She hadn't found anything of use from that meeting, besides finding out that Agatha seemed to be more helpful than she had thought, also less judgmental than she expected.

  After what happened in the schoolyard she half expected to want to murder the woman, but instead, she was quite...flicted by how she reacted. Not so much for the fact that she was judging her retionship with Rossie.

  But more because she seemed to think that Rossie was either abusing or f her into the retionship, was it that on?

  From the fact that the first one she had brought to attention was Akira, she imagi was indeed on, or on in her current year. Ahey did nothing?

  Why?

  What the hell was happening?

  She was aware that the student cil knew, as Evangeline asked her if her quest was the same as Akira and pany, and Selen actively wao do something. A... they didn't.

  Because as a [Hero] surely Akira had a mission from [The World], goddamned cultist not wanting to tamper with the powers to be.

  But then, why did the teachers do nothing?

  Perhaps...

  "[Give me a status report on Rossie and search for students with evidence of tampering in their Souls by hostile skills. Use my Eyes if needed just offload the information to the Royal Mages or something]." Elizabeth transmitted into her Shadow.

  The answer was both quid to the point, "[The sort has not experienced any difficulties on her Mission, we are currently offloading some of the mana needs of the sort to the royal mages that are free. We 't use the scout's service sihe sort is actively trying to find us... Do ermission to reveal ourselves?]" But it roblematic...somewhat.

  She didn't want Rossie to expose the [Minions] within her shadow sihey were meant to be a st defense. "[No, do not expose yourself unless needed. Not here at least, tinue monit.]" She ordered the Minion that answered.

  At least Rossie was safe, now what should she do... She was trying to not pay attention to the fact that the [Minion] hadn't actually told her what Rossie was doing. And a [Minion] helped her in that front as the report came to her.

  "[There is evidence of some mild tampering in some students around Mistress, mostly on females with a certain body type... The tampering in Males is minimal, only those that live with a female with a certain body type have evidence of tampering and even that is mostly minimal.]" So only a certain body type?

  "[What is the body type?]" Elizabeth asked the Royal Mage that had spoken to her.

  "[Body Type is:

  Gender: Female

  Age: Between 15-20

  Build: Slim.

  Proportions: 75-90, 50-70, 70-90

  Hair color: High amount of blonde and Pink-haired ones, low number of red, average number of green, blue, bck, silver.

  There is no strict corretion in the males affected besides having close ties to the females affected.]"

  The report was quite precise for something she just had ordered them, "[Did you have this ready? Also, what do proportions refer to?]" Elizabeth was doing her best to not focus o parts of the report.

  "[We marked Akira as a target of i after our Awakening, so we have been offloading work to the idle Scouts. The informatiistered in the library marked him as a dangerous individual, should we not iigate him? There were previous orders to monitor him from before our Awakening.]" The Royal Mage answered.

  ..."[Leave him marked as target of i]" Was the answer Elizabeth gave, "[Also introduce monit to those around Akira ahe scouts that are resting to rest.]"

  For now, she would use the information and not pin, "[As for the proportions they refer to Breast, waist, and hips. Most of the females around here in the range of Akira's iend to gravitate to either the 90-60-90 mark or the body types closer to what you Mistress and the Mistress sort have.]" Added on the end the Royal Mage.

  Yeah, she was aware that her body was quite close to perfe, as so was Rossie's even if she was somewhat on the...petite side.

  So that Akira was using irls as repts for both of them made her sick, she really would o deal with him, wouldn't she?

  Perhaps it was time to prepare for war, she had earwo extra levels from her [Draic Awakening], her mana urer than ever and more [Dense], so to prepare she would o practice ht.

  So with that in mind, she decided on her destination, but first "[Tell me when Rossie is returning, give me at least 10 mio prepare.]" She ordered to her [Minions] to guard Rossie, they gave her an aowledgment and so she moved to the arena.

  The walk was calmer and normal, she didn't teleport this time since she ime to think and prepare for it, so on the way some other students called on her and she did took some time to chitchat with them.

