After Jia Xiu had spent two weeks as a lab workhorse, the day Saint Dero's new students officially started school finally arrived.
While the truly new students enjoyed the most carefree vacation they'd ever have before starting school, Jia Xiu was learning how to operate lab equipment, recording experimental data, and shoveling the Sub-Dragons Margaret kept.
Margaret wasn't treating her students like laborers and making them do her personal chores.
On the contrary, it was "an indispensable part of the path to proving a great hypothesis."
That was how she put it.
Her current research focused on proving that Dragon Language Magic and Blood Clan Magic belonged to the same system as human magic.
But humans couldn't cast Dragon Language Magic.
There was an Ancient Dragon at the school, but getting an appointment with the old fellow was difficult.
For the sake of her research, she had no choice but to raise a few Sub-Dragons capable of casting low-level Dragon Language Magic.
Margaret had always wanted a Dragonborn student, but unfortunately, she couldn't find one.
It was a tradition Margaret had established for new students to look after the Sub-Dragons in the lab.
Even a promising legend like Jia Xiu was no exception.
He'd once had a classmate tell him that his main job in his first year of grad school was raising lab mice. Now Jia Xiu was getting to experience that for himself.
Only the "lab mice" he was raising were a little big. When they stood up, they were almost as tall as Ram.
Raising Sub-Dragons had been quite a hassle, especially the hatchlings, which needed to be bottle-fed on a schedule.
At this difficult time, an Undead—a Fairy who had turned into an Undead—stepped in.
Bubu had come to the rescue.
Having Bubu look after the