"Have you heard? The Seris School has made big news again!"
"Big news?"
"That's right. Something called elemental talismans, apparently-a new kind of magic scroll!
Hey, never mind the details. Hurry up and ask around!
If we get involved now, there might still be some rich pickings left for us."
News traveled fast in arcane circles whenever fame and fortune were involved.
By mid-May, as the project team members submitted their papers one after another and received unanimous approval from the editorial departments, mages from all sides had already caught wind of it.
Some insiders leaked snippets of information, sparking even more heated discussion.
Those mages keenly realized that there were plenty of mysteries here to explore. With luck, they might even produce some results of their own.
Just like the research trends Roland had sparked time and again!
By now, Roland was effectively a new grandmaster of the Runes School. He had even used his arcane insights to branch into other schools, leading the entire arcane world.
For several years before this, simply connecting various magical languages with Seris and translating incantations and spell texts between them had yielded a steady stream of results. Only as the work gradually moved into the middle and higher tiers had it begun to require teamwork and present a real barrier to entry.
Yet every new field he opened up produced a large crop of rising stars with arcane achievements to their names, adding full members to the Seris Language Research Society.
The benefits were tangible and plain to see.
"These so-called elemental talismans will be something new, closely related to spell scrolls yet circumventing their technical patents.
I would call them spell scrolls with Seris characteristics!"
Just a few days later, an article published in the Arcana Review reignited everyone's enthusiasm