Chapter 1189 The Trap of the Potion Masters

"Potions are also a type of magic, aren't they?"

Severus Snape said calmly in the Hogwarts Professor Stand.

His eyes lightly swept through the dense purple mist below, and he continued without waiting for Professor McGonagall to refute.

"Snake venom potion is a textbook for fourth grade. I have told it more than once in class that these potions have too many magics that can be detected and counterattacked - but unfortunately, Mr. Weasley has not successfully digested and understood the class. The knowledge on... As for poisoning and so on, well, I did give them the bottle of reagent. Isn’t this the job of the Potions professor?"

As the dean of Slytherin House, Snape was not a good gentleman who followed the rules. Not giving Malfoy help was his last line.

Especially when Elena "accidentally" told him Gryffindor's operation, he no longer had any psychological burden.

"Compared to these, those traceless stretching spells and the difficult magic of shrinking the Bludger..."

Professor Snape said quietly, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, looking at Professor McGonagall and Mrs. Hooch.

"I'm just trying to make everything fair. As for the calculations and intelligence involved, these are part of the competition."

"But……"

At this moment, Professor Flitwick's voice suddenly intervened.

"Even if it's a snake venom potion, I still don't understand when the Weasley twins were infected?"

He glanced at the purple poisonous mist that was gradually dissipating below. Fred and George were covered in a frightening purple color, and they were curled up on the ground in pain.

"Besides, it doesn't look like it's just a simple snake venom potion, right? The effect and onset time of the potion, Professor Snape, are you too—"

"Don't worry, there will be no side effects, I can guarantee that."

Professor Snape said softly, his black eyes like a bottomless tunnel.

"As for the follow-up treatment, Miss Kaslana knows how to relieve it. This is much safer than those Weasley fireworks."

For a long time, most wizards' understanding of magical confrontation was limited to magic spells.

However, with the emergence of Elena last year, some new waves are silently flooding this magical castle with a history of thousands of years.

Since the effect of the atomized refreshing potion was verified, Snape and others seemed to have opened a new door to potions.

Compared to conventional oral administration and wound smearing, potions that were breathed, injected, and even absorbed into the pores of the whole body kept pouring out before their eyes like an explosion.

You know, the strongest research ability in the academic field of magic at Hogwarts is undoubtedly Potions - Snape, Slughorn, and Damcos. These three people can be regarded as the most powerful ones in Hogwarts in the past hundred years. With the birth of the top potions masters, plus those scholars and doctors from the non-magical world, the progress of potions science will cross a new milestone almost every week.

"If a conventional magic potion is swallowed, the potion will enter the digestive tract through the throat, and then spread to the surroundings as the magic power spreads."

Before Snape could speak, Horace Slughorn, who was sitting next to him, shook his head somewhat proudly, stroking the pipe in his hand and explaining with a smile.

"Obviously, the absorption mechanism of potions does not rely on the intestines - so why don't we consider a faster route?"

"Generally speaking, a normal person has about 150 pores on one square centimeter of skin. There are nearly 20,000 completely undefended pores on the face alone, and behind them are capillaries and nerve networks... Atomized Demon The medicine is locked with magic, which is obviously a new, more efficient and accurate way, whether it is a treatment or a consumable for magic attacks."

"Before leaving the venue, Miss Cassiopeia used mire magic to bury a diffusive snake venom potion prepared by Severus on the Gryffindor side of the field."

Slughorn flicked his fingers, lit the pipe in his hand, watched the snow-white smoke rising from the cigarette holder, and whispered with admiration.

"As Miss Kaslana activates the magic field, the potions buried underground will naturally be evaporated and activated..."

"I see. It seems that Slytherin House is quite well prepared this time."

Professor McGonagall glanced at the potions professors, raised her eyebrows high, and said coldly.

"However, have you ever considered that this will have very bad consequences? There has never been a duel won by poisoning in the history of Hogwarts."

"Then now we have it. Besides, there is no precedent for magic fireworks to win before, right?"

Slughorn knocked on the pipe in his hand, looked at Professor McGonagall with a straight face without any fear, and said with a relaxed smile.

"Minerva, we are Potions Professors——"

Unlike Snape, who has less qualifications, Slughorn is considered Professor McGonagall's senior in terms of age and the time he entered Hogwarts.

In Hogwarts, except for Dumbledore and Professor Binns, there is no professor who can talk about qualifications and show off in front of this "former Potions Professor".

"Before each potion can be officially used, its first few users must be the wizards who brewed the potion."

"Miss Kaslana has saved us old guys no less than ten times. Don't worry, she can easily remove such a small dose of poisonous mist with a wave of her hand."

As if to confirm the words of Horace Slughorn.

As the score updated in mid-air, Elena's figure also reappeared.

Bright white light spots slowly fell from the sky, like falling snowflakes in winter, falling silently on the Weasley twins.

Those scary-looking traces of blue-purple poison quickly faded and dissipated in front of the healing magic text, and the surrounding thin purple mist faded quickly like ice and snow in the sun.

In less than three seconds, George and Fred's breathing stabilized.

Immediately afterwards, the eyelids of the two men trembled a few times, then suddenly opened their eyes and struggled to get up from the ground.

"The game is over, George, Fred—you were careless this time."

Before the Weasley twins could release their Bludgers, Elena's voice rang in their ears.

At the same time, a soft force wrapped around the two of them, gently pushing them off the duel field, leaving no room for resistance or struggle.

Compared to her violent resistance to the ring of fire half a year ago, Elena's ability in magic manipulation is no less than that of top wizards in their thirties.

