Hogwarts Summoning Guide

Bai Lin, upon leaving the French Ministry of Magic, felt as if he had been reborn. Poor Zobi, Blanco, and Elia would be tried by the international magic affairs departments of France, Egypt, and other countries, and their guilt would be determined by a jury composed of celebrities from all walks of life in these countries. Meanwhile, the Spellbreakers' action team and the Hastur Order remained outside the lives of ordinary people, as if they did not exist at all.

The biggest news these days has nothing to do with these world-threatening crises, but rather with the upcoming opening of the Monster Arena at the Amazing Zoo. In the first phase, a mysterious challenger will choose one of three of the most dangerous animals to challenge, and the readers of the Daily Prophet will decide which species can be considered the "most dangerous animal".

For a week, Patrice listed all the ferocious monsters he could get his hands on in a corner of the Daily Prophet, letting readers vote. For just one silver scimitar, a warrior could decide whether to fight the black dragon that roamed the Hehidari Islands or the giant scorpion in the Sahara Desert.

Bai Lin was utterly astonished. Even the chief director of Hunan TV's Super Boy and Super Girl competitions had to admit that Patrice's business acumen was top-notch.

With each of them collecting money, Bai Lin felt that the loss of the fire dragons was negligible for the fairies.

Bai Lin wrote a polite letter of thanks to Elder Moritz, after all, the elder had helped him, otherwise he would have been a defendant in court. Although he was not the "principal offender", he estimated that it would be quite difficult to get away unscathed, and he might have to stage a dramatic escape.

Back at the zoo, Bai Lin praised Patrice's event planning and visited the arena for the wild animals.

A building modeled after ancient Rome rose up in the square in front of the zoo. Although it was not as grand as the real Rome, it was enough for two or three thousand people to watch on site. Bai Lin was greatly shocked by the speed of construction. But when he went closer, he found that it was all made of steel pipe frame and then decorated with magic wallpaper to make it look like marble.

In the center of the arena, a platform with a diameter of 500 feet was constructed using some spatial magic. According to Patrice's enthusiastic explanation, the terrain would be randomly generated during the competition, such as the Gobi Desert, jungle, or desert. Bai Lin glanced at Patrice; this guy must have been prepared in advance. Such a complex combat facility could not have been built in just two or three days.

"Regarding the warriors... quite a few bounty hunters have applied to us. What do you think, Director?" Patrice said, rubbing his hands together.

"That's easy. The registration fee is 5 Galleons. Each round, two or three people can take the stage. Set some rules and regulations for them. Ideally, they should be knocked out within minutes of entering the arena. I will recommend a warrior who can ignite the atmosphere. I will pay his salary, and the bounty will just be for show," Bai Lin said.

"Wonderful! Mr. Director, you are a business genius!" Patrice praised without reservation.

Bai Lin rolled his eyes. Isn't this just a tactic that capitalists in the Muggle world have gotten tired of...?

The first competition is this weekend, and Bai Lin should prepare his attire.

He rushed back to Hogwarts, greeted the headmaster, and headed straight for the blacksmith's portrait in Hufflepuff Corridor. While the students were taking an exam in a class and Filch was strolling outside the castle, he came to pick up the custom-made equipment.

Old Addison was forging metal ingots and swords and spears day after day, just like he had done for ten years. When he saw Bai Lin, he handed over two wooden boxes without saying a word. When Bai Lin opened them, he was surprised to find a beautiful leather armor inlaid with metal plates and a pair of very well-made boots.

Obtain the "Nightmare Hunter" leather armor (set), magic resistance 15, defense 30.

Obtain "Nightmare Hunter" Boots (Set), running speed 15, teleportation spells 2

(Set bonus 26: Sharp weapon resistance 10, blunt weapon resistance 30)

Bai Lin was pleasantly surprised; it was actually a set. Whether he had played computer games or read adventure novels, Bai Lin knew that sets were extremely rare among equipment. Not only were the individual pieces of equipment good, but there were also set bonuses. If you collected a complete set, it would be much stronger than a set of ordinary individual pieces. For example, the two pieces had double resistance bonuses. Although he didn't know exactly how effective these numbers were, Bai Lin could clearly feel the sense of security that this leather armor brought him.

Bai Lin handed the strange characters he had copied to old Addison. The old man glanced at the paper with a somewhat dazed look in his eyes, then suddenly his eyes widened, as if he were mesmerized by the characters.

Before Bai Lin could explain anything, the encyclopedia system issued a notification: "Successfully submitted ancient civilization technology data. The system will upload and analyze the multiverse technology tree diagram, estimated time 120 hours."

120 hours, which is five days. Watching Old Addison walk into his blacksmith shop with Bai Lin's records and ignore him, Bai Lin shrugged, took the two pieces of equipment, and eagerly returned to the lounge to change. The style of the leather boots was fine; although they were a bit retro, they looked sophisticated and elegant. The leather armor, on the other hand, looked more professional. Bai Lin used the encyclopedia's transformation function to turn the leather armor into a white shirt, which was much more appropriate and cool.

Before they even reached the lounge, Bai Lin was cornered by Snape.

Snape, head held high, squinted at Bai Lin and said, "Kelyn White! Long time no see. I wonder how your Defense Against the Dark Arts exam is going? Gryffindor and Hufflepuff's performance in Potions class wasn't very satisfactory..."

Bai Lin then remembered that although he had resigned from the Blacklist class next semester, he still had to set the questions for this week's Blacklist exam... In the past, Harry and Hermione would definitely have reminded him, but recently Harry had been avoiding him, and Hermione had to prepare for more than a dozen exams, so he had completely forgotten about it.

Although as the supervising professor, Bai Lin had a great deal of autonomy in setting exam questions, and could even just pick a chapter from the textbook and have the students write a paper to get by (some professors like to do this), Bai Lin still wanted to do his job and make sure the exam went well.

With the exam just around the corner, Bai Lin, the one who set the questions, was still having a costume show in the lounge. Bai Lin suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He chuckled at Snape and ran off. He still had one night left, and he was determined to come up with a good project so that these future pillars of the wizarding world could learn something.

Bai Lin's eyes darted around, and he already had an idea in mind: let's go ahead and have some fun!