Throne of Magical Arcana Chapter 348: Everything Is Ready

Chapter 348: Everything Is Ready

Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion

On the first day of September, the latest issue of Arcana was released.

As they were working for Atom Institution, Lazar, Rock, and Jero could now afford to buy every month’s Arcana, and they did not need to go to the library to borrow the journals to save money anymore.

"This assumption is completely beyond my imagination! But I have to say that the formula indeed can be explained based on the assumption." In the eting room, when the institution mbers were waiting for Lucien’s arrival, Lazar exclaid. However, because of his arcana knowledge in thermal radiation was not adequate, and also because of most arcanists’ attitude toward Lucien’s assumption, Lazar believed that this assumption would sooner or later be replaced by another explanation which made sense.

Only those arcanists who had once derived the formula in person and who had seen that all the possible explanations failed to serve the formula could see the rationality of Lucien’s assumption, which could push their cognitive world into a great chaos since the assumption conflicted with the fundantal belief of the arcana world and the theory of Mr. Brook. anwhile, for those who did not have this profound understanding of this topic, on the contrary, they would not be affected in the sa way.

Rock stood up and walked back and forth excitedly in the classroom, "Lucien’s aweso! He’s the only person who could make this incredible assumption! I love the subversiveness! I shall hug him when he arrives! I shall hug my idol! The study of arcana should not be like a stagnant pond, but full of storms!"

It seed that Rock wished that he was the one who ca up with the assumption.

Jero’s face looked a bit pale, but soon he cald down, "This is just an assumption, and we don’t have put too much thought into it for now. Just use the formula. Leave the tough problem to the grand arcanists."

"That’s very typical of Jero. Always calm." Lazar grinned. He did not really mind the assumption, maybe purposefully.

anwhile, the apprentices were sitting on the other side of the eting room. They did not really understand what the arcanists were talking about.

At this ti, Lucien walked in with a thick pile of paper and a copy of Arcana. He smiled and said to the institution mbers, "Now let’s see what we have done in the past week."

...

In Allyn, be it in the magic towers, under the trees, in the grand coaches, or any other place, countless arcanists were greatly shocked when encountering Lucien’s bold assumption in the latest issue of Arcana.

However, soon, the sa comnt—"This is just an assumption"—could be heard in every corner of the city. When they were saying so, there was fear and worry in their voice. They would only need the formula and the constant for improving the spells...

And they also wondered what the term, cathode ray, ntioned in the paper, ant.

...

In Rentato, the royal magic tower of Holm, the headquarter of the Will of Elents.

K was reading Arcana carefully, and his hands were shaking slightly. There were already three silver stars on his arcana badge, and the tiny silver dots surrounding the stars were quite nurous, which ant that he was close to becoming a level four arcanist.

The citation of the theory of valence and ionization had brought him a good amount of credits.

"Evans is really a genius without restraint," said soone next to the door after releasing a heavy sigh. The words woke K up from his nightmare.

"If it was , I would never be able to put forward such an assumption. I would never be able to jump out of the fundantal arcana system," Larry said to K and entered the office. There were five silver stars on his arcana badge.

K responded in his deep voice, "Although it’s just an assumption, it’s still beyond thrilling. If sohow the assumption can be proved as correct, there will be a great storm in the Congress. And I dare not imagine how great a pressure Lucien would be put under if that was the case..."

"Don’t think too much. We shall focus on our own research." Larry knew what K was talking about. He was well aware of the fact that even the most open-minded middle-rank arcanist still had to spend a long ti to accept Lucien’s idea, not to ntion the grand arcanists up there, "By the way, the grand arcanists have decided to grant the Holm Crown Prize for my contribution to the theory of valence and ionization, and the na of the ring will be Ionization. K, I’m sorry that I failed to persuade them to let you share the prize with ."

Because the improvent of the theory of valence and ionization was a process over ti, Larry first did not recognize their value. Thus, he did not ntion K’s na in many of the related papers. On the contrary, K, as Larry’s student, strictly stuck to the tradition and always put Larry’s na before his.

But what was more important was that Morris, the president, was being cheap again as the budget of the Will of Elents beca quite tight again after giving out Holm Crown prize three tis in succession. There was no way that Morris would agree on spending more money on another ring.

K did not mind it. After all, it was just a special case that Isabella and Rachel could share the honor. He scratched his head a bit and grinned, "It’s okay, sir. What is confusing the most is why the different ions can carry electrons and positrons... What’s the explanation behind it?"

"You also start to ask why now, like the person who has the sa na as yours." Larry touched his brownish-yellow beard and joked, "What’s bothering you is going to be our next research focus, and also, we can reproduce Lucien’s cathode ray experint."

...

In the far northland, in a crystal clear, ice palace.

As if the palace was in a totally separate world, it was not affected by the heavy storm at all. anwhile, it seed that the palace was connected to so other strange dinsions.

In one of the studies in the palace, the elf-looking beauty, Hellen Price, was reading a letter. Beside her was the latest issue of Arcana.

