KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Teliksandi

Gentayu was still glued to where he stood while looking at the tombstone with a prasati whose name was engraved on it. That was when, his sharp ears were faintly heard the sounds of fighting in the distance.

“Is that night's battle not finished?” Gentayu began to get dizzy when he had to guess the situation that he could not understand at all.

How not, he woke up inside a stone cave in the care of the magic swordsman, Lightning Finger. Over the next few days, he managed to recover his strength even becoming the warrior's disciple. Suddenly, he came back to this place. Not only did he return to this Air Ketuan village, he was now exactly in his former arena last time fighting the Devil's Coral just like that. Confusion enveloped his heart at this moment. So when he heard the sound of fighting, he also had to ascertain whether the battle was really part of the battle he had experienced some time ago.

‘It's night? I parted ways with Miss Han's teacher, wasn't it daytime? Does, that mean that Grandpa Cik Han lives in a different world like the world of Grandma Moon Silver when he met me?’

Not wanting to dwell in his own mind, Gentayu immediately darted towards the source of the sound of the fight was heard. It turns out that it is located quite far from the edge of the village of Air Ketuan. Gentayu did not realize that now his sense of hearing has increased very sharply, even much sharper than the ears of animals though. How could he possibly hear the sounds of fighting that were even further away from the distance of the village end to the other end of the village from the village of Air Ketuan?

Upon arriving at the battle site, Gentayu saw a swordsman being ganged up on by six other people. Surprisingly, the seven people who were fighting were wearing the same uniform, which was a uniform with red on the robe and black red striped on the trousers section of the Devil Hair college.

However, after careful attention, only six brakers use a uniform stance in formation. While the swordsman who is dkeroyok appears to use different styles. Surprisingly, Gentayu seems familiar with the style used by the swordsman who was gangred.

‘Si Dandun?’ Gentayu muttered a name that he remembered as the owner of the moves exhibited by the swordsman.

Without waiting any longer, Gentayu immediately plunged into the middle of the arena. His sudden presence managed to prevent a sword that almost managed to stab ‘Si Dandun’ from behind. The warrior did not realize when he avoided the deadly slash that targeted his neck precisely the danger of ambushing from behind. The formation of the loudspeakers collapsed instantly.

“Heh! Who're You? Dare to interfere in the affairs of Devil Hair?!” Protests, warnings, or perhaps it was just an outpouring of anger thrown by one of the six braggarts who turned out to be right from the group of Demon Hair.

The woman clearly mentioned the name Demon Hair as a bluff so that others do not interfere in their affairs. It is widely known, that the name Devil Hair even makes the guts of royal soldiers though.

“And what does it take for Devil Hair to come out of a nest like this? Shouldn't you guys be a secret group?” Gentayu smiled mockingly.

His understanding as a former captain of the teliksandi division towards the black flow groups was quite good. As he remembered, it was very difficult to find those Demon Hair, let alone know the exact location of their plots. Their power is a mystery to the kingdom and the white swordsman.

“Badness, satan plas! Search dead..! A man among the six Demon Hair warriors jumped up and lunged towards Gentayu with an axe in his hand.

But the man had not yet reached the position of Gentayu and the Dandun stood up, his body crashed backward and fell roughly on the rocks that were many slapped in the dry place.

‘Brugh!’

“Hegh..” The sound of enduring pain rang out shortly after his body fell.

The man was instantly killed with some parts of his body having broken bones. The short death, with fresh blood flowing from his mouth made the remaining five people become wary. They did not see the movements of their opponents at all before their comrades were killed just like that.

Dandun faced two of his bullies using his sword. Gentayu himself faced the remaining three with his bare hands. The fight broke out again. Dandun who now only has to face two opponents is still able to compensate for both. In a short time, his sword had clashed several times with his opponent's second weapon in the form of a needle and a small knife. Dandun seemed nimble to avoid his opponent's attacks, while occasionally trying to counterattack and urge them. But apparently, it was not easy to deal with the two black school warriors because their martial arts levels were at almost the same level. Dandun only benefited by the age maturity factor compared to his teenage opponent.

One stroke of Dandun's sword managed to land on the chest of the swordsman armed with needles. The wound he received made the swordsman of the needle inflamed. Then back to attack more fiercely. How not, that needle-armed swordsman is a woman! Of course he felt harassed by the opening of one of his sensitive parts. (It turns out, the misguided flow of hitampun still have a sense of shame self-esteem!).

