Ch. 244Finals

Narcissa Malfoy and the other women woke late and hurried to the Quidditch World Cup final, where Lockhart introduced the teams’ mascots. As the Japanese Team’s Rainbow Crows showered the stadium with enchanted coins, Moriarty noticed their connection to the Tsukamura Family conflicted with the birds’ nature.

  • Narcissa Malfoy woke in a bed shared with Diana, Pheobe, Penelope, Gemma, and Tonks, realized the final was underway, and rushed them to get dressed.
  • Narcissa Malfoy led the women to the Malfoy family’s private box, where she scolded Draco for neglecting her and saw Lilith watching the group thoughtfully.
  • Gilderoy Lockhart announced that he had volunteered as commentator after the previous commentator was fired for taking Nimbus Company bribes.
  • Lockhart introduced the British Team’s Unicorn mascots, and Narcissa Malfoy saw Draco make a wish for his father.
  • Lockhart introduced the Japanese Team’s Rainbow Crows, which scattered enchanted gold coins over the cheering crowd.
  • Diana detected an evil aura in the coins, while Moriarty noted that the Rainbow Crows’ courage and kindness contradicted the Tsukamura Family’s ties to the Ravenous Crow Society.

Ch. 245Dark Magic

Moriarty led the British Team against Japan, scoring the opening goal while countering Magician’s brainwashing song. The Japanese Team then unleashed an unidentified Dark Magic that made the players drowsy, and Moriarty began to fall as Diana prepared to intervene.

  • Pitteris started the match, and Moriarty led the British Team to seize the Quaffle while Roman disrupted the Japanese players.
  • The Japanese Team’s enchanted-looking Bludgers pursued Moriarty, but he redirected Magician’s brainwashing song with the Alchemy Matrix and scored for the British Team.
  • Magician resumed the attack, and the Japanese Team formed a Crow Head formation as Tsukamura Kogoro ordered them to activate Fallen Crow.
  • An inexplicable drowsiness struck both teams, and Moriarty dodged Magician before his broom suddenly tilted and he began falling.
  • Diana noticed a faint black line on her gold coin, recognized that the Japanese Team had used Dark Magic, and readied her crystal wand.

Ch. 246Championship Victory

Moriarty recovered the British Team and battled Magician in a rapid exchange of goals after uncovering his teleportation trick. Moriarty exposed the Japanese Team’s hidden Golden Snitch, Roman caught it, and the British Team won the 421st Quidditch World Cup championship.

  • Moriarty cast protective spells on the British Team, who recovered and scored to take a 20:10 lead.
  • Magician used apparent teleportation to outmaneuver the British players, while he and Moriarty traded goals and ran up the score.
  • Moriarty deduced that Magician’s teleportation was a limited Dark Element Spell and learned that Magician had hidden the Golden Snitch.
  • Moriarty sent the Golden Snitch to Roman, who caught it and secured the British Team’s 410:240 championship victory.

Ch. 247A Champion's Daily Life

Moriarty celebrated the British Team’s Quidditch World Cup victory, while Dumbledore sensed that the Japanese Team and the Magician were connected to a looming danger. Moriarty chose Fleur as his dance partner, leaving them together after the championship celebrations.

  • The British Team received the World Cup trophy as Moriarty earned a thunderous ovation and raised it with his teammates.
  • Dumbledore recalled sensing dark magic in the stadium and grew uneasy at the Japanese players’ hatred of Moriarty.
  • The Magician worried that Moriarty had uncovered his secret, while Moriarty wondered why he and Tsukamura Kogoro had joined the Japanese Team.
  • Moriarty received 20,000 points for completing the World Cup mission, and officials announced the World Cup Ball.
  • Moriarty invited Fleur to sign the trophy, then wrote his name beside hers and declared her his dance partner for the evening.

Ch. 248Ambush

At the champions’ ball in Hydrose Main Stadium, Moriarty and Pheobe began dancing before an attack marked by the Deathly Hallows symbol set the venue ablaze. As Moriarty and Dumbledore faced the assault, Magician and Tsukamura Kogoro considered using the chaos to their advantage.

