Review

The second floor of the Mage Tower is where mages submit their Paper. After the Northern Lands Society fully integrated with the Mana Communication System, all mages must submit their Paper Paper so that the system can scan and upload them.

Fran, carrying her manuscript, went to the Paper submission window and handed it over.

"You're all alone, right?"

The staff inside glanced at it, then pointed to the name on it with some curiosity and asked.

"Yes, there's only one." Fran confirmed again.

In other places, it's common for monks to submit Paper with only one name, but this is not so common in the Northern Lands Society.

Because the residents here are taught by special monks after being admitted to the Northern Lands Society, a newly recruited monk will most often complete an achievement under the guidance of another mentor.

Therefore, this monk always included his supervisor's name in his Paper, sometimes before, sometimes after, depending on the specific circumstances.

Even now, the Northern Lands Society is very fond of exchanging ideas between different School, believing that this can lead to the discovery of new things, so when submitting Paper, multiple names are listed together.

Works completed by a single author are relatively rare, but they do exist; the staff simply offer a reminder.

"Okay, please fill out this form and come back here in three days to check the results."

As for why this Mana Communication System exists, and why the verification Mana Communication System isn't directly implemented within it, that's a limitation of the system itself.

Unlike the rapidly developing internet in Fran's previous life, the Mana Communication System here hasn't even been invented for thirty years.

Despite its high level of convenience, many of the functions that University Association need cannot be added to it.

For example, the function of approving temporary drafts is difficult to implement on this platform.

According to the creator, because magic essence is constantly circulating in the air, such drafts might appear directly on the normal system.

In other words, those Paper that are still pending review may appear directly on the system that the mages are checking before they are even reviewed.

Of course, the creator also proposed another solution: using two systems, one specifically for review.

Furthermore, to prevent the flow of magic energy between systems, the two systems must be at least 10 kilometers apart to ensure stable operation.

Whether the creator genuinely couldn't do it or simply wanted to sell two systems, no one was willing to buy it. In other words, to this day, no one has been willing to buy two systems.

This is also due to the inherent flaws of the Mana Communication System itself. After testing, it was found that there is a limit to the number of words that can be uploaded to the system each day. Once this limit is exceeded, it will damage the Magic Essence itself.

For some University Association, this is simply unacceptable. They have to upload a huge number of Paper every day, and if they have to queue up every time, that would be unbearable.

This is also why the Mana Communication System has not been widely implemented until now, but this time it seems to be a flaw in the Mana Communication System itself.

The Northern Lands Society itself is of a decent size, and the number of Paper uploaded each day is just within the limit. However, with a large influx of mages into the Northern Lands Society, the system might not be able to handle the load one day.

The staff member, worried, placed the papers Fran had brought in the area awaiting review.

Alaric is an auditor at the Northern Lands Society, a position he has held for ten years.

Overall, this position is quite easy, because there aren't many monks in the Northern Lands Society, and the number of Paper submitted each year is only so small.

Furthermore, when he reviews the papers, he doesn't focus on the content of the submitted Paper, but only does a simple screening.

The real responsibility for ensuring quality content lies with those gurus who create curated selections.

In his view, as long as the content meets the following three criteria, it can pass the review.

1. The entire Paper must contain content related to magic, and it cannot be based on outdated magic theories.

2. Its content does not bear much resemblance to previously published content.

3. There are no narrative problems in the entire Paper.

These three points are quite clear and straightforward; in fact, you could say the threshold is rather low.

A normal mage could easily squeeze one of their works into the system, but that would be pointless.

First, you need others to view your published Paper to earn Contribution Points. At any other time, simply publishing a Paper has no effect.

The first two points are well-worn topics; if a mage wants their Paper to be seen by others, these two points are essential.

The problem lies in the third point. Although the Paper here don't have the various formatting requirements of Fran's previous life, there is still a basic requirement: to clearly state your findings.

For example, clickbait titles, titles that are unrelated or only weakly related to the body text, and rambling content that is irrelevant to the main point will also be rejected.

After the publication of that Paper that shocked the Alliance, there was a significant increase in Paper with the third problem, and these problematic Paper all came from the mages who had recently arrived at the Northern Lands Society.

Alaric stared dejectedly at the eleven Paper up before him.

"I cleared this place out last night, how come there are eleven posts now?"

In other words, all of these were delivered here overnight.

"Why are those monks sending Paper so late at night? Don't they get any sleep?" he complained. The Paper submission window there operates on a three-shift system, so papers can be submitted at any time.

Let's begin.

As the morning passed, Alaric grew increasingly irritable, and he complained:

"(Swearing), those mages from the Alliance are a bunch of trash. How dare they hand them over?"

After spending the morning reviewing garbage, Alaric still had to write comments on it for his job, then paste those comments onto the Paper and send it back.

"Another Paper has arrived."

Alaric reached out and took another newly delivered Paper, hoping it would be one that would make him stop calling Paper garbage.

"<Mathematical Analysis of Fireball>..." Just seeing the title made Alaric feel a surge of disgust.

Just from the title, he had a bad feeling. What era are we living in? They're still researching Fireball?

Fireball, as one of the oldest spells, has had its spell structure optimized to the point where it can't be improved any further; this is clearly just another piece of 'garbage'.

However, as a reviewer, he cannot simply return the manuscript upon seeing the title; that would be against regulations.

He could only resign himself to looking down, hoping it was a Paper with a wrong title.