"Congratulations, Mr. Evans, you are the only low-level arcanist I know who has passed the first two arcane papers."
Lucy's polite congratulations made Lucian's slightly ridiculous emotions disappear, yes, in fact, it was a blessing to be able to pass the review of the Arcane Review Committee, if it weren't for the experimental report of his own re-determination of the atomic weight of some elements, maybe the gentleman in charge of the review would have returned the paper when he saw his doubts about several recognized and correct atomic weights, that would be the worst situation.
Now that the paper has passed the review, find a way to make it take seriously.
This requires an arcanist to be able to discover new elements from strange magical minerals according to his own description - he has already guessed it in more detail, and at the same time, the description of aluminum-like elements can be found through spectral analysis, and silicon-like elements can be replaced by alchemical reactions to replace purification, and even the possible properties of minerals have some assumptions.
And if you want such an arcanist to appear, you must buy magic minerals to experiment with while letting more arcanists see this paper - the larger the base, the more arcanists are likely to re-examine the strange magic ores in their hands according to the paper's guesses.
The only ones that have such influence and are willing to publish articles on elemental theory are "Arcane", "Elemental", "Alchemy", "Holm Magic Newspaper", "Colette Arcane Theory", etc., and a little worse is "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly".
As for "Arcane Exploration" and "Magic Research Monthly", they are not in Lucian's consideration, and their influence is too low.
Excluding the few journals that do not publish papers of people other than their own magicians, the only ones that Lucian can choose from are "Arcane", "Elements", "Alchemy" and "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly".
The best choice is "Arcane", but the hope is extremely slim, but Lucian is never the one who gives up without even trying, so he got up and took his leave: "Ms. Lucy, thank you for your congratulations."
After coming out of the office, Lucian chatted with Cindy and Donna in the hall of the Magician Management Department, and learned from them the specific location of the headquarters of the "Arcane" journal on the tenth floor, and then took the elevator in the hall of the Magic Tower.
In the yellow-green light shield, the silver-gray disk slowly rose, and Lucian tried his best to calmly and implicitly expect to watch the figures of magicians and apprentices coming and going in the hall getting smaller and smaller.
When the elevator passed the ninth floor, Lucian pressed his right hand into the yellow-green light, and it bloomed into a silver-gray disk.
After absorbing the fine light, the silver-gray disk suddenly vibrated slightly when it was connected to the central hole of the fourth layer, stopped, and at the same time, the yellow-green light mask slowly cracked open a door-like opening.
Stepping out of the elevator, Lucian followed Cindy's description and easily found the hall with the silver word "Arcane" written on it.
The hall is paved with floor tiles that can be recognized, creating a magnificent, bright, quiet and elegant atmosphere.
Walking up to a man and a woman in charge of reception, Lucian politely asked: "Hello, I would like to know which gentleman do I need to find if I submit to the Arcane journal?"
The man who was originally talking to the beautiful lady took a closer look at the arcane and magic badges on Lucian's chest, then his smile disappeared and he asked seriously: "This gentleman, is it your arcane paper, or your teacher's or friend's arcane paper?"
Both men and women wear arcane badges with two silver stars on a black background, as well as nameplates with arcane words and their respective names written on them, but there are no magic badges, and it seems that everything here is mainly arcane.
"Mr. Gavin, it is my own paper that I want to submit to the journal Arcane." Lucian glanced at the man's nameplate, he had a name that was more popular than himself.
Gavin's expression became more serious, and he said in a businesslike manner: "I'm sorry, sir, the Arcane journal does not accept submissions from low-level arcanists."
"Really? Why can't I find this article in the rules of the Arcane journal?" How could Lucian be dismissed by him with just one sentence, and more seriously mentioned the obvious regulations.
Gavin was a little annoyed, did this magician really not know, or did he fake not know? This is an unwritten but true rule, can your thesis compete with those high-level arcanists, or even the great arcanists?
"There are indeed papers among intermediate and low-level arcanists that have been published in our journal, but they are all evaluated as of great significance during the review, and we directly request manuscripts. There has never been an example of a low-level arcanist being included in the list of low-level arcanists who submitted to us themselves." The lady, also named Heidi, was worried that Lucian was the kind of stubborn and rigid magician who was more serious to the end, so she explained a little politely.
Her worries were quickly "confirmed", and Lucian said reluctantly: "There was no precedent before, which does not mean that there is no now, and there will be no in the future. As long as it doesn't violate the rules, why don't you accept my submission? If the review is returned by Mr. Arcanist after submission, it is because the level of my own paper is not enough, and it is rejected according to the regulations, and I have no objection."
"Mr. Magician, you give me the arcane paper, and I will send it to the Arcanist's office. Today is the fourth day of the month, and there are not many new papers except for the papers that were confirmed to be published in the next issue last month, and I think the review results will come out soon." Gavin spoke faster, obviously annoyed, as if he wanted to send away this madman who couldn't communicate as soon as possible.
Lucian handed him the paper in his hand: "Then please, Mr. Gavin."
Gavin took Lucian's paper, entered a corridor at the back, and after reaching a place where no one was around, he opened it and read it carefully.
His thought was that if he couldn't determine the value of the paper, he would really send it to the office of the reviewing arcanists for their evaluation, and if he could confirm it, there would be no need to disturb a few high-level arcanists, so as not to be scolded.
