Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

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Lavender was obviously surprised when she saw Ron, and her face turned red.

"What's going on here? I heard there's a chess game here?"

Ron rubbed his hands and walked into the crowd.

Then, as expected, he saw an alchemy doll that looked like an old man sitting on a chair in front of the wooden house.

In front of the chair was a chess table, and on the table, as Neville had said, there were a few chess pieces.

Those were chess pieces Ron had never seen before. There were some special creatures on them, and in the center of the chessboard there was a fruit.

"Fire dragons, goblins, Modla rats...what is that?"

Ron recognized several of them.

"And the venomous horn, the nymph, the niffler, the bird snake, and the salamander."

At this moment, Lavender added: "Anne recognized them, and she also concluded the possible relationship between them - it should be a relationship of mutual restraint..."

As she spoke, she held out a piece of paper towards Ron - causing her younger sisters to look at Lavender in disbelief.

But Ron took it without noticing and started reading it.

"The fire dragon restrains the poison horn beast, the poison horn beast restrains the leopard, the leopard restrains the bird snake, but the bird snake is also afraid of the fire lizard and restrains the poison horn beast... Why?"

"Salamanders will steal the eggs of bird snakes for food, so even the adult bird snakes are afraid of them."

"On the contrary, the venomous horn's overly large and bloated body means it is difficult for it to attack the bird snake that can change its body size. This can be seen in the 'bird snake vs. venomous horn' incident in Indonesia in 1841. The bird snake crawled into the ear of the venomous horn and eventually killed it."

A little witch said seriously - she was obviously the 'Annie' that Lavender mentioned. She looked much older than Ron and should be a little wizard in the third grade or above.

"The Niffler can restrain goblins—oh... indeed, I heard Ryan mention this. Goblins are very afraid of the Niffler."

"The fire dragon will breathe dragon breath, attacking chess pieces within a straight line, and no other magical beasts can be present on the board around the Nangdu Panther, regardless of friend or foe... Interesting."

Ron muttered, then his mind quickly analyzed it.

"I understand."

He roughly noted down the restraint relationships among the chess pieces and began to observe the chessboard.

He was serious at the moment, which made him unexpectedly charming.

After a while, Ron frowned.

"have some problem."

"what?"

Anne and Lavender were both obviously surprised.

"According to this restraint relationship, this move won't work."

Ron said, "The Modra Rat must leave the L4 position, otherwise it will be killed by the Fire Dragon's splash. At this time, the Nangdu Leopard must move to R4, which makes it impossible for the Modra Rat to avoid its range."

Upon hearing this, the little witch Annie seemed to remember something. She exclaimed, "I remember! Professor Keltburn once told me a story. The venom in the Modla rat seems to be able to neutralize the venom of the Nundu leopard... It might be the only creature that can live near the Nundu leopard!"

She was obviously very knowledgeable about magical creatures, which was why she chose to take on this challenge.

"now it's right!"

After hearing this, Ron nodded and said, "That's no problem. As long as Modla Rat can leave L4, the game will be played. All we need to do now is..."

When he said this, he also looked at the little witches behind him and said, "By the way, how many points are there for this mission?"

"25 points."

"There are exactly five of us here, so... split it equally?"

So, Ron naturally sat down in front of the chair.

And at the same time...

"Harry! Come help me!"

Harry has also arrived at his mission site.

This place is different from other places in the maze - there is no magic power covering the sky, but instead it flows straight into the sky.

Countless trees and rocks form twisting passages.

At this moment, Harry was watching the sound of a red Gryffindor wizard robe crashing into a huge tree.

He fell, then stood up covered in dust.

"Wood?"

Harry naturally recognized Oliver Wood at a glance.

"Harry!"

After seeing Harry, Wood also excitedly said, "You're here! Quick! Quick! Come and help me—this flying track is so interesting! It's so interesting!"

He clearly had some wounds on his body from the fall, but he seemed to be unconcerned.

He simply stood up and casually cast a healing spell on his body - well, as a Quidditch player, he was obviously good at some simple healing spells.

At this moment, he looked very excited.

Harry saw his expression and knew what was going on - this senior was having Quidditch madness again!

but...

"Is that the race track?"

At this moment, Harry was also looking at the track made of branches and rocks with some excitement.

"That's right—there will be branches and storks appearing during the process. You need to react quickly and plug your ears with the falling cattail fluff. At the same time, you need to control the direction of the broom. This requires quick reaction, agility, and balance."

“At the same time, this is a two-person track, so you need to cooperate with each other!”

Wood was very excited. "I dare say that if we can pass this track, none of Flint's little tricks will work on us. The way he forced me to sweep away with the broom tail and then scored a goal last time...we can definitely handle it in the future!"

"Professor McGonagall is right—although Elias's flying skills are not very good, he is really good at Quidditch training..."

"Shh! Wood, keep your voice down—Ryan is petty... I mean, he hates people talking about his flying skills..."

Harry, who knew his friend's character very well, reminded him.

But Wood obviously didn't care: "What's the big deal? A flying idiot is a flying idiot. I've seen more than one. You don't know, there was a Gryffindor named Arian before, who was three years older than me. His flying skills were even worse than Elias's..."

Seeing that he was going to continue talking, Harry simply gave up trying to persuade him - it was impossible to persuade the damned ghost with kind words.

"Is this my broom?"

Harry glanced at the broom not far away - there were quite a few young wizards here at the moment, but they were all far away.

From their discussion, Harry concluded that several young wizards who thought they had good flying skills had probably flown with Wood before.

But obviously, the results were not very good.

"Yes, the most basic broom in school."

Wood complained, "I'm not saying anything more than Madam Hooch should consider replacing her brooms—this one could be sent to an antique shop."

"I think so."

As Harry spoke, he stepped onto his broom with familiarity.

"lets go."

He said so.

So the next moment, he and Wood began to fly across the complex track.

And the facts are just as Wood said.

This track is extremely difficult.

But Harry and Wood's Quidditch talents are no joke - one of them is a genius who was allowed to join the Quidditch team by Professor McGonagall as an exception in his first year, and the other is a top Quidditch player who dreams of becoming a professional Quidditch player and indeed has the qualifications.

So, it was only after less than ten failures.

"Caught!"

Harry grabbed a ball bird that just appeared.

He and Wood landed on the ground, while the track behind them changed rapidly.

As the magic power flowed, the branches and huge rocks disappeared in an instant.

Instead, there was a grand display of magical fireworks, writing the word 'Complete'.

At the same time, Harry also saw a ball of magic merge into the badge on his chest.

A full 25 magic points made his badge suddenly become much more solid.

This gave Harry an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.

But at this moment...

Wood seemed a little lost - he seemed to have completely forgotten that the purpose of his visit was to complete the mission, and was simply enjoying the joy of flying.

But it was at this time...

"Boom!"

Accompanied by the earth shaking and the screams of the little wizards around.

Harry saw countless trees and rocks rising from the ground again.

They kept changing their shapes, forming a brand new flying track that was obviously many times more difficult.

And above it, a new line of text appeared.

【Flight Test-Highest Difficulty】

[Single Track]

[Difficulty: Level 10]

[Reward: 100 Magic Points]

[Bonus Reward: A Nimbus 2000 broom for every member of the Gryffindor Quidditch team]

"cool!"