Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 151 Training
Inside the room where every wish is granted, Mike, who had changed into a refreshing training suit, was holding a European-style long sword high and slashing with all his might. Beads of sweat the size of beans were sliding down Mike's face, but the young man was completely unaware and just focused on slashing.

This is Mike's daily warm-up exercise. The original warm-up exercise should have been warm-up exercises, but after Mike got the Sword of Victory and Oath, he changed it to raising the sword and swinging it twenty times. After all, it would be a waste not to practice sword skills after getting a divine-level long sword like the Sword of Victory and Oath.

Don't underestimate it, it's only twenty hits, and that's because Mike used Transfiguration to turn into a long sword weighing only one pound. If he used the Sword of Victory and Oath, five hits would be enough with Mike's current strength.

Actually, Mike originally wanted to hire a teacher to teach him swordplay, but unfortunately there was no swordplay expert in Hogwarts. And the school hadn't closed yet, so Mike couldn't hire a swordplay teacher outside the school. For the time being, he could only practice basic slashing.

After finishing the slashing exercise, Mike, panting, released the Transfiguration and prepared to start the spell training. The European-style sword in Mike's hand quickly shortened and transformed into a black magic wand.

"The flames are blazing!"

Mike waved his magic wand vigorously, and a circle of fire exploded rapidly with Mike as the center, turning the open space within 10 meters around Mike into a sea of ​​fire.

But this is not the end. The spreading flames quickly gathered under Mike's mental control and formed a huge fireball that pounced on the alchemy dummy on the side.

"boom!"

The fireball exploded violently the moment it touched the dummy, but unlike previous fireball explosions, the giant fireball did not dissipate into sparks after the explosion. Instead, it turned into a huge fire tornado centered on the training dummy.

Mike looked at the alchemical dummy that was quickly burned in the fire tornado, nodded with satisfaction, and gently waved the magic wand in his hand. The fire tornado turned into a fireball again and pounced towards Mike.

"The stone spear appears!"

Faced with the fireball coming towards him with huge heat, Mike calmly released the Earth Spike Technique.

Just as the fireball was about to hit Mike, a huge stone wall 1 meter thick rose from the ground and protected Mike behind it.

There was a loud bang, and a huge fireball hit the stone wall hard, instantly breaking the surface of the stone wall into pieces. Then the gathered wave of flames gradually burned the hard stone wall.

Mike, who was protected behind the stone wall, frowned as he looked at the stone wall in front of him that was about to be burned through by the flames. He waved his hand to disperse the flames and the broken stone wall, then returned to the rest area and sat down.

Exhaling heavily, Mike collapsed on the soft sofa chair.

Everything that just happened was the result of his training over the past month.

After studying the "Fire Master's Guide", Mike not only greatly improved his control over the fire spell, but also developed many variants of the fire spell, including the fire tornado, and was inspired to improve the ground spike technique.

Now the Ground Spikes is no longer a simple sneak attack spell. Mike changed its fixed casting method, turning the originally conical ground spikes into a rectangle, forming a stone shield similar to the one created by Cedric using Transfiguration.

Unfortunately, the stone wall transformed by the Earth Spike Technique was still not strong enough, and could not match the magic shield created by the Universal Protection Technique. However, Mike was very satisfied with this level of achievement. After all, the Earth Spike Technique consumed little magic power. The magic power consumed by the Universal Protection Technique once was enough to cast the Earth Spike Technique three times. While taking a break, Mike picked up the contestant information and novel outline given by Lockhart and started reading.

I have to say that Lockhart is really good at writing novels. Although the outline he gave only contains dry plots without any embellishment, the plot is full of ups and downs and is unexpectedly good to read.

The only thing that made Mike uncomfortable was that the protagonist of the novel was himself, and the various plots designed by Lockhart in the outline were a bit exaggerated.

Like the previous battle in the cave at the bottom of the lake, Mike and others clearly relied on Dumbledore to kill the basilisk, but in the novel it turned out that Mike was so powerful that his small universe burst out with a devastating fire spell and burned the basilisk to death.

This made Mike feel a little embarrassed as he was reading a novel with himself as the protagonist for the first time. If the novel was really written like this, those who knew the truth would probably laugh their heads off.

Mike, who secretly decided to let Lockhart modify this part of the plot, picked up another stack of parchment, which was an analysis of the combat power of the top 12 contestants in the duel tournament.

There is relatively little information on the seeded players from each college. Except for Mike and Cedric, who have relatively complete information because of actual combat experience, the combat power analysis of the other two is blank.

In comparison, the information of the other eight players who made it through the first round was much richer, with almost everyone's information filling up an entire piece of parchment.

At the end of this stack of information, the players who would make it to the top 8 in the next round were predicted. Percy and Carol's names were not only written on it, but also specially marked in red ink.

The information clearly shows that Percy and Carol will almost certainly advance to the top eight, but the strength of the others is far behind them. If they want to compete for the other two places, they can only rely on their on-the-spot performance.

Among them, Carol is another pearl of Ravenclaw and the president of the female student union of Hogwarts. Her strength is self-evident.

When Mike saw this name, he felt a little guilty. After all, it could be said that it was Mike who snatched away her seed player spot this time, which forced Carol to squeeze out a lot of time from her busy 7th grade study life to participate in the high-intensity duel competition preliminaries.

But despite this, Mike would not do such a stupid thing as sacrificing himself for others. After all, Mike's own schedule is very tight. Under the double pressure of Quidditch and spell training, Mike feels that he has started to lose his hair recently.

Percy's strength was considered to be even stronger than Carol's. Mike's rival never suffered any injury during the entire month-long ultra-high-intensity duel. Almost all the players who faced him were killed instantly by him, and the few stronger opponents only lasted a few minutes before being defeated by him.

Seeing this, Mike frowned again. This Percy seemed to be too strong.

Although Mike knew that Percy was not a mediocre person, it was a bit too much to be this strong.

While thinking, Mike's eyes suddenly lit up and he thought of a possibility.

"Could he be the heir?"

(End of this chapter)