EVERNA Ring of Fire

MANTIKEI Part 4

Nirya could only sit back and gather herself to witness the end of this terrible process. Both of his cheeks had been soaked by tears, his heart felt torn to shreds without rest, gone with the loss of the idol.

Seeing Nirya's attitude, Arumi quickly helped the Swarnara girl stand up. When Nirya's gaze was fixed on Arumi's face, Nirya gasped to see Arumi also shed tears.

"I'm so sorry for you, Nirya. Your lover and one of our comrades in arms have died, consumed by the ambition of a mad god," said Arumi, no longer trying to look tough. "But remember, we're the only ones who can stop Vajra now."

"Dhaka agreed," said the Komodorai while holding the side of his stomach that was still bleeding. "Consider the last Vajra volcano we're climbing. The difference is, this time we must prevent the 'volcano' erupted, because the eruption will be continuous and the impact will destroy all of Antapada."

"You're right," Nirya responded as she wiped her tears. "Although somewhat deviated from Sthira's goal, we can still continue his struggle by realizing our original goal of pure peace throughout Antapada. Enough of all these wars and disasters."

Nirya then looked directly into Vajra's eyes and exclaimed loudly, "You hear me, Vajra? That is the expression of the will of the Mahesa and the Srisari, who are far more powerful than any god in Vanapada! They put us here to inflict eternal punishment on you!"

Vajra instead responded to Nirya with a blaring laugh. "Hahaha, what kind of gods are those? You are just ordinary people! As powerful as you are, you are no match for even the lowest god!"

Arumi launched another tongue-tied attack, "Well, you forgot, Vajra. When you were Vrithra in the form of anteater-dragon, we subverted you with the help of Dhaka's holy scriptures only. Sthira was knocked down by the combined strength of the three of us plus the three holy characters, so you will suffer the same fate as her!"

"Here I am, Sthira and Vajra are one.  You humans know what! Let me show you more than god strength. Feel this, the Thunder Dragon of Nirvana!"

With a human body, the Vajra soars flying at a speed exceeding that of the Vrithra dragons. Then he slammed his fist full of energetic lightning on the ceiling of the palace. Unmercifully, the wooden ceiling and even the roof of the Iistana clay is broken, the fragments falling from the enormous hole in the roof.

Dhaka exclaimed, "All, watch out!"

The warning of the Komodorai is very reasonable, because the next time Vajra shot a large array of thunderbolts in the form of a dragon into the sky. From the dark sky full of black clouds a torrential rain of lightning gushed forth, not the usual rain of water. Instead, all the lightning outpour fell into one place, namely the Pantikei Labih Palace.

Carefully, Nirya tried to dodge with the fast-moving motion of Shadow Storm. But the rainfall of lightning that is too tight and relentless makes Nirya increasingly shaky. At its peak, three streaks of lightning had struck the girl's legs, back and shoulders. Nirya screamed in pain, but she fell down and had rolled into the stage under the throne.

In just a second, the wooden floor that was supposed to protect Nirya broke apart. Nirya gasped even more as Triawarman's charred corpse fell from the stage and fell on her. Reflex, Nirya pushed the corpse up. Then lightning struck the corpse once more and Nirya rolled away.

The late King Kalingga had protected someone for the last time.

But this time Nirya could only rely on her body's protective prana that had been thinned due to the three lightning strikes earlier. Several streaks of lightning rushed towards him.

Suddenly, a loud cry from Dhaka set his body and drove the strikes with a quick spin of his spear. Nirya was spared a fatal attack, but Dhakalah was struck down.

The thunderstorm subsided instantly. Nirya got up while holding a bloody wound on her shoulder. But he gasped at the sight of blood pouring from Dhaka's lower abdomen.

Dhaka's hand touched his lower abdomen, then moved upwards. The eyes of the Komodorai then widened to see his four-fingered palms and gray skin changed color, covered in a blackish red liquid from his own body. Dhaka's body was limp and was about to collapse, but Nirya swiftly caught and wiped it.

The good intentions and actions of Nirya even bear the fruits of reprimand from Dhaka. "Not to mind Dhaka! Reply Vajra!"

Nirya pointed to the frontnay in response. "Look, Arumi already did. I still have to put in more energy. Recover your wounds first, elder!"

The commodore nodded weakly.

Nirya then advanced towards the clash area of Arumi and Vajra while continuing to gather energy in. All the injuries and pains he suffered now were unbearable. Nirya had just chosen to recuperate first like Dhaka. However he chose to accumulate the ultimate power with the additional intake of the Wind Invisibility Script.

As Dhaka has helped Nirya, now Nirya must be on alert and help Arumi at any time. Of course he must see the situation first even just before acting.

With a fiery spirit, Arumi nabbed his machete while running, jumping and spinning. Countless streaks of flames streaked about, as if they were locking Vajra away.

Each streak of fire, whether it was striking the target or not was swerving and turning again towards the same target. Thus, not a single speck of ultimate energy is wasted. Arum is in control.

But Vajra is also not out of sense. "Heh, is this what you call the ultimate move, All the Scorched Murkas of the Universe? I got everything!"

The god stood in place. Three pairs of black wings rolled up, as if wrapping Vajra's body until he looked like a silkworm cocoon. Unmercifully, Arumi's flares send the "cocoon. Soon, red cracks spread across the surface of the protective cocoon. Finally, like an egg shell, the black cocoon breaks apart, flakes and eventually scatters.

The rest of Arumi's fire array then sent the opponent's body. The red blood of Vajra splashed here and there. Eventually all the fire arrays of the Universe's Scorched Murdles hit the target. The ultimate move was completed, leaving Vajra who remained standing on the floor of the palace that had fallen apart to the ground.

Losing her black wings, Vajra flinched. Did this cataclysm finally die?

Learning from experience, Nirya and Arumi instead stay away, keeping their distance from Vajra. Nirya did not even launch a follow-up attack to finish off the opponent.

Sure enough, Vajra suddenly grinned very wide. "Well, well, these girls are getting smarter, yeah. But it's free. Halilintar Dragon Movement Nirwana Contender was just an opener. Besides, in order to gain control of this country I had to destroy its center first, which was Hamentane City."

"Crazy for you, Vajra!" nirya snapped as loud as a sound. "There is certainly no one in this country, in Antapada even in all of Vanapada who is willing to bow to your knees!"

"Then all the people in the world, including you, should be afraid of me!" bentak Vajra's. "Suppress Vajra, the Land Shakes, the Sky Throw will break all guts, even the lives of all of you! Let the whole world tremble at Vajra Maha Digdaya!"

The image references God Indra, the king of the gods and the true owner of the Vajra weapon.

Source: Bali Hindu Mantra Site