The World Of The Mystery Part 2

Kiran was not exactly sure what had motivated Embla to come to a place like this... like, seriously, what the hell? were they trying to lose on purpose or what?

The desert was one of the worst places to fight... the heat was able to exhaust everybody as far as anybody could easily predict. Those who were wearing clothes with colors that retained the heat better than other colors were suffering a lot. Fortunately, Kiran only had to remove the coat of his tactician clothes to remain "relatively speaking" fresh thanks to his white and blue clothes. Those were "cold" colors after all and he had never been more proud of having blue as his favorite color before.

Besides, there was something good that could be obtained of every kind of situation... so he decided to take advantage of the fact that the Emblians army brought the battle to a desert to get a chemical component that he'd need to build a very special object for his goal.

If they were going to be so stupid to grant him such a good opportunity then why would he waste it?


"Am... why is Kiran collecting sand?" Alfonse narrowed his eyes and asked in confusion as he saw to his tactician digging and putting a lot of sand into what were supposed to be trash cans.

At least five trash cans so far... and who knew how many more he wanted to fill.

"He said that he wants to make some glass." Anna responded, she was trying to stop the sweating on her hair. "

"But why? can't he just buy the glass?" considering how much he got paid and the fact he could easily ask for some lent money it did not make much sense to start a project like that in the middle of the liberation of another world.

Sharena raised her index finger with such a good smile on her face. "He told me that he needs lenses with specific measures and he also said that he was going to build something like a spyglass but much more powerful." reading tactics was not the only thing that she and Kiran did, Kiran had asked her if she wanted to be his laboratory assistant, so, she had to know about Kiran's projects.

"I see." Alfonse rubbed his chin as he tried to imagine the situation. A super spyglass then? he supposed it could come in handy at scouting missions. "Anyway, how are our soldiers enduring the heat."

"They're doing fine, although our water reserves will run out faster than usual if we stay here for a long period of time. Good thing we could get a bigger supply of that lake of before." Anna commented as she continued feeling uncomfortable in her hair, remembering what she had seen in the reports she had received of the current situation from the soldiers.

"Good thing I cut my hair recently." Alfonse scratched said hair.


After two hours, the order of heroes was finally able to see their enemies after being told by the scouts their location.

Kiran seemed to have a look of boredom.

"Are the Emblian soldiers stupid enough to use black clothes here? in the desert? I mean, even in the north pole, a black plate is able to get a relatively high temperature... what would happen if we use black clothes here? it's pretty obvious that they would be always, at the very least, 12°C over our temperature." Kiran explained, complaining about the lack of brains of his opponents. "Meh, who cares? let's kick their asses." he drew his sword.

"Might we use it as an advantage?" Sharena asked.

"Maybe we can exhaust them, dodging their attacks until they get tired and then attack them..." Kiran smiled as he considered the possibility.

"That may work on Emblian's soldiers, but what about the heroes? their clothes are green and... em... pink?" Anna was reading the report.

"Mhhh... who are they? I need information." Kiran requested.

"Merric and Linde, two of the best mages of Altea, each one has a special tome. Linde has Aura, Merric has Excalibur. Aura is a tome that can cure and Excalibur is a tome too useful against flier soldiers due to its air nature." Alfonse explained.

Excalibur? as in, Excalibur the legendary weapon of king Arthur? well, perhaps it was just a coincidence.

"Thanks, well... let's see... while I could send Lilina to defeat Merric, she's wearing red clothes..." and it red retains heat very much like the black, so, it's better that I and Alfonse take him down while Lilina takes a rest... she shouldn't fight unless it is absolutely necessary... about Linde.. mmh... can somebody call Nino?"

After Sharena brought the girl, Kiran approached and caressed her hair as he pointed towards the enemy army. "You see, Nino, there's a certain mage called Linde who wears pink stuff in the enemy army. Would you be kind and take her down for me?"

Nino smiled as nodded. "I'll do my best!"

"Uh?... ok... jejeje." he sighed with a smile. "I'll go to tell the strategy to everybody, ah, yes, before I forget it, do not murder the Emblian soldiers, repeat, do not kill the Emblian soldiers." Kiran started walking in direction to the soldiers and the rest of the heroes.

"Are you going to interrogate them, right?" Sharena was not surprised, to use the enemy's soldiers against the enemy was one of the tactics that Kiran and she had read in one of those books.

"We can take them as prisoners, I'd like to ask them about any possible intel that could useful for us." once he finished saying that, Kiran left.


As Kiran predicted, the Emblian soldiers were being defeated by the temperature.

"(Imbéciles... para que vinieron aquí de todas formas? (Fools... why they came here anyway?))." He thought and sighed as he dodged another sword coming from an infantry unit of Embla. Kiran didn't even bother to draw his sword for the battle, he just kept dodging.

