Nagini raised her head, her serpentine eyes fixed on the golden-red flame.
As she had said, after becoming a magical snake, she had grown extremely sensitive to the internal fluctuations of magic. And in a place like Hogwarts, it was all too easy to encounter every kind of magical fluctuation.
But the fluctuations of the flame in Tris's palm were unlike anything she had ever encountered.
For some inexplicable reason, her heart, which had long since abandoned any real hope of returning to her original form, stirred once again.
Samadhi True Fire!
Watching the flame dance on his fingertip, Tris felt rather pleased with himself. When luck came knocking, there really was no stopping it.
Just yesterday, he had still been nowhere near mastering Samadhi True Fire. He had yet to ignite the upper elixir field lord fire, let alone fuse the fires together.
But yesterday afternoon, during Slytherin's latest selection for chief, Tris had been planning to sit it out as usual when the system suddenly popped up and issued a quest.
Tris still had no idea why the system had issued no related quests over the past several months, only to stir this time. But without another word, he entered the competition under everyone's astonished gazes.
His entry immediately put enormous pressure on everyone else.
Apart from the very first selection, the competition for chief followed a challenge format, with challengers and a defending champion. But the defending champion could hardly be expected to fight every challenger alone in a gauntlet.
So the challengers had to settle things among themselves first.
If there were fewer than three challengers, they dueled one another, and the winner issued the challenge. If there were more than three, they fought a free-for-all, with the winner challenging the current chief.
Tris's formidable entry