  • Lockhart appealed to Dumbledore to hire him as Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and Dumbledore said he would consider it.
  • Moriarty and Pheobe led the champions into the ball, where Dumbledore conjured a grand display as guests cheered.
  • Dumbledore noticed that the Polish Team was missing and grew suspicious when a glowing Deathly Hallows symbol appeared above the stadium.
  • Attackers rained spells on the ball, setting the venue on fire; Moriarty shielded Pheobe, summoned the Slytherin Pure-bloods, and fought back with wind blades.
  • Diana protected the women while Hogwarts professors counterattacked, and McGonagall warned that the attackers were flying.
  • Magician learned from Tsukamura Kogoro that the assault was not carried out by his group, then listened as Tsukamura proposed exploiting the confusion.

Ch. 249Saints and Ventrue

Moriarty and Dumbledore defeated an aerial attack by the Saints and Blood Clan Vampires, learning that Ventrue Vampires had hired the Saints. After the threat ended, Moriarty discovered Lilith was missing.

  • Tsukamura Kogoro and five Japanese wizards slipped through the crowd as he watched Lilith and revealed his interest in her.
  • Moriarty extinguished the fire, then identified the airborne attackers as the Polish Team working with Vampires after Dumbledore illuminated the sky with Phoenix Flourish Dance.
  • Moriarty and Dumbledore killed the attackers, and Moriarty learned through Gabriel's memories that Ventrue Vampires had hired the Saints.
  • Gabriel died after Moriarty pierced his throat, while Dumbledore's phantom phoenix retrieved Gabriel's Deathly Hallows necklace and killed the last trapped Saint.
  • Moriarty reunited with the women and learned Narcissa Malfoy was safe, but discovered Lilith was missing.

Ch. 250Reversals at Every Turn

Moriarty found Lilith after Tsukamura Kogoro kidnapped her, but she revealed she had been pretending to be unconscious to investigate him. As Lilith confronted the Magician, he killed Tsukamura Kogoro and claimed he had also killed the other five Japanese wizards.

  • Diana used her Elven Queen magic to locate Lilith in the stands, and Moriarty sent Whispering Serpent to search for danger nearby.
  • Moriarty recognized Tsukamura Kogoro’s Undead Fire Raven and fought him, then rescued Lilith after defeating his Shikigami crow.
  • The Magician appeared behind Moriarty, but Lilith revealed she had been awake and had joined Moriarty in luring him out.
  • Lilith showed Moriarty her silver-green scales, which resisted the Magician’s Disarming Charm, and advanced on the Magician.
  • The Magician killed Tsukamura Kogoro with the Killing Curse and claimed he had killed the other five Japanese wizards.

Ch. 251Another Clash with the Magician

The Magician fought Dumbledore and Moriarty, using Dark Elemental Magic to incapacitate Dumbledore and the wizards around him. As Moriarty’s attack left him gravely wounded, the Magician unleashed the Fallen Crow, leaving the crowd’s dark memories and emotions to fuel its descent.

  • The Magician silenced the head Auror and blamed the stadium destruction and deaths on the Saints, telling the crowd to confront Grindelwald.
  • Fawkes arrived, and Dumbledore appeared to protect the phoenix and challenge the Magician.
  • The Magician attacked Moriarty with Claws of Darkness, but Moriarty broke the skeletal hand with Wind Elemental Magic while Dumbledore counterattacked.
  • The Magician cast Lament of the Dead, overwhelming the crowd and causing Dumbledore to collapse, but Moriarty remained protected by the Alchemy Matrix.
  • Moriarty struck the Magician with wind blades, grievously wounding him, and the Magician invoked the Fallen Crow, feeding it the crowd’s dark memories and negative emotions.

Ch. 252Fallen Crow

Moriarty recognized the chasm and the surrounding signs as a ritual summoning the Fallen Crow, then joined the wizards in trying to stop it. Dumbledore remained unconscious as the monster broke free of the chasm, leaving Moriarty facing a colossal threat.

