10/29/2017

I walked across the hallway of Muspell, as Loki lead me to my bedroom. "By the way, I feel like your outfit is rather impractical. What's the entire point in it? You don't even have a freaking bra." Seriously, all she had to do was just to lower it a bit, and the boys around would go into a craze.

She giggled, and snuggled close to me. "All the more to pleasure you, silly." I scoffed. What the hell was this woman thinking? "You're not my type. Sorry to disappoint you." I said, still completely stoic.

"By the way, would you happen to have any...friends of yours?" I glanced at her, my expression changing a little. "I do. Not many, but I do. How do I explain this...people may think that I'm a friend, where in reality, I may not consider them as friends. It takes quite a bit of effort to truly build a friendship with me, I'm afraid."

Loki laughed a bit. "So...summoner, who's your best friend in...your world?" I was sent into a daze, as I thought of my best friend, an individual named Kiran. Ever since we were young, we knew each other, played with each other, discussed anime together, and sometimes traded our diaries with each other. He would sometimes write some no-brainer comments on my diary, or trolling comments, much to my disgust and amusement.

"Right...sorry for not answering. He's an individual named Kiran, and...we were the top of our district of education, best friends. I guess when I'm done conquering this world, I'll go back to see him, to ask him to join me." I said, as I flashed back to the past.

"So, right now, who do you ship in the DBZ series?" I said, skipping across the sidewalk as we headed to the SAT class "Er...the canon ones?"

"No, Goku x Vegeta 4 life." Kiran was a bit shocked, as he never thought of me as a yaoi fan, and due to the fact that I sounded so serious about it. "Er...ookay?...interesting?..." I scoffed, laughing.

"Dude, I'm just kidding around." He slammed his basketball to the ground, and caught it. "Damn, I can never figure you out whether you're kidding or not. You can just act so serious about so many things, and then troll others like that. So, how's your girlfriend?"

I kicked the dirt, contempt in my eyes. "Seriously, I'm sick of her, always overreacting to stuff, and then making me look like the villain." Kiran glanced at me. "Yeah, you should really break up with her."

"Yeah, I should. She's pretty, but seriously, I'm sick of political correctness and sh*t like that. At this point, even going yaoi would be better." I put a hand around his shoulder. "Should we?"

Kiran gave a disgusted look. "What?! No! That's disgusting!" I gave him a weird look. "Why not? It's not like you've ever kissed a boy before." He retorted, "Dude, maybe not in the open, where your girlfriend is in plain sight!"

I laughed, and realized she was there. Well, great timing, I guess. "Well...I guess breaking up was easy." She didn't even look at me as she sauntered off, her long black hair flowing in the wind as her fair skin shining in the sunlight.

Putting myself off him, I put my hands behind my back. "Well, at least we solved the girlfriend problem." He deadpanned. "Man, I'm not even sure if that's smart or just plain crazy."

I sighed. "You know, after this, we should really just have a good ol' game of basketball."

A few hours later after the cruel and unusual punishment that was known as studying, we both headed to the court. "Seriously, I just don't understand it. We're both smart enough to get good scores on this, but why do we absolutely need to get 1600s?"

Kiran shrugged. "I just suppose that they want us to get on the news or something. I'm not exactly too sure, as...I suppose like the earlier stages of my life are always the boring ones."

I dribbled the basketball, and headed to the court. "1v1, basic three-line thing?" He nodded. "Yeah."

With that, I passed it from hand to hand, letting it bounce on the ground. As he bent down, I immediately took my chance, and bounced it right between his legs. However, he apparently had anticipated that move, and he moved his right leg 90 degrees, letting it bounce off his leg, as he stole it.

I ran in front of him, blocking his path to the goal. He decided to bait me by faking the left, and then pushed forwards to the right, purposely trying to catch me off guard.

I would have none of it, and as I stepped left, I pivoted, and with one swift movement, I stole the ball from behind him with a swipe, and dribbled out of the third line, leading him to wait under the basketball hoop.

Swearing under my breath, I knew what he was planning. I was a horrible free thrower, and if I got close, Kiran might be able to anticipate my move and take away the ball.

Deciding to take another path, I dribbled towards him, and instead of jumping and tossing the ball into the hoop, I switched the ball from my left to my right, and he jumped up, preparing to block my throw.

