Chapter 30 Discovering a New Elemental
Author: M_W Cancer
Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral
Leo quietly went to sleep the moment the merchant caravan departed from Silver City.
According to Leo, the most important part of this mission was only at the Blacksmoke Canyon, so he wanted to rest before arriving at that place to conserve energy.
Moreover, since they were passing to his city first, Heart City, he was confident that it would be a safe journey. After all, he does regular clean-ups in between his city and the Silver City.
"Hey, Cassandra, right?" Hannah suddenly greeted as soon as she went close to Cassandra.
"Yes, can I help you with anything?" Cassandra replied, moving her attention away from the currently sleeping Leo.
"Are you both together?" Hannah can't help but ask curiously.
"Um, Yes... Since we both live in the same house." Cassandra answered, not knowing what Hannah meant to ask.
Hearing that, Hannah immediately lost her romantic interest in Leo after receiving Cassandra's reply. She was hoping that they were just friends, so she could make a move to him.
In Hannah's opinion, Leo was a boyfriend type of material. Sadly though, it turned out that the both of them were already living together.
"Oh, so you've seen each other's body already?" Hannah suddenly changed the topic as she felt curious that since they were already living together then they would surely have done that already, right?
"Ah..." Cassandra wasn't able to reply as she suddenly remembered that time when she saw Leo's rod getting hard because of her. Her face turned red as she quickly lowered her head to hide it.
"Oh, you don't need to be shy about it. That is pretty normal for both people living together. Stay strong!" Hannah let out a giggle as she saw Cassandra's face suddenly turning red.
"No, you misunderstood..." Cassandra finally realized what Hannah meant by the question, but the latter had already moved away to talk with the other girl named Dandelion.
Hence, Cassandra could only shake her head in helplessness.
"Yow, is that person really Leo Heart?" Claude suddenly approached her and asked as soon as Hannah left.
"Yes, why?" Cassandra replied confusingly.
"Oh, he is actually that capable Leo who was able to rule a city despite being only a mere 8 years old!" Claude exclaimed in admiration.
"How capable was he?" Cassandra immediately felt intrigued the moment Claude revealed an admiration look on his face.
"Oh, you still don't know about Leo's great tale? Well, it all started ten years ago..."
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The merchant caravan continued moving towards Blacksmoke City. They passed by the Heart City without any problem, just like Leo had expected. And soon, they finally arrived at Blacksmoke Canyon.
It was at this moment that Leo suddenly opened his eyes. He looked around his surroundings and he nodded his head seeming as if thinking of something in his mind.
What Leo was thinking was whether the Blacksmoke Canyon has a rich Earth Mana around its environment. He wanted to find out whether he could summon another Elemental just by absorbing the Earth Mana around the Blacksmoke Canyon.
Back then when he discovered that he could summon a Wind Elemental just by absorbing the Wind Mana around the Heart's manor, he had also thought about whether he could summon other Elements of Elemental just by absorbing different Elements of Mana. However, he wasn't able to find any good source of other Elements of Mana, so he wasn't able to try out his idea.
He had tried it a few times before, like trying to absorb the Mana from the fire when cooking, or in the water when he was taking a bath. But he had unfortunately concluded that he could only absorb a little amount of Mana by doing so because the source wasn't rich in the Elemental Mana he needed. So, he concluded that maybe he should go look for a place with a strong specific Elemental Mana.
When he was reading the Book of Mission that Angel had given to him the day before yesterday, he noticed the name Blacksmoke Canyon.
The Blacksmoke Canyon was a place where even the wind that a person inhales has dirt mixed within. With such an idea in mind, he carefully thought that maybe Blacksmoke Canyon had a rich amount of Earth Mana to allow him to be able to summon an Earth Elemental.
Why Earth Elemental, though? Leo had discovered that the Wind Elemental was only good to use for doing a stealthy task because it could blend within the wind, hence it would be hard to discover its existence being around a certain place. Unfortunately, it has a weak defense and attack, so not a good use for battle.