  • Moriarty identified the chasm, Black Galleons, and Rainbow Crows as parts of a ritual that would summon the Fallen Crow.
  • Moriarty froze the Magician's corpse and sent Lilith to tell the professors to gather and destroy the Black Galleons.
  • The professors and students fought the Rainbow Crows while Professor Sprout's magical plants gathered the coins and spread into the chasm.
  • Diana sent a magically grown Oak Tree into the chasm, but a gigantic crow's beak bit it in two as the Black Galleons exploded.
  • Moriarty froze the stadium floor and then summoned water and ice magic to attack the Fallen Crow, but it burst out of the chasm.

Ch. 253Living Dead

Moriarty endured the Fallen Crow’s sleep-inducing magic and used the Alchemy Matrix to uncover its origins and the Japanese BOSS behind the Magician. After waking, he discovered that sleeping wizards were turning into Living Dead and that the transformation had a terrifying third stage.

  • The Fallen Crow’s magic put nearly everyone in the stadium to sleep, and Diana abandoned her barrier to reach Moriarty as he collapsed.
  • While asleep, Moriarty’s Alchemy Matrix deduced that the Fallen Crow was a Dark Element ritual fueled by the Rainbow Crow mascots, coins, and the crowd’s negative emotions, and that the Magician’s BOSS was likely Japanese.
  • Moriarty woke in Diana’s arms as the first sleeping wizards rose as Living Dead, and he realized they transformed about three minutes after falling asleep.
  • Moriarty destroyed Black Galleons and dispersed their black smoke, but two more coins entered the first Living Dead and triggered a faster, more monstrous third stage.
  • Moriarty’s Breaking Spells failed to stop the transformed creatures, while three more wizards rose as Living Dead.

Ch. 254Evil Intent and Famine

Moriarty and Diana investigated the Living Dead and traced the cause of their transformation to the Fallen Crow’s dark magic. After absorbing Black Smoke and nearly turning into a monster himself, Moriarty returned to normal and identified Evil Intent and Famine as the two causes.

  • Moriarty and Diana tested the Living Dead, discovering that they resisted physical attacks but were vulnerable to magic, and spotted Black Galleon marks and Black Smoke around them.
  • Moriarty froze the Living Dead and decided to absorb Black Smoke while Diana protected him, despite her concern for his safety.
  • Moriarty used protective spells and the Slytherin staff to draw Black Smoke into himself, which stirred his Evil Intent and began transforming him.
  • Moriarty briefly regained clarity, recognized Evil Intent as one cause of the Living Dead, and activated the Alchemy Matrix, but the transformation continued.
  • When Moriarty lunged toward Diana, she kissed him; he returned to normal and explained that Evil Intent and Famine caused wizards to become Living Dead.

Ch. 255Gentle Blue Whale

Moriarty explained that the Living Dead’s hunger came from dark magic and realized the Fallen Crow was causing wizards to transform. With Diana’s help, he summoned a giant blue whale from the Pacific Ocean to confront the Fallen Crow and end the calamity.

  • Moriarty told Diana that Evil Intent had made him unbearably hungry, but his magic had purged the dark power before he could harm her.
  • Moriarty and Diana concluded that the Living Dead were humans transformed by the Fallen Crow, as thousands more wizards became monsters and charged at them.
  • Moriarty flew with Diana toward the Fallen Crow and planned to destroy it, while Diana agreed to breach Hydrose’s western wall and flood the track with seawater.
  • Moriarty attacked the Rainbow Crows with a Wind Sphere, then spotted Lilith among the Living Dead with enormous legs.
  • Diana blasted open the western wall, and Moriarty used Water Elemental Magic and the Slytherin Family Magic Array to shape the Pacific waves into a giant blue whale.
  • Moriarty named his creation Gentle Blue Whale and prepared to use it against the Fallen Crow.

