KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Gandini I

Anjani feels both clumsy and guilty. But he finally dared to nod.

Seen disappointed face on the look of Nyai Suntari. However, it did not last long before the old face returned a smile. A shady smile.

“What is it because Gentayu?” Ask Nyai Suntari next.

Anjani shook his head slowly, impressed doubtful.

“Between yes, and not nek.”

Anjani then recounts the incident he experienced in the lotus pond while searching for the moon lotus to heal Gentayu.

Nyai Suntari's face looks wrinkled to hear Anjani's story. There was a shocked and tense look mixed with disbelief on his face this time. It appears Nyai Suntari sighed long after Anjani finished her story.

“Mustahil..” Nyai Suntari muttered as Anjani finished his story. His eyes moved quickly, yet bowed staring at the ground beneath his feet.

Despite the shrillness, Anjani can still hear it. One word from Nyai Suntari makes Anjani's heart beat faster than ever.

“Son, know it. You have met a demon figure who is considered to have been destroyed hundreds of years ago.. Aaaah...! Return to the goa house. Ask Gentayu to come here immediately. Bring this.” Nyai Suntari looked nervous. He handed a yellow medal to Anjani. Order medal.

The command medal was a special medal belonging to the elders. Yellow color, indicating the position of Nyai Suntari is very high in padepokan. There is only the red medal as the highest medal above the yellow medal. The red medal is only held by the head of the padepokan and the head of the hall.

Anjani received the medal with a face shrouded in confusion. But he didn't ask much. It immediately turned around after saluting its teacher, and immediately shot forth as fast as it headed towards the top of the mountain. Heading to Nyai Suntari's cave house.

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At Nyai Suntari's Goa house, Gentayu has been out since morning to see the surrounding conditions. It is a routine habit of Gentayu after awakening. Every morning, he would wander around the vast medicinal herb plantation on the mountain.

His body already looked strong, even stronger than ordinary humans in general. However, it would still take at least three more days for him to fully recover.

That morning, when returning to Nyai Suntari's cave house, Gentayu did not find Anjani. Apparently, Anjani did go to the valley to the village without saying goodbye to Gentayu.

Feeling that there was nothing to do with staying in the cave house, Gentayu finally chose to continue his creativity around. Unwittingly, Gentayu has been away from the cave house. Now, he entered the swamp area where the lotus pond was located.

His eyes were fixed on a single point in the middle of the pond that was completely covered in lotuses.

In the middle of the lotus pond, Gentayu saw the figure of a woman in a high white dress. His hair is straight black extending out to the hip. The woman turned her back to Gentayu, standing floating on the lotus leaves. It seemed, not even aware of his presence. The distance is quite far, about 500 meters!

Suddenly, the woman darted as fast as a bullet into the air. Under his feet, the water seemed to be sucked on both of his legs, knocking like a tail of water that followed him up into space. Just then, a powerful explosion shook the entire pond.

‘BHUM!!!’

The earth around him shook as if an earthquake had occurred.

The sound of a huge explosion was heard several kilometers away. Shaking due to the explosion even made the water in the pond turbulent as if it spilled on land, giving rise to mud bottom of the pond with fish floundering lack of water.

Gentayu himself slammed into the ground because of it. Fresh blood flowed from the corner of his lips.

Apparently, the explosion just now was followed by a destructive shockwave. The entire tree in a radius of less than 500 meters even broke its trunk. A rumbling sound followed for about the next five seconds after the explosion. It was the sound of the simultaneous collapse of the forest trees from the shock wave of the explosion.

‘Grotak!

‘Krekke!’

‘Bruk!’

‘Bruk!’

Almost Gentayu was hit by one of the trees that collapsed nearby. His eyes immediately turned towards the female figure in sight before darting high earlier. The pool was really like being drained!

However, what caught Gentayu's attention was the appearance of another figure who was laughing out loud with a gaze staring at the sky. Towards the woman in white dress drifted away from the explosion within the pond.

“Hahahahaha....!! You could have sealed me hundreds of years ago because of my innocence! I was too stupid back then for trusting you! But it won't happen again, Gandini!!... Hahahahaha..!!”

The laughter sounded horrible. It is enough to make the feathers that hear it stand, and cause the knee of the person who hears it to tremble. In fact, Gentayu himself experienced it.

The figure of the owner of the laugh is a green creature with the top of the head tends to be flat. His Eyebrows were formed from protruding bones and hard muscles. His hands and feet have a membrane. And. His whole body looks slimy.

It was the same creature that Anjani encountered while searching for the moon lotus for Gentayu. The figure of the woman who seemed to be his opponent, seemed to be bound by a past event.

Suddenly, the green-colored figure turned towards Gentayu who was hiding in a way to get down among the fallen trees. But before long, his attention returned to focus on the woman in a white dress in the sky because something white seemed to shine brightly around the woman's arms that were floating.

Dozens of giant bracelets made of light shot out from the body of the white-clad woman named Gandini, darting rapidly towards the green-colored creature. A buzzing sound accompanied the sliding of giant light bracelets, making the eardrum seem to be breaking because of it.

Gentayu which is hundreds of meters away was affected. For a while, his ears lost the ability to hear. The world suddenly felt quiet. Everything seems to be going slow. Before another shockwave hit his body once more.

This time, the shockwave came from gigantic light bracelets that seemed to be trying to lock away the green-colored figure in the middle of the pond. Gentayu bounced a hundred meters away. His body even briefly slammed into space before falling back into the hard ground below.

Before losing consciousness because his body had not fully recovered, Gentayu had witnessed a more powerful explosion occur many times when the giant light bracelets met the body of a green figure.

Each time an explosion occurred, each time his body was blown further and further by the shock wave caused by the explosion.

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Anjani has arrived at the goa house, where Gentayu should have recovered. But, Anjani also learned that this morning Gentayu left this cave house to tour the area of medicinal plants in order to accelerate his physical recovery.

Unable to find Gentayu who should have returned considering that the man still had to continue consuming several potions every four hours, Anjani became a little anxious.

‘Should, this time is the time to take medicine.’ Anjani immediately went inside the cave house and found the medicine Gentayu should have taken an hour ago was still intact in its place. Anjani memorized very well because he was the one who prepared the potion.

In his anxiety, the sound of explosions was heard from the direction where the lotus pond was located. Then with the earth shaking. Anjani believes this is no ordinary earthquake.

His mind is getting more confused. His worry increased, when he remembered that the green creature that threatened him was the likely cause of the explosive sounds and shock that struck at this time.

Without wasting any time, Anjani immediately darted away from the cave house towards the source of the explosion sound. Towards the lotus pond.

In the lower valley, at the Golden Pond complex, after a faint explosive sound was heard followed by a small tremor felt by the elders, they immediately flew towards the lotus pond. Nyai Suntari was at the front of them.