Mastering Thunder from Hogwarts

"What should we do next? We have to determine the direction of action as soon as possible, otherwise it will be easy to fail to keep up with the progress." Hermione asked quickly after allocating the equipment.

"Let's go directly to the shopping mall!" Fred was full of confidence at this time, "We have increased our combat power now, and ordinary monsters may not be able to stop us."

Cedric nodded when he heard the words, but still said cautiously, "Although that is true, we don't know the situation in the shopping mall yet, so we may take it lightly so quickly. I have another idea."

After hearing the words, the other people turned their heads and listened. The success of this battle depended entirely on Cedric's decision-making, so his words already carried a lot of weight in everyone's hearts.

"I think we should walk along the left side of the main road and chase Penello in the direction of his escape!" Cedric suggested after thinking for a moment.

"Chasing Penello? Do you want to attack the other teams before entering the hostage location?" George glanced at Cedric with a strange expression. He heard that the other party was preparing to deal with the competitors.

"No!" Cedric shook his head, "It is not a wise decision for us to deal with a fifth-year wizard, even if our strength has improved now."

"What do you mean?" Fred looked at him in confusion.

"I want to bring Penello over." Cedric said softly, "Her team has been completely separated now. Ron and Malfoy are going in the opposite direction with her. The probability of reuniting is too low."

"And Susan, who had been following her before, has also been killed. This proves that Penelo must be alone now. If we can win her over, it will definitely greatly increase our winning rate."

"Your idea is good, but why does Penello want to help us? Are she and us on the same team?" Terrence still didn't understand. In his eyes, people belonging to different groups are enemies.

Doing work for the enemy.

"No, this is indeed a way." Hermione retorted, "It is indeed impossible for Penello to completely side with us, but she may cooperate with us. She is alone now, and it is simply impossible to complete the task alone.

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"That's right!" George also reacted at this time, "The only choice she has now is to cooperate with us temporarily, and we will wait until we enter the shopping mall. Otherwise, failure will be the only thing waiting for her."

"I think it will work." Fred also agreed, "If a fifth grader can join the team, our strength will definitely increase greatly, and maybe we will become the most powerful team in the ruins at this time!"

"Okay, let's do this. Now we will search along the ruins on the left side and try to find Penelo as much as possible. If we really can't find her, we will rush to the shopping mall. And no one knows the situation there right now.

Going too early is not necessarily a good thing." Cedric said with the final word.

"Understood!" After determining the action plan, the other people responded one after another. Although Team 4 had completely entered, they had already grasped the great initiative at this time.

While searching along the way, these little wizards also discovered one after another that there were actually many good things hidden in these ruins.

In some corners of the house, in cabinets and boxes, there are some items that can be picked up. Of course, most of them are non-magical items.

Common items include food, water, bandages, common wound medicine, etc., and even some clothes that can be changed.

Occasionally, they can also search for some magic items, such as magic potions for healing or recovery, magic talismans that can be used as grenades, etc.

For example, George was very lucky to get a 'glitter talisman', the burst of light can temporarily blind people.

At the same time, the most concerning thing was that they saw a kind of treasure chest with a magic lock in some abandoned houses.

After discovering such a good thing, everyone naturally wanted to open one on the spot to see what good things were inside, but they found that this kind of treasure chest could not be opened using unlocking spells or violence.

On the contrary, they saw that two treasure chests had been opened along the way. Several people estimated that this should be done by Penello, so they speeded up the tracking again.

Following some obviously searched houses along the road, as well as the monster corpses that had been cleaned up, everyone finally found Penelo who was alone.

However, Penelo's condition does not look good at this time.

When Cedric and his party found her, Penello was holding a short bone knife in his left hand and a wand in his right hand. He was sitting pale and slumped in the corner of an abandoned house. It seemed that he had been seriously injured. .

When she found out that several people had appeared, Penello reached out her wand very sensitively, and then slowly relaxed when she saw it was them. It was obvious that she was under a lot of pressure along the way.

"You don't look in good condition. Are you injured?" After seeing Penello, Hermione quickly stepped forward and asked with concern.

Although they didn't have any good intentions when they followed her, they had always been a companion with her day and night, so after seeing Penelo in poor condition, they couldn't help but worry about her.

"It's just that I'm a little weak. Please be careful. There are two skeleton assassins nearby who are very good at sneak attacks." Penello struggled and coughed twice. "Susan was knocked down by them immediately. I finally killed them. One of them hid here not long ago."

"That means there is still one skeleton assassin left. How strong is the opponent?" Cedric kindly handed over a bottle of tonics collected on the road.

"If I have to describe it, the physical quality is similar to that of a third- or fourth-year wizard, but the opponent is very fast and can become invisible. I also found a chance to kill one of them when they attacked Susan." Penello looked at it. When he saw the sledgehammer in Cedric's hand, his heart trembled, and he vaguely guessed what these guys had done before.

"Haha, that guy dared to take care of it and have it shattered into pieces." George patted his chest confidently, and then looked at the short knife in the opponent's hand with some curiosity, "Is the prop in your hand the equipment that the assassin exploded?"

"What? Do you want to snatch me away when you see me alone?" Penello took a sip of the tonic in his hand and looked at the other party with a teasing face, "Is it not an accident that you suddenly appeared here? You chased me all the way? "

"Don't worry, we have no intention of harming you." Cedric smiled slightly, "On the contrary, we went through all the trouble to find you because we want to reach a cooperative relationship with you. Now you are the only one left in the first team. , you should also know that joining forces with us is the best solution."