So, he tried to think of an idea to solve this current problem that could finally make him fully use his ability. The answer he had found out was to look for other Elementals.
At that time, Leo had found a book to read about the different Elementals, and he had astonishingly discovered the existence of the Fire Elemental which has a really strong attacking power. But there was no place for him to absorb Fire Mana, so he could only try to look for the other Elementals with good combat prowess.
After long research, all his efforts finally paid off as he was able to find out about the Earth Elemental, which was an Elemental that could also give him what he needed.
And to his astonishment, the Earth Elemental wasn't only good at attacking but also extremely adept at defending!
The Earth Elemental was naturally strong because it was made out of a rock. He could already imagine that it could cause a lot of damage due to its body being covered in rock-hard substance. Imagine someone throwing a pebble at a person, just that small tiny rock could already cause a person to possibly bleed. And if one uses tools like a slingshot, they could even kill a bird with a mere pebble. Now imagine a Magical Entity made out entirely of rock throwing a punch toward a person. It would surely make that person unconscious and possibly kill him on the spot.
Moreover, the Earth Elemental was also extremely good at defending. With its body made out of a rock, he could use it to block arrows and other flying weapons, unlike the Wind Elemental which doesn't even have a slight bit of defensive capability, even allowing an arrow to just pass by its body easily.
The Earth Elemental was exactly something that Leo was looking for as a summoned Entity.
As Leo was fixated outside the wagon, he quietly tried to absorb the Mana around him.
Just like what he initially expected, Earth Mana was indeed really rich in an environment like the Blacksmoke Canyon.
With a smile forming on his face, Leo continued to quietly absorb the Earth's Mana until finally the Earth Elemental was formed in his consciousness.
Unexpectedly, though, Leo had found out that forming the Earth Elemental wasn't as easy as when he was forming the Wind Elemental. He needed to focus all of his effort and attention on forming every edge and inch of its whole body.
Leo found it reasonable, though. After the Red Cube embedded itself into his body, he found himself slowly being cultivated and becoming stronger. Though it was only a bit-by-bit, not really something to be proud of. But still, this bit-by-bit had fortunately allowed him to form an Earth Elemental today. Without that bit-by-bit of cultivation, he would surely not have been able to form the Earth Elemental and would still be stuck at the somewhat useless Wind Elemental.
"Finally, something handy!" Leo couldn't help but finally feel relaxed. With an Earth Elemental in his arsenal, he felt safe during this entire mission.
Back then, he wasn't stupid enough to believe that he could handle this mission. It was only natural for him to also feel the same way that Cassandra was feeling before that the mission that they had accepted was something out of their league.
And honestly, it was!
Sword and Magic's merchant caravan was different from the others that he had just escorted before. The former was a rich business, while the latter that he had escorted before was just an average merchant caravan.
Comparing the two, the Sword and Magic are a league apart.
However, he still wanted to discover whether his idea was valid or not. So, he purposely chooses this mission of escorting the Sword and Magic merchant caravan to Blacksmoke City.
Moreover, he had also heard from the others talking about why were their two-year students with them on this mission. He could understand them though, since if ever something bad happened they would surely be unable to babysit him and Cassandra because they would be busy trying to defend the merchant caravan and at the same time in their own life. They will not have any time to spare any more effort and time to try to protect the duo. And to make matters even worse, the bandits could use the weak duo as hostages which might possibly cause the entire mission to fail.
However, this time was different now. With the Earth Elemental in his arsenal, he is now confident that he can handle this mission with ease.
"Did something good happen?" Cassandra had noticed Leo saying he had found something handy, so she immediately felt curious about it.
"You! Having you is good!" Leo said hurriedly, trying to redirect the topic.
Cassandra immediately turned burning red after hearing that. She hurriedly lowers her head, trying to hide her red-colored face.
"Stupid!" Cassandra silently whispered.