Chapter 436 Stealing Chicken Is Also a Necessary Process for the Assessment.

"Let's test its vigilance and warning range first."

As Cedric spoke, he pulled out his wand and transformed the nearest stone into a lively rabbit.

Then, from a long distance away, he commanded the rabbit to run to the side of the dragon from a distance, and let it start to circle boldly, making exquisite provocations from time to time, trying to start a wave of feeding the fire dragon. operate.

However, the deliberately fed hornet was not very interested in this snack that was not enough to eat.

To be precise, it blinked and gave up on this harmless rabbit.

"The Hogwarts warriors tried to tempt the dragon with food, but it was clear that it had no desire to hunt such a tiny creature."

Bagman's commentary voice sounded, but his voice seemed a bit lacking in passion.

There was nothing I could do. The textbook-like cooperation of Durmstrang's students just now was too exciting, making this cautious test look a bit boring now.

But the four warriors present obviously didn't think so.

"It should be full, but we have yet to try. If it is full, its aggressiveness will be greatly reduced."

Harry squinted his eyes and looked at the fire dragon, still thinking about the thought that was about to pop up in his mind.

"Well, so far it doesn't appear to have any noticeable response to faint touches - but we need to try more."

Cedric stopped controlling the rabbit and nodded in agreement with Harry's theory.

"If the movement is smaller, then the operation of stealing the golden egg should be feasible. Try increasing the size of the test creature... I suspect that the professor's shield weakens its aggressiveness, but I am not sure."

The discussion between the other three people made Montague a little uncomfortable - he looked at Harry with a puzzled look on his face.

'Can he keep up with this discussion? ’

However, he did not voice his doubts. Instead, he waved his wand and pointed it at another stone, causing it to transform into a hound.

As a Slytherin, his performance in Transfiguration is actually not very impressive, so he needs to do the work in advance to prevent any embarrassing situations from happening next.

Although theoretically students of the same grade receive the same education, due to the relationship between the deans of each college, students tend to pay more attention to the classes taught by the deans.

Soon, the hound completed its mission - the dragon didn't even breathe out its breath, and turned its head away with a dissatisfied hiss to signal expulsion.

Montague originally wanted to test it again, but was stopped by Cedric.

Next was Nancy's spellcasting. A goat jumped towards the fire dragon, shivering so far away that it couldn't move. The Horntail glanced at it, hesitated, raised its neck and took a breath of dragon breath. It spit out, directly attacked and killed the goat, and turned it into a stone again.

"The Hogwarts warriors used bait again, but the effect was not very satisfactory... Maybe they can try a different method?"

Bagman tried his best to explain without being too frustrated - he wanted to pick up the wand and rush forward directly. It was just a giant dragon. Was it necessary to test it so carefully?

Look at the Durmstrang warriors!

Not only did he have such an idea, many children in the lower grades were also dissatisfied - the failure of successive trials was simply too demoralizing.

But on the other side, the eyes of the Hogwarts Warriors, who had been staying in a corner of the field until now, all lit up.

"The dragon's breath has not been modified! The professor showed mercy!"

Harry's voice rose with excitement.

"That's right," Nancy looked at the giant dragon that looked at the stone from time to time, and made her own inference, "It also has a clear awareness of storing food - which shows that it doesn't pay that much attention to those dragon eggs... This It’s a good opportunity.”

"I will transform into a cow next, and you will take the opportunity to transform the stone over there into the shape of a dragon's nest, and then try to use the Illusion Charm to get closer."

She commanded confidently, "Harry transforms into a litter, and Montague transforms into a litter. Cedric, you should be the best at transfiguration among us. Try the Disguise Charm to get closer and transform into a litter of mice. Try to get closer." Drag the dragon's nest from a distance - if it fails, retreat immediately. I will cast a spell to block the possible breath for you. Monta is responsible for deflecting the possible flying attack. Harry, you are responsible for observing the movement of the dragon. Once it wants to give up Bait, sound the alarm immediately.”

"good."

"Can."

"I'm OK."

