Chapter 61: Inspiration Gained from Transforming an Ultraman Figure

In the days following the Christmas holiday, Harry put away his Invisibility Cloak and did not use it again.

Allen, meanwhile, began to organize the gains he had obtained from the Magic Mirror.

First, the information displayed in the Magic Mirror deepened Allen's understanding of Transfiguration spells, making him realize their infinite possibilities.

If the world magic casting mechanism in this world truly worked as he suspected and could be explained through programming logic, then what could he do by utilizing this mechanism?

Previously, when analyzing other spells, Allen could discover hidden parameters within the spells and then use those hidden parameters to expand the spells' effects.

However, the parameters of Transfiguration spells were clearly very different from other spells, yet he seemed unable to utilize them.

Because simply transforming a matchstick into a needle involved over a thousand key-value pairs in the first parameter of the Transfiguration spell, which described the transformation result.

Merely automatically folding a handkerchief twice involved several hundred lines of pseudo-code in the second parameter of the Transfiguration spell, which described its action logic.

With such a massive number of parameters, even if he changed a few himself, he guessed there wouldn't be much effect; if he changed too many, it was simply beyond what the human brain could handle.

Moreover, there was one thing he could not figure out at all: when he turned the matchstick into a needle, he hadn't thought of so many things in his mind, so how could so many parameters be translated out?

Allen lay on his bed, his head feeling a bit swollen from these thoughts; he felt the dormitory was too hot to let him think calmly, so he went to open the window to let the cold air in and clear his mind.

While opening the window, he wasn't paying attention and accidentally knocked something off the windowsill.

He picked it up and saw it was a wooden puppet; after looking at it a couple more times, he found it somewhat familiar and quickly retrieved the memory of this puppet from his mind.

This was the puppet he had used previously to transform a Taro Ultraman figure for Harry; now that the effect of the Transfiguration spell had vanished, it had reverted to its puppet form.

He looked up at the windowsill and saw another puppet there, the one he had used previously to transform a Tiga Ultraman figure.

He walked forward and took that puppet down.

He held the two puppets before his eyes, and his mind recalled the process of transforming those two puppets back then.

At that time, Allen was very excited about the idea of transforming an Ultraman; he felt his nerves had been stretched too tight recently, he wanted to find something to relax his mood, and he also wanted to transform something familiar in this world to give his emotions a place to rest, and Tiga Ultraman was his final choice.

For this, he even made a puppet shaped very much like Ultraman, because according to the laws of Transfiguration, the smaller the difference between the transformation target and the transformation result, the easier it was to succeed.

But he didn't expect that a small Ultraman figure would cost him great effort to transform; during the process, he kept failing to cast a spell and had to modify his imagination of the transformation effect many times, which instead stirred up Allen's stubborn temper.

Finally, it took a week to transform a Tiga Ultraman figure that was ninety percent similar, and then he failed more than twenty times before transforming a second Tiga Ultraman figure.

Although the two figures were merely hollow shells, looking like Ultraman on the outside while still being wooden inside, seeing this familiar image made him feel less lonely.

These were not the main point; the main point was that Harry saw the Ultraman figure and asked Allen to transform a Taro Ultraman figure that he had wanted for a long time; Allen originally did not want to do this, because transforming the Tiga Ultraman figure had already consumed a week of his spare time, and he did not want to spend much more time transforming a Taro Ultraman figure.

But in the end, he simply could not withstand Harry's pleading, so he reluctantly agreed to try; Harry even brought out a Taro Ultraman picture book he had treasured for a long time for Allen to use as a reference during the transformation.

As a result, looking at the picture book, Allen used only seven attempts to transform his spare puppet into a Taro Ultraman figure, and the details were even more refined than the Tiga Ultraman figure he had transformed before.

At that time, Allen thought it was because he had accumulated experience from transforming the Tiga Ultraman figure, combined with the boost from the picture book, that he could transform the Taro Ultraman figure so easily, so he didn't take the matter to heart at all.

But now, when Allen suddenly remembered this matter, he felt something was wrong.

The difficulty between the two should not differ so greatly!

Looking at the two puppets in his hand, he decided to try again.

First was Taro Ultraman; actually, he didn't know much about this Ultraman, and various details of his image actually came from that picture book Harry had treasured.

Now without the picture book, but since Allen had carefully observed the various details of Taro Ultraman in the picture book before transforming last time, upon recalling now, most of those details were still very clear in his mind.

So he began to imagine the appearance of Taro Ultraman and cast a spell on a puppet; after failing seventeen times, he actually succeeded in the transformation.

Then Allen prepared to transform Tiga Ultraman; regarding Tiga, Allen was very familiar, having watched the Tiga Ultraman TV series in its entirety and also watched many short videos of secondary creations about Tiga, so he knew the image of Tiga by heart, which was why he had previously chosen to transform Tiga Ultraman as his first option.

One could say his familiarity with Tiga's image in his mind was far clearer than Taro's, who had only been seen in a picture book a few times.

But he very quickly failed and began to doubt life itself; although Tiga Ultraman was very clear in his mind, the effects released by the Transfiguration spell were bizarre and varied; he had to remove the Transfiguration spell from the puppet and then continue to cast a spell again, until the forty-third attempt before he transformed a presentable Tiga Ultraman.

He placed the two Ultraman figures before his eyes to compare them, and surprisingly, Taro's details were more refined.

And Allen became delighted by this result, because this result happened to confirm an idea in his mind.

Because he knew Tiga Ultraman was first broadcast in Japan in 1996, and now it was 1991; the image of Tiga Ultraman had not yet appeared in this world, while the Taro Ultraman TV series, according to Harry's recollection, was something he watched when he was seven years old, so the initial release time could be pushed back further, and Taro Ultraman figures must have been sold in large numbers during this period.

So the difficulty of transforming the two must be related to this.

But Allen could not yet sort out a clear train of thought.

At this moment, the dormitory door opened; Harry walked in with a blank expression, glanced at Allen, snorted coldly, and walked toward his own desk.

Allen felt very helpless in his heart; Harry had been like this for a day; he knew Harry was angry with him; based on his understanding of Harry, he knew Harry's tsundere streak had come up again, but he had no good solution for this.

Looking at Harry's cold demeanor, Allen sighed helplessly in his heart, not knowing how to repair his relationship with Harry.

Suddenly, he remembered that Harry's gaze seemed to have lingered on the Ultraman figure in his hand when he entered the room, and instantly he had an idea.

He approached Harry in a conciliatory manner, but Harry coldly turned away, unwilling to look at him.

Allen, smiling along, placed the two figures before Harry and said in a conciliatory tone: "Harry, I know I was wrong, please forgive me! Look, to make amends, I went to great trouble to transform two of your favorite Ultraman figures; you can pick one!"

Harry turned his head, glancing sideways at Allen, while Allen smiled even more sincerely and obsequiously...

Harry shifted his gaze back to the two Ultraman figures and said arrogantly:

"I want them all!"