Chapter 227: The Stir Caused
Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
In a magic lab.
Staring at the white particles with a light touch of red color in the reactor, Gaston cast Identification in a serious manner. When he got the result, his weird-looking dark-yellow eyes narrowed and he murmured, "It’s really carbamide... Carbamide could be synthesized without using any life ingredients..."
After staring at the particles for a while, a sarcastic smile appeared on Gaston’s face, "Those guys who play with bodies all the ti in Hand of Paleness are in trouble now..."
Because of their different beliefs and competing interests, there had been a long history of friction between the Will of Elents and the Hand of Paleness. As the director of the forr, Gaston had a poor relationship with many senior-rank sorcerers from the latter. Now, seeing the evidence that Life Force Theory might soon be overthrown, he was certainly in a schadenfreude mood. Gaston’s own ditation environnt only had a very limited connection to Life Force Theory, so he did not need to worry about himself at all.
He wondered why Lucien put such an important experint in his project paper. He wanted to know whether Lucien had ever heard about Life Force Theory. In Gaston’s mind, he tended to believe that it was more likely that Lucien knew nothing about it, or he would definitely be influenced by this classic theory, and he would not be able to conduct his experint outside the theoretical frawork. As for Lucien’s gift in arcana, Gaston had no doubt toward it at all. In Gaston’s mind, Lucien had a rigorous way of thinking, the courage to make bold hypothesis and the spirit to seek for proving. Furthermore, now Gaston felt that Lucien’s ability in doing experints was also impressive.
"Bang!!"
When Gaston was about to leave the lab, the lab door was broken open, and the magic circles on it were broken as well.
"Who is that?!" asked Gaston in an alert way. Instantly, he was covered by a colourful spherical shield.
Seventh-circle spell, Magic Reverse Enchantnt.
"Gaston! Did you see the paper from Evans? The last part! The experint of synthesizing carbamide!" Raventi was really loud.
After staring at Raventi for a few seconds, Gaston sighed, "Knock before entering, please."
"I’m too excited for that!" Raventi did not really care, "I asked you, did you read the paper... Wait, you’ve tried it as well?!"
Raventi saw the reactor on the other side of the lab and the white particles in the magic glass tube.
Gaston made a gesture to ask Raventi to lower his voice, "Yes, Mr. Raventi, I’ve proved the validity of Evans’ experint, but I think that there’s still lack of a piece of decisive evidence, as the Hand of Paleness might not admit carbamide to be a life ingredient. By the way, Mr. Raventi, did you show the paper to anyone else?"
"No one except you." Although Raventi had a pretty bad temper, as a level-nine arcanist, he was not an idiot. He instantly understood why Raventi asked it, "You want to hide the paper from those necromancers first until there are any decisive findings?"
Gaston nodded seriously, "The keywords for the paper are Elent and Alchemy, so technically speaking, the paper does not have much to do with the school of Necromancy. In other words, most likely, those necromancers haven’t read the paper. My only concern is that, on Evans’ side, he might have talked about it with other people already."
Gaston was more than happy to have this chance to attack the Hand of Paleness with so decent research findings.
"I do not agree with you, Gaston." Raventi shook his head seriously, "This is an overturning finding. Unlike so unique spells being created, this kind of finding should be revealed to the public as soon as possible, so more arcanists can join the discussion, and thus the decisive evidence, if there’s any, can be found in the shortest period of ti. Gaston, you still rember the fundantal spirit that the Congress of Magic builds on? Exploration of truth and candid communication!"
After thinking a bit, Gaston nodded, "All right. I’m just concerned that the upcoming great debate might put Lucien in a dangerous place."
"Let Lucien move into the house between ours," answered Raventi quickly, "But before that, I need to talk to the druid leaders to test validity of the first part of Lucien’s paper, so they can see so hope in increasing grain yield."
...
"Evans, now, do you understand how important Life Force Theory is in the school of Necromancy?" Woods just spent about ten minutes on explaining the theory to Lucien.
Lucien put on an "ah ha" look, "Yes, thank you, Mr. Woods. As I specialize in the school of Elent and Astrology, I really had no idea about what it was, not to ntion understanding its importance in history. But, Mr. Woods, I still don’t know why this is related to my carbamide synthesizing experint?"
