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Wearing his new badges, Lucien came back to the department hall.

Cindy and Dona congratulated Lucien sincerely and felt surprised that he became a level one arcanist so fast.

After having lunch with Cindy and Dona, Lucien went back to Douglas to wait for the review result of his paper.

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On the fourteenth floor of Affairs Committee, in an exclusive lounge.

Holding a glass of wine with his pale hand, Rogerio was quietly listening to the report of the tall undead spectre.

The spectre was wearing a black robe with a hood, which was different from the ancient style, and there were many mysterious white patterns on it. The eyes of the half-transparent spectre were shining with intimidating red light, and it’s thin skin was deadly pale.

”Adol, so you’re saying that Lucien’s just a normal, hard-working sorcerer, and he’s not seeing anyone who’s suspicious?” Rogerio’s tone speaking to the spectre was relatively respectful, as if the spectre was not something he summoned, but his partner.

”That’s right.” Adol’s hood moved slightly, ”His current research interest is elements, and he has just passed his basic arcana test. I did not find anyone else who was secretly watching or protecting him. You can trust my ability of traveling between the two worlds, Mr. Rogerio. No one except legendary sorcerers or level nine cardinals could sense my existence.”

”I see… It’s getting more complicated now.” Rogerio’s left hand covered his right hand holding the glass, ”Maybe the Will of Elements is using Lucien Evans to distract us, or how would this new sorcerer dare to use his original name in Allyn… It seems that we need to do something now, in order to make some progress…”

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Larry’s study.

Larry did not stop his own work until the owl, Mathew, came to remind him that it was close to the deadline of reviewing the several papers sent to him a couple of days ago.

As he was reading the papers, Larry found a familiar name, Lucien Evans, but after taking a second look, he noticed that the author was actually Lucien Evans X.

Because of the name, Larry started reading Lucien’s paper carefully.

In Larry’s eyes, although the periodic table of elements put forward by this Lucien Evans X was quite clear, nothing could verify whether the table was right or wrong unless some new elements were discovered. The discussion and exploration of the periodic order among elements was not something new, and the previous guesses had all proved to be wrong later.

As a level five arcanist specializing in the school of Element, when Lucien boldly pointed out that the measurement of some elements could be wrong because they did not fit the table, Larry slightly frowned, as Larry himself actually did some of the weighing several times and he found no error there.

Larry was about to directly fail this paper, but with a second thought, he murmured, ”I should verify the rest of the atomic weighs as well. Now I’m preparing the paper for the next month’s conference in Rentato… I’d better write this down and do it when I’m back…”

Then Larry started to write down his comment on Lucien’s paper.

At the same time, in another place, Timothy, a level four arcanist and a fifth circle sorcerer, who was the student of the seventh circle sorcerer, Overee, was also working on his comment for this paper.

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Three days later, Lucien asked for a leave again from the school and came to the Sorcerer Administrative Department. Eric was not here today, and Lucien visited a plump lady named Lucy, who was a level three arcanist, forth circle sorcerer.

”Ms. Lucy, I submitted my paper several days ago, and I wonder if the result is available now?” asked Lucien politely.

Although there was no smile on Lucy’s face, she had no intention to give Lucien a hard time. She nodded and took out a folder, ”First, the paper passed the review. According to Mr. Gaston and Mr. Overee, the paper put forward a new periodic table of elements for further exploration of new elements and boldly pointed out the possible mistakes that might exist in the measurement of atomic weight, however, at the same time, there is no solid evidence supporting that the author’s assumption is valid. As a paper worth of further discussion, one arcana credit and one arcana point is given.”

Although Lucien was relatively prepared, he found the result still quite disappointing, or say, ridiculous. He believed that this paper would be of great importance in the history of magic and the school of Element, but this paper only earned him one credit.