The assembled girls nodded with renewed determination, eyes burning with genuine fighting spirit.
Among the four major competing schools, Beauxbatons had consistently carried the unfortunate stigma of being perceived as the weakest delegation.
These students had faced persistent skepticism and doubt from the very start, their personal pride systematically buried beneath the crushing weight of external expectations.
Now, they desperately needed to prove themselves—to show everyone that while their raw individual power might not rival the other schools, they remained worthy warriors in this championship.
Fleur led them confidently out of the concealing trees.
When she observed the expressions on Sunny Finch and Charlotte's faces, her heart skipped an uncertain beat. Something feels off.
"Were you bluffing me just now?" Fleur demanded with obvious suspicion.
Charlotte nodded without hesitation. "I was just shouting to deliberately draw you out into the open. We all possess devices capable of detecting general locations, so I correctly guessed you had similar equipment. I took a calculated gamble."
Fleur froze with dawning realization. She had walked directly into their transparent trap.
She shook her head with resignation. It doesn't matter now. If circumstances had developed to this point, they would fight properly regardless.
Although Hogwarts and Kunlun still retained a golden card in reserve, Beauxbatons possessed one as well—and if used correctly at the perfect moment, it could decide the ultimate outcome.
Unlike Durmstrang's primarily functional card, theirs was specifically tactical in nature. She just needed the absolutely perfect deployment moment.
Fleur, Sunny Finch, and Charlotte faced off in tense triangular formation, flanked by their respective house representatives.
The scene felt distinctly familiar—precisely like the earlier clash with Durmstrang's delegation.
The critical difference was that Durmstrang had already been eliminated completely; this war was just beginning in earnest.
Without any warning or preamble, absolute chaos erupted across the clearing.
The house representatives immediately scattered, taking tactical cover behind trees and available rocks, efficiently deploying their accumulated items.
The three leaders clashed directly in sustained combat.
As the intense fight raged on with increasing violence, Sunny Finch and Charlotte both realized with growing shock that Fleur's arsenal was considerably more extensive than theirs.
She was successfully overpowering them both simultaneously single-handedly with remarkable tactical efficiency.
The assembled spectators roared with genuine approval at the unexpected display.
"Incredible! The Beauxbatons girls have been systematically hoarding items this entire time!"
"It appears Great Britain and Hogwarts are teaming up against them, yet they're actually holding their ground successfully!"
"I honestly thought the ultimate winner would be between Hogwarts or Kunlun exclusively, but now the tide has turned dramatically!"
In the Headmaster's administrative office, Olympe Maxime watched the screen with visible emotion, her heart simultaneously swelling with tremendous pride and aching with maternal concern.
She knew exactly what these dedicated girls had sacrificed to reach this point—enduring multiple days of genuine hardship within the Forbidden Forest's demanding environment.
She had witnessed their suffering and determination firsthand.
All three competing sides were systematically burning through their accumulated items with alarming rapidity.
Sunny Finch and Charlotte both frowned with growing tactical concern. This isn't sustainable.
Judging by Beauxbatons' demonstrated reserves, they might genuinely still possess items remaining when both Kunlun and Hogwarts ran completely dry.
They both locked meaningful eyes with their respective golden card holders: Cedric for Hogwarts, and the strongest student positioned beside Sunny Finch for Kunlun.
Receiving the silent signal clearly, they nodded understanding and slammed their golden cards simultaneously into the ground to activate their effects.
Fleur sensed their tactical intent essentially instantly. "Retreat NOW!" she commanded urgently.
The Beauxbatons girls pulled back in absolutely perfect unison, deliberately ignoring incoming attacks to put maximum distance between themselves and the developing blast zone.
The precise moment Cedric's card shattered completely, the ground beneath trembled with violent intensity.
Loose rubble systematically coalesced, stones grinding audibly against stone as ten massive golems formed dramatically from the accumulated debris.
Erwin had designed this particular effect based on ancient legends of scattering beans to summon soldiers combined with the mechanical principles of Hogwarts' famous moving staircases.
Advanced Transfiguration brought the assembled stones to genuine life, while movement charms steered them directly into coordinated battle.
The golems charged aggressively, targeting anyone outside Hogwarts' designated ranks.
Beauxbatons managed to successfully evade through superior positioning, but Kunlun took the devastating brunt of the assault.
Simultaneously, the Kunlun golden card disintegrated with dramatic flash.
A tremendous surge of concentrated magic flooded the immediate air as the card unleashed an overwhelming barrage of diverse spells in literally every direction—fifty different stunning hexes compressed into one single, absolutely chaotic attack wave.
The spell represented the combined result of joint effort by Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Erwin himself, but it fundamentally lacked any distinction between friend and hostile foe.
The Kunlun team had prepared appropriately. They activated defensive charms immediately with practiced coordination, though the Hogwarts side reacted approximately one critical second too late.
Several of them were caught directly in the devastating spellfire.
The dual golden cards reshaped the entire battlefield instantly.
Stone golems rampaged systematically through Kunlun's compromised lines, violently shattering previously effective formations.
As the first Kunlun student fell unconscious from accumulated damage, a significant gap tore open catastrophically in their defensive ranks.
By the time the last golem was finally neutralized through concentrated fire, Kunlun had lost five fighters completely.
Hogwarts fared similarly poorly. Only four remained essentially unscathed: Cedric, Penelope, Harry Potter (successfully shielded by Cedric's intervention), and Barton Durkheim.
While they didn't face the stone golems directly, the chaotic spell barrage from Kunlun's indiscriminate card had taken severe toll.
After the accumulated dust finally settled, only four Beauxbatons students remained standing, including Fleur.
The battlefield had been dramatically thinned in mere seconds.
The true endgame was now genuinely within sight.