Multiverse Skill System

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"Finally, this is the item-based teleportation. You have three chances to teleport through any walls you encounter to the other side. So, what do you choose?"

Harry and his two companions fell into deep thought. Yi Shuihan took out three items, each of which would be of great help in solving the six-level maze, especially the map. With it, as long as they weren't too unlucky, they would definitely be able to get ahead of others.

Choosing the detector item will definitely get you a lot of items when you enter the maze, which will be of great help in dealing with traps or other situations that appear in the maze.

By choosing a map, you don't have to worry about getting lost.

Choosing the item to pass through walls seems to give you three chances to do so, but the fact that Yi Shuihan singled it out means it's definitely not as simple as it appears.

"I think we should choose the map, Hermione, Ron, what do you think?"

"That's what I think too."

"and many more!"

Harry and Ron agreed to choose the map, but Hermione interrupted them.

Hermione looked at Yi Shuihan, whose smiling face revealed no clues to his inner thoughts, and a sly look appeared in her eyes.

"I choose all!"

all!?

Harry and Ron stared blankly at Hermione, wondering if she had taken the wrong medicine, otherwise why would she say such a thing?

"A clever young lady."

Yi Shuihan exclaimed in admiration, without saying that this choice was not acceptable, which immediately stunned Harry and Ron once again. It turned out that this was indeed a possible choice.

But why does it always feel like something's not quite right?

Harry and Ron, whose intelligence had been completely outmatched, were momentarily stunned.

Logically speaking, when Yi Shuihan presented three items for them to choose from, it should have been a choice of one out of three. Therefore, it was perfectly reasonable for Harry and Ron to instinctively choose the one that would be most helpful to them.

However, the clever Hermione saw things differently. She noticed that Yi Shuihan hadn't revealed the details of the three-choice option, but only let them choose. So, she had a wild idea and thought they could choose all of them, which led to what happened next. And as it turned out, she wasn't wrong; choosing all of them was indeed possible.

Having obtained three items from Yi Shuihan, Harry and his team have an 80% chance of winning. As long as they're lucky, the championship is practically guaranteed.

Of this 8% win rate, the map only accounts for 2%, the travel item accounts for 1%, and the item detector accounts for 5%.

It doesn't seem very reasonable. Item detectors should be less effective than maps, but that's the general case. The items Yi Shuihan placed in the underground palace are quite extraordinary. Some powerful items are even more useful than maps. For example, something called the Forward Card can forcibly shorten the distance between oneself and the finish line by 500 meters. In other words, as long as they are within 500 meters of the finish line, they can directly reach the finish line.

There are only three of these advance card-level items in the entire maze; they are legendary items, and it's possible that no single team could find them.

The maze is very large. To increase the difficulty, Yi Shuihan made the maze 30 li in circumference. With the winding paths inside, even with good luck, it would take 100 li to walk through, and with bad luck, it was not impossible to walk more than 100 li.

The final stage is arguably the longest and most difficult of the entire competition, and it's quite normal for a winner to remain undecided for several days.

Wizards need to eat, so food is thrown in at mealtimes. Whether contestants can get the food depends on their luck and skill.

Bringing food in is not allowed.

Anyway, if they really can't hold on any longer, they can just give up, and someone will come and take them out.

Similar to the second level, this level will be broadcast live from outside the maze, allowing everyone to see the situation of each person. Any unexpected events will be dealt with immediately, making it impossible for anyone to cause trouble.

Only Yi Shuihan could accomplish such a thing; otherwise, as in the original story, if someone died and no one outside knew what had happened, that would be truly embarrassing.

Chapter 579, Vastly Different Treatment

"After the first five challenges, I think everyone has a clear understanding of the strength of the six teams. Now, this final challenge will be the time to see who the real winner is. As we can see now, outside the maze, the members of the six teams are already standing at the starting point."

Voldemort stood outside the maze, with six images above him showing the locations of the six squads.

This maze doesn't have just one entrance, but six, and each team has a different entrance. This avoids conflict from the start, or allows later teams to track down the clues left by earlier teams.

