43 A Real Professor (1/2)

Chapter 43: A Real Professor

Translator: winniethepooh, Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

After he roughly went through some of the formulas in the article, Lucien found that the formulas in this world were basically consistent with what he had learned before, at school. If there was no calculation mistake, the sorcerer should be able to locate and find the planet. However, including the author, no one ever managed to arrive on the target planet.

“So weird…” Lucien thought to himself, feeling confused. Then he saw the author’s introduction:

Oliver Constantine—Grand arcanist; Legendary archmage; Level three in the profession of “the Hand of Annihilation”.

“It looks like the title of grand arcanist is even superior than legendary archmage, and the two titles are not overlapping. They should belong to different evaluation or ranking systems—the latter is decided by how powerful the sorcerer or sorceress is, while the former depends on one’s contribution to the study of arcana…” Lucien was guessing. Then when he looked at the other authors’ titles in the journal, his thought was proved right: All of them had two different titles, for example, “level eight arcanist, 9th circle Astrology mage”, “level six arcanist, 8th circle Element mage”… Lucien also noticed that, in most cases, the authors’ levels in arcana were lower than their magic power ranks. Therefore, it seemed the achievement in academic study was even harder.

Some of the rest of the articles were:

“Study of String Vibration in Some of the Magics”

“Brief Introduction of Differential Method and Infinite Series”

“Thoughts about Seven-bridge Problem”

“The Mutual Transformation Between Electricity and Magnetism in Magic”

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“A New Element Detected by a New Method”

“A Forever Debate: Whether Spiritual Power Exists in the Form of Wave or Particle — A Study of ‘Spirit Storm’”

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While Lucien was reading the book, other apprentices were observing him in secret.

Half an hour later, Lucien already had a general idea of the journal.

The study of arcana in this world could be understood as science on Earth. The development of mathematics and physics here was close to the one at the middle of the 18th century on Earth. Calculus had been basically built up, while there was a very rapid growth in the development of geometry. Also, the development in Mechanics and electromagnetism had been pushed further in this world. At the same time, some spells here were beyond the comprehension of Earth’s science, for example, Space Jump.

As for Element Magic, it was close to the development level of chemistry in the early nineteenth century on Earth. Researchers, or say, arcanists, had determined what particles made the elements and had realized that earth, fire, wind and water were actually not elements. Besides, they had started measuring atomic weight as well.

But the journal was published twenty years ago, Lucien speculated that the current development level of arcana should be even more advanced.

After he closed the journal, Lucien found that all the apprentices present were looking at him. He smiled and asked, “It’s a very interesting book. Can I keep it for about two weeks?”

“As long as you can answer my questions, Mr. Professor.” The voice of Philosopher sounded very old.