"As I thought," Joe said with a knowing smile. "You were the right person to share this information with."
Adrian's brows rose slightly. "You knew I was trying to reach the fifth thread?"
"I guessed," Joe replied calmly. "With the pace at which you've been advancing through each stage, not just me but many others have started to believe that the world might soon witness another fifth-grade Runesmith."
"That's quite an assumption," Ruby said with a soft chuckle.
The gap between the fourth and fifth thread was enormous—the difference between climbing a small cliff and scaling the tallest mountain in the world.
Learning the fifth thread wasn't just difficult; it was almost forbidden by circumstance. Notes, records, and experimental logs on the subject were rarer than ancient relics, buried by time and lost to history.
