KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)
Ghost Attack
‘Sometu’ it turns out is a small bottle of pottery that instantly breaks when it comes into contact with a hard object. More precisely explodes.
‘Blup!’
And within a split second, a thick white smoke immediately enveloped the air around the two remaining Ghost Centipede members.
One of the women involved in the fight realized what was happening.
“Retreat! Watch Out For Poisons!” his shout loudly and accompanied with his lightning-fast movement threw the small weapons towards the thick smog in the place where the two Ghost centipedes were.
‘Zhink..Zhink..Zhink.. !
‘Dar..! Dar..! Dar..!’
Descension was heard as the weapon slid from the woman's hand. Then followed by a series of explosive sounds. It appeared that three weapons thrown by the woman hit the target behind the thick smoke.
Two Green Bamboo elders, Gentayu and the two women both stayed away from the thickening smoke. One of the women is quite understanding how the smoke poison works as well as being able to give the right response very quickly.
The smoke poison was used as a diversion before escaping. Behind the thick smoke, users usually take advantage of the opportunity to escape while giving a surprise attack before escaping. But it seems that this time the Ghost Centipede swordsman lost quickly to his opponent. If in this country maybe such a trick will be effective because it has not been widely known as a trick to outwit the opponent, but not for the two female warriors. In their home country, smoke poison weapons were even overpowered by novice warriors.
As the smoke began to dissipate, two additional bodies were seen lying at the site. One corpse with the condition of the face is destroyed and charred, in both hands there are two throwing knives that he has not had time to throw because it was preceded by his opponent. Another one was face down with the back of his body, right at the waist, shattered leaving a hole piercing into the front of his body. It seemed that this second man was ready to escape if he did not lose quickly from his opponent's weapon.
Gentayu and the two Green Bamboo elders looked at each other. They were amazed by the way they fought and the alertness of the women who were with them at this time. They have a new understanding, that this poison effectively paralyzes the opponent but its users have immunity to the poison itself. Probably because they swallowed the antidote.
The night begins to darken as they convince each other that all the enemies have been wiped out. Gentayu without permission immediately picked up all the weapons from his four opponents
‘Smuch good weapon. Unfortunately if not used’ Inner Gentayu while putting the weapons as if behind his clothes, but actually the weapons go to ‘Gelang Gerobok’nya.
He then proceeded to examine their corpses. Take all the things that are behind the clothes of the corpses.
‘ Turns out they are rich too’ muttered Gentayu when he found out from each of the corpses some gold and silver coins, precious medicines and some kind of poison following the antidote.
Seeing the young man's behavior, of course, made the two Yellow Bamboo Elders curse in their hearts because they lost quickly and too ‘sopan’ as parents.
“Mr Swordsman, and uncle both, thank you for helping us both. I am Yumiko, and this is my younger brother Kasuza. Thank you again for your help” Both women interrupted Gentayu's 'looting' action and the two Green Bamboo Elders who were still gawking at him. The two female warriors then bowed slightly saluting Gentayu, Kardak and Winamar.
Kardak and Winamar soon realized from their plonga-plongo. They smiled with a red face in shame, Kardak even wiped the corner of his mouth because he was worried that there was drool dripping.
“Sorry, Miss and Young Swordsman. How about we go to the village first. It's already night time. If both the lady and the master swordsman were to rest, I thought we could rest at the village chief's house only. We can talk further there. How?” Kardak, the vice-chairman reminded.
“Ah yes.true. Grandpa.. uh, I mean uncle!. I'm Gentayu. Sorry tonight I can't seem to meet my uncle's invitation. I will spend the night at my brother's house in the village later. Miss both, you better take a break tonight. Can choose, want to rest at the village head's house or in my brother's hut. Coincidentally, my sister is a girl too.” Gentayu subtly refused the invitation of the two Green Bamboo Elders. Instead he invited the two women he helped to also stop and spend the night at the Lestini residence, the person referred to as his brother in the village.
“Oh, baguage. So this young master swordsman has a family in the village of Air Ketuan as well? All right then. I hope you will share your story tomorrow morning. We are friends of Ki Brajawana as well. hahaha.” Kardak no longer tells the story.
It's better for them to rest tonight because tomorrow they have to find the perpetrator of the persecution one of the warriors who was also their best student, Kulais. They no longer mince words to Kasuza and Yumiko, because they feel they have no interest whatsoever. Their initial intention to help Gentayu was indeed because Gentayu must be a student of ki Brajawana. That's all and nothing more. Another problem, obviously they do not want to interfere as long as it is not related to their spanking.
Both of them immediately left.
