The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Chapter 177 Total War-Wizard (National Day Special 6K Chapter)

The dung beetle encounters dry stool - just in time. It can accurately describe the situation of the three people at this time: each of the three people wants something from the other two. Tom wants to find two professors to trigger his anniversary celebration, and Professor Flitwick wants to find someone to promote his new game. Professor McGonagall, who has played the game before, and Professor Lockhart, the originator of the game, are naturally the best choices. Professor McGonagall is very simple: she simply needs a few strong men.

"Girod, you're here!" Professor McGonagall showed a happy expression. It was obvious that she had a headache with the task of decorating the auditorium. "I'm decorating the auditorium. Do you have any suggestions?"

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 3) Content: The Horror Halloween Begins

Content description: Halloween is coming, and Professor McGonagall is having a headache on how to decorate the school. If you can help her, you will surely reap huge rewards, right?

Mission reward: Professor McGonagall’s experience in transfiguration]

Tom understood that the reward for this mission was probably related to Professor McGonagall's inner satisfaction. Tom rubbed his chin and looked around the auditorium. It was already after dinner and the auditorium was empty except for the three of them. He said to Professor McGonagall: "Halloween... pumpkins, dim candlelight and bats are naturally the most classic elements."

Professor McGonagall nodded. This was a decent answer. She would have been ready even if Lockhart didn't say anything. She has thousands of live bats at the ready, and Hagrid's giant pumpkins are ripe - each one is as big as a carriage and can even fit three people inside.

"We can start with the ceiling weather," Tom, as a professor, has the authority to modify the ceiling weather. And it doesn't require any advanced magic. Dumbledore granted him this power. He just needs to point the wand at the ceiling and silently imagine the weather on the ceiling in his mind, and the ceiling will change on its own.

Tom waved his wand first and extinguished the candles in the auditorium. The entire auditorium fell into darkness. The only source of light was the faint starlight on the ceiling and the dim light from a few candles beside the three people. The candlelight was still flickering due to the draft. All of a sudden, the atmosphere of the castle horror is there.

Both Flitwick and McGonagall felt that the atmosphere was a bit permeable, and they subconsciously moved a little closer.

After extinguishing the candles, Tom pointed the wand at the ceiling. What was originally a vast sea of ​​stars quickly turned into dark clouds under his control.

The dark clouds were rolling, there was a faint flash of lightning inside, and there were gusts of wind coming from the ceiling. A bolt of lightning flashed across, and both Flitwick and Professor McGonagall were startled: one of the dark clouds turned out to be a human face.

Seeing this suddenly in a dark environment is a challenge to the heart.

But Professor McGonagall frowned: That face looked familiar just now, why did it look a bit like... She squinted her eyes and looked at the ceiling carefully. Another bolt of lightning flashed across, and Professor Snape's gloomy face appeared in her pupils.

Professor McGonagall: っД)っ

This was not over yet. Snape's mouth suddenly opened, and three pythons crawled out of his mouth and eyes. Seeing this scene, Professor McGonagall couldn't hold back. She couldn't help laughing and said to Tom: "Loha" Professor Special, Severus is also the professor and dean of Hogwarts, please don't hang his... uh... head on the ceiling."

You were obviously smiling and never stopped, looking very happy! Tom groaned inwardly, but he still dismissed the Snape-shaped dark cloud.

"Professor McGonagall, do you really not want to think about it? I think this idea is quite good."

Professor McGonagall used a lot of willpower to control herself. Instead of following her inner choice, she firmly rejected the proposal.

However, this still inspired her a lot, and she decided to add face-shaped dark clouds to the dark clouds, so that the students would be shocked when they first saw it. However, their theme is a Halloween party, not a haunted house, so this dark cloud will transform into a lion, snake, badger, and raven after the students arrive, allowing these animals to swim on the ceiling.

"There's also fog!" Tom suddenly thought of the key, "It's best if the auditorium is shrouded in fog, so the atmosphere will be better..."

The three of them just started talking about it. Decorating the auditorium was a chore. The other professors were too lazy to get involved and allowed Professor McGonagall to do whatever he wanted. Therefore, Professor McGonagall didn't ask for advice from other professors. Opinion.

When the discussion was almost over, Hagrid also walked in carrying several large boxes, which were filled with decorations for the Halloween party.

"Excuse me, Rubeus." Professor McGonagall asked Hagrid to put things in his office, and finally completed tomorrow's task assignment. Tom was responsible for the decoration of the auditorium, while Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were responsible for the castle. other parts.

Tom's mission also changed:

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 3) Task Description: Wait until 18:00 tomorrow night to decorate the auditorium for Professor McGonagall]

After the tasks were assigned, Professor Flitwick also found an opportunity and said to Tom and the others: "Now that everyone is done, why not go to my place and play a few games of wizard chess? It took me more than a month to develop the new gameplay. .”