When he first read it, Gavin was still very serious, because the periodic laws described were so obvious, and those properties were similar to terrifying, but looking at it, he sneered: "How can the atomic weight of the 'Temirik' element still be wrong? Only a few years ago a few high-level arcanists redetermined and corrected its values using several different methods. Can such a paper also pass the review committee? It must have been two gentlemen who gave it to their newly recruited students for review!"
The Temiric element is a strange element that makes up the soul.
Without reading any further, Gavin came back directly and returned the paper to Lucian: "This gentleman, the review arcanist scolded me severely. Because your paper is full of errors and omissions, it has no value at all, and he even wonders how you passed the committee's review!"
Lucian bared his teeth and couldn't find any signs to continue to persevere, so he had to return to the first floor with the paper, and then entrusted a messenger with a human head and eagle body to send the submission letter containing the paper to the headquarters of the "Elemental" journal of Rentatt in the Magician Management Department.
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As Gavin said, the review of various periodicals at the beginning of the month was not busy, and on the third day after sending it, the letter returned by the "Elemental" journal was delivered to Lucian's garden villa in Douglas School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
It happened to be Saturday afternoon, and Lucian saw the letter coming, and after casually assigning a few questions, he ignored the distorted expressions of Leilia and Heidi and walked aside to open the envelope.
"Dear Mr. Lucian Evans,
Your paper has some discussion value, but we have decided to include all the papers presented at the conference at the beginning of next month in Rentat at the beginning of next month, and we have decided to include all the papers presented at the conference.
All Elemental and Alchemist's Friends Elemental Journal
January 6, 817"
Lucian looked at the letter silently: "It seems that this is the legendary rejection letter, to put it really tactfully, if you really want to publish it, you can propose to arrange the paper in the next issue. But such a refusal is indeed very polite and not hurtful."
Thinking that after the New Year, he suffered setbacks one after another, Lucian seriously examined his destiny star and found that it was still vague, neither better nor worse: "The fortune has not changed, could it be that after arriving in Alinge, I couldn't write to Natasha and John for various reasons, so my character became negative?"
After laughing at himself, Lucian did not feel too much affection and assigned a practice test paper to Annick, Splinter and other apprentices, and then went to the headquarters of the Magic Council to submit it to the Alchemy Journal.
This review was much slower, and nearly two weeks later, when Lucian had purchased a full 200 arcane points of magic ore that matched his description and failed to find any new elements, the Alchemy Journal gave Lucian a reply. Unfortunately, it was still a rejection letter, and the tone was not as polite as "Elemental", directly pointing out the problem of atomic weight, and asking Lucian not to submit it again.
Lucian, who was holding the rejection letter, was a little nervous, if it could not be published in the journal at the end of this month, he would have to wait for the end of next month, and the arcanists' feedback would have to be postponed for another one to two months, the longer it was, the more dangerous it became.
However, Lucian calmly took a carriage to the "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly" headquartered in Alinge, and submitted the paper directly to its "Review Department".
To Lucian's surprise, four days later he received neither a rejection letter nor an inclusion notice, but an invitation from a level four arcanist named Woods.
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The headquarters of "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly", in a bright office.
"Actually, I'm one of the reviewers of your bat experiment paper, Evans, and I also sent that manuscript letter." Woods, who had a golden mustache, leaned back in his chair and looked at Lucian with a smile with his hands clasped in his hands.
Lucian on the other side of the desk held his black top hat and said sincerely: "Thank you, Mr. Woods, for your high evaluation, otherwise my thesis would be difficult for His Excellency to be seen by His Excellency the Great Arcanist."
"That would be a loss for the entire Magic Council. His Excellency the Storm Lord has constructed the prototypes of three magics: the Eye of Thunder and Lightning, Fernando's Lightning Furnace, and the Invisible Crematorium, which are very magical and the latter two are also extremely powerful. It's just that the spell model is still very complex, requiring seven or eight rings to construct and release, and he is slowly trying to simplify it."
Because the papers published in the "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly" were cited by the Great Arcanist and produced excellent results, Woods, who made the decision to evaluate and commission the manuscript, received great praise and rewards, and had a good impression of Lucian.
Lucian said humbly: "This is all the inspiration of His Excellency the Great Arcanist. By the way, Mr. Woods, please invite me here, are you discussing the publication of my current paper?"
"Yes, I read this paper of yours, Evans, which is very interesting and has discussion value. Without these bold speculations, it would be a compelling paper."
Woods pointed to the paper spread out in front of him, and implicitly said that he did not agree with the correction of some of the atomic weights, so he was not very optimistic about other predictions, "Even so, I think it has inclusion value and can open up the thinking of ordinary arcanists, but today is already the 22nd, and this issue of the paper released at the end of the month is already full, if Evans, you don't mind, I want to arrange it in the next issue, do you agree?"
He obviously decided to publish this paper because of his good feelings for Lucian, and inviting Lucian to tell him in person was to let him know the reason and understand who he needed to be grateful for. No one can guarantee that when Lucian grows up, he will be accepted as a student by His Excellency the Storm Lord, who has an impression of him, although there is little hope, but paying a little unimportant resources to invest, Woods thinks it is a good deal.
Next issue? Lucian hesitated.
(End of this chapter)