Before becoming a formal wizard, Matthew could already use the Shapeshifting Technique to animate giant trees, but he could never have managed such precise control over such a wide area, killing more than a dozen Two-Headed Giant Crows at once.
And this time, he had not used a wand!
With Wandless Magic, he had used the Shapeshifting Technique to affect a vast stretch of giant trees.
Inscribing the Shapeshifting Technique as his Innate Spell had given him an enormous boost.
Matthew stared at his right palm. He could feel that his Shapeshifting Technique was capable of even more.
His right hand began to twist and transform. Moments later, his arm had become a somewhat more slender arm.
"It really works..." Matthew murmured.
Then his entire face changed. Something seemed to writhe beneath his skin as his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears began to melt, his whole face continuously reshaping itself.
His hair became long, wavy chestnut locks, and his eyes turned a deep emerald.
Then his bones began to change as well. Strange noises came from throughout his body, and he grew a little shorter.
Moments later, Matthew had taken on Alsha's appearance. His looks, height, figure, and clothing matched hers perfectly. Even the servants who had followed Alsha for years would have noticed nothing amiss.
Matthew's Shapeshifting Technique could now perform Human Transformation!
Matthew was neither a born metamorphmagus nor someone who had studied the Animagus technique. Before this, he had been unable to perform Human Transformation.
Now, however, he had skipped learning the Animagus technique entirely and gained the Human Transformation abilities of a metamorphmagus, allowing him to freely take on other people's appearances.
While studying materials on the Shapeshifting Technique, Matthew had once read a set of notes recording that the first Dark Lord, Gellert Grindelwald, could