KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Five Phantom Centipedes

Gentayu deliberately chose a restaurant at the end of the village because it was located on the edge of the village's main street. He believes that the restaurant should be commonly visited by residents who pass by, if lucky maybe there will also be tourists who stop by. Of course the goal is to collect information related to ‘mysterious death’ that is being faced by this village. For some reason, he became very interested to help uncover the mystery in this village.

That afternoon, Gentayu was lucky enough because the condition of the tavern was crowded with visitors. Almost all of them were men except for a woman who was sitting in a corner of the tavern with her male counterpart. Both of them were wearing the same uniform as the guards he met at the village gate this afternoon. They are warriors who come from the Green Bamboo store.

Many eyes stared probing as Gentayu entered the tavern. But everything refocused on their respective activities after the gentayu had sat in the store. An old man approached him. He is the shop owner.

“Sorry, sir. What food do you want?” the old man asked in a friendly manner.

“Oh, yes sir. I ordered the featured menu at this store one portion, sir. Drink, ginger warm only, pak” Gentayu mention his order and immediately prepared the store owner.

The store has two female employees with the shop owner. The two women seemed to be his wife and daughter, the old man, the owner of his own shop. Soon enough, Gentayu's order was ready and served. Gentayu immediately ate his food slowly, because the main purpose in this place is only to eavesdrop on the conversation of the visitors to get information that might be useful. But until all visitors have changed with other people, Gentayu has not also got what he wants.

During that time, several times while the tavern was a bit quiet Gentayu asked the tavern owner. Gentayu introduced himself as a distant family Lestini and his sister from the town of Sei Asin. The owner of the shop believes it because indeed both parents are not natives of the village. From the description of the shop owner, Gentayu got additional information other than those that had been heard earlier from the guards at the gate this afternoon. According to the owner of the tavern, for almost two weeks the presence of members of the Green Bamboo store in this village, even mysterious deaths did not decrease.

When he felt his efforts were in vain and wanted to leave the tavern to go around the village, Gentayu heard from a firewood seeker who had just delivered firewood for this tavern from the village forest. The firewood finder said that there were some foreigners dressed in black and that there was a line of black centipedes on the back that he had encountered jumping on the forest trees. Hearing this, Gentayu immediately went from the tavern to the village forest which was meant by firewood seekers. He suspected that the presence of this black flow group like the Black Centipede was related to the mystery of the mysterious deaths of the villagers.

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There is a fierce fight between Sundari, the leader of a group of five members of the Ghost Centipede, and his two hunted women. The two women clearly did not want to risk waiting for the arrival of the Ghost Centipede gang members that would clearly get them in trouble. They then took the initiative to attack before the other members of the ghost centipede arrived. Soon, the riverbank turned into a tense battle area.

All three are in the same level of strength, namely the level of the Swordsman Sakti. But in this fight, it was clear that the two women were superior to Sundari. The man from the Black Centipede continued to be cornered, even though his opponent was in not so good condition.

The two women fought with all their best because they wanted to end the battle immediately and if possible, they would immediately run away before the opponent's plot arrived. While Sundari actually tried to buy time by continuing to avoid every attack of the two women and occasionally give a counterattack. However, the move turned out to be a fatal mistake for Sundari.

Every second was so precious to the two women who were Sundari's opponents, that they attempted to attack with the highest ability as effectively as possible. The leader of this group may still be defeated by ganging him, but it will be different story if his friends have appeared, maybe that's the mind of both. So without a doubt, they continue to slow down each attack with a high level of energy in a large enough amount. If the blow was directed at an elephant, the elephant would be killed in one hit with its bones and internal organs singed out. That was the prowess of those who had reached the level of the Sakti swordsman.

They are aware that attacking in this way will be draining, but the results should also be significant. The attacks of the two women can be avoided Sundari, but the energy that accompanies each movement exerts its own pressure on Sundari's body. On the contrary, even though each blow can be repelled, but every stalk made Sundari, always makes his hands or feet numb even pain due to the use of energy in a big loss from his opponent.

Bruises were seen starting to decorate Sundari's body after the fight lasted dozens of moves, while the expected help has not yet come. Sundari began to get frustrated and intended to start changing the strategy of the fight even though it was a little late. But these two women didn't seem to give her any gap to even just move a little away to take a moment's breath.

