KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

The Pirate

In a port village, a man dressed as a fisherman was rampaging.

The weak-looking man turned out to be tough enough to be easily defeated by the forty pirates who ganged at him.

A few hours ago, this herd of pirates invaded and burned the village. Plundering all property belonging to the villagers, even kidnapping almost all the village girls they managed to capture.

Initially, the residents just resigned their village was looted because some men who tried to fight eventually ended up losing their lives.

But, when the pirates began to carry out the kidnapping and burning of their village, a villager began to rise up in fierce resistance.

The man who was dealing with about forties of pirates was actually not a native of the village. In fact, no villager knew the background of the skinny man before living and settling in the village.

In addition to the forty pirates who were mocking him, there were six other corpses of pirates lying in the battle arena. Apparently, the skinny man had managed to reduce the number of enemies that were messing around in his village.

However, the condition of the skinny man was not fine.

Dozens of blood-thinning wounds had begun to adorn his body. But so far, there is no sign that the man will collapse anytime soon.

The other two pirates were knocked down successfully, making the faces of the other thirty-eight pirates become increasingly overwhelmed with impatience wanting to immediately chop this skinny man into small pieces.

Like a wounded bull, the skinny man continued to slash his greatsword regardless of his miserable condition.

Three other pirates were knocked down by the slash of his sword, fulfilling the eleven pirates lying dead on the spot.

The man was alone, facing dozens of people who continued to lash out from various sides. No one else went out to help him. Until the time came, the skinny man reached the limit of his strength.

After successfully killing two more people, the skinny man began to stagger. To stabilize his standing position, he was forced to support his sword which was now stuck on the ground.

The skinny man walked backwards, trying to take some distance from his brackets. But, his bullies didn't just let it go.

They were chasing after the skinny man who was thought to be running away, but that was when the most powerful slash he could make for the last time took its toll.

Five people were hit in the neck. Four of them were killed immediately, while another still had time to fend him off with an axe in his hand. Still, the slash scratched the pirate's neck.

The sudden attack managed to shock the pirates who thought their opponents were already helpless. Their pursuit paused for a moment and they re-installed into a high position facing a thin man who from the beginning did look weak.

“Useless! You underestimate him too much! Attack her together once again.!” Shouted a thick-bodied man among the pirates. He was clearly the leader of the group of pirates.

Hearing the call of his command, did not make the pirates immediately move forward. The shock of the last attack from the skinny man who was now back on his sword had made their guts recede a little.

Seeing his men no one dared to approach the skinny man, the pirate leader took the initiative to attack himself. He immediately jumped forward with an axe thrown ahead of his body towards the skinny man.

The skinny man fended off the axe that shot towards him with his sword slash.

‘Trank!’

The axe was thrown to the side and stuck on the ground.

Then the leader of the pirates again floated two other axes. One axe was successfully repelled like the first axe. Stuck into the ground by his side.

But while fending off the third axe, the skinny man's sword slipped out of his hand even though the axe thrown at him managed to tepis.

The skinny man fell in a kneeling position. Both of his hands held his body from slipping to the ground.

Dozens of sword eyes of the pirates immediately stuck to his neck. The pirates had surrounded him, forcing him to surrender.

“Wait for what else? Kill him!” the pirate leader gave the order.

One of the most senior pirates immediately raised his sword to carry out his command as executioner.

The sword glittered in the sunlight as it shot upwards, and the next second it moved swiftly slashing towards the skinny man's neck.

‘Trank!’

Suddenly the moving pirate sword slashed at the skinny man's neck shattered into pieces as the distance of the sword blade with the neck of its target remained a few centimeters.

The handle of the sword was also separated from the grasp of its owner, while the hands of the pirate did not stop shaking.

Something very powerful had just hit the sword belonging to the swinging pirate about to take his life, making the sword crumble without having a chance to know what the cause was.

The sword owner looked around. How surprised he was when he found all his colleagues who numbered in the thirties all had collapsed with a hollow forehead as big as a little finger, translucent to the back of the head.

Only he and the pirate chief were left.

In front of the two promoters, the skinny man also looked surprised and equally did not understand what was happening in front of him.

‘Prok! Prok! Prok!’

Three applause rang out, making the three people turn to the source of the voice.

A shabby-looking young man with two twin swords behind his back seemed to be casually walking towards them. The young man looked calm, but the radiance of strength he had made the three hostile people both gulp.

“I can consider forgiving you, if you know where the lightning forest is located.” The young man seemed to be unceremoniously issuing threats as well as his goal of being in that place.

The young man, clearly on his way to find the lightning forest in question and wants to make one of the three as a guide.

He is Gentayu, who came to the land of Hidama to strengthen the lightning element on his body.

The stocky man led by the pirates and his men once swallowed saliva. Those who lived a lifetime as pirates in the ocean, it was impossible to know there was such a forest.

Their hope of being allowed to live was getting smaller.

After waiting for a while without an answer, Genatyu flicked his hand into the air.

Four reddish-colored energy blades flew from all four of his fingers, darting swiftly unavoidably towards the two remaining pirates and standing up in trembling manner.

‘Dhem!’

‘Dhem!’

There was the sound of small explosions as each of the two energy blades stuck into the heads and hearts of the pirates, turning their bodies into blood mist, flesh and bone spouts.

The skinny man he had helped was even horrified to see the death of the pirates before him. With a slight tremble, the skinny man tried to see the face of his helper.

“Do not be afraid, uncle. I'm on your side. Come, I help uncle, just show me where the healer's house in this village.” without waiting for the approval of the skinny man he helped, Gentayu immediately carried the man on his back.