Chapter 38.

  The audience was in an uproar!

  As it is well known that wizards must rely on flying tools, such as broomsticks or flying carpets, to fly; they ot fly with their bodies alone. Although there are rumours that the dark lord whose name ot be mwntioned fly, this rumour has never been firmed, and even if it were proven true, it would still pertain to that figure.

  How could Soren, just a sed-year student, possibly fly?

  Only the perceptive professors realised that Soren was not flying; it was actually an application of the levitation spell. Soren had calcuted the distaween both sides, the height and thiess of the wave, and used the levitatioo elevate himself to a certai for a brief moment, allowing him to soar over the wave and reach Merlin. At this moment, the distaween them was less than two feet!

  In an instant, Soren cast two spells at Merlin. The first spell glowed with a red light simir to the disarming charm, while the sed spell shimmered with a dull grey light that no one could reise.

  Although he roached by Soren, Merlin did not lose his posure. With his spell-casting speed, even at such a short distance, he was able to cast the Shield Charm in defense. Merlin quickly cast two Shield Charms; the first one successfully blocked Soren's first disarming spell, while Soren's sed unknown spell uedly veered off, avoiding the Shield Charm and redireg towards Merlin's left side!

  Merlin frowned, pletely fused about the purpose of the oppo's as. He could only raise his wand, keeping a close wat the trajectory of the unknown spell, ready for any possible ges. Unfortunately, he had no idea that his intense focus on the spell was a serious mistake, as this unknown spell was Soren's inal Fsh Charm.

  The spell's beam suddenly burst forth with a blinding light that was tht to look at, resembling a white sun exploding.

  Although it was broad daylight, Merlin was hit directly by the strong light from less than a foot away. Even though Merlin was merely a spectral presence, he still fell into a state of intense dizziness, fusion, and blindness!

  Merlin had never anticipated such a situation. At that moment, due to his untrolble mental state, he was uo respond at all, and his entire bei like a statue that had lost its ability to react. It wasn't until his vision and miuro normal that he discovered Soren was smiling politely at him, casually pying with the wand that inally beloo him.

  Merlin was defeated! Defeated by a sed-year student!

  Professonagall, Professor Sprout, and Professor Flitwick stood up in disbelief. Among the four house heads, only Snape was somewhat aced to Soren's mysterious nature and did not lose posure like the other heads. Dumbledore once again wore a thoughtful expression, his eyes flickering with various unknowable thoughts.

  To be fair, Merlin's strength far exceeded Soren's. However, under Soren's meticulous pnning, precise calcutions, and hidden trump card, he successfully caught Merlin off guard. Of course, the experiences of the previous four testants also provided him with siderable reference. If given another ce, if Merlin had been prepared for the Fsh Charm, Soren would not have been able to replicate this victory.

  It was not until Merlin admitted, "I am defeated," that the studeed into cheers that echoed through the hall. This was a truly universal cheer, transding houses, grades, bloodlines, and genders. Regardless of who they were or whether they liked Soren, no one could deny the thrilling fact that a student had defeated the legendary wizard Merlin.

  And thus, Soren's name officially became a legend at Hogwarts.

  up was Cedric. Cedric's strength was actually not weak, but pared to the other testants, his performance was rather cklustre, which was not worth eborating. In the fi, only Soren scored a perfect 50 points, while Perd Penelope each scored 30 points, and Gemma, Cassius, and Cedric all scored 10 points.

  The championship undoubtedly went to Soren. When Soren received the special honor medal from Sir Merlin from Dumbledore and wore it on his wizard robe, the hall erupted into another round of warm appuse.

  Merlin in the audieched this se with a gratified smile. He subtly exged gnces with Dumbledore, and just as everyone was not paying attentioransformed into smoke and vanished.

  As Soren stepped off the stage, he entered the other testants.

  Percy looked a bit awkward, clearly feeling a little embarrassed about his earlier remarks, but he still politely expressed his gratutions. Penelope and Cedricerely veyed their admiration for Soren, showing no signs of embarrassment for being youhan him.

  As for the two testants from Slytherin, they not only did not feel jealousy over their defeat but appeared even more excited than Soren—Cassius spped Soren on the shoulder enthusiastically, jumping up and down like a monkey in jubition; Gemma looked at this miracle-making junior with sparkling eyes, her eyebrows and mouth filled with joy, her excitement evident.

  Soren smiled happily because he khat Slytherin was beginning to ge, and the spirit of unity and collective honor was now on full dispy.

  [Special Honor Medal of Merlin Obtained!]

  The remaining days of the semester were spent under dazzling sunlight.

  The school celed exams and Quidditch, leaving students with nothing to do. Everywhere on campus, students could be seen pying wizard chess, pying Gobstones, or pying Exploding Snap.

  Soren carefully sorted out his gains of this semester.

  He first handed over a full 20 pints of Aantu venom, most of the snake meat and snake skin from the Basilisk to Dobby, who took them to the underground bck market in Knockturn Alley to sell, exging them for a rge sum of Galleons.

