What Do You Have to Fight Me With?

The animals created by the Transfiguration scattered and fled. Amidst the various cacophony of cries, the screams of humans were particularly piercing. Knox, standing not far away, even heard the sound of bones breaking.

Right under the noses of all the students, Campbell, who had been hiding in place with the Disillusionment Charm and hadn't moved an inch, was lashed out by the tail of the Hungarian Horntail.

Intense pain suddenly spread throughout Campbell's body, and he couldn't understand what was happening in the last second before he lost consciousness.

How did this Hungarian Horntail Dragon know it was hiding there?

With a loud "crack!", Professor Goodman teleported to Campbell's side, who had landed like a sack of potatoes. He grabbed Campbell's shoulder and then Apparition to safety.

It seems that Grindelwald has temporarily granted Goodman the ability to Apparition.

At the edge of the venue, the medical team that had been prepared immediately gathered around, and a female wizard with short reddish-brown hair stepped forward to give a brief examination.

"It's a fracture, but not life-threatening," she said.

Professor Goodman finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Sean, who was in the arena, didn't pay attention to any of this. He hadn't used his full strength to begin with, and Campbell's injuries were nothing compared to the wizard's healing methods—he would only need to stay in the hospital for a week at most.

Witnessing his teammate being sent flying, Knox's heart raced. However, he did not panic and run away. After manipulating his Transfiguration creatures to surround them, he calmly cast an Shield Charm on himself and then raised his wand to try to hypnotize the approaching Hungarian Horntail.

Hypnosis Charm are among the very few spells that can evade the Fire Dragon's high magic resistance. As long as he can slow down the Hungarian Horntail, he can at least run away first and then consider his next move.

A deep yellow incantation shot out, but the sight before him terrified Knox.

The Hungarian Horntail Dragon dodged its own spell with a nimble sidestep!

How is this possible?!

The Fire Dragon's strong body and impressive magic resistance determine that its fighting style is simple and unpretentious. It should not care about such a light drizzle of spells at all!

Sean had no intention of probing into the other person's thoughts. He wasn't stupid; wouldn't it be easy to avoid a slow and distinctive spell like Hypnosis Charm?

He completely ignored the harassment from the animals beneath him, and his massive body charged straight at Knox like a locomotive!

This feeling of power, so different from the magic manipulated by wizards, is actually quite pleasant...

Knox had no time to escape. He staggered backward while rapidly casting Eye-Blinding Charm.

The Fire Dragon's eyes are one of its greatest weaknesses!

Sean completely ignored the other party. He lowered his head, and the Eye-Blinding Charm had no effect other than creating a few sparks on the barbs on his head.

With his head down, Sean identified the direction and, disregarding everything else, pushed forward with his body.

He felt a resistance, but it only made Sean pause for a moment.

In the eyes of the students in the stands, the Hungarian Horntail, head bowed, plowed through like a bulldozer. Knox's Eye-Blinding Charm had no effect, and the Shield Charm lasted for less than a second.

His panicked figure disappeared into the plowed-up soil and bushes.

"If this gets hit... it'll turn into mincemeat, right?"

"Oh my god, is Knox dead?"

"There!"

The students all turned to look at the edge of the field, where Knox was standing there with Professor Goodman holding his shoulder.

He had a bloody hole pierced in his thigh and was panting heavily, still in shock.

Sean sighed inwardly. The Fire Dragon's power was too overwhelming. He had consciously slowed down, but Professor Goodman still almost failed to save Knox.

It's fair to say that what some creatures consider play might actually cause human fractures, just like when you're playing with an ant, you don't consider whether your actions might cause it to lose a few legs.

You need to be even more restrained from now on...

In a short time, two elite seventh-year students from Newmontgard were eliminated, and everyone gained a deeper understanding of the horror of the Hungarian Horntail.

However, the students' eyes were filled with excitement, because the Fire Dragon had left its nest, and the clever ones would not let this opportunity slip by.

Besides Pena's group, a student from another group took advantage of Sean's 'outside' trip to make a move!

Just now, everyone's attention was focused on Knox and Campbell. Only after the two were eliminated did the students realize that someone had already reached the top of the mountain and was now touching the wooden crate!

He summoned his Flying Broomstick with Summoning Charm and flew up on it without hesitation as the Fire Dragon left.

