Chapter 19: Interlude


    Reiner vaguely remembered that on the earth, there was a concept of an impact factor for the ranking of academic journals, which was roughly the ratio of the number of times a paper was cited to the total number of papers. It was often used to refer to the quality of papers in journals. Were there simr indicators to judge various academic journals?


    However, it was a pity that this world did not yet have such a mechanism. Since modern magic has only been established for three hundred years, various systems were still being explored, and in most cases, people would only pay attention to some things when the problems urred.


    Reiner even thought that if he could be a member of the high-level magic council, you might be able to promote academic reforms. However, it was just a thought.


    Putting down the catalog in his hand, Reiner thought for a while and finally decided to wait for the review results of the paper toe back before replying.


    It waste at night, and Reiner stretched and decided to read some books for another hour and go to bed.


    He had a very fulfilling life these two days. The books in this world contained a lot of knowledge. Reinerbined them with the knowledge in his own mind and figured out to what extent the magic of this world had developed.


    Magic was divided into Elements, Alchemy, Astrology, Necromancy, Transformation, Law, and other categories. Among them, astrology and necromancy were more derived from ancient magic. Modern theories have not yet delved into those areas. Element and alchemy were rtively easy to understand.


    From theparison of the various theories Reiner gathered, the study of magic theory in this world was basically equivalent to the embryonic period of science on earth, but it was developing rapidly. His Excellency Isaris Alberton, the master of thew category, proposed the threews of motion as early as fifty years ago, and directly rewritten almost all rted spell models.


    Reiner also saw many familiar theories, but in the end, he set his sights on the alchemy category.


    With the concept of element mass proposed by His Excellency Eagles Ferdo, the determination of the mass of each element has been popr in the alchemistmunity for nearly fifty years. So far, the masses of the forty-six elements discovered have been determined. Everyone''s goal was to find thew between finding new elements and finding elements.


    New elements could still be discovered asionally, but thews between the elements seemed to be invisible.


    "I wonder if this world also has a periodicw of elements?"


    Reiner thought for a while, then he noticed that something was outside the window.


    Looking outside, he realized that it was a small feral cat with tiger stripes.


    "How did it get up here."


    Reiner smiled, opened the window. The little feral cat immediately jumped into the room, seemingly to be frozen by the cold wind outside.


    The little feral cat looked around in the room, then looked at Reiner.


    "Meow"


    It gave a soft cry.


    "Are you hungry? But I have nothing to eat."


    Reiner put the unfinished dinner on the table on the floor. It was a bacon sandwich. He originally kept half of it for supper.


    "Meow~"


    Seeing food, the little feral cat seemed to be very happy. It circled around the dinner te before touching the food.


    Unexpectedly, the cat stretched out its paws and pulled apart the sandwich, then grabbed the bacon inside, turning a blind eye to the vegetables and bread on both sides.


    Were the cats in the magic world all this smart?


    Reiner''s lips twitched. He watched the little feral cat finish eating the bacon, lick its paw, and then walk through the room as if patrolling the territory before jumping out from another window..


    Everything was quiet again, and Reiner tidied the te up andy down on the bed.


    The moon outside the window was bright, the stars were shining. The night scene was like calmke water.


    ......


    At noon the next day, Reiner received the news that the first batch of C samples had been produced, and took ire to the Antoine Alchemy Workshop in the town.


    "It''s so efficient, Mr. Antoine.".


    Reiner praised. The one hundred bottles of C ced in front of him were packed in lightweight ss bottles with metal caps. Thebel on the bottle was designed by Reiner with help from Sharon. It said "Luna Nova C ", using ck and red color, simple but not ordinary.


    In the process of reading Sharon''s experimental notes, Reiner discovered that the girl''s sketching skills were very good. After inquiring, he found that Sharon was good at drawing when she was a child, but because of her father''s insistence, she gave up drawing and concentrated on studying magic.


    Hearing this, Reiner proposed to sponsor Sharon to continue to study painting. In his opinion, image design would definitely be of great use in the future.


    "As long as the alchemy magic circle ispleted, producing these things is very simple."


    Antoine pointed to the shining magic circle in the room.


    Over there, a bottle was taken from the box in midair by an inexplicable force, and the sugar water in the other bucket was lifted up and slowly flowed into the bottle, forming a curve in the air. Then, the bottle unexpectedly turned upside down and quickly flew to a ss container that had a tube.


    The tube was inserted into the mouth of the bottle until it reached the bottom of the bottle, and then an airflow emerged from the tube. At the same time, the bottle began to vibrate slightly, mixing the gas with the sugar water.


    Immediately afterward, the bottle was turned upside down and sealed by the metal bottle cap with wrinkled edges designed by Reiner.


    After that, the printedbel flew to the bottle and stuck on the bottle. Then the entire bottle of C fell into the temperature-controlled box. In this way, the production of a bottle of C waspleted, which was different from the earth.


    Although the whole process wasplicated, it actually took no more than one minute. Including the time to rece the raw materials, it took only two hours to produce a hundred bottles of C. And this was just one production line.


    This kind of efficiency was absolutely impossible on the earth. The preparation of the production line alone would take a lot of time, let alone the manpower required to work in the product line. But in this world, it could be easily handled by a none-ring alchemist.


    Praise the magic.


    Surprised at how productive this world was, Reiner nodded and then asked.


    "Mr. Antoine, do you have any thoughts on the distribution channels?"


    Antoine heard Reiner''s question and picked up a small stack of letter paper from another table.


    "I contacted a few old friends who always look after my business, and for the time being, this is the shipping list for the first batch of customers."


    Reiner looked at it and found that most of them were pharmacy stores, which was far from the catering industry he initially envisioned. However, thinking about it, C on the earth originally existed as a medicine, Reiner was not surprised by it.


    It was just that the quantity of these orders was very small, and thergest order was only about twenty bottles. No one wanted to ept this novel beverage. The order was ced only for the sake of Antoine.


    "It seems that if we want to sell, we still have to look at word of mouth.".


    Reiner was not worried that C wouldn''t be sold, but it seemed that if he wanted it to be popr, he still needed an opportunity