let's welcome our third warrior, Mr. Viktor Krum, to begin the match!"

After another brand-new Ukrainian Iron-Belly Fire Dragon was pulled into the arena, "Ludo Bagman" led Krum out of the tent while shouting loudly to the audience. Krum, who was next to him, was obviously stunned for a moment after seeing the huge fire dragon that was as big as a small mountain. His expression was exactly the same as the previous two warriors.

After reading the booklet containing the competition rules, his expression visibly contorted – it seemed that Karkaroff hadn't revealed this part of the competition to him privately, and the secrecy this time was quite good.

"Mr. Krum has entered the arena—ha! The fire dragon he faces seems to have exceptionally high energy levels, immediately unleashing a breath of dragon breath. Breathing is actually quite a strenuous activity for a dragon... but this is actually Mr. Krum's good fortune, as it will likely make his recharging process much easier..."

Bagman's voice dutifully provided commentary on the match: "As expected of a warrior trained by Durmstrang, a company renowned for its combat prowess, Mr. Krum neither dodged nor used the Ironclad Charm for protection, but instead chose to directly confront the fire dragon's energy blasts—if anyone else did this, I would definitely think they were insane, but Mr. Krum's magic seems to be truly effective... Look, those tongues of fire in mid-air seem to be frozen by something, unable to get any closer to Mr. Krum..."

"Haha! He actually thought the curse on his cloak wasn't effective enough and went so far as to provoke the fire dragon! That big guy is probably furious right now... If I were the fire dragon, I'd probably only have one thing on my mind right now, which is to burn this guy who dared to resist my breath to ashes... That's also guiding the fire dragon's mindset!"

"Its second attack was indeed another fire-breathing attack... Krum was right!"

"..."

Avada felt a slight soreness in his tooth roots.

Why do all the good things happen to the other two warriors?

First, Hibiscus got a free recharge opportunity from the fragile stone pillar right away, and then Krum ran into a fire dragon that loved to breathe fire, which saved him a lot of trouble... So he was the only one who was unlucky?

Not only did they fail to extract anything valuable from the fragile stone pillars, but a charging stone pillar was also accidentally crushed by the fire dragon's butt, causing them to lose three points for nothing...

If it weren't for the fact that the difference in luck wasn't too significant, Avada would have suspected that there was something fishy going on behind the scenes with the organizers' claim of "randomness."

"The first fragile stone pillar has been raised!"

On the field, Bagman's voice rang out again as he provided live commentary: "This is actually a problem for Krum - his fire dragon loves to breathe too much, which makes it difficult for him to break the fragile pillars and accumulate items. If this continues, his second phase will likely be much more difficult than the other warriors... well, although the other two warriors don't seem to have used the items in the pillars much either."

"My God! Mr. Krum shattered the fragile stone pillar with his own strength! That magic... was it a thunderous explosion? Truly a warrior of Durmstrang!"

"..."

Avada suddenly realized he had been playing too conservatively. Despite having the most cheat codes among the three warriors, his performance was the most conventional, lacking any distinctive personal characteristics beyond brilliant tactics.

Whether it's analyzing the magical structure of dragon breath or using powerful black magic, he was the one who came up with the idea first, so why did things turn out this way...?

(End of this chapter)