How does one create the [Shift] Spell?

  If you asked a senior of the academy they would ahat it was a tedious process of meditation and building er node. Sometimes they would tell you how they spent the weekeating and building the perfect set of nodes, only for it to colpse on its ow.

  If you asked a teacher they would say that simplicity was best and to not worry about security nodes on the school premises.

  If you asked the Legendary Stardust Explorer? She would tell you that she just went with feelings.

  If you asked Elizabeth Starbright? She would tell you plenty of things, none of them would be the truth, sihe truth was weirder than fi.

  Who would believe that she build her [Shift] in a Photo booth, no sorry, in a [Photo Booth] that asked her to install a dubious app on her cellphone.

  That somehow was inside her soulscape, to then go into a PC booth and plug it in to allow the patibility from the cellphoo the [Spellfe] app.

  So she could finally build her [Security SpellNodes].

  For ohe same Elizabeth Starbright wouldn't believe it, but she had no option but to believe.

  Since she was doing just that.

  "At least I didn't o install some weird update..." Mumbled the blonde girl after watg the progress bar finish.

  "I updated it today just in case" Answered the little girl that was the librarian of this pce.

  Alexa.

  Another weird thing about this whole situation, she still didn't know why her soulscape had other people inside.

  "It looks like it's ready Eli-Eli" but they both were somewhat useful so she didn't mind them.

  Not that she feared the blonde asshole that somehow could shouns] from his hands... Nor she feared the mysterious little girl that kept getting food and dy from god knows where.

  No sir.

  "Let's see if the repository now has those security spells..." She wasn't ging the train of thought either.

  She did e here to build the [Shift] after all.

  "Ah? They look...Different?" Came the voice surprised of the blonde girl.

  The security spells she had studied were there. But now she could uand them better.

  More like she uood what they did, she still couldn't read how they did it though. She just had a better uanding of them.

  "But how...?" Asked herself Elizabeth.

  "Oh, that...Hmmm..." Wohe little girl too, before putting both hands oemples and fog on something.

  For now, the blonde girl started moving the Nodes around, till they all shuffled themselves around and now they had shorter descriptions of their effects.

  "There it is. I asked [Brother] to fix the [?????????????????????d???????????????Σ??????????????????????????a??????????????????] ohey should work better now." Said the little girl who then started eating a popsicle.

  Where does that food e from?

  "Wait what? The what?" Came the fused voice of the blonde girl.

  "hmm...Sorry Eli-Eli, I don't think I simplify that one further, not unless I pay something to [The Librarian] as brother did." Said the little girl somewhat downcasted.

  "It would be easier if you could pi the clues..." Mumbled at the end the little girl before standing from her chair and running off.

  Something weird was going around...And she had been given clues?

  Maybe she should pay more attention?

  She didn't remember anything weird going on besides the stuff that went on in her soulscape though...

  For now, she would finish her [Shift] spell though.

  "So... The closer the [Node] is to [Shadows] the more I shove in..." said to herself the blonde girl.

  She could use the shadows to hide her transformation...

  Most of the [Shift] examples she found used some type of element to hide the body while the magick did her things and ged it.

  Theories were going around about how the body was ged, some said the real body got shoved into the soulscape. Some said the inal body of all the magical girls was destroyed on the awakening and they were using ed bodies made of mana.

  She...Didn't care about that.

  That was of course because of Mother's teags, acc to her most of her body was healed or repced with magick at some point. So nothing of her inal body remained after some point.

  Between magical healing and magical modifications...Yeah, one would be hard-pressed to find a fully natural magical girl around.

  And that didn't take into sideration the ohat used heavy body modifications...

  And we aren't talking about alterations to the form. So many magical girls gave themselves...Extra Attributes.

  To create...Better Plot.... for their Shows...

  They increased their booba.

  There.

  And after you went into the pstic surgery magick...Well, it was harder to keep something natural.

  She herself didn't want to go that way (Yet) that was the reason she didn't tamper with her body besides nails and hair.

  And the eyes.

  But she khat at some point she would.

  Not that her body was normal after she started moving status points around.

  But she was digressing!

  Security!

  "First...izance distortion." She moved the first node in.

  She would make it so her [shift] create shadows around herself that ged into her body to hide her. These would in turn stick to shadows around and ihe people that saw her transformation.

  Severing the e between her magical girl self with the civilian self. They wouldn't see the e and so would stay non the wiser about it.

  It was a standard security node. So it was easy enough to do. Her [Shadin] would make it easier tate to ahat saw the shadows in her body and so it would work through the surveilnce.

  Since most if not all of it had some degree of affinity to magick it would work wonders on the security system.

  It was defended against most normal affinities (Si could be abused by vilins too) but since hers ecial it should work. She would ask her mother about it ter.

  came the obvious one.

