Cedric's Ultimate Liberation?

"How amazing! Is this the poison that targets thoughts and memories?" Harry exclaimed. "Colin's body is like an empty shell, with gas swirling and reflecting through the windows of his eyes."

"No Magical Outburst?" Riddle looked at Colin, who was suspended in mid-air by his magic. "It seems the [Magic Ring] is under construction."

(Ron was a little confused. "Why is it considered a success if there's no Magical Outburst? Aren't all those methods just mentioned meant to induce Magical Outburst in the young wizard, thus fulfilling the conditions for constructing the [Magic Ring]?")

(Hermione rolled her eyes at him. "The Magical Outburst here refers to the phenomena that occur after Magical Outburst.")

("But no phenomenon occurred; clearly, all that chaotic magic was used to construct the [Magic Ring].")

After examining Colin, Riddle glanced at the parchment again.

"Next! Dennis Creevey!"

Harry glanced at Dennis again; in his world, Dennis was Colin's younger brother, who had just started school this year and was also Gryffindor.

He was shocked. Did the Creevey family have some kind of ancestral grave that's emitting smoke? How come they are still "them" in this other world, instead of "them"?

Dennis was just as successful as his Colin.

They were suspended in the air by magic, giving Harry a sense of déjà vu, similar to the Death Eater being frozen in the air during the World Cup.

At that time, the Death Eater were upside down, revealing all sorts of fancy shorts. Luckily, no one was without pants, otherwise the scene would have been quite something.

By the time Harry came to his senses, there were already more than a dozen successful people hanging in the sky.

They are considered successful because none of them caused Magical Outburst.

"Next! Malcolm Bardock!"

A chubby little brown-haired boy ran clumsily toward Riddle, forgetting to grab a replacement mouthpiece. It wasn't until everyone around him burst into laughter that he hurriedly stepped back, picked it up, and began inhaling the gas.

With a crisp crackling sound, the chubby boy vanished from the spot.

Then Riddle disappeared too.

(Because the audience was watching from Harry and Cedric's perspective, they witnessed the entire process of Riddle's disappearance.)

(The chubby boy disappeared, Riddle immediately understood what had happened. His face darkened, and he reached out to where the chubby boy had disappeared. With a gentle pull, a gray crack appeared in the air, and Riddle jumped in.)

("Excellent, excellent." Dumbledore praised both Riddle and the chubby little boy named Malcolm Bardock.)

(This world's Hogwarts is also protected by powerful Anti-Apparition Jinx magic. Apart from the House-elf and phoenixes who can perform spatial displacement like Apparition due to their species, and the headmaster who has the authority to do so, no other wizard can do this.)

(But while Riddle was capturing and locating the little fat boy's aura, he forcefully tore apart the solidified space, and the little fat boy, due to the Magical Outburst that triggered a potential that he might never have been able to tap into in his lifetime, also accomplished the same thing.)

"They actually made it all the way to Hogsmeade." Riddle emerged from thin air with a dark expression. "They almost reached the Black Lake."

Behind him, the chubby boy was suspended in mid-air, bound by a silver chain, his head shaking rapidly, leaving a fan-shaped afterimage.

("That's terrifying, they're still teleporting." Professor McGonagall didn't play the straight man this time; she could tell.)

(Under the suppression of this obviously magically created chain and the solidified space within Hogwarts Castle, the chubby boy's teleportation—that is, spatial displacement—continued, only confined to his head.)

"Next," Riddle gritted his teeth, but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the list, "Harry Potter!"

Clearly, he did not believe that the Champion chosen by the Goblet of Fire and who had passed the trials of the Behind-the-Scenes God would suffer a Waterloo at the Magic Ring.

"Brother-in-law! You don't have a [Magic Ring] yet?" Jinli's voice became high-pitched and shrill. "You dare to touch witches without a [Magic Ring], and three of them at that!"

Seeing the same admiring looks from those around him, Harry was speechless. "Shut up!"

Wouldn't that make him seem too eager?

(Seeing Harry get his comeuppance, and that it was related to those three women, Ginny was in high spirits. "That's so me!")

Harry glared fiercely at his brother-in-law, who was also his girlfriend's counterpart from another universe.

