Extreme Water Threads

Upon hearing this, the rune creature merely flew two circles in place, then stopped and continued staring at Benjamin. Its movements still conveyed nothing but curiosity and delight, as if it had not understood the question at all.

All right... so it couldn't understand human speech.

Benjamin scratched his head.

After thinking for a moment, he sent it a command through their mental connection: "Introduce yourself." However, the rune creature froze at once. It hovered in the air, staring blankly at Benjamin, apparently unable to understand what the command meant.

Benjamin stroked his chin, a thoughtful look appearing on his face.

A rune had transformed into an unknown life-form and appeared within his Consciousness Space. That was quite a novel occurrence. Yet from what he could see so far, it was as ignorant as a newborn infant, seeming to have nothing whatsoever to do with those high-dimensional consciousnesses in the Elemental Plane.

So what exactly was it?

"It's just an idiot. Why are you so hung up on it?" The system, which had been kicked away, came hopping back at this point and spoke disdainfully.

"Wait..." Benjamin seemed to think of something and suddenly asked, "Didn't you just say something about a projection of the rune's main body? If so, you should know what's going on here."

"I don't."

"Looking for a beating? I can make an iceberg right now and squash you into sixteen pancakes."

"...My mistake." Under Benjamin's threat, the system finally yielded and said, "But I wasn't wrong either. It's just an idiot. Its soul came from the projected energy of the rune's main body—you know this too. When high-dimensional energy projects downward, even a tiny bit of it can easily create an entirely new life. This thing should be a creature formed from the fusion of