Rainbow Tower, Mercury Balance Headquarters.

It's a low-key manor that's seldom passed, but the silver balance sign hanging from the gate is awe-inspiring, and it's the base camp of the mercury balance.

Since no flights were allowed inside the Rainbow Tower, of course it was nearly evening when Fleming arrived in a horse-drawn carriage.

Passing through the manor's corridor, Fleming showed his identity to the alchemical statue stationed at the door, and the door opened, and he entered the mansion.

"I know, Lord Saffronge, your place will be placed in the third row."

"I swear, damn it, I'll never do an experiment with that guy again, it just killed me!"

"No, no, no, I'm not targeting you, Mistress Mittland, we just can't squeeze another seat out."

"What? Something happened to the one from the François? Was it an attack or something else? ”

"I hope to hear your attitudes towards these theories at this meeting, and to be honest, Angelina, I feel a little lost about the future of alchemy."

"Hey, this drink I got back from the southern part of the Aster Kingdom, it tastes very special, you must try it."

......

The halls of the mansion are bustling with people discussing the 305th Annual Meeting of the Mercury Balance, which will be held in a week on the shores of Lake Wagner, one of the largest academic seminars on the Mercury Balance, and will be attended by many powerful mages, including the high-ranking mages, in which they can hear the most cutting-edge reports from various academic masters, which can be said to be a magical event.

Fleming was naturally invited, and according to the rules, he could bring a student to the venue, and Fleming's choice was naturally Garon.

"Lord Ernst, I have read your hypothesis about the fire element, and it is very bold, if you can find experimental verification, then I think you will be able to obtain a Hohenheim Gold Cup."

When a mage with five gold trims on his cuffs saw Fleming, he greeted him, and he was the clerk on duty and was in charge of reception.

The Hohenheim Gold Cup is a reward within the mercury balance to reward mages who have made outstanding achievements in the alchemy system, and this year's Hohenheim Gold Cup, if nothing else, should be Cornwall, which found the new element "Kayla" by electrolysis. His Excellency Penzance obtained, this mage is nothing more than commercial hype.

Of course, if Fleming could really refine the theory of combustion, and even find the element of fire, then he would have been able to get a Hohenheim Gold Cup, but that would be too far away.

"Don't be polite to me, Farlast, where is His Excellency Dmitry?"

Fleming asked.

"Your Excellency Dmitry and the other Excellencies are in a meeting, I think you'd better ...... later."

He wanted Fleming to sit and wait for a while, but the seriousness of the five-ring mage named Faras felt the seriousness of the matter, and he nodded, then replied.

"Please come with me."

They walked through the bustling hall and climbed up the third floor to the door of a conference room, where Farlast knocked on the door until there was a voice from inside, and then he slowly pushed the door open for Fleming to enter the room, and then waited at the door.

The conference room was bright, and in the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun was shining through the large floor-to-ceiling windows into the spacious conference room. Dmitry, the Master of the Nine Rings, is the leader of the mercury scales.

But before he could speak, he noticed the other people in the room, and he immediately panicked.

Because it was none other than the high-ranking mages at the top of the mercury scale.

Maria. Instan, a high-level mage of the Seven Rings, was promoted to the high rank by discovering two new elements with some kind of energy leakage properties from the ore, and was one of the few high-level female mages in the mercury balance.

Cornwall. Penzance, a high-level mage of the Seven Rings, has made a lot of achievements in the field of alchemy, and his latest achievement is the invention of electrolysis, which dissociates the new element "Kayla" from caustic, and is one of the strong candidates for this year's Hohenheim Gold Cup.

Robert. Lidmore, the High Mage of the Eight Rings, was the first to discover the mystery of the vacuum, the first to propose the theory that the volume of air changes with pressure, and twenty-nine of the magic related to the wind are named after him.

Eagles. Field, the High Mage of the Nine Rings, is best known for his introduction to the concept of elementals and their qualities, which sparked a frenzy of elemental discovery that continues to this day.

and Lanchester, which is located at one end of the long table. Stanion, the legendary mage, though no longer the leader of the mercury scales, still participates in relevant meetings as an authority on alchemy.

There are also students of these high-level mages here, but Cornwall. His Excellency Penzance came alone.

"Fleming, why are you so flustered?"

Frederick. Dmitry asked with concern, he was gentle and composed, and even if Fleming's arrival interrupted the proceedings, he had no intention of pursuing it.

"Uh, Your Excellency, my student Garon has received a review paper, and I think it's necessary to show it to you."

Fleming looked like a humble student at this time, bowed his head slightly.

"Reviewing papers? Why does this kind of thing need to be reviewed by high-level mages, are all those guys on the thesis review committee eating for nothing? ”

Cornwall. Penzans asked rhetorically, he was not targeting Fleming, the Academic Paper Review Committee had already established a set of corresponding mechanisms to review papers, unless it was a new paper by a high-level mage, it was impossible to pass it here, and since the original reviewer of this paper was Fleming's student, it meant that this was a low-level mage's paper, in Penzance's eyes, this level of paper was indeed not qualified for them to review.

Of course, sometimes there are some of your Excellencies who will train their students to be reviewed by high-ranking mages, so Cornwall also asked more.

"Which student's paper is it?"

"Not anyone's students...... Actually, this is the thesis of a mage's apprentice. ”

Fleming was too afraid to speak, as if every word he said would detonate an explosive.

"Mage apprentice? Fleming, are you serious? ”

Cornwall raised an eyebrow, and there seemed to be a flash of electricity in the air.

"Wait, since Fleming is so flustered, I think this paper may indeed have some value, didn't we also want to break the shackles of the paper review mechanism we set up in the first place, if we stick to these rules, wouldn't we fall into our own cage?"

Lanchester. Stanion spoke, causing everyone else to fall silent.

This is the majesty of a legendary mage.

"Fleming, bring me the paper, and we'll take a look."

Hearing the legendary mage's order, Fleming took out the paper in his hand.

Dozens of pages of papers were swept up by an invisible force, and Lanchester waved his hand, and a pen and paper flew in the corner of the room, quickly rubbing out five copies of the paper, and flying into the hands of several high-ranking mages.

Frederick lifted his glasses, got the paper, and saw the title first.

"Analysis of the properties and compounds of two new elements obtained by electrolysis of water, "Ocles" and "Hydra", and several conjectures on the theory of combustion.

"Electrolyzed water?"

There were doubts among the High Mages, but no one continued to speak, and everyone, including Cornwall, who had protested at first, began to read the paper in earnest.