Chapter 688

Maka's action led to the reduction of staff before the international alchemy competition began. The Indian delegation identified as holding the plan of disturbing the competition was presided over by Mr. babajid akinbad, the current president of the International Federation of wizards, and was immediately deprived of the right to participate.

Although from the specific inquiry and investigation, the delegation seems to be under the control of magic. But this is all about the stability of world-class events. No one will bet on Nicole LeMay's Alchemy heritage, so no one has helped them say good words from beginning to end.

However, although such a bad thing happened before the game, it seems to have some adverse effects on the game. But from another point of view, Maka's behavior shows Hogwarts's ability to maintain the normal holding of the competition.

In fact, the transnational arrest of the conspiracy group led by the Indian delegation has been widely published in the wizard newspapers and periodicals of various countries, and clearly tied with the latest news of the opening of the international alchemy competition in the international headlines.

Yes, the international alchemy competition has finally opened!

"... I believe everyone knows that Hogwarts is my alma mater! To be honest, today, I feel heartfelt joy for my alma mater! Welcome to come here and witness the day when alchemy shines again in today's era with me, Hogwarts and the whole world!"

On the lawn in front of Hogwarts castle, a strange building has long been built. It is shaped like a huge washbasin, but the edge should be higher. To cite an example, this is a Muggle stadium with a raised audience.

At this moment, on the round platform built in the center of the stadium, a familiar man was standing alone and communicating his speech to every guest sitting in the audience through the sound reinforcement curse.

That's gidrow Lockhart, the most popular in British magic in recent years... Well, what should I say? The most popular public figure?

In short, Maka brought him into the competition and played the role of host.

Now it is approaching the evening. It is the time for the opening ceremony of the alchemy competition. After dinner, the competition will officially begin. At present, the students in Hogwarts are still in class. In order not to disturb them, Maka specially opened the magic barrier to shield the sound.

At this time, under the auditorium in the east of the competition field, the competition Coordination Office

"Mr. McLean, the latest seat statistics have been sent from the 12 admission gates just now. I have a look. Because some of the audience who have booked tickets will arrive after dinner time, so..."

"So there may not be enough audience seats, right?"

Most of the staff who co managed the event process were sent from the International Federation of wizards, and the assistant in front of Maka was naturally the same.

"The publicity of this competition is very sufficient, and it's natural that there are not enough seats... Didn't I say earlier that it can't be prepared as another Quidditch World Cup." Maka waved his hand and said, "don't worry! Let the audience enter normally, and I've been prepared for the audience..."

After Lockhart introduced the delegations one by one and arranged a series of pre competition performances, all kinds of food stalls outside the venue have been in place.

This time, except that there was basically no big change inside the castle, other places were used. Today's Hogwarts is indeed the busiest day since the establishment of the school. I'm afraid it's not too much to say that it is unprecedented.

As Lockhart announced the end of the opening ceremony, the audience poured out of the venue to taste the fresh food from all over the world. If someone is willing to stay in the field and continue to enjoy the entertainment program before the game, just shake the magic bell on the side of the seat, and a domestic elf will immediately provide them with the best quality errand service.

"Oh - what's that?"

Suddenly, a couple of French wizards sitting in the highest seat raised their heads in surprise - they were the first to notice a shadow floating overhead.

Of course, it's just a second or two before others. After all, a fool can quickly find such a big thing floating over the sky.

"What's flying? Is it a new program?" "Oh, maybe it's a big carriage... Is a delegation late?" "I haven't heard of anyone absent except the Indian delegation. Didn't the host just say..."

In the continuous discussion of the audience, the huge shadow floated steadily across the field. Before long, when it was far away, the audience here found that it looked like an empty auditorium.

At this moment, on a preparation field outside the competition field, Maka is standing in the middle of the open space. Around him, a large group of elves raised their hands and pointed to the sky over the field.

"... yes, move forward and aim at the support there. Be careful. If you fall and hit someone, go back to the island and get ready to receive the punishment! Come down... Come down..."

Adding so many seats temporarily is not an easy task for wizards, but it is not completely impossible.

Under Maka's command, the elves cooperate quite tacitly - at least he thinks that when doing this kind of collective cooperation, elves are much easier than humans.

"OK, just hold on!" he said, stretching out his staff and pointing straight ahead. "When I strengthen it, I can start carrying the next --"

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Almost at the same time, Hogwarts finally came to school. The long-awaited little wizards rushed out of the classroom and walked into the colorful world outside the castle with laughter.

Although they have no right to participate in the competition, they can enjoy the competition as an audience. Today's breakfast time, Professor McGonagall personally announced that everyone can freely go to the food stall outside after school to stroll around for a few times and fill their stomachs.

"Hermione, do you think Marca will play today? It's just alchemy. I bet he will --"

In the lobby, Ron inquired excitedly. Look at the pride on his face, as if he was not talking about Maka, but himself.

But Hermione, who has always been strict with knowledge, hesitated and shook her head.

"I don't know," she hesitated. "At least Maka hasn't studied before. Anyway, I haven't seen any alchemy data in him... But that's also a thing in the past. Now..."

"Hey! I heard that he won the game from beginning to end," Ron said excitedly. "I think he must have studied it. Well, it's really looking forward to..."

Next to Ron, Alexander, who had recently been close to them, looked tangled.

"Miss Granger, what is alchemy? I flipped through the books in the library a few days ago, but I still didn't understand..." he said sadly, "what are the four elements and three elements... What decomposition and transformation... And the messy alchemy symbol table..."

"All said, just call me Hermione..." Hermione smiled and said, "well, because Hogwarts has no alchemy class, so I just read it in the book... The book says that alchemy is mainly divided into material and spiritual directions. If you want to understand..."

"Hermione, Alexander, don't say that now. Anyway, you can have a real impression when the game starts..." Harry urged with a bitter face, "hurry up! I'm almost hungry..."

Obviously, everyone is looking forward to this grand event like a celebration. Everyone is expressing their joy in their own way.

However, when most of the students excitedly walked outside the castle, there were always one or two unsociable guys who stayed in the castle and didn't want to move.

Ernst Taron of hatch patch college is undoubtedly one of them.

"... has the sound insulation magic been cancelled?" in the common room, Ernst, who had just returned to the bedroom to release his schoolbag, muttered discontentedly, "it's so noisy... Annoying!"

He paused and touched the paper in his pocket and the wand inserted inside his robe.

"Let's go out! Let's go out! Making fun is the most stupid thing a fool should do..." RNs thought to himself, "it's best not to leave anyone in the castle, so no one will bother me!"

Thinking so, he reconfirmed what he was carrying, and then strode to the door of the common room.

The underground corridor outside was expected to be empty. And the constant noise of people outside completely covered up his footsteps - this is a great opportunity to explore.

Erns went all the way to the second floor of the main castle. In the middle of the corridor on the left was the third girls' bathroom mentioned in Helga hechpach's letter. The "under repair" sign hung on the bathroom door as usual, and water stains were still seeping out from the crack in the lower edge of the door.

"It's here..." he stopped in front of the door and carefully took out his wand. "What guardian is mentioned in the letter... According to the senior, there is a female ghost in the bathroom. Doesn't that ghost have any strange ability?"

In order to ensure as much preparation as possible, after translating the contents on the parchment, he collected a lot of relevant information alone.

These include the crying ghost in the bathroom, and, of course, the legend of Harry and them breaking into the secret room.

"Click."

Ernst held out his hand and gently twisted the copper doorknob in front of him