It didn't take long for the red fireworks to rise into the sky.
Suddenly a strong wind blew up all around and the hedges also began to shrink towards a point.
From a distance, it seemed like there was a huge mouth of an abyss devouring the surrounding space.
Lucas knew in his heart that this was done using Transfiguration, and of the many professors who have entered the maze, only Professor McGonagall could do it.
Casting the Disillusionment charm, Lucas watched as Professor McGonagall led the unconscious Fleur out of the maze.
'There are still two people left, let's go see how our resident savior is doing.'
Lucas closed his eyes and sensed the magic around him, then tore the void and walked in.
At this time, Harry was busy looking for map fragments in the maze.
Maybe it was because he was lucky or the other had bad luck. But after being in the maze for so long, the others have all encountered some troubles more or less, but Harry had a smooth journey.
Although this saved him a lot of trouble, it also caused him to not get a single map fragment. And without map fragments, it is impossible to accurately find the location of the Triwizard Cup.
It also means that there is no hope of winning the tournament.
Since the previous day, Harry has fantasized more than once about lifting the Triwizard Cup in front of all the teachers and students in the school.
So when he just saw the red fireworks rising in the sky he was not as worried as Cedric.
On the contrary, he thought that if one person was eliminated, his chances of winning would be higher.
"Where are the map fragments hidden?"
Harry held his wand up and searched the surrounding hedges using the glow of his lumos spell.
Just as he turned around a corner, suddenly, a huge monster appeared in front of him.
"Skrewt?!" Harry exclaimed.
He is no stranger to the Blast-Ended Skrewts.
The grotesque creature was bred by Hagrid from a manticore and a pack of fire crabs. He doesn't even want to imagine how he managed such a thing, just the thought gives him shivers and could fuel the next few years of nightmares.
It looked like a giant scorpion, but without the pincers, and instead of a head it had a second stinger in its place, the worst is that it shoots fire from its rear end, using it to propel itself against its victims.
In the first half of the semester, the main content of their Care of Magical Creatures class was to take care of these dangerous guys.
It's just that the Skrewts they took care of were not that big.
Looking at the huge creature more than three meters long in front of him, Harry wisely chose to return the same way he came.
Unfortunately, the grumpy Skrewt had already spotted him. Hot flames spewed out from under one of its stingers in the blink of an eye.
Harry realized that it was too late to dodge, so he immediately used the shield charm!
With the delay of the shield, he successfully escaped the flames. But a strand of hair on his forehead was still swept by the flames.
Unfortunately, he didn't have time to worry about his hair right now.
Using the moonlight as a source of light, he looked at the shell of the creature that shone like armor and he tentatively cast a spell on the Skrewt.
"Stupefy!"
The wand flashed white and the spell managed to hit the shell. But it didn't have any effect, and was even bounced back by the hard shell.
Barely dodging his own spell, Harry couldn't help complaining in his heart.
He really wanted to curse Hagrid at this moment, If it weren't for his whim to research this dangerous thing, he wouldn't have to suffer like this now!
Seeing it crawling towards him quickly, he cast a spell while running away, trying to stop the opponent's movement speed.
"Impedimenta!"
"Impedimenta!"
The two consecutive impediment spells were all bounced to other places without exception.
Because of his worry about the creature pursuing him, Harry didn't pay attention to the road ahead, so he didn't notice a root on the ground and tripped, falling to the ground.
He looked at the Skrewt that had arrived before him and closed his eyes, even preparing to raise his wand to release red fireworks.
Just on the nick of time, a bang came to his ears. And when the expected pain did not come, he opened his eyes and saw that the gigantic creature had returned to its original size.
"Engorgio?"
It was a spell that Moody had used in his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class back in school to make the spider bigger. So he immediately understood the reason for the huge size of the Skrewt.
"Could it be that the spell has expired?"
He didn't even suspect that instead of the Growing Charm, it was actually hit with the Shrinking Charm just now.
Before he could figure out the reason, his eyes were attracted by a fragment of a map next to him.
"It turns out that the map fragments are all protected by these dangerous creatures!"
Thinking of how he must have looked just now, his cheeks were slightly red, but luckily there was no one around at that time to see him.
Keeping the map fragment close to his body, Harry looked again at the 30cms Skrewt on the ground.
Now its flame was not so lethal, so of course he was no longer afraid.