Magical power comes from the dual entanglement of body and soul. With the frequent stimulation of runes, the magical blood in Elena's body has already surpassed that of an adult Veela. According to Paracelsus and Nico Flamel Others speculated that she might even surpass Merlin at the same age - as for the strength of her soul, she knew the source of her advantage.

"The Bludger tactics are indeed good, but you can't just think about your own tactics...Slytherin Academy is not that simple."

Elena glanced at the Weasley brothers who looked unwilling, shook her finger meaningfully, and said softly.

"The design concept of Weasley's fireworks is very good, but the forward swing of the spell is still too long. You put too much energy into attack and firepower, while ignoring the magic efficiency——"

She paused for half a second, looking across the two "Weasley Bludgers" with their heads drooping, and raised a hint of slyness at the corner of her mouth.

"However, I heard that Professor Nico Flamel is short of two clumsy apprentices."

"Since the 'Weasley Fireworks' are too dangerous, you may have to undergo some training in the professor's alchemy studio."

After glancing at the Weasley twins whose expressions changed from confused to dull and then quickly to ecstasy, Elena raised her hand to interrupt their subsequent words and pointed to the sidelines.

"Now you go to the rest area at the edge of the venue to calm down your mood and condition. The arena match is not over yet."

There is no doubt that the Weasley twins are definitely the most imaginative and creative newcomers in the wizarding world today.

The regular magic learning at Hogwarts does not fully meet their needs. On the other hand, the scientific content is also a limitation for them.

Perhaps at some point in the future, they could serve as a wizarding supernova that leads to the merging of the magical and scientific worlds, but it's obviously too early yet.

Anyway, Nico Flamel's workload has never reached saturation. The Goblin Queen of Gringotts has been resenting this kind of waste for a long time. This college competition is undoubtedly a very public and convincing excuse - Weasley Fireworks The powerful effect shocked everyone in the first duel. After the defeated Gemini lost their temper, they could just give a piece of candy to balance it out.

"Okay, let the arena match continue... As the victor, you have a quarter of an hour to rest."

Elena ignored the two Weasleys who were still immersed in the dual emotions of pie in the sky and losing the game, and looked at the two Slytherins on the other side of the duel field and said.

As a witness to the whole process of potion innovation, she naturally knew what Slytherin's secret weapon was, and she knew even more clearly that today's two-person arena match had lost its suspense from the beginning.

In addition to the "Atomized Snake Venom Potion" that the Weasley twins were infected with, Snape and others also prepared "Delayed Petrification Potion", "Viscous Acromantula Swamp Poison", and "Powerful Tear-Jerking Potion" for these little wizards. "Magic Potion", "Unstable Red Sore Potion", "Misty Chaos Potion"... There are nearly twenty bottles of [Master Level] combat magic potions in total.

Rather than saying that they were fighting their fellow Slytherins, it was better to say that they were fighting against the three top potions masters in Slytherin Academy in the past century.

However, Elena did not intend to interfere with this episode of the battle with the forbidden potion.

Watching the Weasley twins leave the field, Elena turned her head and looked calmly at Snape and others in the stands in the distance.

In her deal with Professor Snape and others, this two-player competition was originally a product launch for the potion masters.

In exchange, these professors also agreed to join in the subsequent development and improvement of new drugs - not just potions, but also the reshaping of Muggle drugs.

Magic can directly create certain drug answers that take decades to find. And if the ingredients can be deduced from the answers, then the future of the medical community in this world may be able to enter a world that no one has ever imagined. The field of gods, and more importantly, potions can truly become recognized as "magic" in this process.

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A quarter of an hour later.

"Ahem, the second arena match is about to begin."

"A Gryffindor house contestant—eh? Mr. Weasley?"

Elena cleared her throat and was about to announce the next round of contestants according to the previous list.

At this moment, Percy Weasley suddenly ran out of the players tunnel not far away, interrupting Elena's words.

"Sorry, Miss Kaslana, we apply for temporary substitution authority!"

Before Elena could ask, Percy ran to the sidelines panting, opened the magic book in his hand, and spoke quickly.

"Gryffindor House pays 200 points to redeem a substitute qualification."

"Qualification as a substitute?"

Elena raised her eyebrows and glanced at the panting Percy with interest.

"Well, that's right...there is this content in the competition rules."

"But I want to make it clear in advance that even if a substitute comes on, he must meet the basic requirements of this game - he must be a fifth-year Gryffindor student."

She looked at Percy Weasley with some curiosity, wondering what this handsome, smart Gryffindor prefect wanted to do.

During the quarter-hour break just now, Gryffindor House should have known what they were going to face.

Facing professorial pressure, the wisest choice is to lie down with dignity.

After all, there was no way to prepare an antidote in such a short time, and there didn't seem to be any particularly outstanding students in Gryffindor's fifth grade.

The two Gryffindor girls who appeared on the list should be considered the strongest duo among the fifth-year Gryffindors.

No matter how powerful and powerful the little wizard is, he has no room to fight back against the [Master Level] potion... Even members of the Foundation such as Hermione and Bill will not be able to resist this "potion attack". , there was no way to resist for a while - the fact that the Weasley twins were "instantly killed" just now said it all.

At the same time, there were also murmurs of confusion and anticipation in the surrounding auditoriums.

"Yes, we are aware of the substitution rules in the arena competition."

Percy Weasley pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose and took a deep breath.

"The substitute players we added are..."

"Rubber Hagrid."

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