KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

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“Mr princess is fine. Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about it too much. He just needs a break at the moment. Tomorrow morning, hopefully he will recover.” The Palace healer reported the condition

Cendrawani on Jayadilaga's prabu after checking his condition.

This brief explanation from the healer was quite a relief to the palace family.

The doctor also explained that he had found no signs of physical assault. But for more details, the healer suggested that further examinations be carried out again after the daughter of the siuman souvenir.

During the waiting for the princess, several times Patih Mangkubumi met the emperor to submit some reports.

The king indeed ordered a teliksandi of the palace to investigate Gentayu's background. After knowing Gentayu was not a noble, Jayadilaga's curiosity towards the young man's figure grew bigger.

On that very night, finally patih mangkubumi understood the reason the prabu was so respectful and obeyed all the words of Manik Baya.

“He is the mountain god.” that is how Prabu Jayadilaga explains his attitude.

According to the king, in his family records, the figure of a mountain god has always appeared throughout the history of the kingdom of Giri Kencana since hundreds of years ago.

Its appearance is always in a changing form, but its main characteristics are always the same. Have a vehicle in the form of a cloud and never appear alone. There will always be someone to go with him.

Not many commoners know the figure, but all the inhabitants of the palace know and worship the Mountain God as a protector of the kingdom.

Even the giant statue in the square was a statue of the mountain god himself, in the form of a dashing ruler.

And finally, during the reign of Jayadilaga prabu today, the mountain god appeared as a begawan with a disciple named Adipati Gunung Padang as a companion.

Others will believe that the figure of the duke of Mount Padang was real as a disciple of Begawan Manik Baya.

But the king who had reached the level of the holy warrior knew that the duke who was predicted as a disciple of Manik Baya was only a clone or other form of Manik Baya itself.

So when Gentayu came with Manik Baya, Jayadilaga's belief that the God of Mountain and the Duke of Mount Padang was as one person the same almost faded.

Apparently, Manik Baya really had a disciple.

Unfortunately, the ability of the palace teliksandi in collecting information related to the identity of the students

The Baya bead is absolutely zero. There was no information they had, even after a month had passed.

Cendrawani himself only needs a break overnight for his condition to fully recover.

The palace physician came back to him to check the condition of the beautiful princess further. And the result was that, as the healer had suspected before, there were no symptoms of any attack on the princess.

Realizing the princess was fine, the palace physician immediately withdrew from the caputren.

But after all these events, a change in attitude occurred in Cendrawani.

Princess Palace who initially always looks graceful, smart, and full of confidence so that sometimes seem haughty it is now so quiet.

The time is more used daydreaming on the sidelines of his new habit of knitting yarn in the palace courtyard kaputren. Yes, Cendrawani is indeed pursuing his new hobby, knitting.

But his ability did not increase after the competition was over. In fact, Cendrawani was initially very excited and quite quickly understood the art of knitting that his art teacher taught.

They finally complained about the change in the nature and attitude of the princess to the empress, but the empress also had run out of sense to restore the condition of Cendrawani to become a girl who is jolly and confident.

A horrendous event throughout the palace occurred ten days after the competition ended.

Princess Cendrawani was reported by her arms and the ladies-in-waiting had disappeared from her room. Soon, the entire palace became stirred. All the guard soldiers were deployed to inspect the entire corner of the palace until it came out of the city walls.

The search continued for the next week. But no sign of the princess will be found. The queen then fell ill because of it.

Finally, the king ordered a special force made up of selected soldiers to expand the search to the rest of the kingdom.

The king's order to them is clear, “find or never return”.

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When the palace of Giri Kencana was being stirred with news of the disappearance of the princess Cendrawani, in an area called Darmaraja, Gentayu was meditating to stabilize the new power in his body.

The power of the Fire Dragon Sword overflowed within him, making him have to be helped by Manik Baya to align so that the too great power did not kill him.

While still in Girinata (the name of the capital city of Giri Kencana), Gentayu gained the power accidentally. Almost lost consciousness even his life was almost lost if Manik Baya did not immediately act by sealing the power.

Now, the overflowing power is trying to be conquered by Gentayu's body. Manik Baya, again intervened to overcome the obstacles he experienced.

The seal on his body was opened slowly, so that the surge in the power of the Fire Dragon could be absorbed gradually. Although it remains equally painful to force himself to absorb the immense power, Gentayu finally managed to conquer that power in his body.

Thanks to the encouragement from the power of the Fire Dragon Sword and the help of the Baya Manik, Gentayu finally managed to reach the peak power of the celestial swordsman. The almost impossible and unimaginable was achieved in less than a month of adventure.

“Not luck, Nak Gentayu. Nope.. But you're the one who pulled all that success out to yourself. You created your own opportunity. And you have prepared your own container to accept your destiny. No, no, no.. Even you created your own destiny.” Manik Baya gave his advice when Gentayu finished with his meditation activities.

“You only need a little push from the outside once again to break through the sky swordsman level and reach the nature swordsman level. Your condition is quite unique. The lightning element in you seems to start activating itself triggered by the turmoil due to the influence of the Fire Dragon in you, which you are not aware of as well, other than fire and lightning, besides fire and lightning, you also have a potentially growing element of land if you get the right teacher.”

Manik Baya still hides his identity to Gentayu. He continued to play the role of a gentleman, even though the entire palace had recognized him as a mountain god.

Gentayu himself did not bother with the background of Manik Baya, as he did not bother with the mysterious identity of Gola Ijo. For him, kindness is good even if it is obtained from a criminal.

This former military member of Lamahtang was completely unaware, that for almost three weeks he had been trained by the mountain god, one of the highest peaks of power of the land element ruler.

Manik Baya suggests that Agar Gentayu also start to get used to training the lightning element in his body. Currently, his energy power was still very small, but it was large enough if it was used to activate his lightning Carambique.

The power of his lightning element energy, was just about to enter the earth swordsman level. Very thin.

To train him, Gentayu is advised to go to one of the snowy mountain peaks that all year round are struck by lightning. But it's a faraway place. Being on a different land with tatar sunda or sunda besar.

“Teacher, then the trip there will take at least two years, guru.” Gentayu said to Manik Baya when he learned that the lightning mountain was on land that was not the same as the land he now lived on.

“Actually, there's one location that you're definitely easier to reach. In addition, the level of interference there is also lighter to overcome. It just so happens that the place is exactly where your world came from. A region called Hidama.” Say Manik Baya while stroking his beard.

Hearing the words ‘Hidama’ who was in the Middle Continent in the world where he grew up, Gentayu became enthusiastic.

“I want to give you Kumolo, the white cloud like smoke, but Kumolo is a memento of my teacher when I was at the level of a natural swordsman. After all, he couldn't be used through the boundary of the two-dimensional realm. So, I thought I'd teach you my science of Halimunkasa.” Baya Pungkas