KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

The Ghost II Attack

Two figures floated against the speed of the crowd ‘hantu’ who seemed to be directed to attack the house of the population. Gentayu recognized the two figures as Kardak and Winamar, two elder warriors from the Green Bamboo college. Both are not much of a stale. Kardak lunged at the ghosts with his sword. The energy on the sword turned into flashes of lightning that annihilated every ghostly figure that came into contact with it. There was an explosive sound every time his sword energy managed to exterminate those ghosts. While Winamar with his green stick tried to break through the ghost crowd to attack the three black shadows controlling the ghosts.

Gentayu who was observing from a distance not too far frowned. This young man discovered that the ghost-like crowd was actually not a ghost, but merely a change in the form of energy that was manipulated and disguised as a ghost. If a ghost has its own spirit so that it moves with its own will, it should even have its own mind so that it should disperse itself when attacked. But not the ghosts he sees today. They are fully mobile according to the hand movements of the controllers.

The three black shadows as the controllers of the ghosts turned out to work as a team. One person on duty ‘creating’ those ghosts. One person as the controller, and the other as their guard. Everything is not spared from the foresight of Gentayu eyes that until now his presence has not been realized by both the three black shadows and the two Green Bamboo Elders.

The conclusion Gentayu could draw was, the three were a group of high-scientific assassins. They deliberately disguise his murder by using ‘ghosts’nya so that their action is not detected. And all this time it was. The murder they did not smell, but was only considered a mysterious disease that attacked at night, in fact their energy released as ghosts was the weapon they killed. But what is their purpose?

‘the only way to find out is to snatch one of them alive’ Gentayu thought.

He immediately darted and got involved in the fight. The strength of these three black shadow attackers might not be as high as him or the two Green Bamboo Elders, so it should be easier to snatch them without killing.

Gentayu lunging figure ‘creator’ these ghosts. According to his observations, this figure should be the strongest. He immediately exchanged moves with the figure. While not far from him, Wanamar has also managed to face the figure who acts as the guardian of the two shadow figures.

A sizable deep energy-plated tread punch released by the ghostly creator's figure managed to land smoothly on Gentayu's body. However, the ghost creator figure was surprised to see Gentayu smilingly receiving his punch. A smile that immediately made his opponent's face turn bad. It turned out that Gentayu had indeed deliberately allowed his opponent to net his punch without any intention of dodging. The blow that should have made a buffalo die did not impact anything on Gentayu's body. The Fire Dragon Shield he wielded really worked well protecting him. While Gentayu's right fist is now in his opponent's heart.

‘BUM!’

The figure was blown away as the gentayu snapped his fist. A white flash was seen emanating from the fist before his opponent bounced off. Gentayu casually approached his opponent's body, gripped his neck, and rained down on his opponent's face with punches that knocked out his teeth and crushed his jawbone. It is easy if Gentayu wants to kill the figure, but that is not the goal.

“Aaaaa...aaak......!!” heard the scream of death not far from where Gentayu hit the figure of ‘creator’ ghost. It turned out that the voice came from his two colleagues who had been decapitated by the Green Bamboo elders, Kardak and Winamar.

“Heh, did you hear? I could easily kill you if I wanted to. But it seems, after what you did to these villagers, that death will only be a gift to you.” Gentayu looked at his opponent's eyes without releasing his grip on the figure's neck. The distance between the two faces is less than one. The cold gentlemanly gaze turned out to be able to make his opponent shudder in horror.

“Already, just finish him off. Let's get it done quickly!” there was the voice of Winamar the Green Stick Swordsman behind Gentayu. Gentayu did not turn his head, instead he raised his opponent's body high..

‘SNAKE!!’

I heard the sound of a broken bone. It turned out to be a bone in the upper arm of the ghost creator.

“Kill... just kill..... i..!!” the ghost creator cried out in despair. He could not resist and was not sure he could get out of the painful situation.

“I told you. Death is a gift to you, isn't it? I will grant your request, on condition that you say who you are and what you are planning!” Gentayu replied firmly while throwing the body of his prey on the ground violently making the guts of the ghost creator shrivel.

‘Brug!’

Kardak and Winamar looked at each other, then both nodded. They realized that the young man's move to extract information and not directly kill the enemy who is now a prisoner is the right action. They both just realized that there should be a certain purpose why the plot of these three people carried out acts of death terror so far.

When Gentayu was about to suppress the enemy who had now been completely helpless in his hands to get information, suddenly heard the cries of residents not far from the place.

“Tolooooong....!!”

the screams are getting more and more crowded. Initially there were only a few, then more cries for help from the residents.

“Serangaaaaaan....!!”

“Aaaaaaaaa...!!”

The screams of pain of the residents began to sound. Gentayu immediately ‘secured his captive’ by tying him up and throwing him into a well belonging to nearby residents, then moving following the two Green Bamboo elders towards the source of the increasingly crowded sound.

Gentayu floated on the roofs of the houses. Witnessing the commotion and the citizens who started running to and fro fled from their homes. Behind them, dozens of people in torn-up clothes and dirty and foul-smelling bodies chased after and tried to capture the population that could be achieved. It seemed that the disciples of the Green Bamboo Shoe together with their two elders had engaged in a fight against these strange people.

Waitaminute! They were not humans, precisely the people who invaded the village were not living humans. They are the bodies of people who have been killed in the past two months as victims of mysterious deaths. Yes, they are undead! They move as nimble as warriors at the beginner level. Yet their strength was equivalent to the strength of a late level two swordsman. Some could even compensate for the strength of the early Madya Swordsman.

Gentayu's face became bad. She was a disciple of the great grandmother, the Swordsman of the Silver Moon. The warrior explained that in this world there are forces of darkness that are able to control and make living corpses as soldiers and weapons. Are these dead bodies part of the armies and weapons of certain black groups? Isn't it impossible that these corpses rose themselves from their graves and made such a riot?

Gentayu wanted to study the situation further, but not too far from where he floated to see a pregnant woman was being captured by one of the undead. Without waiting, his sword slashed through the air towards the undead who were capturing the pregnant mother.

‘Jresss...!’

The undead body was split in two. The pregnant woman who was helped actually screamed and immediately fainted to see the contents in the body of a corpse in the form of maggots and rotten fluid was scattered around his body. Gentayu swiftly caught the body of the pregnant woman and took her to a further place so as not to be reached by the undead. Then returned to the battlefield, killing more of the other undead along with the thousand bamboo swordsman and the green stick swordsman and his disciples.

Fierce fighting broke out on the night which was only illuminated by the half-moon. The village chief who then appeared immediately seemed busy leading and directing his citizens to evacuate themselves with his aides. While the number of undead coming continues to grow. Today, more than 50 undead have been seen attacking. Those who had been killed were about a dozen to twenty. The cooperation between the warriors effectively reduced quickly the number of undead invading the village.

Suddenly the air around the battleground turned heavy.

The magic swordsmen from Green Bamboo and Gentayu themselves felt their breath slightly tight and their movements became slowed down. While those who were below the level of the Swordsman Madya some of them had lost consciousness.

“Hahahaha.!” a deafening sound of laughter suddenly rang out in the dark night air, followed by a whirl of cold wind that suddenly blew fiercely out of nowhere.