Golden Dragon Swordsman S2

Demon Man

When dawn began to break and the weather was not so dark anymore, three people then left the bonfire that was not burning, just smoky. Under the snowfall, they ran as if they had not stepped on the ground, continuing on the journey last night plagued by the darkness of the night and fatigue.

As they began to meet the farmers heading to the fields, the three men slowed down their footsteps, not caring for the eyes of the farmers who were astonished to see them.

Not long after, they finally arrived at a city gate. The arrival of the three men with the pieces of the hands and ears of Pauw-sie's daughter certainly shocked the entire house of Regent Pauw-an Kio, even the news quickly spread and shocked the entire city of Hanciu.

The face of Regent Pauw-an Kio froze. Both hands clenched. Anger and sadness made him unable to open his mouth! In the room, his wife was heard crying.

“Mana my son! Where's my son!” scream the wail of the woman. “Sie'er! Pauw-sie, where are you my son? Oh Gods! Where is my son. I can't believe she's been..” The woman can't continue her words. Both of his palms were pressed against his face while crying sobbing.

The throat of Regent Pauw-an Kio went down. Chest tempestuous. The death of her daughter Pauw-sie made her head feel like it was about to be broken by a bloodbath! In addition, what makes him unable to stay still and like crazy is because the three messengers who returned carrying pieces of his son's hands and ears did not know at all who the killer of his son.

As told, five emissaries of Regent Pauw-an Kio had met with Arya and friends on a hill while on his mission to find traces of the kidnapped Princess Pauw-sie. At that time they found Arya and friends found pieces of hands and ear pieces that allegedly belonged to Princess Pauw-sie. Because of misunderstanding they also became fighting each other, until finally two of the Regent Pauw-an Kio's envoys died in the hands of his own partner, the Iron Jaw. And because Arya had erased the memory of Jawang Besi and two colleagues, then the three of them had forgotten about the meeting that time. After being sent to a village, and after they came to their senses, the three buried the two dead before returning to the city of Hanciu to report on the results of their search: a handcut and an ear piece they believed to be a member of the Princess' body Pauwsie.

While thinking about ‘Who kidnapped his daughter? The only single child who became the darling of the mooring of hearts?!’. His ears were unceasingly hearing the wail of his wife's cries that not only cut his heart but also made the blood within his body even more turbulent boiling!

Because of the uncontrollable and indeterminate outburst of anger to whom it was ventured, plus the lamentation of his wife's cries inside, then as his gaze gazed into the torch hanging on the right wall, suddenly Regent Pauw-an Kio smashed his right fist!

Brainsk...!

The torch was smashed into pieces! Even the walls there are also made of midget. That's the science of the blow ‘Hanging Corals Melting Baja’.  Meanwhile, the aides of Regent Pauw-an Kio who stood in the room were each equally frightened and anxious. They were worried that in the dark anger of such eyes, they would also be targeted by the Regent Pauw-an Kio.

Suddenly like a thunderbolt during the day, shouted Regent Pauw-an Kio. All his servants, numbering fifteen, were ordered to prepare.

“We will repeat the investigation again!” his yell. “You Gak Hoan, along with sixteen other people probing into Hoay-sui village and its surroundings. Iron Jaw and others to the east! You must succeed in searching for traces of the humans who have committed this savagery! Must be able to bend his neck! Who comes back before I get that bastard I'll kill! Now you go!”

Thus, without saying anything and just menjura give respect, he said, all the bodyguards including Iron Jaw and Gak Hoan soon pass to retrieve each other's horses and prepare everything necessary on the journey in search of Pauw-sie's daughter's killer. They each realized that the quest would not be successful in such a short time, but it would definitely take days.

After a while thirty horsemen had gathered in the courtyard of the Regent's building. They are ready to wait for the orders and the final steps they must take. Regent Pauw-an Kio looked at the fifteen men who were lined up at the very front and said,

“Once again you remember well. You guys have to find that son of a bitch and drag him alive down here! If that person...”.

