A young mage apprentice!

And very handsome!!

All the mages present looked at Reiner with mixed feelings.

Some were amazed by the young appearance of the other party, others were disturbed by the excellence of their peers, and a few open female mages had already taken an interest in the handsome young man at this time, and tried to invite them to spend the evening after the meeting.

But before that, everyone was more concerned about another question, what exactly did this mage apprentice discover?

The dim weather outside the window contrasted with the flickering lights in the conference hall, and at the junction of shadows, Reiner walked forward step by step.

Reiner was also pretending to be calm to be honest, he didn't expect his paper to be circulated to the hands of the legendary mage, and he didn't expect the other party to attach so much importance to it, Reiner slowly walked to the side of the podium, the legendary mage stretched out his hand to him, and Reiner gently shook it back.

"Your paper on the electrolysis of water is wonderful, perhaps the best I've seen in the last decade."

Lanchester whispered, with a kind smile.

"You've won the prize, Lord Stenion, and I'm only fortunate enough to be able to achieve such a small achievement by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Reiner glanced at Cornwall, who was standing behind Lanchester, and he had indeed started to design the electrolysis experiment only after seeing Cornwall's electrolysis paper, and there was nothing wrong with this sentence.

"It's humble."

Lanchester looked at Reiner with admiration, then stepped back, leaving the huge podium to Reiner.

Reiner cleared his throat to find that Lanchester had thoughtfully placed a copy of his paper on the podium, which was apparently Lanchester's own use, and was already full of annotations.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the content of my paper is very simple, it is about two new elements discovered in electrolyzed water."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the mages present fell into a breath of cold air.

Electrolyzed water !?

If it weren't for Lanchester's previous words, I'm afraid most people would think that Reiner is crazy, after all, water is one of the four basic elements, and Reiner's words are undoubtedly challenging authority.

But no one objected, and the mages here, as Lanchester said, were mages at the cutting edge of the mercury scale, and their thirst for knowledge was beyond all else, and they would not rush to their opinions, at least, until Reiner's speech was over.

"I read the latest issue of Alchemy, His Excellency Penzance's paper on electrolysis, which mentions that electrolysis can effectively separate reactive elements from compounds, so I began to wonder if some substances that were thought to be indecomposable in the past could not be decomposed because the properties of the elements that made up these substances were too reactive."

Instead of rushing to state his experiment, Reiner first asked questions as a way to explain his thought process.

Hearing Reiner's speech, many mages fell into deep thought, most of them had read the paper on electrolysis by His Excellency Penzance, many of them used the same method to try to decompose new elements, but they all ignored water, the most common substance, for three hundred years, the theory of the four basic elements has been like a heavy cornerstone, deeply rooted in everyone's hearts, and no one wants to shake this cornerstone.

"Therefore, I set my sights on the water that I come into contact with the most on a daily basis, designed experiments based on the paper of His Excellency Penzance, and electrolyzed two gaseous elements with special properties from the water, 'Ocles' and 'Hydra'."

Then, with Lanchester's help, they repeated the experiment in the field and verified the properties of the two elements as described in the paper.

During this whole process, the audience was silent, people were observing, wondering, and thinking.

It wasn't until Reiner ignited the proportionally mixed gases in a sealed container to get a certain mass of water that there was a small exclamation from the crowd.

"Based on the phenomena of experiments, I wonder if the inability of past combustion theories to explain this reaction is itself flawed or even fallacious?"

Word for word, Reiner's words were like some kind of demonic whisper, which made people think about it very scary.

"From this, I have proposed a new theory of the combustion reaction based on the experimental phenomena I have seen, which is the reaction of a substance with an accelerant to produce compounds of occleus and gases of similar nature, and the element of fire does not exist in any part of this reaction."

Boom –

Just as Reiner finished speaking, a thunderclap rang out in the sky, the first thunder since the beginning of summer on Lake Wagner, like the mark that today's meeting would leave on the history of magic.

The electric light reflected Reiner's side face, calm and confident, so that the mages in the front row couldn't help but think of a certain Excellency.

Assisting Reiner's explanation, Lanchester waved his hand, and the particles of light intertwined into two reactive projections in mid-air.

2H20 (energized) = 2H2+02.

2H2 + 02 (combustion) = 2H2O.

This is an abbreviation of the element's name, an alchemical reaction that means that every two parts of water will be broken down into two parts of Hydra gas and one part of Ochres gas under the condition of electricity.

In the eyes of alchemists, the formula is so concise and elegant, clear and logical, and the equal number of elements on both sides of the equation has a certain awe-inspiring power.

"I think that the reason why the mass of reactants does not change before and after the alchemy reaction is the conservation of the elements, so I write the alchemy reaction formula in this way, of course, my ability is limited to verify all the current alchemy reactions, so this is just a hypothesis."

Reiner spoke eloquently, and at this point, Lanchester gave a slight gesture to add to Reiner.

"I've repeated most of the known experiments these days, and they basically follow this pattern, and the few experiments with reduced mass should have produced some new substance that we had never noticed before, according to my observations."

Hearing Lanchester's explanation, Reiner continued while breathing a sigh of relief.

"Then, judging from Lord Stenion's discovery, the conservation of elements should be a fundamental law of alchemical reactions."

Crackle –

Another bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, like a spark, flashing in everyone's minds.

If the law of conservation of the elements is correct, then alchemists will not only be able to control the various alchemical reactions qualitatively and quantitatively, observe their products, but also design new experiments based on the constituent elements of the compound, and the existing alchemical system will be a big step forward.

Reiner, having completely destroyed the foundation of the modern alchemy system, immediately recast a more solid foundation.

And he's just a mage apprentice!