Chapter 125: New Applications of the Replication Spell and Long Hair

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For Allen to DIY a transformation result, he needs three major puzzle pieces in total.

First, detailed ancient runic parameters for suitable materials. This has been basically resolved;

Second, detailed ancient runic parameters describing various three-dimensional shapes. The appearance of the Replication Spell gave Allen a glimmer of hope;

Third, summarize the syntax of ancient runic programming, then be able to rewrite and optimize the action logic of the DIY-transformed beast;

Why place the detailed ancient runic parameters describing various three-dimensional shapes in such an important second position?

Three-dimensional shapes are something easy to describe yet hard to describe.

Describing a regular three-dimensional shape is relatively simple, but describing an irregular one with multiple curved surfaces is quite difficult.

The former might need only dozens of parameters to be described, but the latter might not be precisely described even with thousands or even tens of thousands of parameters.

What Allen needs for DIY-transformed beasts is the latter, because he cannot design all transformed beasts into very regular shapes; he is destined to use many irregular three-dimensional shapes, so how to describe these three-dimensional shapes is a difficulty point.

Then why did the Replication Spell make Allen see a glimmer of hope?

First, the Replication Spell is a relatively simple spell; it only requires the caster to visually observe the target to be replicated, then imagine in their mind that the target to be replicated has been copied once, and the rest is just chanting the spell correctly and performing the wand movement.

Based on Allen's past experience, such spell parameters must be very few, because the spell's effect is very simple, and the imagination of the spell's effect in the caster's mind is also very simple; this means the ancient runic parameters transcribed during casting will also be very few.

But in the Thunderbird's Eye, when Allen used the Replication Spell to replicate a broom, he saw a massive amount of ancient runic parameters on the light screen.

Why would such a simple spell have so many ancient runic parameters?

What is the function of these massive ancient runic parameters?

From where were these massive ancient runic parameters transcribed?

These two questions immediately popped into Allen's mind, and he quickly figured out these two problems.

First, most of these massive ancient runic parameters must be used to describe the three-dimensional shape of the broom, because the broom is composed of many irregular three-dimensional shapes, so the ancient runic parameters describing the broom's three-dimensional shape must be especially numerous.

Then these ancient runic parameters must not be transcribed from Allen's mind, because he did not imagine the broom's shape at all when casting the spell.

Finally, Allen thought of the Replication Spell's casting requirement to visually observe the target to be replicated, so he guessed that these parameters were scanned from the target to be replicated by the power of magic during casting, then transcribed into ancient runic parameters, and sent together to the Will of the World, and after the Will of the World received these parameters, it manifested a replica of the same three-dimensional shape.

And how are these applied to DIY-transformed beasts?

Take an example: if Allen wants the transformed beast's tail to become the shape of a Green Dragon Crescent Blade, detailed description of the Green Dragon Crescent Blade's shape is needed during transformation for the transformation to succeed.

With the Replication Spell, Allen only needs to cast the Replication Spell on a Green Dragon Crescent Blade when transforming out the Thunderbird's Eye; the parameters within this Replication Spell will automatically carry the three-dimensional shape parameters of the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, and the Thunderbird's Eye will record this memory in detail in Allen's mind.

Allen only needs to extract this memory, place it in the Mind House, then extract the parameters describing the Green Dragon Crescent Blade's shape, and paste them under the shape of the DIY-transformed beast's tail.

Then put this modified memory back into his mind, and Allen can use this modified memory to transform a beast whose tail is a Green Dragon Crescent Blade.

After Allen discovered this clever use of the Replication Spell, he seized the opportunity to transform the Thunderbird's Eye this month,

running all over Hogwarts and casting the Replication Spell on various armors, because he needed the external shape parameters of these armors to use later for adding armor to the transformed beasts.

With these basic detailed ancient runic parameters, when he specifically DIYs, he only needs to adjust some key values to transform the style of armor he wants.

The appearance of the Replication Spell also greatly promoted Allen's research work on ancient runes.

Because most parameters in the Replication Spell are used to depict three-dimensional shapes, but a small part is used to describe the appearance of the target being replicated.

For example, the same broom: the first time the Replication Spell was used, the broom handle's color was red; the second time the Replication Spell was used, the broom handle's color was blue.

Then Allen can extract these two memories, place them in the Mind House, compare the similarities and differences of the parameters, and he can easily deduce what the ancient runes for "red" and "blue" are.

This method is far better than adjusting parameters to see spell effects; the ancient runes Allen researched in one day are more than what he researched using his previous method in half a month.

It is just that this method requires Allen to transform out the Thunderbird's Eye.

This also made Allen cherish the time to transform out the Thunderbird's Eye even more.

The new applications of the Replication Spell made Allen suddenly find that the path of DIY transformation results suddenly became smooth, because this made Allen's speed of mastering ancient runic words faster, which proved especially precious in the Wizarding World's general environment lacking various ancient runes.

As Allen mastered more and more ancient runes, he suddenly found he could infer the meanings of ancient runes with similar character forms through the meanings of ancient runes he had already mastered, and this greatly accelerated his speed of mastering ancient runes.

And the increase in mastery of ancient runes will greatly promote his research work in various directions.

Allen believes that before long he can summarize the syntax of ancient runic programming; actually, programming language syntax is much simpler than natural language syntax; he only needs to first find the procedural control statements within it, then repeatedly trial and error, and he can perform simple programming.

Allen's life thus became busy; his grudge with Lockhart was first thrown to the back of his mind. Now, in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he sits in a corner, looking like he is dozing off, but actually his divided consciousness is immersed in the diary beginning his research; anyway, since that day's teaching incident, Lockhart has only been reading his own works during every class.

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However, an unusual thing happened during this life.

Allen randomly obtained something he did not expect!

It was a sunny morning; Allen woke from his dream as usual...

He sleepily checked his body according to custom, and the result was he felt handfuls and handfuls of long hair on his body...

Allen instantly woke up; he saw his body covered in silvery-white long hair, and his heart could not help but startle...

The next moment, he terrifyingly discovered his body was becoming transparent...

On the familiar bed remained only a pair of stretched-out underwear...