348 Everything Is Ready (1/2)
Chapter 348: Everything Is Ready
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
On the first day of September, the latest issue of Arcana was released.
As they were working for Atom Institution, Lazar, Rock, and Jerome could now afford to buy every month's Arcana, and they did not need to go to the library to borrow the journals to save money anymore.
”This assumption is completely beyond my imagination! But I have to say that the formula indeed can be explained based on the assumption.” In the meeting room, when the institution members were waiting for Lucien's arrival, Lazar exclaimed. However, because of his arcana knowledge in thermal radiation was not adequate, and also because of most arcanists' attitude toward Lucien's assumption, Lazar believed that this assumption would sooner or later be replaced by another explanation which made sense.
Only those arcanists who had once derived the formula in person and who had seen that all the possible explanations failed to serve the formula could see the rationality of Lucien's assumption, which could push their cognitive world into a great chaos since the assumption conflicted with the fundamental belief of the arcana world and the theory of Mr. Brook. Meanwhile, for those who did not have this profound understanding of this topic, on the contrary, they would not be affected in the same way.
Rock stood up and walked back and forth excitedly in the classroom, ”Lucien's awesome! He's the only person who could make this incredible assumption! I love the subversiveness! I shall hug him when he arrives! I shall hug my idol! The study of arcana should not be like a stagnant pond, but full of storms!”
It seemed that Rock wished that he was the one who came up with the assumption.
Jerome's face looked a bit pale, but soon he calmed down, ”This is just an assumption, and we don't have put too much thought into it for now. Just use the formula. Leave the tough problem to the grand arcanists.”
”That's very typical of Jerome. Always calm.” Lazar grinned. He did not really mind the assumption, maybe purposefully.
Meanwhile, the apprentices were sitting on the other side of the meeting room. They did not really understand what the arcanists were talking about.
At this time, Lucien walked in with a thick pile of paper and a copy of Arcana. He smiled and said to the institution members, ”Now let's see what we have done in the past week.”
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In Allyn, be it in the magic towers, under the trees, in the grand coaches, or any other place, countless arcanists were greatly shocked when encountering Lucien's bold assumption in the latest issue of Arcana.
However, soon, the same comment—”This is just an assumption”—could be heard in every corner of the city. When they were saying so, there was fear and worry in their voice. They would only need the formula and the constant for improving the spells…
And they also wondered what the term, cathode ray, mentioned in the paper, meant.
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In Rentato, the royal magic tower of Holm, the headquarter of the Will of Elements.
K was reading Arcana carefully, and his hands were shaking slightly. There were already three silver stars on his arcana badge, and the tiny silver dots surrounding the stars were quite numerous, which meant that he was close to becoming a level four arcanist.
The citation of the theory of valence and ionization had brought him a good amount of credits.
”Evans is really a genius without restraint,” said someone next to the door after releasing a heavy sigh. The words woke K up from his nightmare.
”If it was me, I would never be able to put forward such an assumption. I would never be able to jump out of the fundamental arcana system,” Larry said to K and entered the office. There were five silver stars on his arcana badge.
K responded in his deep voice, ”Although it's just an assumption, it's still beyond thrilling. If somehow the assumption can be proved as correct, there will be a great storm in the Congress. And I dare not imagine how great a pressure Lucien would be put under if that was the case…”
”Don't think too much. We shall focus on our own research.” Larry knew what K was talking about. He was well aware of the fact that even the most open-minded middle-rank arcanist still had to spend a long time to accept Lucien's idea, not to mention the grand arcanists up there, ”By the way, the grand arcanists have decided to grant me the Holm Crown Prize for my contribution to the theory of valence and ionization, and the name of the ring will be Ionization. K, I'm sorry that I failed to persuade them to let you share the prize with me.”
Because the improvement of the theory of valence and ionization was a process over time, Larry first did not recognize their value. Thus, he did not mention K's name in many of the related papers. On the contrary, K, as Larry's student, strictly stuck to the tradition and always put Larry's name before his.
But what was more important was that Morris, the president, was being cheap again as the budget of the Will of Elements became quite tight again after giving out Holm Crown prize three times in succession. There was no way that Morris would agree on spending more money on another ring.
K did not mind it. After all, it was just a special case that Isabella and Rachel could share the honor. He scratched his head a bit and grinned, ”It's okay, sir. What is confusing me the most is why the different ions can carry electrons and positrons… What's the explanation behind it?”
”You also start to ask why now, like the person who has the same name as yours.” Larry touched his brownish-yellow beard and joked, ”What's bothering you is going to be our next research focus, and also, we can reproduce Lucien's cathode ray experiment.”
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In the far northland, in a crystal clear, ice palace.
As if the palace was in a totally separate world, it was not affected by the heavy storm at all. Meanwhile, it seemed that the palace was connected to some other strange dimensions.
In one of the studies in the palace, the elf-looking beauty, Hellen Price, was reading a letter. Beside her was the latest issue of Arcana.