Taking the chance, I immediately sidestepped him, and then jumped up, throwing the ball into the hoop. He took it. "Oh, I'm gonna get you this time." As he dribbled towards me, I did the same thing again, to bait his bait. However, this time, he threw it. I jumped up, hoping to block it, only to realize by the time I had landed on the floor, he was miles gone.

Apparently this time, he had faked his throw, and I had fallen for it. However, hope wasn't gone yet. I ran after him, and as he threw the ball, I jumped, hoping to knock the ball out in midair.

I hit it alright, but instead, my influence on the ball knocked it straight into the hoop. I groaned, wondering why I couldn't just leave it alone. Kiran grinned. "Kyren, you can't just leave it alone, can you."

I told Loki all of this, and she had her hand on her mouth, giggling. "My, my. You're quite a naughty one." I rolled my eyes. "That was 2 years ago. I'm not like that anymore."

She stopped at a door. "Here it is, Kyren. Your very own room. I suppose...I'll be visiting her a lot." I didn't care much about it, as I took off my cloak, adopting battle armor, then put my cloak back on. "I'll be heading outside. I need to see Laegjarn."

As I met Laegjarn, she was polishing her silver sword. "What have you come for, Kyren?" I asked her, "Are there any maps of Nifl that have been charted? At the same time, what about Muspell?"

She got up, and twirled her sword. "We do have maps of Muspell, but we don't have any maps of Nifl yet. Is there a problem?" I nodded. "Yes...if I know the geography of Nifl...it would give us a great advantage." I pointed at her wyvern. "I suppose we could go for a ride, right?"

Nodding, she willed her wyvern to calm down, and accept me. "Now, now, Cyclonus. Let him on. He won't hurt you." Cyclonus bowed his head, and allowed me to sit on him. Getting behind me, she spurred Cyclonus to the air.

As we flew on, I felt the soft wind against my face. It was...comfortable. However, I shook it off, and gazed at the kingdom below me. "Hm..." With that I took out my notebook, and started scribbling furiously onto it.

Within two hours, I had already scribbled the outline of the kingdom onto my notebook. "Alright...now, are there any scribes or artists around?" She nodded. "Yes. Do you wish to enlarge it, to piece it together?"

I nodded. "Yes. With that, I may announce our battle plans." After a few hours, I had the plans presented, on an attack on the city known as Bolverk. They had been laying siege to it, but hadn't even broken through in 5 months. "Alright...we have the sun over here at this time during noon. With the sun in the archers' eyes, it'll be much harder for them to shoot the wyvern and pegasus knights down."

I looked at them. "While the archers are distracted, there's a river that's flowing near Bolverk. Over there, I want our strongest, toughest warriors to redirect the course of the river, and let it flow at the front of the fort. Remember, everybody, only kill soldiers. Do not harm helpless civilians. If you dare harm helpless civilians, I will have you publicly executed as an example for others."

I then looked at Loki. "Alright, after we've finished off the archers, you'll shift into the archer general, and give them the order to tell the Nifl army to head out and meet the Muspell army to battle. If you're thinking about the heavy casualties, just wait for me to finish."

I then pointed at the front wall. "They'll be least expecting us to attack over there, but that's also where we'll go. I know there will be an army ordered by Loki to go and meet our army out there to battle, but if we time it correctly by my orders, then the river water redirected will flood the Nifl army, giving us a huge advantage. Before the battle starts, I want 300 men, at dawn head over to the river, and start digging a trench so that it'll be easier for us to use walls to redirect the river. As they'll be caught off-guard, I want you all to capture the Nifl soldiers instead of killing them, so we may interrogate them and maybe even use them for future purposes."

I looked at the city. "If I am correct, the duke of the city will be over at the center of there, and when we break the wall down, they'll try to run away. With that, I will have some flying troops to drop Brave Lyn, Laegjarn, our newcomer Lukas, Minerva, and me. Over there, we'll catch the duke, and capture him for interrogation."

I looked at them. "Are there any questions?" Nobody answered. "Good. Now...right, I shall dub each and every one of you as the..." Damn...I can't use fire fighters...that just sounds so silly...Wings of Fire is already taken...wait!

"We will be known as the Eternal Flames. Keep that title to your heart, and as an eternal flame, your loyalty to Muspell shall be eternal as well, burning on forever?" The soldiers nodded. "Yes, Grand Summoner!"