Then pick up the mouthpiece, insert the straw, and start inhaling.

He had prepared himself for the possibility of failure; his Mind Stone, soul, and thoughts were all protected by the Magic Immortal Artifact.

The bitter wine brewed from painful memories in the gaseous Venom is likely to have no effect on him.

However, he realized he was wrong after entering the gate.

Love begins to resonate with it, just as beautiful flowers can only bloom more profusely in soil full of dead branches and decaying leaves. As the opposite of hate, love is also rooted in suffering.

The defenses remained, but faced with fertilizer that could make the flower of 'love' bloom more profusely, instinct led to the opening of the door.

Painful memories began to flood back: being insulted as an orphan without parents, peeping at the Dursley' family in the storeroom, and his bewilderment before the Mirror of Erised.

But at the same time, his mother's embrace gave him light that pierced through the darkness.

Even across a universe, in the Potter Magic Immortal Artifact, the shadow and presence of his mother still brought him peace.

He began to truly become one with it, a more genuine unity than the dual mode he had previously achieved through Legilimency and manipulation.

In this blissful, almost non-thoughtful state, he also became aware of the chaotic magic power derived from the male sorcerer bloodline of this world that was coursing through his body, and he saw a 'circle' within it.

The circle began to take shape.

This happened just one second after Harry inhaled the gas.

Riddle was preparing to cast a spell to catch Harry's falling body, or accept that his preparations would be in vain.

He had anticipated the latter. Even though he had prepared nourishment that Harry might instinctively accept based on the information he obtained from Harry's memories, Harry was, after all, a fairy, and there was a possibility of failure.

However, five halos immediately appeared around Harry, relaxing his tense face.

"They succeeded so quickly?"

"Black, black, black, red, white?" Riddle raised an eyebrow after seeing the color of the halo clearly. "No, that's not white!"

Three golden patterns were clearly visible winding around the white halo.

"Black above red? And then white gold?"

His gaze had already turned to Cedric, the only remaining fairy here.

Driven by curiosity, he skipped the order of the list and said, "Cedric Diggory, you're next."

"You too? No wonder you're my brother-in-law's friend!" As expected, Jinli exclaimed in surprise again, and then everyone knew about it.

"Me?" Cedric ignored the strange looks around him, stepped forward, and began to inhale.

Having learned the Image of True Self his true self, he naturally became aware of his own biases and tastes.

He had long awaited the crystallization of painful memories within the gaseous Venom of the Pygmy Puff, a power rooted in the curse.

Like rain after a long drought, the poisonous gas was instantly absorbed by his body, before it could even be inhaled into his lungs.

At the same time, Cedric revealed his True Form: a giant black-scaled serpent with wings of light and blood-red snake eyes.

("Cedric is huge!" Cho Chang exclaimed.)

The students in the Great Hall screamed instantly, and Jinli was so frightened that she shut her mouth.

Frozen in the sky, enveloped in a white halo, Colin, having successfully constructed the [Magic Ring], opened his eyes, then quickly fainted again.

The snake was incredibly tall, almost touching the ceiling.

A sinister, wild, and bloody atmosphere spread with its appearance.

Riddle blocked the students' path, expanding the space occupied by the snake while simultaneously creating an invisible barrier to separate the enormous snake's body.

However, he wasn't too nervous.

Because behind those blood-red snake eyes were a pair of incredibly clear human eyes.

Clearly, Cedric did not succumb to his animalistic instincts.

Furthermore, as golden patterns of Fantastic Beasts appeared on the black scales, each with a radius of 6 feet, five enormous halos began to envelop the serpent's body.

Cedric's [Magic Ring] is almost complete.

Amidst the clamor and shouts, Riddle murmured, "Black, black, black, red, blood red... his fifth [Magic Ring] is blood red. Beyond red, is it different for each person? Based on the color of a wizard's essence?"

"Harry Potter's magic is incredibly pure, so it's pure white with gold markings?"

"Cedric Diggory's magic is bloody, like thick, fresh blood, so it's blood-red?"

(Dumbledore's conclusions are not entirely consistent with Riddle's.)

(Because he saw a larger control group.)

(Phoebe was surrounded by flames, and five halos around her moved irregularly, their colors being black, black, black, red, and golden-red respectively.)

