441 Crisis (2/2)

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Unwilling to see Brook, his students, and his supporters, Artil chose to live in the small town which was his hometown. His black, pointy magic tower always attracted lots of attention from the residents and travellers, who were in awe of it.

In his study, the extremely furious look on Artil's face had been replaced by appreciation and ecstasy,

”Haha, Light quantum, light quantum… Don't think I can't recognize you when you just changed the word! It's just another name for the quantum photon in the particle theory! Portions, with a minimum limit… Isn't that particles?!

”Quantizing light is no more than another exposition for particle theory, and the hypothesis explained the photoelectric effect perfectly! Lucien Evans deserves the reputation given to him! He's a genius! For sure, he's the most promising one who's gonna be a grand arcanist in the future!”

Lucien's proposal for launching the artificial planet helped Douglas greatly, and now he was explicitly supporting particle theory. Therefore, Artil started regarding him as his most trusted friend.

He felt thrilled imagining how those idiots who supported the wave theory of light would respond to the paper.

Feeling rather refreshed, Artil started writing to Drummond. He gritted his teeth while maintaining a big smile on his face. The only part that he was not perfectly happy with was the last paragraph of the paper, as it sounded a bit hesitant. But it did not really matter. If no one could overturn Lucien's hypothesis in a year, the fifty thousand arcana points would go to Lucien Evans. In fact, Artil wished that Lucien Evans could have taken away the points already!

After sending the copy of the paper to Drummond, Artil cheerfully thought to himself that now Lucien's hypothesis of energy quantum had sounded more reasonable to him if he set off and think deeper from the perspective of the particle theory.

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In Sorcerer Administrative Department, Eric received the review result of Lucien's paper.

As the witness of Lucien's multiple success, Eric turned the pages out of curiosity. Then his face stiffened, as he was also a firm supporter of the wave theory of light.

After he skimmed through the paper and read the comments, Eric had the impulse to write something to refute Lucien's idea. However, what happened when Lucien first came up with the periodic table of elements came back to his mind. At that time, Lucien's paper also got a very poor result, but it turned out to be rather valuable later when the new elements were discovered. The two board members that reviewed the paper apologized to him and re-evaluated the paper, giving an extremely high appraisal this time.

”This paper also contains many hypotheses based on the existence of the light quantum… Maybe…” Eric started feeling suspicious, but he soon decided to stop thinking about it. ”… I should wait until an accurate experiment comes out…”

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Under Lauren's effort, although it was still around two to three weeks ahead before the next issue of Arcana, all the arcanists had already been informed that Lucien Evans, the young genius arcanist, used the particle theory to explain the photoelectric effect and had put forward the hypothesis of light quantum. Many were hurling abuse at Lucien. But most people, like Eric, were more cautious and chose to remain silent for most of the time due to the many awards that Lucien had won. They were afraid that, if they get too emotional, once Lucien could carry out a solid experiment to support his paper, their head would explode.

Those people's attitude was further shaken when they found out that Lucien's hypothesis indeed could explain the photoelectric effect. Although from time to time, people would whisper criticism against Lucien's hypothesis, they were still waiting, waiting for the final answer.

In Allyn, the intense atmosphere lingered. Even Lazar and the apprentices had felt people's hostility. However, Lucien was not affected by it at all. He was still working on improving his meditation and constructing his sixth-circle magic.

Yet, radicals exist in every population. By the end of the month, Lucien received a thick pile of letters. These were all anonymous threatening letters.

Smiling, Lucien leafed through the letters, feeling like that he had turned into the shared public enemy of Allyn. However, when he saw one of the letters, he suddenly frowned,

”… Maybe I'm not capable of killing you, but what about your friends and students? Take back your ridiculous hypothesis, and admit your fault in front of all arcanists!”