  The theme of versation mostly gravitated to preparations for the end-of-term test and the fights they would have, most ehe talk with questions about whether she would mind if they challenged her...

  And some s about if Rossie would do...things to them should they attempt to challenge her.

  "It's okay, Rossie isn't that bad. So long you are clear about why the challenge is done she will not mind it, you even challenge her while being clear about it if you want to!" Was her usual answer, and most accepted her reassurances (After she promised to high heavens to protect them if Rossie found fault at them).

  Really that was kind of funny because if they did something that Rossie qualified as a bad thing, ces were that she would find that distasteful, so they would need prote from her too...

  Not that she would tell them that of course, she wasn't a psycho!

  Either way, she ended up speaking with some cssmates here and there, most didn't want to e with her to the arena though, as it seemed that at this time it was mostly occupied by high-ranking members of the school. Both from their and from others.

  And sure enough, when arriving at it she found herself with explosions and mana bursts here and there.

  "Please if you wish to enter either use an [Armor] or activate your [Shift]." Said one of the teachers that reventing them from entering.

  "[Shift - Stardust Weaver]" So Elizabeth activated her shift ahe [Skill] pull from her mana as it powered itself, this time however, it seemed to pull more and more.

  More than usual, while the [Shift] of before barely ed between 10-20% of her mana pool, this one seemed to siphon more and more mana, it didn't stop till it ed 50% of the mana she had avaible.

  And while her new [Heart] seemed happy enough to pump new mana easily enough... "[Why is the shift taking so muana?]" She still queried her Royal Mages, the ones responsible for helping her manipute mana.

  And the main reason the skill seemed to be more mana hungry than before, "[We are fueling and fixing some inefficies in the design, the skill was desigo take more mana than it is taking, so we are stress testing it. We will save the extra mana remaining and allow the use of the skill without takira mana in future uses Mistress.]" So she hadn't been using the skill like it was intended?

  Had Alexanders desighe skill with an increased mana pool in mind? Why?

  He had no reason to believe she would get more mana, and if so, he would have told her...right?

  ...Uhe asshole gave her a hand-me-down and the skill was meant to be used by either someone else or in a differeing...And the zy ass just tweaked it and throw the skill her way...

  Yes, she could see him doing that.

  "Hmm....let me see...Here it is, [Stardust Weaver] yes? The [Shift] seems stable enough...Even if you seem to have a denser [Ma] than recorded...Well, it should be fine, have fun. There is a passive spell in the arena that will teleport you as soon as your [Shift] is celed so go and have fun!" The teacher at the door said as soon as her [Shift] finished.

  She felt...more. As if this [Shifted] body was her real one and not a mana struct, she hadn't felt like this since... Alice. Was she developing another [Persona]?

  ..."Hello?" She thought inwardly, not towards her [Shadow Haven] or to any of her [Shadow Minions] but to her [Soul], nothing answered of course.

  So instead she checked her [Shift] for ges, her body seemed more [Solid] than usual and her armor weighed her down, not in the hard-to-move meaning, but in the [I'm here] meaning. She could feel each part of the armor and the multiple exhaust ports.

  She idly hat most of the meters that adorned her armor were either full or on the way to full, it seemed that most of the extra mana capacity that her Royal Mages referred to was being used towards those parts.

  And while she uood that it would be better to have those ready for use instead of charging them as needed...It still annoyed her that they did it without asking her first.

  She wouldn't say no to them of course, this extra edge was just the kind of thing she needed, so she would have accepted...But having half of her mana pool eaten away was annoying.

  Being able to [Shift] without losing mana was a good thing though, and the fact that she would have a fully powered [Shift] at the ready was eveer!

  But either way, she would experiment with that ter, "[Stardust Weaver]! Over here!" A voice woke her up from her introspe, she turo search for that voice finding a blue-haired robe mage waving at her.

  He had a few magical circles h around him spittih Needles] towards floating [Ice Barriers] that seemed to move at random.

