Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 508 Reviewing for the Two Major Journals

Inside the editor's office of the journal "Southeast," the editor-in-chief of the journal "Southeast," a crystallized wizard from the southeastern corner of the region, is reviewing and categorizing the articles.

These articles submitted to Southeast magazine will undergo an initial screening, with those that are clearly unqualified or submitted to the wrong journal being removed. The letter will then be sent back to the sorcerer, indicating that the submission is rejected.

However, after the initial selection, it is necessary to find external review experts, at least two experts from the same school of magic and the same subfield of magic, to conduct double-blind reviews. Finally, after obtaining the opinions of at least two experts and combining the opinions of the editorial department, it can be published in the journal.

This is only the requirement of Southeast Journal; the requirements are even stricter in larger journals.

After all, the southeastern corner region is not a particularly high-level wizarding territory.

At this moment, the editor-in-chief of *Southeast* magazine, after reading Locke's article about the power of Mister, had a slightly changed expression. "This is..."

"The Power of Myster? The contributor is a wizard from the Southeast Corner Region. Although he is currently located in the Six Towers, he can indeed submit to 'Southeast' and meets the requirements." The editor-in-chief wizard quickly realized the key to the problem. "The Power of Myster was once the top secret of Lilith's Hut. Back then, Lilith's Hut stirred up countless bloodshed and caused countless riots in order to verify that the Power of Myster truly existed."

"The inhumane experiments even interrupted the upward momentum of Lilith's Hut and drew a serious warning from the White Wizard Association."

The chief editor, a wizard, looked at the article before him and quickly realized the hidden meaning behind it.

If this article is genuine, then it is definitely not simple.

He is not an expert in this field, so it is necessary to find an expert outside the editorial department to conduct a professional review, provide review opinions, and see if the article is of high enough quality or just a pretentious piece of work.

The editor-in-chief wizard quickly opened the Gray Mist Slate, concealed the contributor's name as required, and sent the two documents to two colleagues in related fields respectively.

Dean Earl Thompson and Wizard Harlan Vera.

The editor-in-chief, a wizard, reviewed the articles the two had previously published in "Southeast" and in the association's library. Several of these articles were related to the power of Myster. Therefore, in accordance with the principle of finding reviewers, it was appropriate to ask these two to evaluate the article about the creation and principles of the power of Myster.

The editor-in-chief, a wizard, frowned. "Now we just need to wait for the opinions of the two experts. If it's true, then it will be truly remarkable. I remember this wizard also came from Lilith's Hut, right?"

"After all these years, I never thought that the wizards at Lilith's Hut would finally get what they wanted."

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Meanwhile, Locke's submission to the Yunze journal office had also arrived. Inside the Yunze editorial office, a second-ring editor wizard was reading through the letters. After reading Locke's article about using the power of Mister to accelerate his transformation into a first-ring crystallization wizard, he paused for a moment.

"You submitted to the wrong journal. How can a first-ring wizard submit directly to 'Yunze'? The minimum submission standard for 'Yunze' is a second-ring wizard. By the way, this young man must be an outsider wizard, so he doesn't know this."

Earl Harry, the wizard in charge of *Yunze*, smiled slightly. "But actually, this article is of quite high quality. Judging from the submitter's name, they must be the Yunze Cup champion..."

"No wonder he's a wizard who won our Cloud Cup." After investigating Locke's past, Earl Harry immediately felt a bit more favorably toward Locke after seeing that Locke was the Cloud Cup champion.

Locke was born in the Southeast Corner Region, and later received funding from the Plutarch family of the Six Towers Land. He then won the Yunze Cup Breeder Competition in Yunze Wetland.

Winning this competition has become part of his background.

As a wizard of Yunze Wetlands, Earl Harry would naturally trust Locke more when he saw that Locke was the champion of the Yunze Cup, and would not think that his article was nonsense.

Earl Harry considered for a moment, then wrote down the rejection notice to Locke in a tactful tone. “Dear Augustine Wizard, thank you for your submission.” “However, *Yunze* only accepts excellent articles on important discoveries published by wizards of the second ring or higher. You may choose to submit to *Qingcao Yunze*, an important sub-journal of *Yunze*. Although it is a sub-journal, it is still a journal with a reputation level of Zone 1.”

"Secondly, although your article is of high quality, it seems that you yourself have not become a first-ring crystallization wizard and there are no successful examples, which is a great pity. Therefore, in order to avoid your article being rejected by 'Green Grass Clouds', we hope that you can provide actual proof."

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Meanwhile, in the Wizarding Secret Realm of Poison Valley, Locke, while tracking Nidhogg, sensed the Gray Mist Slab vibrating wildly. He summoned the Gray Mist Slab and saw that Teacher Harlan Vera had sent him a message, asking if he had recently submitted an article to Southeast magazine.

Harlan Vera messaged him: 'Although I know that contacting each other privately violates the principle of blind review, Locke, I still want to know if you've recently submitted any articles to *Southeast*?'

'Have you successfully acquired the power of Myster?'

Locke was about to reply when he heard a roar behind him. When he turned around, he saw that half of the sky behind him had been dyed blood red, and a river of blood was pouring down from the sky and into Nidhogg's body.

Nidhogg used ritual magic to suppress the sea gold dust within him, and at the same time, his body once again grew to the size of a small mountain.

Like a giant.

Nidhogg laughed, a laugh that came from the power of some kind of sonic magical creature, making Locke's eardrums ache.

With the power of the Blood River Plane empowered, Nidhogg used his remaining five spider legs to slash towards Locke's neck.

"Is this your ritual magic? It seems to be a status enhancement type, not a curse type." Locke breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his opponent had been forced to reveal his trump card first. At the same time, he summoned the Hydra to coil around his body.

Myster's power transformed into a giant axe, slashing towards Nidhogg. At the same time, Locke took out a True Sight Crystal from his ring and recorded what was happening.

“Professor Harun Vera, it’s always better to see for yourself than to hear about the power of Mist.”

At this moment, Nidhogg, empowered by ritual magic, collided with the power of Myster in Locke's hand.

Nidhogg roared, "This is a ritual magic unique to crystallization wizards. You are just a liquefaction wizard and absolutely cannot resist this power."

The next moment, the two powerful forces collided.

Locke immediately felt a powerful external force, one that did not belong to Nidhogg, descend upon his Mysterious Axe.

The moment the two force fields came into contact, Locke seemed to realize that he was not fighting Nidhogg, but rather a part of the power of the Blood River plane behind Nidhogg.

Ritual magic, also known as magic rituals, involves using other powers through magical rituals to enhance one's own strength.

From Locke's current perspective, this is a lower-level beggar's version of ultimate magic, because the power of ritual magic does not actually belong to oneself, but is borrowed from the outside.

And perhaps, it will come at a considerable cost.

(End of this chapter)