KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Silver Bracelet

Gentayu barely lost consciousness as his body slid rapidly into the air due to the hard kick from the skinny old man. His blood seemed to be left behind his body for a while. A thick fog greeted him as his body continued to slide higher and higher, continuing to rise higher and higher..

Feeling this might be the end of his adventure, Gentayu closed his eyes. He was sure, when his body got to the bottom, although it was not crushed by the impact with the ground due to later, but the old man would definitely do it. Crush his body to pieces.

In resignation, Gentayu closed his eyes. It is unlikely that he will survive. Right now, his body had already nearly reached its limit. The pounding punch he received from the skinny old man, made almost all of his bones feel broken. He wanted to do something to increase his chances of survival when he crashed later, but even he could no longer move his fingers.

His body was sliding downward.

The skinny old man had been standing there waiting for him, his right leg had been raised high to welcome the arrival of Gentayu's body in a combat position.

‘JBUM!!’

A loud voice rang out as Gentayu's body actually met that high-raised right leg. Throwing his already extremely weak body smashed into the rocky cliff of the abyss.

The echoing sound of Gentayu's body colliding with the cliff even made the animals grazing in the valley run around with fear. Birds fly. Even that voice was also heard by Anjani and Hao Lim who were waiting anxiously on the lips of the ravine. Far above the figure of a skinny old man who was beating Gentayu all out.

Without waiting and thinking Long, Anjani immediately jumped into the abyss. At the very least, his strength was far above that of Gentayu at the moment, even though the true strength of the girl was still locked by a special seal.

It did not take long, Hao Lim also caught up with Anjani. But, the moment the former matriarch entered the thick fog something happened to her. The silver bracelet he was wearing suddenly shone brightly, and…

‘BLAP!’

Hao Lim is gone.

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Gentayu's body is now attached to the cliff where his body crashed. The pointy rocks behind him shattered forming his body pattern. But clearly he is now clinging to it, can no longer move.

The profound energy that helped him survive so far had been drained.

His eyes were still trying to open slowly to just look at the grin of the skinny old man who was now approaching and strangling his neck.

“You,.. Do you know who the rancid boy is dealing with? Me! I'm Hang Kumbara, The Demon Breaker!” The man said resolutely, full of anger in front of Gentayu's face whose eyes were slowly starting to close.

Without loosening the grip on his neck, the man again hit Gentayu's body which was completely unconscious again.

Gentayu has exhausted all his strength. His consciousness had left his body.

Anjani who had just arrived at the place was furious when she realized that the figure who was being strangled by the skinny old man was Gentayu.

Without waiting as was his custom, a punch was struck towards the skinny old man's head.

Unlike Gentayu who had not even reached the level of an Earth warrior, Anjani before being sealed inside the trident stone form was an ordinary servant who was able to reach the peak of the celestial swordsman. Therefore, the skinny old man was completely unable to anticipate the sudden attack so quickly.

‘GROK!!’

The skinny old man was thrown to the left as his head felt like he was hit by a hot hard boulder.

Even though he was able to immediately rise up in surprise and maintain balance, his head still felt burning. Plus the buzzing sound on his eardrum which is now starting to drain blood.

The man turned towards Anjani who is now trying to free Gentayu from the rocks of the cliff.

“Aiyyoooo.. Banguuun.!” he forced Gentayu's body, then carried it behind his body. Anjani intends to jump to bring Gentayu out of the abyss with that heavenly sight. But of course, the skinny old man who had risen to his feet again would not let it go.

Fast forward, the man unleashed a site attack towards Anjani. The same tread attack that hit Gentayu a moment ago was successfully pushed by Anjani with his right foot. And when another tread attack from the man named Hang Kumbara followed, Anjani jumped high into the air and made Hang Kumbara's hand as a jumping fulcrum.

Exasperated that his attack escaped and hit the other part of the cliff, Hang Kumbara darted upwards following Anjani who had vanished engulfed in thick fog.

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Hao Lim is surprised when he does not fall into the abyss with Anjani while following Gentayu. What happened, instead he was back in the main building of the lamahtang royal training that had been abandoned.

When people saw him, perhaps Hao Lim would look like a ghost emerging from void space. Behind him was the rest of the wall where the mirror that delivered them to the world of the Danyangs was before.

‘ini.. this.. what happened...??” Hao Lim checked on him.

