"How was dinner yesterday?"
The next day, it wasn't until lunchtime that Igor approached Reiner and continued to inquire about tidbits from him.
"It's hard to describe..."
Reiner looked at the mutton stew in the bowl and recalled the fear of being dominated by the bowl of Stanley beetroot soup yesterday.
"While the other dishes tasted good, one of them was so horrific that it's honestly a miracle I'm alive to see the sun today."
He said exaggeratedly, making Igor's eyes widen.
"It's true. I heard before that although Director Percival's wife is very beautiful and virtuous, she often has accidents when it comes to cooking, especially when making new dishes."
Explaining, Igor dipped the bread in his hand into the gravy on the plate and put it into his mouth.
"When this organization was first established, we were invited by Director Percival to visit his home. At that time, her wife also cooked a new dish. Oh, it was really hard to recall. There was a time For a moment, I even thought that a powerful curse was placed on that dish!”
He said with a frightened expression on his face, as if everything in the past was still vivid in his mind.
"However, Director Percival dotes on his wife very much. No matter how horrible the food is, he will eat it without missing a drop. As for their daughter, she seems to have inherited her mother's strong taste and doesn't care about those strange things at all. smell."
After hearing Igor's explanation, Reiner suddenly realized that no wonder yesterday's scene made him feel that his sense of taste had failed. It turned out that among the four people present at that time, only Reiner was a normal person!
"Director Percival comes from an ordinary magic family. It seems that his grades in school were only above average. He is really lucky to be able to marry Miss Lysa, the daughter of the vice-principal of Astor Academy of Magic. It seems that it was also during that time that Director Percival's magical power continued to improve, and finally reached the level it is today."
Igor said with some envy that he was still single so far. He didn’t even have a girlfriend, let alone a wife. Igor often laughed at himself like a lonely old dog, but Reiner didn’t tell him that in fact he was absolutely Most stray dogs can find a partner.
"He did say yesterday that Mrs. Lysa's father is a professor at the school. Unexpectedly, he is the vice principal."
Reiner took a bite of the stewed mutton that was extremely soft. The meat had no mutton smell at all. The flavor of the spices penetrated into every inch of the meat, bringing an extremely rich taste.
"Although I say I'm envious, I'm really envious in my heart."
Igor sighed. At this time, his somewhat hunched colleague Savros came to the restaurant. However, he did not go to get food. Instead, he took out a square iron box that had lost its metallic luster from his pocket.
Reiner saw him opening the iron box. Inside were a few slices of shriveled bread and stew that looked tasteless, but Savros picked up the bread and ate it with gusto.
There is obviously free food in the restaurant, but he still insists on eating what he brought
Noticing Reiner's doubts, Igor followed his gaze and saw Savros' strange behavior.
"Oh, he's always been like this."
Whispering, Igor used his all-pervasive gossiping ability again at this time.
"Safros is not very familiar with us people. He is quite independent. It is said that he was one of the editors of an academic journal before, but because he did not get along well with his colleagues, he has been excluded. This time he entered the paper The review committee can be considered as escaping from the past environment.”
"You know again..."
Reiner shed a cold sweat. Where did Igor get these gossips
"He seems to have been working on his own research project. It's the one you've seen made with a lot of cards. I don't know what it is. It seems to be useless anyway."
Igor added, then put the last piece of bread in his hand into his mouth and chewed it slowly.
Reiner glanced at Savros, who was eating the food he brought expressionlessly, and didn't ask any more questions.
He just felt that the people on this paper review committee were really weird guys.
... ...
In the next two days, Reiner continued to work according to normal hours. The affairs he was responsible for were very simple. As Director Percival said, it was such an easy task as integrating the review opinions of the various review committee members. Reiner was familiar with it. It only takes one morning every day to complete the day's work.
According to Igor, after completing the work, the remaining time can be freely used, as long as you can find someone at any time in this manor.
Reiner naturally spent his time studying. There was a library in the manor. Although the number of books in it was not as good as that of a regular library, there were all kinds of books on magic from various factions. Reiner just used it as a reference.
He has already engraved the second-ring magic blasting spell in his heart lake. At the same time, he has basically become proficient in constructing a third-ring spell after many contacts. As long as he finds the right time, he can try to inscribe a third-ring spell into his heart lake. , touching the ceiling of low-level mages.
However, the choice of this spell troubled Reiner.
Originally, he could follow the previous idea and continue to upgrade the Explosive Flame Technique to the third level. If I remember correctly, there is Pluto's Explosive Flame Technique in the third level. It is an improved version of the second-level Explosive Flame Technique, which optimizes the casting efficiency. The destructive power has been increased. If nothing else happens, Reiner should choose to engrave this spell to upgrade himself from an explosive to a stronger explosive.
But after reading some books about combat, Reiner changed his mind.
Spells engraved in the heart lake can be released immediately without chanting and preparation time, which is very convenient. Take the second-ring explosive flame spell as an example. If it is not engraved into the heart lake, the shortest record of the time to release this spell from scratch is 5.68 Seconds, this was a record set by the legendary mage Carl David who was good at fighting when he was in the seventh ring.
But if it is engraved into the heart lake, the time from activation to release will not exceed one second. In the ever-changing battle, this gap is significant.
If Reiner continues to inscribe the Explosive Flame Technique, then he will only have one spell that can be released quickly, which is not beneficial from various perspectives. At least, Reiner needs to add another means of attack.
Before, Reiner felt that he might not be exposed to combat for a while, but after the bloody wedding of the Albiore family, Reiner had a vague hunch that he might face a challenge in the near future. Although It was predicted using astrological magic, but because Reiner received too much feedback from the world, the road ahead was foggy.
Reiner has never believed in fate, but in this world full of mysterious powers, it's better to be careful.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Reiner made a bold decision.
Relying on his abundant magic power and mastery of spell models, Reiner read various information and finally decided to create his own three-ring attack spell and engraved it in his heart.