Professor Flitwick's eyes lit up when he talked about his new game.

Professor McGonagall frowned, and she recalled some unpleasant experiences. Hagrid raised his hand as big as a cattail leaf and scratched his hair, "I still have to patrol the Forbidden Forest - it has rained a lot recently, and the surface of the Black Lake is If it goes up, I’m worried that some of the things in the lake will end up in the Forbidden Forest.”

Professor Flitwick nodded, "Okay, this game can be played by three people. This time I designed the game so that multiple people can play together."

Hearing this, Professor McGonagall thought slightly: If it were a multiplayer game...

She turned her gaze to Lockhart, and found that Lockhart was also looking at her. Their eyes immediately touched, but they reached a consensus.

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 4) Content: Total War - The Witcher Begins

Content description: Professor Flitwick has developed a new way to play wizard chess, come and try it!

Mission Objective (1): Help Professor Flitwick design a map

Mission goal (2): Complete a game on the map you designed

Mission goal (3): Win a round

Mission Reward: Professor Flitwick’s Charms Learning Experience]

"Since it is your brainchild, Professor, we must go play it," Tom glanced at Professor McGonagall, "I am very interested in a game that takes you a month to develop."

Professor McGonagall also agreed, so the three of them left Professor McGonagall's office and followed Professor Flitwick to his...

"Game room?" Professor McGonagall was shocked. She thought Flitwick would take them to his office and take out the new wizard chess, but he actually wanted to go to his "game room"? Since it involves a game room, it means that the scale of Professor Flitwick's new game is very large...

"That's right, the corridor where Professor Dumbledore used to store the Sorcerer's Stone has been idle last year, so I used it to decorate my new game." Professor Flitwick said happily, "I used a lot of it this time. It's a difficult spell, Minerva, Gilrod, it's definitely worth it for you to experience it once."

Professor McGonagall also thought about it. During these days, Professor Flitwick often came to him and asked him to help him make some difficult transformations. If a wizard chess had both of them put their efforts into it, then maybe it would be real. Quite fun.

Professor Flitwick is not an Internet-addicted teenager addicted to games, but is addicted to various applications of magic. At first, he just wanted to change wizard chess into a three-player version - no one in Hogwarts could beat him one-on-one, so he wanted to make it more difficult for himself: It's not fun to play one at a time, I want to play two!

Later I discovered that I had already switched to a multiplayer game, so why stick to three people? However, the disadvantage of multiplayer games is that sometimes there are not enough people, so Professor Flitwick casts a spell on the chess pieces so that they can make their own decisions to replace the vacant players.

When all of this came true, Professor Flitwick discovered: Yeah? This map seems a bit small!

Step by step, the game became bigger and bigger, and more and more weird gameplays were added. It was originally scheduled to be released at the end of September, and I asked Professor Lockhart and McGonagall to try it out. However, the game was delayed again and again, and it was forced to start in September. The end of the month has been delayed until now.

The three of them walked to the fourth floor and when passing the library, the door of the library was suddenly pushed open, and a little brown-haired witch walked out holding a stack of books.

"Hermione...Miss Granger, you are still reading in the library so late?" Tom almost said the wrong thing, but luckily he corrected it in time.

"Ah, Professor Lockhart, Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall," Hermione hurriedly bowed to the two professors, dropping a book on the ground in her panic.

Tom picked up the book for her, glanced at it, and found that it was a reference book for writing the Boggart paper. "It's rare to see such a hard-working child. Someone actually visited the library today," he said. Carrying the two professors behind his back, he winked at Hermione and said, "Ten points to Ravenclaw! For your tireless pursuit of knowledge."

"Professor..." Hermione lowered her head, extremely nervous: If Professor McGonagall found out, there would definitely be a big problem!

Fortunately, Professor McGonagall didn't notice anything unusual except that she felt that the extra points were a bit too much, while Professor Flitwick happily watched Lockhart add points to his own college - if he hadn't given them to Ravenclaw himself. It would be unseemly to give extra points, and he had already given them to Miss Granger. He is not like a certain dean who abused his power to deduct and add points.

"Miss Granger, please pay attention to the balance between work and rest," Flitwick said, the more he looked at Hermione, the more he liked her, and he thought that she had also contributed to the design of this game, although this contribution was almost negligible. But he still said: "Come with us and play a few games of wizard chess."

Hermione:?

In this way, Hermione joined Flitwick's "Wizard Chess Team" and became the fourth player.