It can be said that the chances of them meeting in the early stages are relatively small, and only in the later stages is there a certain possibility of them encountering each other.

While Voldemort explained the rules to the audience, the first-place team, the Doctor's squad, had already entered the maze.

Ten minutes later, the second-place protagonist team also entered the maze. The entry time for this level is based on the score. The team with the highest total score can enter directly, while for the rest, every 1 point difference is converted into 5 minutes of time.

It can be said that the advantage of the previous five levels still exists here. The difference in score between the Doctor's team and the final Hibiscus team is 48 points, which translates to 4 hours in time, which is a considerable advantage.

"Hey, why are the main characters' movements so strange?"

As the game progressed, some people noticed Harry and his friends' unusual behavior. The map aside, they had only glanced at it once when the three of them huddled together, pretending to discuss something, and Hermione had memorized it.

The main thing is the item detector, which will give a prompt every now and then. Therefore, the main characters' team is completely different from the other teams. They often walk for a while and then suddenly stop, then search around and finally find the item. Anyone with eyes can tell that something is wrong.

As for what's wrong, they would never have guessed that Harry and his friends had a prop detector, because prop detectors are something that these students couldn't possibly possess on their own unless they were given to them by the organizers.

Most people wouldn't believe that Yi Shuihan would help them cheat. In everyone's eyes, the strongest person in the magic world, or even the world, should have dignity, and cheating in such a matter would be too much.

Fortunately, Hermione seemed to have considered this as well. Sometimes she would pretend to be lost and look for a while without finding it. Later, when she had almost all the props, she would deliberately ignore some of them.

In the maze,

"Harry, how many gadgets do we have now?"

The three main characters walked together, with Harry at the front, Hermione in the middle, and Ron behind. Hermione spoke as she walked.

The match had gone on for so long, and the three of them should have been exhausted by now, but they were different. They looked radiant and showed no signs of fatigue whatsoever.

"There are already 13 items."

They were actually tired, having already walked more than 20 kilometers and stopped many times to look for things, which had taken a lot of energy. But they were happy because they found so many items.

When a person is particularly excited or happy, they will automatically ignore physical fatigue and enter a magical state. Unless they are frustrated or reach their limit, they will not feel tired.

Clearly, our main characters' team of three are currently in this state.

Hearing Harry's answer, Hermione's smile widened, and she felt very relieved. With these 13 items, and perhaps even more to help them, their chances of winning the championship were incredibly high. If they still couldn't win, she felt it would be an injustice.

Of these 13 items, Hermione found 4, Ron found 2, and Harry found the remaining 7. It has to be said that Harry's luck as the protagonist is amazing, and this is the best example of that.

The items placed in the maze are divided into common items, fine items, and finally, legendary items, according to their level.

There are a total of 50 items, including 32 common items, 15 premium items, and only 3 teleportation items. The card that allows you to travel 500 meters mentioned earlier is a teleportation item.

Of the 13 items Harry has acquired, there is no Forward Card, but there is another legendary item: the Trap Avoidance Alarm.

There were no traps marked on the map, so even if Harry and his friends had the map, they would still encounter traps.

The traps are distributed randomly and there is no pattern to their location. Generally speaking, a small team will encounter at least 10 traps in order to reach the end.

As a legendary item, the Trap Avoidance Alarm can be used 5 times to avoid 5 traps, which is quite useful.

Harry, as the chosen one, is already incredibly lucky. Perhaps due to his influence, the number of traps encountered by the main characters' team will be reduced, and it's possible that they will encounter fewer than 5 traps in total all the way to the end.

Compared to Harry and his team's relaxed and carefree attitude, the other teams are having a much tougher time. After so long in the competition, the team with the most items has only managed to get three, and they are all ordinary items. Two teams haven't found a single item yet. Compared to the protagonist's team, they are like the unlucky and the lucky, like non-paying players and paying players.

Fortunately, they didn't know the situation of the other teams; otherwise, even if the other five teams joined forces to deal with the protagonist, such a thing could still happen.

