My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"I believe you understand the implications of this matter."

Xia Zuo's expression grew increasingly serious.

The mentor left room for interpretation in his words, but it was enough to convey the deeper meaning behind them.

If we compare a university to a cake.

During his time as a temporary teaching assistant, Xia Zuo, as a member of the academy, should not be vying for existing positions, and it is absolutely forbidden for him to take over the teaching assistant position through scheming.

What university staff should really do is work with the university leadership to make the pie bigger, bigger, and bigger still.

The number of teaching assistants will also increase accordingly.

Based on the head of the department's prediction of student numbers, there is no need to worry about internal strife within the teaching assistant ranks in the coming decades.

Moreover, there are vast undeveloped wilderness areas around the kingdom, providing ample space for mage apprentices to disperse from the academy.

Xia Zuo instantly understood the reasoning behind it, and slowly nodded solemnly, saying:

"Professor, please rest assured. I will definitely teach strictly according to the standards you have set."

"Hmm. I have a feeling you won't let me down."

Kurov glanced at the shelf piled high with refined powder not far away. "Don't neglect your own studies either. If you want to become a full-fledged teaching assistant, you'll need sufficient alchemical skills first."

"Yes, Professor. I will think it over."

"The second to last thing, give me your pendant. I'll get a new one. Also, starting from the second month of the new semester, on the 1st of each month, you can collect your temporary teaching assistant pay from me. It's 20 silver dollars per month."

Xia Zuo was overjoyed when he heard that he would receive a salary.

He calmly accepted the new pendant and put it on, the message from the cheat code flashing through his mind:

"A change in the host's [identity] has been detected. The character template has been updated, and a new identity, [Temporary Teaching Assistant], has been added."

..

[Identity 3] Temporary Teaching Assistant

[Identity Level] Not Applicable

Promotion requirements: Unknown

【Identity Bonus】

1. Any behavior that aligns with the role of a teaching assistant will earn you a basic experience reward.

2. Additional experience rewards will be calculated based on the new students' learning progress and exam scores.

..

As expected, the teaching assistant position was recognized by the "golden finger" (a powerful online influencer).

This kind of identity, which requires frequent contact with people, should be considered a "charm-based" persona, right?

Raise your charisma attribute to the level of the head of the department, so that all students will obediently listen to you... whatever you say, the students will do.

Xia Zuo doesn't believe he has social anxiety disorder and remains skeptical about the feasibility of the charm-based approach.

Seeing the student across the table deep in thought, Kulov didn't interrupt, waiting for the student to come to his senses before speaking:

"The last thing is the notes I wrote down tonight."

The third pen wrote the last line and flew back to the pen holder.

A dozen or so sheets of paper filled with writing were bound into a loose-leaf book and floated to Xia Zuo's front.

"You can read this document here. Don't take it out, and definitely don't tell anyone. Hmm... Anru'er and you have a good relationship. If she also becomes a temporary teaching assistant, you can talk to her. If not, whatever you do, don't mention the contents of the document to her."

Kulov emphasized:

"Otherwise, you will both be punished. Remember that?"

"Yes, Professor."

Kulov wrote a note and passed it to Dim, then stood up and walked to the sofa. "Take a look at the documents first. If you feel sleepy, go back and rest."

Xia Zuo watched his mentor enter meditation.

The wall clock pointed to 8 p.m. Dim stipulated that students must be back in their dormitories by 8:30 p.m. Bedtime was 10 p.m.

His current schedule is the same as Dim's. He gets sleepy around 10 p.m. Tonight he has at least an hour and a half to read this document.

Opening the first page of the loose-leaf book, familiar words appeared:

Temple of the Mage.

These four words appeared in the survey questionnaire as early as seven months ago.

The Temple of the Mage is the ruler and administrator of all orthodox mage schools.

It established numerous rules for various schools of thought, each derived from historical lessons. Violations would be punished according to the severity of the offense.

