The Primordial Wizard

On the fourth floor of the tower, in a slightly dark room.

Alarm bells sounded from time to time, the extremely complex magic circle flashed beige light, and shadow crows appeared out of thin air, spitting out scrolls one by one.

There was only one person in the whole room, with a six-pointed star badge on his chest, and he seemed to be a senior wizard apprentice.

He skillfully poured magic power into the rune array beside him, and more than twenty magic hands appeared out of thin air, and quickly picked up scrolls one by one:

"Elements, turn to Your Excellency Bayern, Your Excellency Logan."

"Soul, turn..."

With a tired voice, scrolls fell into different teleportation positions and disappeared in a flash.

Members of the Magic Council jury are the best candidates for review, but limited to too many submissions, only senior wizard apprentices or formal wizards who have published an article on "Magic" are eligible to be reviewed by the jury members. Other manuscripts are published by "Magic" Senior wizard apprentices who have published papers for review, and those who are undecided can apply for review by members of the jury.

The review is generally reviewed by two review committee members of the school (people who have published papers in "Magic"), and each makes independent judgments. If the dispute is too great, join the third review committee to judge until a small academic meeting is held to discuss and decide.

Betty's thesis carried her insignia, so it was directly assigned to Bayern and Logan, the founders of the new theory of Elementalism.

On the seventh floor of the tower, in a chaotic room with various glass test tubes and utensils, Logan's big hat was put aside, he poured a bottle of purple reagent into the colorless and transparent reagent, and there was a loud bang. The explosion blew up the respective containers in the laboratory.

The little old man Logan stretched out his right hand, and an eggshell-shaped transparent magic crystal shield appeared, blocking the explosion.

"Failed again, the improvement of life medicine is too difficult."

Suddenly, he heard someone slapping the enchantment barrier outside the room, so he snapped his fingers, the enchantment was revoked, the window opened, and a black-feathered crow jumped in, gurgling out several paper scrolls, Turned around and flew away thumping.

"Forget it, don't do the experiment, read the paper and relax."

Logan muttered, surrounded by magic power, and cleaned up the garbage in the entire room.

He flipped through the papers, "Sulfur Extraction Method by Precipitation", "Extraction of Silver Salt by Chloride Precipitation", and "Several Studies on Phosphorus" were all studies conducted by senior wizard apprentices based on the new theory proposed by him and Bayern.

Logan glanced at them casually. They were all old acquaintances who had been on the "Magic" journal. His thinking changed quickly. At this moment, Betty's paper caught his attention.

The second ring badge belonging to Betty flickered like a burning sun, and Logan opened the paper "A New Experiment on the Relationship between Flame and Air".

"Does Betty want to reconstruct flame from the perspective of a new theory? Combustion is an exotherm? This idea is very interesting, I need to repeat her experiment..."

In another room on the seventh floor of the high platform, Bayern also started his repeated experiments.

"Gunpowder can burn in a vacuum, not only that, but also underwater. This is an amazing discovery that can redefine combustion. Is it an exothermic nature? Maybe we can discuss it with Betty."

In Logan's room, he made an upside-down glass ball in the water, and lit a candle inside. Logan used a glass siphon to make the water surface inside and outside the ball equal, and then quickly removed the siphon.

The water level inside the ball rises, and when the candle goes out, there is still a lot of air left in the ball.

"Burning consumes air!"

Logan's eyes were full of discovery, and he paced back and forth, thinking about it.

"Can the remaining air support combustion? It's worth a try."

He re-replicated the experiment, and put sulfur and camphor in the shelf in the ball in advance. After the candle was extinguished, he used a convex lens to heat the sulfur and camphor. The remaining air could not support the burning of sulfur and camphor!

He then thought about suffocation. If animals do not breathe, they will suffocate. Do animals also need something in the air?

Logan placed mice inside a closed bladder membrane, the reduction of air inside which could be seen from the indentation of the bladder membrane by external pressure.

A mouse put together with a lighted candle survives half as long as a mouse without the candle, and the air is reduced by one-thirtieth by the burning of the candle, and one mouse causes the air to be reduced by one-fourteenth.

After the candle was extinguished, the mice lived a little longer.

Logan conducted another experiment on animal blood. He placed fresh arterial blood in a vacuum environment. The arterial blood produced foam and released gas. If the blood circulation stopped, no gas would be produced.

It was getting late, and in the gloomy laboratory, Logan put his big hat on his head and shouted excitedly:

"Only part of the air participates in the process of combustion, and only part of the air participates in the process of respiration. The two processes of respiration and combustion should be the same in essence, both of which are exothermic!

The combination of saltpeter and air is the most important thing, it is used for breathing, and it is also used for burning! "

Logan excitedly recorded his experimental results, opened the door, only to find that Bayern and Betty were already waiting here.

Bayern looked at Logan with a smile, and said to Betty: "I knew that Logan must be fascinated by your magical experiment, and he didn't notice our magic signal at all."

"Come in, I've done an extended experiment on Betty's experiment, and I just got a new result, the three of us will discuss it together."

Logan excitedly grabbed Betty and Bayern who were stepping on the mechanical disc, and pulled them into the room.

After repeating the experiment, Betty said joyfully in a shrill voice: "That's it, the part of the air consumed in the air coincides with a certain substance in the saltpeter, Logan, your research is great, you proved that Combustion and respiration are phenomena of the same nature!"

Bayern also said excitedly: "According to the experiments of the three of us, mainly the results of Logan and Betty, we can draw the following conclusions. Both combustion and breathing need to consume some kind of substance, which exists in saltpeter and in the air. Combustion and respiration are both exothermic phenomena, and it is this consumed object that matters at the moment!"

Betty couldn't help nodding: "I think the components of an object are air, water and three kinds of soil, one is combustible soil, one is tributary, and the third is soluble or glass. When burning The reaction starts and the combustible part is burned off.

I think this kind of combustible earth can be called phlogiston, that is, "fire quality and fire element instead of fire itself", this kind of phlogiston can consume combustion-supporting objects to achieve combustion effect! "