[Since it was a Ninth-Ring spell, the vast majority of people couldn't even hope to catch a glimpse of it.
Fortunately, I had a few acquaintances over at the Wizard Tower. Now, let me explain the effects of Complete Transfiguration:
Ninth Ring, School of Transmutation.
You choose one creature or object you can see within 10 meters and transform it.
You can turn the target creature into another, different creature, or turn it into a nonmagical object. Alternatively, you can turn the target object into a creature. The effect lasts for up to one hour, or until your concentration is broken.
But, as was only too obvious, the Spellcaster of the sheep adventurers was this Wasteland.
When Spitfire used the Edel Reincarnation Technique to transform into a true Giant Dragon and tried to seize House Hal's Source Essence,
a Fog Spell that obscured their vision blanketed the land. The Tide of Chaos erupted, transfiguring everyone into sheep—including the clone of Merlin that should have been stored in the adamantine vessel.
A mere lump of flesh that couldn't be defined as alive.
Just like Dawn, who had been transformed into an almost-permanent doll amid the cycle of life and death.
This body, transformed into a sheep, had consequently awakened an independent consciousness.
I couldn't tell whether that meant a soul had been born, but this awakened sheep retained all the muscle memory of the clone—the memories of the Archmage.
So it knew language, was good at reading, and had common sense—almost no different from an ordinary person.
Its only flaw was that it had no memories.
It was at a loss about everything, so amid the chaos, it grabbed the map from the corpse in its teeth and acted as the team's leader.
It claimed to have lost its memory and