A ball of light burst from the tip of Draco's wand, rapidly expanding and giving off an incomparably dazzling white glow, as if a blazing sun had appeared at the bottom of the lake.
In an instant, all the curtains showing Harry, Draco, and Cedric turned into a field of white.
The dazzling radiance did not last long. The images in the curtains shifted from pure white to pure black.
Within the dark curtains came an extremely brief, suffocating silence, until screams rose one after another.
Just from hearing those heart-rending screams, the spectators could vaguely imagine the scene: the Merpeople and Grindylows clutching their eyes, struggling in utter misery at the bottom of the lake...
Ludo Bagman looked at the pitch-black curtains. "Well, I never! Malfoy was actually hiding a trump card like that!"
"That magic is quite astonishingly powerful! Even the Magical Artifacts in our hands have been affected."
"Dumbledore, is this all right?" Karkaroff's eyes flickered with malice. "A rather terrifying piece of magic seems to have blinded the Merpeople. How do you intend to explain this to them?"
"Mr. Karkaroff, thank you for your concern." Dumbledore blinked. "Once the Second Task is over, I'll have a proper talk with Murcus and discuss how we should compensate them."
After dealing with Karkaroff, Dumbledore looked at the pitch-black images on the curtains and smoothed his beard, a smile appearing on his face. Harry, Draco, and Cedric's performances had all left him extremely satisfied.
Draco's performance in particular surprised him somewhat. He had not expected that the magic Draco was best at would actually be the Wand-Lighting Charm.
Nor had Draco looked down on this rather basic spell the way other Malfoys might have. He had even deliberately given the spell a special effect of its own.
"How