Sword is equal to Wand, Chapter 33 (Patreon)

As much as I wanted to bury my Slytherin into Daphne's Hufflepuff, she was clearly not ready to go all the way beyond making out and being handsy.

So after said playing around, Daphne went back to training with her magical pathways/circuits/meridians. Whatever you could call them were all aligned to perfectly amplify her ability to cast her wind blade-based martial art.

But doing it this way was utterly and completely exhausting for her. So after barely ten minutes of training, she was all but passed out panting on the padded training floor and I had to help move her to an upright sitting position.

"Go... Go ahead; I will be fine and will lock the door as you leave, Jake. I will need to change as I am far too disheveled and sweaty to be seen walking around the castle." She said while breathing heavily.

I nodded in understanding, but I was holding in a wide grin that would have weirded out Daphne, as I couldn't exactly scream about how my internal library cheat inside of my soul had grown a Gold Page after enlightening Daphne.

After leaving the room, I decided to say fuck it and head down to the Lake. Because I was deep in thought and brooding over a dark lake filled with eldritch monsters and possible native hentai tentacle monsters was the perfect place to think about my future.

Because now, with this Golden Page I had a good number of things I could do with it right now... I could save it and use it as a weapon to kill someone with a giant ass book I could summon or otherwise seal them away in the page.

I could use it to refine a bloodline specifically. Which could be extremely useful if I got together with a Pureblood like Susan Bones and Cho Change especially as their bloodlines were all kinds of fucked due the rituals and such.

I also could use it to refine the bloodline of any spirit beast I formed a contract with as well! Which would make a major difference in the power of the equal contract between the two of us.

And lastly, I could use the Golden Page to just literally download a large chunk of refined knowledge from the books I had directly into my soul memory.

With the Golden Page being spent to also refine the knowledge and make sure that it is conceptually correct and the most efficient, if applicable.

If I was actually a cultivation teacher like the protagonist of The Library of Heaven's Path. I would probably go for the information download, honestly. Because in order to enlighten other's and gain MORE pages, I needed that assured, perfectly refined knowledge.

But I was still a first-year student after all... A first-year Freshblood who supposedly never touched magic before this year after all. So my peers, let alone my seniors, innately had a resistance towards my teachings.

"My biggest issue is the massive physical buff my seniors have after making a Spirit Beast Contract... And with Professor McGonagall helping me, I should have at least my first contract within the next couple of weeks probably." I muttered to myself.

Mermaids were innately very smart beings. Having human-level intelligence so they shoudn't try to pull McGonagall around like that damned snake elder did. Letting a couple of Gorgons bite me my ass!

As for that Chimera I saved in the Spirit Beast forest. It would also likely be heavily enhanced if I used the golden page on it as well. If I managed to drag up the divine blood of Apollo, it had very deep inside it anyway.

Staring off into the deep lake's reflective surface. I just dead ass ignored the moon reflected on its surface, smiling back at me with blood leaking from it's edges. 

Totally a completely normal thing I was sure.

But the totally not at all eldritch moon which was going to haunt my dream's tonight's attempt to make me float in the inky depths of the lake were oh so rudely interrupted as a sharp voice rang out.

"Huh! Has Greengrass not lived up to your expectations and you kicked her out or something, Freshblood?"

Looking over my shoulder, I saw Dorea Malfoy strutting over and without her goons in Crabbe and Goyle as well, surprisingly?

"And I can't help but wonder where Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum are? How are you walking without them carrying their princess on a flying carpet?" I retorted with some boredom.

Dorea's face pinched before she snorted and demanded sharply. "Ha... Ha! I am sure you think yourself so funny, Bariss... Well!? Where is that slut Greengrass? We all saw her run at your beckoning?" 

I gave Dorea a sharper look before I said, coolly. "I would be a bit more careful about what you say Dorea... As your ass can't cash the check, your mouth is running. As Daphne just reached the true Elemental Manifestation stage and will thrash you."

She wanted to snap back some witty retort, she clearly oh so wanted to curse at me with how her cheeks almost ballooned outwards. Hell, from the way she was gripping her wand, I could tell she actually wanted to literally curse me to boot.

But Dorea wasn't that stupid. She knew I could and would easily put her on her ass with how I could stand up to seniors who had their own Spirit Beast contract heavily enhancing their body.

And as for her... She wasn't wearing that full dragon scale robe she wore during the tournament to give herself potent magic resistance.

Something drew across her face before she folded her arms under her breasts and said quietly. "I... I also want you to teach me martial arts."

I gave Dorea a weird look and said with an actual smile as I took in the pouting cute blonde. "And WHY should I do that Dorea? Me and Daphne have a nice thing going on, I make her Queen of your year of Slytherin, she pays me off well, and not to mention I am good friends with Rosaria as well."

I shrugged and said helplessly. "That... Is just a major conflict with my current interests, you know?" 