Ch. 256The Gloom Clears

Moriarty and Dumbledore combined the Gentle Blue Whale and Hope Phoenix to defeat the Fallen Crow and free the wizards from dark power. At dawn, the survivors returned to normal, and Moriarty and Diana saw that the gloom had lifted.

  • Moriarty used the blue whale and protective bubbles to trap the Fallen Crow and begin purifying it, while the bubbles also contained the Living Dead.
  • The Fallen Crow broke free with the dark power of its third leg, but Dumbledore arrived and used the Hope Phoenix to protect Moriarty and attack it.
  • Moriarty realized Dumbledore had overcome the dark power with help from memories of Grindelwald.
  • Dumbledore blasted the Fallen Crow's third leg, and Moriarty and Dumbledore struck it together with the blue whale and Hope Phoenix, destroying it.
  • The Living Dead returned to human form, and nearly a hundred thousand wizards woke with their memories of being controlled erased.
  • At dawn, Moriarty and Diana looked over the devastated scene and smiled at each other.

Ch. 257Farewell, City of Drifting Waves

A week after the attack on Hydrose, Moriarty learned that Canada had let Japan escape accountability after Japan paid off its debts, while the Ventrue Blood Clan and a mysterious BOSS remained under suspicion. Moriarty and Dumbledore agreed to investigate Japan and the Vampires separately, and Moriarty left Hydrose determined to travel east during the summer holiday.

  • Moriarty and Diana discussed the attack's aftermath as the Canadian Ministry of Magic blamed the Saints and concealed the Ventrue Blood Clan's role.
  • Dumbledore accepted complaints about Japan and Poland, but the International Confederation of Wizards could not investigate Japan because Japan had paid Canada's foreign debt.
  • Moriarty learned that Canada had abandoned its investigation to protect its finances, while Poland claimed it had not known the Saints made up its Quidditch team.
  • Moriarty and Dumbledore agreed that Dumbledore would question Grindelwald while Moriarty investigated the Ventrue Blood Clan, Japan, and the mysterious BOSS.
  • Moriarty told Diana he would go to Japan and perhaps China, but refused to take her because he wanted to keep danger away from her.

Ch. 258Cake Battle

After the World Cup, Moriarty returned to Britain and celebrated the team’s victory at Slytherin Castle with a lavish party that ended in a cake battle. He later found Lilith alone in the attic and learned she planned to confront the Tsukamura Family in Japan at the end of August.

  • Pheobe said goodbye to Moriarty with a deep kiss before returning to France, and the Hogwarts professors and students departed for Britain.
  • On August 23rd, Moriarty flew back to Britain with the girls, British Team players, and Slytherin pure-bloods, while Old Fli and Old Flint stayed behind to safeguard the betting money.
  • Moriarty held a party at Slytherin Castle to celebrate the British Team’s championship, and the guests joined in a sprawling cake battle.
  • Moriarty found Lilith alone in an attic and heard that she felt weak and troubled by her slow progress in Human Transfiguration.
  • Lilith told Moriarty she would go to Japan at the end of August to settle accounts with the Tsukamura Family, despite her grandfather’s objections.

Ch. 259Transform for Me!

Tonks brought Moriarty to her room to give him the reward she had promised, using her Metamorphmagus abilities to transform into women he admired. The chapter ended with her imitating a young Narcissa Malfoy as Moriarty pounced on her.

  • After the guests left, Tonks and Diana approached Moriarty, and Diana urged Tonks to follow their plan and give him her promised reward.
  • Tonks nervously tried to explain her feelings, but Moriarty kissed her until Diana reminded her about the reward.
  • Tonks dragged Moriarty to her room, bathed, and offered herself as his gift.
  • Tonks transformed into several women, including Lilith, Penelope, Gemma, Pheobe, and Professor McGonagall, while Moriarty watched.
  • After Moriarty whispered another name, he gave Tonks Narcissa Malfoy's lingerie and bathrobe to wear.
  • Tonks emerged imitating a young Narcissa Malfoy, and Moriarty pounced on her.

