After leaving Vita Sage Academy, Jia Xiu and his group headed for Saint Delro.
Margaret would personally show him around the campus. More importantly, she would introduce him to the laboratory where he'd spend much of the next six years.
He'd meet the senior students in their advisor's group and get started on the lab work as soon as possible.
The new students weren't due to start classes yet, but research workhorses didn't start according to the school calendar.
As the saying went, "Once you enter the lab, you're lost to the deep sea; summer and winter breaks become things of the past."
Even when the school was on break, you weren't necessarily off. You might well be working from home.
But that wasn't a problem for Jia Xiu.
He could spend all day in the lab. Research wasn't just research; it earned him experience too. The positive feedback was more than enough.
A graduate student working for himself—just on that point alone, he was already ahead of 99.9% of his peers.
The hippogriff pulled the carriage smoothly onto the Saint Delro campus.
Saint Delro's campus was enormous. It even had three bus routes, with each carriage drawn by four heavy draft horses.
The total student population wasn't large, but the campus was also home to numerous spell research institutions. Only a small proportion of their staff had graduated from Saint Delro. Most had come from other schools for further study, or had been talented enough to stay on as employees.
The requirements for further study were much lower than those for direct admission to Saint Delro.
There were even one-year, taught postgraduate programs set up specifically to make money. Their defining feature was the high tuition.
In front of each institution's buildings stood a permanent teleportation array. Magical runes