Chapter 184 Both Sides Suffered.

The staff on the field quickly mobilized with the cooperation of the professor, and they dragged the seriously injured Mike and Cedric back to the infirmary for treatment.

Mike was better, after all, he only suffered simple physical injuries.

Although it was serious, his entire chest was almost cut open, and several ribs were broken, but this kind of simple physical injury is not too difficult to heal in the wizarding world. As long as the magic potion is treated and rested, it can be restored to its original state after lying down for a period of time, and there will not even be a scar.

Cedric's was more serious.

Mike used all his strength in the last blow, which caused him to suffer extremely serious injuries, and almost half of his body was smashed.

This kind of injury would definitely be hopeless for a simple human, but fortunately he was in the form of a honey badger at the time. With the amazing survival ability of the honey badger and the large amount of healing potion that Professor Sprout immediately poured into him, he survived.

But his human body transformation was a bit tricky.

After examining Cedric's body, Professor McGonagall concluded that she could not restore Cedric to human form immediately.

In response to Sprout's question, she gave the following explanation:

First,

the main reason why Cedric is still alive is that his survivability in the form of a honey badger has greatly improved. If he is restored to human form rashly now, Cedric will die immediately with his current injuries, and Merlin will not come back.

Second,

Cedric's attainments in Transfiguration are not as exaggerated as everyone imagines. Although the family secret technique allows him to directly possess the ability to approach the master of Transfiguration, this ability is also flawed, and it is not really possible to master all kinds of Transfiguration. This

led to a slight mistake in Cedric's release of the human body Transfiguration, resulting in his mind being affected by the beastly nature of the honey badger and unable to recover on its own.

Although Professor McGonagall is a master of Transfiguration, it is impossible to restore a person who has lost control of the human body Transfiguration immediately. She needs time to reverse Cedric's transformation steps.

Finally, Professor McGonagall also said that the influence of the beastly nature of the honey badger on Cedric's mind is likely to be permanent.

This means that even if Cedric is rescued, he will most likely become a beast in human skin, and no longer be the good student who is good at both literature and sports.

After listening to Professor McGonagall's conclusion, Professor Sprout couldn't believe his ears. Mr. Diggory, who came later, sat down on the ground with a dull look at Cedric who was being carried away by several staff members using the floating spell.

But when someone is sad, someone else is happy. Lockhart and Ludo in the suspended attic were almost crazy with joy.

They had set up a "belly sentence" before the start of this game to attract everyone to bet, and this duel competition did not disappoint them. They received nearly 10,000 gold galleons just from the "blocking" in the school, and the odds outside the school directly received tens of thousands of gold galleons.

Don't underestimate these gold Galleons. Although Mike made 10,000 gold Galleons by just having a fight with Willy, Willy is a famous nobleman in the wizarding world. In the eyes of rich people of this level, money is just a number. For them, resources are the real wealth.

In the lives of ordinary wizards, these 10,000 gold Galleons may be money they can't earn in their lifetime.

Let's talk about Lockhart and Ludo. These two people not only opened the "belly sentence", but also joined it. Of course, they voted for Cedric instead of Mike, which is also the choice of most people.

After all, Mike is only in the second grade this year, and Cedric is in the fourth grade. The gap between these two years is already quite huge in the eyes of outsiders.

And Cedric's performance in the competition is much better than Mike. Basically, he is the kind of person who has entered the finals in seconds. This is much better than Mike. You know, Mike was almost defeated by Willy's money ability in the semi-finals.

With the help of a Muggle-born wizard, they set the odds very cleverly, so that no matter who wins, they will make money, the only difference is how much.

Of course, they will get the most benefits if Cedric wins, because they not only set Mike's ratio very high to attract greedy people to enter, but also set Cedric's ratio very low.

This means that if Cedric wins, they will make a lot of money, and if Mike wins, they will also make a small profit.

However, things developed in a direction that they did not expect at all. Mike and Cedric actually tied!

Ludo and Lockhart were almost overjoyed. Although they also set the option of a tie, not many people bet on it. Although the ratio was set very high, after all, there were few people, so the money they paid out was simply a drop in the bucket compared to the total funds of tens of thousands.

"Audience! Now our competition has encountered an unexpected situation. Both Mike and Cedric have lost their ability to fight!" Lockhart explained with his hands dancing, "Our staff just came up to report that the injuries of these two players are very serious and they need long-term treatment. But according to the original plan, we have to leave the next two months for all students to concentrate on preparing for the exam.

So in this situation, we decided... not to hold the extra game! Mike and Cedric tied! The two of them will become the champions of this duel competition together!"

As soon as these words came out, the stands erupted with earth-shaking curses. Most of the people present also placed bets. Of course, most of them were poor students who placed bets with a few Nats, just to support the players of their own college.

Those who placed bets with silver Sickles were already considered wealthy. If you placed bets with a gold galleon, then congratulations, you will definitely be regarded as a local tyrant by your classmates.

The money these people put in was just a drop in the ocean. The main contributors to the huge sum of nearly 10,000 gold Galleons were still the students from old noble families. Compared with the people mentioned above, these students from noble families were much more generous, with a guaranteed amount of three-digit gold Galleons.

And now the people who were shouting the most were also the students from noble families. These people put in a lot of money, and some of them even put in money by force, so they could only jump out and curse Lockhart together, hoping to force Lockhart to submit through public pressure.

In contrast, the students who only put in a few copper Knuts did not react much. Although for some of them, those copper Knuts were not a small amount, but seeing those who put in hundreds or thousands of gold Galleons also lost so badly, they felt much better, and even the psychology of gloating overwhelmed the depression of losing money.

It really fits the saying that small bets are pleasant, but big bets are harmful.