"It seems that I have no other choice." Penello shook her head helplessly. Even if she turned against her now, she would only be able to kill the other person at most. Failure is probably the only outcome.

Both Cedric and Penello automatically ignored Ron and Malfoy, who were missing from the first team. Obviously, they did not take these two little brats seriously.

"Okay, it's not impossible to cooperate with you, but this is only before I see the mission goal. After entering the shopping mall, I will choose to terminate the cooperation at any time." Penello didn't waste any words and made it clear.

"No problem, as long as you don't stab us in the back. This is a gentleman's agreement between us. This is just a simulated actual battle. There is no need to make it particularly complicated." Cedric smiled slightly.

"It's a deal." Penello didn't feel the need to play tricks with them here, "What are your plans? Looking at the hammer in your hand, you should be able to get rid of that giant skeleton, right?"

"That's right, after you were separated, the second and third teams entered the dungeon one after another. The second team has lost one member. The current situation of the third team is unknown. We are currently at the slowest pace, so we have to rush to the target point.

." Hermione introduced it to Penello while taking care of her to drink the potion.

"In that case, let's leave quickly." Penello's face looked much better than before, and he stood up with support.

"Before that, there is something we are curious about." George stuck his head in and said, "On our way here, we saw two opened treasure chests. You opened those things, right? What's in them?"

thing?"

"That's what you're talking about..." Penelo chuckled, "To open that kind of treasure chest, you need a prop called a 'master key'. They can be found from some monsters and can occasionally be found when searching the room."

"As for the things inside, they are indeed good and good things, but this is my secret. If you want to know, you have to exchange other information." Penello knew very well that they were in a competitive relationship, so he was not willing to pay for it in vain.

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"We gave you a bottle of tonic for free. Even if you don't thank us, at least let us know something." Fred muttered unhappily when he saw Penello being so unkind.

"Okay, for the sake of saving my life." Penello shook his head mockingly, and then took out a simple-looking compass from the lining.

【Trace Compass】

Mission auxiliary props: This compass can point to the nearest hostage hiding place.

The description of the prop is simple and clear, but everyone can see the extraordinary nature of this prop. With it, they can grasp the whereabouts of the mission target faster.

So after seeing this prop, several people looked at each other in unison. They all saw the hidden joy in each other's eyes. It seemed that their choice to come to Penello was a wise decision.

"I didn't expect that there is such a thing as mission props." Fred grinned with emotion, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go quickly. The victory in this actual combat exercise must belong to us!"

Seeing how excited a few people were, Penello pouted speechlessly. These bastards didn't take her seriously at all.

After everyone packed up, they immediately set off, aiming for the deepest shopping mall.

Although we encountered many patrolling skeleton soldiers along the way, we did not see any of the skeleton assassins that Penello mentioned before.

As for the miscellaneous soldiers encountered on the road, they were completely powerless against Cedric who had obtained the [Skeleton Hammer].

At the same time, the rest of the people have also seen the importance of owning equipment, such as ordinary skeleton swordsmen and skeleton spearmen, which are basically a matter of one hammer.

Many times, people didn't even need to cast spells, and Cedric alone led them flat to the front of the shopping mall.

Arriving in front of this core building, everyone could clearly see the true structure of this shopping mall.

The entire shopping mall is very large, almost as big as a Quidditch pitch to the naked eye. At the same time, there are several skeleton squads patrolling outside the entire building. Among them are several skeleton cavalry who are obviously elite monsters. In their hands,

The spear glows with a faint magical aura, and it looks like an alchemical equipment with attributes.

"After a rough observation, the entire shopping mall has three entrances and exits, namely the main entrance in the middle and the side entrances on both sides. There are 4 elite monsters [Skeleton Knights] defending, including 2 on the front and 1 on each of the two side entrances. Let's proceed next

How to act?”

In an abandoned house near a shopping mall, George, who went out for investigation, conveniently reported to everyone when he returned.

"How's it going? In which direction are the hostages approaching?" After Cedric learned the general information, he immediately turned his head and looked at Penello. She had a tool here that could detect the mission target.

"I kept checking on the way back. The compass showed that there were at least two parts of the hostages in this shopping mall. One part was concentrated on the front floor, roughly on the third floor, and the other part was concentrated on the right side. The display should be at

Floor 2." Penello opened the compass in his hand and observed.

"Needless to say, the princess's position must be in the middle, otherwise there wouldn't be two elite monsters guarding the main entrance. As for the hostages on the right, there should be another wave." Fred speculated reasonably.

"Logically speaking, it should be like this." Hermione nodded in agreement. The important hostages must be guarded in the most heavily guarded place.

"Then let's enter from the right side?" Terrence asked tentatively, "Why do you mean there is another group of hostages over there? If you save more, you can get more points."

"Okay." Cedric nodded, and then looked at Penelo specifically, "If there are enough hostages, we can give you a few more, so at least the score of the first team will not be too ugly."

"Haha, then should I still thank you?" Penello rolled her eyes at several people speechlessly, and the other person's tone, which sounded like charity, made her very unhappy.

However, Penello didn't say anything more at this time. He just lowered his head and remained silent, as if he was silently preparing something.

While several people were discussing, a violent burst of smoke suddenly burst out from the left side of the shopping mall, and five wizards rushed out from the housing area over there and ran towards the side door. It was the third team led by Percy.

"No, those guys have also arrived at the shopping mall. We have to hurry up, otherwise we may be beaten to the spot by them!" Fred yelled anxiously when he saw this.