I've Turned Into A Fox Girl?

Chapter 159 Separate Space

?Shaman raised her dust from the ground, trying to imitate her mother who also had a dust element, and formed the dust into something physical that could be used to move or grab someone.

After creating a small platform in front of her, Shaman stepped onto the dust platform which felt as if she was trying to step into the starry night sky. The dust's illusion effect played with Shaman's eyes, as it looked like her foot would just go straight through.

Slowly placing her foot onto the dust platform, Shaman had successfully created something physical out of the dust.

'Looks like I can use it to travel around like my ice, but it works more like a hoverboard than a slide.' Shaman could imagine herself using the dust as a way of getting around since she could move the platform at will.

Shaman, wanting to test it out, stood on top of her newly created platform and almost lost her balance.

'I need to concentrate so much just to keep it steady.' Shaman was already struggling as she had to constantly make sure the dust stayed condensed and stable as she stood on it.

Once Shaman was stable on the platform, she slowly tried raising herself up from the ground.

'Okay, so far so good.' Shaman was getting the hang of it more and more as each second went by.

After a few more seconds of raising herself high off the ground, Shaman saw movement at the door, breaking her concentration. The platform wobbled and Shaman fell back towards the ground.

"Shiit!" Shaman was about to use her wind to save her fall, but Elysia, who was the one at the door, quickly ran and caught Shaman.

"I leave for a couple of minutes and you are already hurting yourself." Elysia held Shaman in a princess carry.

"I was just about to save myself, but you beat me to it." Shaman pouted and blushed, happy that Elysia came to her rescue, but also indignant at the implication she needed saving to begin with.

"Hehe, too bad, your queen has come to save the day." Elysia acted proudly and was treating the situation like Shaman was a damsel in distress.

"Mother!" Silver had just come through the door and instantly sprinted over.

"You can let me down now." Shaman nudged Elysia to put her down so she could hug her son.

"Oop." Elysia quickly put Shaman down.

Shaman instantly opened her arms and Silver jumped into them for a hug.

Clara had also walked in, but still in her pyjamas and looked like she had only just woken up.

"Oh hey Clara, how come you haven't gotten ready?" Elysia was a bit confused by Clara's wardrobe choices, but since it was nothing urgent, she couldn't really blame her for being a bit lazy.

"Oh, I planned not to do much today. I exhausted myself quite a lot with training, so I figured I will watch and head back to bed when you're done." Clara yawned and took a seat on the bench.

"That's a shame. I was hoping to test out my new element, but if you don't want to, that's fine." Shaman let go of Silver and started to pat his head instead while she spoke.

"I don't mind throwing a few spells at you, but I'm not doing anything that requires me to move a lot." Clara was fully capable of using her lightning, but would rather not move around.

"If that's the case, I will ask later for you to throw some attacks at me."

"Can I see the new element you got mother?" Silver looked up at Shaman, curious what it was.

"Here." Shaman held out her hand and created a small ball of dust in front of Silver.

"Woah, you can make the stars?" Silver was confused about what it actually was as it looked like Shaman held a mini galaxy in her hand.

"It's called stardust, it allows me to control space and create illusions."

"What else can you do with it?" Silver wanted to see more as his interest peaked.

"That's why you are here, we are going to test out my new element and see what it can do." Closing her hand and making the balls disappear, Shaman took a few steps back, getting ready to start experimenting.

"First I want to test out the space aspect of the element and get an idea of how versatile the element is." Shaman swirled her hands and visualised a portal-like entrance in front of her with the dust.

The dust took the form of a portal and Shaman found once it was created, the burden of having to keep her concentration was gone.

'Seems like the system took over, but why isn't it registering as a skill.' Shaman expected the system to start adding skills to her status, but nothing had appeared.

'Hmm no Rea, must mean that I will find out soon.' Shaman half expected Rea to randomly speak up, but she had stayed silent.

