Harry Potter: The Ring Maker

Chapter 467: Before the break

Time passed by again after that as two weeks came and went with a few things happening during that time. The first was that there were three more matches between the four blitzball teams in Hogwarts with the Krakens currently being undefeated. This had made an interesting dynamic in which the members of the different Hogwarts houses had mutual fandom for the same Hogwarts teams. Dumbledore was in a great mood as a result since the interactions between houses lightened up considerably. Nick didn't have a favorite team or anything but made time to watch any games being held to relax.-

The second thing was that Nick had conducted the rituals he had found in Slytherins library to improve his power base. The ritual of expansion reduced the size of Nicks magical core but made it produce denser and higher quality mana despite putting him back at the start of the third tier again. The ritual of clarity on the other hand expanded his magical circuits and strengthened them so he could use even more powerful magic without straining them from the sheer quantity of mana in them. So despite getting sent back to the start of tier three Nick was more powerful than ever now.-

There was a slight problem that he hadn't accounted for when doing these rituals that almost exposed his elven nature. After the ritual of clarity was completed Nicks presence grew greatly and even while he was restraining it with the item he had made previously for that a small amount leaked out earning him confused looks from those that got within a certain distance of him. He was forced to destroy the previous item and create a new more powerful version that got it under control while he passed it off as the side effect of an experiment before.-

The third thing was that he had gotten far enough into the daedric book to start binding his essence to the realm. He didn't however because being ABLE to start the process didn't mean he SHOULD start the process. Nick was cautious enough to know better than to be hasty in making this decision as one wrong move and he ceases to exist. Still he was excited at finally reaching the starting point for this in terms of knowledge. Once he successfully became a realm lord he could start thinking about the next logical step after that , reaching for divinity.-

After all Nick assumed that by the time he completed the process of becoming a realm lord he will already be tier four or depending on Grindelwald tier five. The final thing Nick did was hand out all the christmas gifts he needed to for his friends early since he didn't intend to spend very long on the holiday. The gifts weren't very inspired or extravagant like his usual ones but served his purpose and freed him from any obligations involving the holiday. Beyond these things Nick mostly focused on honing his use of the celestial birds abilities when he was transformed.-

Weather manipulation was still a huge mana hog of an ability but at least while he was transformed it came more naturally to him. Elemental teleportation was by far his favorite however as unlike apparition there was no distance limit he needed to overcome. Thanks to this fact he had been able to teleport all the way the France in a single go. Beauxbatons specifically as he appeared in an awkward fashion on the school grounds during a flying lesson ironically enough.-

There was a rather large commotion as the students and teacher of the class retaliated in alarm thinking he meant them harm. In truth Nick had merely chosen that spot because it was where he was during the pageant and had forgotten to take the other uses for it the school may have had. He flew away from the school while under heavy attack by a bunch of first years and a teacher but he at least learned where the school was located now. Much like Hogwarts the French school was also located in the country side far from any large muggle establishments.-

The closest thing to the school unlike Hogwarts however was a winery and vineyard that was covered in snow at the moment. Nick memorized his location in the sky before vanishing in a burst of electricity as he returned to Hogwarts. Meanwhile back at Beauxbatons Madam Maxime was speaking with the teacher for the flying class about his appearance. Once he had left and things had begun to calm down the teacher had started to notice things that they had overlooked in the heat of the moment. One such thing was that he looked as surprised to see them as they were to see him which Madam Maxime thought pointed to an accidental teleportation on his part since there are reports of young phoenixes doing so as well.