Thanks to the two book friends of "Dancing Like a Dream" and "One Skill Dust" for their rewards! ――

"Master Griggs, is that you?" the female mage asked unconsciously. She reached out and wiped the fine sweat on her forehead, and she didn't know if it was because she was too tired from climbing the stairs, but the sweat never stopped.

"Come in, kid, I've been waiting for you. Master Griggs said.

Catherine felt a strange feeling in her heart. There's no way Master Griggs could be here, for no reason. Could it be that the Demon King is playing the role of Master Griggs again.

Catherine's face was gloomy, and she pushed the door open completely. The wooden door slammed into the wall. It was dark inside, and barely anything could be seen from outside the door. Only high up in the wall, there is an oblong window that casts a ray of light.

The female mage didn't dare to rush in, she shouted outside, "Master Griggs, I'm coming in." Where are you?"

After waiting for four or five seconds, Master Griggs said, "Son, why don't you come in? I'm just cooking by the fireplace, don't you see?"

Catherine's eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, and she could faintly see a little bit of fire jumping. She walked slowly into the door, and it turned out that there was a corner in the room, and after going around the corner, she could see the hidden inner room. There was a fireplace embedded in the wall of the inner room, and a pile of wood was burning in it, and a figure by the stove had his back to Catherine.

The room was quite dark, and even if there was a fire, the light of the fire could only reach half a meter outside the fireplace.

Catherine couldn't tell from her back whether it was Master Griggs or not. But listening to his voice, it is really the great alchemist in his memory.

Griggs had a slave mark on his forehead because of his early years as a slave. But instead of being ashamed of this, he often pointed to his forehead and encouraged his students: "No matter how hard and tired you are, can you be more miserable than I was back then?" Finish your homework and go. ”

As the years passed, I don't know if it was because of years of immersion in alchemy, Griggs's complexion slowly turned bronze. The slave logo on the forehead is less obvious. However, one day during class, the alchemist's face suddenly fell. At that time, several female students present were frightened.

Fortunately, behind the bronzed face, a new, normal-complexed face appeared. And the burnt brown slave logo, again very glaringly naked2 in the middle of his forehead.

After that, every few years, when Griggs' face was completely bronzed, he would lose his face. And the face that fell off is lifelike. The texture is quite firm. It is said that various metals deposited in Griggs's body were precipitated and condensed.

This rare mixed metal is actually quite alchemical valuable. Griggs then gave his face as a reward to the students of the Alchemy Division who had excellent grades or outstanding performance. Slowly, this became a traditional award of the Royal Academy. But anyone who can get the "face of Griggs" means that he has achieved commendable research results in alchemy.

Griggs was quite strict with the education of his students, as long as he looked at the alchemy quota regulations issued by the Alchemy Academy. However, the alchemy section of the Royal Academy is one of the disciplines with the largest number of applicants every year. The main reason is Griggs' achievements in alchemy. It has brought unprecedented strength to the kingdom. For example, with his participation, the development of artificial fog has made a substantial breakthrough, and it has become a standard military configuration in the kingdom that can be mass-produced.

Moreover, Griggs, due to his own past experience, made him completely unsightly, and even preferred to give opportunities to low-status commoners. This also stimulates a large number of civilian children every year. Came from all over the kingdom to apply for the alchemy branch.

However, to become an alchemist, you need excellent talent and a lot of knowledge. Griggs' entrance exam was surprisingly difficult. Laymen who have basically not taught themselves about alchemy have almost no chance of passing the exam. Unless it's someone who is extremely talented enough to make a splash on a lab exam, he will be particularly favored by Griggs himself.

Therefore, the residents of the royal city later discovered that although the alchemy branch of the Royal Academy claimed to have the most common Griggs masters, the students studying in it were all rich and noble. There are very few characters from real civilian backgrounds. Moreover, in terms of the proportion of the children of the rich and the noble and the children of the commoners, there is actually the largest gap among the various disciplines.

Therefore, Master Griggs is often criticized by the residents of the royal city, saying that he is actually a "hypocritical commoner master", who does not really take care of the commoners, but secretly takes refuge in the nobles. Because even if a commoner's child is successfully admitted to the alchemy branch, he will rarely become a top scholar with excellent grades. There are even good deeds who count the awarding of the "Face of Griggs" -- in the past 33 years, in a total of nine "Faces of Griggs" selection, except for the unofficial first one, the other eight civilian children have not won a single one.

It should be pointed out that when the first Face of Griggs was awarded, Master Griggs had only one disciple at that time, so he gave his face to this commoner. And from the second session, that is, three years later, the Academy of Alchemy has been established, and the "Face of Griggs" has applied to become an official award of the Royal Academy. All official College awards must be selected by a margin according to the Royal College norms. In other words, when there are fewer than two nominees for the award, a single nominee will be automatically carried over to the next round of the award until there are two or more nominees.

Since the rich and noble children participated in the competition for the "Face of Griggs", none of the nominees of the common children have defeated them. And these commoner children are usually very talented in alchemy, which is really intriguing.

The reason for this, Catherine probably knew. She remembered a time when her teacher, Gisling, and Master Griggs were chatting about what it took to become an alchemist. Master Griggs did not hesitate to put talent in second place, and in this master's opinion, a great deal of alchemy knowledge was the first essential condition for becoming an alchemist. In the master's words, "If I hadn't become a slave of an alchemist and had access to a lot of alchemy basics, I wouldn't be where I am today."