"But... the academy is actually willing to take out High Tier Military Merits as rewards. Can the headmaster afford it?"
After the excitement, Jeming calmed down and discovered something peculiar.
Just as Clark said, the academy certainly isn't just entrusting him alone this time. It seems likely every High Level Wizard in the school skilled in alchemy will be required to produce materials resistant to energy erosion.
He is just a Third Level Wizard Apprentice, and both in terms of production and efficacy of materials, he is surely far below other High Level Wizards.
The distribution of merits should also vary according to each person's contribution, so by this calculation, the amount of military merits the academy is paying this time is quite considerable.