Regent Pauw-an Kio did not continue his words. His pair of eyes were now shifted to the gate. It was then seen walking a soldier towards him.

With sharp eyes radiating anger, Regent Pauw-an Kio looked at the soldier. It made the soldier so flutter in fear, but even so he still ventured to face and quickly menjura saluted.

“What is it?.” said Regent Pauw-an Kio coldly.

The soldier nodded quickly, he took a deep breath and said, “We get information about the appearance of demon humans that only a few weeks have caused a series of bloody tragedies around the northern region of Daoyao village. The appearance of the demon man is always marked by an image of a red horned skull at the home of his victims. And the image of the skull itself was made with blood that was still wet. The picture seems to be the same as the picture found before Princess Pauw-sie was rushed. Maybe it was the demon man who kidnapped Princess Pauw-sie, sir.”

Regent Pauw-an Kio smirked coldly, a burst of anger clearly visible from the look in his eyes, both of his hands clenched tightly. As a person who was mandated to foster welfare in the region, Regent Pauw-an Kio felt responsible for the incident reported by the soldier. Moreover, his own daughter has also become a victim of them. With a quivering tone he said to the fifteen of his men who lined up at the very front, “I myself will lead some of you to investigate Daoyao village and its surroundings, and the rest keep investigating every village around this town. Prepare me a horse.!”

One soldier immediately passed to prepare the Regent's horse, while the others were still standing in the yard. A few moments later, the soldier who had passed by had reappeared, walking while pulling the horse's harness.

Regent Pauw-an Kio who was impatient to quickly find the killer of his daughter, jumped and lightly sat on his horse. He raised his right hand as a sign for his men to start carrying out the tasks he was given. After that, he crushed his horse. A moment later, the dozens of horses on the rides of the guards left the yard and went out the gate.

*******

Over the past three weeks there have been a series of surprising events. The appearance of the demon humans that caused a bloody tragedy around the northern region of Guangzhou kingdom.

The most horrendous was the killing of the son-in-law of village head Kim Hong named Thian Cee Bio, as well as the kidnapping of the village chief's daughter named Kim Thiam Ci.

The incident happened at night when village chief Kim Hong had just finished holding a wedding party for his daughter Kim Thiam Ci. The wedding party between Thian Cee Bio and Kim Thiam Ci in Daoyao hamlet was very lively. The whole village celebrated. This is not surprising because village head Kim Hong is known as a friendly and good leader, even Kim Thiam Ci is very famous as the development of beautiful girls in the village.

At the time before the incident, one of the servants who was about to put a torch outside shouted when he saw a picture of a horned skull drawn on the wall.

Apparently such events, which are marked by the presence of images of horned skulls also occur in other villages. Of course the tragedy was very shocking some villages that experienced the incident.

Kidnapping of girls and babies has happened repeatedly, but kidnappings marked by images of new horned skulls have recently occurred.

According to eyewitnesses of one of the surviving victims, the killer was almost impossible to see. Because it flashed so fast like a ghostly shadow.

The second most horrendous incident was the killing of a noble, who was also a former royal courtier, named Soat ji. The man had four children. A girl was kidnapped, while three of her sons were killed with their stomachs on the bed. His wife died hanging from a pole. Soat Ji himself died in terrible circumstances. Both his hands and both feet were severed, his entrails were also lulled out. The male body of the former royal courtier was hung on the front pole of the building where he lived.

*****

That night there was no moon in the sky, and the faint light of the stars gave off a dimly sinister atmosphere. Even though the snow has stopped but the cold is not a reed. The gripping silence is sometimes broken by the sound of night birds bringing a more sinister atmosphere, and sometimes the faint sound of night birds flying by. The roar of wolves in the distance adds horror to the state of the forest.

Between the darkness of the night and the huge trees covered in white snow, there were three tents standing in a row, in front of which seven people were sitting facing the flames of the bonfire. Not far from the tents were also seen three horse carriages.

