"Congratulations, Mr. Evans. As far as I know, you're the only junior arcanist who has passed the review of the first two arcana papers."
Lucy's polite congratulations made Lucien feel better. Indeed, it was already a great thing that his paper had passed the review of the Arcana Review Board. If it weren't for the fact that the paper was accompanied by his experiment report of re-measuring the atomic weight of some elements, the review board might have rejected the paper after seeing that Lucien doubted the atomic weight of several elements. That would be the worst case scenario.
Now that the paper had passed the review, Lucien had to figure out a way to make it more important.
Lucien needed an arcanist who could discover new elements from all kinds of magic minerals according to his description. Lucien had already made a detailed guess about the new elements. He also described that aluminum-like elements could be discovered by spectral analysis, and silicon-like elements could be purified by alchemical reactions. He even had some hypotheses about the possible properties of the minerals.
In order to find such an arcanist, Lucien had to buy magic minerals himself and let more arcanists read the paper. The more arcanists read the paper, the more likely it would be that more arcanists would re-examine the strange magic minerals in their hands.
Only Arcana, Element, Alchemy, Holm Magic News, Colette Arcana Theory and so on had such an influence and were willing to publish articles about the school of elements. Common Arcana was one of the few that was not as good.
As for Arcana Discussion and Magic Research Monthly, Lucien did not consider them at all. Their influence was too low.
Excluding the few journals that did not publish the papers of the sorcerers, Lucien could only choose Arcana, Element, Alchemy and Common Arcana.
Among them, the best one was Arcana, but the hope was very slim. However, Lucien was never a person who would give up without even trying. So he stood up and said goodbye to Lucien, "Thank you for your congratulations, Ms. Lucy."
After leaving the office, Lucien chatted with Cindy and Dona for a while in the hall of the Sorcerer Administrative Department. From them, he learned the specific location of the headquarter of Arcana on the tenth floor. Then, he took the elevator in the hall of the magic tower and went there.
Inside the yellowish green light shield, the silver round plate slowly rose up. Lucien tried his best to stay calm and look at the sorcerers and apprentices in the hall. Their figures were getting smaller and smaller.
When the elevator passed the ninth floor, Lucien pressed his right hand into the yellow-green light. It bloomed into a thin ray of light and fell into the silver-gray disc.
After absorbing the fine light, the silver-gray disk suddenly trembled slightly when it connected with the central hole of the fourth layer. At the same time, a door-like opening slowly appeared on the yellow-green light barrier.
Stepping out of the lift, Lucien easily found the hall with the silver word "Arcana" written on it according to Cindy's description.
The hall was paved with shiny floor tiles, giving off a grand, bright, quiet, and elegant vibe.
Lucien walked to the two receptionists and asked politely, "Nice to meet you. May I know who I should talk to if I want to submit my paper to Arcana?"
The man who was chatting with the beautiful lady took a closer look at the arcana and magic badges on Lucien's chest. The smile on his face disappeared, and he asked seriously, "Excuse me, sir, is this your arcana paper or your teacher's or your friend's paper?"
Both the man and the woman were wearing arcana badges with two silver stars on a black background, as well as nameplates with arcana words and their names written on them. However, there was no magic badge. It seemed that arcana was the most important thing in this place.
"Mr. Gavin, it's my own paper. I want to submit it to Arcana." Lucien took a look at the nameplate of the man, who had a name that was even more popular than his own.
Gavin looked even more serious and said to Lucien formally, "I'm sorry, sir. Arcana does not accept papers from low-rank arcanists."
"Is that so? Why can't I find this rule in the rules of Arcana? "Lucien was not going to give up just because of a few words, so he started to talk about the rules on the surface.
Gavin was a bit annoyed. Did this sorcerer really not know, or was he pretending not to know? It was an unwritten but absolutely true rule. Could Lucien's paper compete with those senior-rank arcanists, or even the grand arcanists?
"Middle-rank and low-rank arcanists have published their papers in Arcana before, but they were all judged to be of great significance during the review, and then we directly invited them to submit their papers. There has never been a case where a low-rank arcanist's paper was accepted by Arcana. " The lady whose name was also Heidi was worried that Lucien might be a stubborn and stubborn sorcerer, so she explained to Lucien politely.
Her concern was soon "confirmed". Lucien insisted, "There has never been a case before, but it doesn't mean that there won't be one now or in the future. As long as I don't violate the rules, why don't you accept my paper? If my paper is rejected by the review arcanists, it means that my paper is not good enough, and I'm fine with it. "
"Mr. Sorcerer, please give me your paper. I'll send it to the review arcanists' office. Today is the fourth day of the month, and there are not many new papers except for the ones that will be published in the next issue last month. I think the review result will come out soon. " Gavin spoke faster and faster, obviously annoyed. It seemed that he wanted to get rid of this crazy sorcerer as soon as possible.
Lucien handed the paper in his hand to Gavin, "Please, Mr. Gavin."
Gavin took Lucien's paper and walked into a corridor at the back of the office. When there was no one around, he started to read the paper carefully.
