Chapter 56: Path of Transformation

"Hello, everyone," a thin male researcher walked up to the podium. He was wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a red and brown plaid shirt, and he greeted the audience solemnly, "My name is Andrew Tuke, and I am a genetic technology engineer. The paper I am going to report today is titled "Some Thoughts on the Path of Wizards Becoming Gods."

"As a genetic engineer, when the director (referring to Mo) Almost at the same time when Philip (Philippines) mentioned the word 'evolution', I realized that the word itself is a path to immortality and omniscience."

"The evolution that the director mentioned is different from evolution in the biological sense. It refers to what we generally understand in the humanistic sense, which is that an individual is better and stronger."

"It can be broken down into more understandable terms, such as greater strength, faster speed, longer life, 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."

"In fact, our human body is a delicate structure that has been optimized to a certain extent, and most of the redundant components have been eliminated during the evolution process."

"If we want to have the strength of a bear, we are bound to move slowly. 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, thinking faster will require more energy metabolism, which may cause us to age faster."

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

"So since the industrial era, countless people have believed that the best way for us to strengthen ourselves is to abandon our weak bodies and embrace powerful machines."

"However, now, we have another way to look forward to."

"That is magic, to be precise, it is transformation magic!

"In my studies, the magic that fascinates me the most is transfiguration!

"Transfiguration can transform living things and non-living things into each other, and can make people become another species, and even still retain most of their human consciousness."

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

"Wizards don't even need to add specific functional genes to the body - given our current understanding of the mechanism of action of genes is still poorly understood, and it can be very dangerous - it can give people the specific ability of a certain creature!

"If you transform into a bird, you can fly, if you transform into a fish, you can swim underwater, if you transform into a bat, you can have the ability of ultrasonic positioning."

"However, shape-shifting humans are very dangerous, so they are usually only used by others and are regarded as malicious behaviors. However, this reveals to us that they can possess multiple other biological abilities at the same time."

"If this short-term transformation only expands the wizard's ability, then the transformation masters among wizards, the Animagus, truly give themselves another clone.

"They can remain in animal form for years, even decades, and even survive as another living thing for their entire lives if they wish."

"This permanent morphological transformation provides an example of the permanent solidification of other biological forms and abilities."

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

"So when a person can change into any biological form at any time, does he achieve omnipotence to a certain extent?"

"Of course, we still know too little about wizards, omniscience, and omnipotence, and magic. There may be many paths for a wizard to become omniscient and omnipotent. I can only make an estimate of one possibility through the information I currently have. Let's make a little guess."

"The possibility is to use transfiguration and Animagus as the core to create a way for wizards to transform into everything."

"First of all, the core of this idea is Animagus. There are two differences between this transformation technique and other transformation techniques. One is that it is self-transformation, and the other is that it is permanent transformation."

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

"Secondly, Animagus usually cannot transform into magical creatures, which makes some extremely powerful creatures' special abilities cannot be obtained in this way, such as the Nirvana of the Phoenix."

"Thirdly, the process of becoming an Animagus is too cumbersome and extremely difficult, which greatly limits the efficiency of using it."

"In order to solve these three limitations, we need to introduce other

 methods as a reference and improve them."

"For example, Polyjuice Potion can make a person look like another person, and even if used incorrectly, it can give people some of the characteristics of animals. Since the other party's hair needs to be added during its refining 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, the compound decoction can make people shapeshift into anyone, and this might contribute to solving the limitation that Animagus can only shapeshift into a single creature."

"There are also creatures that can shapeshift, such as the Boggart, which is a creature that can read. We may be able to study this kind of creature that takes the opponent's fear and manifests it into what the opponent is afraid of. Its transformation ability is undoubtedly extremely powerful and extremely fast, which may provide some useful ideas."

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

"Although it is easier to transform wizards, Muggles are less likely to be transformed. The risk is very high, but the transformation mechanism may provide some reference for solving the limitations of Animagus being unable to transform into magical creatures."

"It may even be a way for us Muggles to transform into wizards.

"There are many creatures with the ability to transform in the magic world, or potions, magic, such as disguise mags in wizards, shrinking potions, ordinary transformation spells, etc."

"Study on these creatures or magic, and more importantly the study of the Animagus itself, has the potential to unlock the core mysteries of transformation and, through it, to omniscience and omnipotence."

"This possible path, I plan to call it: the path of transformation."

(End of chapter)