182 Dilemma (1/2)

Clearly, Mafa Merlin had been jointly recommended by Jouyi and Osul due to some achievements he had attained while working on the Fanrusen Formula. Otherwise, a peak Archmage and an Artisan wouldn't have recommended him together.

But in everyone's eyes, his achievement would at most have been suggesting some new train of thought during the research, or perhaps performing a particular calculation that had been causing trouble. They felt that the ”huge contribution” was most likely an exaggeration from Jouyi and Osul.

Originally, everyone had only assumed their proposal was something routine.

But now, everyone felt weird.

What was this situation!

Jouyi's words seemed to suggest that this young Great Mage was the one that personally cracked the Fanrusen Formula.

Their first reaction was to wonder whether Jouyi was a bit too drunk...

Why else would he say something like this?

Who didn't know that during research, the contribution of the participants would be mentioned as achievements, but ”cracking” the greatest obstacle was something that only the leader of the research could take credit for?

Unless some people achieved incredible results far beyond what all others did during the research, only then would it be accurate to say that they ”cracked” it.

The one in charge of the Fanrusen Formula was Jouyi, but now, Jouyi himself said that Merlin had cracked the Fanrusen Formula.

What was happening?

One person couldn't hold it in anymore.

”Sir Jouyi, I have a question!” The one who interjected was a 5th Rank Archmage. Lin Yun remembered Jouyi introducing him earlier; he was called Erjin. He came from the frozen wasteland in the northern part of the kingdom.

”Ask away.”

”As everyone knows, Sir Jouyi, you have spent decades on the Fanrusen Formula. It could be said that in the entire Andlusa Kingdom, there are no mages that can understand the Fanrusen Formula better than you. I'm very curious, what kind of achievement did Great Mage Merlin attain during the research for you to praise him this much?”

”Haha…” Jouyi only chuckled before fishing out a piece of paper from his pocket as he replied, ”This is a very good question. I cannot give you a concrete answer, because Merlin's contribution to the Fanrusen research simply cannot be explained in a short time. If you must know, then I suggest you take a look at this piece of paper. This is something Great Mage Merlin spent an hour to compute…”

”Thank you, Sir Jouyi.” Eljin nodded and took the piece of paper before studying it.

At first, his expression was still quite calm, but the more he looked into it, the more his expression changed.

In the end, cold sweat dripped down his forehead.

Eljin didn't even care about the Magic Hand's gathering as he suddenly fished out a quill from his pocket and looked for a table to check something.

”How could this be…” As Eljin's went deeper and deeper into the calculations, he grew more and more agitated.

After no less than ten minutes, Eljin carefully collected the piece of paper...

He then nodded to Merlin. ”My apologies, Great Mage Merlin.”

”You are too polite…” Lin Yun only smiled.

Eljin's reaction attracted the attention of every mage that was present. Almost everyone was looking curiously at Eljin, and several Archmages that were acquainted with him even walked over to take a look at the piece of paper...

Those able to participate in the Magic Hand's gathering were all peak mages of the kingdom. Ordinary mages couldn't understand the way that these lofty figures looked at things or their insights. They only needed to study the piece of paper for a bit to understand the pros and cons.

The kind of computing ability shown by the work was too frightening...

Not to mention a 5th Rank Great Mage, 5th Rank High Mages and even 5th Rank Archmages wouldn't possess such terrifying computing ability. Although the pieces of data on the paper were dull and complicated, to all these Archmages, these dull and complicated pieces of data hid horrifying calculations, efficient and accurate, like a machine.

At this time, everyone understood why Merlin could resist a 9th Rank High Mage despite being a 5th Rank Great Mage.

It was all because of his frightening capacity for performing computation.