The Sorcerer's Stone had been successfully protected. After Xu Yue handed the fake Sorcerer's Stone to Professor McGonagall, the terrified professor finally accepted the truth.
She hurriedly gathered all the other professors and headed to the Sorcerer's Stone's defensive chambers, where they saw the scene of the incident.
Dumbledore still had not appeared.
But clearly, the rest was no longer Xu Yue's concern. He had handed over the fake Sorcerer's Stone anyway.
Unless the real Sorcerer's Stone was being kept personally by Dumbledore, it had probably already been destroyed...
Though there had been a few bumps along the way and the rewards had not been as plentiful as expected, Xu Yue was not dissatisfied.
It was a Punishment mission. A little "pocket money" to subsidize his expenses was enough; there was no need to demand too much. One could not be too greedy. There were still several dozen Reincarnators he could sell off, so he would treat this as a chance to relax.
It was already the end of term. Once the uproar over this incident passed, it was time for the House Cup awards.
And Dumbledore finally returned to the school, fashionably late.
Originally, Dumbledore had continuously given Gryffindor generous bonus points, practically cheating them into winning the House Cup.
But things were a little different now. Even before Dumbledore announced the points awarded for protecting the Sorcerer's Stone, Gryffindor had already forced itself ahead of Slytherin because of Xu Yue.
Even though Snape still favored Slytherin with extra points and harshly deducted points from the other houses, he would not deduct points from Xu Yue...
Standing on the dais, Dumbledore looked at the scores of the various houses and fell silent. There were simply too many points. If he added more, they would end up with twice