Zheng Qing had long heard that Dr. Duzem had also been recruited by Edge Academy.
Yet he had never seen Dr. Duzem at the temporary academy camp by the cliffs, nor had he heard his students mention an alchemy instructor like that at Edge Academy.
Considering the Petites Mains Mission he had been completing every day lately, as well as what Thomas had once said, Zheng Qing had reason to believe that Dr. Duzem played a very important role in one of Edge Academy's secret projects.
And Lin Guo was now Dr. Duzem's assistant.
If an assistant's employer held an important position in a project, it was only natural for the assistant's status to rise accordingly. Take Lin Guo: though it was unlikely that the school would hire someone his age as a teaching assistant—if that had happened, the campus and the outside world would have been in an uproar—he could still plausibly have become an assistant researcher on the strength of his talent.
At First University, an assistant researcher held a rank equivalent to that of a teaching assistant.
By that logic, Lin Guo wearing black robes made perfect sense—especially since the identities of researchers in many key laboratories or projects were kept confidential. It became even more reasonable that his identity had not been publicized.
"...The speed of time is proportional to the strength of a wizard's magic. Given that a person's lifespan is fixed, the shorter one's remaining life—meaning time—the faster time seems to pass; the longer one's remaining time, the slower it seems to pass. That is why children feel time passes slowly, while adults feel it passes quickly... and why the older you get, the faster time seems to go.
"As for wizards, especially powerful ones, their lifespans are so long that their perception of