EVERNA Ring of Fire

IDHARMA Part 2

So, the group of intruders split up. Sthira runs to the straight lane, Arumi to the right lane and Nirya to the left lane. Widuri and one of her students turn to the left, while the other two girls split up, following Sthira and Arumi respectively.

Glancing back, Nirya even snorted bitterly. Inevitably he had to slow down his pace, letting Widuri and his disciple catch up. After being close, Widuri continued to walk through Nirya, not even looking. One of his students even accidentally or not, nudged Nirya's body while passing by.

Nirya flinched, not because of the unwillingness, but because the skin of the base of the student's arm that collided with the skin of his arm was very cold. Nirya wanted to approach them, but a premonition seemed to tell her that questioning the two people directly was an extremely foolish and fatal action.

Especially when Nirya just looked far ahead and it turned out that the path she chose was deadlocked. Turns out, Widuri and her students ran slowly, and they never turned to the branching point earlier. The peak, now at least five kecak are chasing from a distance. One of them even shot out magical fire arrows from his palm.

“Come! Already know the path is deadlocked, let's strike back!” exclaimed Nirya while avoiding one of the arrows nimbly.

“Hold! Turn around and attack if I give you a sign!” Widuri slowed down her run, so that she, her students and Nirya stayed focused on avoiding it.

The student girl was busy brushing the fire arrows with her inner strength, as if protecting the teacher.

Nirya also helped protect herself by twirling her deep-rooted chain, repelling the increasingly intense arrow attacks. But a glance made him glare inexhaustibly, why did not Widuri come to fight? Was the teacher running out of energy after opening the secret door with magic? Or is there another meaning?

The problem is, the longer Nirya dissolved in prejudice, the enemies even closer. Don't-don't, Nirya was deliberately about to... sacrificed?

Affirming the worst possibility, the leading kecak was already very close to Nirya's back. He thrust his sword with all his might and very quickly, threatening the heart of his target.

There are no warnings at all from Widuri at this crucial time. “Cih!” Nirya had to take her own initiative. He jumped up high, so that the kecak just pierced the air.

While salting, Nirya threw her chain. Kerambit at the end of the chain then hit right at the nape of the kecak, making the creature collapsed, killed instantly.

But when he was about to land, Niry's body was greeted by a fire arrow. His position in the air made it difficult to dodge anymore. The arrow hit Nirya's stomach, but because the shape was only pure energy, the hunjam power was muted by the protective prana of Nirya's body.

Nirya fell helplessly, the weapons of the kecak were ready to welcome her. But a beam of Black Light Penetrating Sukma flashed from above Nirya's sprawled head, face down on the ground. The beam then lunged, toppling three kecak at once.

Nirya tried to get up. Looks Widuri who is still holding out her two smoky black hands. Nirya was stunned, it was very possible that the guide was the one who saved her life with magic earlier. It also appears that two other kecak are running away, wounded by the attack of the disciples of Widuri.

“I told you to hold it first, but you didn't obey!” tegur Widuri's. “That's how it happened, you almost lost your life, even though my students managed to drive out the enemy without significant difficulty.”

Ashamed of himself, Nirya did not say a word. After all, it should be understandable that Nirya does not know very well Widuri and her students, and tends to be skeptical because of the attitude of the guide who is all closed, all mysterious. So this reprimand even makes Nirya more hurt. Not wanting to argue and waste time, Nirya got up and immediately shot up, returning to the crossroads where they had split earlier.

Because the Nirya group took a longer path and faced more kecak, as a result the Sthira Squad had since been seen standing at the crossroads.

“That means Arumilah's team is on the right track. Let's follow them!” exclaiming Sthira while directly running in the direction in question.

Nirya and the others followed Sthira, then soon stopped again. Because, now they see Arumi at another branch is fighting desperately, surrounded by kecak from all directions.

Disciple Widuri who was with Arumi was sprawled on the ground, covering the wound on her stomach that continued to bleed. Forced Niryalah who intervened, touching the wound of the disciple while casting magic Semilir Wind Healer. With the prana of the wind, the girl's wounds docked and recovered, until finally the girl smiled full of gratitude. But Nirya's forehead was even wrinkled. The entire body of the girl he was helping was really as cold as a corpse.

“Come, we have to help others!” the disciple said, standing up.

Nirya got up, but she chose to observe her targets first while recovering her strength by standing still for a while.

