KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

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Inside the room provided by physician Mo, Gentayu had not been able to sleep. Something was troubling his mind. He wants his journey to not experience significant obstacles. At least all obstacles must have been anticipated. The attack of black flow groups against white flow groups such as those that occur in the Golden Sun is likely to continue for some time to come. But until now he has not found the root cause of this attack. Could it be that elder Shou came out of the sect because of this matter?

The opening of the cloth wrapper from the object given by elder Shou. It contained a small box engraved with Red Dragon. But he did not want to open and was not at all curious about the contents. To him, this is trust. A trust to be guarded with his soul even as a knightly gesture.

“Master Ryu. Are you back asleep? Why haven't I heard your voice since at the inn?” Gentayu intended to discuss the matter of attacking this black sect group further with Ryu the tiger spirit.

“I'm here, Genta. I intentionally did not make a sound, because that elder Shou was from the Red Dragon Sect. He will be able to hear me as I speak. I just think that you have to master my own style. There was a time when a spirit like me, would become extremely weak even when not fighting. I was afraid, it happened while you were in desperate need of my strength.”Ryu answered Gentayu's curiosity.

“Oh yes? Why could that be? I mean, why would a spirit creature like you weaken?” Gentayu was curious

“Of course. Because spirits like me need food too. And we absorb energy from the surrounding environment as a source of nutrients. When the energy that is opposite to my base element dominates the air for a long time, then that's when my condition weakens. We better not delay any more. I want you to master my strongest skill, the fire dragon. For a swordsman at the level like you, I'm sure it doesn't take long.” Ryu gave an explanation and a second later, the warm air again felt flowing on Gentayu's right arm.

“Do not fight. I'm transferring my knowledge into every cell of your body. After that I will sleep for a long time and you can train it yourself. Meditate.” Ryu gave his instructions and was immediately executed by Gentayu.

Not long after meditating, a thin white smoke billowed from the top of Gentayu's head. It signifies that the process of transferring knowledge from Ryu to him has been completed. Gentayu opened his eyes and felt a new strength had filled every cell of his body. Because this Power has the element of fire, then its nature is to strengthen Gentayu mastery of the moves he mastered before, namely the Golden Sun and Silver Moon Style.

“Master Ryu.. Mr. Ryu.” Gentayu called out to the tiger spirit, but there was no answer.

‘She has slept’ murmured. Though there is something to be said and just thought about when the deep meditation is finished.

Not waiting long, Gentayu immediately took the black stone given by his teacher from the lake-side world which he finally gave the name 'Silver Moon Stone' as a tribute to his teacher.

Immediately flowed the energy in to the Silver Moon stone. The sucking energy that formed the formation of space and time began to form around the black stone, then grew bigger and finally formed a kind of portal that it could enter.

After being inside the lakefront world where he met his teacher for the first time, he was again amazed. The garden that originally contained nutritious herbal plants had turned into a forest again. His teacher's house has even been fused with the ground leaving some wooden logs used to support the house.

' Truly a great place to learn all kinds of science quickly’ he thought watching the changing conditions around him like he had been abandoned a few years when only yesterday he last entered this world.

In that place, for the next five days he learned the Fire Dragon skill he had received from Ryu. The Fire Dragon Steps consisted of 3 main parts; 5 Levels of fire dragon tail kicks, 5 levels of Fire Dragon Fist, and 4 levels of body power forging named Fire Dragon Shield.

The Fire Dragon Tail Kick is a series of moves that concentrate power on the legs and knees as well as the lower body. Mastery of this style emphasizes the aspects of strength and speed because it relies on the use of deep power that is large enough so that it is not suitable for use for a long period of time. While the style of Fire Dragon Fist is less use of inner power because it is created for a long empty-handed fight. The use of deep power is quite large only when releasing a long-range blow destroyer as he did when destroying the attack group ship and while finishing Wanadri a while ago.