As I rushed to the stables to get a ride, Laegjarn motioned her hand over. "Here. This way we can save wyverns." I nodded, and got on. "Thanks." Laegjarn flew upwards, as the wyvern knights and pegasus knights followed us.

"Eternal Flames...where did you get that from?" I thought about it. "Oh, it's just that some things in my world sound a bit similar to yours. This was just related to the subject that seemed related to your world."

She nodded. "I see..." As I glanced at the numbers at Laegjarn, I noticed that maybe...if I looked in a mirror, I could be able to see my own stats as well. I looked at her stats, and compared her to mine.

Laegjarn level 5*4star strength: 22, Spd 19, def 16, resist 3. I then looked at myself.

Kyren level 40*1 star strength: 19, Spd 30, def 2, resist 2. I deadpanned. Man...it seemed like humans of my world were significantly weaker than them...heck, I went to the gym an hour every day, and I was still like this? Man...I guess I was just good at running away. No matter, I decided. Now wasn't the time to bemoan my physical inferiority to them.

The flying knights soared into the sky, going west as the sun shone behind them. The archers tried shooting us, but their arrows were either too slow, or they had gone awry.

As we edged closer, the overall accuracy increased, but not to a great extent. I wasn't very worried, as the sun would still serve to be a great protection against the archers.

Looking back, I saw a few wyvern riders get hit, but still survive the arrows. Of course...their high defense did help them survive the extra physical damage that the arrows contained.

As a few seconds went by, I could hear some dying screams, as a few flying soldiers plummeted down, to their deaths. I sighed, focusing on the current situation. This was war, and I had no time to be concerned over matters such as this.

We all could mourn later, but what was the point of mourning? We were creating a better future for all of the realms, though through war. And as war was war, death was inevitable as well.

Nearing the archers, I smiled, as the entire fleet of airborne soldiers crashed into the archers, some dying by the weapons, others being pushed down to their deaths. All dying a painless death, I looked around, satisfied. With that, I went down the wyvern along with Laegjarn, and noticed a peculiar sight.

An archer, embroidered with fancy gold and light blue armor, was preparing to jump off the wall. I yelled, "Stop him!" In a flash, Laegjarn kneed him in the stomach, knocking all the air out of him. "Don't think you're getting away that easily."

With the archer out of breath, I stooped down, to ask him a few questions. "Listen here. Most of the guys here are dead. So if you value your life, you may want to start answering questions." He nodded. "I have nothing to lose by now."

"Alright, tell us where's General Niliem. The archer general, right?" The archer groaned. "That's me. What do you want?..." I nodded. "Alright, Loki. Do your job." As Loki headed towards the headquarters, I called, "Alright, put this man in prison! By no circumstances are you to kill him!"

Loki shifted into General Niliem's form, and then snuck into the army's headquarters. "I want every soldier out there, attacking the Muspell soldiers out there." She then headed out, and shifted back into her form, then shifted back into the general's form, giving me the signal.

With that, I scanned the area, wondering if there could be anything large enough to catch my men's attention. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a few boulders, most likely reserved for Muspell's army in case they ever attacked head on.

I yelled, "Alright, I want at least one of these boulders over here!" A few soldiers rushed over, and started heaving a large boulder, carrying it over. I wondered what else would prove that it would be us...yes, that would work.

"Laegjarn, i want you to set this stone on fire." She nodded, and grabbed a torch, dumped a sack of oil on it, and lit it on fire. I then motioned to Minerva. "Let's get this downhill."

Kicking out with her powerful legs, Minerva sent the boulder rolling down the wall, as a signal to the ones at the river to start redirecting it. The burly men heaved the gigantic bricks, dropping them into the banks of the river.

Slowly, the water began to trickle as the course was redirected towards the trenches, and I watched as they headed towards the gate. "C'mon, Loki...anytime now..."

A bunch of Niflhem soldiers ran out, opening the gate. "Muspell scum! This ends right here, right now! We'll put an end to your pathetic existence! For honor! For Glory! FOR NIFL!" the leader cried out, as the soldiers followed suite.

I laughed as they roared. "Oh, all of you have no idea what's waiting for you." Laevatein and her army tensed, probably wondering what was going on. They readied their weapons, probably thinking that my plan had failed, and they had to fight on to the death.

