About a month later, Dim drove the carriage into Starry Night City.
The two had agreed not to make any stops along the way, but when they came across a village in distress, they decided to stop and lend a hand to the soldiers and resident mages.
Watching the civilians who were tortured by the plague, Xia Zhou felt guilty, and several times proposed to stay behind alone to help the refugees, but was persuaded by Dim each time.
At this time, there must be a large backlog of poison orders in the Academy, waiting for expert poison alchemists to refine. The functional elixirs made from these poisons are closely related to disaster relief, and the Poison Alchemy Room is where Xia Zhou should be.
Xia Zhou reined in his grief and continued to follow Dim towards the Academy.