(Krum split in two, and six enormous halos enveloped the two of them, their colors being black, black, black, red, lapis lazuli, and blue respectively.)

(According to Dumbledore's observation, Phoebe's golden-red Magic Ring only barely resembled that of a phoenix.)

(Krum's free and clear blue color was only fully revealed in his sixth [Magic Ring].)

("Perhaps gold lies beneath the red?")

(Except for Cedric, the other three all have a gold [Magic Ring] on their fifth [Magic Ring].)

("No, Harry's are gold-striped; perhaps gold is his very essence.")

("The difference between Harry and Cedric might be that they unlocked their Magic Immortal Artifact at a faster pace, so they revealed their true nature in the fifth [Magic Ring]?")

("As for Krum and Phoebe, their progress is relatively late; only the 6th [Magic Ring] will fully reveal its true color?")

(However, Dumbledore wasn't too surprised that Krum possessed six [Magic Ring].)

(Krum exchanged for two [Magical Circuit] and also directly exchanged for 4 units of [Pure Magical Power]. It's normal that he has an advantage in the amount of magic.)

(Dumbledore was astonished at just how much magic Moody had extracted from Riddle, the Demon Man, that it exceeded even the magic of Krum, the most powerful of the Champion.)

(Demon Man Riddle, possessed such strong willpower that he did not succumb to evil under these circumstances.)

(Should he have been harsher on Tom back then?)

(Was it because he didn't put enough pressure on Tom that he turned into Voldemort?)

Harry and Cedric did not spend too long building the Magic Ring.

The two quickly came to their senses and withdrew the [Magic Ring] projected outside their bodies.

"What's wrong with you guys?" Harry, being too powerful and subconsciously regarding Cedric as a partner, naturally ignored the giant feathered serpent and looked strangely at the students behind Riddle, whose expressions were all over the place.

Jinli, in particular, winked at him earnestly and twisted his neck.

"Does that mean I should look to the left?"

Harry looked in Ginger's direction, but Cedric had already returned to human form.

"Cedric?"

"You failed?"

"No." Cedric, who had walked over, was somewhat embarrassed. He knew that it was his snake-like body that had frightened the students.

"What about them?" Harry's question wasn't answered until dinner time when he was with Ginny.

As the creator of the Magic Ring, Riddle didn't bother to tell Harry the details. He simply pulled Barty Crouch Jr. out of thin air, put him in charge of the rest of the matter, and then disappeared.

Jinli was too frightened to speak, and his name was next on the list. After inhaling the poison gas, he was hung in the sky.

The culprit Cedric, simply ran away to find Cho Chang.

"Is that Cedric's Second Stage Liberation?" Harry exclaimed after learning everything from Ginny.

[Second Stage Liberation] is the second stage of liberation of the Magic Immortal Artifact, and also its final form, hence it is also called [Ultimate Liberation].

It allows for a more thorough and comprehensive release and use of the Magic Immortal Artifact's abilities.

In the Magic Immortal World, in the Tree Realm, only a handful of fairies can achieve the "Ultimate Liberation" during their fairy careers. Many ascend to the Tree Realm, reincarnate as elves, and then spend hundreds of years to reach this stage.

Therefore, once a fairy completes the "Ultimate Liberation," a high-ranking official position in the Magic Fairy Castle will be opened to them.

After all, this is not a difficult task. After all the fairies complete the "Ultimate Liberation", the quality and quantity of their magic power will improve dramatically.

At the same time, in the [Ultimate Liberation] state, abilities will also change, mainly in three ways:

First, existing capabilities have been further strengthened.

Second, acquire new skills.

Third, it transforms into a completely different kind of ability.

But no matter how things change, the fairy will only become stronger.

The Magic Immortal Artifact themselves also change shape, usually becoming gigantic.

Or it may seem unchanged, but in reality, it adds a new layer of protection to the fairy herself.

Another possibility is physical union, which also often results in gigantism.

In his serpentine form, Cedric was enormous, and the patterns of Fantastic Beasts on his scales were exactly the same as the patterns on his armor during his first release.

Harry could hardly help but suspect that Cedric had already completed the Ultimate Liberation, resulting in a dramatic change in his power.