At the end of the seminar, Director Parcival was the first to leave the room.

Safros walked out the door after neatly folding the paper in his hand.

"Uh, Reiner, why don't we go to the restaurant on the first floor for lunch, where lunch is provided for the staff to enjoy as much as you like."

After the burly Bell also left, Igor proposed this to Reiner with a soothing smile on his face.

"Okay, I just have something I want to discuss with you, Mr. Igor."

Reiner glanced at Hannah, who was still tidying up, and then followed Igor to the slightly empty dining room on the first floor.

Bell, who had arrived first, occupied a table alone, with a surprising amount of food on the table, and it seemed that he was not only in good shape, but also in the same class.

Thinking about who would eat more heavily, Mr. Bear or Claire, Reiner took a plate full of food and sat down at a table with Igor.

As a gathering place for mid-level mages, the food in the manor is naturally quite abundant, all of which are located in a corner of the restaurant for people to eat at will.

Reiner took a stew similar to chicken curry, a few slices of white bread, and a small fruit salad, and the weather was hot and his appetite was not very good, so he opted for something a little heavier.

Igor, on the other hand, paired it with grilled beef ribs and chicken bisque, and it seems that he will not treat his stomach badly at any time.

"Mr. Igor, has this always been the case?"

Reiner asked, causing Igor, who was holding a knife and fork to cut through the ribs, to stop what he was doing.

"Haha, the food here will rotate every day, at least you won't have to worry about getting tired of eating for a week here."

Igor answered the question, but Reiner was in hot pursuit.

"Mr. Igor, I thought you weren't like that."

Reiner's words made the smile on Igor's face fade away, he put down his knife and fork, looked at Bell who was holding a chicken leg in the distance, and then sighed and said.

"Reiner, to be honest, do you know the background of the construction of this place?"

Without waiting for Reiner to reply, Igor continued.

"With the continuous development of magic, especially in recent years, many magical theories in the past can no longer adapt to the current research, and it can be said that the development rate of magic in the last fifty years has even exceeded that of the past three hundred years, which is all brought about by the thesis review mechanism."

But with the paper review mechanism, there is also a series of cognitive collapse events, you know, a hundred years ago, people were still shocked by the power of thunder, thunder and lightning spells have always been one of the most powerful spells, who would have thought that today, people can use formulas to accurately describe thunder and lightning.

Not all mages can simply accept modern magical theories and many of the subversive perceptions in them, which is a backdrop of the times.

The appearance of Reiner was in a sense an opportunity for the Magical Association to officially start to form a review body dedicated to innovative papers, but in fact, this organization was only a few months from planning to actual establishment.

"Everyone of us here has been transferred here for various reasons, such as me, in the Storm Council, I am just an ordinary four-ring mage, I don't care much about advanced things for a long time, in the ordinary thesis review committee, I am busy with work, and I have almost no time for personal research, but here, I can have a lot of time to do my own things, and the salary is higher."

Spreading his hands, Igor did not shy away from his thoughts.

To put it simply, he came here to recuperate.

"There are also people who want to read cutting-edge papers to improve their strength, and there are also people who simply change the environment with their original colleagues, but as far as I know, no one really likes to review these 'innovative' papers before coming here."

Igor said, there seemed to be a hint of helplessness in his tone, but it was only a faint emotion.

"To be honest, even if a paper is evaluated as innovative in our place, it will actually get no more than 50 academic points, because this review committee has just been established, and the weight of the scoring is very low, so everyone is naturally a little tired, so, Reiner, what you did today is actually to some extent upset the original balance, I don't care, but some people may not be very happy."

"Do you mean Director Percival?"

Reiner thought of the "advice" he had given him, so he asked.

"Hehe, Director Percival, he may not care much about this, as far as I know, his focus is actually to continue to promote in the Magic Association to obtain more resources and promotion, this institution is also he took the initiative to apply for jurisdiction, he should want to show himself in front of those lords."

Igor narrated, and for a moment, Reiner suddenly felt that the mage sitting in front of him was not a mage who was good at spells, but an aunt picking vegetables in the backyard, and she knew all the lace news.

At this time, several people entered the restaurant, dressed in black robes, ranging from the first ring to the third ring, both men and women.

"Who are these people?"

The arrival of these people made the otherwise quiet restaurant much more noisy and interrupted the conversation between Reiner and Igor, so Reiner looked at Igor as if he knew everything.

"These are the students of the Asterl High Academy, you know the Asterl High School of Magic, Roger is the professor of this academy, these should be his students."

Igor picked up a piece of rib with a fork that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, put it in his mouth and savored it before continuing.

"He took advantage of the students' summer internship time and asked them to come here to assist him in his work, which was not delaying his own work."

"That's smart."

Reiner answered, not knowing whether it was praise or sarcasm.

The two then went on to talk about some topics, and although Reiner agreed on the surface, he was thinking about something else.

Reiner then returned to his own lounge in the manor, took a contented nap, and when he arrived at the office at two o'clock in the afternoon, he found that the atmosphere in the room was not right.

"What's wrong?"

Naturally, he found Mr. Igor, who shook his head and pointed to the next room.

"There was a low-level mage who came to us through his father's connections and wanted us to re-evaluate his paper."

There are also backdoors for this kind of thing?

Reiner was dumbfounded, looking around the room, indeed, Director Percival and Roger were not in their seats.

"What is it?"

Sitting down, Reiner asked nonchalantly.

Igor shrugged helplessly, then replied.

"Perpetual motion machine."