“We should stay in the village instead of spending the night in this forest.” said one of them is oval-faced and big-nosed.

“Really, but did you until the heart let the two children of our late friend cold on the way. Let them take a moment of rest to ease their grief.” replied another fat man.

“Truly a demon man's bastard.” hiss a man wearing a thick coat made of deer skin and filled with dense white feathers. His face showed anger and the look in his eyes radiated vengeance, looking at the flame of the bonfire before him.

His name is Tiat Sim. He deeply regretted himself for arriving late, so his companions were killed by several white-robed figures whose front robes were drawn by the head of a horned skull.

At that moment, he was standing guard at the gate of Daoyao village. Over time he heard the noise of the fight. So he quickly jumped on the roof of the people to then chase the run of the man in white robes who was then seen kidnapping his best friend's wife named Ling Qingzhu.

Where ever he passed next to the house of one of the residents. He almost shouted loudly when he saw how two of his colleagues had already been lying there with blood bathing bodies. By the time he approached and checked, it turned out that both of his colleagues had died with their chests pierced by his own short spear, while the other died with their necks almost broken!

Again he experienced a great inner shock after seeing two other colleagues have been lying into a corpse in the front yard. And just as two of his colleagues were killed beside the house, both of them were killed by their own weapons.

Seeing how four friends who seemed to have become his own brother were killed in such a sad state, Tiat Sim's heart was filled with grief and anger. So, he immediately flashed and jumped on the roof of the houses. Exerting all his ability to follow in the direction of the departure of the white-robed figure who was carrying the body of his best friend's wife.

However, the ability of the white-robed figure with the horned skull exceeded his speed, so he was further behind. While trying hard to do the chase, suddenly his eyes hit a shadow that ran staggered. When he approached, it turned out that the shadow was Cia Lie Peng who ran while staggering and his hands clenched his neck because from there was fresh blood from a gaping wound!

“Lie Peng's...! You why..?” Tiat Sim jumped and hit his best friend and also his sect brother.

You can imagine how shocked and horrified his heart saw the wound on his best friend's neck. It was amazing and it was amazing that Cia Lie Peng was still able to run. As soon as he saw Tiat Sim, Cia Lie Peng instantly collapsed to be toppled but his body was quickly grabbed and hugged by Tiat Sim.

“Is..my wife, my children.” hiss Cia Lie Peng. “Ba..ba..bawa.. a..a..kids.ku pa...pada gu..gu..guruu..” after saying so, Cia Lie Peng suddenly drooped, her life has stopped leaving her body!

Remembering the incident, without feeling both eyes Tiat Sim wet. “I must take this revenge!” Tiat Sim held his sword which was still wrapped in its sheath tightly and his eyes flashed.

In the silence of the night, suddenly three horses moored not far from the tent were neighing and looking panicked. Tiat Sim and the other six quickly got up, they still did not suspect, only thinking that it was possible that the three horses had smelled the existence of a savage beast. Of course they don't feel scared. Then carefully, one of them approached to calm the horses down.

Suddenly the three horses neighed again, even this time the horses raised their front legs. Suddenly one of the three horses let out a shrieking sound and then collapsed. On his neck stuck a spear until it pierced through. Shortly after, the sound of horse-squeezing was heard again, twice in a row. All three horses died instantly.

Of course Tiat Sim and the others were surprised instead of playing. They deftly pulled each other's swords while staring around vigilantly.

Not long after, suddenly there was a laughing voice among the darkness of the forest. The shock then appeared a figure stepped slowly towards the tent from the front.

The closer it became clear that the figure was a short man dressed in a white robe with a picture of a blood skull on his chest. His face is covered in a skull mask!

Seeing the appearance of the figure, Tiat Sim who indeed holds a burning grudge for the death of his friends, immediately jumped forward to attack the figure by turning his sword.