  Was...was he randomizing the movement of those barriers and then using another different series of spells to try and track those without input from him?

  Fueling two basic spells thera for moving the targets and two extras oacks?

  *sigh*

  And besides all of that, he was waving at her like a puppy that found someohat he knew in the park. God damned genius, not that she had mupin on that front since she herself was a genius too.

  But still!

  "[Sage]" Elizabeth said while walking towards the blue-haired mage, "Shouldn't you pay attention to that?"

  The blue-haired mage shrugged at the spells Elizabeth pointed, "Heh, they are fine. I tweaked them so they would work without input from me, if [The Demon Sying Sword] challenges me again I will need something to keep up with her after all." So that was why he was doing this kind of overly plex work.

  "You will need faster targets if you want to simute her, " Said Elizabeth eyeing the targets Michael was using, her eyes fshed into a deeper azure color as she eled her [Dragon Eyes]. "Hmm....I think you could ge the [Randomize] node and just overcharge the [Dire o make it truly random."

  "......We lost you too. I'm so sorry, I khe [Ritual] books could do this...I am truly sorry." Said Michael as he lost trol of his mana making his spells fizzle out.

  "What are you speaking about?" Asked Elizabeth fused, she wasn't quite sure what was happening right now. She was lost too?

  "Your eyes..." Said Michael as he jured a sheet of reflective ice. "...I suffered the same disease so I know the [Call] is powerful, but you o think about your family...your friends...And yourself, your future you will resent yourself should you keep walking this path."

  Her eyes were bathed in azure fmes and had transformed into eyes simir to those of her shadows, dragon-like eyes. She looked...kinda cool, but most important, she looked like one of those Edge lord characters her Mother always made fun of.

  Oh...she looked like someohat wao look cool, yeah, she uood it "I will say it just in case, but I'm not sick or anything. This is part of my [Magic], a neey magic showed itself and it made this visual effe its own. This lets me..." She started expining herself for some reason.

  "...Peer into the true darkness of magic to look into [The Root] or [Akasha] and uand the true ws of reality allowing you to twist it to your whims." Michael said while ging at the words he said. "I know, I was there ooo...The mistakes of my past still hauo this day..."

  "...This lets me analyze magid mana, so I struct spells better." Elizabeth finished her expnation, "What the hell kind of magic would let you do that?"

  That sounded like something useful to deal with [The World] and its meddling should she hough, perhaps she should i in that after all?

  "...You didn't design it like that?" Asked Michael surprised at her answer.

  "Who would even willingly create something like that, it sounds like something that would be too broad or annoying to use." Elizabeth answered back.

  "Right..." Michael said while scratg the back of his head. "...and it wouldn't work without proper uanding anyway, not as stated...Yours seems useful even."

  ht, wasn't his three stages of ritual magic allow him to disrupt magic? It was simir enough to her [Dragon eyes] but hers seemed more practical if anything.

  "Anyway, so you think I should try faster targets then?" Michael asked her as he seemed tain trol over himself.

  She saw some of his magiting to course through some spell nodes embedded within his eyes, the magical circles on his eyes wanting to resurfad him squishing those back down.

  "Here, let me... [Space Manipution]+[ter]+[Wind Manipution] = [Reactive Wind Defense]" Elizabeth jured the spell and she felt way less mana than she expected to be ed.

  If anything it was barely enough mana for a normal barrier, and this barrier was way more plex than it should have any right to be.

  "There, this spell will teleport all over the pd fight back when you attack it, and si is using my [Space Manipution] instead of yours it should be harder for your spells to track it." Elizabeth was quite happy with the spell results, and was already thinking of ways to use it more effitly.

  hat would be used here of course, sihat would spoil the surprise.

  "Thank you [Stardust Weaver], I will use this ce to practice then. Do you require assistah something?" Asked Michael as he started preparing his usual [Earth Needle] to attack the barriers she had jured.

  He would regret attag more tha she wouldn't be the oo tell him about that, "No, I was just wanting to flex some of my magic to burn some time while waiting for Rossie to return." Answered Elizabeth.