"The Flying Eagles are about to enter the trap area. Let's see how they deal with this trap."

Outside the maze, Voldemort's words caught the attention of the spectators observing the other teams, and they all turned their gaze toward the Eagle Squad.

The Flying Eagle Squad was walking slowly when suddenly the ground beneath their feet disappeared, revealing a dark, gaping hole.

Traps are a common type of trap in mazes. Once you fall in, you will be stuck for a certain amount of time. Only after the time has passed can you return to the ground.

Chapter 580, The First One (Pre-ordered)

The members of the Flying Eagle Squad never expected such a trap to appear, so they fell in without any warning. By the time they realized what was happening, they were already stuck in the trap.

"Unfortunately, it seems our Flying Eagle Squad will be leaving for a while."

A small countdown appeared on the screen representing the Flying Eagles team; they would reappear on the ground in 20 minutes.

Just after the Flying Eagle Squad was trapped, the other squads also encountered their first traps.

The trap encountered by the doctor's team was a freezing spell. Caught off guard, two of them were hit. Fortunately, the remaining member knew how to break the spell, so the trap was just a close call.

The national team encountered a quicksand area where the ground beneath their feet suddenly turned into quicksand. Their solution was to use a petrification spell to petrify the quicksand, and then break free with astonishing strength. The whole process looked quite violent.

After a round of traps, the Flying Eagle Squad and the Hibiscus Squad were trapped, while the other squads successfully passed through the traps. Of course, if the protagonist squad's sudden detour also counts as passing through the traps, then...

Various traps are displayed in the maze. The quicksand area and the trap cave are relatively good. There is even a teleportation trap that teleports you directly to the end, but more likely to the starting point.

The High Energy Team was unlucky; they were teleported directly to the starting point, and everything had to start over, which almost made them give up on the competition.

"Boom!"

Some walls sank down, some walls rose up, and in just a few minutes, the entire maze was completely transformed. Teams that were originally close to the finish line may have become farther away, while those that were far away may have become closer.

As the maze changed, Harry's trio soon huddled together again to discuss the map (actually, to look at the map).

"It seems we're in luck; this change in the maze hasn't shortened our distance to the finish line."

Looking at the updated map, Hermione breathed a sigh of relief. They had already experienced two changes before. After one of the changes, they used two items to travel through time, which prevented them from having to travel an extra 20 kilometers.

“Let’s walk another 5 kilometers, then take a break.”

"Okay, let's do it that way!"

"I have no opinion."

Ten hours have passed since the start of the sixth round of the competition. Currently, Harry's team is undoubtedly the closest to the finish line. As the crow flies, they are only 2 kilometers away from the finish line. Of course, if they actually walk, it is nearly 15 kilometers. If they know the map and do not take any detours, they can reach the finish line in 2 hours.

Aside from the main team, the Eagle Team was second to last in terms of finishing time. Although they were behind at the beginning and even fell into a trap, they performed exceptionally well later on, demonstrating amazing strength and breaking through many traps.

Even so, the Eagle Squad is 10 kilometers away from the finish line in a straight line, and the best route to reach the finish line is 50 kilometers away if the maze remains unchanged.

The astonishing gap between first and second place made outsiders basically give up hope for the other teams, and it seemed that the protagonist team was a sure thing to win the championship.

Faced with such a huge gap, and the fact that Harry's team always seemed to have foresight throughout the competition, everyone was quite puzzled. After all, compared to other teams, Harry's main character team had a much easier time in the competition.

Yi Shuihan's clone sat upright on the platform, ignoring the probing gazes of the Queen and Dumbledore, among other principals. He was quite speechless. Hermione was still a bit too inexperienced. Although she realized she couldn't stand out too much, she was still too conservative. The whole team didn't fall into a single trap throughout the entire competition, and they even walked down dead ends without thinking on several occasions, all of which turned out to be the right path. Who would believe there wasn't something fishy going on?

Fortunately, no one knows the function of the maze's props, so we can attribute everything to the props.

