Greetings, Mister Principal

"Dear Mr. Reiner Ian Gray, I am Hans Toland, the editor-in-chief of the Monthly Alchemist Griffin. I was honored to have a chance to read your paper 'Discussion on Special Gas Produced in Grey Stone Heating Experiment and Research on Several Issues of Traditional Combustion Reaction Theory'. Our editorial department believes your paper is very valuable for discussion, so we hope to publish it as the first article in the next issue of "Monthly Alchemist Griffin". I am looking forward to hearing from you."

Opening the letter and such words were written in neat fonts.

"Why is there an invitation letter so soon?"

Claire was curious. Although the reviewers often discuss the result of the reviewers with their friends, confirming the result of the paper and receiving the article invitation letter in just half a day was still something that Claire had never heard of.

"I remember that the best periodical in the alchemy study should be 'Alchemy', right?"

Reiner had no doubt that if a mage had a certain level of knowledge, they would soon find this paper valuable. He now only needed to think about how to earn more points from this paper.

It was true that Reiner could get a certain amount of points by relying on the opinions of the reviewers, but the real big picture was still in the citation of the paper.

According to the rules established by the high-level magic council, the citation points should be one-third of the points obtained by the paper after the review. That was, for a paper with nine points, the original author could get three points when cited once. At the same time, the points obtained by citation could not exceed ten times the points obtained by the paper after the review. That was to say, this nine-point paper could no longer get more points after its citation points reached ninety points.

On the one hand, this was to encourage mages to improve the content of the papers and to expand further to obtain higher review points. On the other hand, it was also to prevent some mages from using dishonest methods to farm endless citation points..

In fact, it was actually very easy to publish papers to farm points. In some controlled experiments, it could be done by changing an object of similar nature, but the actual significance was very small. For papers like this, the review points would be very small. The authors may only get one point for the papers, and for one point papers, the authors would not be able to get any citation points..

Therefore, Reiner valued citation points more than review points. If he wanted to get more citation points, the paper must first be seen by more people. It was undoubtedly the best to choose a better and more famous journal.

He has checked the conditions for the rating of the magical academy. To prevent a level nine academy from being abolished, the academy had to obtain a minimum of one hundred academic points every year. As for an academy to be ranked at level eight, the academy had to obtain three hundred points, and one thousand points for level eight to level seven, and three thousand for level seven to level six, and so on. If an academy wanted to become a level-one magical academy, they must get one million academic points every year.

Reiner had no intention of reaching the top, he just needed to keep Luna Nova Magical Academy from being abolished.

Based on this, Reiner felt a little bit troubled as to what to do with this invitation letter from Monthly Alchemist Griffin.

This was his first article invitation letter, and calculating the time, the other party definitely reviewed his paper first. In addition, the other party also promised to publish it as the first article. It could be clearly seen how much the other party valued his paper.

However, the influence of "Monthly Alchemist Griffin" was really not big enough, and Reiner could not guarantee whether he could get enough citation points..

"Do you want to publish it on 'Alchemy'? Don't be kidding, that's the top journal. All the research results published on it are the research results of high-level mages. Not to mention that you haven't even achieved the lowest rank."

Claire said without even thinking about it, but then she seemed to realize that what she said seemed to be inappropriate. She lowered her eyes and bit her lower lip, worrying that Reiner would mock her..

Unexpectedly, Reiner only smiled slightly, and then said.

"That's right, I should first get an official mage rank."

"Ah?"

Claire originally thought that Reiner realized that he was not qualified for "Alchemy," but she didn't expect to say this from his mouth.

"You, do you think it is that easy to become a mage! ！ ？"

"Is it hard? I read the instructions. All you have to do is pass a written exam and a magic test. The people who can't pass under such simple conditions are the problem."

Reiner naturally knew how difficult it was to become a formal mage.

Under the ancient magic system, the mage relied on the magic power obtained by meditation to use magic, just like a tiny ant trying to shake a big tree. The so-called high-level mages were all talented and rare in number.

Some mages started to take a different approach, fusing various magical creatures with themselves to become the origin of Bloodline Mages. Because this method was very efficient, could quickly improve one's strength, and had wider applicability, it once became a powerful force with a large number of people.

Ancient mages and bloodlines mages have always been at each other's throats. Many wars had broken out between them in the past, and in the most recent war, a number of mages led by Master Hohenheim established the modern magic theory, which was represented by the qualitative and quantitative analysis of illusory magic, thus unifying the two schools, forming the modern magic world.

Even with the popularization of modern magic education, among a hundred apprentices of wizards, no more than thirty could become official mages, and more than ninety percent of these mages would stay at the first-ring mage rank and not be able to advance in their lifetime.

In fact, there were many guys like the original Reiner. Because of the development of magic, many nobles like to send children to learn magic, but there were very few who could really make a difference in this area.

High-level mages had great power and a long lifespan. For them, the authority of the nobility would not pose much of a treat. Only a king would make them nod and salute. But for the low-level mage, they are just a member of the masses, and they have to work hard for life.

This was similar to the nobles. The poor and incompetent nobles would be cast aside, and the powerful and wealthy nobles would attract people. After all, this was a world ruled by powers.

Claire was a first-ring mage. It was only after five failed exams that she barely passed it, so she was considered to be below average. It was also because of this that she was so surprised to hear Reiner's understatement.

According to Reiner's standard, becoming an formal mage was roughly equivalent to passing a judicial examination or a certified public accountant qualification, or a first-class architect on the earth. It was indeed very, and this was only the first step. The middle-level mages were already at the level of academic masters in various fields. As for the high-level mages, probably only those Nobel Prize winners could match them.

However, after his previous experience, his magical strength has been improved a lot. If he was given the opportunity, Reiner would still try to advance. After all, it was an extremely rare chance to be able to come to a magical world. So it would be utterly unjustifiable if he didn't want to learn something.

"I'll just wait for you to come back with a crying expression on your face after failing the exam."

Claire gritted her teeth and said. Although the guy in front of her was reliable sometimes, in most cases, Claire just wanted to punch him in the face.

"I won't discuss that matter first. I have to go back and think about whether to accept this letter. Professor Claire, do you know any catalogs that collect all academic journal rankings?"

Reiner didn't mind Claire's curse but asked