The afternoon session went on as usual, and Reiner continued to listen intently to the research results of the masters, and also thought about his next marketing plan for Coke.

He was glad he had bought two bottles of Coke in Tolendo to take with him, and when Reiner saw Frederick's face after drinking the Coke, he knew he had succeeded.

With little time left for lunch, Frederick simply made a magical pact whereby Reiner would provide a sufficient amount of Coke for the next three meetings of the Mercury Scale, which would be the designated drink for the academic meeting to be introduced to the mages attending the meeting.

At the same time, Crescent Coke will also be sold inside the Rainbow Tower, and the two alchemy workshops belonging to the Mercury Balance will join Reiner to produce Coke, and for the first time, the center of the wizarding world will be stained with Coke.

There is only one fundamental reason for these seemingly unthinkable contracts, and that is Reiner's own knowledge.

In this world, knowledge is power, and the more knowledgeable you are, the higher your status, and although Reiner has not yet attained the official rank of mage, his papers, as well as his strong observation and extraordinary courage at conferences, are enough to earn him respect, and Frederick is also an investment in disguise.

Looking at the mage who was speaking impassionedly on the podium, Reiner suddenly felt that it was a wise decision to come to the annual meeting of Mercury Scales, and this time, he not only got to know the upper echelons of the magic field, but also laid a good foundation for the subsequent promotion of Coke, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The meeting quickly came to an end, and today's content was shocking enough, but fortunately, with Lanchester's foreshadowing, there was no cognitive collapse of the mages present like the judges Cologne, on the contrary, many mages felt their hearts fluctuate.

Frederick explained to Reiner that the so-called feedback from the world is a phenomenon that is widespread in magic, and the cause of this phenomenon has not yet been solved, and it is one of the unsolved mysteries in the wizarding world.

Every time people know more about things than they real, the feedback from the world will come to them, and this effect will gradually diminish, and the first discoverer will enjoy the most gifts, and the next people will be fewer and fewer, and when these things become common sense, there will be almost no feedback.

This is why mages should establish a paper review mechanism to encourage academic research, because individual progress will also lead to overall progress, the ancient mages in the past put magic on the shelf, relying solely on the elite approach is unrealistic, and the world's feedback is also one of the reasons for the rapid development of modern magic in the past three hundred years.

Just like now, Reiner was the first to electrolyze water and received the strongest gift, although it was not obvious to him, but as Reiner's magic level continued to improve, the impact was far-reaching.

The other participants also accepted this theory through the explanation, so there will be some improvement in strength, but it is far less than the benefit obtained by Reiner himself.

Of course, the formation of cognition is a gradual process, if you form your own cognition on the basis of no fact verification, then it is very likely to encounter cognitive collapse, resulting in yourself being eaten by magic, the more powerful the mage, the more serious the consequences when you are counterattacked, ranging from disability to direct death.

Reiner was a little glad that he hadn't rushed to write all the theories he knew on Earth, otherwise he might have exploded and died if he had encountered something different from this world.

......

Walking out of the conference hall, still in the hallway, Reiner was stopped by two mages.

"Hello, I'm Fleming. Ernst, this is my student Garon. ”

That's Fleming and Garon.

Hearing the other party's introduction, Reiner thought for a while, and then recalled that the paper that assumed that the fire element had a negative mass was written by Fleming, and he thought that the other party was here to argue with him, but he didn't expect the old man to bow deeply, as if apologizing to Reiner.

"My student Garon was one of the reviewers of your two papers, and I apologize to you for not giving the first one a high rating because of my stubbornness."

Fleming said that judging from Lanchester and Frederick's attitude towards Reiner, this mage apprentice should be able to become the mainstay of the mercury balance in the future, and the matter of the thesis review will eventually be known to him, so Fleming decided to confess in advance to win the favor of the other party.

"It doesn't matter, in fact, it was the review comments of the paper that made me realize my lack of cutting-edge knowledge, so I came into contact with the latest issue of "Alchemy", read His Excellency Penzance's paper on electrolysis, and began to try water electrolysis."

Reiner quickly understood why, and instead of taking it seriously, he responded generously.

"As I said, my discoveries are nothing more than standing on the shoulders of giants, and even without me, I believe that you will be able to discover these theories in time."

"Perhaps the future history of alchemy will record this meeting and Mr. Ian Grey how you discovered the mystery of water, and the two of us may become the villains in the story."

Fleming thought that Reiner was a high-minded person, but he didn't expect the other party to be so modest and suddenly changed his opinion of him.

"You're laughing, Master Ernst."

Reiner felt the plot familiar, but quickly shook his head, brushing his guesses out of nowhere.

"Still, Mr. Ian Gray, I have a little piece of advice."

Fleming said with a smile.

"Next time if you want to publish a subversive paper, you can say hello in advance, otherwise it may cause an accident like this one."

He gestured to his students, and then briefly recounted to Reiner the uproar his thesis had caused.

Rather surprised, Reiner didn't expect that there would really be a mage who would have a cognitive collapse because of his thesis, on the one hand, his understanding of the world has deepened a little, and on the other hand, he also feels a little guilty for the hapless mage who has a cognitive collapse.

"Of course you don't need to feel guilty, if you can't accept the new theory, then the mage's progress will be stagnant, it's his own problem."

Fleming saw Reiner's concern, and continued.

"However, it may be better to be someone else, but the other party is the son of the pure-blood François family, Mr. Ian Grey, I am afraid you will have to be careful in the future."

"François?"

Reiner hadn't heard the name before, but it seemed that there was something dangerous in Fleming's meaning, and he thought about it for a moment and asked.

"I don't know what you plan to do in the evening, but I'd like to invite you two to dinner together."