  That sole mention of Rossie was enough to quiet the whole Arena for a few seds, "What is it with you people and Rossie? She is a normal girl and you all act as if she was the sed ing of a Demon Lord or something." Elizabeth said while gring around.

  "The sed ing of a Demon Lord huh, that is quite the apt description," Michael said on her side, earning himself a gre from Elizabeth.

  Perhaps she had been too le on him? He was, after all, a [Hero] too.

  "I don't mean anything bad from that," said the blue-haired mage while his spell powered down, a shame that he didn't attae of her barriers. "Rossaline Singh...is perhaps not the closest student to earn that title, but she is close up there, perhaps even closer than most [Vilins]."

  ...Rossie a Demon Lord? That was ridiculous, her lovely and cute girlfriend wouldn't hurt a fly... She wouldn't think about if she would hurt other people, but at least she wouldn't hurt a fly!

  "Are you aware of the kind of fame she has?" asked Michael.

  She, of course, was aware, that one would o be dumb or a birdbrain to not notice it, most feared Rossie. They didn't treat Akira like that and everyone seemed to be aware of what he did in his free time.

  Then why did they threaten Rossie like that?

  "Yes, not sure why. She hasn't done anything deserving this kind of treatment as far as I am aware." Answered Elizabeth, she modified some of the magic circles on the reactive shields she created ahem survive using ambient mana.

  She would let them fly around till they fizzled out or someone used all the mana they could absorb faster than the spell could refuel itself.

  "Yeah, in first grade she wasn't this bad...ht you were around, it all went to hell after the midterms." Michael said as he turo look at one of the magic circles around. "You see, the school didn't want to let her go on her vacations, they told her that she would o be a top scorer to get that kind of permission."

  A Rossie told her that she was allowed to go so long she finished her studies here.

  "So?" Elizabeth asked still mad at the mere idea of her lovely Rossie as a Demon Lord, like she could be ohough imagining her dressed as a Demon Lord wasn't a bad image to have...Yes, she would see if Rossie for a little cospying.

  "Well, she challenged us to a fight, all of us... And we fell for her provocation," Michael said with a small ugh, "Who would fear a [Healer] right?"

  Oh...Oooooh...

  Poor poor souls that knew not the height of the sky... Rossie was a [Healer] yes, but she also was one of the best at mana manipution and pound spells she had ever seen. Also, she had some nasty [Spell Nodes] hidden among those she could cast.

  Yeah, she could see how that ended.

  "So she trashed all of you after you all decided to gang upon her, a dare to cim my lovely Rossie is a Demon Lord?" Elizabeth asked with a smirk on her face. "I could do the same you know, the floor with all of you."

  She noticed some among the students in the room gre at her, so she raised her hand and snapped her fingers "Perhaps way more easily than Rossie. And unlike her, [I'm no Healer]." And with that, all the shadows in the room opened eyes and maws.

  "And trust me, unlike Rossie...I'm an offensive mage." She let that linger as her shadows expanded all around, she of course took this ce to seed Michael's shadow with a new scout for monit purposes.

  "That doesn't seem to be magic, ht. You said that you used powered and magi tandem..." Michael said as he poked with his mana the shadows around.

  Unlike everyone around that was frozen in fear at the showcase of pure power he seemed almost... careless, "Don't gre at me like that, uhe others around I have actually fought you. I know that you aren't like Rossaline, Akira, or Rena. You will not attaeone for no reason." That seemed to calm down everyone around.

  *tch*

  "Not that you don't have a reason since we are speaking ill of your friend," Michael said while shrugging. "And you seem to care very much about your friends."

  "I do care about those that are my friends," Elizabeth answered, "But Rossie isn't a friend."

  That seemed to take by surprise at Michael as he seemed fused by that statement.

  "She is my girlfriend." So Elizabeth eborated and Michael's face seemed to show uatement, while the other students around had the face of someohat had been told something that they couldn't uand.

  Rude, they would all get bitten by her shadows for that.