205 Invitation from Woods (1/2)
Chapter 205: Invitation from Woods
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
”Congratulations, Mr. Evans. You are the only junior-level arcanist I know whose first two papers passed the board’s review,” said Lucy politely.
Lucien had to admit that he was already lucky that this paper could be approved by the board. If he had not attached his experiment report in the end of his paper, the board members might have directly rejected the paper. Now that the paper had passed the review, Lucien needed to find ways to help it get more attention.
This required that other arcanists could discover new elements following the ideas in his paper. Lucien tried to elaborate the ideas as clear as possible. He suggested to use spectrum analysis to study the aluminum-like element and to discover silicon-like element by investigating certain alchemical reaction, and Lucien even included the possible character of some mineral substances.
To have more arcanists who were interested in the paper, and to verify its correctness, Lucien needed to let more arcanists read this paper, and he would also conduct further experiments himself. Lucien was hoping that more sorcerers and arcanists would carefully recheck the ores they had.
Among all the influential journals, the ones which accepted papers of the school of Element were Arcana, Element, Alchemy, Holm Journal, Colette Arcana Theory and Common Arcana. However, among them, only Arcana, Element, Alchemy and Common Arcana accepted individual contribution.
Lucien would not consider other journals since they were not influential enough, and his ideal journal was of course Arcana, although he knew that his chances there were slim to none. Nevertheless, Lucien still wanted to give it a try.
”Thank you, Ms. Lucy.” Lucien nodded and then left the office.
After chatting a bit with Cindy and Dona, Lucien got to know where the headquarter of the journal, Arcana, was. It was on the tenth floor.
Taking the magic elevator, Lucien stood on the silver round platform and smoothly rose up. Staring at the main hall down there, Lucien felt nervous and expectant.
When the elevator reached the ninth floor, Lucien pressed the button covered with yellow and green light. Then the silver platform started absorbing the light.
When the light was gone, the silver platform suddenly shook a bit and then stopped at the tenth floor.
Stepping out of the elevator, Lucien came to the main hall on this floor - the reception hall of the journal, Arcana.
The hall was grand but also quiet. The floor was paved with fine tiles.
Lucien walked to the reception desk, behind which there was a lady and a man. Lucien asked them politely, ”Excuse me… I wonder how I can submit my paper here?”
The man stopped talking to the beautiful lady and turned to Lucien. After checking the badges Lucien was wearing, he looked serious, ”May I ask if it’s your own paper? Or your friend’s or teacher’s paper?”
Both the man and the lady were wearing two-star arcana badges, their own nameplates, but no magic badge. Here in this place, everything was about arcana.
”Mr. Garvin, it’s my own paper.” Lucien took a glance at his nameplate. The name, Garvin, was even more common than Lucien.
Garvin looked even more serious, and he said cut and dry, ”Sorry, sir. We do not accept contribution from junior-rank arcanists.”
”Is that right?” Lucien insisted, ”I did not find this rule in the contribution regulation of Arcana.”
Garvin was slightly pissed off. Although the journal did not make this rule explicit, the requirement did exist. In Garvin’s eyes, there was no way that a junior-rank arcanist could compete with other senior-rank arcanists or even grand arcanists.
”We did publish several papers from junior-rank arcanists before, but all these papers, when they were passing through the review of the board, were all rated as of great significance, and then we sent them our contribution invitation letters,” explained the lady beside Garvin. ”We never accepted any individual junior-rank arcanist’s contribution.”
”But I’m not breaking the rules, right?” Lucien did not give up easily, ”At least Arcana should review my paper first. If my paper was not qualified and thus got rejected, I would be totally fine with it.”
”Then, sir, give me your paper, and since we’re only on the fourth day of the month, you’ll know the result right away,” said Garvin swiftly, as he was already fed up with talking to Lucien.
”Thank you, sir.” Lucien handed his paper to Garvin.
As soon as Garvin got his paper, he walked away and came to a quiet and empty corridor. Then, he started reading Lucien’s paper.
He was going to check Lucien’s paper himself first. If he could not be certain of the actual value of this paper, he would send it to the reviewing department, but otherwise he would directly turn the paper down himself.
At the very beginning, Garvin was reading very carefully, as the periodic table of elements looked very persuasive, but later, he sneered,
”Kidding… the atomic weight of Termirick is wrong? It was already corrected by several senior-rank arcanists several years ago, using different experiment methods. I can’t believe this paper even passed the review of the board…”