While the Fire Dragon Shield is an ability of this style to protect the body of the owner of the style from weapons attacks and power blows in a high level though. But it seems, Ryu himself has not mastered this style because what Gentayu feels is only glimpses of knowledge that is still ‘kosong’. This indicates that there are special requirements for mastery of this style that has not been met by Ryu. Nevertheless, Gentayu continues to train the Fire Dragon Shield moves that are the end of the series of Fire Dragon moves according to the instructions recorded in his cell memory.

On the fifth day Gentayu was in the lakefront world, he finally managed to master the entire three parts of the Fire Dragon style perfectly. He also found the reason why the style of Fire Dragon Shield cannot be controlled by Ryu, which is because Ryu is a disembodied spirit different from himself. This fact also made Gentayu aware that these moves were obtained by Ryu after he became a spirit and was stranded on this Great Golden Island. But he himself did not want to question this any further.

“Gentayu, how long have I been asleep? Has elder Shou recovered?”tanyakanya.

“Ah, that.you just slept a moment ago. Not one hour.” Gentayu replied without giving any further explanation. Of course he would not tell me that the spirit had slept for five days in the lake-side world.

“ini freak.” Ryu muttered and remained heard by Gentayu. The young man did not respond. A moment later with great enthusiasm Gentayu gave an idea that from the beginning wanted to be conveyed to his spirit friend.

“Master Ryu. I have an heirloom sword my teacher gave me made of meteor rocks. Sword Satam. What do you think, if you are the spirit of the sword? This I think of you having to go back and forth to experience death from a body that is not strong enough. Wouldn't that just make you limited?” Gentayu finally revealed his thoughts to Ryu.

“Awing a sword? Did you master the seal technique?” Ryu asked back. For him to be a sword spirit, tiger spirit, tree spirit even though it does not matter as long as it can still survive and useful to participate in quelling black flow groups.

“Oh, so so yes?” Gentayu again looks scratching his head which is suddenly like an itch.

“Do not say you do not know that to inhabit inanimate objects we must be bound to the object, Genta.” Ryu apparently caught the meaning of the scratching of the head that Gentayu just showed.

“Hehehe... yes. I was just curious, whether a spirit figure like you can also be a resident of an heirloom. So can ya?” Gentayu grinned as if innocent.

“Ya. Basically, each heirloom is called an heirloom because it has a certain strength. Both because of the natural strength possessed by the heirloom and the additional strength of the element outside the material that makes it. That outside power could have come from the inner power, or because of the presence of a spirit figure in the heirloom.” Finally Ryu must prove himself that he is a spirit who has lived hundreds of years with knowledge that should be wider than Gentayu.

Gentayu only mangosteen-beard digest Ryu's explanation. He admitted that as a child who had just ‘hatch’, many things in this world he had not known despite his current high fighting ability. The world does hold many mysteries, and many things remain to be learned. More than he currently knows. Such was the thought of Gentayu in his contemplation.

“Alright, Mr. Ryu. Utnuk while we postpone the discussion of heirloom weapons. Did you know that when you fell asleep for a moment, I had mastered the moves of the Fire Dragon?” gentayu returned as if to boast of his achievements to the former commander of the Hidama empire. Of course Ryu did not know that ‘as of yesterday’ could mean up to five days for Gentayu.

“it is impossible. I also studied the science for almost two months.” Ryu was grunted in disbelief.

“Good, how do I prove it?” challenge Gentayu puffed his chest, but in his heart he just laughed chuckling because he managed to prank his spirit friend.

“The last stage of the style is the Fire Dragon Shield. Your body should be immune to internal force blows and weapons. Why don't you ask the old healer to attack you? Tell him you want to test whether your abilities are still there or have disappeared. Don't say that you just learned a new science.” Ryu gave his hint.

In this condition, both Gentayu and Ryu are equally confused. Who is the master of whom, and who helps whom. What is clear is that the two can now share and exchange knowledge, except to enter the world of the edge of the lake.

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