On the thirty-third floor of the Headquarter of the Magic Council, in a room that was not very big, the sunlight shone through the glass window, and the neatly arranged tables, chairs, and bookshelves were all golden, which made the room even more clean and tidy.
After Fernando brought Lucien and Thompson back here, he received a letter from an old friend. Therefore, he asked them to wait for the other students to arrive, and then he went into the cubicle to read the letter.
"Mr. Thompson, thank you for letting me enter the Douglas Magic School. Otherwise, I would've been stuck in the problem of materials and laboratory." In order to avoid the awkward atmosphere, Lucien tried to start a conversation with the excuse of "thank you".
Thompson, who was a middle-aged gentleman, slightly pushed his gold-rimmed glasses and smiled, "You're welcome. Any member of the committee would've read your paper out of curiosity. It's the instinct of arcanists. As long as the committee members don't hate you in the past, they would've approved your application and asked the school to pay attention to your paper."
"But Mr. Thompson, you also recommended my paper to our teacher." Lucien looked around the cubicle that looked like both a study and a small meeting room. He was a bit confused, "I thought our teacher would take us to his demiplane magic tower."
Thompson kept the smile on his face, "According to the rule of the Highest Council, one of the seven grand arcanists must be in Allyn at all times. Therefore, they've decided to rotate every five years. By the way, we're all Mr. Thompson's students. You don't have to be so polite. Just call me Thompson. In fact, your arcana level should've already reached level five, which is not much different from mine. "
Thompson glanced at the arcana and magic badges on Lucien's left chest. Neither of them had the time to upgrade yet, so they were still level four and three.
"My arcana level will probably take another three or four months." Lucien answered with uncertainty. When he left, he only had around 850 arcana credits. Since he saved a lot of time by coming back, the whole mission took him just one year and one month. According to the feedback rate of about ten credits a month, he should not be a level five arcanist yet.
Thompson shook his head and sat down on a random chair, "Lucien, I'm sure you know the role of the periodic table better than I do. This year coincided with the rapid development of the theory of atomic valence of elements, namely, the reaction valence of different elements. The arcanists published a lot of papers in this field, and it is one of the embodiments of the periodic table of elements. If we want to talk about atomic valence, we have to talk about the periodic table of elements. "
"Based on my memory, your arcana credits must have exceeded a thousand a few months ago. Many arcanists were quite jealous of Lucien, and they proposed to the Arcana Review Board that the periodic table of elements should have a time limit, just like the atomic weight data, formula constants, elementary alchemy reaction formulas and other basic knowledge that could be used anytime. Otherwise, the increase of arcana credits would be unreasonable. "
Thompson paused on purpose, as if he wanted to arouse Lucien's curiosity. Thompson was a senior-rank sorcerer in the field of heat and element. However, he was not a member of any organization. Like the Lord of Storm, he was a pure member of the parliament. Therefore, he thought highly of Lucien, a genius in the field of element, and he was willing to make friends with him. In the other field of astrology, Lucien had not published any outstanding papers yet, so he was widely regarded as a genius in the field of element.
"So, did the review board agree?" Lucien asked. At the same time, he was very happy for K, as K's main research direction was to go deeper into the field of atomic valence states with Larry. The vigorous development in this field meant that K had gained a lot.
Thompson grinned, "Of course, the review board wouldn't agree. With the increasing number of references to the periodic table of elements in every field of elemental magic, you only need to refer to their papers, unless you want to elaborate systematically. In the next two years, Lucien, your arcana credits from the periodic table of elements will decrease rapidly. "
"That's good." Lucien made up his mind that he would revise the periodic table of elements every once in a while. In this way, he would be able to get more direct references from the periodic table of elements. After all, due to the limitations of his current research, he deliberately left a lot of problems in the periodic table of elements, such as the rare gases, which were hard to be separated due to his limited magic level and laboratory conditions. But now, everything was different.
Lucien and Thompson were not very familiar with each other, and due to the difference in arcana and magic level, they were in different circles. Therefore, the topic gradually shifted to the most popular one in the field of elements, the valence state of atoms.
Soon, someone knocked on the door, and a young man of medium height walked in. His face was so thin that his cheekbones were protruding. His light blue eyes were like the summer sky, clean and transparent but with a hint of melancholy. He looked more like a poet than a sorcerer. However, the badges on the chest of his gray suit were quite eye-catching. One was an arcana badge with seven silver stars on a black background, one was a magic badge with seven black circles on a silver background, one was a badge of Arcana Review Board holding a quill in one hand, and one was a badge with countless ice patterns on it.