While Dandun was still busy serving his two opponents, Gentayu had finished off his two opponents without any difficulty. He deliberately left an opponent, a swordsman armed with a large sword for later interrogation. The condition of the swordsman is already very concerning. His entire body was covered in bruises, bruises and there was a slight scorching at some point. Somehow his instincts told him that the Devil's Coral had something to do with this group. Maybe because the clothes worn by these six people were exactly the same as the ghost controllers.

Gentayu sat casually on a collapsed log with his feet stepping on the head of the swordsman he had deliberately left.

‘The ability is not bad. Unfortunately not much developed! The kingdom completely neglects to strengthen itself every soldier!’ Gentayu said inwardly, lamenting the Kingdom which he considered to be lacking attention towards his soldiers.

Gentayu deliberately did not interfere again with the fierce two-on-one fight. For him, the best training was to fight for the life of the enemy. And sure enough, after a while, then, Dandun managed to plunge his sword into the heart of the swordsman armed with a small knife when the swordsman thought his opponent would die hit by his knife which was thrown towards the head and could not be avoided Dandun. Apparently, the mistake was actually made by a female opponent Dandun who had been injured in the open chest. The woman also saw the same opportunity when she saw the head of Dandun without protection so threw her needles with the rest of her inner strength. It turned out that the needles actually collided with a knife thrown by his partner from the opposite direction. That opportunity was used by Dandun to finish off one of his opponents. A blow right to the heart ended the life of the flying blade swordsman who by then had run out of knives in the pocket of his robe.

Realizing that only she was left after seeing Gentayu already sitting down, the female from the Demon Hair was intent on escaping. But just a step away from the battle arena, the great sword of his own partner had slid and hit his back translucent to the front of his body. The woman fell down with blood and died instantly. A tragic death and quite sadistic for humans in general.

“Thank you, Mr Swordsman!” Dandun, that's how the name Gentayu remembered, bowing in salute to Gentayu after walking and spaced quite close. But the attitude of Gentayu who did not reciprocate and even act as if laughing at him made him wrong.

“Have I turned so old that you didn't recognize me?” Gentayu smiled towards the man.

The man seemed to be recalling something as his eyes continued to pay attention to Gentayu's face. Yeah, it seems like that face is not foreign to him. But the man was not even sure of his own vision.

“What... are you, you, Gentayu? Captain Gentayu?” Finally the man recognized Gentayu.

“Hahahaha.. Right fellas! I'm Gentayu!” Gentayu was finally able to laugh freely because he saw the expression of the man he helped.

Dandun, is a member of Teliksandi division that was once led by Gentayu under Senopati Benduriang. They were quite close because Dandun was his younger brother when in the Single Sword. Dandun is also the only teliksandi that comes from the padepokan. As the Swordsman of Madya, Dandun actually had the opportunity to replace the position left by Gentayu. Unfortunately, Dandun made a small mistake in his duties when promoted to replace Gentayu. He got into a ruckus with the son of one of Rakryan's (ministerial-level posts).

They hugged tightly. As an old friend who has not seen each other for several years. Also as gratitude is still found in the condition of survival from death.

Finally, after interrogating their captive swordsman and getting nothing because the swordsman chose to die by biting his own tongue, Dandun and Gentayu decided to leave the place. Along the way to the village of Air Ketuan, they exchanged stories Diwali Dandun who were asked questions by Gentayu. Dandun tells about himself who had to infiltrate with great difficulty into the Devil Hair clippings and dig up information. However, only about a week into being a disciple there, his cover was revealed because it turned out that the Devil Hair had many spies in the surroundings of the soldiers and palace officials. Important information that must be immediately reported by Dandun to Senopati Benduriang and Commander Wiratama is about the destruction of a medium-sized store around this village, bambu Hijau was caused by a coalition invasion between five black flow groups with one of them coming from the island of Padi Perak, namely Segoro Geni. Another important thing to report is that their next plan is to attack the Red Dragon!

Of course these two things are surprising to Gentayu. After all, the Green Bamboo Padepokan is a pretty big one. At least Gentayu had been involved in cooperation when fighting against the army of ghosts and the undead, also together facing the Devil's Coral. Gentayu had also received their help when clashing with the members of the Ghost Centipede some time ago. Hearing this news, without waiting for long, Gentayu immediately say goodbye to his old friend after giving him several medicinal plants as well as how to concoct them for the healing process of his best friend's wounds. There was no longer any reason to delay his trip to the Red Dragon Sect. But wait, why hasn't Ryu's spirit been heard yet? What the hell's going on?

The two then parted ways, and continued their respective missions. Gentayu himself did not tell much about himself. While Dandun himself was reluctant to ask anything to the friend who had been the leader.