Deep Sea Domain

Immediately afterward, he landed on the ground and issued the water elemental sprite a series of probing commands. Defense, protection, healing, concealment... After testing its combat capabilities across the board, Benjamin discovered that the water elemental sprite's abilities were actually very limited.

No matter what command it received, all it could do was compress water elements to an extreme degree, creating highly concentrated magical forms for attack or defense. More complex commands, even if it could understand them, were difficult for it to carry out properly.

Benjamin was still somewhat disappointed.

"I told you, it's an idiot. What were you expecting it to do?" The system popped up and said smugly.

Benjamin shook his head and retorted, "Didn't you say at the start that something projected from a rune's true body was rare and incredibly powerful? Why are you slapping yourself in the face now?"

"..."

The system had no answer.

Seeing this, Benjamin shook his head again and asked, "What else do you know about this rune creature?"

The system fell silent for a while before saying reluctantly, "...I don't know. But if you want to uncover its potential, why not try communicating with it through runes?"

Through runes?

Benjamin frowned and turned to look at the equally bewildered water elemental sprite. But before long, a thought flashed through his mind.

—He remembered that the projection left behind within the star map was precisely the triangular rune representing "water elements."

Then... he would give it a try.

He raised his right hand toward the sprite and used water elements to draw the triangular rune.

To his surprise, a change really did occur.

The water elemental sprite raised both hands and waved them excitedly, as though it had seen something that made it immensely happy. Benjamin could also sense a