Chapter 52: Your Paper’s Kind Of Awesome (11)
Flare’s light pierced through the whole armor. Complete penetration. Suddenly, the audience turned into baseball spectators.
The mages who had come for the presentation started to raise their hands one by one for a chance to speak. While the custodians swept the floors of the mess caused by Flare, the three students had to handle many questions.
How long did it take to develop. Could you please elaborate on this section of the paper. Where did the concept of a three-dimensional scroll come from. How did a Golden-Eyed decide to research Fire Magic, etc.
Some questions were tossed one after another like a job interview. Lotte and Freyr just chewed on their lips, unable to give articulate answers to these questions.
That was the normal reaction. No one criticized an undergraduate for not being able to properly answer a professor’s question. If anything, it was admirable that they even made the effort.
However, the Golden-Eyed girl was a little different.
Aether breezed through the waves of questions. It was a level of defense that couldn’t be found even from a graduate student who was about to get their Ph.D.
Her eloquence had the mages backing off begrudgingly, including Klais and Meriga.
By the time all sorts of questions were answered, it was already an hour and a half later. It was a good time to start wrapping up the presentation.
Just then.
“Then who gets the patent for Flare?”