However, no matter how these people cursed Lockhart and Ludo, they remained unmoved. Under the temptation of huge benefits, they had ignored the possible impact of this incident.

As Lockhart announced the official end of the final, the light and shadow giant badger and giant eagle above the circular arena also flew towards each other, but this time they did not attack each other, but instead rubbed each other in a friendly manner, and flew to the podium representing honor.

At this time, the representative creatures of the other two colleges, the giant snake and the giant lion, also appeared together, chasing the eagle and the badger to the podium, but their bodies were much smaller than the latter two.

The staff also came to the backstage to inform Bruno and Willy to go on stage to receive the award, but when the staff happily informed Willy and Bruno of the news, something embarrassing happened.

Willy actually snorted coldly and left directly, leaving Bruno at a loss.

Bruno was not eligible to go on stage to receive the award because he lost to Willy, who had the power of money, in the third place match held earlier. However, since Mike and Cedric tied for first place, his ranking became third.

When Bruno realized what was happening, he left the circular arena regardless of the staff's dissuasion. As the current male student union president of Hogwarts, he was not a fool. He naturally understood that going to the podium alone to receive the award as a "lucky guy" would definitely be regarded as a laughing stock by everyone in the school.

Therefore, the representative beasts of the four major colleges, who had not waited for the real owner for a long time, seemed to be a little impatient after circling over the podium for a while, and began to transform directly, entangled with each other in mid-air, and formed a shield-shaped school emblem of Hogwarts.

However, this should have been the most solemn scene in the duel competition, but it became the funniest moment at this moment, because none of the four winners went on stage to receive the award, which made Lockhart and Ludo, who were standing at the side of the podium holding the trophy and flowers and preparing to present the award to the contestants, sweat profusely in embarrassment.

Finally, they had to leave the stadium hastily amid the laughter of the crowd in the stands.

The people in the Hogwarts School Infirmary knew nothing about what was happening in the circular arena at the moment. In fact, they were so anxious that they had no time to care about what was happening on the field.

In Cedric's ward, a strong and disgusting smell of burnt and barbecued meat filled the entire ward. Cedric, who still maintained the form of a giant honey badger, was lying on a huge bed, with small streams of dark red blood constantly oozing from his body, and soon his snow-white state was dyed dark red.

Large patches of burnt black burns and countless wounds caused by explosions and crushing spells were all over Cedric's body, leaving almost no good meat on his body. As for the fur, it had long been burned in Mike's sea of ​​fire.

Mrs. Panfler was anxiously discussing the treatment plan with Professor McGonagall and others, but they could not come up with any effective method.

As mentioned before, physical injuries are actually nothing in the wizarding world. Doctors in the wizarding world are most afraid of encountering strange curses and mental injuries. These strange diseases are helpless even for wizards who have mastered magical magic. The

complex injuries caused by Cedric's loss of control of human body deformation and severe physical injuries are no easier to treat than removing an unknown powerful curse.

In Mike's ward, Soraka, a girl with freckles all over her face and a pair of huge black-framed glasses, was leaning over Mike's bed and observing the wound on Mike's chest.

After an unknown amount of time, Soraka seemed to have finally determined the treatment plan. A gleam of light suddenly flashed on her thick glasses, and then her slender hands reached directly to the huge wound on Mike's chest, grabbed the edge of the wound and pulled it hard!

With a light sound, the wound was torn open, and almost the entire chest cavity of Mike was exposed to the air.

Soraka was completely immersed in her work at this moment. Her mouth unconsciously raised a creepy arc. Her eyes covered by thick glasses were full of enthusiasm. Her blood-stained little hand pulled out the magic wand from her waist and pointed it at Mike's chest.

"Clean it up!"

As the spell was recited, a small gust of wind blew in Mike's chest, sweeping away all the foreign objects including the broken bones.

What does it feel like to have a miniature tornado raging in your chest?

No one can tell, after all, this kind of thing is too magical.

But one thing everyone can be sure of is that it must be very painful!

So, our Mike couldn't stop sweating from his temples under the stimulation of this level of severe pain, and his eyeballs were also rolling wildly under his eyelids. He was about to wake up.

However, our Miss Soraka still didn't notice this. Her hands kept moving. She quickly took out a bottle of dark green strange magic potion from the cabinet beside the bed and poured it directly into Mike's chest.

"Squeak~"

As soon as the dark green potion was poured into Mike's chest, it reacted violently, making a strange sound similar to cold water poured on magma.

Mike finally woke up this time, and he opened his eyes weakly. The first thing that caught his eye was a face full of freckles and wearing a pair of thick black glasses.

However, he didn't have the mind to think about the identity of this girl at this moment, because at this moment, there was an unimaginable pain in his chest.

Mike raised his head with his weak body and looked at his chest. It would have been better if he didn't look at it. When he looked at it, Mike was stunned.

Because at this moment, his chest was completely opened, he could even see his heart beating slowly inside.

This was not the most terrible thing. The most bizarre thing was that the broken ribs and damaged organs in his chest were growing rapidly at this moment, and the white and blood-red granulation and bone buds were twisted wantonly. This weird scene made Mike's heart beat faster involuntarily.

Soraka, who was originally concentrating on studying Mike's chest, finally noticed Mike's suddenly accelerated heartbeat. She turned her head to look in the direction of Mike's head, and her eyes met Mike's.

The two looked at each other in silence. After a few seconds, a blush floated on Soraka's cheeks, and an indescribable shame surged in her heart. Then Soraka screamed and slapped Mike in the face.

Poor Mike was slapped by Soraka again before he could react to the shock of seeing the scene inside his chest, and he fainted again with tears in his eyes.