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Chapter 55: Interruption

Just like many similar seminars that Reiner had participated in on the earth, the academic conference process of Mercury Balance was similar. The important figures first gave speeches and then began to report their research results. It was just that Reiner heard from the discussions of the mages around him that some academic authorities have not yet arrived.

"Won't His Excellency Steinen come this time? And I haven't seen His Excellency Penzance either."

"I heard that they are all conducting experiments, and there seems to be some major breakthrough."

"Could it be that the law of the elements was found?"

"Who knows, but in this issue of "Alchemy", His Excellency Steinen's paper really inspired me a lot."

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The originally bright weather turned to gloom for some reason, and the early summer showers always came inadvertently. When the two mages had finished talking their papers, a drizzle was already falling outside the window.

On the podium, a mage was explaining his thesis. It was a thesis on elemental changes. He found that after long-term storage of certain elements, impurities of another element would appear. He focused on this phenomenon. Although the research had not produced any results yet, it had also achieved certain progress.

Reiner listened carefully while recording his thoughts in the corresponding position on the conference catalog.

These were the research results at the forefront of the alchemy study, which were of great help to him to understand this world. Reiner's focused appearance has made the mages around him nod in approval. It must be mentioned that many of the contents of the conference were a bit difficult to understand for those who focused on actual practice and lacked a theoretical basis, but Reiner did not scratch his head in confusion but seemed to digest the content quickly.

Just when the mage finished his explanation and the next mage was about to take the stage, the door of the conference hall was pushed open. With the gradually expanding rain, there was a noise in the crowd, but it soon calmed down. Everyone was looking at the comer.

Lena saw that the comer was a mage who looked only forty years old and had a determined face. He was dressed in a pure white robe with powerful runes on the robe. The cuffs were a lavender stripe, which was very different from other mages.

"His Excellency Steinen!"

Someone exclaimed in a low voice.

Reiner finally understood that the other party was one of the figures standing at the apex of the power of this world, the legendary mage, Lanchester Steinen.

There was an unspeakable pressure on Lanchester, as if a simple gaze of his would make one surrender to his power. He moved forward step by step, and all eyes in the venue were on him, even Cornwall Penzance, who was following him didn't attract much attention from others.

"Your Excellency Steinen."

Frederick Demetrius, the president of the Mercury Balance, stood up and bowed slowly.

"Frederick, I am afraid I will take up a little bit of everyone's time."

Lanchester smiled. Naturally, no one would raise objections to his words. The mage who was going to take the stage had already gotten up, but he quickly went back to his seat secretly.

Everyone was paying attention to the legendary mage. Since he hastily interrupted the normal process of the meeting, then there must be very important things to be announced.

Some people had heard of it through various channels, but like the two mages around Reiner, they didn't know any details, which actually added some anticipation.

"Everyone, please allow me to interrupt the progress of the meeting, because I think there is a more important discovery here that I want to share with you."

Lanchester said, his words stopped all the quiet discussions in the meeting place.

People looked at each other, waiting for Lanchester's next sentence. The discovery that could be described using the word "important" by this legendary mage must be very worthy of attention, and may even be a landmark achievement.

"If I have to evaluate it, this may be one of the greatest discoveries in the alchemy study in the past three hundred years."

His voice resounded throughout the conference hall. Under this evaluation, everyone was shocked. To be able to get this evaluation, this discovery was clearly beyond their expectation.

"But everyone, before listening to this discovery, I hope you can forget all the alchemy principles you know and discard all outdated concepts, because if you don't do this, I can hardly guarantee that you will not have a cognitive breakdown."

Lanchester's words shocked everyone once again. All of them here had a deep knowledge of alchemy study. They were the alchemists who were at the forefront of academics, what new discoveries could make their cognitive collapse?

After a pause, Lanchester continued.

"This discovery was not discovered by me or by any of the high-level mages, but by a mage apprentice. This made me feel very ashamed. We didn't expect that we would forget the most basic things, thus ignore some obvious conclusions."

This sentence caused another commotion in the venue. The discovery of a mage apprentice would actually receive this kind of evaluation from the legendary mage. What was going on?

It must be said that even when Isaris Alberton wrote a paper that recast the study of the law of nature and caused the cognitive collapse of three reviewers, he was still a second-ring mage. But now, a mage apprentice could write a thesis that would make Lanchester appraise him so much? Just how genius was this mage apprentice?

Was another Alberton about to be born?

"At the same time, I am also very fortunate, because at least in our time, there is such a dedicated and serious mage apprentice. When we set our sights on more distant places, he deconstructs the reality around us so that we can get closer to the truth."

Such praise had far exceeded many people's imagination, and all of them were speculating about what the major discovery was.

Was it a new element? Or theoretical innovation? Or was it the discovery of the law of elements?

"Mercury Balance is honored to invite this mage apprentice to the site of this annual meeting. I think we should let the discoverer personally present his paper."

Lanchester's words made everyone look around, looking for the legendary mage apprentice.

"No way......"

The two mages beside Reiner looked at Reiner at this time in disbelief.

But Lanchester had continued to speak again, he said in a loud voice.

"Reiner Ian Gray, please come on stage and share your discovery with us."

Reiner Ian Gray!

In an instant, the name spread all over the venue, and everyone was asking, who exactly was Reiner Ian Gray?

Just in this question, the two mages watched the handsome man next to them slowly stand up in a stunned manner. He was calm and not afraid of the eyes that gathered at that moment, nor was he complacent because of the praise of the legendary mage.

"I am here."

Reiner greeted slightly and walked towards the podium