68: Chapter 68 Contribution Points

Seeing Ross arrive, the elven scholar stood up and said,

"Hello, my name is Daphne Ashworth. I am also the Doctor of General Studies arranged by the academy to handle the submission of research papers for Wizard Apprentices below the Official Wizard Rank."

"Can you first hand over the manuscript you want to submit for me to take a look at?"

Upon hearing the words of the elf Daphne,

Ross handed the article "Symbiotic Evolution Research of mana microorganisms and Water Lily Magic Plant" in his hand and the recommendation letter from Your Excellency Old Wizard Pulang to the elven scholar before him.

The elven scholar before him then cast a Spell Model that Ross himself did not recognize.

The content of the article before her quickly glided into the elven scholar's eyes, and then her eyes quickly skimmed over various texts and fragments.

The appraisal Spell commonly used by Doctors of General Studies and some divination-type Spells should be what the elven scholar before him was casting.

Through these Spells, a preliminary judgment could be made quickly regarding the quality of the content of the article before her and whether it was true.

Perhaps in the harsh Wizard Demon World, research results like those made by Ross required repeated experiments to verify whether they were reliable.

But in the world of wizards, in a world where mana existed, destiny was truly real, and prophecy was also true and reliable.

Especially for research articles like this, the items involved could be even more specific, and the prophesied results would become increasingly accurate.

"Not bad, this article is indeed true and reliable. However, it still requires some other Doctors of General Studies to conduct an appraisal. If it is only me, it is not enough to complete the successful appraisal."

After the explanation by the half-elf scholar, Ross also understood.

Jobs like appraising articles could actually be basically judged by relying on just one Doctor of General Studies.

However, in more cases, it might be to avoid personal connections or private transactions.

As well as to distinguish the quality of the paper to a greater extent, determine the Rank it could reach in the academy's journal, and obtain the corresponding contribution points.

Therefore, at least two other Doctors of General Studies were still needed to conduct the appraisal, which would take a certain amount of time.

"However, since you have the recommendation letter given by Professor Pulang and the dean's message on it, basically speaking, there should be no problem, but we still need to go through the formal process."

"I hope you can understand that these are all necessary procedures. Of course, in my opinion, your research paper is also a fairly valuable article. You must know that in a remote place like ours, research into unfamiliar Domains is still quite rare."

Ross also hurriedly responded.

These General Studies doctors serving in the academy, although their strength was definitely inferior to Wizard Apprentices of the same Rank,

their knowledge and cognition could not be matched by ordinary Wizard Apprentices.

Although most of them were a kind of marginal wizards cultivated by Official Wizard forces, they possessed quite a lot of authority.

Wanting to successfully report one's research achievements was inseparable from them.

Of course, as specialized Doctors of General Studies cultivated by the academy, they naturally had the obligation to review these articles.

Therefore, even if they were not on duty here, after receiving emails from colleagues, they still needed to review them at home.

"I understand, Your Excellency Daphne. It's just that my mentor also said that this article might need to be published as a cover article. What preparations do I need to make for this?"

At this moment, the elven scholar also unfolded the recommendation letter, looked at it carefully, and then spoke out:

"If the paper is finally unanimously appraised and approved by the three Doctors of General Studies, your paper will be included in the next issue of the Elius Wizard Journal."

"As for the cover article, you may need to provide some pictures of mana microorganisms and Water Lily Magic Plants, or images from your research that can showcase the results."

"You don't need to trouble yourself to make another trip. You just need to mail the relevant pictures to the office of the person in charge on the second floor of the Hall of Knowledge."

In Ross's view, the speed of reviewing papers in the wizarding world was relatively fast.

After the preliminary review by the elven scholar before him, the value and level of the article could basically be judged.

Not to mention having the recommendation letter from Professor Pulang,

presumably the other two Doctors of General Studies would finish the appraisal very quickly, and then it would be published.

"As for the final result, you can check whether your paper is in the next issue of the school journal. If everything goes smoothly."

"Of course, I personally wish you good luck," Daphne wished.

"Thank you. Then I will mail the relevant photos or pictures to you via magic express later."

After the blessing words of the elven scholar, Ross also politely replied.

And this was Ross's first time coming to the second floor of the Hall of Knowledge, where he continued to communicate with the elven scholar before him for a while.

It turned out that the second floor was not only a storage place for some important wizard knowledge,

but at the same time, there were also people in charge like the half-elf scholar stationed on the second floor for a long time.

Not only responsible for conducting a review for wizards who came to submit contributions,

there was also another relatively important function, which was to provide knowledge consultation for visiting wizards.

Like successfully submitting a paper, according to the quality result of the paper,

the academy would also give different evaluations of Rank S, Rank A, Rank B, Rank C, and Rank D based on the final evaluation.

Like Rank S, the paper score had to be above 90 up to 100.

Rank A was by analogy, which was above 80 to below 90.

Rank B was above 70 to below 80.

Rank C was above 60 to below 70, and Rank D was 60 points and below.

And the academy would also give corresponding contribution points according to the Rank of the paper.

These contribution points could not only be used as general academy points to exchange for resources,

but these contribution points could also be consumed to query valuable papers published by other wizards.

After all, the school journal of the Elius Wizard Academy itself was a collection that included various excellent papers.

If one wanted to subscribe to the whole issue, it would consume quite a lot of magic stones.

If a wizard could publish many papers in his research Domain, he could obtain a large amount of contribution points through submission.

These contribution points could not only bring resource accumulation for the wizard,

but could also be used to consume contribution points to read papers on unfamiliar Domains of oneself or papers that accelerated one's own Spell construction.

Of course, for Official Wizards, whether these contribution points or points were just a drop in the bucket.

Most of them studied a certain Domain in depth, and then relied on the output of this Domain to conduct industrial-like production, thereby earning a large amount of magic stones.

However, ordinary Wizard Apprentices could not achieve this.

Obtaining a large amount of contribution points by publishing these papers was also a broad road to the heavens for apprentices.