The two women initially refused to go to the village. They want to continue their journey tonight. But the loss to their body and mind does need to be rested. They are too tired to continue their mission. The three of them walked together towards the village.
Not far away, when it was almost to the edge of the forest, the three had been greeted by the village chief who came with his aides. Earlier the village chief had been told by Kardak and Winamar about Gentayu and the two women. The village head again offered his hand to entertain the three with the two yellow bamboo elders. But Gentayu rejected him on the grounds that he would come to the village chief's house in the morning. Gentayu still has to do something to his two adopted sisters, Lestini and Jasri tonight.
After all, the main reason for being in this village is because of his curiosity about the mystery of the deaths of villagers that occur almost every night. And it would be better if some of the questions were revealed to the village chief while walking. The five of them walked through the darkness of the night with the help of torch lighting held by the village chief's aide. But until the five separated, the information Gentayu received from the village chief was no more than he got from the village gatekeepers this afternoon.
After a long walk, the group finally separated. The village chief and his aides decided to turn the road to his house, while Gentayu, Sakuza and Yumiko continued their journey back to Lestini's residence behind the former village market.
When Gentayu, Sakuza and Yumilo arrived, Jasri was waiting for him at the door of his hut. She learns that Gentayu will be back that night because her brother, Lestini who said it when he came home from playing and looking for gentayu. He's been waiting for Gentayu since the afternoon. The boy refused to go to sleep as he usually was excited to meet Gentayu again. Smile sumringah boy they saw Gentayu coming with two women who are not known.
Gentayu then introduces Yumiko and Sakuza, then briefly recounts the events the three experienced. Lestini was so amazed to hear Gentayu's story about the two mighty women. Suddenly, his desire to be as strong as both women. Gentayu told him according to what he heard directly from Sakuza that the two of them were people from the Nidama Empire, Far away in the Central continent. They came to this region because they were completing missions from the sect they came from.
After finishing with the story, Gentayu intended to go to the fireplace to prepare a meal mala for all, but the intention was undone because on the table all the groceries he left behind turned out to have been in a ready-to-eat condition. Gentayu turned to Lestini and the little girl smiled as she nodded. Then Lestini as the host invited all the residents of the house to eat before resting.
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That night, after checking Lestini's physical condition and concocting some other medicinal plants to drink Lestini, Gentayu did not intend to sleep. The two female warriors from the Nidama empire also did not tell much. They choose to rest and immediately sleep in one corner of the room whose condition is indeed concerning it. Gentayu himself chose to meditate to recover his physical and strength after believing that the condition of his adoptive sister was getting better after taking his concoction drugs.
As the night wore on, Gentayu stopped his meditation. His instincts told him that something big was going to happen in the village tonight. So, without waiting any longer, he immediately came out secretly so as not to disturb the rest of the two brothers and their guests.
Gentayu jumped on the roof and his shadow flashed between the roofs of the houses. Gentayu's only goal is one, finding clues or anything related to the deaths each night of the residents. Currently is the second month of terror death experienced by the villagers of Air Ketuan. More than 50 people have been victims. Gentayu is determined to help this village as much as possible so that the terror of death can be overcome immediately.
Gentayu chose to wait. He chose a place by assuming he was the one who controlled the ghosts to attack. Then the person should control the creatures from a hidden place but still be able to see everything. So the highest place was chosen but hidden from view.
An hour, two hours, up to three hours Gentayu lurked from the top of a tall coconut tree in the middle of the village, suddenly his sharp eyes caught another movement on the roofs of the houses. Three black shadows like floating from one roof to the other not far from the hiding place. Gentayu immediately floated down following the movement of the three shadows but still keeping his distance. The three shadows continued to float between the houses of the citizens with a quick movement.
Suddenly the shadow stopped on the roof of a chicken farm owner's house. In the middle of the silence that night, the three made a series of movements like a stance. Soon, one, two, three, six, nine sprang up and more white figures floated around the three.
‘Hmmm.. These are apparently the so-called ghost controllers by the gatekeepers this afternoon.’ Gentayu recalled the words of the village gatekeeper this afternoon about the fight against the ghosts that seemed to be controlled.
The white figures are increasing in number. Then with his right hand, one of the three black shadows pointed to the sky, then his index finger pointed in one direction. All the 'ghosts' were moving in the direction of the hand from the black shadow towards a resident house.
'Wezzzzzz....!'
Gentayu was just about to move against the movement of the 'ghosts' when from the other direction shot flashes of energy that hit the collection of 'ghosts' that formed like thick white clouds that were marching..
'BOMAN!'
'BOMAN!'
'BOMAN!'
The sound of explosions was heard as the energy lesion came into contact with the 'ghost' set.
