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

on my leg. “That is what I love about you. You don’t treat people the way we are used to being treated on Boromour. Even I, until I met you, never treated my own Water Elemental like anything else but a tool. An object to project my power. But now? Now I respect her, and when I call her up, I even interact with her. And because of that, I have noticed my power is stronger.”

“That’s because as you grow with your Elemental, so does your power,” Bridget says, taking a bite of her breakfast.

“What?” Leeha says in shock.

“Yeah,” Bridget tells her, her mouth full of hot meat. “The connection between you and your Elemental grows stronger as you talk to her, interact with her. The fact that Alex and I had sex last night means that his power is stronger as well,” she states.

“Wait, the more sex you and Alex have, the stronger he gets?” Leeha asks her incredulously.

“No,” Briget says with a laugh. “He will get more powerful as his Chakras open.”

“What?” I shout at her in surprise. What the fuck is she talking about? The Chakras are for healing power only, aren’t they?

“Yes,” she says, and here she frowns. “When I passed you energy last night after our sex in the hot tub, I felt some of your Elemental power trickle into, and when it came back out the other side, it was more than what went in.”

“So what is the difference between power and energy then?” I ask her, with a frown on my face now.

“Hmm, let’s see. Power is used to cast spells using your Elementals. Energy is what you used to heal.”

“What’s the difference, though? Can I use my power to heal? I mean, why are power and energy different?”

Bridget simply stares at me, uncomprehending. “What do you mean?”

“Well, this stuff that heals or casts spells. Is it different?” I ask her.

“Well, yeah. One is called power, and the other energy,” Bridget says slowly, now starting to sound uncertain.

“All right. But where do they both come from?”

Bridget just stares at me, not answering.

Leeha answers instead. “I know that power comes from that wellspring inside us. Remember how I said you could look inside yourself and see how much power you had?”

I nod to her and say, “Yes, I remember. When I called up that first Stone Dagger I used up ten points, and we figured out that I had over one million points of power.”

“Have you checked it lately?” Leeha asks me quickly.

“Not really. It only showed up the first time.”

“That’s normal. You feel the usage of that first spell and how much power you have. I am not sure of the numbers, as to me, it’s more of a feeling. Think of calling up how much power you have, or even maybe try your English language?” Leeha says encouragingly.

Following her instructions, I say, “How much power do I have left?”

Power Remaining: 1,000,000

“It says I still have that one million,” I tell her. Good to know that my power regenerates! I hadn’t been sure, really. I had hoped it wasn’t like a pool that I could empty, and after I hit zero, that was it.

“Now, ask how much energy you have,” Leeha says.

“How much energy do I have?” I say in English.

Power Remaining: 1,000,000

“It tells me the same thing! It says power remaining!” I tell her in surprise.

“So both might be the same!” Bridget cries excitedly.

“But what does the Chakra have to do with my power?” I ask her.

“That I don’t know,” Bridget says, sounding unsure again, her excitement now gone.

“Maybe,” Leeha says slowly, with a thoughtful look on her face. “Just maybe they are both the same. But maybe your Chakra, as you call it, does something to it?”

“What? Like, change it?” I ask her, mystified.

“Well I remember Bridget mentioning that she saw some of the energy leaving your Chakra and seeping into your body. Maybe it’s changing you? Getting you ready to use that newer energy?” Leeha says, now getting excited herself.

No fucking way! Am I turning into a Cultivator? I used to read books about that all the time! It was where the body had to be trained to use different energy without killing you. Was me opening up a Chakra causing that? Does that mean each time I open up a new Chakra, a different kind of power would be available? I know I got a message that said I opened up one of seven Chakras, but what does that mean, and what will happen if I open the second one too early? Will I explode?

“Alex?” Leeha calls my name. “Did you think of something?”

“Well,” I begin, trying to get my thoughts together. “What if, and I am pulling from stories from my world for this. What if I am a Cultivator?” I hear the word come out in English.

“Cultivator?” Leeha repeats the word.

“There are stories I would read, and remember that these stories in my world aren’t real, but I am still wondering. Cultivators would gain power by converting energy and by training their bodies to handle a more condensed kind of power. What if I have power right now, but this energy from my Chakra is the second stage for me? I have seven Chakras to open, right? Does that mean as I open each one, I will get more powerful?”

“More powerful than an Elemental Summoner?” Leeha says in astonishment. “Alex! They have always been powerful! And now you think you can become even more so?”

“I doubt that,” I tell her with a laugh. “Bridget, can you check what that energy is doing to my body where it’s seeping into it?” I ask her.

“I can try, but how would I do that?” she asks me hesitantly.

Shit. Let’s see, how can Bridget check? Not like she knows anything about biology or molecular levels. Wait a minute, she might! Context! I throw the stick I’d been holding into the fire and I shout, “Context!” making both of them jump in