When they pushed open the door of the abandoned corridor on the fourth floor, everyone was shocked by the changes inside: the smelly three-headed dog Luwei was gone, and the damp and cold ground and mottled and dilapidated walls had also been cleaned up. New: The original floors and walls were too dirty and dilapidated, so Professor Flitwick directly laid a new floor on the old floor and laid a new layer of bricks on the old walls to give the corridor a completely new look.

Thinking about it carefully, from Hagrid's point of view, Lu Wei is really a good boy, so he dutifully protects the magic stone in such a dirty and cramped little room. Modern people have mobile phones and takeaways, and they can't bear to stay in a house with bright and clean windows for a month. It can be said that this three-headed dog can stay peacefully for a year without anything.

Both sides of the corridor were brightly lit by countless candles and torches, completely showing the brand new corridor to Tom and the others: there were several chairs placed about five meters away from the door, and a huge picture was posted on the walls on both sides. The parchment was so huge that Tom thought it would be more appropriate to call it vellum or elephant vellum. There is no doubt that this huge five-meter-long parchment is sewn together from multiple pieces of sheepskin. Professor Flitwick must have used magic, because there are no traces of stitching on the edges of these sheepskins.

Five meters away from the door is a huge sand table that reaches to the end of the corridor, with mountains, deserts, plains and grasslands, and nearly a hundred small cities.

Tom, McGonagall, Hermione: Damn!

That's outrageous! They thought Professor Flitwick had just enlarged the chessboard a little, but they didn't expect that he had enlarged it so much and made it so beautifully! The difference between what they had in mind and what Flitwick made was almost the same as the difference between a text adventure game and an open world game.

Professor Flitwick tapped the parchment on the left with his wand. The parchment lit up instantly, displaying the map model on the sand table.

Because of the terrain of the corridor, the entire map is a rectangle. The upper part is grassland and snowfield. Below the grassland is a fertile plain. There is also a herringbone river on the plain. There are several mountains interspersed between the broad plains. Below is an oval ocean. The upper half of the sea is land with a temperate climate, while the lower half is desert terrain. There are several oases dotted in the desert along the rivers and coasts. There is an island in the upper left corner of the map. In addition, there are many details on the map, such as swamps, lakes, basins, etc.

Tom: This map looks familiar!

Isn't this an abstract map of Europe? Balkan Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula, Iberian Peninsula, Asia Minor, Britain, sandwiched between them is the Mediterranean Sea, right? Below the Mediterranean Sea lies North Africa: the Sahara Desert plus Egypt. France, Spain, and Germany are very restored. Even Northern Europe and Russia are all abstracted into a grassland and snowfield. The Black Sea between Asia Minor and Russia has also shrunk a lot...

"This is a map I made myself. If you have any other ideas, you can erase the map and change the terrain." Professor Flitwick looked at his hard work and felt at ease. He turned his eyes from his two colleagues I crossed over to see if they had any good ideas.

"It would be even better if you could come up with a script!" he added.

Tom was stunned by Professor Flitwick's creativity: he could actually edit the map at will? ! After knowing the news, Tom suddenly came up with an idea. So he boldly took out an Eastern historical script and told it to everyone present.

"The collapse of the empire, two rebel armies, the remnants of the empire, the restoration forces of the previous empire, the northern barbarians...sounds interesting!" Professor Flitwick pushed Tom to the map, "Here, put your hand on the map, Just silently imagine what it looks like in your mind.”

Tom did as he was told, placing his hand on the map and imagining it in his mind.

The scene on the map changed rapidly. The sea was moved to the far right, the desert was placed in the upper left corner, the position of the grassland remained unchanged and was at the top, but the snowfield was moved to the upper right corner. The plain in the middle is sandwiched by two large rivers, with several mountains added to it. The land below the plains is more hilly and more forested above.

Tom took a map of ancient China to use, and the era he chose was the last years of the New Dynasty, green forests and red eyebrows, and the dying background of the New Dynasty.

After the map was finalized, the sand table also began to change, becoming what Tom had designed.

Then he began to divide the map into regions. Under his division, the entire map was divided into thirteen regions, each with a certain number of cities. The large area can be divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower according to the degree of wealth. The upper level area has nine cities, the middle level six, and the lower level three.

Sili, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou, Liangzhou, Yizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou are the names given by Tom to the thirteen regions. As for power, Tom has drawn nine divisions. Powers: Mangxin, Green Forest, Red Eyebrow, Chengjia, Xiliang, Northern Barbarians, Liang Wang, Southern Barbarians and Baiyue.

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 4) Mission Objective (1) Completed]

"It's done, come and take a look?" After the division, looking at the brand new map, Tom felt that the game could start. Hermione and the other three walked to the map and looked at it seriously. They understand that the geographical location at the start of the game is very important, so they all want to choose a good terrain.

But this map was too unfamiliar to them, and all three of them were in a state of darkness.

