Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 356 Waterway Teleportation

"First like this, then like this, and then like this again... Okay."

He couldn't and didn't bother with the fully formed trap spell. Instead, he casually studied the transformed steering wheel and spent a considerable amount of time figuring out how to use it. Although Little Barty had briefly explained how to control the ghost ship and how to trigger the "Water Teleportation" spell a week earlier when introducing the rules, there was definitely a difference between hearing the steps and actually doing it.

Then he put his wand back in his pocket, rummaged deeper into it as if afraid it would fall out, and then pulled his hand out again, sat down on the bare wooden chair, and gripped the steering wheel with both hands.

The moment his hand touched the helm, the entire ghost ship began to tremble slightly, and a low rumble echoed through the cabin. The wooden walls in front of Avada began to become transparent, allowing him to see directly into the outside world. He even saw that a portion of the previously melted golden egg had seeped through the control panel and into the hull, now emitting a thick beam of light... So, the golden egg, after being embedded in the hull, could also function as a searchlight?

Moreover, Avada had no doubt that the quality of the searchlight was also related to the integrity of the golden egg.

To be honest, if it weren't for the Purebloods and Barty's underhanded tactics, the level design of this year's championship would have been quite entertaining and engaging—but that's only true for the audience.

Rumble...

With a rumbling sound of something unknown, the ghost ship finally began to move slowly. Since it was almost completely dark outside, Avada couldn't judge the ship's speed. He could only vaguely sense that he wasn't going very fast by the faint feeling of being pushed back against his back.

"Alright, Krum and Fleur should be done soon... Time to proceed with the plan!"

He slowly took a deep breath, and the five fingers of his right hand quietly closed, tightly gripping the Fawkes feather that he had secretly taken from his pocket and hidden in his sleeve when he put the wand away earlier...

"Waterway Teleportation!"

As Avada Kedavra activated a spell attached to the helm, the ghost ship, which had been traveling at a slow speed through the dark waters, vanished as if a frame had been dropped. However, no hole appeared where it had been, as if the ship had been an illusion from the beginning, or had simply melted into the water...

……

"Um?"

On the lakeside, the students who were excitedly watching Krum's fierce battle with the horse-shaped water monster, or cheering on Hibiscus who was still struggling forward, suddenly froze.

Out of the corner of their eye, in the playback area of ​​"Mr. Ken," the misty screen that should have shown Ken's every move inside the ghost ship's cabin suddenly dimmed and turned back into an ordinary wisp of white mist, leisurely floating in the air. And next to it, on the screen showing the exterior of the water, the ghost ship that was originally in the center of the screen suddenly disappeared, leaving only a deep blue that was almost pure black...

"Everyone, don't panic. Mr. Ken is fine, and there's no problem with the magic broadcast."

Seeing the audience's reaction, Barty nodded as expected and explained, "This is Mr. Ken's ghost ship performing Durmstrang's signature magic, 'Water Teleportation'."

"This is a rather ancient and obscure magic, said to have been invented by Wokanova, the founder of Durmstrang School, and applied to that giant sailboat moored on the lake. This magic allows the ship to teleport instantly across water within a certain range, similar to Apparition, even if there is no connection between two bodies of water, it can allow the huge ship to cross them instantly."

"Moreover, this teleportation not only has an extremely large capacity for transporting a single item, but it is also unaffected by typical anti-apparition restrictions, and its range is even greater—if the Triwizard Tournament were hosted by Hogwarts instead of Durmstrang, that sailboat could have instantly teleported into the Black Lake at Hogwarts in one go..."

As Barty Jr. explained, the Durmstrang students all proudly raised their heads, even Principal Karkaroff and many professors looked pleased. Barty Jr. smiled at this and continued, "Therefore, due to the precision and difficulty of this magic, the internal transmission magic will be temporarily blocked during the ghost ship's teleportation—but rest assured, this teleportation will only last less than five minutes. Soon you will see Mr. Ken appear at the destination, the first to face the final test..."

"Ah, Mr. Krum has finally defeated the horse-shaped water monster! He's also boarded the ghost ship!"

"Mr. Krum was lucky; the horse-shaped water monster is much easier to deal with than the long-horned water serpent, so he successfully narrowed the gap between himself and Mr. Ken... Very good, he put in the golden egg, and his golden egg is intact, so he can use all the functions of the ghost ship..."

"Very good, Mr. Krum has also started his water teleportation! Less than two minutes after Mr. Ken, it seems Mr. Ken isn't entirely in control yet... Their footage will resume playing in five minutes, so let's now focus on Miss Delacour..."

On the misty screen displaying Hibiscus's battle, she finally managed to deal with the large group of Grindylos in a bit of a flurry. After swimming a little further downstream, she finally faced the final test before entering the ghost ship...

"A giant squid!"

Barty and the Hogwarts students gasped in unison—the Hogwarts students were all too familiar with this thing; almost every year, numerous drowning freshmen were brought ashore by the giant squid from the Black Lake…

However, the giant squid on the screen seems to be a size smaller than the one in Hogwarts, and its color is also slightly different. Its enormous eyes also seem to have a more ferocious look…

"This creature is just as formidable in the water as the longhorned water serpent. Not only does it possess a body comparable to a fire-breathing dragon, making it even more difficult for wizards, who are already not adept at casting spells in water, to harm it, but its immense strength is also enough to destroy most shapeshifting artifacts. Furthermore, the giant squid possesses the highest intelligence of all known aquatic magical creatures, and can even communicate with humans to some extent!"

"It looks like Miss Delacour is going to run into a lot of trouble... Huh?"

To everyone's astonishment, the giant squid seemed to have barely moved before its large eyes lost their luster, and its massive body drifted slowly in the water, as if asleep. Meanwhile, Furong, after a smug smirk, kicked her legs and quickly swam into the ghost ship's hold…

(End of this chapter)