The two women realized Sundari's unease. They took advantage of Sundari's indistinctness and so they repeatedly managed to deliver powerful blows to his opponent's body. In the attack that many times, it turns out Sundari was really off guard, the blow of a powerful punch waiting in line his chest mercilessly, and it ended with a loud voice as the palm of one of the women hit Sundari's chest.

‘Dagh..! Dagh's! Blar..!!’

A lightning-like flash struck Sundari's chest and threw him tens of meters back. Sundari fell to the ground after hitting a tree trunk. He immediately tried to get up by holding on to a nearby shrub tree.

Still able to rise after being hit by such a powerful blow, clearly this swordsman's ability is actually quite terrible for ordinary warriors. But unfortunately, he had not been able to stand perfectly, two other larger lightning flashes hit the head on his face..

Sundari was late to dodge or create an energy shield to fend off the two lightning blows. His body bounced back and fell with the head part first.

The scent of charred meat immediately smelled from that place. The head was smashed blackened and charred!

The two women who had managed to defeat his opponent immediately fell to their knees on the ground after checking Sundari's body condition and were convinced that his opponent had been completely killed. They're out of energy. Beating the leveled swordsman Pendekar Sakti turned out to be really draining. Seeing the resistance of his opponent's body to their ultimate blow that should be able to kill an Expert Swordsman level warrior with a single blow, made them feel that their victory this time was only a stroke of luck. They were wondering, why did the Ghost Centipede reinforcements that should have come earlier had not appeared yet?

Their curiosity was answered, when in the dim twilight that was beginning to lead into the night they heard some sounds of energy explosions. It seemed like there was another fight not far from where they were fighting at the moment.

They immediately took out some medicinal granules behind their clothes. They are energy-recovery drugs that they always take with them everywhere. After consuming it and feeling their energy gradually recover slowly, the two immediately moved towards the source of the sound the energy explosions came from. The sound of explosions continued to be heard with a pause not too long between each other.

They were shocked and amazed at the sight before him.

A young man was being ganged up by four black-clad men with centipede emblems behind their backs. The same uniform as Sundari, and obviously they are the other four members of the ghost centipede. It turned out that they did not immediately come to help the leader of his group because it was blocked by this young man. Yes, that young man was none other than Gentayu.

Judging from the scars of the fight that began to be vaguely seen because the darkness of the night began to fall in the forest, it was clear that the fight occurred not long after the fight of the two women with Sundari. The trees around the place fell creating a large field. Most of the trees collapsed in charred conditions, some were broken near the base either because of weapons or large energy hits.

Gentayu did indeed immediately move from the store after getting information about the whereabouts of people he predicted as Black Centipede people. One of the black stream groups that he had to exterminate. In addition because they are the ones who destroyed the village of his birth and the population including his family, this group is also seen involved in the attack on the Golden Sun siege some time ago. Even if it cannot destroy them directly, reducing their numbers is also good enough, Gentayu thought.

These two women were still stunned by the battle that was happening before him.

Gentayu single-handedly against four swordsmen who look like his ability is equivalent to Sundari. The difference is Sundari when fighting was not focused so it can be defeated fast enough. While the four people that Gentayu fought looked to fight with maximum strength. The moves and blows accompanied by powerful energy that Sundari could not be seen began to be issued by the four people. Sometimes Gentayu pressed, but at other times the fourth turn of his opponent who was confused. The fight really went on very quickly and was difficult to follow the eye.

“Adik, if the man we managed to defeat fights with his maximum ability, can we still defeat him?” The woman who looked more senior asked her younger colleague, just to reassure her.

“Could of course be sister. But maybe at this time our fight should not be finished and maybe also we will not be able to get out of here safely.” His younger colleague revealed his observations.

“Then, are we going to help that young man, sis?” it was the senior's turn to be asked.

“Yes, we should help him. After all, we owe him our lives. If at this time I'm sure the young man can still keep up with them. But the end result is not sure. We should recover before helping him. Faster is better. Night is not a friend for us.” The senior immediately took a cross-legged sitting position followed by his partner.

They immediately meditated recuperating and maximizing the absorption of the medicinal properties they had just consumed.

Meanwhile, the fight between Gentayu and his four opponents grew fiercer.

Gentayu had even taken out his weapon, the sword of Satam. On the other hand, his own opponents had been since a while ago wielding their respective weapons.