Chapter 230

Harry tried to shoot at Renata a few times, and both of them were sincerely wanting to hit each other, but the spells were crooked. Harry suddenly thought that this probably had something to do with the refraction of light, which caused him to clearly aim at Renata, but the landing point of the spell was completely crooked.

At this time, Harry thought of a crucial point. Renata cannot breathe in the air now. In other words, she cannot leave the water wall, and she cannot touch the treasure chest now exposed in the air. So, he didn't need to deal with her at all, just run.

Harry put on the prepared Disillusionment Charm. Although his outline was still looming in the process of running, for Renata separated by a water curtain, she almost completely lost her target and could only shoot a few spells at the finish line in vain.

Passing by Alina and Krum who were "fiercely fighting", Harry looked closely and found that there was actually a small safe distance between them. It just looked like they were fighting from a distance. The two's attacks didn't seem to be prepared to hit the opponent, and the two's dodging of course had nothing to dodge, but they were fighting happily, as if they were dancing street dance.

He nodded secretly. Under the premise that Tang Tang Nade was biased, plus Zhang Qiu's tireless cultivation of feelings with her, Alina finally joined the ranks of playing fake games. Now things are moving in a direction favorable to Harry. The only one who still intends to compete with Harry is Renata, or at most plus Hermione who is anxious on the sidelines and intends to abide by professional ethics.

When Harry ran to the side of the box, Cedric also arrived. The invisible Harry said loudly: "I'm here, the password is Trenzalore!"

"Tren what, how do you spell it?" Cedric was about to walk closer, when suddenly a red light hit his feet, scaring him to retreat. Renata shot several shots at the treasure chest here, and had gradually found some accuracy.

"You come to enter the password." Cedric whispered. "I'll hold her back."

"Good." Harry bent down, quietly approaching the treasure chest, and under the cover of Cedric shooting spells to fight back, Renata didn't find him.

"The password is Pan Duola, Pan Duola from Pan Duola's Box." Cedric said, and dodged another spell.

Harry quickly found the place where the password should be entered on the treasure chest. He wrote letters one by one on it with his wand, and then with a bang, the treasure chest was opened.

The three items inside floated out of the box, emitting a faint white light. Right below these things, each was equipped with a page of explanatory documents. Renata stopped shooting, she might be worried about breaking these things.

Harry quickly browsed their effects and read them to Cedric: "The effect of this book is to immediately know the information of the current level, it can only be used once; the effect of this wing is to skip an enemy, it can also only be used once; the key can open the locked door, it can be used three times."

"I don't think we will have enemies we can't beat, take the key." Cedric said.

Harry pondered. There is a great possibility that the third level is still in the form of battle + puzzle solving. Cedric is right, if it is a battle, of course they are not afraid, what they are afraid of is being stuck by the riddle.

Of course, the book is a very flexible prop, which can be used to help solve riddles, or to know the enemy's weaknesses, but it can only be used once. Harry hesitated and chose to follow Cedric's suggestion and took the magic key.

After Harry took the key, the other two props suddenly returned to the box, and the treasure chest was closed again.

"Krum, I can let you go to open the treasure chest first, but you have to tell me what the other half of the password is." Alina said calmly. In this situation, this is her best way.

"Good, the pass-word is this." Krum still had problems with unclear pronunciation, so he quickly wrote the place name Trenzalore on Alina's sleeve with his wand.

The two fake game players who knew each other well and reached an agreement suddenly stopped fighting. Krum strode to the front of the box. Renata gestured something across the water curtain. Soon, their box also opened. After Krum hesitated slightly, he chose to take the book.

Finally, Alina stepped forward to enter the password and took the last remaining wing. The second project was settled, and the champions no longer fought. They walked in the river channel opened by Harry and came to the shore steadily. Fleur was wrapped in a thick blanket, holding a cup of tea, and she smiled at Alina with a hint of apology.

Except for Harry, the remaining three champions were covered with the same thick blanket, and then someone handed them a cup of tea each. Harry took a small sip of the tea. Except for being hot, there was no other taste. He remembered that Zhang Qiu introduced a torture called "chili water", so he put the teacup aside without changing his expression.