Checking his clothes, checking his bracelet that was now hot. Then his eyes swept around. Slender. There was only himself in that place.

There were no warriors of the Star of Hope or Flower of Truth alliance. In fact, the soldiers of the three duchies were also not seen there.

“Truly unbelievable.. As it turns out, there is one rat left!” The voice above his head startled Hao Lim who had just two Steps running. I mean to leave that place.

Hao Lim looked up and found a red-robed woman with a face covered in a thin veil, also red. His eyes are sharp and cold. Four people dressed to look like him, were seen as bodyguards standing behind him. They're in a hovering position.

“Catch him! Perhaps, he has a core that we can take!” The woman spoke back. This time giving orders to his guards that immediately made Hao lim's guts wry.

Facing the four people who were able to float in the air without any difficulty was obviously a heavy thing for Hao Lim. But, there was no other choice for him. Although he was still confused, who these red-robed people who suddenly rebuked and wanted to capture him were, but giving up without fighting was also not an option he had in mind.

Feeling threatened, hao Lim moved as fast as he could to get out of the motion of besieging the four bodyguards behind the red-robed female. Quickly, his hand moved forward, leading to a short bodyguard blocking his step out.

A white light shot out toward the bodyguard's chest.

‘Dar!’

Hao Lim was surprised. His attack hit right in the chest of his target, but the short guard was not affected at all. Thin white smoke evaporated from the point of Hao Lim's former shot on the chest of the short guard.

The short guard only grinned, revealing his white teeth as he flicked his hands to his chest. It was as if cleaning up the dust that was stuck on his clothes. Then stepped closer with a sharp gaze towards Hao Lim.

Nb.

Hopefully the readers are all in good health wal afiat.

Let me explain a few things with regard to the questions of the readers who have taken the time to say hello in the comments column.

Firstly,

About Story Backgrounds.

Actually this story takes place where the hell, Thor?

Why not just use the Nusantara background?

Why. why..

All right, I'm Answering.

The island of Sumatra, before becoming Andalas was named Swarnadwipa. It means Golden Island. And the island of Java named the original Jawadwipa/Javadwipa, meaning Pulau Padi (Correction if wrong).

From here, it is actually already pictured, the Big Golden island in this story is actually where and the Silver Rice is where.

I deliberately do not use the original name of Java or Andalas or Swarnadwipa, because not everyone can accept if by chance the area is used as a setting where the emergence of evil figures, or other bad things. So, in order to maintain the reader's feelings, setting my place ‘fikutif’ even if not completely. Such as Sei Asen (Sei\=River, water, banyu and Asen\=Asin), Also Bone-testing etc, even Lamahtang name itself.

There are a lot of place markers in this story that are actually real. For example, the names of hills and mountains, including hill rows. The name of the city and village. Most of these are real and real names, some of which I'm pseudonymous. At least, the location of the place can still be a story anchor, but, at least as a pointer to the west-north-south direction to make it easier to understand and the Gentayu who until now is still single do not lose direction and do not stray too far. Masa’ later from Baharus (Barus in North Sumatra) the road has briefly arrived at Bones-Mesuji (combined onion-mesuji, hehehe.), khan funny it will be…

Again, some of the names of the place I just liken or liken it to be equally delicious, because I know, that I have limitations of literature as well as return to the first reason, keeping the reader feeling. Ok?

Second, about the characters

The story is set locally, but why are there Chinese names and to japanese-facing?

Dipantara aka Nusantara, since the time of Fir’aun egypt has been closely established relations with many nations. Aceh itself, is believed to be an acronym of Arabia, China, Europe and the Indies. So in my opinion, there is no harm in including foreign characters in the story. Because we are a great nation that has been mingling internationally since ancient times.

Thanks to Chinese records we know a little more detail about sriwijaya and Tarumanegara, although what is left here are only inscriptions, some even without a clear royal name.

Sorry if the impression of Nusantara in this story feels less thick.

I understand that the archipelago without Java may not be prevalent in silat stories. The names of the people do not use Rangga, Arya, bhirawa and a series of other familiar kejawen typical names. But rest assured, Java still exists as one of the pillars of the archipelago in this story.

I just want to introduce a different taste of the country with 17 thousand islands called Nusantara.

Or maybe in the future I will make a disclaimer about this.

May Berdenan.

Healthy Greetings