"If it attacks, quickly disperse and run away from the dragon egg. If it is chased, the others will immediately use the strongest spell to attack, and then use the Disguise Charm to quickly dodge to prevent retaliation."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Harry, "Do you know the Disguise Charm? Harry?"

"According to the current curriculum, fifth grade will mention this magic, but because of its difficulty..." She hesitated, "Well, you don't have to think about it after you sound the alarm..."

"I know how to do it. I have specially learned the magic used to hide, such as the Disguise Charm."

Harry responded decisively.

"The professor must really like your answer."

Nancy smiled and shook her head, "Okay, so, is this the plan?"

"I'll count one, two, three, and we'll start."

A rock quickly turned into a huge bison. It trotted leisurely on the field, but its trajectory was directed towards the dragon without any cover-up.

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"Just bullying this dragon into being stupid and unable to move around..."

William shook his head in the stands, "These students are going to get serious. The next step will be fun."

"Um?"

Adams glanced at William - for some reason, he felt a little, um, a little malicious chuckle from what he just said?

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"Okay, this stupid dragon."

Nancy smiled confidently and controlled the angry-looking bull to charge forward, avoiding the dragon's attack.

Although she was not confident that she could turn into a dragon like Cedric controlled the rabbit, she was very confident that it would not be turned back into stone all of a sudden.

The bison made no sound, but its provocation and attempts to escape after the collision really angered the dragon.

There was another breath of dragon breath, but unfortunately, Niu, who was controlled by Nancy, rushed out.

The angry dragon flapped its wings and began to leave its nest to chase the food that came to the door.

"It's now!"

Harry and Montague waved their wands together, and two pretentious nests appeared instantly in the dragon's blind spot. Cedric had already used the Disillusionment Charm, and carefully bent over and ran towards them. .

Even Harry and others who could see directly could only notice a transparent block moving towards the dragon's nest. People further away could not notice any changes on the field at all.

However, the scene where Cedric used the Disillusionment Curse was noticed, and the audience present could not help but lower their breaths, hoping that he could successfully steal the egg in one go.

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"It's close, just a little bit close."

At this moment, Cedric even wanted to crawl regardless of his image. He was now very close to the dragon's nest. The next step was to use a group of transformed mice to move the dragon's nest according to the agreed strategy.

"This distance allows for such precise operations."

After he estimated that it was almost the same, he moved forward a little more to be on the safe side, and then he quickly transformed into a nest of mice and directed them to start crawling towards the dragon's nest.

"About five mice can move a dragon egg... plus the weight of the dragon's nest, I need..."

"But it would be very difficult for me to maintain such a large group of rats..."

"do not care…"

He waved his magic wand, conjuring as many mice as possible, and then directed them to carry the dragon's nest rustlingly.

"Once, twice...it's okay, I can move it, but..."

He discovered something was wrong. The weight of the dragon's nest was much heavier than expected, but it was moved anyway - however, the consequence of this was that the moving speed was much slower than expected.

Before he had moved far, Harry, who was responsible for keeping an eye on the dragon's movements, had already issued a loud warning.

"It noticed something was wrong! Quick, run!"

Harry's speech made Cedric instantly give up his plan to continue dragging the dragon's nest. He subconsciously used the transformation spell to create a piece of earth-colored cloth to cover the dragon's nest, and dented part of the ground underneath the dragon's nest. Then he turned around and left.

His retreat was very timely - Harry immediately issued a warning sound after the fire dragon showed signs of giving up. When Cedric leaned over to leave the dangerous area over there, the fire dragon just noticed that the dragon's nest had disappeared.

However, it soon discovered two other dragon nests on the site, and then showed a puzzled expression.

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"What a pity...The egg-stealing operation at Hogwarts fell short. The fire dragon was almost deceived. If our golden eggs hadn't been sufficiently disguised, maybe they would have succeeded..."

Bagman's voice of regret resounded throughout the audience - he was just a little short of success!

"What a shame, otherwise they would have triumphed!"

Adams echoed the explanation, making William laugh, "You really think that?"