"Girold, you choose first." Professor Flitwick finally gave up thinking and chose to let Tom go first. Tom chose Chengjia in Yizhou without even thinking about it - the terrain of this area is excellent, and the main body is a basin surrounded by high mountains. It can be advanced, attacked, retreated or defended. Choosing it can easily avoid being hit by a wave of waves at the beginning. The embarrassing situation brought to the audience is the only upper-class district in the south, with a total of nine cities.

Hermione thought about it and chose Xiliang, which was closest to Tom, along with the desert, and almost took away a third of the map at once. Professor Flitwick subconsciously avoided Sili, who was already in the fourth battle. In Guanzhong, they chose Qingzhou Red Eyebrow in the corner of the map. Professor McGonagall followed suit and chose Yangzhou Baiyue in the lower right corner of the map.

The game begins.

The data of personal power all appeared on the parchment on the right. Tom saw the tax rate, population, money, minerals, food and various materials of each city. There were also special units in different regions, and even the public sentiment index, Policy and technology trees!

"Professor Flitwick brought a lot of things up there!" Tom sighed from the bottom of his heart. After the start, he did nothing and directly implemented the policy of locking down the country. The infrastructure was full and he wanted to cut off all roads to the outside world. He set up checkpoints on key roads. Next, he did nothing but concentrated on fighting the southern barbarians and farming, and conveniently sent a covenant application to Hermione in the north.

After Hermione became familiar with the interface, she was about to show off her talents, but Tom's saucy operation made her look stupid: can it be like this? First shrink into a turtle and wait for the opportunity?

However, she soon discovered that she could not replicate this at all, because her land was too barren and the cost-effectiveness of farming was too low. It seemed that she could only do grazing. However, she observed it and found that she had two advantages. First, her external environment was good. Tom's Yizhou Chengjia in the south was an ally; she was the most powerful political power in the west; Mangxin in the Sili Pass in the east was the most powerful. The forces of the six states, which have a friendly relationship with themselves, are busy dealing with the attacks of Green Forest and Red Eyebrows, and have not dealt with their own thoughts; the only enemies are the barbarians in the north, who are also in disarray.

Hermione recruited the army within her own territory and actually recruited 6,000 cavalry. Then she swept away the barbarians and brought back many horses, cattle and sheep: horses are the synthetic material of cavalry, cattle can increase food production, and sheep are food. , can increase public support.

Hermione first enriched her own power, and then sold the remaining supplies to Tom's Yizhou. As a result, an extremely strange situation formed: Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were attacking cities everywhere, and Tom and Hermione were trading across borders...

Of course, Tom is not completely unmotivated. He is still seriously beating Nanman.

The situation changed very quickly. Green Forest and Red Eyebrow soon overthrew Mang Xin. Hermione was not idle either and joined forces with Tom to carve up Sili and Bingzhou. The new forces were eliminated first, followed closely by the southern barbarians, and the northern barbarians were also beaten to death by Hermione.

At this time, Tom's power reached its peak, and he marched eastward along the Yangtze River with all his troops. Tom led a total of 80,000 troops to fight for Jingzhou with Professor Flitwick's red-browed forces that had swept across Qing, Xu, and Henan states. Professor Flitwick only has 60,000 people, but he has come all the way from afar and has gone through several battles. As the saying goes, "A strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu Zhen at the end of the battle." 80,000 against 60,000, the advantage is...

Tom was beaten to death.

If it weren't for the battle between Green Forest and Red Eyebrow, and Hermione sending support, Tom would have been sent to the audience.

However, Tom was completely defeated this time. His Yizhou had a total of 800,000 people, and 80,000 young men were suddenly gone, basically saying goodbye to this game.

The problem is not big. In this game, you can unify the world by yourself, or you can unify the world with your own camp. Tom watched as Hermione took advantage of Professor Flitwick's violent attack on Greenwood to occupy all the border states, and then went south to catch up with the decisive battle between Redbrowed and Greenwood. She drove the tigers and devoured wolves, helped Greenwood eliminate Redbrowed, and then turned back. Solve the green forest, unify the Central Plains, and achieve victory in the game.

As for Professor McGonagall, she was fighting in the southern rainforest from beginning to end, trying to unify Jiaozhou and Yangzhou...

Until the end, she joined the Tang-He alliance and won directly.

After a game, Hermione is responsible for fighting, Professor Flitwick is responsible for fighting NPCs, Tom is responsible for transporting supplies to the enemy and ourselves, and Professor McGonagall is responsible for edge OB...

But everyone just had fun.

[Anniversary Celebration (Act 4) Mission Objectives (2) and (3) Completed]

It will be updated on the 7th. I’m really looking forward to it. I don’t know how many words I can code.