To their surprise, and my amusement, the river rapids swept the Nifl army off their feet, flooding the entire army with cold, powerful water. I signaled for another boulder to be thrown down, and Lukas kicked it, as it went down the walls, signaling them to attack.

Laevetein drew her silver sword, and yelled out to her army, "On his orders! Capture them all!" They charged forward, weapons and chains in their hands, ready to capture the entire Nifl army.

A few tried to stand against them, but due to the severe disorientation that the sudden flooding had caused, not to mention the amount of unconscious soldiers, they were all captured, and led away by Laevatein within minutes.

I smiled, and got on Laegjarn's wyvern. "Alright...to the castle keep. We'll find him there." As we were just in close proximity above the keep, we were dropped. I hung onto Laegjarn, as Cyclonus dropped as well. I was mostly waiting for them to catch me, and then put me back down.

As we were about to hit the glass roof of the keep, the wyverns caught our little squad once again, halting our movement. After a second of reeling, they dropped us again, as we crashed through the glass ceiling, right behind the duke and his bodyguards, who were readying to leave the building.

Laegjarn landed on the floor, and drew her silver sword, pointing it at them. "You've lost." Brave Lyn dropped from the air as well, and her horse dropped from the sky, landing on the floor and allowing its rider to sit neatly on its saddle. "You can't outrun the wind."

Minerva crashed through the window as well, and swung Hauteclere. "Your gods aren't answering, I can tell." Lukas followed, and pointed his lance at them. "Pray that this ends quick." I landed, and immediately I felt and heard a sickening crunch as my legs turned to jelly.

Looking down, my feet had touched the ground, but immediately collapsed as my weight came upon them. I couldn't feel them at all, but I knew what had happened, and it was clear proof that I was not as durable as the heroes over here.

As soon as the sickening crunch sounded around the hall, Laegjarn spun around to face me. "Kyren! Are you okay?" I nodded, groaning. "For the time being, yes. As long as no soldier sneaks upon me, I think I'll be safe...but my legs are in a bad shape right now, so the most I can do is just to give you orders."

The bodyguards drew their weapons, daring the four to go on. They consisted of a green raven tome user with triangle adept, bow breaker and iceberg, a sword fighter with a wo Dao, Fury, wrath 2, and moonbow, a lancer with slaying lance, Fury, vantage, and bonfire, and an archer with a brave bow, death blow 3, Spd smoke, and Ignis.

Before I could stop her, Brave Lyn rushed into the fray, immediately attacking the green tome, and I yelled as she instead got doubled. She gasped, as she flew backwards, right besides me.

"How...aren't mages supposed to have low defense?" I looked at the mage. "He had a raven tome, and bow breaker, along with triangle adept. Unless if he was on extremely low health, you couldn't have thought of beating him."

She groaned, and looked at me, disappearing. "Why couldn't you say that earlier?" I put my head in my left hand, sighing. "I wish I could. But you're just too fast."

Lyn coughed into her hand. "I...wish I would have known you better. How are you so good at this?..." I shrugged. "I'm just very, very intelligent. And I'm smart enough to know it as well."

She coughed again. "Kyren...you must lead them. Show them...that Nifl can be conquered. Show that...you can melt its icy heart." I frowned. "Er...you do know I can revive you, right?" Her eyes widened. "Oh. Oh! Well...now that I think about it, I overdramatizing things, right?" with that, she disappeared.

I looked at them all. First...I needed to get rid of that dratted mage. "Minerva, take out that mage! Laegjarn, stop fighting against that swordsman! Lukas, shield everybody!"

Minerva jumped through the air, and slashed at the mage, her axe immediately reducing him into a nameless body on the floor. As the three other warriors approached them, Lukas jumped in front of their attacks, absorbing the brunt of the blows.

The swordsman and lancer couldn't bring themselves to even damage the bulky soldier, and he swung his spear, taking out the swordsman. The axe warrior attacked him, dealing a hefty amount of damage to his armor.

Sending Laegjarn in, she finished the axe warrior off in one blow with a vertical slash, leaving him to fall face-first onto the floor. Minerva then grabbed the lancer, and buried Hautclere in his head, killing him instantly.

As the duke hurried away, I pointed in his direction. "Don't let him escape!" The three nodded, and ran in the direction, as I waited for them to come by.