Alfonse was currently disarming another soldier near him.

Once Kiran was sure his opponent was too tired, he just punched him on the stomach before punching him on the back part of his head and finally force him to fall on the sand with a hit coming from the hilt of his sword.

That was easy.

"So, are you who defeated my friend." this voice did not seem to have problems regarding the extreme heat of the area.

Kiran turned to see the individual he guessed must be Merric given his green hair and the fact he was dressing a blue cape.

"Do you mean Marth?" that was the only possibility Kiran had in mind. His opponent responded nodding. "Well, I didn't defeat him alone, it was a fight of four against one." no to mention the fact Alfonse claimed Marth was not serious during the entire fight.

"He told me that you like to use very dirty tricks." the mage crossed his arms.

"Ah yeah, I don't care what you think." Kiran gave back the death glare. "Alfonse?" he yelled.

"I'm ready to open the way." the prince responded as he drew his sword.

"Very well, let's do this thing!" Kiran drew his weapon and imitated Alfonse's stance.

Merric extracted energy from Excalibur, torrents of wind appeared and they formed a crescent. It started to move towards Kiran, who was able to avoid it for a bit, this type of attack wasn't as fast as Marth's attacks.

"Awesome!" Kiran looked at where the attack disintegrated before paying attention again to Merric.

The mage started to take steps backward when Alfonse and Kiran approached enough, then generated a second "moon-like" wind attack, but this time he threw it in horizontal form.

Alfonse and Kiran grimaced as they had to throw themselves onto the sand to dodge that. Both quickly stood up.

It was at that moment that they saw Merric pulling out a different tome.

It was red.

"Tsee!" Kiran didn't wait for Merric to start extracting the energy from the tome as he jumped to left or jumped to the right when fireballs were making their way to transform him into meal.

Alfonse attempted to approach too, but he found himself dodging some electric attacks.

And yet it was obvious to both that Merric was just toying with them, just like Marth...

But suddenly it all made sense... they were slaves, after all, probably they actually wanted to lose. As long as it seemed they were cooperating they would not get killed!

Finally, there was the moment in which Kiran and Alfonse were close enough to Merric.

It was happening too fast, how many slashes were hurting Merric?

When Merric finally fell kneeling, Kiran and Alfonse prepared themselves to give the final blow.

"My apologies!"

"Justice has come!"

They created two new wounds on Merric shoulders. As usual, the blood started expulsing the dark energy... but just like Marth...

"Great..." Kiran sighed... at the very least this time he had not been wounded that badly... and then he noticed it.

A "materia" that had been left behind. He did not waste time at knelt to grab it.

"Kiran!" the voice of Nino distracted him from analyzing the sphere.

"Mmh?... Nino!" the fact she seemed to be perfectly fine and was coming towards him with such a smile probably meant she had completed the mission he gave her... however..."Eh?..." Kiran's face denoted he was not understanding why Linde was there. "Why Linde didn't disappear?."

"Um, my contract wasn't a strong one." a stronger contract? did that explain why suddenly they seemed to be unsummoned or something like that? "Thanks for freeing me," Linde responded with smiling.

"... You're welcome." Kiran shrugged.

"Is that another... materia you said?" Alfonse questioned, approaching and looking at the sphere.

"It seems to... no idea why their colors vary like that though." Kiran rubbed his chin.

At the end of the day, the Emblian soldiers were sweating too much and were pretty much praying for water as a few Askrian soldiers escorted them.


"Supongo que necesitaré un microscopio también... (I guess I'll need a microscope too)" he thought as he left the "materia" on the table.

"Bueno, al menos ya tengo la arena, me falta carbonato de sódio y carbonato de calcio.. ( Well, at least I already have the sand, I lack sodium carbonate and calcium carbonate)." he said as he looked eight trash cans filled with sand.

Kiran then looked again to the ball, this one was red instead of green or blue like the other one he had too.

What were these objects made of? why Embla had them? why only the heroes with a stronger contract dropped them? could these objects be used to strengthen the contract? could he discover how to produce more of these orbs?

"Cuantos colores hay para estas cosas?.. (how many colors there are for these things?)."

"Muchas preguntas.. aún no hay respuestas... (many questions, no answers yet..)" he sighed in frustration.


Maybe you're wondering how Kiran knows to build things like a telescope or a microscope considering that he's just a teenager, well, let's going to say that his childhood wasn't like the childhood of a regular kid in Latin America, maybe one day I'll make a chapter about his life before being summoned.

Besides, I know that the title is: Kiran's Story, but I was thinking that maybe you would like to see chapters centered in other characters, because, I don't know, read the history always from Kiran's perspective may be boring for some persons.

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