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Jingle Bell--

A bell rang, causing senior review member Sullivan to look up from his book and saw a blue flame flashing on the teleportation circle, and a paper appeared in the circle along with a note.

"This is really rare."

Sullivan is the Fifth Ring Master and the senior review member in charge of the Alchemy Department. Whenever there are differences among the ordinary review members, the paper will be sent to him for review.

However, alchemy is a faction that focuses on experiments. Most of the laws and theories are summarized through repeated experiments many times. Therefore, the method of verifying the paper is also quite simple, that is, conduct an experiment according to the paper. If the experimental phenomena match the description, then the paper is self-evident; if not, something is wrong.

Therefore, in most cases, it is difficult for papers from the alchemy department to be sent to the review committee at the upper level, because there will basically not be too many differences in experimental phenomena.

"Let me take a look. Is it a paper on new substances? Is it also a discussion of combustion reactions?"

Sullivan frowned slightly after seeing the title of the paper, and then looked at the note.

On the note are the evaluation opinions of the previous three review committee members for reference.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Most of the time, the papers passed to the upper-level review committee are mostly a mixture of approval and rejection opinions, but the review opinions in Sullivan's hands are clearly three "thesis approval".

It has obviously been unanimously approved, why is it still passed here? Is there something wrong with the paper review channel?

When he was still confused, Sullivan saw the bottom of the note and understood the reason.

The problem is with the review points.

There were three review opinions, one giving a high evaluation of two hundred points, one giving one hundred points, and the last one giving ten points that could be passed.

This gap is too big. Naturally, it is impossible for the review system to remove the highest score and the lowest score and then average it. It can only transfer it to Sullivan.

"Since they all passed the review, it means that there is no problem with the paper itself, so is there a disagreement about its value?"

This situation is very rare, especially in the field of alchemy.

Putting aside his doubts, Sullivan decided to read the paper from cover to cover.

At the beginning, he was still pleased with the strict format and precise sentence descriptions of the paper, but soon, when the protagonist of the paper, that special gas, appeared in the paragraph, the soft expression on Sullivan's face Disappeared.

Instead, he was serious and focused. He reviewed the paper word by word, sometimes stopping to think, and sometimes thinking again and again. After reading the entire paper, Sullivan stood up, immediately came to the laboratory, and conducted a complete Experiments described in the paper.

When Sullivan saw the gas produced in the experiment extinguish the match and turn the clear white rock solution cloudy, he felt a buzz in his brain.

In fact, alchemy mages have always wanted to find a more accurate description of combustion reactions. Although Master Hohenheim's combustion theory is universally applicable to most reactions, there are always some special alchemical reactions that do not conform to this theory. This is It is no secret among the intermediate alchemists of the Tower of Rainbow.

Of course, the vast majority of alchemists still hope to improve upon this theory rather than completely overturn it. After all, this is the cornerstone of modern alchemy. If it were to be directly overturned, Sullivan even thought it was possible to see the ancient times. The kind of brain-exploding spectacle.

"Whose disciple is this?"

It was only at this time that Sullivan thought of visiting the author. Sometimes, some masters would distribute their research topics to promising students to help these students improve their status in the academic world. Sullivan subconsciously thought that this article Papers are also of this type.

But he saw the author column of the paper,

The name "Linard Ingle" made him even more confused.

"Iain Gray? Isn't this the name of the man in charge of the business empire?"

After thinking about it, Sullivan summoned the elemental servants from the Rainbow Tower.

"Check the spell level and past papers of Reiner Ingle."

The elemental servant assigned to each review committee member by the Rainbow Tower is a creature called a crystal insect, which comes from a demiplane discovered by the mages. This creature looks like a ball of gray fluorescence and possesses a certain amount of intelligence and intelligence. Excellent memory.

The food of crystal worms is also very special, which is biological sleepiness.

Whenever a mage feels sleepy and wants to be lazy and fish out, the crystal worms will absorb their sleepiness, making them feel more energetic and focus on studying and working.

In the past, these elemental creatures were usually used by mages as props to refresh themselves. However, it is worth noting that although crystal worms can absorb sleepiness, they cannot eliminate fatigue. Relying on this thing for a long time is like being addicted to coffee, which can easily lead to Mentally and physically exhausted.

"As you command, my lord."

The crystal worm made a buzzing sound, wandered in the air for a while, and then answered.

"According to the latest version of the list of mages in the Tower of Rainbows (revised version on the 15th day of the Primrose Moon, 2318 in the Blue Moon Calendar), there are three people in Reiner Inglet, including a mage apprentice, a first-level mage, and a second-level mage. Mage."

The Crystal Insect reports the internal data of the Tower of Rainbow, which is updated once a week. It contains data on the ranks and spells of all registered mages, as well as a list of papers for mages above the fourth level, which is very useful for querying basic information. convenient.

"Report on the situation of the second-level mage."

Sullivan subconsciously eliminated the apprentice and the first-level mage. The paper he had in hand required not only a wealth of knowledge, but at least a lot of experiments to write it. Unless he was a genius in the alchemy department, a first-level mage was no matter what. There is no way I can write such a beautiful paper.

"Linard Ingle is a second-level mage. His teacher is Brown Ainuit, a fourth-level mage. His specialty is necromancy and transmutation."

"Death and transformation system?"

Sullivan was even more confused. The necromancy and transmutation systems were inherited from ancient magic. There are not many theoretical explanations of modern magic. How could a mage who specializes in these two systems of magic write this alchemy paper?

"Where are the data of the first-circle mage?"

"Leiner Ingle is a first-level mage. His teacher is the fourth-level mage Bolivar Sethi. His specialty is the mechanical system."

The crystal worm reported in a deep voice, making Sullivan frown.

"Mechanical department, that's even more impossible. How can those guys who want to marry metal know alchemy?"

It was rare to become a little irritable, Sullivan, who had never been on good terms with mechanical mages, said to himself, but there was only one possibility for the next step.

"A mage apprentice?"

Since the mage apprentice does not have a formal mentor, there is no data on how he is good at spells. However, after excluding the first two people, the third one is undoubtedly the most likely. Sullivan also checked with the second author Charlotte Clune. According to the information, it was discovered that this person was also a mage apprentice, which further confirmed this view.

"This is really interesting."

Sullivan thought and turned his attention back to the review comments of the paper.