She brought him to me. "Alright...what should we do with him?" I looked at him, grabbing his chin. "Alright...are there any maps or anything?" the only response I received was saliva, right in my face.

He snarled at me, "That'll be the only answer I'll ever give you." His face then suddenly morphed from a face of defiance, into a face of pure shock and pain. "What...what?!"

A silver sword was sticking out of his chest, and Laegjarn's hand was on the hilt of it. I understood what she thought, she thought that he was useless as he would never give me information. However...that wasn't true!

I could have treated him with kindness and respect, and slowly pulled out valuable information out of him, as I had my own way with people. But wait...I thought, Maybe I could save him! This would be even better!

And then, my hopes were dashed as she pulled the sword up, splitting his skull into half. I looked at what he used to be, and then let the corpse drop onto the floor. I didn't want to give her a lecture or a discussion right now. I wanted my legs back.

I sighed, and put my head in hands. "Gah...anyway, get a healer for me." However, it turned out, that it would be 20 minutes before they could get the nearest cleric over. I groaned, and noticed that there were some orbs near the throne. "Hm...maybe..."

I loaded the orbs into the Breidabilik, and shot it into the air. I picked colorless, as they were the ones with the healers, and out came a Maria. She landed on the ground gracefully, and looked at us all. "Hello, I'm Maria, a princess of Macedon! I'm not experienced in magic, but I can use my staff to heal others! I wonder if Onee-chan's around..." She turned around to look at Minerva. "Onee-chan!"

Minerva hugged her sister. "Maria! I never thought I would see you in this world!" she looked at me. "Thank you for bringing my sister over." I nodded. "No problem...now, can she please heal me?"

Maria looked at my legs. "What happened to you?" I sighed. "I dropped from a relatively high place...and now my legs are basically ground meat." She hurried over, and started to heal my legs. "There. They should be good now."

Getting up, I started to move them, amazed at the amount of time. "Wow...so this is the power of staves?" Maria nodded. "You're...not of this world, right?" I shook my head. "I suppose...that our world has differing levels in capabilities."

Maria looked at me. "What do you mean?" I sighed. "You see, if I was back in my world, it would take me...maybe a month to fully heal these two legs. But...your staves...that's simply amazing."

I moved the throne aside, to reveal more orbs and golden stones, feathers, and badges. "Whoa...this is crazy. This is a lot..." as more Muspell soldiers came in, I pointed to the treasures. "Move these to the Muspell treasury. Meanwhile, I'm going to have a word with Princess Laegjarn later...after I revive Brave Lyn."


The next day, I was reading the Muspell news in my bedroom, in Muspell castle. It was reporting that the city of Bolverk, which had been besieged for 5 months with no considerable damage done to it, had been taken over within an hour. They were all flattering me, and exaggerating the details.

"The almighty summoner jumped through the window, and landed with a ultra-cool pose, such as this!" it was a hilariously inaccurate drawing of me. As only the royal family and Loki really knew my face, as I hardly took off my hood, they decided to go for a side-view.

They had me drawn in full fledged custom-made armor based on the summoner's cloak, and with Breidabilik as a weapon. I looked at it, considering to order for special armor to be created for me.

As I wouldn't be fighting much due to my hilariously weak combat skills, I started writing on a scroll, to the royal blacksmiths. "By the title of the Grand Summoner, I request a set of custom-made armor, made with your best metals and best blacksmiths. I would like it to be durable, yet light, as I still must retain my mobility if a retreat is required. I expect it to be fancy, preferably with fire elements, as I lead the Eternal Flames themselves. I want it delivered to my room within 5 days. Please do not hesitate to inform me if the time needed is too short, as I know nothing of black smithery."

A few minutes later, the messenger ran to my room, knocking. I got up from my chair, surprised that they would be so quick. As he gave me the letter, I gave a satisfied grin.

"Do not worry, Grand Summoner. We will be able to make the suit of armor within 3 days, and have it delivered to your room within that time. You are welcome, Grand Summoner. Such a task is no problem for us."

I clasped my hands, and went back to reading the news. As I kept on reading the article, occasionally laughing at its exaggerated moments, I saw a sentence that caught my eye."

"And after the battle, Grand Summoner Kyren said to the beautiful Princess Laegjarn, 'Princess Laegjarn, may I have a word with you?' What could this mean?! Has he already set his sights on her?! OMG!"

