Elemental Summoner 1 D. Levesque (beach read .txt) 📖

confused by her numbers. “Leeha, it’s all right. I built this. To protect us from animals or monsters. I also built this overhang to protect us from rain just in case,” I say, pointing up. Her eyes widen as they follow my finger.

“You did this? How! You must have barely slept!” she cries out in amazement.

“What? No, it took me all of five minutes. It would have been faster, but I was trying to be quiet to let you sleep,” I tell her, confused. “Although I did fall asleep right away after that. I suddenly got really tired, even though I was wide awake before that,” I tell her with a laugh. But Leeha doesn’t laugh with me. She simply stares at me in disbelief.

“Let me see if I got this right, Alex. You built this large structure, and this overhang over us, in less than five minutes?” she says slowly, looking at me with a penetrating gaze.

“Well, yes? I mean, it might have been six minutes, but I don’t have a way to tell what time it is,” I tell her, unsure what is wrong.

Leeha lays her head back against the boulder behind us and laughs, but I can tell it’s not an ‘oh that’s a funny joke’ kind of laugh. This was more of a ‘what the fuck just happened’ sort of laugh.

“Alex,” she begins but shakes her head. “Alex, what you just built would have taken ten Earth mages at the very least four hours to make,” she says, waving her arm around at my handiwork.

“What?” I ask her, confused. “But I saw you shooting water dagger after dagger at me. I mean, that was a lot of power, wasn’t it?

With a sigh, she nods. “Yes, and if you had not forced me to sleep, I would have fallen asleep within the hour, forcibly. I was so scared, Alex, that I thought I was fighting for my life. So when it came time, I reached down and grabbed all the magic I had stored in me and threw it at you.”

“Oh,” I say, stunned. So there isn’t limitless power here. But how can one tell how much power they have?

“How can one tell? I mean, how can someone tell how much power they have inside them?” I ask her.

“Most mages, when they learn magic for the first time and get attuned to their Elemental magic, they learn to look inside themselves, and they get a feel for it. Then, as they create an ability with their Elemental magic, they know how much power it takes.”

“So, I should just look inside myself?” I ask her hesitantly, unsure what I should even be looking for.

Leeha turns so that she is facing me and slaps the side of my leg so that I turn around and face her. “Let me show you,” she says, all business-like. “Close your eyes.”

Nodding, I do as she says, and I hear her voice. “Now, imagine the power inside you. For me, it’s Water, so for you, I am not sure as you have all five. Look for those powers inside you. Once you find them, imagine a pool of power underneath them that is attached to them with a cord of power.”

Nodding again, I try to understand what she means. I am not sure what I am looking for. Suddenly, appearing with more clarity than I imagined, I see them. Five floating balls of power. Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Mind. I know it’s not my imagination since I have never seen or felt anything so vivid, even in dreams. I nod my head.

“Now, do you see that cord going from the Elementals to a pool of power underneath them?” she asks in a soft voice.

I look at my Elementals and search for that cord. At first I don’t see it, but then instead of focusing on all of them, I focus on one. Earth. As I watch, somehow the ball gets bigger than the other five. Continuing to focus on it, I see the power cord Leeha was talking about. It looks like a light red liquid in a flexible tube that goes straight down. I follow it and see a large pool of the liquid underneath, just as she said. I try to move my view downwards, but it doesn’t budge.

“I found it,” I tell her softly, trying not to break the image I see. “But I can’t go down to the liquid.”

“No one can. We have never understood why,” Leeha says, and I can hear the smile in her tone. “Now, I want you to hold out one hand and call up the Elemental, or any Elemental,” she says with a chuckle.

Following her instructions, I lift my right hand, palm up and think, Earth.

“Good,” she says. “Now, imagine turning that into a dagger of stone, and while you do that, I want you to look at the amount of power it uses.

Hmm. All right, not sure how I am supposed to do that, but I’ll try. I think Stone Dagger, and I can feel the magic in my palm changing. Suddenly, I see something that shocks me so much I lose both the image I had in my head and the dagger in my hand.

Stone Dagger

Power: 10

Power Remaining: 99,990

I open my eyes and stare at Leeha in astonishment before blurting out, “What the fuck was that!”

Chapter Nine

“What? What happened?” Leeha asks me, concern in her voice.

“Leeha,” I say, licking my lips nervously.

What the fuck is going on? That looked exactly like a game prompt. I mean, it’s not a visual prompt. It’s more that I know exactly the amount of power I have, and I know that the spell Rock Dagger uses ten points of power from a pool of one million.

“Leeha,” I say again. “When you look at your power pool, how can you tell how much you have?”

“Oh,” she says, thinking about it. “When I imagine my pool, I get the numbers in my head.”

“So when you look