KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Advice from a Friend

Somewhere far away, in the Valley of Memories.

Datuk Rajo Narako who is usually always in a meditative position suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes flashed and the hue of his face showed anger.

In recent times, the man was over five hundred years old and recorded in the legends of the swordsman's world lost his inner contact with Anjani.

For Datuk Rajo Narako, Anjani is a marker of the existence and state of one of his direct descendants in Dipantara, Gentayu.

Datu Api is currently punishing Anjani about thirty years ago (according to calculations in this World) for one mistake, which is learning some things that only the core family of the Fire Clan should learn. Though Anjani's position is only as a servant to one of the core family of Fire Clan, namely Gentayu's parents.

Anjani ends up only serving a sentence of exile after Sabrang Geni Gentayu's father defends him desperately before the Marga's board of higher-ups.

Actually, the written punishment for the thief of knowledge in the Fire Clan is likened to an intruder, namely the death penalty. His fate is no better than death.

By cruel, Datu Buana changed the form of the girl into a trident and threw it into the outer region of the Fire Clan in Dipantara.

Datuk Rajo Narako receives this trident and is placed guarding the Valley of Memories before Gentayu is found through several interlocking Puzzles, namely pendants and others.

The form of Anjani in the form of a trident is then instilled special spiritual power with the aim of being easily found by the family and descendants of Rajo Narako in the future.

This cultivated spiritual power also had the power of detection against lineages, so that when Gentayu babies were placed in this region, this Trident also gave a special signal to Datuk Rajo Narako.

Unfortunately, when Rajo Narako rushed to see the baby at the time, the baby was rescued and taken by Gentayu's adoptive parents and cared for him until his death.

The instinct of the swordsman Rajo Narako states that the safety of his descendants will be threatened due to the revenge of the Southern Demon Clan and the struggle for the position of the head of the Fire Clan itself if the baby is with him.

His strength had yet to fully recover that time to provide protection from those pursuing.

Due to the bloodline detection nature of that trident, although it was hindered from returning to the Fire Clan due to the weakening of its power due to the battle wounds, it was blocked from returning to the Fire Clan due to the weakening of its strength due to the battle wounds, but Rajo Narako can still receive the information he needs from Sabrang Keni about the condition of the Fire Clan.

As well as the intelligent Anjani, Rajo Narako has realized, that the process of infiltration by the Devil Bhaktas in some Clans in the clan of fire has been going on for a very long time.

The Fire Clan consisted of 5 great Clans, namely Arnageni, Setrageni, Acalageni, Wukirgeni and Nimnageni. All the Clans had been infiltrated, except for the Ancalageni Clan the Rajo Narako clan had taken shelter and originated.

However, decisive action on the infiltration could only be taken and carried out by the Clan itself and even the head of the Marga was not authorized.

The intruders, by this time had reached important positions in the structure of the clan.

The strongest person in this clan will be at once as the next clan head candidate.

Because of this strong position, infiltration efforts have been felt increasingly intense in recent decades. Even the intruders had planned the assassination of Sabrang Geni and the important figures of the clan.

Many times assassination attempts against the Ancalageni Clan bloodline were also launched.

The effort was packed as if an accident and not a few of the efforts were successfully thwarted.

It was only after learning that the Gentayu Old Man as a strong candidate to occupy the seat of the Head Marga no longer had children, that the threat to the Rajo Narako Clan slowly diminished. At the very least, the Clan could still develop naturally.

The valley of his own memories, located on one of the sacred mountains among the mountain ranges on the Great Golden island. Exactly in the territory of the Kingdom of Lambah Barapi. The mountain was considered the Fire Clan's territory in the outside world.

“Hundreds of years I've inhabited this place. Watching the changes in the world following its contents. My recovery is perfect too. I should have been able to return this time carrying my descendants.” that was Rajo Narako's remark, in front of the young man holding a painting brush before him.

His breathing is heavy when he says the word ‘back’ because he even thought he would not be able to return. At first, he felt that his path to return was closed. The wounds suffered from his fight with Mislan Katili hundreds of years ago only really recovered the last year.

“But I'm losing track of him right now. I doubt if there is a human or a beast that can kill him in this world. His strength has reached the top. However, that does not mean death will not approach him, does not?” Rajo Narako who is usually calm this time seems restless. Meanwhile, the young man before him sat quietly with focused eyes facing his stone-painted canvas.

“If I were you, my friend.. I'll go check on his life pulse on the Klan's tree of life.” The young man said he gave advice. He is none other than Rajo Narako's friend from the past named Abul Ardh, the ruler of earth and stone elements who fought with him against Mislan Katili hundreds of years ago. The difference is, the man who looks happy to paint this is just a beyed Clan knight from the Land Clan, not the head of the Marga like Rajo Narako before.

The tree of life in question Abul Ardh is a kind of container in which records regarding the lives of clan members are accommodated. When a clan member had died, the part of the dot that was the droplet of life essence of the person in question would turn black. That point is called the living pulse. Each of the seven clans has a so-called tree of life. The clan life tree was usually in the clan head's special room.

“Means I have to go back to Marga just to be able to know if my grandson is alive or dead?” Rajo Narako sighs heavily at the advice of his best friend.

Unlike Abul Ardh, the knight assigned by the clan to guard the desert in the world, Rajo Narako has an important position and influence in the Fire Clan. His presence will obviously cause a new upheaval within Marga, after the disappearance of Rajo Narako for hundreds of years.

“Already, as grandfather Marga, your presence again will certainly have a good impact. Well, although there will be many gazes do not like you because they have benefited from your absence. Fire Clan, need the grandfather. Intruders, must be removed before it's too late. If you need help, come to the Beyed Clan of the Land Clan. This friend of yours, make sure you get meaningful help.” Abul Ardh turned his gaze from the stone-painted canvas to the face of his friend.

His eyes radiated sincerity as well as shade, regardless of the age of those adrift more than serratus fifties. Then the young man handed him a golden badge with a special stamp in the middle. It was the badge of the knights!

“Good.!” Rajo Narako accepted the badge and nodded confidently at his decision to return to the Fire Clan.

“I'll be back. My strength has fully recovered now. All this time, I've only gotten word of my Margarets and the fate of my descendants there who have begun to stray their way through the glass of soul. I saw and knew, without being able to do anything. Perhaps, this is indeed the will of the Supreme Being for me to act to save Marga.” said Rajo Narako steady.

Rajo Narako is the strongest hero in the Fire Clan. The only thing that prevented him from returning was that his strength was insufficient to activate the portal to the Danyang realm. Now, with his strength having fully recovered, returning to Lemuria was no longer a problem.