With that, I immediately got up, and crushed the scroll, outraged and embarrassed. "Alright, what the hell is the media saying?! Whoever who wrote that line, someone find me that bastard, and let me have a word wi-just get him or her! Crush these rumors right now!"

The guards nodded, and started to spread the word. I sighed, and walked around, heading to the princess's chamber. Wondering where she was, I sighted Laevatein instead, my question answered immediately, but in the wrong form.

She looked at me curiously, and then motioned me to come over. "We need to talk." I walked over, and she sat down at a table with two chairs, on a balcony of Muspell castle.

She often didn't speak, but for some particular reason, she was open to me enough to have a conversation, though I could tell that the intimacy was not on the same level as her sister.

That was understandable, as I had only been here for 3 days. However, it may have stemmed from the fact that the Muspell elders were hypocrites who often talked of peace, but yet the war on Nifl was their idea.

Even though the entire nation was fiery, there was still a sort of beauty to it. Situated on a dormant volcano, the entire castle was constructed not out of rough, black, rock, but shiny, pitch-black obsidian.

I gazed down at the kingdom below the castle, guarded by walls constructed out of black marble. She cleared her throat, redirecting my attention back to her. "Why do you fight alongside us?"

I thought about it for a second, caught slightly off-guard, but I retained my composure, and answered. "I suppose...when I saw your kingdom, I saw that we had a similar vision. To take this world...and remake it."

Laevatein played with her hair, and said, "I suppose that it is true that we want to change this world. However, in many books I read...they often talked of that only tolerance and peaceful measures could ensure peace across the universe."

I shook my head. "That's nonsense. Even if we could ever make a peace through cowardly measures such as these...it would only be a fake, tense peace. There would still be tension, and it wouldn't hold for very long."

She looked at me. "I rather enjoy talking to you, Kyren. I am a weapon. I'm not supposed to think, or so I was taught. But yet...sometimes, I have a desire to think, to have opinions at times. It's...rather strange." Drinking her cup of tea, she asked, "What is your realm like? A realm of what exactly? Of war? Of peace? Of joy? Of sorrow?"

I chuckled bitterly in contempt. "It's a realm of lies. A few million people have this belief, in which its own scriptures orders them to kill any one not of their own. And many of them follow the orders, wreaking havoc across the realm itself. But yet, many...historians claim that this is the longest peace we've ever had, an obviously untrue claim. Other times, our kingdoms' leaders will try to defend the people of this belief, saying that not all of them will kill innocents, and even try to defend the belief itself, claiming that it is a peaceful belief, when the belief requires the deaths of every human being who is not one of them, or even any one of them who refuses to kill. It truly is a realm of lies."

She leant on her sword lazily. "So...that's why you offered us to conquer your own realm, eh?" I nodded. "Such a realm of lies...is already rotten to the core. Think of it as a rotten apple. What can you do with it?"

Laevatein scoffed. "Absolutely nothing. Just get rid of it." I smiled. "Exactly. The ones calling for changes...are foolish. It has already gone so far it cannot be changed anymore. My realm is rotten to the core...which is why I wish to destroy its society, and then rebuild it from its very foundations itself."

She stood up. "I'll end our chat here. My intellect is leagues below yours; I'll go training now. It was enjoyable, Kyren." She walked off, with a wave. I waved back, heading towards Laegjarn. As I walked through the hallways, I crashed into her, and we were holding our foreheads in pain and surprise within moments after we collided.

"Ay, my apologizes, Princess." She waved it off. "Guards, don't demand more apologizes. It's alright, Grand Summoner. And you two are dismissed, go get a drink or something. We have something to discuss that is not meant for you to know."

"Alright, we can discuss the rumors later. Laegjarn, what you did today was...something that I found fault with."

She looked at me. "What is it, Kyren?" I sat down. "Look, you shouldn't have killed that duke." She scoffed. "That dratted duke? He spit saliva at you. Of course he deserved to die."

I tried to brush it off, and explain it to her. "Look, I can handle a few spits or so, even though it's disgusting. He might have given us the information, if you gave me enough time to convince him."

Laegjarn crossed her arms. "Your point?"

I closed the door, and turned around to face her. "Laegjarn, killing him was a huge mistake, that gave us less options on winning this war. Do you understand what I mean?"

