Oh, they're going to love you. [It comes out snarky, but it's true. The only type of magic the Free Cities seem to support is 'New Magic', and if this man is proposing innovations to that, he's going to make himself very popular with the locals.]

In theory, that should be possible. There are laws to magic just like there are to science, and if you can understand them, you can apply them in all sorts of novel ways.

[He shrugs. The theory is one thing, practice is another. Not everyone is able to parse arcane logic. He's got no idea if Viktor is a lost cause or not.]

Have you been to the Horizon yet? You can recreate your old work there, though you won't be able to take it out of Singularity. It's useful for study.