EVERNA Ring of Fire

Prologue BARKAJANG

A young man was standing under the washing of the twilight sun, blood soaking his head and all over his body. His eyes lit up like a wounded wolf. The wide-bladed machete called the great mandau was tightly grasped in the hand, the lightning sparks in his body enlarged. The place standing is at the foot of Mount Barkajang, Swarnara Country.

In front of the young man was the figure of a giant demon animal. The head of the animal resembles the head and mouth of a shark, proboscis and elephant-eared. Its body is about twice as large as the average adult Swarnara elephant, with the addition of fish fins on its waist and back. The tail is shaped like the body and tail fin of a shark. Given the difference in size alone, it is impossible for the human youth to conquer, let alone kill this one creature.

Instead, the young man boasted, “When I took the Key of Mount Barkajang and you rode the ground, Gajahmina!”

Gajahmina's voice was angry hoarse like an old man-renta. “Huh! I will not let a Kalingga like you spread disaster in this country! You have to get rid of it, Sthira!”

But the last bluff did not make Sthira Tarunarga recede a step. “You have heard and understood my purpose, but you are against me. No problem, you live or die, Barkajang will be the first step, save for my mission ‘cleanup’ Antapada!”

“Takabur! Feel my ultimate, Waterfall Tear Down Mountain!” Gajahmina held up her long trunk and her front legs high. While Sthira instead advanced while beating Gharma, his lightning machete from afar, stretched from the bottom up.

The trunk, front body and two legs of Gajahmina stomped to the ground, accompanied by a combination of water prana and the ultimate land in the form of a waterfall along with an avalanche of rocks. Sthira's mainstay prana, the Thunder Dragon Climbing the Sky is a lightning dragon snake that soars. As a result, the two attacks collided and exploded between the two fighters.

The giant-bodied elephantmina was pushed a step back. Instead, Sthira bounced and landed on the edge of the ravine, sprawling and bleeding.

“Ha! What say!? Finish ri...!” Gajahmina was about to advance to finish off the opponent with her giant tusks. But he was fixated by the pain in the lower part of his stomach. He looked down, but still could not see the cause.

It turned out that a girl was striking a pair of daggers called kerambits that were connected to a thin chain in the belly of the giant monster. With the mainstay of Turban Terabas Selaksa Whirlpool, the wind prana is centered and compressed at one point, perforating a surface as hard as a rock as the stomach of Gajahmina.

“Excuse us, Elder Rahli Marus! It's for Antapada!” exclaim that girl.

“Typeak! You are not aware of the consequences of your actions! The noise! Traitor to you, Nirya!”

Gajahmina's body began to bleed, so Nirya pulled out her shell and rolled out from under the body of the dying giant. Slowly the form of Gajahmina shrank and changed, until finally it returned to the original owner of the voice.

“Cursed... you guys..” Rahli Marus coughed up blood, sprawled out while leaning against the wall of the mountain slope. “That hell... too light a reward... for you... carrier.... end...” The man ran out of too much blood until he breathed his last.

Nirya sheathed back a pair of chain krambit named Bayunara on her belt.

As if to know the “the volcano” key fighter is gone, a dazzling yellow fluorescent bracelet forms the “land-air” symbol on Rahli's drooping arm, then the bracelet is released and lying on the ground.

“Good cooperation, Nirya,” said Sthira who approached Nirya with teasing. “With this, we have set the first step towards New Antapada.”

Nirya did not answer. The pretty orange-haired girl just stared at the bracelet with the magical emblem floating and attached to her wrist. Then the Barkajang Bracelet emits a ray shaped magic symbol earlier. The beam drifted to the top of Mount Barkajang, then it seemed to fall into a crater full of smoldering magma.

Mount Barkajang shook violently, a sign of a devastating eruption.

“Come, we run!” The black-haired youth with a tiger-like tattoo on his cheek stepped as fast as he could. Nirya memapah colleagues it down the slopes of a fairly sloping mountain.

Within an hour, the shock of Mount Barkajang was getting louder. From the top, dust mixed with very hot and thick smoke gushed out, forming a hot cloud that soared up into the clouds.

Until finally, Barkajang Crater spewed burning lava, accompanied by sounds of explosions blaring. Red lava is like a liquid fire that melts, descending the slope as lava. All creatures and objects hit by this hot lava must be scorched. Villages, houses and rice fields located not far from the foot of the mountain are the first impact of the tantrums of the newly created giant this wrath.

Even worse, the eruption of Mount Barkajang also caused a great earthquake that penetrated to the nearest city, namely the Royal Capital of Swarnara, Ringidatu. The city suffered great damage, countless lives lost because it could not avoid the disaster too soon, without this early warning.

The great sin has been committed.

Instead, all this was triggered by the intentional actions of two young warriors, Sthira and Nirya.

The question is, why?

Image caption: Mount Kerinci could be exactly the same or located closest to the position of Mount Barkajang on Swarnara Island, Antapada.

　

PERSONIFICATION

Name: Sthira Tarunaga

Country of Origin: Kalingga

Weapon: Big Mandau

Name: Nirya Panigara

Country of Origin: Swarnara

Weapon: Twin-Stained Crambles

Name: Arumi Dyahrani

Country of Origin: Jayandra

Weapon: Bow-Arrow, Sword

Name: Dhaka Commodore (Ras Commodore)

Country of Origin: Rainusa (Separatis Dabongsang)

Weapon: Commodore Spear