The duels onstage continued. The wizards bold enough to enter the Duelling Competition were no weaklings. As long as the matches did not turn into one-sided beatdowns, the competition remained quite exciting and well worth the ticket price.
Thunderous cheers swept through the entire stadium. Whenever a Dark wizard was defeated, the crowd became especially frenzied, just short of shouting for the Dark wizard to be killed on the spot.
Of course, those who had become Dark wizards and still dared to compete were usually quite formidable. Most Dark wizards carried bounties, and very few unlucky ones were eliminated in the first round.
After all, once the competition ended, they could easily attract the attention of Bounty Hunters or Aurors and get themselves killed.
After defeating his opponent, Albert returned to the contestants' waiting room in Area Three. He still needed to draw another number to determine the order of appearance for the second round.
As for the losers, they had already left through another passage. Those without tickets had to leave the stadium directly.
There was no such thing as getting in for free.
Albert tossed his previous number into a box nearby. His new number was fifty-six, which meant he would probably have to wait quite a while.
Unfortunately, contestants could not temporarily leave for the spectator stands to watch the matches, so Albert could only wait patiently in the contestants' waiting room for the second round to begin.
To be honest, the waiting was rather boring.
Albert bought a magazine and, under the cover of reading it, contacted the House-elves outside to find out what was happening.
No Death Eaters had been spotted for the moment.
As for the list of Death Eaters, it had naturally been kindly provided by the enthusiastic Order of the Phoenix members.