Throne of Magical Arcana

In the next half a month or so, apart from people discussing the birth of stars and the divine descent technique everywhere, cities such as Allinge, Rentat, and Reims were peaceful and peaceful, with no disturbances.

In this eerie calm where nothing happened as if it was just an ordinary celestial phenomenon, the time came to the new year in the 820th year of the sacred calendar.

After a short vacation, Lucien held the "Scepter of the Sun" transformed into a gentleman's cane, and while thinking about the initial establishment of the "Allinger Telephone and Telegraph Company" and the promotion of alchemy items, he stepped into the gate of the Atomic Research Institute.

Before he could take off his top hat and hang it on the coat rack, Lucien heard Lazar's uncontrollable trembling voice: "It turned out to be an artificial planet?"

"The star that illuminated half of the sky that night was actually created and 'launched' by His Excellency Speaker Douglas!" Heidi still retained the crisp and tender voice of a little girl, but at this time it was extremely sharp, as if it had been unimaginably powerful. Strongly shocked the soul.

Speaker Douglas published the experiment on "Arcane"? There was a flash of understanding in Lucien's heart, and then he smiled and greeted the frozen Lazar and Heidi: "Hi, Lazar, hi, Heidi, happy new year, you guys are really early."

Since he was promoted to the third ring, Lazar has already had the "consciousness" of an intermediate magician, and he has to read every issue of "Arcane" and "Magic" at the first time-in the past, because of his understanding of "Arcane" Most of the papers in the two journals "Spell" and "Magic" are incomprehensible, and I have no enthusiasm for buying them. I occasionally buy a few, and most of the time I go to the Arcane Library to borrow them. It is better to read "Elements" "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly" and so on, but now, because of the release of these two journals, he arrives so early every month and only for one or two days. Lucien has no doubts about this.

On the contrary, Heidi, who loves to sleep late, can get up so early, which makes Lucien a little puzzled.

"Mr. Evans, Annick has been promoted to the rank of official mage!" Heidi subconsciously turned her head to answer Lucien's question, clenched her fists and said, "I'm stimulated! I want to get up early to meditate! I want to get up early to study!"

Annick promoted? Although the communication satellite has not been launched during this period, Lucien is still unable to communicate with distant places, but the many things in the early days of the Allinge Telephone and Telegraph Company and its subsidiary "Voice of Mystery" consume almost all of Lucien's leisure time, except After chatting a few words during the New Year's dinner, he didn't pay attention to the status of these apprentices who were half of his students. He didn't even realize that Annick was on the verge of promotion.

And this also reminded Lucien that after laying the foundation, he would hand it over to professionals or magicians who like to manage it, and enjoy the benefits of shares. After all, the most important and fundamental thing for him is his arcane level and magical strength. Ascension, and improvements to alchemy items.

"When was he promoted?" Lucien asked happily.

Heidi clenched her small fists: "Yesterday! He has been busy with private experiments for a while, and he didn't even take a rest during the New Year's holiday. Yesterday, he seemed to have made a breakthrough. Before he had accumulated enough mental power, he had completed the improvement with the help of potions! If I hadn’t gone to him and asked him about a single problem, I wouldn’t have found it!”

"Being able to be promoted a few months after passing the coming-of-age ceremony, Annick is no worse than other magic apprentices of the same age." Lucien nodded in relief. It seems that the electrons were knocked out during the verification of the photoelectric effect. Annick has made considerable progress.

Thinking of this, Lucien had a sudden thought, won't his place become the kindergarten for winners of the Holm Crown Award (Silver Moon Medal, etc.) in the future? Will it be recorded in "History of Magic" in the future: "The small place of the 'Atomic Research Institute' has left many brilliant names, and there have been pioneers who will be admired by future generations"?

Although there is a paper on his own discovery of natural radiation, Annick may not be able to win the Holm Crown Award this time, but if he continues like this and explores the forefront of this field of elements, it may not be impossible in the future!

Heidi shook her fist again: "I'm no worse than them!"

At this moment, Annick, Splinter, Leilia and others walked in full of energy, with rare spirits.

"Congratulations, Annick, you have become an official magician." Lucien smiled and expressed his congratulations.

"What, you have been promoted to a full-time mage?" Splinter blurted out, he thought he would be the first to be promoted among several apprentices.

Leilia and Katrina also looked at Annick with surprise, joy, envy, and inexplicable melancholy. They couldn't believe that Annick, who was the most silent, taciturn, and non-existent among them, would become an official magician so quickly. .

Being watched by everyone, Annick's face turned red, and he said shyly: "Yesterday, the experiment made progress, and the meditation environment changed, so I took the potion to try to build a ring of magic, and it succeeded unexpectedly once. gone."

Having never been watched like this before, Annick was quite uncomfortable and almost buried his face on the ground.

"The verification is electronic?" Lucien asked with satisfaction.

Annick nodded: "Yes."

"This is an achievement with a glimmer of hope to win the Holm Crown Award." Lucien said half-jokingly.

A violent gasp came from the mouths of Heidi, Leilia, Katrina, and even Lazar. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there might be such a glimmer of hope!

