Nero was nervous and Iris was teasing him, but she didn't actually inject that strange looking liquid into his body.
"Relax, relax, I'm just teasing you. Although the treatment I designed for you is new, it has been approved and passed through trials so it's perfectly safe. Moreover, the Head Dean is watching, and he knows what I want to do. He has his eye on you now, so he would not risk the future of a cadet like you on an experimental treatment."
Iris lifted Nero's sleeve and instead of injecting his body, sprayed the liquid over his bicep, causing it to stick to his skin. It sent tingling sensations down his arm as the aether in his body reacted to the liquid.
"The artificial Arcanist state you achieved last time is lethal to you because you had too much aether in your body. The initial solution I came up with was to build up a certain type of aether resistance in your body.
