Afternoon, Chaos City, private experimental zone.
After taking in more than a dozen mages from Disode Magic Academy and Imperial City Magic Academy in succession, the experimental zone finally began to liven up.
At the entrance to the experimental zone, Edith stepped down from her carriage, entered the laboratory, and took out a stack of files from her storage space.
"These are the research findings recently released by the magic world."
Hearing her, Ilya looked up from the materials she had been studying at the table and asked, "Is there anything worth paying attention to?"
"There are a few things you might want to look at." Edith searched through the files as she spoke. "I only heard a rough outline from friends at the academy."
"The Gnome Race has developed several new magic patterns. I think you'll be interested."
"There's also new progress on improved magic arrays for Earth Magic at the academy. You've been looking into that lately, so you can take some time to read it."
"Besides that, you absolutely need to look over this paper from Imperial City Magic Academy of the Human Empire first."
As she said this, Edith placed a file before Ilya, her expression solemn.
Somewhat puzzled, Ilya picked up the paper and looked at the author after opening it—
Professor Simmons of Imperial City Magic Academy.
A Legendary-tier Lightning Mage.
And the paper's title immediately seized Ilya's attention, putting her instantly on alert—
<On the Possibility of "Lightning Elements" Existing in Special Environments>
Lightning elements!?
The six great elements of the magic world were well known: light elements formed the foundation of White Magic, dark elements were the origin of Black Magic, while the other four great elements made up the magnificent and spectacular Cyan Magic system.
As for Lightning Magic, it had