Chapter 348: Crazy (2 in 1)

Chapter 348: Crazy (2 in 1)

It was a little after six in the evening when Jon found the Antipodean Opaleye.

The dragon's location had been marked by him previously while riding Hoss, so it wasn't too much trouble to find it now.

Of course, Jon had also expected that all the golden snitches around this dragon had already been captured by Diane or Emil, so he actually had two alternative dragons, only that they were far from the location where the exit of the Forbidden Forest happened to be, and they were not listed as his first choice of target.

That dragon was in the middle of eating when they came to the Antipodean Opaleye territory.

Two sheep that had been bitten to death lay beside it. There were certainly no wild sheep in the Forbidden Forest, these sheep had been put inside together by those Romanian dragon trainers when these dragons were brought here to ensure that even in their limited time here, these dragons could catch enough prey to eat.

And all around, although it was not clearly visible, it could still vaguely perceive a lot of golden figures wandering around.

The Antipodean Opaleye looked very unhappy with the golden flying snitches around it; these things, even if they were all alchemical items, flew like mosquitoes and were a nuisance.

It could not destroy them or simply expel them, so it could only look at them with a bored face and then lower its head to eat a sheep.

It showed little desire to attack in response to Jon's presence and was far more gentle than the other dragons, even deliberately refraining from looking at Jon as if trying to pretend not to notice his arrival.

Jon had no problem with this, a dragon that had no humans in its recipe and got on very well with them for the most part, they had no essential conflict at all.

It wasn't as if the golden snitches are dragon eggs, and even if those dragon trainers had told these dragons to keep an eye on them by ear, it's unlikely that every one of them would do so honestly.

The one that Diane had met at the beginning, the other Antipodean Opaleye one, and the one that Jon is currently seeing, are not interested in these "golden flies" at all. It would be easier for the dragon if Jon would just take them all away and make the place less annoying.

To be able to finish off the first task like this so easily, Jon was certainly happy to do so.

He didn't bother the Antipodean Opaleye one who is eating its dinner, he just used the levitation charm to rise into the air, then added a simple general counter-spell on his body and flew a few laps around the place with the most golden flying snitches, and in a short time a lot of magic from the golden snitches was absorbed by the gem on his ring, and they fell to the ground.

Jon's luck was not bad, about twenty golden snitches were flying around this Antipodean Opaleye, if he caught all of them he would be able to get more than two hundred and ten on this trip, and then he would be guaranteed to get the first place in this task.

He flew for about half an hour before all the golden snitches around him had sucked up all of their magic and dropped onto the grass.

Jon glanced at the time on his pocket watch, it was just after seven o'clock, quite a bit faster than he had predicted before.

He began to gather up all the golden snitches on the ground, thinking that he could still meet up with Diane later by the exit of the Forbidden Forest so that he could even secure a more solid ranking in terms of time.

But just as he was picking up the golden snitches, one of them suddenly caught his attention.

There was no difference in form between this golden snitch and the others, all being the same size, with a golden metallic sheen on its exterior and a pair of small, thin wings on either side of the sphere.

The difference, however, was that this one had a distinctive mark in the middle of its sphere.

A mark that Jon recognised, a serpent passing through a skull - the Dark Mark!

This mark still existed in the magical world, it is an exclusive mark of the Voldemort Death Eater Squad!

And the moment Jon saw the Dark Mark, an extremely bad feeling welled up in his heart, and just as this feeling rose in him, the golden snitch with the mark suddenly cracked down the middle!

Jon reacted instantly.

Without hesitation, he threw the Golden Snitch, which was widening and looked like it was about to open completely, straight into the air!

But at the very moment, he threw it out, a sticky, glue-like liquid abruptly gushed out from the golden snitch, directly enveloping Jon's entire body!

Jon's heart sank to the bottom in an instant, while a slightly fishy smell reached his nostrils.

The sticky liquid was all over his hair and robes, and Jon didn't reach out to touch it at first, nor did he have any curiosity to investigate what it was.

Without half a moment's hesitation, he raised the wand in his hand and aimed it at himself and used the cleaning spell.

"Scourgify!"

The journalists who saw it all let out a gasp, their fingers pressing the shutter faster and their flashes constantly lighting up.

Durmstrang's champion and Beauxbaton's champion had met at the finish line, and as long as they both wanted to finish first, the battle would be inevitable!

The journalists couldn't have been more excited about what had happened, which meant that they would have more explosive things to write about and more magical photos to show to the public in tomorrow's publication.

Diane and Emile knew this better than anyone else.

With their wands in their hands, they confronted each other at a distance of relatively twenty metres, and Diane uttered with a sneer.

"Do pureblood nobles with the Lestrange family name only use sneak attacks?"

The gloomy look on Emil's face changed negligibly; he had suffered enough humiliation at Jon's hands, and Diane's words were nothing to his mental capacity now.

"The means are not the priority as long as the objective can be accomplished, and I feel that the diehard Rosiers' should understand that point better than I do."

Although they both came from pureblood families, they stood on two very different lines, and the focus of their taunts was naturally on their families.

Just as this duel between them was about to begin, the ground suddenly began to tremble!

Everyone in the scene felt the tremor, and many of the journalists holding up their cameras almost fell to the ground without standing still.

Immediately afterwards, along with the tremors, came the sound of countless roars of anger that rang through the sky!

In the forbidden forest, a dozen places were lit up with dragon flames spewing into the sky, followed by those huge creatures rising into the sky!

Such a huge commotion made everyone present turn pale, and Matthew, one of the three judges, looked up into the sky with a grimace, and the next moment he turned his head to the dragon trainers from Romania.

"What's wrong with those dragons!"

The dragon trainers all turned pale when they heard the dozen or so dragon roars, and they stared wide-eyed at the patch of sky that had been stained with golden dragon flames, and no one answered Matthew's question.

Of all those present, Emil was the only one whose face showed little surprise.

He glanced back at the forbidden forest that was already enveloped in golden fire, and the corners of his mouth had even curled up in an insignificant curve.

This first tournament task had been suggested by the Hogwarts Castle side, so how could they not have made some preparations against Jon?

Jon certainly didn't know right now exactly what was going on there at the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest's entrance, and he didn't have the energy or mood to think about it either.

After that roar from all the dragons resounded throughout the Forbidden Forest, he flopped right onto Hoss's back without half a second's hesitation!

"Runoff! Hoss! Go in the direction of Hogwarts Castle! Run towards the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest!"

But before Hoss could even step his first hoof, the Antipodean Opaleye came crashing down from the sky, blocking in front of Jon and Hoss!

At the same time, the heat evaporated the moisture from the air and dried up even the gusty wind!

"Roar!"

With the roar of the dragon, golden dragon flames erupted from its mouth, the flames, full of dragon magic, were like living snakes of fire, and the moment they erupted, they began to surround Jon and Hoss!

Seeing that the way ahead was blocked and that there was no way for Hoss to break through the flames, and at the same time with the distant undulating roar of the dragon getting closer and closer, Jon made a split-second decision.

"Head back! We must get out of here first!"

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