"... I think Lucien Evans’ contribution to the field of thermal radiation research well deserves Ice & Snow dal. Although his assumption that energy cos in potions has not been verified, it can still be regarded as an explanation. His formula and constant are so accurate that they can for sure improve the researches in thermal radiation... Of course, I have to admit that I like how they call every potion of energy - quantum.

"Your friend, Derrick Douglas"

After reading the letter, Hellen pondered for a while and then picked up the quill,

"... As far as I know, Lucien’s explanation has not been accepted by the public, or, I should say, barely anyone would agree with the explanation. Right now many will not agree on granting Lucien Evans Ice & Snow dal, or the reputation of the award would be severely damaged. Also, because Evans was Fernando’s student, we should be even more cautious... In ten years, if no new explanations can be found, and when Evans’ formulation and constant are widely applied, at that ti, it wouldn’t be too controversial to give him the honor..."

...

In the eting room of Atom Institution.

"... So, from the previous experints, I found that cathode ray can only march a few centiters in air, and that’s why we ignored its existence before." Lazar’s face was glowing with excitent when sharing his findings with the other mbers. Behind him was the piece of glass reflecting green light.

Under Lucien’s instruction, in this month, Lazar, Rock, Jero and the apprentices had all devoted themselves to the study full of passion. Every single one of the sorcerers had finished at least seven papers, and the apprentices also did four. As four Lucien himself, he had developed ten papers. The papers were about the absorption of the ray, its penetrating property, and the change of the shadow positions in the strong magnetic field and electric field.

Their conclusion was that cathode ray was probably a negatively charged particle stream. And they had figured out the design of an isolation device for casting pure rays to determine the charge mass ratio through the ray’s trajectory in the electromagnetic field. So they could tell what kind of particle they were.

Since the cathode ray could penetrate the foil, Rock and Jero also put forward their opinion that it might not be so kind of particle stream, but they currently still had no idea what it should be. The asurents of the velocity of the cathode ray shattered their initial thought that the ray was a kind of electromagnetic wave, as it was proved that the speed of the ray was much less than that of light.

When Lazar finished, Rock also shared his work, "...No persistent deflection of the cathode ray has been found in the strong electromagnetic field, and thus we might be wrong in saying that it is charged. As for the previous experintal results, they are probably misunderstood by us because of the complex gas environnt within the magic circle..."

Both Jero and Lazar agreed.

Although the apprentices were capable of doing the specific researches and developing the experint reports, when the arcanists were talking about serious arcana knowledge, they were still having a difficult ti understanding their words.

"I think there might be so other interference factors... I need so ti to redesign the experint." Lucien expressed his opinion.

The pressure from the thin air would make it impossible for small particles to deflect, which would require the vacuum environnt. And so far, Lucien was well aware that none of the congress’s magic circles could do this. As cathode rays were in fact streams of electrons, they were still so distance away from the discovery of electrons and seeing the internal structure of an atom.

The belief that an atom was an indivisible unit would remain unshakable for a while in the world of arcana.

The grand gate of the world of microcosm was looming, but it had not been pushed open yet!

Lazar, Rock and the rest of the arcanists were all happy hearing that Lucien was going to handle the challenging, theoretical task himself. They would rather focus on conducting the specific cathode ray experints because these experints could bring them the real arcana credits. They did not want to waste their ti on such a vague topic that they could not find a direction at all!

After submitting the paper announcing the discovery of cathode ray, Lucien got thirty arcana credits and each of the arcanists got five. The apprentices were not yet qualified to put their nas on the paper.

Although the reward was already very decent to most of the junior-rank arcanists, what the institution mbers got was even more than that. On average, each of their paper had brought them four arcana credits. Among them, Lazar was the most outstanding one—in the past month, Lazar had got thirty credits in total with the papers he published, which made him only ten credits away from becoming a level three arcanist. Rock and Jero were also level two arcanists now.

And they would also be expecting more citation credits later. They loved their experints so much!

The apprentices also had thirteen to fourteen credits now. Although they had not found the ti to get the badge, or they would have already beco real arcanist.

Most arcanists would drop their chin at how fast the institution mbers made the progress.

...

In a monastery in Rentato, Holm.

A bishop was introducing the foundation of divinity modified and improved by the popes to the several pastors in training.

"The Lord first created different atoms, and they are the tiniest units in the world that cannot be further be divided. The Lord then created all the things with the atoms..."

...

Today’s discussion of cathode ray was over. Jero started to share the progress they had made in their ultralow temperature experint.

Jero looked quite cheerful, "Lucien, we’ve found that at minus 185 Degrees Celsius, the property of charcoal changes dramatically and it becos very easy for it to absorb air."

"Excellent." nodded Lucien. Although there were other ways of creating a vacuum environnt, using charcoal was the best way for sure.

And their next step would be redesigning the magic circle to asure the charge mass ratio of cathode ray!