Chapter 68: A Corner Of The World


    In Griffin, Hans couldn''t close his mouth looking at the order he received.


    The news that Reiner Ian Gray won the Hohenheim Golden Cup this year spread immediately after the annual meeting of Mercury Bnce. Those who did not attend the meeting eagerly awaited the publication of thetest issue of "Alchemy", and some careful mages had found in the Rainbow Tower database catalog that this Reiner Ian Gray had already published a paper.


    As a result, Monthly Alchemist Griffin, the only journal that included this paper, became a treasure that many mages were eager to buy. This caused the price of the journal with a small print volume to rise for a while, and the editor-in-chief Hans hurriedly contacted the printingpany to print more several times.


    Not only that, but some academies also became aware of the journal, and in recognition of Hans'' foresight, they immediately ced an order for "Monthly Alchemist Griffin" for a year, so as not to miss any major discoveries. Anyway, for these academies, it would not cost much to purchase one more journal.


    At the same time, more and more mages were contributing articles to the "Monthly Alchemist Griffin". Most of the research results of these mages were not important, and if they submitted their articles to those major journals they often would not hear anything back from them. In the past, they did not know that there was such a journal, but now, these mages seemed to have found a new way to publish papers.


    Hans was very happy, boasting from time to time that he had discovered the first paper of the Hohenheim Golden Cup winner. He framed Reiner''s reply and hung it in the most conspicuous part of the office.


    But Hans also knew that Reiner''s cooperation with himself may end here. After winning the Hohenheim Golden Cup, Reiner''s future papers would definitely receive enough attention, and probably it would never appear in the Monthly Alchemist Griffin again. In fact, ording to thetest news, the paper on electrolyzed water should be published in the next issue of Alchemy, which was the dream of many mages.


    Hans waspletely lucky that he could publish Reiner''s first, and luck was brought to him by his friend Angeli.


    "Should I go to the Rainbow Tower to talk to that guy when I have time?"


    Looking at the city outside the window, Hans muttered to himself.


    ......


    On the other side, inside Prester''s prison.


    Piram sat down on a stone bench. The bed here was hard te covered with straw. It was damp and dark, with mice gnawing something in the corner from time to time. It was probably the worst ce in this world.


    His hands were handcuffed with chains. This was not an ordinary chain, but made of a material that could prevent mages from releasing magic, and was specially used to imprison mages.


    In a few days, Piram would be sent to a wild and remote demine, where he would work for decades until his death.


    The glory and wealth disappeared in an instant, Piram had figured out a lot of things during the time he was in prison, but there was no chance to regret it.


    He hated Antoine, because Antoine took ine, the girl who gave warmth to the people around her like sunshine.


    The three of them were originally best friends, but Piram had always been secretly in love with ine. Antoine himself was obsessed with research and had no intention of having a rtionship, so Piram felt that he had a great advantage, but he did not expect that when he was about to confess his feelings, he saw ine confess her feelings to Antoine first.


    Since then, Piram''s rtionship with the two quickly split. Later, he indulged in vices for a time, and only with the help of Har Ian Gray was he able to make aeback.


    After finding that his beloved woman had died of illness, he shifted all his anger on Antoine. He hated him, and was finally blinded by hatred. It was all because of that, he ended up like this.


    While in prison, Piram thought about everything clearly, but never had a chance to start it again.


    Bang, bang, bang!


    "Mealtime."


    The jailer brought simple food. The bread was like sawdust and the "broth" was thinner than water. Piram took the food and sighed. Although it was unptable, he was already hungry. Tearing off the bread with difficulty, he dipped it in the soup and sent it to his mouth.


    He didn''t even realize that today''s jailer was not the one who came every day before.


    Before long, Piram just felt a pain in his abdomen. Piram covered his throat, feeling extreme pain like thousands of sharp needles stabbing him. The blood vessels on his face burst, and the poison quickly spread all over his body. Piram''s eyes rolled back, and he fell to the ground. His right hand wanted to grab something but eventually fell to the ground.


    This alchemist, who used to be very influential in Prester, eventually died in a small, dark, and damp prison, and even rats were unwilling to eat his body.


    ......


    Reiner looked at the informationpiled by ire on the table. He didn''t expect that the Christian couple had so many research papers.


    Judging from several papers, they focused on traveling through each demine, recording the detailed geography, biological investigations, and magical distribution of each demine in an attempt to construct a theory describing the entire world.


    They called the As continent The World Community, a general term for a civilization and the demines to which it radiated.


    In the theory of the Christians, the difference between nes and demines lied in thews of independence and whether civilization was produced. They believed that the demines distributed around the As continent were actually part of this world. They were separated for some special reason, which exined why the basicw of the demine was the same as that of As.


    In terms of other nes in the true sense, ording to the Christines'' conjecture, should havepletely differentws from this world. For example, there may be no magic at all, and civilization may depend on other energy sources to develop.


    This was a genius assumption in Reiner''s view, because he himself came from a world without magic.


    Unfortunately, the Christian couple never found such a world, and they continued to travel through the demines, trying to find proof of their theories, but also failed because of a copse of the demines.


    That was the worst copse of a demine in history. The demine named "Midgar" was instantly annihted into the void. At that time, hundreds of people were still in that demine. All of them were killed in that copse, and the Christians were the highest-ranked mages at that time.


    "Midgar" was a demine located on the border of civilization. It had arge amount of magical reserves. ording to the letter sent by the Christians, they temporarily had decided to go to "Midgar" because of a strange magical reaction. After collecting the data here, they were ready to return home, but then the disaster happened.


    Moreover, Reiner noticed that on the day when the Christians had an ident, it happened to be Dana Christine''s seventh birthday. On that day, she lost her parents and became an orphan.


    "It''s really a tragedy."


    He picked up a note next to the material. This was what Reiner asked the students to write about the future at the morning assembly, and this one belonged to Dana Christine.


    Looking at the above text, Reiner showed aplicated smile