Ch. 260Lottery Draw

After spending the morning with Tonks, Moriarty checked his progress and claimed a mission reward, reaching Level 50 in Water Elemental Magic. He used an Achievement Draw, drank a Mana Enhancement Potion, and prepared for his planned trip to Japan.

  • Moriarty and Tonks woke hungry after spending the night together, then continued their intimacy before emerging at noon.
  • Diana teased Moriarty and joined him and Tonks for lunch, after which both women returned to their rooms to sleep.
  • Moriarty examined the magical egg in the Chamber of Secrets and asked the system to report his wizard levels.
  • Moriarty claimed the three-level reward from the World Cup quest, reaching Level 50 as a Magic User (Water), and received an Achievement Draw.
  • The draw gave Moriarty several items, including a Mana Enhancement Potion, which raised his Wind Elemental Magic to Level 29.
  • Moriarty reviewed his updated status and asked the system to open the store.

Ch. 261New Magic and Fire Elemental Magic

Moriarty examined newly unlocked elemental magic and asked the system how to obtain Fire Elemental Magic from his Phoenix Egg. He rejected hatching and refining the egg, then found Salazar's prototype Devour Everything Spell as a possible way to fulfill the quest.

  • Moriarty browsed the Wind and Water Elemental Magic stores, noting powerful new spells and their level requirements.
  • Moriarty learned that the Harry Potter magic store would update as the main quest progressed.
  • Moriarty asked how to unlock Fire Elemental Magic, and the system offered three choices involving the Phoenix Egg: hatch it, refine it, or devour it.
  • Moriarty ruled out hatching the phoenix because its conditions were absurd and risky, and rejected refining the egg as unsuitable.
  • Moriarty tried using Wind Theft on the Phoenix Egg ten times but failed to seize its Fire Elemental Magic.
  • Moriarty remembered Salazar's unfinished Devouring Spell, found Salazar's Diary, and located the twenty-fifth Spell, Devour Everything.

Ch. 262Salazar's Hidden Alternate Space

Moriarty tested Salazar’s unfinished Devouring Spell and discovered that it sent objects into a hazardous Alternate Space rather than granting him their energy. He entered the space himself, survived its life-draining mist, and learned that the Four Founders of Hogwarts had jointly created it.

  • Moriarty used the Devouring Spell on lake water, a swan, and other objects, discovering that they appeared in a hazy Alternate Space while living creatures died.
  • Moriarty raised his Wind Elemental level and used Wind Theft to extract a small amount of energy from the lake, but he could not draw energy from the Phoenix Egg or recover energy from objects inside the Alternate Space.
  • Moriarty cast the Devouring Spell on himself and entered the Alternate Space, where white mist began draining his life force.
  • Moriarty summoned seven enormous windmills to clear the mist, then surveyed the red sky, dark water, and golden seabed.
  • Moriarty saw strange vegetation grow when touched by a breeze and connected the space’s fire, water, earth, and wind elements to the Four Founders of Hogwarts.
  • The system confirmed that the Alternate Space had been jointly built by the Four Founders of Hogwarts and awarded Moriarty ten Exploration Draws.

Ch. 263Slytherin Necropolis

Moriarty explored the Four Founders’ hidden magical space and discovered a sealed Slytherin family graveyard. As an emerald-lit wizard appeared above the Basilisk cross, Moriarty faced a new mystery about the graves and the meaning of the strange scene.

  • Moriarty examined the space’s sky, water, land, and wind, and the System identified a breeze as having the power of a Level 93 Legendary Great Mage.
  • Moriarty followed the growing vegetation to a wall of magic-blocking metal and opened it by speaking Serpent Tongue.
  • Moriarty entered a strangely warm graveyard and realized that the burial mounds belonged to the Slytherin Family.
  • Moriarty summoned a giant cross bearing a Basilisk and recognized the scene from an illustration in The Book of Abraham the Jew.
  • An emerald glow formed into a dark-green-robed wizard, who addressed Moriarty as Slytherin.
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