"Intelligent and decisive, and I haven't been gone long, which means their flying ability is also excellent," the Hungarian Horntail thought to himself.

As expected of an elite student from Newmontgard... But no one would have thought a Fire Dragon would resort to such tricks...

At the top of the mountain, the boy holding the Flying Broomstick quickly glanced at Sean's location. After concluding that Sean wouldn't be able to get back in time, he swiftly lifted the top wooden board of the crate.

"Strength is important, but intelligence is even more important..." The boy's expression was a mixture of excitement and nervousness.

He had already planned to only take the largest Golden Egg, so that the Ridgeback Dragon wouldn't relentlessly pursue him, and it would have to protect the remaining Golden Egg.

One should not be greedy; one should be content with the largest reward one can obtain.

With this in mind, the boy opened the wooden box.

But before he could even choose his spoils, a pair of dark, round eyes became the last image in his memory.

"Well done! The Hungarian Horntail Dragon won't be able to get back in time!" The spectators in the stands hadn't noticed anything amiss yet; they were cheering for the boy's quick thinking.

"What is he doing? Does he still need to pick and choose at a time like this?"

"Oh no, he's too greedy. He could have just taken the biggest Golden Egg."

Beside the wooden crate, the boy made no further move; in fact, his hand, which had been resting on the top wooden board, had limply fallen to his side.

The students finally noticed the boy's unusual behavior.

"No, he's not greedy, he's just unable to move!"

"There are traps and spells in the box? Look, why is he falling down?"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, with the biggest prize of the competition right in front of him and the Hungarian Horntail back to protect him behind him, the boy's Flying Broomstick slipped from his hand and fell to the ground, where he simply lay down naturally.

"Sleeping... asleep?!"

"Don't be ridiculous, how could I possibly be asleep? But why didn't I see any red light Stunning Spell— "

"Never mind all that, the important thing is, the Fire Dragon is going back!"

In the sky, Sean leisurely flapped his wings and returned to the mountaintop.

"Meow~" came a boastful sound from the wooden box.

"Hoo—(Well done, Pudding, you'll get a bonus when we get back)" Sean praised him. He had already planned it out: he would go out to fight, while Pudding would hide in the box and ambush people. If that wasn't enough—he would have already opened an empty Golden Egg, with the Occamy Naja coiled inside.

A deafening roar erupted, but no one could understand the meaning behind Sean's roar.

In their eyes, the Fire Dragon was already standing next to the unconscious boy, and the roar sounded more like a signal to start the meal!

Just as they expected, the Ridgeback Dragon opened its huge mouth and snatched up the boy with his eyes closed.

"It's going to eat people! It's going to eat that boy!"

"Professor! Professor! Please save that person!"

Sean grabbed the boy's uniform in his mouth, then flung it into the air and opened his mouth wide!

The students were utterly terrified; the girls screamed and covered their eyes.

In their eyes, the Hungarian Horntail was about to swallow the boy whole!

Professor Goodman's face was extremely grim. Apparition doesn't allow you to appear in the air and then teleport back!

He quickly turned to look at Grindelwald, hoping the headmaster would intervene.

However, Grindelwald watched all of this with a blank expression.

"What is Lord Grindelwald thinking..." Goodman was caught in a dilemma. He couldn't Apparition to save the student, but he could take action against the Fire Dragon.

But Grindelwald didn't speak. In Goodman's mind, he was first and foremost Grindelwald's confidant, and only then a professor at Newmontgard.

In that brief moment, the boy was only a few dozen centimeters away from the giant mouth of the Hungarian Horntail!

"Ah--!"

Screams erupted one after another.

However, in the next moment, the Ridgeback Dragon moved its head away!

The boy fell straight to the ground. Under hypnosis, he didn't make any extra movements and immediately lost consciousness.

Look at my precise calculations, the height is perfect, and he landed on his butt. He's just unconscious, he'll be fine in a couple of days... Sean used his dragon claw to nudge the lifeless boy on the ground with satisfaction, then casually swept him aside like trash.

After Professor Goodman Apparition away with the other person, Sean yawned and leisurely lay down.

Look at you bunch of people making a fuss over nothing! I like eating meat, but I have absolutely no interest in people...

