Greetings, Mister Principal - Chapter 114

The girl watched the tiger-stripe-patterned cat devouring the minced meat on the plate in front of her, and her right hand gently stroked the back of the cat’s neck, making the cat purr very happy.

She didn’t even realize that there were other people watching her. She was intoxicated with the pleasure of petting a cat.

“I really envy you.”

The girl whispered.

At this time, Reiner had already walked down the tower and came to the girl’s side.

Looking closer, he discovered that this girl turned out to be the straight-A student, Fina Napishtim in Luna Nova Magical Academy.

At this time, Fina did not have the usual calm appearance and was more like a young girl of her age. She stroked the cat slowly, and the tiger-striped-patterned cat also enjoyed it, changing its posture constantly. It even lay on the ground with its belly upturned in the end.

“Fina, why don’t you go back to the dormitory?”

Reiner looked at it for a while, and finally couldn’t help but ask.

His words caused Fina to react like a frightened cat, while the real cat had already rolled over and jumped away, not knowing where it was going. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

“Principal Ian Gray… I, I, that’s…”

Fina showed a panicked look for the first time, but it made Reiner feel a little strange. Even when this girl went to Torrendo to take the exam, she didn’t show too much emotion.

“Okay, go back quickly. I didn’t see anything.”

Reiner waved his hand to signal Fina to return to the dormitory as soon as possible.

“Okay, thank you, principal.”

Standing up, Fina bowed to Reiner and ran back to the dormitory with a small step.

Reiner looked at the back of the girl leaving, stretched, and returned to the office to check the paper before it was packaged and handed to Owl to send it out.

……

At noon the next day, in the corner of the Rainbow Tower, Grimm yawned in the tower where the alchemy mages of the thesis review committee gathered, and was thinking about whether to take a nap.

Since the annual academic conference of the Mercury Balance was held, the number of papers in the alchemy department had obviously increased. On the one hand, thanks to the proposal of several new theories, many mages had more research directions. On the other hand, the order of elements proposed by His Excellency Steinen had also triggered many discussions.

Many mages one after another put forward their own element sorting tables based on His Excellency Steinen papers and several conjectures, but in Grimm’s view, these were all useless.

“Do these low-level mages really think that they will be smarter than those Excellencies?”

Grimm raised his eyebrows and looked at the three papers he reviewed in the morning. They were all sent by low-level mages to try to “perfect” His Excellency Steinen’s element order list, but after reviewing them, he felt that those papers were wasting his time.

“…The logic is confusing and far-fetched, and the understanding of the elements is not thorough. It is recommended to re-read the basic textbook of the alchemy department before writing the paper…”

“…The title is grandstanding, the actual content is vague and meaningless…”

“…There are serious theoretical errors in the hypothesis of the thesis, and the reasoning process carried out based on this is completely wrong. I hope that the author can carefully study the papers of high-level mages before doing research…”

Grimm’s comments had always been sharp-tongued, and in the face of these shoddy papers, he was merciless.

He even wondered whether the magic responsible for checking the duplicates of the papers had failed, which caused these papers of poor quality to come into his hands.

Grimm took another look at the paper that needed to be reviewed. There was still one piece left. After thinking about it, he finally decided to read it before going to lunch.

But when he saw the name of the paper, Grimm threw it out in shock.

Reiner Ian Gray!

“A Hypothesis on the Difference of Relative Element Mass and Its Influence and Discussion on the Law of Elements”

‘Damn it, this fucking guy again!’

Grimm cursed inside. He had reviewed a paper by Reiner Ian Gray about the carbon gas produced by calcined Grey Stone. At that time, he received a huge impact.

Later, he heard that the long-established cognition of one of his colleagues collapsed completely because of reading Reiner’s second paper, Grimm only felt scared and fortunate that he had not become the hapless guy.

Being a reviewer required a mage to be knowledgeable, so Grimm was very shocked when he found out Reiner’s paper could cause a reviewer’s cognition to collapse.

Even if he later learned that it was an electrolytic water thesis that overturned the basis of alchemy, Grimm still found it incredible.

But these were not important anymore.

Because it was Grimm’s turn now.

He stood up tremblingly, picked up the paper, and immediately notified his superior reviewer.

This was an emergency mechanism established in order to deal with the cognitive collapse incidents that had been occasionally triggered in recent years.

When the lower-level reviewer felt that they had encountered a paper that may be dangerous, they could choose to activate this emergency mechanism and pass it to the next level, and so on.

The Fourth-ring mages like Grimm were generally responsible for reviewing academic papers from the first to third rings and mage apprentices. His superior reviewer could review the papers of mages at the fourth and fifth ring level, and then on, the sixth ring and other papers in the high-level fields would be reviewed by high-level mages.

People who were more at the forefront of research were less likely to have cognitive problems due to subversive discoveries. This was also a relatively reasonable mechanism.

Grimm quickly got a reply. He was asked to properly seal the paper and take it upstairs. At the same time, this information was also passed on to the other two reviewers who received Reiner’s paper, and they were asked to stop the review process of this paper to prevent accidents.

With a wave of his hand, Grimm picked up the thesis with the wizard’s hand and sealed it up properly.

He then hurriedly went upstairs to the high-level review area, where the office of Sullivan, his superior reviewer, was.

“Mr. Sullivan, here is the paper.”

Grimm handed the paper with both hands. Sullivan looked serious, took the package, and opened it. When he found that it was Reiner Ian Gray’s paper, he was stunned.

“Let me take a look first, and if there is any problem with me, please notify His Excellency Demetrius immediately.”

Sullivan instructed. He then immediately opened the paper and read it carefully.

Grimm watched Sullivan read the paper intently. He dared not speak out, for fear of causing Sullivan to be distracted.

After a long time, Sullivan closed the paper gently and let out a long sigh of relief.

“The idea of this paper is really crazy, but there seems to be a little bit of truth. I think I need to do experiments to verify it.”

Sullivan put the paper back on the table and couldn’t help but glance at the author’s name again.

“Reiner Ian Gray, are you really a joke that His Excellency Hornheim made to us?”