"if not?"

"It's a lot different. Moreover, those students seemed to have concluded that I had tampered with the golden egg... These days, it's getting harder and harder for students to deceive..."

? ? ?

Adams' eyes widened.

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"The egg-stealing failed, but Harry, your warning was timely."

The warriors who had regrouped looked at the angry dragon who had discovered that both nests of dragon eggs were fake, and couldn't help but sigh.

"If we try again this time, the risk will be even greater - and we haven't confirmed the possible protection on the dragon's nest yet."

"No, I'll try to lure it away again, but this time it's not so stupid. You three, hurry up and forcefully break the protection of the dragon's nest."

Mengtai looked at the dragon over there that was spitting dragon breath randomly, "I dare not say it after a long time. I can still hold it off for three minutes. I will try to transform into another nest of fake dragon eggs to disguise them, and then destroy them from a distance. His attention will be firmly fixed on me.”

"If the Horntail maims it, it won't leave permanent scars, right?"

He licked his lips and said, "I haven't taken any advanced classes on magical creatures. I only know about dragons in general."

"No, but the wounds will recover extremely slowly. Wounds caused by dragons are poisonous——"

"That's okay, just to win..."

"No, it's too risky. We can also implement other plans to steal the dragon eggs!"

"Cedric just hid the dragon egg. We can try to dig up the land and create a tunnel on site to steal it from the ground!"

"It's too late! Points will be severely deducted if you exceed the time limit!"

Montague was a little stuck in his ways.

"Wait!"

Harry suddenly interrupted Montague, "I noticed something!"

"Um?"

"The dragon has a shield, right?"

"Yes, and it covers every vital point, I confirmed it."

"If I remember correctly, there is ancient magic in the dragon's skin, which makes using magic on it easily negated."

"But the professor's shield doesn't have this effect, right?"

"Professor's shield?"

"Yes, the stackability and non-stackability of protective magic!"

Harry said of the lesson he remembered fondly, "Some protections can be stacked, but some cannot."

"There is a saying that the Iron Armor Curse cannot be superimposed, but the strength can be adjusted. At the same time, the Iron Armor Curse and the Bubble Head Curse may also be fused after being proficient enough... What do you mean?"

"I remember... there is a magic to protect against strong light..."

"The one used in herbal medicine class? You mean - you can try it!"

"In that case, I remember there was a stone armor protection spell. I tried it, and it could be superimposed, but because the stone armor was too heavy, it would slow down the speed, so it was abandoned."

"Wings and tail..."

Everyone's eyes lit up.

"What are you waiting for?"

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"The Hogwarts warriors conjured a cloud of mist!"

"This is a variation of the spell Clear Water Like a Spring. It requires extremely high magical talent. However, because it has lost its offensive nature, it has been used by a large number of wizards..."

"God, what are they doing!"

The impatient fire dragon discovered the smoke immediately, and when he was about to use dragon breath, the four warriors collectively jumped out of the smoke, then waved their wands and pointed at the dragon's eyes and wings.

"This is…"

Before Bagman even finished explaining, the shield of the dragon's eyes had turned dark black, and then the misty mist spread quickly.

"The stone armor failed, but the eye shield against bright light succeeded!"

In the mist, everyone could barely distinguish each other's positions, but what the dragon said...

"continue!"

Harry drew his wand and fired it into the sky.

The light of the curse shot very far before exploding, and then crackled in the air in the distance.

Then came the noise Nancy was making on the other side.

Not to be outdone, Montague cast another spell in another direction.

Cedric, who knew the hidden location best, hurried back to the hiding place and began to crack it nervously - while cracking it, he marveled at the various warning magics that the professor had arranged on it.

Five minutes later, he came out with a golden egg.

The three people who had a great time looked at the golden egg and said, "Success?"

"Successful."

Cedric laughed happily, "Sure enough, an egg is an egg and a dragon is a dragon. The professor specifically reminded us not to worry about dealing with the enhanced dragon. The purpose of the assessment is to obtain the golden egg."