"Confringo!"
The shell of the young Skrewt was not as hard as before. After being hit by the curse, it quickly exploded and turned into ashes.
Having had his revenge, Harry's mood improved a lot, and all this was seen by Lucas who was hiding not far away.
'It's really ruthless!'
Lucas made some comments on Harry's behavior, then took out the map fragments he got.
'Ventus!'
A gust of wind flew towards Harry carrying the fragments of the map.
Once the wind died down, Harry opened his eyes again, and found that there was another map fragment in front of him.
Looking at the branches and fallen leaves blown by the wind around him, he was stunned for several seconds before picking up the map fragment.
"My luck is too good, right? Is it Merlin's blessing?"
Putting the two map pieces together, he used the Orientation Charm to identify the direction, and continued to walk deep into the maze.
After making sure Harry stays in first place, Lucas decided to check the situation of the other two by sensing their magic.
When he found that Cedric and Krum's magic powers were in the same area, he immediately noticed something was wrong.
"Krum, what do you want to do? What exactly are you going to do?"
Lucas just stepped out of the void when he heard Cedric's misleading words.
"Crucio!"
Krum's voice became a little sharper and a little hoarse.
It sounded very sinister.
Instead of Cedric being hit by the Cruciatus Curse like in the original, which would also make things easier for Lucas.
Unexpectedly, he waved his wand and used a rock to block the curse, then proceeded to counterattack.
"Diffindo!"
Facing Cedric's Cutting Charm, Krum neither dodged nor blocked. Receiving a cut in his arm, his expression did not even change, and Cedric reacted immediately.
"The Imperius Curse!"
Looking carefully at Krum's eyes again, seeing his dull eyes, Cedric became more sure of his thoughts.
But although he could see that Krum was under the Imperius Curse, he didn't know how to help the cursed person get out of the spell's control.
"Crucio!"
Krum used the Cruciatus Curse again and Cedric wasn't so lucky to react in time like before. However, before he was cursed, he also used the Disarming Charm on Krum, so the excruciating pain he endured didn't last long.
Lucas was hidden on the side, watching the fight between the two with relish. At the same time, he also looked towards the maze passage beside the two of them.
A huge spider was lurking there, and the sound of the two fighting just woke it up.
"Krum, wake up quickly, as long as you are determined, you can break free from the Imperius Curse."
Hearing Cedric's loud shout, Lucas shook his head helplessly.
If the Imperius Curse was really so easy to resist, there wouldn't be so many wizards that were controlled by Voldemort's Imperius Curse in the first place.
Looking at the giant spider that had already crawled towards the two of them, Lucas chose to step back a few meters.
So this spider could take out both of them at the same time, that couldn't be better.
hiss~!
The peculiar sound of the spider came from the side.
Seeing the black spider rushing towards him quickly, Cedric didn't care about taking care of Krum, so he turned around to hide in the hedge next to him.
Krum, who was controlled by the Imperius Curse, waved his wand to stop it. Others may be afraid of this giant spider, but since he was controlled by Crouch Jr, he didn't feel any fear.
"Avada Kedavra!"
Dazzling green light appeared in the labyrinth accompanied by ear-piercing wailing.
Lucas swung his wand, and a vine turned into a bronze shield to block Krum's killing curse. He couldn't let the spider die so easily, it was still useful to him after all.
"Who?!"
Krum's hoarse voice sounded, but when he looked around he didn't find anyone aside from the giant spider. He also didn't have enough time to observe carefully.
Just when Krum was busy avoiding the giant spider attack. Cedric, who was hiding, was also suffering in his heart.
He knew that this was his best chance to escape. But when he thought that Krum had been hit by the Imperius Curse, and now he was being attacked by a giant spider.
Cedric felt a little unbearable in his heart. After struggling for a few seconds, the good, stupid fellow rushed through the hedge anyway.
"Hey big guy, look at me, Reducto!"
The spell shattered one of the spider's large eyeballs.
The severe pain angered it, so ignoring the already injured Krum, the giant spider turned around and crawled towards Cedric who was not far away doing weird movements to attract its attention.
Lucas looked at the man and the spider disappearing in the maze, and suddenly felt that Cedric was a little silly and cute (no homo).
When he turned to look at the controlled Krum, he found that he was standing not far behind him, and he was actually pointing at his position.
"Avada Kedavra!".
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