In his mind, if he could not confirm the value of the paper, he would really send it to the review arcanists' office and let them evaluate it. But if he could confirm the value of the paper, there was no need to bother the senior-rank arcanists, in case he would be scolded.
At the beginning, Gavin was quite serious, because the periodicity of the description was so obvious, and the properties were so similar that they were terrifying. However, after reading for a while, Gavin sneered, "How can the atomic weight of Termirick element be wrong? A few years ago, several senior-rank arcanists used different methods to measure and correct the value of the element. How could such a paper pass the review of the review board? The two of you must have given the paper to your new students! "
Termirick element was one of the strange elements that made up the soul.
Gavin stopped reading the paper and returned it to Lucien, "Sir, the arcanist who reviewed the paper scolded me severely. Your paper is full of mistakes, and it's not worth including at all. The review arcanist even doubted how you passed the review! "
Lucien clenched his teeth, but he could not find any reason to insist. He had to go back to the first floor with the paper. Then, he asked a messenger in the Sorcerer Administrative Department to send the paper to the headquarter of Element in Renstadt.
…
As Gavin said, the review at the beginning of the month was not very busy. On the third day after the paper was sent out, the return letter from Element was sent to Lucien's garden house in the Douglas Magic School.
It was Saturday afternoon. Lucien asked a few questions casually, and then he walked aside and opened the letter, ignoring the twisted faces of Layria and Heidi.
"Dear Mr. Lucien Evans,
Your paper is worth discussing, but at the beginning of next month, there will be an Annual Conference on Elements and Alchemy jointly held by the Will of Elements and the Holm Royal Magic School in Renstadt. We've decided to include all the papers published in the conference, so we're sorry that we can't publish your paper.
From Element, the friend of all elementalists and alchemists.
January 6th, 817. "
Lucien read the letter in silence. "So this is the legendary rejection letter. If you really want to publish the paper, you can put the paper in the next issue." Lucien thought to himself. But this kind of rejection is indeed polite and not hurtful. "
Lucien carefully checked his Host Star of Destiny after the New Year, but he found that it was still vague, neither better nor worse. Lucien wondered if it was because he couldn't write to Natasha and John after he arrived in Allyn.
Then he went to the headquarter of the Congress of Magic to submit his paper to Alchemy. Lucien gave the apprentices a practice paper and then went to the headquarter of the Congress of Magic to submit his paper to Alchemy.
This time, the review speed was much slower. About two weeks later, when Lucien still failed to find any new element after buying two hundred arcana points worth of magic ores that matched his description, Alchemy finally replied to Lucien. However, it was still a rejection letter, and it was not as polite as Element. It directly pointed out the problem with the atomic weight and asked Lucien not to submit his paper again.
Holding the rejection letter, Lucien was a bit nervous. If he could not publish his paper by the end of this month, he would have to wait until the end of next month, and the feedback from the arcanists would be delayed for another one or two months. The longer he waited, the more dangerous it would be.
However, Lucien still calmly took the carriage to Common Arcana, the headquarters of which was in Allyn, and submitted the paper to the Review Department.
Out of Lucien's expectation, four days later, he received neither a rejection letter nor an acceptance notice, but an invitation from a level four arcanist named Woods.
…
In the bright office of the headquarter of Common Arcana.
"Actually, Evans, I'm one of the reviewers of your paper on the bat experiment, and I'm the one who sent the invitation letter." Woods, who had a golden mustache, leaned against the back of the chair and smiled at Lucien.
Lucien, who was sitting on the opposite side of the desk, held his black top hat and said sincerely, "Thank you so much, Mr. Woods. Otherwise, the grand arcanists would not be able to see my paper."
"That would be the loss of the entire Congress. The Lord of Storm has already created the prototype of Eye of Lightning, Fernando's Lightning Furnace, and Invisible Crematorium. They're very powerful, and the latter two are very powerful. However, right now, the spell models are still very complicated, and it needs the seventh or eighth circle to construct and release them. He's trying to simplify them. "
Since the paper published on Common Arcana was highly recommended by the grand arcanists, Woods, who made the decision to review the paper, was greatly praised and rewarded. Therefore, he had a good impression of Lucien.
Lucien said modestly, "It's all the grand arcanists' inspiration. By the way, Mr. Woods, did you invite me here to discuss the publication of my paper? "
"Yes, I've read your paper, Evans. It's very interesting and worth discussing. Without these bold guesses, the paper would have attracted a lot of attention. "
Woods pointed at the paper in front of him, implicitly indicating that he did not agree with some of the corrections of atomic weights, and therefore, he was not optimistic about the other predictions. "Even so, I still think it's worth publishing, and it can open the minds of common arcanists. However, today is already the 22nd, and the paper published at the end of the month is already full. If you don't mind, Evans, I'd like to publish it in the next issue. Do you agree?"
Obviously, Woods decided to publish the paper because of his good impression of Lucien, and he invited Lucien here in person to let him know the reason and who he should be grateful to. No one could guarantee that when Lucien grew up, he would not be taken in as a student by the Lord of Storm. Although the hope was slim, Woods felt that it was worthwhile to invest some unimportant resources.
Next issue? Lucien hesitated. (To be continued. If you like this paper, you're welcome to vote for me at qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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