  Then he also took time every day to study the Forbidden Forest map obtained from Daphrying to uand the terrain and area distribution of the Forbidden Forest.

  The st time he ehe Forbidden Forest, he only followed Harry to the spider's ir and did not fully explore other areas of the Forbidden Forest.

  During the remaining time, Soren rarely let go and pyed with his friends, buildiionships.

  The Slytherin wizards generally came from wealthy families, so they pyed more upscale games—Nott brought a mini skeleton model from home, which could be ao fight as long as it was infused with magical power. The game yed on a sand table with various terrains like deserts, forests, and os.

  Pyers had to trol different skeleton models with various abilities to quer territories in the sand table, simir to the Muggle bame Risk, but the difference was that the skeletons could move autonomously uhe pyer's and, perform various bat as, a eerie cries, making it more realistic.

  Nott was estimated to have pyed a lot since childhood; his strategic ability was top-notch, aeed Draco soundly, making him yell in frustration. Bise was a master of verbal sparring; he talked a big game but performed worse than Draco. After losing several times, Sradually grasped the essentials and was able to eh Nott in a bad-forth match.

  Bise usually appeared aloof and indifferent to everything. However, after spending time together, Soren discovered that he was actually quite reserved. Bise's mother had remarried seven times, iing a siderable fortune each time, so his daily life was extravagantly luxurious, surpassing even Draco.

  Bise took out a mini model of a yacht from his luggage, and with a spell, the yacht transformed to a normal size by the Bck Lake, where several friends gathered for a swim party on a sunny day. Despite Bise's usual indifferent demeanor, he had quietly attracted two beautiful panions among the first-year Slytherins, and at this moment, he was surrounded by them, exuding charm.

  Draco was not doing badly either; he had the deliberately charming Pansy by his side, and with the muscur physique he developed through Quidditch training over the past year, he garnered quite a bit of attention.

  As for Soren, Daphne and Meredith closely followed him, never leaving his side—yet even so, they could not resist the swarm of admirers surrounding him. Tracy Davis and Audrey Lance, from the same year, seized the opportunity to dress up fmboyantly, eagerly showg their newly developed figures; the first-year girls opted for a fresh and cute style, aiming for a sweet and adorable appearance.

  Soren had no time to bask in his charm before Daphne and Meredith simultaneously pinched his arm with their sharp nails from behind, causing him to gasp in pain, filling his mind with the truly terrifying aspects of women, and cold sweat began to bead on his forehead.

  Nott, Goyle, and Crabb stared ily at the two girls in swimsuits beside Soren. Daphne had a voluptuous and fiery figure, undoubtedly a result of her family's iment in expeions; Meredith, being from her naturally strong genes, had a tall model-like physique, and with her icy beauty's cold and proud demeanor, her charm was on par with Daphne's.

  The three boys, having ewo grueliers without finding suitable female panions, could only look at their peers with envy and jealousy, with Soren, surrounded by beautiful girls, making them grit their teeth the most—bro, you've eaten the meat, at least leave some soup; h it all will briribution, they could only curse silently in their hearts.

  Due to being underage, the party on the yacht only had butter-beer and other non-alcoholic drinks, so aside from pying instruments, singing, and dang, nothing inappropriate occurred.

  By the way, Bise pyed heavy metal guitar exceptionally well, rivalling even the etric sister's Heathcote Barbarie, successfully bringing the party atmosphere to a fever pitch.

  In addition, third-year Terence Higgs specifically approached Soren to befriend him and invited him to go hunting ftails in Norfolk ty during the summer. His father, Bertie Higgs, the Auror office director Rufus Scrimgeour, and the Wizengamot member Tiberius McLaggen would also be joining.

  Seeing the other party's initiative to befriend him, Soren naturally accepted, especially since befriending these powerful figures from the Ministry of Magic would be beneficial for him.

  Gemma also approached Soren, wanting to invite him to her family's i farm i during the summer. Her family farm raised many magical creatures used for potion ingredients, such as scarab beetles, Billywig stings, shrivelfigs, and color-ging giant snails. Besides selling them, they could also be used as bait for fishing in the farm's pond for the delicious yet difficult-to-catch Shrake.

  Soren, being observant, sensed a hint of ambiguous emotion in seniemma's eyes. Although he was ied in tasting Shrake, he ultimately deed, leaving Gemma quite disappointed.

  Time flew by, and soon it was time for the holiday, with students preparing to take the Hogwarts Express home.

  Orain, Soren, Daphne, and Meredith occupied a partment by themselves, where Daphne handed him a thick stack of bloodline research materials that her family had sent her retly.

  Soren accepted the materials like a treasure, thinking about the Patronus Charm, which was already on his summer learning list. It seemed he had a feeling that this summer would be very fulfilling.

  [Bloodline research materials from the Greengrass family obtained!]

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