Act XIX. interlude

Reiner vaguely remembers that on the planet, there is a concept of impact factor in the ranking of academic journals, which is roughly the ratio of the number of citations of a paper to the total number of papers, which is used to refer to the quality of the papers in the journal.

Unfortunately, this is not the case in this world, as modern magic has only been around for 300 years, and various systems are still being explored, and in most cases it is only tinkered with when something goes wrong.

If he could become a member of the High Council, he might be able to push for academic reform, Reiner thought, but only for thought.

Putting down the table of contents in his hand, Reiner thought about it for a while, and finally decided to wait for the results of the review of the paper to come back and reply.

It was already late at night, and Reiner stretched and decided to read another hour before going to bed.

He had lived a very fulfilling life in the past two days, and the treatises of the other world contained a lot of knowledge, and Reiner combined it with the knowledge in his own mind to figure out how far the magic in this world had developed.

Magic is divided into elemental, alchemy, astrology, necromancy, change, law and other factions, among which astrology and necromancy are more derived from ancient magic, modern theories have not yet been deepened, and elements and alchemy are relatively easy to understand.

As far as Reiner compares with various theories, the study of magical theories in this world is basically equivalent to the embryonic period of science on Earth, but it has developed rapidly. Fifty years ago, Lord Alberton proposed the three laws of motion of the law system, which directly rewrote almost all relevant spell models.

Reiner also saw a lot of familiar theories, but eventually set his sights on the closest alchemy system.

With Eagles. The concept of elemental mass proposed by Lord Field, the determination of the mass of each element has been popular in alchemist circles for nearly fifty years, and so far the mass of forty-six elements has been determined, and the goal is to find new elements and find the law between them.

Occasionally, new elements can be discovered, but the patterns between the elements seem to be nowhere to be found.

"I wonder if this world also has the periodic law?"

Reiner thought about it, but felt as if something was outside the window.

When I looked back, I realized that it was a little wild cat with tiger stripes.

"How did this climb up?"

Reiner smiled, opened the window, and the little wild cat jumped into the house at once, apparently frozen by the cold outside.

The little wildcat looked around the house, then at Reiner.

"Meow—"

It screamed softly.

"I'm hungry, but I don't have anything to eat."

Reiner put his unfinished dinner on the table, it was a bacon sandwich, half of which he had left for supper.

"Meow~"

The little wild cat seemed very happy to look at the food, and circled around the plate before poking its head out.

But what he didn't expect was that the cat actually stretched out his paws to pull the sandwich open, and then picked up the bacon inside, ignoring the vegetables and bread on both sides.

Are cats in the wizarding world so powerful?

The corners of Reiner's mouth twitched, and he watched as the little wildcat finished the bacon, licked his paws, and then walked across the room as if he were patrolling territory, and jumped out of another window.

Quiet again, Reiner cleaned up for a moment and lay down on the bed.

Outside the window, the moon is bright, the stars are shining, and the night is like water.

......

At noon the next day, Reiner received the news that the first samples of Coke had been produced, and took Claire to the Antoine Alchemy Workshop in town.

"It's very efficient, Monsieur Antoine."

Reiner praised that in front of him was a hundred bottles of Coke, which was contained in a lightweight glass bottle, with a metal cap, and the label on the bottle was designed by Reiner with the help of Xia Luo, with the words "Crescent Coke" written on it, using black and red color scheme, simple and extraordinary.

In the process of reading Xia Luo's experimental notes, Reiner found that the girl's sketching skills were very good, and after inquiring, he found that Xia Luo was good at drawing when she was a child, but due to her father's resistance, the girl gave up painting and concentrated on magic.

When Reiner heard this, he offered to sponsor Xia Luo to continue to learn to paint, in his opinion, image design will definitely play a huge role in the future, and layout in advance is the king.

"As long as the alchemy circle is designed, it is very simple to produce these things."

Antoine gestured to the glowing magic circle in the room.

I saw a bottle being taken out of the box by an inexplicable force in the air, and the sugar water in the bucket on the other side crossed a curve and slowly flowed into the bottle, and then, the bottle actually turned upside down and quickly flew towards a glass container with a conduit.

The catheter protrudes into the mouth of the bottle and reaches the bottom of the bottle, and then a stream of air emerges from the catheter, at the same time as the bottle begins to vibrate slightly, mixing the gas with the sugar water.

With a bang, the bottle was turned upside down, and the metal cap was immediately sealed, and the folded edges of Nalena's design gradually closed, locking the gas in the bottle.

After that, the printed label flies to the bottle, and the whole bottle of Coke falls into a temperature-controlled incubator, so that the production of a bottle of Coke is complete, and it is not the same as on Earth, full of the tone of the magical world.

Although the whole process is complicated, it actually takes no more than a minute, and counting the time to change ingredients, it only takes two hours to produce 100 bottles of Coke, which is just a production line.

This is absolutely impossible to put on the earth, just arranging the production line will take a lot of time, and it will also require manpower to pack and inspect it, and all kinds of overhead turnover, in this place, a one-ring alchemist can handle it properly.

Praise the magic.

Surprised by the development of productivity in this world, Reiner nodded and asked.

"Do you have any thoughts on sales channels?"

Antoine heard Reiner's question and picked up a small stack of stationery from another table.

"I contacted a few old friends who took care of the business, and I solved the problem of the first batch of goods, which is the shipping list."

Reiner looked at it, most of them were drugstore stores, a far cry from the restaurant business he had originally envisioned, but when you think about how Coke on Earth existed as a drug in the first place, there is nothing to worry about.

It's just that the number of these orders is very small, and the largest one only bought twenty bottles, and everyone is not yet accepting this novel drink, and it is all thanks to Antoine's favor to place the order.

"It seems that if you want to sell well, you still have to look at word of mouth."

Reiner is not worried that Coke will not sell, but if it wants to become popular in a short time, it seems that it still needs a little opportunity.