Far from the outskirts of the city, an ordinary manor.

Standing outside the fence, it looks like a dilapidated manor house that is not well cared for, the path is overgrown with weeds, vines entangle the fence, and even the exterior walls of the bungalows are crawling with various plants. The inhabitants of the neighborhood generally knew that the manor belonged to a noble spellcaster, and it was not uncommon to see some old men in luxurious carriages coming and going.

Dupont Arnold, president of the Royal Spellcasters Society, sat in his study drinking bitter coffee, his spirit stimulated by the bitter taste barely driving away his sleepiness, his wrinkled eyes looked tired and dull at this time, and he had not slept all night to concentrate on reviewing the academic papers published in Nature and Magic.

In front of him floated a blue information crystal that radiated a soft glow, and three-dimensional astral scripts appeared around the information crystal.

The Fusion Nature of Star Wormwood and Tana Flower

"On the Morphological Expansion of Transfiguration"

Objections to Green's Aether Doctrine

DuPont looked intent, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh for a long time, his body lost strength and fell on the chair, and the information crystal fell on the stand on the table without a sound.

"Bullshit!"

He cursed irritably, and his voice revealed a deep helplessness.

None of the papers in the information crystal could catch his eye, most of them were some groundless and confused conjectures, a few of them were even more excessive, and the content was completely plagiarized from some published works, and only the wording was modified.

Thesis!? If these papers were written on paper, they might not be too hard to wipe their butts.

The Kingdom of Barron is not a big country, and the number of spellcasters in the country does not exceed three digits, and there are many mediocre people who fish in troubled waters and have no real strength, so it is strange that there can be any excellent academic papers, and the truly capable spellcasters have already gone to the center of the wizarding world through the Magic Association.

DuPont is a very self-aware man, he is old, and he knows that the upper class is the limit of his path to spellcasting, so he prefers to stay in the kingdom of Barron and live a human life, while also training some capable magicians for his own country, inheriting his own magical philosophy.

However, over the years, the level of the kingdom's spellcasters has deteriorated, and the younger generation of spellcasters are more willing to cooperate with merchants to study some messy things and earn money in this impetuous era, and he doesn't know whether to blame the cause on environmental changes or what.

"Is modern magic destined to be just the twilight of the times?"

DuPont does not deny that the original intention of his research on modern magic is that the starting point of modern magic is very low, and at the same time it has a greater impact on ordinary people, modern magic is the product of the harsh environment of spell casting, catering to the needs of the world, losing the mysterious aura shrouded in the term spell, and being despised by many spellcasters.

The dusk didn't last long, and then the long night followed.

DuPont walked to the window, lifted the curtains and looked at the verdant garden scenery outside the window, and his mood improved after a while.

"Huh?"

He raised his eyebrows and uttered a few incantations, and the spell barrier that enveloped the manor, which was impossible to see with the naked eye, was temporarily removed, and almost at the same time a cat with pure black hair emerged from under his desk and jumped onto the table.

DuPont is a little strange who will contact him at this time, his reputation is not good in the kingdom spellcaster group, the older generation of spellcasters has basically disappeared, and the younger generation of spellcasters do not like each other.

Open the small cylinder, take out the information crystal and read the information inside.

"Mr. Harvey Adrian's information crystal?" DuPont suddenly, the image of the young man in the movie theater who impressed him flashed in his mind, and among the young spellcasters of the Barron Kingdom, Harvey was the only one who really made achievements.

The sheer amount of information pouring out of the information crystal made him a little dazed.

"What are these?"

"The Function and Principle of Photographic Crystals..."

"Mr. Adrian finished his dissertation so quickly." Dupont's wrinkled mouth furrowed, his brow furrowed, it was only a few days before Harvey returned to Elroy from Norton, and he had expected to wait until next month to receive Harvey's papers.

After watching the phantom of The Count of Monte Cristo, DuPont thought that the photographic crystal could even become one of the landmark research results of modern magic, and he had great expectations for Harvey's thesis.

On the other hand, due to Harvey's age and the fact that he was still only a subordinate spellcaster, Dupont was a little less confident.

"It's a bit informative, and I hope it's not a baseless conjecture like those papers."

The information crystal Harvey had sent had more information in it than the papers he had just read combined.

DuPont sat back in his place, intently reading the contents of the information crystal store, which detailed the process and principle of making the photographic crystal.

"You need an unprocessed illusion crystal as a material, and the three-ring magic array is inscribed, and the first ring is used to capture image information..."

DuPont was satisfied: "Well~ It's not difficult to make photographic crystals, and the alchemy workshop that can make illusion crystals will definitely be able to make photographic crystals, so it seems that the role of photographic crystals is much greater than imagined, which is completely in line with the definition of modern magic products." ”

"Huh? There is also a corresponding paper explaining the principle of photographic crystals. ”

After reading it for a while, Dupont's sleepiness suddenly disappeared, Harvey's paper was the most powerful way to stimulate his spirit, and he never felt that reading a paper turned out to be a very interesting thing like now, and his expression gradually became solemn: "Is this really Mr. Adrian's first paper?" It's incredible, the principle of making photographic crystals has been explained very clearly, and this part is more about the principle of phantoms. ”

"Visual Persistence and Quasi-Motion Phenomena ······"

The structure of the essay "The Function and Principles of Photographic Crystals" is very complete, the elements that a qualified paper should have are already in place, taking care of all aspects, even he, a spellcaster who knows a little about illusion and illusion crystals, can easily understand, and the experimental results and principles displayed by Harvey around the photographic technology are even more surprising to him, especially the part of the illusion that deceives the eyes, which explains the mystery of people seeing the movie screen move, and this part of the content can even be used in the field of illusion to get a higher evaluation.

"Lots of content! But there is no doubt that the value of this paper is not enough to be fully reflected even if it is published in the entire issue of Nature and Magic! ”

Dupont's expression was perked up, and he looked at it again inside and out, and his serious and old-fashioned old face grinned, slapping the solid wood desk hard and shouting, "Harvey Adrian! Good! Good! Good! This time, Nature & Magic was finally able to publish something substantial. ”