Elemental Summoner 1, D. Levesque [ereader android TXT] 📗

Leeha slowly reaches her hand towards his face, but Bryan doesn’t move. Ah, that is what she is doing. She is seeing if he truly does get along with other races. I watch his face as well, looking for any kind of disgust or any sign that he wants to move back. But I also watch him to make sure he doesn’t try anything. Just in case, with the six swords still floating beside me, I think Earth and get ready to shoot out vines to entangle him if need be.

Leeha’s hand touches his cheek, and since he’s facing me, I can see his expression doesn’t change, although he looks puzzled.

“Now, kiss me,” Leeha tells him, surprising me. Oh, that little vixen! She is looking to see if he will do it or turn away in disgust.

“What?” Bryan says in surprise.

“Kiss me,” Leeha repeats more forcefully.

“If you are sure?” Bryan tells her. Leeha nods to him.

Hesitantly, he bends down to kiss her on the lips, but at the last second she puts a hand on his face, stopping him. She backs up and walks towards me, backwards, so she is still looking at him. Once she is next to me, she says, “He is the real deal.”

Letting go of the Summoning I had called up, I think Earth and I can feel the power leave. Leeha looks at the swords still floating next to us and says, “You can let go of those. I don’t think he will do anything.”

Nodding, I let go of the Water Swords by thinking Water. They disappear in a small explosion of water droplets.

“Do you mind if I sit? I think I kind of need to sit after all that,” Bryan says shakily.

“Of course,” I tell him, waving to the fire that is mostly embers now. Leeha grabs a couple of larger branches we had found and puts them on the fire, lighting them.

“We are staying here again today?” I inquire at her.

She nods. “Yes. I think we need to get rid of those bodies, though. Let me go check the other body first,” she says, running over to slim’s body and grabbing a pouch from his belt as well.

She walks back and hands it to me. I can hear the sound of coins again, but not as many as Joar’s. I open it and see that that they are mostly silver and copper-colored ones. No jewels and no gold.

“So, how much was your fee from those two?” I ask, and in my head, I think Earth, and imagine the ground swallowing up the bodies. Bryan glances over at the sound of the ground shifting and sees the two bodies slowly sink into the ground. He swallows hard and looks back at me.

“I was promised five gold pieces,” but then he hurriedly says, “But I will take whatever you think you can offer.”

I open Joar’s bag and see about 25 or so gold coins. I take out ten of them, reach over, and drop them in Bryan’s hand, which had been opens to accept the money. I sit back down and see that he is staring at the coins in surprise. He looks up at me.

“This is too much!” he says.

“I am good. With the addition of these two idiots’ money, I am good. I also have my own bag with some coins,” I finish, though I don’t go into the fact that I only have one gold and some other coins. These coins will come in handy, I am sure. I don’t want to carry around two dead men’s bags, so I move the coins from theirs to mine. I take out one of the stones and look at it.

Leeha whistles appreciatively. I glance at her and ask, “Good stone?”

Nodding, she says, “That’s a diamond. It’s rough, but it’s easily worth 200 gold coins. Are there others?”

“Yeah, these,” I tell her and take out a blue stone and some kind of orange-reddish rock. “That blue one is a sapphire. The orange one though,” she looks at it reverently, “it’s a fire diamond! I didn’t think I would ever see one in my lifetime!”

“Worth a lot?” I ask her eagerly.

“Yes! I would say a thousand gold coins easily. Though, with the right buyer, maybe even more. It’s uncut, so its value is limited by the cutter.

“Well, I guess I am set for money then,” I say with a smile. Suddenly my stomach growls and I say with a chuckle, “Too bad I can’t eat coins.”

“We might have something better,” Leeha whispers quietly. Both Bryan and I look over, and she is pointing to a tree about forty feet away. Snuffling into the ground is a small pig. Or is it a boar?

Turning to me, she asks with a grin, “You or me?”

“I kill it, you skin and cook it?” I ask her hesitantly. I hope she goes for it since I have no clue how to clean an animal. That Macoa last night was all her, and until I learn how to do it myself, I’ll either need to let her do it or pay someone. Now that I have gold.

“Deal, but I want you to show off another one of your Elemental magics,” she says with a grin.

I decide to show off my power to Bryan, and well, see if this will work. What power should I use? I have done Earth and Water. What can I do with Fire? Maybe a Fire Arrow? But that would most likely burn the forest down. Air then. Let’s see. Compressed air? I look around and see a small rock on the ground. I pick it up and put it in the palm of my hand. Air. Compressed Air Rifle. Suddenly the Air Elemental in my hand turns into exactly that, a see-through rifle, with a scope even. Aiming it downwards as I would in a game at the arcade, I see that the scope even has crosshairs. I move the