Chapter 56: Transformation Path

"H-h-hello everyone," a thin male researcher walked onto the podium. He wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a red-brown plaid shirt, and greeted the audience cautiously. "My name is Andrew Tooke, a genetic technology engineer. The paper I want to report today is titled 'A Little Thought on the Path of Wizards Becoming Gods'."

"As a genetic engineer, almost at the same time the director (referring to Murphy) mentioned the word 'evolution', I realized that this word itself is a path to immortality and omniscience and omnipotence."

"The evolution mentioned by the director is different from evolution in the biological sense. It refers to the better and stronger individuals in the humanistic sense that we generally understand."

"Decomposed into easier-to-understand terms, it means greater strength, faster speed, longer lifespan, higher intelligence, etc."

"Originally, some of these attributes are contradictory. For example, for ordinary mammals, greater strength means more muscles, and more muscles mean heavier body weight, which will lead to a corresponding decrease in flexibility."

"In fact, our human body is an exquisite structure that has been optimized to a considerable degree, and the vast majority of redundant components have been eliminated in the process of evolution."

"If we want to have the strength of a bear, we are bound to be slow; if we want to fly like an eagle, we must throw away more than half of our weight; and if we want to continue to enhance our intelligence, faster thinking requires more energy metabolism, which may lead to our faster aging."

"It is extremely difficult to strengthen our bodies in all aspects through purely biological means."

"Therefore, since the industrial age, countless people have believed that the best way to strengthen ourselves is to abandon the weak body and embrace powerful machinery."

"However, now, we have one more path to look forward to."

"That is magic."

"To be precise, it is transformation magic!"

"In this half-month of study, the magic that fascinates me most is Transfiguration!"

"Transfiguration can convert biological and non-biological things into each other, and can make people become another species, while still retaining most of the consciousness as a human."

"Transfiguration can make a person both a human and at the same time a bear, or an eagle, a wolf, a mouse!"

"Wizards don't even need to add specific functional genes to their bodies—given that we know very little about the mechanism of gene action, this may be very dangerous—to make people possess the specific abilities of a certain organism!"

"Transforming into a bird allows you to fly, transforming into a fish allows you to swim in the water, and transforming into a bat allows a wizard to possess the ability of ultrasonic positioning."

"However, transforming humans is very dangerous, so it is generally only used on others and is regarded as a malicious act. But this reveals a path for us to possess the abilities of multiple other organisms at the same time."

"If this kind of short-term transformation only expands the wizard's abilities, then the masters of transformation among wizards, the Animagi, are the ones who truly make themselves possess another avatar."

"They can maintain animal form for years, or even more than ten years. If they want, they can even live as another organism for a lifetime."

"This kind of permanent morphological change provides an example of permanently solidifying other biological forms and abilities."

"There are millions of species in the world, each with its own unique survival strategy. And the abilities they possess are also strange. The many magical creatures in the magic world have greatly expanded this diversity. Almost all the problems we can encounter in the natural world can find a solution path in the biological world."

"Then, when a person can change into any biological form at any time and as he pleases, has he achieved omnipotence to a certain extent?"

"Of course, we know too little about wizards, about omniscience and omnipotence, and about magic. How to make a wizard move towards omniscience and omnipotence, there may be many paths. I can only make a little guess about one possibility through the information I have mastered."

"This possibility is to build a path that allows wizards to change into all things with Transfiguration and Animagus as the core."

"First, the core of this idea is Animagus. The difference between this Transfiguration and other Transfigurations is two points: one is self-transformation, and the other is permanent transformation."

"But Animagus alone is not enough, because it has several limitations. First, most Animagi can only transform into a fixed animal and cannot become other animals."

"Second, Animagi usually cannot transform into magical creatures, which makes some extremely special abilities impossible to obtain through this method, such as the rebirth of a phoenix."

"Third, the process of wanting to become an Animagus is too cumbersome and extremely difficult, which greatly limits the efficiency of using it."

"To solve these three limitations, we need to introduce some other methods as references and improve them."

"For example, Polyjuice Potion. Polyjuice Potion can make people look like another person, and even in the case of incorrect use, make people have some animal characteristics. Given that hair of the other party needs to be added during its brewing process, we can reasonably expect that it may be able to extract the other party's genetic information to a certain extent."

"At the same time, Polyjuice Potion can make people transform into any person, which may contribute to solving the limitation that Animagi can only transform into a single organism."

"There are also some creatures that can transform, such as—Boggarts, which are dark magical creatures that can read the other party's fear and manifest as what the other party fears. We might be able to study this creature. Its transformation ability is undoubtedly extremely powerful and fast, and it might provide some useful ideas."

"In addition, there are creatures like werewolves and vampires. These two magical creatures can transform wizards or Muggles into the same species as themselves."

"Although transforming wizards is simpler, the possibility of Muggles being transformed is smaller and the danger is very high, but the transformation mechanism in this may provide a reference for solving the limitation that Animagi cannot transform into magical creatures."

"Even, this might also be a path for us Muggles to transform into wizards."

"There are many creatures, potions, or magic in the magic world that have transformation abilities, such as Metamorphmagi among wizards, Shrinking Solution, ordinary Transfiguration spells, etc."

"Studying these creatures or magic, and more importantly, studying Animagus itself, may unlock the core mystery of transformation and move towards omniscience and omnipotence through it."

"This possible path, I plan to call it: Transformation Path."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 57 =====