"....." Woods was speechless. What Lucien just said proved that he was literally from ancient magic background, as he did not have so common sense in contemporary magic system.
"Well..." Woods tried to make it easy and simple, "Carbamide is a life ingredient... or say, most people regard carbamide as a life ingredient. There’s no clear definition of life ingredient."
Lucien said in a half-joking way, "Mr. Woods, does it an that my paper’s accidentally overthrown Life Force Theory? Is my paper gonna get a high rating? Maybe I can win the Immortal Throne award?"
"It’s hard to say, as there’s no decisive evidence in your paper. So stubborn necromancers might not admit that Carbamide is a life ingredient." Woods frowned, as he was also influenced by the theory, "If I were you, I would not be looking forward to winning Immortal Throne award, but be rather watchful after the news cos out tomorrow. You know, so stubborn and insane necromancers might..."
"I’ll stay in the manor for the following several days, which is very close to Mr. Raventi and Mr. Gaston," answered Lucien. "Mr. Woods, are you still gonna publish the paper?"
"Of course, this is gonna be the first paper on the next issue of Common Arcana, and I think there are gonna be more articles discussing your experint coming out later, so we can collect those articles and put them there as well." Woods planned in a smart way.
At this ti, Raventi’s voice ca in from behind the door, "Are you in there, Evans?"
"Yes?" Thinking of all those mathematics and arcana exercises that he had not finished yet, Lucien opened the door reluctantly.
Raventi was still wearing his black magic robe, on which the order of the elents had been rearranged, "Gaston and I have reviewed your paper and the final rating from Arcana Review Board has been sent back. By the way, move into the room next to mine as soon as possible."
"I will." Lucien hurriedly nodded, and then he started reading the rating result, "The paper has successfully provided several solutions with regards to whether and how alchemical products can facilitate the growth of plants. Therefore, it is of so importance and can be quite pervasive. Among the several experints designed and presented in the paper, the experint focusing on synthesizing carbamide reveals, excitingly, the possibility that a classic theory, Life Force Theory, might not be valid, and this is overturning, which makes the paper rather worth of great discussion. In conclusion, the paper is overturning and of great value, thus a reward of fifty arcana credits and three hundred arcana points is given to the author."
"All of your three papers have received very high comnts," Woods said a bit emotionally. As an arcanist who was already close to level five, among so many papers he had submitted, unlike that of Lucien, only a few were spoken highly of. So, Woods was feeling a bit depressed.
After a while, he cheered himself up a little and asked, "Will the project still go on? It sounds like you’re still staying for a few more days, Mr. Raventi."
"Yes, Mr. Malfurion has decided to send so druids back, while he and the rest of the druids will stay longer to see if the alchemical product discovered in Evans’ paper can really solve their problem," answered Raventi, looking quite serious, as Malfurion had made it clear that they would not cooperate with the arcanists to let them study the Mind of Nature anymore.
"By the way, Mr. Lord of Storm and Ms. Hathaway, after reading Evans’ paper, have made the decision that any arcanists who join this discussion can get so credits, and papers cited in the discussion can still get citation credits as well."
The great significance lying in the periodic table of elents still required more ti to reveal itself, and the establishnt of a new field also needed ti. Therefore, the great return of the periodic table of elents was not there yet.
anwhile, overthrowing an old, classic theory could be even more influential.
...
The early morning the second day, nshaque, a necromancer from the Hand of Paleness, was reading the project newspaper with a plate of buttered bread in front of him.
As a senior mber of the Hand of Paleness, nshaque was almost four hundred years old, and he had already turned himself into a lich. He did not need to eat, but he ate for pleasure. nshaque was a level five arcanist, seventh-circle necromancer, and in this project working with the druids, he was in charge of a research group.
"The thod for Large-scale Production of the Several Useful Alchemical Products Found in Oat Planting Experint and the Discussion of Their Proper Use?" The paper instantly drew nshaque’s attention, as he wondered if those guys from the Will of Elents had figured out anything. Although the necromancers also had made so progresses, such as using life force to stimulate the growth of plants or using the undead to farm, the popularity of these thods was still a problem.
After reading the paper for a while, nshaque’s bony hands with only a thin layer of skin covering them started trembling.
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