Shaman walked up to the portal and slowly stepped into it. Just as she was hoping, her leg went in without any difficulty. Getting more confident, Shaman put her entire body into the portal and looked around. The portal closed behind her, leaving her alone in the separate space.

It was like she was standing in outer space. No matter where she looked, her sight was filled with the shining stars. Only once she learned to tune them out, she noticed that behind them was the vague white outline of the hall she was in before.

'At Least I know where I am.' Shaman walked around the empty room until she had a good grasp on how her location in the separate space matched with the original room.

Wanting to get out right behind Silver, Shaman stood behind where he was and opened another entrance. Silver had not noticed the portal yet and so Shaman stepped out while poking Silver in the head.

"Ahh!" Silver screamed as he was shocked to see Shaman randomly appear from behind him.

"Hahaha~ it's only me Silver." Shaman was greatly amused by Silver's reaction and wanted to do it again.

"So how was it?" Elysia was worried for a moment when Shaman vanished, but quickly calmed down when she saw Shaman re-emerge.

"It works similar to my rift, but when I was inside I felt like I had a lot more control." Shaman did not know how to describe it, the only way she could compare it was that her old rift felt like a tunnel she used while the new separate space was like her own house.

"Maybe you can manipulate the space in whichever way you want, sort of like a lucid dream."

"That could work, but to do that at the moment I think is going to require a lot of mana, so how about we all go in." Shaman wanted Silver to see what it was like as the scenery inside looked rather magical.

"Yes!" Silver's eyes were shining with excitement as the brief glimpse of the portal when Shaman entered had already piqued his curiosity.

Shaman opened up another portal and found that it did not take much mana to create, which was rather handy.

Silver jumped through instantly, but as he was about to land, Silver realised he can't see any floor. Panicking, Silver braced himself for a fall when his feet hit solid ground. Tripping over his own feet Silver fell face first onto the space floor.

Shaman and Elysia tried hard not to giggle while they quickly went inside to help Silver up.

"Geh, I was not expecting that." Silver got up with the help of his mothers and steadied his feet.

"Pfft, it was adorable so don't worry about it." Elysia could not hold her laughter in, but tried to compliment it so Silver would not get angry.

"Oi don't laugh." Silver pouted and turned his head to Shaman.

"Heh~." Shaman let out a small laugh and Silver felt betrayed.

"Grrrr." Despite Silver acting like a brat, he could not help but laugh a little at himself when he reenacted it in his head.

"Clara, did you want to come in as well?" Shaman looked back out the portal and called out Clara's name to see if she wanted to also come in.

"No, it's okay." Clara was not keen on moving and preferred to stay on the bench.

"Alright~." Shaman closed the portal and Clara shut her eyes to see if she could sneak in a few more minutes of sleep.

"Woah." Silver looked around, feeling like he was walking in outer space.

Even Elysia was in awe and wandered around on her own, taking it all in.

"As far as I know, we can stay here as long as we want since my mana is not being drained." Shaman opened her status screen, noticing that it was not going down at all.

"Ohhh so we can sleep in here instead if we are outside or even in a dungeon." Elysia instantly thought of different ways to apply it.

"Just as I thought, that way we can be completely safe, but I still am not confident in staying here for too long so we will need to test it a bit more before we do." Shaman did not want to jump straight into staying in a separate space for too long as there could be some unknown side effects.

"You're right, let's try to store a beast in here and see if there are any effects on it." Elysia wanted to use a person, but that would be more of a hassle to deal with.

"Good idea, but let's move on, I want to test some more things." Shaman wanted to move on as they spent way too much time testing out the skill.

"Alright Silver we are coming out now." Shaman called out to Silver who had ended up running around the room trying to see if there were any walls.

"Okayyy." Silver had not bumped into any walls and when coming back to Shaman he ran through the outline of the training hall unimpeded.

Shaman opened up a portal back to the hall and they all stepped through.

"Okay now let's see how the illusion part of this element works." Shaman had some great ideas and was going to have a little fun with what she was going to do.