"Congratulations, Professor Dumbledore! It seems the championship belongs to your Hogwarts."

The Empress spoke.

Dumbledore smiled upon hearing this, but the smile seemed somewhat strange, because he also felt that the championship came too easily and could not convince others. After all, in terms of performance, the protagonist team was not particularly outstanding in the final round, giving the impression that they relied on luck.

"I wonder if Professor Dumbledore knows what will happen to Harry and the others after they received the prize? If possible, I hope the professor can pass on my message to them that our royal family would like to speak with them."

Since her own team couldn't get anything, the Queen started to focus her attention on Harry and his group.

"I will tell Harry and the others what you mean."

Dumbledore was certainly aware of the Queen's intentions, but given her special status and the fact that it was just a talk, he couldn't simply refuse. Besides, even if he did refuse, couldn't she go and talk to Harry and the others?

"The prizes this time were provided by the Multiverse Research Institute. If anyone tries to force them to hand over the prizes, we won't stand idly by."

Yi Shuihan suddenly spoke up, as a reminder to the Queen not to use coercive methods on Harry and the others, otherwise he would intervene. Of course, if it was voluntary, Yi Shuihan would not interfere.

Yi Shuihan guessed that if the Queen was really willing to pay some price, Harry and the others might actually hand over everything to them. After all, the world was becoming increasingly magical, and if Harry and the others wanted to survive in this world, they would inevitably have to deal with the British royal family. Ignoring the government as before was no longer possible; it wasn't something that could be resolved by simply hiding in the wizarding world.

"Mr. Yi is right. We will definitely ensure fairness and impartiality and will never force anyone."

The Empress quickly said that she did not want to anger Yi Shuihan because of this matter. It was not worth it at all. After all, even if she did not get the life-extending elixir this time, she could get it from Yi Shuihan in the future, and might even get more. It was not worth ruining her future path for this one time.

More importantly, Yi Shuihan's strength is unfathomable. If he were to do something, the current Ying Kingdom would be completely unable to stop him. The Queen would not believe that Yi Shuihan is the kind of person who can be restrained by the law. If he were to be killed, there would be nowhere for her to cry.

Chapter 581, Magic Ring

The sixth stage of the top six competition was both exciting and boring. It was exciting because the other five teams encountered various difficulties in the maze and performed either brilliantly or ridiculously. It was boring because everyone was looking forward to a fierce battle for the championship, but the championship was already reserved by the protagonist's team.

When the main team reached the finish line and won the championship, the five teams behind them hadn't even shown a trace of reaching the finish line yet. In fact, the second-place team arrived at the finish line a day later than the main team. Can you believe it?

The closer you get to the end, the more traps there are, so the time spent in the later stages is no less than that in the earlier stages. Of course, the main characters' team is completely excluded from this category.

"Harry, I feel like everyone's looking at us strangely."

Standing on the podium, the oblivious Ron noticed that something was off about the atmosphere around him, but he just couldn't figure out why.

"It must be jealousy!"

Harry's uncertain answer, coupled with the intense scrutiny he was receiving, made him feel immense pressure.

Only Hermione remained expressionless. She already knew from Yi Shuihan why things had turned out this way, and she deeply regretted not acting more naturally in the maze. She had never imagined that the maze would be so difficult without the three items given to her by Yi Shuihan.

Now that things have come to this, she can only pretend that she knows nothing. Although she appears expressionless, her mind is completely blank with tension.

"After three days of competition, the final six-team tournament has finally come to an end, and the final rankings have been announced. Now, please welcome Mr. Yi Shuihan, the director of the Myriad Realms Research Institute, to the stage to present awards to our contestants."

Instead, Yi Shuihan split himself up and stood up from the podium. With a single step, he was in the air, and then walked to the podium as if walking in the void. The whole process looked extremely elegant.

Congratulations on winning the championship.

Yi Shuihan raised the championship trophy and handed it to Harry, who accepted it with great excitement, repeatedly saying "thank you."

Then Yi Shuihan took out a ring and handed it to Hermione, instantly stunning 99% of the people present.