  "Sed...Skirt ents..." That one would protect her dignity.

  If someoried to see below her skirt they would only see darkness. She amped the shadow part (Si was cheaper this way) and dialed down the darkness and void part (Sihat was the thing that made it expensive).

  The effect would be the same for a fra of the cost, and since her shadows were solid (Or in this case would be solid). No one would be able to grope nor see anything that she didn't want to be seen!

  It erfect!

  She added some extra details so it would work on her chest since her sailor shirt was kinda thin, it would make the fabric harder to peer through. Sihey would only find darkness (shadows) behind or below it.

  Now here is where it became harder. She had the basie now were the plex one.

  "Hmm...Disi..." She picked oo allow her to turn the effects of the first one on and off (The sed would always stay on) oed people.

  So if she wanted someoo see her and know it was her, this would allow a whitelist to pass through it.

  Not many people would be on it though, besides mother & father (Not that she expected the first oo work on them).

  After that...Not many good ideas came.

  "Reinfort?" A good one as any at this point. Reinf the fabric of the clothes so they would be closer to armor.

  It required a base material to work, so she would need some fabric to use this node on first, maybe one of those body armors father wanted her to use?

  Oh...

  That gave her a good idea for ter!

  For now !

  "[Redistributed damage] is a good ohis one would reroute the damage of the clothing to other parts, she would prioritize the damage oain areas and keep it away from others.

  It would not e the damage, it would not protect areas beyond their normal threshold.

  The clothes of the shift were special in the case that even with a part of the body exposed that part still had a degree of prote sihe clothes were magical.

  So it didn't matter how tattered one was, they would still hold a degree of prote. So long they had part of the outfit.

  The outfit as a whole only served as a kind of meter of how much armor you had left. The less of your outfit you had, the less prote you held.

  So what this entment node did wasn't that useful.

  But it was still among the more popur ones.

  Why you ask?

  Well, ask oreets to any girl you met, if you could choose art of your clothes got destroyed st, what would you choose?

  So of course, Elizabeth Starbright was among the many that choose to prioritize her dignity and made sure that her choices would protect her chest and crotch area. That was the part of the outfit that would stay longer without beiroyed.

  She could use the alternate entment [Armor Reinfort] that made the clothes less durable but made each part more sturdy.

  But that wasn't patible with [Redistribute Damage] and that one was only used by males anyway.

  They didn't care what they showed after all.

  The brutes.

  Now she was closing to an end, not many good choices were left.

  Or not many that she could expin how she mao get in since most only mao get one node in the first shift.

  "Hide is the obvious o" so she would prepare her excuses, this one would allow her to hide the nodes in shadows away fr eyes. Si was of the [Shadow] affinity, it was like a ring made for her.

  "And the On/Off o finish it all." And like that, she ended with the hat allowed her to turn other nodes off.

  She his one for several reasons. First, if she ever found herself with other [Magic User] with more mastery over shadows thahey could peek through her [Hide] node.

  The On/Off one was useful because it turned off the mana to the nodes so they didn't show in most ss.

  If they could peek through that she was screwd anyway so no security would help at that point.

  This allowed her to sidestep more dedicated sers that would look for mana used on the spell.

  And finally, she kinda wa to turn it off and on to annoy people that could feel how many here were on someone.

  Turn off her hide node, scare someohen turn it on to pretend nothing happened.

  It would be a fun way to spend time.

  "And that is that export, debug and execute!" Said the blonde girl finishing her first [Shadow Shift].

  She still had other slots ohing, so maybe another day she would follow her mother's example and pick a few iing hairstyles to use in her free time.

  o a step beyond and try to use it as a wardrobe?

  She still hadn't checked that [Iory] skill, so maybe search for some way to ie it into the Shift skill?

  The description sounded like it ossible for iioween the skills.

  But that was stuff for another day since for now she was leaving the soulscape.

  Too much time ent in here already.

  And sihe time wasn't dited here, it was burning iime too!

  "I will leave for today Alex," said the blonde girl looking for the little girl.

  She found her drawing on one of the notebooks oables. So they were hers?

  "Kay~~" answered the little girl without a care in the world.

  "See you ter..." Said the blonde while walking to see what she was drawing, she found a picture of that meadow where she awoke the first time, and then the world turned bnk.

  She was again in the meditation chamber.

  Only the pink-haired girl was sleeping ohighs.

  At least she didn't transform into the new magical girl outfit.

  That would have been embarrassing if the outside world saw all the modifications.

  Because she hadn't...

  Right?

  RIGHT?

  .....................She wouldn't ask the pink-haired girl for answers, she would just stare at her to see how she ged while editing her [Shift] spell...

  Yes. She would do that.

  *Stare*