Yesterday's magic apprentice was about to win the Holm Crown Award. This is even more legendary than legend. Even though Lucien, who received this highest honor before the real age of nineteen, had already become an official magician for almost a year.

Hearing gasps and exclamations, Annick became more and more uncomfortable. He shook his head: "I can't get it. This can only prove that the electrons come from the metal, but it cannot prove that the electrons come from the inside of the metal atom. For example, it may be Did they absorb free electrons when they bonded atomically?"

As he said that, he seemed to be talking to himself: "And even if there is hope to get it, I don't want to take it."

"Why?" Lucien asked very curiously. The same was true for everyone else. How could someone not want to win the Holm Crown Award?

Annick said embarrassingly: "I don't like to be noticed by others. Isn't it good to study, experiment, explore, and improve quietly like this?"

"If there is a day to win an award, and you refuse to win the award, you will receive more attention, which is unprecedented." Lucien smiled and dispelled Annick's thoughts.

"That's right..." Annick suddenly realized slowly.

At this time, Lazar came back to his senses, raised the "Arcane" journal in his hand, and said loudly: "Everyone, do you still remember the star that was destroyed by the divine descent technique when it was born more than half a month ago?"

"Remember, what's the matter?" Splinter's attention was quickly diverted, the impression he was left with that night was too deep!

Leilia and Katrina also looked over curiously, and the bright and bright stars were still deeply engraved in their minds.

Annick, who got rid of the gaze, quietly breathed a sigh of relief, his face recovered, and then looked at Lazar with the same expression.

In Allinge, if there is a magician who does not know the inside story and says that he is not shocked and curious about the nascent planet, it must be a lie.

When Lazar was about to show off the big news and express his shock, admiration, and admiration, Heidi snapped ahead: "That star was created and launched by Your Excellency the Speaker!"

"What?!"

"This is impossible!"

"Man-made? Human?"

Different exclamations expressed the same unbelievable.

"Really! The first paper of this issue of "Arcane" is Your Excellency the Speaker's "Summary of Using Artificial Planets to Simulate the Operation System of Celestial Objects"!" Lazar waved the "Arcane" unwillingly, "There are budget data, actual data, a comparison between the two, and a description of the trajectory. It is absolutely true!"

Those who have studied Douglas' theoretical system and achieved certain achievements, as long as they have the idea of ​​artificial planets, it is not difficult to use past data to build the entire model. Therefore, Douglas did not hide this experiment, and it will not be long before he understands it. I understand, and those who don’t understand don’t understand after reading it.

Of course, he properly concealed the specific operation situation, and Lucien's plan was only proposed in a small-scale discussion to avoid giving the enemy more revelations.

"This, is this still a human?" Leilia murmured in a low voice. For a magician who is good at astrology, the stars in the sky represent the fate of all intelligent creatures, but "fate" can be artificially created?

Splinter, Annick, and Katrina were all in a daze. During this period of time, their strength and knowledge had improved by leaps and bounds, and their secret pride was shattered by this shocking achievement.

But Lazar was puzzled to notice that Lucien kept smiling and remained silent, and he was not surprised. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration: "Lucien, you will also participate in this experiment, right?"

Immediately, everyone's eyes focused on Lucien's face.

"Provided some suggestions." Lucien smiled and nodded. As long as you don't say who the initiator is, there is nothing to hide. Anyway, the church's attention will definitely be on who completed the experiment.

Lazar clicked his tongue twice: "I don't know why, but I'm not surprised to hear that you participated."

Heidi, who was on the side, quickly flipped through the paper, and saw Douglas's words at the end without any surprise.

She read out clearly: "Thanks to Fernando, Begna, Lucien, Artier, Luciana, Norman who provided help in this experiment... Teacher really participated, this..."

They once again had a deep understanding of Lucien's "inhuman" nature.

"Let me see what other papers there are in this issue of "Arcane." Lucien reached out for the journal, and his copy should be in the committee member's office of the Arcane Review Committee.

After casually scanning the topic, Lucien suddenly saw an article by Altair at the end—discussion content that did not earn citation points: "Does "Ether" Really Exist?" "

Taking a breath, Lucien silently read this short article, which is like a declaration of battle:

"...The artificial planet experiment has effectively proved the theoretical system of Your Excellency the Speaker, and the speed of light experiment based on this system has also fully proved that the 'ether' does not exist."

"...I will offer a reward of 50,000 arcane points for other theoretical explanations of this experiment, including the theoretical explanation of ether!"

"Arcanists who question this experiment and believe in the existence of ether, please use your wisdom and 'imagination'!"

Lazar, who was twisting his head to read the article, suddenly cheered: "That's it, it's time for those guys who believe in fluctuations to face up to their mistakes!"

He and Roque and other elemental mages have always believed in particle theory.

Hearing Lazar's words, Lucien seemed to have a premonition that a big debate was coming.

Thank you for silently waiting for my friend to become the sixteenth leader of this book.

Also, when I saw the monthly ticket list, my friends and I were stunned. Today, there are more than 1,000 votes. This is not the end of the month, but the last day of the double. Anyway, thank you very much. At 2:30 and 7:00, I adjusted back after that.