great-warnovel Chapter 501 The Burning Seat
Chapter 501 The Burning Seat
Chapter 501 The Burning Seat
After Christmas, there are no more holidays to look forward to this winter.
However, the students began a great networking event, and all those who aspired to follow the school's champions and showcase their talents in the Goblet of Fire submitted their applications. What awaited them was the personal selection by Harry and his fellow champions.
However, the principals temporarily suppressed this process, as they knew more and were more aware of the dangers involved.
Grindelwald's rules are quite lenient, with no specific regulations on the number of participants in a team competition or an age limit for registered players. In a truly rigorous competition, these loopholes would be enough for each school to field a dream team of professors to protect the warriors.
But that was exactly what he intended. After all, this was an elite force to conquer the Seven Fairy Villages, so he wanted to select as many powerful wizards as possible, and the more the merrier.
However, a large number of troops had to be diverted to deal with the final siege of Fairy City, so the number of troops could not be expanded indefinitely.
In the wizarding world today, the strongest are New Paris and New Hogsmeade. Grindelwald's Fiery Warbler has been famous for fifty years, achieving numerous terrifying feats.
Although the new Hogsmeade was only established a year ago, with two great wizards in charge, the defense of Hogwarts shocked the world. Twenty thousand elite Muggle troops were wiped out and captured, the werewolf king died under the city walls, and thousands of werewolves surrendered. In addition, it absorbed the essence of Malfoy Castle and completely killed Voldemort. This made the new city's strength expand extremely rapidly.
If troops are to be deployed, the forces of New Paris and New Hogsmeade will be the main force. Although other schools also have their own armed forces, they are not many.
In this wasteland, maintaining a large number of people who have left their jobs is not an easy task. Even for a wealthy country like Beauxbatons, the wizard population is limited. Even with all their strength and armed to the teeth, they can only manage to raise a security force of less than a thousand people. These people are already struggling to cope with daily guarding and patrols, and it is obviously not enough to fight a war of annihilation.
The principals temporarily suppressed the warriors' idea of choosing their own people, and instead planned to carefully select a group of the most capable fighters to fill the positions, at most allowing them to bring a few of their own partners at the end.
Faced with the fact that the demons are determined to kill humans, each family has to pull out all the stops to deal with it.
There are two months between now and the official start of the second stage. This is the time the Dark Lord has given each faction to prepare for battle.
When Zorrian learned of his friend Rice's recent situation, he felt a little relieved but also more anxious, as his companion was suffering every day in the fairy world!
He kept this secret to himself and couldn't tell his other brothers and sisters.
Moreover, he is the weakest in strength and must rely on the brain-sealing neck ring around the clock to protect the secret in his mind. However, he is already speeding up his learning of brain-sealing techniques. With the help of a mythical creature named Veles, the god of the underworld, contracts, and transformations, his progress is not slow.
However, he still went to Hermione with great concern, unsure of how to deal with the mission to attack the Seven Fairy Villages. Levi was too small, and their numbers were too few. This operation clearly required the entire force to be mobilized.
"Don't worry, Adam will be with you," Hermione could only offer this comfort.
"Now you know, he is the most advanced intelligent robot in Muggle history, integrating a miniature nuclear reactor and various high-tech weapons. His firepower is extremely fierce. With him around, you may be safer than other warrior teams."
As she said this, the witch still felt it wasn't enough, and continued, "I will put the Viles Sword and the Invincible Lamp on him, so that even the magic of fairies won't be able to harm him."
With one side attacking and the other defending, Adam was armed to the extreme.
After barely managing to send the bitter and resentful young man away, Hermione hadn't even settled down at her desk when someone else came looking for her.
This time it's Rita Skeeter, the Animagus Failed Beetle Lady.
"Another interview?" Hermione frowned.
Three issues had already been published, and the editor of the Wizard's Will newspaper hadn't contacted her for a long time, so Hermione thought the matter was over.
"It's His Majesty's latest instruction," Skeeter said softly.
"He wants to continue your feature series alongside the Goblet of Fire Warriors interview."
Hermione was a little confused about what Grindelwald was thinking. It hadn't been long since their argument, and she hadn't been up to the third floor for a long time either. Their cold war was still going on.
Why is he suddenly trying to be friendly again at this time? What is his purpose?
"Shouldn't we be focusing more on the team competition in the second round at this point?" she muttered.
"People must be very curious about the level design, location, and difficulty, right?"
Skeeter shrugged: "Maybe it's to create an air of mystery, but I've already given instructions that I'll be leading the team of war correspondents and reporting from the front lines myself."
Hermione was startled; she knew that only Grindelwald could give such instructions.
"He wants Skeeter to gather firsthand video intelligence about the fairies and gain an edge in the war of public opinion!" The witch immediately understood the old man's plan.
But that's too dangerous. This editor-in-chief's abilities are only considered decent, but on the battlefield, survival sometimes depends more on luck.
Her impression of Grindelwald worsened, and she remained silent with a dark expression.
Skeeter, on the other hand, didn't seem to react much. Following her plan, she waved her hand to turn the notebook to the question sheet, preparing to ask some pre-prepared questions.
But Hermione was about to deliver something even more explosive. She suddenly said to Skeeter, "Grindelwald and I had a huge argument recently, and we haven't seen or spoken to each other since."
The Dark Lord wants to mold her into a powerful successor, but this must be based on a harmonious and orderly transfer of power.
If Hermione's argument with him gets out, it won't be good for the stability of the UMNO party. She's trying to cause trouble for the old man now.
Lady Beetle was taken aback, but she quickly recovered, shaking her head and casting a spell to erase the words written with the shorthand quill: "I will pretend I didn't hear it, and these words will not appear in the newspaper."
Hermione said sternly, "You're not respecting the authenticity of the interview at all."
Skeeter laughed and said, "The media is just a tool of power; you can't take everything written on paper as fact."
Hermione initially thought the witch was an honest and kind person, but now it seems she's not so kind after all.
Just then, the entire iron tower shook as if an earthquake had struck, and a muffled thud came from above, then there was silence.
"What happened?" She frowned. The noise didn't seem like Grindelwald going crazy. He always unleashed his fury everywhere, not just stopping there.
But the next moment, a figure burst through the window and landed in front of Hermione.
It was Adam!
He had some burn marks on his body, with wisps of black fire stubbornly clinging to him. Hermione reacted quickly and extinguished them all with a single curse.
"Something happened to him!?" she asked with a grim face.
Adam remained expressionless. He glanced at Skeeter, then turned back and said, "Mr. Grindelwald wants you to come upstairs immediately."
Clearly, while the situation has some minor issues, it should still be within a controllable range.
Although Hermione was still angry, she wouldn't disregard the bigger picture; she was about to fly out of the broken window.
But before leaving, the Finger Witch thought for a moment, took out a silver holy mark, twisted her magic in her hand, and changed the shape on it into a beetle carrying the moon.
She tossed it to Skeeter and whispered, "You can take this and go find Hilmi."
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