"Lucien, this is Chloe, another student of Fernando's, a member of Arcana Review Board and an authority on molecular motion in the school of thermodynamics. He's currently trying to study the second law from a deeper level using probability and statistics," Thompson introduced to Lucien.
The second law of thermodynamics was summarized by Fernando and some other people in order to refute one of the ideas in the development of the Congress of Magic. After the theory of heat mass was abandoned, heat and energy were closely related. Sorcerers realized that when the temperature of an object dropped, it would release heat. Therefore, many people believed that they could keep the magic circles running forever by absorbing heat from the endless seawater. However, their idea failed.
Then he turned to Chloe and said, "Chloe, this is Lucien Evans, the winner of Holm Crown prize. He just started learning from Fernando."
A faint smile appeared on Chloe's skinny face, "Nice to meet you, Evans."
Chloe did not say anything. After the greeting, he sat aside quietly, as if he had fallen into his own world, completely forgetting that there were other people in the room.
Soon, another two seventh-circle senior-rank sorcerers arrived. According to Thompson's introduction, the woman was Ashikana, and the man was Lexi Carter. Both of them looked young and mature, but compared to Chloe, their achievements in arcana were much smaller.
Before Lucien had the chance to talk to them, another series of rapid knocks came from the door. Hearing the seemingly rude noise, Lexi and the other sorcerers all smiled and shook their heads. Then Thompson stood up and opened the door.
A creature with beautiful transparent scales appeared in front of Lucien. It was the first time that Lucien saw a dragon standing on the top of the magic food chain face to face.
The dragon also looked at Lucien curiously, and then it said in a child-like voice, "I know you. You're the sorcerer with the beautiful ring!"
The dragon stared at the Holm Crown ring on Lucien's right index finger for a long time, "Can you give it to me? I can sign a contract to sell myself to you for a hundred years! "
"Don't mess around, Alferris." Thompson scolded the dragon helplessly and then turned to Lucien, "It's already sold itself once. It's useless to sell itself again."
Lucien was startled by Alferris's straightforwardness. Hearing Thompson's words, Lucien was relieved. Where did this dragon come from?
Alferris reluctantly looked back at Lucien. Its body was covered by a layer of dim light, and it quickly became smaller. Then it walked into the room like a giant wolf dog.
"Lucien, it's a crystal dragon. It was hatched from a dragon egg that our teacher picked up more than fifty years ago. It has been learning magic from us and our teacher. It's very talented in arcana, and it's much stronger than its compatriots who need to be in their prime to reach senior-rank. However, due to the failure of a magic experiment, Alferris was seriously cursed. It can't grow up or change its shape. It will take about a hundred years for the curse to disappear. " Thompson introduced the dragon to Lucien. It was both Fernando's pet and his student.
Seeing that Alferris kept walking around Lucien, ignoring the beautiful Holm Crown ring, Rhy, who had short blond hair and green eyes, smiled and diverted its attention, "Alferris, what research have you been doing recently?"
"Ah, recently?" Alferris said casually, "I've been sleeping late. I haven't done anything."
Thompson directly exposed Alferris's secret, "Alferris sold itself out of greed, and it's now being studied by someone."
Alferris brought liveliness and liveliness to the room. Soon, Fernando walked out of the room.
Seeing him, both Thompson and Alferris became solemn. The discussion room instantly became quiet.
Fernando found a random chair and sat down. Putting away all his wretched humor, he said solemnly, "As usual, we hold a regular meeting like this every month to share the progress of our research and discuss the problems we encounter to inspire ourselves."
He briefly explained the meeting to Lucien, and then he turned around and looked at the others.
"Today, I'm going to read a letter from an old friend, so that you can know the current development of arcana and magic in other arcanists' minds."
"This letter is from Viscount Lauren, the winner of Silver Moon Medal and Ice & Snow Medal, member of Arcana Review Board."
Viscount Lauren was a noble in the Kingdom of Brianne.
Fernando took out the letter and read it carefully, "… With the establishment of Mr. Brook's classic theory of electromagnetism, the whole arcana system has basically been completed. That is, with Mr. President Douglas' theory and Mr. Brook's theory as the sun and the silver moon, a highly mature, perfect, and wonderful arcana world, with Mr. President Douglas and Mr. Brook as the sun and the silver moon, respectively."
"… In this world, everything is governed by rules. Strict rules, rules that make people intoxicated …"
"Although there are still many rules that haven't been discovered, summarized, inducted, and applied, and many phenomena haven't been reasonably explained yet, I believe that their results will only be reasonable supplements to this arcana world. Maybe they will be innovative, revolutionary, or even epoch-changing. However, there will be nothing else in this wonderful world that belongs to these two systems."
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