KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Mysterious Land III

The entire expanse of the beautiful valley in front of Gentayu changed.

All he saw was a dense forest, with a thin mist drifting down and colder air.

‘I'm still in the same forest and haven't left the spider hill? Turns out this hill is huge.’ Gentayu rubbed his eyes, hoping that the scene before him changed again. But there's no change. He is still in the same forest, on a hill to the foot of the mountain.

“Young man, you have to explain to me! Why did you ruin my painting!” The sound of a bell behind Gentayu was heard again.

The skinny, bald old man was still there. Holding his paintbrush. Waiting for Gentayu's answer.

Gentayu turned around, and immediately knelt down as soon as his eyes saw the shape of the man he had assumed was named Manik Baya.

What made Gentayu immediately drop down and kneel down was the strange aura of the man before him. The aura was different from the aura of the warriors previously encountered. Feels very strong and powerful, but not intimidating.

And, the observant Gentayu eyes caught something unusual from this man.

The feet of this old man did not really tread the ground!

There was indeed a very thin mist that disguised the buoyancy of these two bald old man's feet. If you do not observe carefully, you will not be seen. Fortunately, Gentayu's eyes are quite well trained to see things in detail.

Because of this Gentayu soon realized, this man is not a human who can be offended.

“Why are you on your knees, young man? Quickly explain and do not play dramas like this!” bald grandfather speaks with a semi-hardened cry. But his lips seemed to be twisting an almost invisible smile.

“I'm sorry, grandpa. I accidentally ruined my grandfather's work. I did it just to save myself.” Gentayu lowered his head, not daring to look at the old man's face.

“What? Save yourself? Do you think I'll really kill you?” the old man now looked really angry judging from his high tone. With glaring eyes.

“That's exactly it, grandpa. Because I thought my life was threatened, I tried to save myself. I'm sorry.” this time Gentayu is getting bowed and almost prostrate.

“Then, what about your colleagues, other fellow participants? Did they realize it too?” grandfather's tone changed. Even he no longer seemed to mind the illusions of his vandalized paintings.

“My colleagues? But.. I came alone grandfather.” This time, Gentayu was confused to answer.

“Oh, so you mean, your colleagues are still behind you?” The old man said as his hands poked at his forehead and two eyes, looking into the distance. It's like looking for someone out there.

“My colleagues? Who do you mean grandpa? I was completely alone grandfather, and I really did not understand who grandfather meant.. Really!”

Apparently, grandpa had a bad voice had misunderstood Gentayu.

“So, you're not part of the contest?”

“vitters? What do you mean grandpa?” Gentayu was increasingly convinced, that the person in front of him was completely misunderstood.

“Volunteers princess Luh Cendrawani.. so you really aren't one of them?” The granny asked once more. But he seems to have realized that Gentayu is not like part of the people he means.

“Bu.. no, grandpa..no..” Answer Gentayu. Convincing while hoping to escape from any problems that await him.

The old man seemed to be thinking hard. It seems like something is bothering him.

“Ah, ... here you go. To make amends, you come with me now.” The old grandfather exclaimed with vigor. As if I found something interesting.

“But, cake.” Gentayu was just about to speak further. But the grandfather didn't seem to want to hear any reason.

The old grandfather moved his brush, painted empty air and..

‘Whuzz..!’

The cloud-like smoke carried the bodies of both of them darting out onto the clouds and soon vanished in space. It rises and sinks among the clouds and is cloudy in the sky.

In a very high speed among the clouds, Gentayu's body became numb . His blood seemed to be left behind his body. Breath tight. In fact, his clothes had been torn here and there due to the wind because they were so fast.

On the other hand, unusual phenomena are seen.

Grandpa voiced his cry seemed to be standing quietly in front of the wooden. Not affected at all by their flying speed and altitude. His face was relaxed looking ahead. In fact, his hair was completely untouched or blown away by the wind.

As if he wasn't there right now.

While Gentayu, in the midst of his efforts to defend himself in order to stay in a conscious state, had thought that what was being experienced was another illusion from the great-grandfather. However, all of his conjectures collapsed upon entering the black clouds and a bolt of lightning struck his chest.

‘Cletar!!’

Gentayu was only shocked to receive the lightning strike. His consciousness that was about to disappear soon returned even for a moment.

Sparks of fire were seen when the lightning touched his skin. But it did not burn him or make him seriously injured.

The power of the lightning was actually able to destroy even a large tree. But at Gentayu, it only left black smoke billowing from his chest field that was struck. And the smoke soon vanished because so fast his body drove.

Unexpectedly, Gentayu's body turned out to give an unexpected reaction a few seconds later. The moment the thick smoke like clouds had left the thunder-containing rain cloud was far behind.

On the marks of the lightning strike on his chest, appeared a bluish black dot the size of a piercing hole's eyes that looked lifelike. The bluish-black dot slowly began to widen, extending, forming a pattern of lightning marks.

The pattern stops developing after reaching a size along the index finger. Everything lasted less than five seconds/

Gentayu himself did not have time to notice and feel the change because at that time, he almost lost consciousness. But the expression of the old man looked astonished.

All these events did not escape the old man's sight, even though Gentayu's position was behind him.

‘Other lightning sons??’ the old man muttered to himself. He only glanced briefly at Gentayu behind him, yet his body and face focused forward.

In a flight tempo of less than ninety counts, eventually the speed of speeding both reduced.

Shortly after, the cloud-like smoke brought the two down in front of an enormous, tall and luxurious gate.

Back then, Gentayu had completely lost consciousness because of the rapidity of their darting. Hair disheveled. Clothes tattered. Various kinds of dust and dirt attached to his face and skin.

Gentayu's body fell freely from a height of five meters above the ground as the smoke that enveloped him faded.

But when it stayed an inch its head hit the ground, its body was restrained and fell down smoothly.

Gentayu fainted!

Nb. Continue tomorrow..

My body protests, ask for rest.

Do not forget to take care of your health as well..