Laegjarn threw a knife into the wall, hitting one of the targets, a bullseye. "Would you mind explaining why? I have an idea of what you may say, but I'm not entirely sure."

I sat down on a sofa, while the fire started to warm me up. Taking a sip of tea, I asked her, "Do you understand the cycle of revenge?" Slowly nodding, she said nothing as I continued. "The cycle of revenge...is something absolutely horrible."

Pausing for a brief moment to gaze at the fire, I continued on. "The duke was killed, which means that his family members will undoubtedly seek us for revenge. If we hadn't killed him, we may have coaxed him, or used him as a tool to convince Nifl to surrender, or potentially weaken them. However, his family members will do anything to avenge his death...sometimes, some individuals are so obsessed with revenge to the point they disregard their own lives. That...is the most dangerous type of fighter, the fighter who will disregard his or her own life to reach his or her goal."

She glanced at me. "So...that was why you decided to spare the soldiers, instead simply capturing them?" I nodded. "I don't want to create crazed soldiers desiring our lives for the loss of their loved ones. It's a simple and foolish concept, but yet so many people still fall into that trap."

She lay down on the other sofa, stretching her arms out. "So...this cycle of revenge will keep on going...unless if one stops it, or if it was never initiated in the first place."

Sitting up, she put her foot on the table between us. "I understand my errors. Such a thing is dishonorable...killing an unarmed person...what is there to brag about? No, that's just shameful and cowardly...not to mention I will inadvertently create such soldiers with a miserable life...this isn't honor. This is just foolishness."

I said nothing, preferring to not put my voice in the matters of honor. She took out a chess set, placing it on the table. "Would you mind playing with me in this game of chess?"

Still saying nothing, I slowly nodded, and helped her set the pieces up. As we played, I went for a passive approach, as she attacked me aggressively. She sent her knight forward, threatening my pawn, only for me to set another pawn up, discouraging her from performing the deed.

Noticing from our movements, I could see that she valued her pawns and pieces greatly, trying to have minimal losses while taking out my men. I, however, was akin to a sneaky predator, striking at the valuable pieces when I had the chance.

Minutes later, I was losing pieces, rapidly, and she looked at me in surprise, as I was checkmated. "It seems as if you don't enjoy this game, Kyren. Why is that?" I raised an eyebrow, mildly surprised at her perceptive comment.

Flexing my fingers, I got up, preparing to leave. "I personally don't enjoy chess." She looked at me. "Why don't you?" I glanced at her, as I went out of the door. "Such a game does not reflect the rules of reality. Or rather...the restrictions are too unlike reality."

She had a confused expression on her face. She followed me out of the door. "What do you mean by that, Kyren?" I turned around to face her. "Unlike chess, in real life, there are no rules. There's only victory, or..."

I paused, for a bit of dramatic effect. "Game over."


Omake

While an archer aims at Laegjarn, Laegjarn yells, "You can't hit me!" The archer frowns. "Er...yes I can." "No you can't!" "yes I can!" the archer retorts, and then changes his direction as Cyclonus flies off to another location.

"I can see wherever you are, with my perfect eyesight..." Laegjarn then flies to the sun, and then the archer stupidly follows suite. "Gah! My eyes! Why didn't I pay attention in my science classes?!"

"Good! Now Grand Summoner, go get him!" Kyren then proceeds to jump down, and he punches the archer. The archer doesn't even flinch. "...was that supposed to hurt?"

Kyren groans. "Why are you all basically superhu-" he then gets kicked off the wall. "Gah! Why weren't you following the script?! You were the one who were supposed to fall down!"


Okay...regarding answers to your reviews...

Guest:

no, I won't be making him a Gary Stu (boring, also, look at his stats! These stats could make Odin look strong!)

most of the villains aren't summonable, so still no.

Roblu321:

Kyren is just a corruption of the word Kiran.

Think of the universe being consisted of many realms. Kyren and Surtr want to conquer these realms. If they manage to find a way to get to each and every one of these "living" realms, and conquer them, then taking control of all of these parts would mean control over the entire universe.

Askr having it's own tactician...duh, Kiran. Who else am I gonna put in?

And thank you to all who followed. I wasn't expecting many followers, so when I saw the count, I was surprised! Thanks a lot, I hope I can continue to entertain you all with the next update! May the flames be with you all!