The arrival of “bala help” makes Arumi move more freely. He exchanged sabetages and kicks with three kecak, then buried his long dagger into the body of one of them. However, at the end of his life, the kecak grasped tightly Arumi keris, so that the killer could not pull it out. Even worse, the action opened a golden opportunity for the two other kecak who directly thrust their spears and kris towards Arumi.

As the leader of an experienced force, Arumi quickly reacted by releasing his dagger and inching back. The spearman almost stabbed his partner, and the kecak insisted on stabbing the dying kecak instead. The spear-wielding Kecak turned quickly and attacked Arumi, who was not ready yet. Suddenly the steps of the kecak stopped, Nirya's kerambit stuck right in the crown.

On the other hand, the crusted kecak roared and turned to attack Arumi. This is a wrong move, because the action of Nirya earlier gave Arumi enough time to pull his keris from the body of the first kecak. In the next instant, the head of the cockroach rolled on the floor, separated from his body.

But the one asked turned his head in the other direction and moved away, attacking the next enemies. Nirya snorted, either that cold attitude rose from Arumi's desire to complete the mission, or simply came from her high status as a senopati, or...

Whatever it is, Nirya has to move again because Sthira and Widuri managed to break through the siege. “Come run! There are still a lot of kecak scattered in this labyrinth!”

Nirya stepped as fast as the wind, but a premonition seemed to hold her back.

Sure enough, at the intersection of the next three directions, Nirya's entourage was again surrounded by kecak.

While knocking his lightning machete over the magic of the kecak, Sthira exclaimed, “The siege of the kecak is too tight! We can only break through it by advancing together!”

Arumi chimed, “But which way? Left or straight?”

“Straight is usually dead-end,” replied Widuri confidently. We'll just go left!”

“How do you know for sure it's the right path?” sergeant Nirya.

One of the students who had “gerah” with Nirya protests rebuked back, “Just follow the teacher's instructions! That's the best!”

Actually, while fighting and healing his partner earlier, Nirya had time to observe the walls of the labyrinth. Some of the walls had reliefs, and the rest were plain and flat stone walls. Despite trying to remember the image on the relief, Nirya has not found the link of the story.

This time too, the other members had broken through to the left lane. Nirya had to come along, but her eyes continued to be glued to two sculpted wall plates flanking one plain wall in the middle.

Suddenly Nirya heard the sound of a large rock shifting from the middle plate wall. He then shouted towards his colleagues, “Hei, all! Go back to the intersection! There's a secret passage about to open itself here!”

Widuri who certainly ran the front did not want or pretend not to hear Nirya's scream. Sthir who had been waiting for Nirya even said, “Have it! Maybe our correct guide and that ‘secret line’ turned out to be a trap!”

“T-but the relief...!”.

Sthira even pulled Nirya's hand. “Awaas!” yells.

Thanks to Sthira's warning, Nirya had convoluted and escaped the sabetage of the kecak weapons. With gnashing teeth in anger, Nirya was forced to choose to join her colleagues rather than be surrounded by her own kcak.

After traveling two corners, then they realized the path they chose was deadlocked. Nirya, Sthira and Arumi instantly turned around abruptly, lunging towards the horde of soybeans chasing after them.

Arumi shot out a cross-fire Crescent Sect that uprooted three kecaks simultaneously. Nirya's Kerambit blew the Wind Splitting the Clouds and chopped the bodies of four other kecak, two of them killed instantly. The line of kecak collapsed instantly, their movements became chaotic. This is a golden opportunity for...

“My turn broke through! Heaa!” Sthira then sped up his run with the power of the Thunder Steps, then lunged at the line with the bottom-up and top-down, a combination of two styles of Thunder Dragon Climbing the Sky and the Thunder Dragon Hanging the Cadas.

The kecaks collided like clumps of bamboo with giant scythe, leaving a gap large enough and relieved to be broken through.

“Chance! Forward!” All the team members fled, following Sthira's call.

Back at the intersection earlier, Nirya again expressed her proposal, “See! There's an open path! The wall could shift by itself, let's go through there!”

“Ah, right too, Nirya! Come!” exclaimed Sthira, this time following the orange-haired girl. While others put on a sour face.

However, what appeared in the distance was a towering wall, closing this pathway.

“Ha! It's a dead end!” Widuri smiled. “Even if we went the wrong way, there is still a second way open! Let's go back and take that road before..!”.

Reference picture of kecak troops - kecak dance from google.com.