The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Hermione wanted to start working right then and there, but Tom stopped her. If you don't miss this little time, you can go back to the library and find some time to sort it out.

"Let's play cards, maybe wizard chess." Tom felt that if Hermione didn't come, it would be okay to work for a while, but with Hermione here, it would be too boring to revise Lockhart's books. He opened the drawer, revealing a deck of cards and a box of exquisite wizard chess.

Hermione sighed, "These are the only games that the wizarding world has been playing over and over again. To be honest, I'm tired of them all."

What Hermione said was true. A game like Wizard's Chess is just for the novelty at the beginning. Once you get used to the moving and noisy chess pieces, this game is nothing more than a layer of chess. It's just magic skin.

Just want to make money by covering it with magic skin? Okay, Muggles really pay for magic, but Tom and Hermione are wizards!

They already live in the magical world, so after playing Wizard Chess a few times, they don't really buy it. The game mode of Wizard Chess is very monotonous, there is no card drawing, only players have offline PVP.

But when Tom looked at the chess pieces and chessboard on the table, he suddenly had an idea: He seemed to have an idea again! Now that they are tired of playing Wizard Chess, they can make their own new games!

He mentioned this idea to Hermione, and Hermione's eyes lit up: This is possible!

Tom turned over his wizard's chess set, and cleared all the chess pieces away as they yelled and cursed, leaving only one chessboard. Tom took out his wand and pointed it at the chessboard, and the chessboard slowly grew larger, eventually becoming about the same size as his desk.

Then, he began to deform the enlarged chessboard, turning the middle of the chessboard into a flat land, and the four corners around it transformed into a round hill.

At this time, the black and white chess pieces also struggled to stand up. They returned to their respective teams and stood opposite each other clearly. These chess pieces are high-end goods left behind by Lockhart. Each chess piece is like a small figure, vivid and lifelike, the weapons are shining with cold light, and every piece of carapace on the armor is clearly visible, as if they are real knights and guards. Tom looked at the chess pieces and murmured to himself: "There are still some missing pieces. Hermione, can you do the copying spell?"

Hermione shook her head. This kind of complicated spell was beyond the reach of a second-year wizard. However, although Hermione couldn't copy the spell, she was good at transfiguration. She transformed the chessboard into patches of grass, making the entire chessboard look green and no longer bare.

"Then I'll go find Professor Flitwick." Tom immediately took out a box from under the table and stuffed the chess pieces into it. After turning into Lockhart, Tom quickly ran out of the office and headed to the eighth floor of the castle. Met Professor Flitwick.

"Professor Flitwick, I have something to trouble you with." Tom knocked on the door and shared his needs with Professor Flitwick.

"Oh? I can use the copying spell, but why do you use such a complicated spell on a group of ordinary chess pieces?"

Tom shared his thoughts with Professor Flitwick. After learning about Tom's idea, Flitwick's interest was also ignited: This seems to be more interesting than simple wizard chess?

So he readily agreed and put a duplication spell on each chess piece. Now these chess pieces placed in the box will be copied into two as long as they are touched.

The copy spell is a spell that Gringotts uses a lot. Goblins will cast copying spells on the treasures in some ancient vaults, so that these treasures will immediately start to be copied "infinitely" after being touched. When thieves encounter the original product, the original product will create a copy. Once this copy is It can continue to copy even if it is touched. What is even more frightening is that the copy of the copy can also be copied...

This kind of growth is called exponential growth in mathematics, two to the Nth power. As for the number of N, it depends on whether the thief can copy the curse and his reaction speed. In theory, a cup only needs 9 copies to become 256 cups. This is still the simplest case: a cup will only touch one cup. If it touches a few more cups, the growth will be even faster.

This spell can suffocate the thief to death in the vault, and he will be crushed into a pulp by the infinitely copied treasure. And even if he manages to escape, there is a high probability that the item in his hand is a fake. The fakes copied by the copying spell will disappear after a while. Irish elves like to use copying spells to copy gold Galleons and give them to wizards to make them happy.

Of course, in order to avoid tragedy, Professor Flitwick also thoughtfully taught Tom how to undo the replication curse. The solution to the curse was much simpler than the original spell, and Tom mastered it quickly.

"Okay, if Professor Lockhart succeeds in improving the game, remember to let me play it once." Flitwick said with some anticipation before Tom left.

Tom returned to the office with the chess pieces.

He picked out the king - the king and queen of the black and white chess pieces did not cast a copying spell. He placed the black king on his side and the white queen handed it to Hermione.

Hermione used Transfiguration to turn the Queen into her own appearance, then took the King from Tom and turned the King into Tom's likeness. Immediately afterwards, they copied the knights, guards, and chariots among the chess pieces. As for the bishop, Tom has the idea of ​​​​carrying out magical reforms, but not today - there is not enough time.

Seeing the number of copied chess pieces increasing rapidly, Tom nodded with satisfaction and used a decryption spell on them to terminate the copying. At this time, the number of thumb-high Guards chess pieces exceeded a thousand, and there were hundreds of knights.

However, these copied chess pieces do not have as much spirituality as the original ones. They look very sluggish and only follow the commands subconsciously. The original chess pieces are placed inside, standing out from the crowd and looking much smarter.

Tom picked out some chess pieces and divided them evenly between the two of them. He and Hermione each had 900 pawns, 200 knights, and 50 chariots. The chess pieces looked like many, but in fact they were not many when standing together. .

Nine hundred pawns, each only one centimeter long and wide, standing in a square formation is nothing more than a 30 cm × 30 cm square formation. Compared with a chessboard the size of a desk, it occupies less than one-twentieth of the area. .

The number is just right for one original Guards chess piece to lead a hundred duplicate chess pieces, and the extra hundred are given to the king and queen. The same goes for the knights. One original knight leads one hundred duplicate knights. As for the chariot, That's one car with 24 cars.

Once the pieces are assigned, Tom and Hermione can play a more realistic strategy game.

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