Meet the principal

Moving forward a few hours, we are located in the town of Griffin in the west of the kingdom.

Hans is the editor-in-chief of "Monthly Alchemist Griffin". The reason why their journal has such a unique name is entirely because when the journal was founded, Hans was obsessed with a book called " "Monthly Witch Nozhagi" novel, I registered this name as soon as I slapped my head, but by the time I regretted it, it was already too late.

Despite this unorthodox name, the fate of this journal was not smooth. Sales could not increase and there were only a few contributors. Every month when the publication date was approaching, Hans had to try his best to recruit people to write manuscripts. Filling enough space can be said to be physically and mentally exhausting.

It's the middle of the month, and Hans doesn't need to be so anxious yet. However, there are only three truly new papers that can be published this month. Most of the rest are repeated verification papers. In many cases, these papers are no more than The same experiment was carried out using a different substance. It has no innovative significance and is just repetitive work.

"well."

Just when Hans let out a long sigh and felt that there was nothing he could do, the teleportation circle on his desk flickered, and a paper appeared there with a note inside.

"Hey, what is this?"

Hans picked up the paper first. The title on it was very long, but also very clear.

"Discussion on special gases generated in limestone heating experiments and research on several issues in traditional combustion reaction theory".

As soon as he saw this title, Hans felt his heart throb, and he realized the difficulty behind it.

He picked up the note again, and the familiar words on it made Hans couldn't help but smile.

"This guy really means what he says."

The content on the note was very short, asking Hans to send a letter of invitation to the author after reading the paper, but the letter was written by his friend Angele, who did not support Hans's establishment of an academic journal.

Although he said that running a journal was a dead end, whenever Hans fell into deadline hell, Angele would always send a paper in time to save him, and a certain tacit understanding was formed between the two.

"I remember that guy Angele seemed to be serving as a review committee member recently, so it seems that he reviewed this paper?"

In doubt, Hans opened the paper.

Many years later, when Hans was interviewed and asked what it was like to see that paper for the first time, he could still clearly recall that what he felt during that leisurely afternoon was no less than the first time. The shock of contact with magic.

Time passed quickly. An hour passed and Hans closed the paper. He did not do the verification experiment because Angele's note was the best proof.

If Angele had not verified it himself, he would not have recommended this paper to Hans.

"Then the author is...Linard Iain Gray?"

Hans was a little confused. Isn't Iain Gray from that extremely rich family? How could he still be an academic?

Putting aside this doubt, Hans found the contact address at the end of the paper.

"Crescent College, I remember it seems to be a magical girls' school in a nearby province. It's strange, don't they never accept boys?"

Hans subconsciously thought that Reiner was a student of Crescent College. He still remembered that when he was a student, Crescent College was a relatively famous magic school, but it was not famous for its teaching quality, but for the fact that it only accepted girls, including teachers and Everyone, including the principal and even the dormitory administrator, has female characteristics and has become the object of countless boys' delusions.

He admitted that when he was an ignorant student, he had imagined that he would come to Crescent College for some special reasons, become the only boy there, embrace everyone, and reach the pinnacle of life.

Shaking his head, Hans hurriedly found a piece of parchment, picked up a quill, and began to write a letter of invitation, and then handed it to the owl for delivery. If everything goes well, it should be delivered to Crescent College this evening.

"One can only hope that no one else has noticed this paper yet."

Hans murmured to himself, watching the distant owl gradually disappear on the other side of the horizon in the setting sun of afternoon.

...

While Hans' owl was still soaring in the sky, heading towards Crescent College, thousands of miles away in the Rainbow Tower, Garen was sitting in his office, seemingly waiting for something.

Dong dong dong——

There was a knock on the door, and then a slightly thin old man walked in.

The old man has sparse hair, but his eyes are as sharp as an eagle. He wears a loose robe with six golden edges on the cuffs, which is the symbol of a six-ring mage.

Sixth-ring mages are already the pinnacle of mid-level mages, and then there are those high-level mages who can be called "Your Excellency".

"Gallon, where are the papers?"

The other party didn't say hello and asked directly.

"Here, Mr. Fleming."

Garen stood up quickly, gave up his seat, and handed the paper to the old man respectfully.

The old man known as Fleming sat down and opened the paper.

Garen was a little uneasy, his palms were sweating, and he was worried that his teacher would be counterattacked by magic. After all, Fleming was a master in the field of alchemy. He had made many achievements under Master Hohenheim's theory, and he should be quite familiar with modern alchemical theory. People who believe in it don’t know how they will react when faced with a paper like this.

However, Fleming acted much calmer than Galen expected. When he turned the last page, the old mage let out a long sigh of relief and then asked.

"You have done verification experiments, are you sure it is correct?"

"Yes, teacher, but I don't know if it's inside..."

Before Galen finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fleming raising his hand.

"Actually, several of us have been exploring this issue."

Gallon was stunned by Fleming's words.

Had his teacher been trying to overturn the combustion theory?

"Your Excellency Hohenheim's fire element combustion theory is great, but it cannot explain many problems. For this reason, several of our Excellencies at Mercury Balance have put forward many conjectures and hypotheses, but none of them have been confirmed."

Fleming said calmly.

"For example, the mass increases after burning. We now usually think that the fire element has negative mass, so the object will increase in mass if it loses the fire element."

Glancing at the paper, Fleming went on to explain.

"Just like the experiment in this paper, combustion actually absorbs the fire element into the limestone, so the mass of the limestone will decrease after it turns into white rock, and the extra special gas should be air that has lost the fire element. This will lead to blocking combustion. We will publish a paper on this theory in this issue of "Alchemy". It is normal for the author to not understand it."

"That's it. Teacher, you are really smart."

After hearing Fleming's explanation, Galen immediately felt enlightened, and the dark clouds that had previously enveloped him suddenly disappeared.

Only Fleming glanced at the author of the paper again and frowned slightly.