"The academy can arrange an assistant teaching position for you."
Professor Monteria cut off the boy's probing and said decisively, "It was originally a preparatory class. With the official founding date of Edge Academy drawing closer, they need to make other preparations as well... You don't need to worry about the pressure from coursework."
After a pause, he added, "As for graduation exams, I think you have even less reason to worry. I heard from friends at Magic that Councilwoman Su's paper has already passed the commissioned cross-review by Magic's editorial department. It will be published by next month at the latest... At your age, with a paper in such a top-tier journal, the school could never hold back your graduation."
Zheng Qing froze for a moment before coming back to his senses.
He had never known Su Shijun would submit his Graduation Thesis—or rather, the paper she had written—to a journal. And not just any journal, but Magic, that monster of a top-tier journal with an impact factor as high as 58.6.
The contrast was obvious.
Alchemy, the top-tier journal Xiao Xiao had been obsessing over, the one that had once published Professor Monteria and Dr. Duzem's paper on Divine Substance, had an impact factor of only 31.9. Magical Creatures, which had published Hilda's paper on mutated Firefly Beetles, had an impact factor of merely 4.1.
"But..."
The young assistant instructor's thoughts raced as he desperately searched for another suitable excuse to refuse. It was difficult. He could hardly tell the vice dean of Edge Academy that the dean of Jiuyou Academy had advised him not to ask for trouble—if he really said that and caused friction between Edge and Jiuyou, that would truly be asking for trouble.
Professor Monteria did not give him another chance to refuse.
"This