KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Lei Ziang's

Princess Nakano flabbergasted.

For a moment he lost control of himself.

‘This young man.. How is he so lucky? How could that god weapon end up in his hands?’ princess Nakano's eyes moved quickly, as if not believing her own vision.

“Let's start.” Gentayu handed the crystal spear and the map in his hand to Nakano's daughter without any burden. Not paying the least attention to princess Nakano's facial expression and response to her attitude.

Princess Nakano was completely dazed by this situation.

“wait a minute, wait, wait..! Start what? Start what do you mean?” princess Nakano recovered soon after.

“Yaaa.. began the recovery of the power of the princess and the two senior princesses. Especially?!” Gentayu answered lightly.

Princess Nakano shook her head.

“Bokah! No. gabe. Not as simple as that.” princess Nakano shook her head with a sour face.

“Enabling this crystal is not as easy as you think. It takes a great amount of lightning element energy.... Uh, Lightning? The lightning? Wait, wait, wait... Lightning, huh?! All righty! Tell you what. I'll come with you to the lightning forest tomorrow!” Spirit suddenly surged on the face of princess Nakano as her body stiffened.

Gentayu only scratched the back of his head that was not itchy while grinning before reinserting the map and crystal into the wagon bracelet.

They looked at each other for a moment before Nakano's daughter invited him back to the village.

Tomorrow, they will be together on the way to the lightning forest.

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A scorching afternoon burns the earth as the daughters of Nakano and Gentayu finally leave the fishing village to go towards the forest of lightning.

Princess Nakano requests that Ryutaro and the healer Mamoto wait in the village while ensuring Hideki's recovery from his injuries.

Thus, Ryutaro had enough time to retrain his strength. While the healer Mamoto maximized Hideki's healing efforts during the waiting period both returned.

The lightning forest was the outer region of the lightning clan in this world.

In fact, almost all of the powerful and influential factions in the Danyang world have what is referred to as this “Louter” Region. It might be more suitable to liken it to some sort of business representative in the glasses of the modern world now.

The Fire Clan had the Valley of memories as their outer region. While the Land Clan placed its outer region in the western wasteland, and the Lightning Clan had the lightning forest in the Hidama empire as their outer region.

The outer region, is actually not part of this world, in the sense that it is an artificial ‘ecosystem’ system that maintains the natural properties of the Danyang world.

This outer region, was a kind of special spatial space created by a great power. It did not rule out the possibility that it was a power belonging to people with godly abilities.

These outer regions, then placed in certain places around the world are adapted to the circumstances.

Therefore, the region of the Valley of Memories, the Lightning Forest, and the point of the outer region of the Land Clan in the Western Desert were impossible to find randomly by ordinary humans.

“We cannot use any type of teleportation to reach that region. In fact, we can't even use our Daht energy power there. The strange nature of the lightning there was suppressing Daht's energy and all spatial deviations. So, The only way is to enter normally by walking”

Princess Nakano seems to quite understand the so-called lightning forest.

They finally flew towards the nearby region of the lightning forest and stopped outside a radius of two kilometers from the forest.

I heard, that one of the crown princes of the great sect called the Eastern Dragon, was once imprisoned here for intending to thwart the marriage of the clan head's son to his former lover.

The Eastern Dragon Sect, could not do anything because the Crown Prince was only imprisoned, not killed. Moreover, the strength of the two was also not much different. Finally They were forced to exchange the crown prince for a large ransom to the Lightning clan.” daughter Nakano explained while leading the way.

Then he continued his explanation

“Except the higher-ups and elders of the Clan, no one is allowed to enter. The only way for us now is to infiltrate. But, it was at risk of provoking the anger of the Lightning clan. The Lightning Clan and the Fire Clan had no grudges between the two. Not good for us to start conflict”

“We did not come to conflict. So leave those complicated things to me. When things go not according to plan, we just have to use a little trick..” Gentayu spoke confidently.

After a few minutes of walking, they finally found the starting point of the lightning forest.

The eyes of ordinary people, would only see the steep rock mountain cliffs. But in Gentayu's eyes, the stone cliff was clearly a giant curtain of energy that encompassed an extremely wide area.

The area covered by the energy curtain was the forest of lightning.

The two of them walked closer to the mountain. However, just as they were about to touch the cliff, a rebuking sound rang out above their heads.

“Supply! Who would dare to try to enter our lightning forest territory without permission?!” Figures

the silver robes floated down. His eyes stared at Gentayu's body and Nakano's daughter was full of probing.

Little ripples of lightning electricity occasionally appeared on the body of this silver-robed figure, akin to clearly visible threads of lightning.

Gentayu realized the strength of the person before him was not weaker than him. Likely, the person he faced was one of the person in charge of this place.

“I'm sorry, Senior. I didn't mean to be presumptuous to enter your lightning forest. Your clan certainly views this forest as a territory that no one should violate.”.

Gentayu spoke while cupping his hands forward, towards the figure instead of bowing as is the custom of the people of the Hidama as a form of respect for others.

Princess Nakano beside him had whispered the identity of this silver-robed figure before, that this person was from the Huang nation.

“My name is Gentayu. From the distant land of Dwpantara. While this is my sister, Nakano's daughter. We beg to be allowed to train inside this lightning forest.” Gentayu stepped forward as he introduced himself.

The silver-robed figure was slightly surprised to hear the name of princess Nakano being called. However, the silver-robed figure did not show his expression. Only his hand stiffened for a moment before it calmed down again.

“Oh, so this sister from Dipantara, this madam is the daughter of the emperor's disciple from Sabrang Geni? If I can guess, Gentayu's sister is a person from the Fire Clan also ‘khan?”

It turned out that the silver-robed figure showed a more friendly change of attitude after Gentayu introduced himself.

“You could say so..” Gentayu smiled as he cupped his hands back forward.

“But I'm not Madam! I'm Miss!” On the contrary, Nakano's daughter fiercely denied and looked away as the gentayu confirmed the silver-robed man.

“Hahahaha... ! Little sister, Madam uh, Miss Nakano. I'm the old one, I'm sorry. My name is Lei Ziang, the lightning protector here. Incidentally, master Sabrang Geni is also my sister's teacher, Lei You Won. Miss Nakano might call him Yono. Haha.. Sabrang Geni completely changed my sister's name.”

Lei Ziang laughed heartily as he remembered his younger brother who also studied with Sabrang Geni, Gentayu's father.

While Gentayu smiled amusedly hearing his father change the name of Lei Ziang's sister, Nakano's daughter looked pouted.

That's because it turns out, Sabrang Geni also called Nakano's daughter by the name “Nak Keno”.