440 Reviewing and Being Reviewed (2/2)

It turned out to be worse than ever. The author did not even understand the theoretical system that he wished to overthrow before claiming that he had found its problems. Lucien started to feel that the previous authors were in fact quite sweet, since at least the problematic parts were in the reasoning sections.

”Not bad as a joke though…” Lucien picked up the quill-pen and started marking.

In Sorcerer Administrative Department, there was a totally absent-minded look on Eric's face. His sat still with his eyes staring forward at the void.

Sitting in front of him was a black-haired, blue-eyed, good-looking young man in his early thirties. Words were pouring out from his mouth. ”Based on my years of studying, I have located the fatal error in Mr. President's theoretical system in Force Field. My finding is powerful enough to pierce through the seemingly solid system and save all arcanists in the Congress from the misunderstanding which has lasted for hundreds of years.”

Eric did not want to say anything else. The man sitting in front of him was a sorcerer specializing in the school of Electromagnetics. Obviously, he knew nothing much about the Force Field theories.

”Unfortunately, most members of the board don't have their own thoughts. All they want to do is to follow the authority. However, now we have Mr. Evans, a young and brave board member who dares to challenge the errors. I'm sure he'll be able to understand my paper and face the errors. I will earn my honor back,” said the man triumphantly and confidently.

Eric touched his thin hair and said, ”Peavy… There are still other people waiting… You can come back three days later.”

Peavy shrugged. ”What a pity. I was going to tell you some details about my theoretical system.”

Suddenly, the iron cage burst out white light, and a document appeared inside.

”Hey… I think it's yours, Peavy.” Eric called Peavy, who was already at the door.

Peavy was very surprised. ”My paper deserves this fast response?!”

He wore a badge for fourth circle sorcerer and one for level-one arcanist.

Eric took a quick glance at the paper. The muscle of his face twitched a bit, and then he handed the paper back to Peavy. ”You may want to take a look at it yourself.”

Peavy turned the pages, only to find the many crosses in red ink. Following each cross, there were comments and the corresponding correct derivation process. At the edge of each page, there were strange comments such as ”Two points are deducted.”

Seeing the red crosses, a blue vein bulged in Peavy's forehead. All he could see now were the red crosses.

He quickly turned to the last page, and saw Lucien's comment: ”Starting from the full score,100 points, after deducting all the points for the errors, only 1 point is left. Ten points are given for the clean-looking handwriting. 11 points in total. The standard for passing is 60 points. Therefore, the paper fails to pass.”

Lucien had veto power on deciding whether a subversive paper could pass. Also, the paper had been rejected by the other members before as well. Therefore, the alchemical life directly gave the final decision — Fail.

Peavy's face burnt as he saw Lucien's many comments.

In his mind, since all of Lucien's comments were against his derivation and reasoning, Lucien must be wrong!

”Evans has nothing different! He's just another puppet of the authorities! He doesn't want to see a genius like me to rise, doesn't want to see me overthrow the president's system, doesn't want to see me win even more prizes than he had!” Peavy turned around angrily and left the office. There was hatred in his voice.

Eric released a long sigh. In his opinion, the Congress should put these people together, and let them have fun and argue within their own small circle.

...

Since it was Lucien Evans's paper, the electromagnetic golem directly informed Lauren, instead of sending it to his students and the editors of the journal Light-darkness.

One day later, archmage Lauren came back to Allyn and started reading the paper.

”Stupid and stubborn! Why is he still bothering with his hypothesis on energy quantum? Ridiculous…” Lauren dropped the paper, looking rather pissed. ”How dare he to even try to quantize light?! That's drawing close to the particle theory!”

Lauren started doubting Lucien's past achievements, wondering if it was just because of his good luck. The paper submitted by him completely made no sense, and there was no evidence at all!

”I am going to do an accurate photoelectric effect experiment and throw the result on your face!” Lauren's fury was burning, as the two theories that he believed in were under the attack from Lucien's absurd hypothesis.

However, after he calmed down, Lauren realized that currently, he was not capable of carrying out the experiment because of the limitation of apparatuses. But this did not mean that he could not give the review comment. So he sat back at the desk and grabbed his quill-pen.