187 Developing the Paper (2/2)

In the end, Lucien explained that because of the complexity of the structures of a bat’s organs, he needed to use a real bat’s brain tissue as the tool for casting the spell.

After carefully going through the whole paper again, Lucien analyzed the apprentice spell, Bat Screaming, on another piece of parchment and explained how to use it, as a new spell to be submitted to the congress.

When Lucien stood up after finishing all of the work, he took a glance at the clock and found that the whole thing only took him less then half an hour. He was quite confident that no similar research had been done before him in this area, since when he was teaching Annick, Heidi and Layria basic arcana, he never encountered anything similar to this.

Opening the meeting room’s door, Lucien saw Lazar, who was walking back and forth in the corridor.

Hearing the door opening, Lazar turned around fiercely and asked, ”Mr. Eric told me that you’re writing a paper, are you?!”

”Yes, but nothing big. I’m just introducing how I improved a spell,” Lucien said casually to Lazar. ”When you were improving Lazar’s Burning Hand, you also wrote some papers, right?”

”Yes…” Lazar answered subconsciously. ”But this kind of paper, you know, following other people’s ideas and making improvements… often cannot pass the board’s review. In most cases, you can only earn points with the new spell submitted.”

”I know. I’m just trying.” Lucien smiled and shrugged.

”I see…” Lazar nodded, ”But wait… As a beginner in arcana, you can already improve spells? How’s this possible?”

Lucien answered, ”Come on… Ancient sorcerers also need to make improvements.”

Lazar made a long ”hum”, and nodded seriously, ”Then, Evans, I suggest you do not have too much expectation on earning any points with the paper.”

As Lucien was saying, he knocked at the door of Mr. Eric's office. Lucien and Lazar walked in the office together, and handed the paper to Eric.

Eric took a look at the long parchment in his hand, then nodded, ”I can tell that you’re very prepared, Evans. By the way, which field does the magic belong to, may I ask?”

”Sound wave,” answered Lucien short and clear.

Eric put the two rolls of parchment into two folders, and then he took a quill and wrote down ”sound wave” in one side of each of them.

Putting the two folders in the cage, Eric pulled the bell again.

White light instantly covered the cage, and when the light disappeared, the folders were already gone.

”About thirty minutes later, we’ll know the result.” Eric sat down again, ”But I suggest you do not have much hope, Evans.”

...

On the fifteenth floor of the tower. In a spacious office.

There were many bells ringing here. With the appearance of the complicated magic circles, many folders showed up out of nowhere.

There were no people in this office, just a pair of arms in the air picking up the folders.

”Element, to, Mr. Ravendi, Mr.Gaston.”

”Necromancy, to, …”

With some kind of machine talking, the arms put the folders back into the magic circles following different orders.

According to the rules of the congress, members of the highest council could not join Arcana Review Board, but they could be invited as special consultants when a paper was beyond the board’s knowledge.

For common papers, there were usually two committee members reviewing and judging a piece of work independently and then an average score was drawn. If there was disagreement, a third committee member would be involved. And if the problem still could not be solved, a small meeting would be hosted.

”Sound wave magic… to Magic Exchange Office first to make sure this is a new spell, and then to Mr. Garfield and Mr. Jeffrey.”

”The paper based on the same spell… then, to Mr. Garfield and Mr. Jeffrey directly.”

The lights were flashing in the office.