Kulov wrote down more than a dozen temple decrees on a piece of paper, demanding that Shazo memorize them.

One of them is marked with a horizontal line and an asterisk:

The recipe for the antidote must not be revealed to alchemists below the proficiency level.

Does the student's own figurative thinking count? The tutor simply provided the correct solvent.

Shazo recalled that night when Kulov asked him to try to find the antidote for the white palate poison.

No wonder the instructor didn't teach the formulas for other antidotes.

Xia Zuo memorized the decree and continued to read through the following content, which consisted entirely of regulations for training apprentice poison alchemists.

9:30pm.

Xia Zuo stretched, tidied up his desk, and slowly walked out.

In the castle hall, a dozen bright orbs of light floated in the bright, silvery moonlight.

He stood below and looked up for a moment, feeling the tranquility and peace, before returning to his dormitory to rest.

...

The next day.

Today is Sunday, the first day of make-up exams for students.

The cafeteria was bustling with people in the early morning, as many students carried their lunchboxes to their dormitories.

It seems that a lot of people fail the course on poison alchemy.

Xia Zuo came over with two cups of hot milk, placed one in front of An Ru'er, sat down and asked:

Did your advisor offer you the role of a temporary teaching assistant?

"Hmm!" Anru nodded, holding the warm milk, and said, "After returning to the dormitory last night, my mentor sent me a letter asking me to go to the Oil Alchemy Department this morning."

That's great. Both of them are temporary teaching assistants, and they both get paid.

After enjoying their breakfast, Xia Zuo and Anruer headed to their respective alchemy districts.

...

Within the poison alchemy zone.

Xia Zuo arrived at the shelf piled with refined poison powder.

After waiting for a whole month, a full month, I can finally swallow these poisons.

Five apprentice-level poisons: White Palate, Black Eye, Brown Foot, Venus, and Blue Bone. The difficulty of concoction increases from left to right, and the duration of their effects decreases accordingly.

In the apprentice level, if only experience gain efficiency is considered, the most suitable item for leveling up is the Green Bone Poison.

Its toxic effects only last for 10 seconds. Apart from bone pain, there are no other adverse effects.

Now, the refined Black Eye Poison can provide resistance to all four elements at once without causing pain, and it also provides a greater amount of experience, completely replacing the Green Bone Poison as the top leveling agent.

Kulov had previously worried that the toxins would accumulate in his body.

In fact, it is completely unnecessary.

With the help of the [Immortal Body], as long as your health is fully restored, no toxins can stay in your body.

But this secret is ultimately something that cannot be revealed to others.

With the unknown drug from last night as cover, future drug trials will no longer be hindered. Xia Zuo only needs to calculate the blood volume carefully and avoid making any mistakes.

"gollum"

The first refined Black Eye Poison was ingested.

Xia Zuo sat in the chair, looking down at his own body.

The expected little specks of light appeared. His two arms and two legs moved like slippery eels.

Compared to the distorted shape of the limbs, the floating motion of the small light spot is traceable.

With their torsos completely still, they drift along an arc-shaped trajectory in a very regular manner, without suddenly turning halfway through.

Gradually, a spark of inspiration appeared in my mind.

The image of small specks of light floating around and the image with a distorted field of vision are actually two different images!

They were simply put together for some reason.

If we can find a way to extract the image of the small light spots floating separately and remove the field of view distortion effect.

Black Eye Poison might have to be renamed... Black Eye Medicine?

Xia Zuo suddenly realized.

It is toxic.

It's a visual distortion effect caused by toxicity.

He thought of the supplements and functional drugs he had seen in the pharmacy.

These potions, which only have positive effects, are all related to water resistance.

In other words, the toxicity of the Black Eye Poison, that is, the traces of the earth element, is stripped away, leaving only the traces of the wind element…

Wait, no, no.

The potions are all related to the water element. However, after stripping away the earth element traces, the Black Eye Poison leaves behind wind element traces, not water element traces.