The discovery startled Will. The idea that natural magic could directly reconstruct a living being's magical structure was beyond anything conventional knowledge could account for.
Will was certain he had only intended to study Soul Transfiguration. This discovery had come entirely out of the blue.
But what he was considering now was—did this have anything to do with Transfiguration?
Research into the soul was new territory for him, and it gave Will a headache. The more he learned, the more ignorant he felt, and that feeling tormented him.
He cast a Felix Charm on himself to steady his state of mind, then walked out of the dungeon.
Silvery moonlight fell across Will's face. His silver-gray eyes fixed on the radiant moon as he murmured, "Magic, you've given me another difficult problem..."
The moon's cold radiance spilled over the land, draping the entire world in a silver veil.
Will walked slowly along the muddy road, his thoughts still occupied with Transfiguration. The silver-veiled world reminded him of the knowledge he had once exchanged with the professors: Transfiguration often involved overlaying one concept with another.
Turning a stone into bread, for instance, meant overlaying the concept of bread onto the stone.
Will really did not want to brute-force his way to LV6 Transfiguration by grinding the system's proficiency.
He wanted to pursue a better LV6 trait. Dumbledore had once said that Transfiguration was the most complex and dangerous of all magic, and that, beyond a certain level, permanent transformations were indeed possible—just very difficult.
That was because it changed the essence of the world, not its outward appearance. Charms merely placed a filter over the world; Transfiguration directly rewrote a part of it.
Will had a feeling that, once he achieved this, all his current abilities would form a basic, simple closed