Dorea stomped her foot before she shouted out. "Jake Bariss! What the hell is wrong with you! Why won't you just take my money like a normal person!"

I couldn't help it. "I think you mean your father's money." 

There was a heavy moment of silence as she just stared at me before her eye twitched and her hand snapped upwards with her wand shooting out a purple ray of light at me.

I coated my hand with my magic, and pimp slapped the low-level jinx she sent at me with the bolt of purple magic shooting off over my shoulder and, with an anticlimactic plop, hit the water behind me.

I just stared at Dorea who paused at seeing me slap aside her spell. And then I said with an amused smile. "Try that again, Dorea... Try that again, and I am going to put your ass over my knee, and I will give you some discipline." 

There was a brief moment as the pissed-off Dorea just glared at me. And then she snapped at me. "You woudn't dare!"

With some wind control, I floated up into the air while still lying backwards I merely tilted my head to the side to look down on Malfoy with the smuggest look before I exaggeratedly rolled my eyes.

Malfoy's grip on her wand visibly tightened before she slashed at me again with a large cutting curse being sent at me.

But in return I swiped my finger across the way sending a vibrant green wind blade to crash upon the cutting curse. Breaking past it and as Malfoy yelled out and tried to summon a shield charm to block the wind blade.

It just broke apart as it reached her, throwing her blond hair back behind her in a long blond trail as I effortlessly landed and with a quick step, I shot past Malfoy.

But in passing by Malfoy I struck a most grievous wound!

A loud crack rang out, with Malfoy shrieking as I slapped her surprisingly springy ass with an open palm.

"My father will hear about this!" Dorea cried as she covered her ass with a hand and ran off.

But I had to have the last word. "Tell your mother instead!"

Maybe her mother would help Dorea to not be such a fuck up and arrogant brat. 

With that little interlude dealt with, however. I looked back to the great lake and realized that I truly still was completely beyond my actual peers. So saving my Golden Page for now was probably the right move.

But with my brooding done, I also decided that getting snatched up from some underwater tentacle monster was also probably not in my best interest. So I went back to the castle to grab a snack in the Great Hall.

Entering the Great Hall, I saw my friends in Rosaria and Ginny who were eating a good way's away from Ron and Neville for some reason?

"So why you two avoiding Ron and Neville? Did Ron say something stupid again?" I asked in a joking tone.

Rosaria and Ginny shared a look before Ginny sighed with the exasperation of only a sister looking at her stupid brother's actions could have. "Look over there and tell me they look normal Jake."

Looking over at Ron and Neville I quickly noticed that both of their faces were extremely red for some reason. And that there were pots of soup or something in front of them.

"Are they alright?" I asked helplessly as both girls shook their heads with clear disdain in their eyes.

"Ron dared Neville to ask the House Elves to make the spiciest curry they could make after they were talking to the Patil twins... The House Elves were happy to oblige their request, it seems." Rosaria said with annoyance.

Rolling my eye's at the two dumbasses who were clearly dying internally due to whatever spices used in that curry. I refocused on the two cute red heads in front of me as I told them about how I had some minior conflict with Dorea.

Though I did leave out how I sent Dorea running away with a slap to the ass.

And while I ate a little bit of a snack, I also continued to do my homework before I was drawn out of some McGonagall's homework as Ginny spoke up. "Also Jake, apparently Hermione Granger will also be transferring into your combat class... Apparently she got into a nasty spat with some Hufflepuffs?"

I raised an eyebrow and said in confusion as I hadn't really been paying any attention to Hermione seeing as she got sorted into Ravenclaw actually. 

"How the hell did she get mixed up into a bad enough fight with the Hufflepuffs that she got moved to a different class?" 

Ginny snorted and said flatly. "Herbert Burke approached her curious about her dating status and was rather... Blunt about his desire to have her marry into his family to be a broodmare basically."

With Rosaria adding on. "Yeah, apparently the daft idiot didn't think that a Freshblood civilian would take an offer of an admittedly stupid amount of money to spread her legs as an insult."

I slowly dragged a hand across my face as I muttered some nonsense to myself before shaking my head. "Whatever, not my problem." I said, shaking my head as my combat classes were kinda a joke, besides when Hagrid himself would deign to throw hands with me and put me into the dirt.

Still, I was excited for tomorrow. One way or the other. Whether it be that mermaid or that Chimera, I was hoping to have my own spirit beast contract.

So that next time... When I fought the upper years in another tournament, I woudn't get my ass kicked this time!

"Jake, why do you got a bruise on your neck? Did Malfoy actually get you a little?" Ginny spoke as she pointed at my lower neck making me pause.

'Oh... Fuck, please let me BS my way out of this.' I thought as I cleared my throat and then almost choked as Rosaria said in clear disgust.

"Wait! Did Malfoy give you a hickey or something? Were you macking on that twat Malfoy!?"