Russell understood for the first time what talent truly meant.
The archmage, who was possibly Archmage Johnston, tried his best to hide his surprise, but every time he corrected Russell's erroneous understanding of a rune, there was a subtle implication in his expression.
In fact, Russell's mistakes weren't significant.
Runes are quite self-contained, and most mages believe that as long as they can form a rune chain smoothly in their mental sea, it is considered quite standard.
After all, only standard runes can resonate with other runes.
But the archmage before him couldn't understand why Russell's runes were always slightly askew.
Yes, they weren't even distorted.
Just a little tilted.
Russell didn't feel anything, but the archmage frowned after looking twice and then directly produced a sheet of runes and a transparent paper... he asked Russell to trace them repeatedly.