The audience in the stands were stunned by Sean's series of actions.

"That big guy... it looks like he ate a lot before he came out?"

"It seems... it has absolutely no interest in food, it's just playing around, like a cat playing with a mouse..."

"Isn't it said that Ridgeback Dragon have a bad temper and will kill any intruder?"

"Who knows? There are so many Fire Dragon in the world; maybe one of them is a little abnormal—"

Sean wasn't interested in the audience's opinions; all he wanted was for the remaining people to finish so he could collect his wages and go home—playing the Fire Dragon was fun, but also incredibly embarrassing...

The strange behavior of the Hungarian Horntail sparked discussion among the audience. In a corner of the Hogwarts audience, Hermione had already pulled Daisy to the very edge.

After glancing around to make sure no one could hear their conversation, she whispered in Daisy's ear, "Is that Sean?"

Daisy nodded and whispered back, "It's definitely him. You saw what the Hungarian Horntail Dragon did—what Fire Dragon can dodge Hypnosis Charm and Eye-Blinding Charm? And it's exactly the same as Sean's Animagus form..."

"Besides, wouldn't it be easy for a Fire Dragon to kill a wizard? But so far, those people are only injured, which means Sean is clearly holding back his strength. Also, that boy was obviously hypnotized, and the wooden box is just the right size to hold Pudding..."

"Just what I thought—" Hermione nodded, glancing towards the corner of the entrance to the arena. "Speaking of which, who is that Sean? Sean hasn't mastered the Disillusionment Charm to this extent yet..."

Daisy looked up at the platform and muttered, "Who else could it be? Sean's become the boss guarding the Golden Egg, how could Mr. Grindelwald not know?"

Little White Flower wrinkled her nose, her beautiful emerald green eyes narrowing. "There must be some shady deal between these two, one big and one small!"

Hermione glanced at Sean, who was crouching in the center of the arena, and frowned. "That guy, he just loves doing this kind of thing..."

Their whispered conversation went unnoticed, as the students were engrossed in discussing what had transpired on the grounds.

"Look, the rest of them have all come together!"

"A wise choice. That Hungarian Horntail is clearly very intelligent. Only by working together can we have a chance of winning."

"But what are they going to do?"

Behind the rocks on one side of the field, everyone except ' Sean ' had gathered together, with Pena looking serious.

"As you can see, that Fire Dragon is different from others. It is completely unaffected by the Transfiguration, and you can even detect traces of the Disillusionment Charm."

"Not only that," another girl added, "There are also Defensive Spell on the wooden box, which may be Professor Grindelwald's test. At present, it is more likely to be a hypnotic incantation constructed in Ancient Runes."

"That thing is too troublesome..." Pena frowned. "Going there alone, even if you touch the Golden Egg, it's useless; you'll be hypnotized immediately..."

"But there's one thing I must mention," the girl said with sharp eyes, "I've seen an adult Welsh Green Dragon before, and if it were that, none of those three guys would have survived."

"You mean?"

"That's right," the girl nodded. "Although that Ridgeback Dragon is very intelligent, it is obviously not strong enough. You can tell by its size. It is not fully grown yet."

"You mean—" Pena's eyes widened.

"Yes, we should confront it head-on! After all, it's just a Magical Creatures. No matter how intelligent it is, can it compare to a wizard? Besides, we can certainly handle a young Fire Dragon!"

"That makes sense," Pena nodded after thinking it over, agreeing with the suggestion. He looked at the others, "If no one objects, shall we do it this way?"

Seeing everyone nod in agreement, he said, "A direct confrontation doesn't necessarily have to be a matter of brute force. We can still set up some small traps. The Delayed Explosion Charm that Wallerup demonstrated before is quite good—"

"We could also summon a few Flying Broomstick and have some skilled fliers cast Eye-Blinding Charm and Hypnosis Charm in the air—"

"That's right, you can do it like that too—"

While they were discussing, no one noticed that a blue-green Thorn Sheath was hidden deep within the leaves of the bushes nearby.

"Oh—so that's how you're going to deal with me..." In the center of the arena, the Hungarian Horntail narrowed its eyes slightly.

Young man, not only do I, this Fire Dragon, have the head of a wizard, but I also have many helpers—even the organizers are my people.

What can you use to fight me?