Greetings, Mister Principal

Ever since Eagles Ferdo proposed the mass of elements, there was a trend of mages searching for new elements. In the decades that have passed, dozens of new elements have been discovered, bringing a lot of feedback from the world. Among the high-level mages present here, several of them relied on the discovery of new elements to advance.

The first person to separate and determine the properties of the new element would get the most feedback from the world, then the effects of the feedback were gradually reduced. Therefore, most of the research about the new element was conducted independently by each mage. At most, it was the joint research between brothers or husband and wife, but there were rare cases of teamwork.

Now, however, Reiner actually wanted to find the new element in front of so many High-level mages?

Was he a lunatic or a fool?

Did he already feel that there is too much feedback from the world, so he was willing to hand it over to others?

Moreover, searching for new elements required not only long-term trial and error, but also a lot of luck and experience. Many mages had spent more than ten years in the laboratory trying to isolate new elements from minerals, but ended up in failure. There were also some people who would go out to climb a mountain to find a piece of new element ore.

But absolutely no one could find new elements in the room casually.

And yet, it was in the room where the Elemental and Alchemy High-level mages were gathering!

"Reiner Ian Gray, are you trying to say that we High-level mages have been sitting here for the whole morning without knowing that a brand new element is wandering around us?"

Broly asked. Reiner's attitude made him a little bit angry. Of course, this displeasure may come more from the organisation Reiner was in.

As the vice president of Storm Council, Broly was mostly responsible for recruiting and training new talents. In recent years, Mercury Balance has attracted a large number of new talents based on news of successful advancements from the discoveries of several new elements. It annoyed Broly a lot.

A newcomer such as Reiner was actually directly appointed by President Demetrius. Broly deeply felt his negligence. Therefore, he subconsciously wanted to see Reiner make a fool of himself to prove that he had made no mistakes. Of course, these were all subconscious behaviours. He didn't have any prejudice against Reiner.

"Yes, Your Excellency. Actually, in the real world, we don't necessarily know the true colors of things that we come into contact with every day. A year ago, water was called the basic element, but who could have imagined that two brand-new elements are contained in water?" Reiner replied cleverly.

His words surprised many High-level mages. Indeed, these academic powers had been at the forefront of research for a long time, discussing issues related to the nature of the world, but ignoring the most common things around them. This was very worthy of reflection.

"Then where are the new elements you are talking about? Is it in the air?"

Broly's competitiveness was aroused by Reiner. More importantly, Reiner didn't seem to know his name yet. The polite address of Your Excellency sounded a bit harsh in Broly's ears at the moment.

"Yes, Your Excellency, the new element is in the air."

Reiner smiled, and his response surprised the High-level mages present.

The surrounding world suddenly became a lot stranger, for in this apparently empty space, there seemed to be endless mysteries being bred.

"According to current calculations, the air as we know it is actually composed of several gases, including 78% Netron gas, 21% Occles gas, and the remaining one percent contains a small amount of carbon dioxide and water vapor, as well as impurities that are difficult to separate and measure. Our goal is the impurities that cannot be accurately measured."

Reiner said. He also had his own considerations for taking this approach.

Because of its extremely inactive nature, the purification of rare gases generally uses the refrigerated air separation method, which involves fractionation by the different boiling points of the different liquid gases. The low temperature required was not reachable by Reiner.

Of course, he had considered purifying these gases by himself when he was doing experiments. However, after reading the relevant research, Reiner found that if he wanted to freeze the air to a liquid state, he must at least use elemental magic above the fifth ring. In addition, the precise temperature control capability required for repeated fractionation is also inaccessible to ordinary people.

Reiner was lucky to be able to "pick up" the electromagnetic separation magic circle, which used the low-level practical magic of intermediate spells, but it was obvious that it was impossible for him to be so lucky again in a short period of time to "pick up" a low-level freezing magic spell.

According to the evaluation criteria, the circle designed by Fina's father required at least 30 gold coins or equivalent academic points to exchange for its usage rights, which was a lot of income.

Since he couldn't get a hold of the related spells to extract new elements in a short time, he would have lost his chance. Because once the periodic table of the elements was published, every mage could rely on the properties of these elements to find new elements. Presumably, these vacant positions would be filled very soon.

Reiner felt that instead of watching others get new elements, it was better to do those high-level mages a favor. Maybe he could still freeload some feedback from the world as well.

Besides, discovering new elements based on the periodic table of the elements at first hand had a strong verification effect for his paper, which was enough to show that the idea of his paper was correct.

"We can use cryogenic fractionation to distinguish different substances in these impurities. In fact, this element of inert gas is found in Netron gas. I infer from this that this type of gas is extremely inactive due to its nature. It is difficult to react with other elements, so most of them exist in nature in the form of simple substances, and air is their best hiding place."

Hearing Reiner's words, the mages present exchanged glances. In the end, it was decided that President Demetrius and Pluto would jointly carry out the cryogenic fractionation of the air.

The primary reason was that these two had the highest rank and status amongst the mages in this room. The level of their spells was first-rate. They were good at elemental and alchemical magic so could control temperature very precisely.

The second reason was that if a new element was discovered, it would surely bring the feedback from the world, so the other mages did not dare to compete with them.

Pluto first constructed the low-temperature magic. He took out the casting materials from his storage bag one by one, and built a magic circle at the center of the round conference table that was capable of completely freezing and liquifying the air.

President Demetrius collected a small bottle of air, and at the same time set up the magic circle needed to measure the elements.

Under everyone's attention, a unique experiment began