Chapter 34 The Alchemy Achievement Appraisal Council
The eastern city of the Capital of Knowledge is also known as the Mage District. The entire city is centered on the Tower of Stars. The other six towers surround the Tower of Stars and are arranged in the shape of a hexagram. Among them, as the tower with the most magic research results, the Tower of Alchemy is located in the north of the Mage District. The academic atmosphere inside the Tower of Alchemy is strong and the desire for knowledge makes the Tower of Alchemy not only a symbol of the Alchemy School among the Masters, but also a holy place for scholars in the Capital of Knowledge to pursue knowledge in their hearts. Here, regardless of qualifications, age, or strength.
As long as a person has genius creativity and unique ideas, he will definitely be recognized by the Alchemy Tower. Even if the person's knowledge and ability are not enough to complete the genius creativity according to his own ideas, the Alchemy Tower will send some experienced scholars and mages to fully assist him in completing the research. The glory of completing the research is basically all attributed to the creatives. However, if the assistance of the Alchemy Tower is needed, the Alchemy Society will pay more part of the income brought by the results on the original basis as compensation, and the specific proportion will be decided by both parties before the beginning.
For hundreds of years, the Alchemy Tower has been operating in this model. Not only has there been almost no major disputes or omissions of innovation, but it has also made the Alchemy Tower grow stronger and stronger from fame to strength. Such results need to be attributed to a special group within the Alchemy Tower, an institution called the Alchemy Achievement Review Council. This institution is divided into four levels: primary, intermediate, advanced and highest, and is held from time to time to review the research results learned within a period of time. At the same time, it also reviews the cooperation applications of external personnel. It is also responsible for evaluating new ideas and reviewing each level.
The association has seven reviewers and five supervisors. The seven reviewers will face to face with the proposer, question and answer and debate on each content that needs to be reviewed, and refer to the content of the public defense conducted before to make the final judgment. The five supervisors do not have the right to comment, but when a dispute arises and the proposer expresses unfair judgment, the supervisor needs to make a judgment, or affirm the fairness of the reviewer, or ask a reviewer to avoid it, and temporarily replace it by a substitute reviewer. This system ensures the fairness and rigor of the alchemy achievement reviewer to the greatest extent, and protects the common interests of both parties.
For the Alchemy Tower, the Achievement Review Council is the most important activity within the society. The primary meeting is fixed once a month, the intermediate meeting is held every four to five months, and the senior meeting is fixed once a year. The highest review committee has no fixed deadline and may be held once a few months, or may not be held for two or three years. The lower the level of the Achievement Council, the more lively it is. On the 22nd of each month, the day when the Blue Moon Lucia is full moon, is the day when the Primary Review Council is held. There are crowds outside the Alchemy Tower, and a large number of people gather in the Mage District, waiting for their results to be reviewed, or just to watch the excitement.
, and some small groups with business acumen also gathered to try to cooperate with the Alchemy Guild to seek benefits for a certain achievement. Of course, not only on the 22nd day, because the number of intermediate and advanced meetings is held less, the agenda will accumulate slightly more, so the lively level is no less than that of the primary review committee. However, most of the proposers who can propose intermediate and even advanced achievements often have a certain reputation and strength, and will not just try to turn the Alchemy Tower into a downtown city like those young people. Of course, because there are people watching the fun and profit-seeking merchants, the Alchemy Tower is still noisy outside the Alchemy Tower for a whole day or even for several consecutive days.
The only exception is the Supreme Council. Whenever the Supreme Council is held, the outside of the Alchemy Tower is even quieter than usual. There is often no one on the street. Even if there are people, they will hide in a building hundreds of meters away and whisper, and they will never dare to make noise near the tower. No one can see those small chambers of commerce that pursue profits, as if they don’t care about the situation here at all.
This phenomenon is also easy to understand. Those who can enter the highest review committee to become an appraisal or supervisor are all mages and scholars with reputation and knowledge at the top. The attendees and proposers may not be too far from the appraisal. Such a group of people who only have knowledge and academics in their minds. The most impressive feature of such people is not intelligence, but a very bad temper and merciless attitude, especially when they are focused on thinking. If someone dares to interrupt them, even if that person is a mage guild, that person is the magistrate guild.
The president Antuine or the city lord Odin, even if the gods come in person, will be kicked out of the venue without hesitation by these angry scholars. Over the past few hundred years, there have been many such examples. Even if those onlookers of good things are curious, they are unwilling to endure the overwhelming magical blow that may come to satisfy their curiosity. The key is that even if they are beaten half to death, there is no place to judge, so these people simply hide away to avoid unnecessary trouble.
As for the merchants, they are not fools. Everyone knows that the topics that can enter the highest review committee are definitely not qualified to cooperate with ordinary chambers of commerce and commerce groups. Only the top business groups can cooperate with the Alchemy Guild to develop the highest value of the topic, such as the Goblin Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Federation. These super-large chambers of commerce are all qualified to send representatives with sufficient level to attend the meeting, so those small merchants are naturally too lazy to waste time and energy to pursue some impossible goals.
Due to these reasons, every day when the highest alchemy evaluation meeting was held, the Alchemy Tower was solemn and solemn. Before the meeting, there were mages wearing various robes, with dull or gloomy faces gathered from all directions. Most of these mages were riding in carriages, each of which seemed full of thoughts. Even when they were about to reach their goal, they were still trying to read the thick manuscripts around them carefully. The seven judges and two substitute judges who were responsible for the important tasks came to the preparation room specially reserved for themselves early, and the final review of all issues without any disturbance. All judges knew that every judgment of their own might affect the future development of alchemy technology in the Yara world, so they would be very cautious.
When the meeting begins, the streets within the tower will be empty, and people will be left in the surrounding buildings. The streets are surprisingly quiet, as if this is an uninhabited city.
However, today is different from the past. Even though the meeting has begun, on the empty street, a man walked slowly from a distance with his hands behind his back.
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Chapter completed!