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

I get back up and hold the ball towards Bridget. “Shall we get started?” I ask her with a grin.

“Yes!” she cries and reaches out for the ball of copper.

Chapter Thirty-Four

Holding the ball of copper up in her hand, Bridget looks at me with a grin and says, “Command me.”

I rub my hands together and ask, “Which Elemental do you need to create the collar?”

She gets a thoughtful look on her beautiful Elven face. “I would say Earth, Fire, and Water. Earth to create the collar, Fire for the Fire Ball effect and for the Elemental to reside inside it, and Water to cool it down quickly.”

“Right,” I say, nodding. “Earth. Fire. Water. Create a collar of copper. Inside it, I want a Fire Elemental to watch over whoever is wearing it, and if they do not comply within a reasonable time, blow up using Fire Ball. If they attempt to run away, blow up using Fire Ball.”

You have used a Complex Spell command. You have used 10,000 points of power.

Suddenly a blinding headache brings me to my knees. In my peripheral vision, I notice that Bridget has turned into a Fire Elemental and is pulling at the copper ball like she would a ball of putty.

“Alex!” Leeha screams in concern, and then she is next to me, with her hands on my shoulders. “What’s wrong?”

“Just a massive pain in my head. It’s easing off, though. That spell I used was called a Complex Spell command, and it took a shit ton of power,” I tell her.

“How much did it use?” she asks me hesitantly, rubbing my back now.

“Well, imagine using the power of casting one thousand Water Arrows,” I tell her.

“What!” she says in astonishment.

“Yeah,” I tell her, sitting down on the ground, as I feel somewhat dizzy. “The normal spells for me are about ten in power usage, which is what you use, I assume?”

“Sounds about right. As I said before, you learn your numbers quickly when you become a mage, as you need to be able to conserve your power,” Leeha confirms.

“Well, a spell command like that hot tub one? It took 1,000 points of power. This one, the collar, took 10,000. I don’t understand why it was considered a Complex Spell command as the hot tub was bigger,” I tell her as she sits down next to me, taking my hand and rubbing it worriedly.

“Bri—” I start to say, looking up at Bridget to ask her the question, but I stop before I get to finish and just stare at her in awe.

She is standing there with her arms outstretched and the collar in her hands, but it’s what her body is doing that stops me. She looks like an Angel with wings made of flames. It’s almost like the collar is blowing a powerful wind in her direction, and it’s fanning the flames from her Fire Elemental’s body so that they flow behind her. Her eyes are glowing redder than the flames themselves.

Suddenly, her body changes to her Water Elemental, and there is a hissing sound of steam coming from the collar, which is probably extremely hot. Her arms are shaking as if from strain, and I can see the strain on her Water Elemental face as well. Abruptly, she changes back into her Elf body, and she slumps down, exhausted.

Congratulations. Achievement! Created new Item.

You have received 1 Heavenly Token.

Heavenly Tokens: 10 of 200.

Power Remaining: 995,000

At first, I am so worried for Bridget that I don’t pay attention to the messages that pop up in my head as I get off my ass quickly and run to her.

“Are you all right?” I ask her worriedly. Leeha is right next to me, checking Bridget by running her hands all over her body. If I wasn’t so worried, I would find that hot.

Bridget gives a tired smile. “Yes. It just took a lot more power than I expected.”

“Yeah, about that,” I say to Bridget with a frown. “So, two things. Apparently that collar is a Complex Spell that uses a lot of my power. It gave me a massive pain in the head, which I am sure is near my first Chakra. My bigger worry is that just now, I had a message that seems to indicate that I have 5,000 points less of power,” I say, with some concern.

“Really?” Bridget asks in surprise.

I nod to her. “It says that now I have only 995,000 points.”

“Hmm,” Leeha says softly, sounding perplexed. “Is that even a number?”

I look at her to see if she is serious, and her face tells me she is. That’s right. They might not have learned to count that high here, unlike on Earth. I am sure in the 1600s on Earth a normal person would not count or need to count that high.

“Yeah,” I tell her with a laugh. “I guess I will need to teach you how to count higher in English.”

Bridget puts her hand on the top of my head, and I turn back towards her. She closes her eyes, but I can feel something moving between her and me. A trickle of power?

“It’s changing,” she says in a confused voice, with a scowl on her face.

“What’s changing?” I ask her. Oh shit, what is changing? My body?

“Your power,” she says, her eyes still closed and her hand on me. “It’s changing to something I don’t understand and can’t even access. I see it there. It’s much smaller than your pool of power, but it’s like I am hitting a wall when I try to touch it.”

“So,” I say slowly, “the power is changing? To what?”

Bridget opens her eyes and looks at me, concerned. “I don’t know. As an Elemental, I understand power, and I understand energy for healing, but this is something I have never seen before, Alex.”

“Alex, can you call on your God to ask?” Leeha asks me, now sounding worried as well.

“I doubt it,” I say with a sigh. “I have