"System, I need a loan related to Transfiguration in the areas of transforming dead objects into living creatures and living creatures into dead objects."
Lucien had already mastered transforming dead objects into other dead objects. Beyond that, these were the next two directions in Transfiguration.
The difficulty of transforming dead objects into living creatures lay in needing sufficient knowledge of biology. A wizard could not transform something into a creature they did not know.
Transforming living creatures into dead objects, on the other hand, required the wizard to suppress the creature's will.
In terms of difficulty, the order was animals, Muggles, and then wizards.
Wizards in particular could consciously channel magic to resist such transformations. Even if the transformation succeeded, they could break free from it very quickly.
[Loan customized to meet the host's requirements] [Loan: Chimera Manual (Monthly Loan)] [Repayment Period: 30 days] [Loan Contents: Notes left behind by a mad ancient wizard. Its primary research concerns Transfiguration involving dead objects into living creatures, living creatures into dead objects, and living creatures into other living creatures. Includes the method for transforming a biological chimera, "Chimera."] [Loan Task: Transform a "Chimera" containing traits from at least five different creatures]
Seeing the loan description, Lucien's attention immediately focused on the words "biological chimera."
When first learning Transfiguration, transformed objects—whether dead or alive—would generally retain some of their original traits.
However, such retention was relatively random. Wizards found it difficult to control which specific traits a transformed object retained.
For instance, when turning a pig into a goat, its nose might remain a pig's snout the first time, while its ears might remain pig ears the next.
Of course, some wizards had attempted to use Transfiguration to create powerful hybrid creatures. The simplest example was giving a tiger wings that