Elemental Summoner 1 by D. Levesque (best beach reads of all time TXT) 📕

rifle away from my eye, looking at it and thinking fucking hell. It knows what I want? Is it grabbing it from my memories?

I shake my head and bring it up to my eye again, aiming at the boar. Once I have it in my crosshairs again, I put my finger on the trigger and pull it back, and hear a soft wuffft sound. I remove my eye away from the scope and peer at where the boar was, and it’s down on the ground.

“Yes!” I say exuberantly. “I did it!” I look at Leeha and Bryan, and both are staring not at me, but at the air rifle in my hand.

They both have stunned expressions on their faces. Leeha is the first to shake herself out of it and say, “Alex, what the fuck is that?” pointing towards it.

“Oh, this is a weapon from my world. Though usually, it’s made of metal and shoots metal bullets. You know those Water Bullets?” I ask her. She nods slowly. “Well, on my world, they are made of metal and shoot out of these,” I tell her, holding up the rifle.

“And what is that called?” she asks me, and now her gaze is intense.

I look over at Bryan nervously and say, “How about I show you later?” I am sure if I wanted to, I could have created one of those using just Water.

“You’d better,” she says.

Suddenly, a globe of water goes flying from her palm to the boar, and brings it back. Watching her skin and gut the boar using her Water ability is more disgusting than it was last time, since it’s not just a bird. Bryan watches the procedure with interest, and he actually points out a couple of things to Leeha, who takes the information and exclaims in pleasure when something she didn’t know about before works. Once she’s done, she gets me to create four Rock Sticks for her, which I hand over, and within twenty minutes, after I add more wood, we have boar meat cooking over the fire.

Chapter Twelve

“It’s been three days since we left the campsite. How far are we from this human settlement?” I complain to Bryan and Leeha. I am miserable. If God gave me a new body, it must have been fucking brand new because it wasn’t broken in. I stop at a tree and try to catch my breath. My back hurts, and my feet are killing me. These boots look nice but apparently, they don’t stop blisters from forming.

Leeha stops and looks back at me. She smiles and walks over, putting a hand on my back as I had bent over to relieve a stitch in my side. “We are almost out of the woods, and we will be next to the city wall,” she says.

“Isn’t there a road we can walk on to make it easier?” I huff at her.

“No,” Bryan says from behind me. I turn to him, and he elaborates. “They would see us on the road, and since we have Leeha with us, we want to avoid any eyes until the last minute.”

“Why?” I ask.

Hesitating, Bryan seems anxious as he says, “When we reach the city, you will need to claim she is your slave so that she can get in with no issues. If Leeha were to try to get in on her own, she would have to pay a large entry fee at the gates, and she would not be left alone as others would try to buy her, or even abduct her.”

I stare at him. “You’re fucking joking?” I finally ask him.

“No, he is not,” Leeha says, resentment in her voice. “While they allow us in cities, we have to follow the rules that the humans have set up. There are places that we aren’t allowed, and while most inns let us in, they charge us a higher than normal price.”

Fucking hell, this is like when we had slaves in the USA over 50 years ago. We humans are assholes no matter where we are, apparently. I feel my hands balling up, and Leeha puts her hand over one of my fists.

“You need to take it easy, Alex. You cannot lose your head in the city. Or show others you can do more than one Elemental,” Leeha says quietly, gazing at me until I nod. I am still angry, but I know she is right. I was lucky with Bryan that he ended up being a Knight of the Falling Star. If not, I would have had to kill him because I can’t let this secret get out. Not until I am more powerful, and I understand my own powers.

I take a deep breath and nod again. “You’re right. How are we going to do this? I am new here,” I say to her.

“You need to be tough with her,” Bryan says before Leeha can answer. “You can’t allow her to talk to others, as you are her owner. You also need to stop anyone from talking to her. She is your property. You bought her with your own money. Or you paid off her debt. You need to bring her to heel,” Bryan says, but what really gets me is that Leeha is nodding at the points he is making. What the fuck is he talking about?

“Wait, you want me to treat her like a pet?” I say, shocked at the idea.

“No!” they both say in unison. “You love a pet and cherish it. You do not cherish an Elf,” Bryan says. But then he sighs. “I can tell from your face, Alex, that you do not relish this. But you must do it! Otherwise, Leeha will need to stay here.”

I sigh and say to him, “You’re correct. I’m not too fond of the idea of doing that to anyone, never mind, Leeha. But if it will make people leave her alone, I am all for it. How do you know all this?” I ask Bryan.

A look of embarrassment crosses