The girl watched the tiger striped kitten gulp the minced meat on the plate in front of her, and gently stroked the back of the kitten's neck with her right hand, making the cat purr and make a very happy sound.

Unaware that someone else was watching her, she was only intoxicated by the pleasure of petting the cat.

"I really envy you."

The girl muttered in a low voice.

By this time, Reiner had already stepped down the tower and came to the girl's side.

Looking closer, he realized that this girl turned out to be a veritable student of Crescent Academy. Nabistin.

At this time, Fina did not have the usual calm appearance, more like a girl of her age, she stroked the kitten a little clumsily, and the tiger striped kitten also enjoyed it very much, and kept changing her posture, so that her whole body was baptized by Fina, and finally lay on the ground and turned her belly.

"Fina, why haven't you returned to the dorm yet?"

Reiner looked at it for a while, and finally couldn't help but speak.

With his words, Fina suddenly stood on end like a frightened cat, and the real kitten had already rolled over, turned over and jumped away, not knowing where to go.

Principal Ian Gray...... I, I, that's ......."

Fina showed a panicked look for the first time, which made Reiner feel a little novel, you know, this girl was really calm, even during the period when she went to Toorondo to take the exam, she did not show too much emotion.

"Okay, go back quickly, I don't see it this time."

Reiner also had no intention of holding Fina responsible, and students with good grades would naturally be able to get some leniency, so he waved his hand and motioned for Fina to hurry back to the dormitory.

"Okay, thank you, Headmaster."

Standing up, Fina saluted Reiner and trotted back to the dormitory.

Reiner looked at the other party's departing back, stretched, and went back to the office, checking the paper before sealing it and handing it to the owl to send out.

......

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

Since the annual academic conference of mercury balances, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of papers in the alchemy department, on the one hand, thanks to the introduction of several new theories, which have given the mages more research directions, and on the other hand, the ordering of elements proposed by Lord Stenion has sparked a lot of discussion.

The mages came up with their own elemental sorting tables based on Lord Stanion's paper and several of its conjectures, but in Green's opinion, these were futile and useless.

"Do these low-level mages really think they're smarter than your Excellencies?"

Green raised an eyebrow and looked at the three papers he had reviewed in the morning, all of which had been sent by a low-level mage to try to "perfect" Lord Stanion's Elemental Ranking Table, but after reviewing them, Green felt that he was wasting his life.

“...... The logic is confusing, far-fetched, and the understanding of the elements is not thorough, so it is recommended to re-read the basic textbook of the alchemy department before writing a thesis......"

“...... The title is sensational, the actual content is vague and meaningless......"

“...... The assumptions of the paper are seriously theoretically wrong, and the reasoning process developed from this is completely wrong, and I hope to carefully read the papers of the High Mages before doing research......"

Green's comments have always been poisonous, and he has no mercy in the face of these shoddy papers.

He even wondered if the magic in charge of plagiarism checking had failed, causing these papers of poor quality to come into his hands.

Green glanced at the pending paper again, there was still one piece left in the morning, he thought about it, and finally decided to finish this one before taking a lunch break.

But upon seeing the name of the paper, Green was so frightened that he threw it out.

Lionel. Ian Gray.

A Hypothesis on the Mass Difference of Relative Elements, and Its Influence and Discussion on the Laws of Elements.

Damn, this is a real killing!

Green cursed inwardly, Reiner. Ian Gray's paper, which he had previously reviewed, was about carbon gas produced by calcined limestone, and he was so shocked at the time that he gave it a review after the experiment.

Later, when he heard that a colleague had suffered a cognitive breakdown from reading Reiner's second paper, Green was scared and glad that he hadn't been the unlucky guy.

However, since he can serve as a thesis reviewer, he has to be well-informed, and he actually has a cognitive collapse because of a paper, Green feels a little incredible.

Even when he later learned that it was a paper on electrolyzed water that subverted the basis of alchemy, Green thought it was a little strange.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

Because it's already Green's turn.

He stood up tremblingly, picked up the paper, and immediately reported it to his senior reviewers.

This is a contingency mechanism created to deal with the occasional cognitive collapse events of recent years, mainly Reiner's thesis.

When a sub-reviewer feels that he or she has encountered a paper that may be in danger, he or she may choose to activate this emergency mechanism and pass it on to the next level, and so on.

Four-Ring Mages like Green are generally responsible for the academic papers of the First Ring and the Third Ring and the Mage's apprentices, while the judges at the next level of his are able to review the papers of the Fourth Ring and the Fifth Ring Level Mages, and further up, the papers of the Sixth Ring and its advanced fields are judged by the high-level mages.

The more people are at the forefront of research, the less likely they are to have cognitive problems due to disruptive discoveries, which is also a relatively reasonable mechanism.

Green quickly got a reply and told him to seal the paper properly and take it upstairs, and the message was passed on to the other two reviewers who had received Reiner's paper, asking them to interrupt the review process to prevent accidents.

With a wave of his hand, Green picked up the paper with the mage's hand, and at the same time wrapped the paper in a large piece of paper and sealed it properly.

He hurried upstairs and came to the high-level review area, where he was the next level of jury member Sullivan.

"Mr. Sullivan, the paper is here."

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

"I'll take a look at it first, and if anything goes wrong, I'll notify Lord Dmitry immediately."

Sullivan commanded, and then opened the paper and read it carefully.

Green watched Sullivan read the paper intently, not daring to speak out for fear of something going wrong.

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

"The idea of this paper is crazy, but it seems to have a little bit of truth, and I think I need to do an experiment 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, aren't you really a joke that Lord Hohenheim played on us? ”