"Now I will announce the scoring criteria. Completing the project can get 20 basic points. According to the ranking of completion, you will get 20 points for the first place, 16 points for the second place, and 12 points for the third place. According to the props selected, you will get 16 points for the wing, 14 points for the key, and 12 points for the book." Madame Maxime's voice sounded from the high platform. "And if someone gives up the props, in fact, no one did, he can get all 20 prop points, plus the 40 scoring points given by the referee group, the total score should be 100 points, but it is actually 96 points."

"Now announce the scoring results, the referee group believes," Madame Maxime said loudly, "The Order of the Phoenix combination showed excellent magic level and cooperative thinking, but did not reflect its ability in dueling, so it got 28 points, total score 82 points."

Harry paused. No one mentioned that they had to show dueling ability. The competition official couldn't ask the champions to beat each other, right? But he soon figured it out again. This is because the official originally expected him and the Grindylows to fight a few rounds, but Harry took a shortcut and skipped this step.

"The Soviet advance combination showed exquisite dueling skills and creative puzzle-solving ideas, but actively attacked other champions underwater, which is not worth advocating, so it got 22 points, total score 70 points."

Harry shrugged. It seems that fighting is not a good idea after all.

"The Judas's Oath combination performed almost perfectly, but due to the lack of dueling skills, it led to champions retiring early, so it got 26 points, total score 74 points."

Harry quickly calculated the scores in his heart. In the first project, Fleur and Alina got 74 points, now they have 148 points. Krum and Renata got 76 points in the first project, now it is 146 points, just completing the reversal. And he and Cedric plus the 83 points of the first project, now have 165 points, far ahead.

This cannot be said to be a bad thing, but thinking that his victory is always mixed with help from many aspects, and Tang Tang Nade's unreasonable cheating, Harry inevitably feels a bit guilty.

When the scores were read halfway, Renata's Gillyweed effect ended, and she also sat into the tent wrapped in a blanket. Just at this time, a rumbling sound came from outside, and the river water that had been separated by Harry also merged again.

"Now, everyone can go to lunch." Madame Maxime announced. "The champions will continue to rest here, and we will conduct interviews at one o'clock in the afternoon."

And in the tent, Prince Mountbatten suggested: "You can take a shower, and some food will be sent in later."

Several champions who had just come out of the water walked toward the bathroom one after another. This tent is not as exaggerated as TARDIS, but one separate shower room for each person can still be guaranteed. Harry felt that he didn't get water on his body, so he didn't go to take a shower, but stayed.

"Trenzalore." Prince Mountbatten said suddenly. "Everything will end there."

"What?" Harry looked up at him, always feeling that this old man had something in his words.

"That is a remote magical town located in northern France. The townspeople all moved away during the Grindelwald era," he shook his head gently. "A place where few people go, the place you should least go to."

"Are you also—" Harry stood up all of a sudden. He couldn't think that this biggest referee also participated in the Ministry of Magic's plan.

"Shh." Prince Mountbatten whispered. "You still have a chance to go back on your word, Harry, but this is the last chance."

"I don't regret it." Harry said. "I would rather die in the process of executing the plan than see the magical world suffer and live in vain."

"You are very similar to me when I was young, Harry." Prince Mountbatten sighed. "Enjoy the days to come, that moment is coming, and we have no certainty."

Harry wanted to ask more questions, but Cedric had already come out wiping his hair.

"Hi, Harry," he said. "The merpeople told me that Pan Duola represents the content of the third project, perhaps we have to fight with random monsters or riddles."

"And the back of this paper mentioned the last word." Alina also came out wrapped in a bath towel. She held the instructions for the props. "The form of the third project, Magic Tower."

"You are very smart, children." Prince Mountbatten said in the tone of a referee. "The third project will be held on June 24th. You will enter a magic tower, a carefully built three-dimensional maze, inside there will be various dangers and tests, and the champion who reaches the top floor first and lifts the Goblet of Fire will be the champion of this competition."

"After lifting the Goblet of Fire, the professors will score the remaining champions." He continued. "And judge the second and third places based on the final score."

Other referees began to file in, and Dumbledore smiled and patted Harry and Cedric on the shoulders to show encouragement. As the headmasters sat at the long table, food began to appear on the table, including long bread, roasted potatoes, and meat dishes such as steak and pork knuckles. So needless to say, the champions spontaneously began to enjoy lunch.

Lunch was very rich, the referees complimented each other, the champions laughed and talked with each other, perhaps the only two who were in a bad mood were Renata, who was brooding over the lagging score, and Harry, who was uneasy because he thought about fighting Voldemort to the death on June 24th.