KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Return of the Elders

Gentayu lives in the sect ‘Seven Tirai’ up to approximately a month. During that time, many things were learned from the elders of this small sect. During that time, Gentayu sharpened and deepened his knowledge of medicine, especially for non-physical wounds. After all, the Red Dragon sect was famous not for its combat abilities but for their deepening regarding matters relating to spirit and spiritual power.

The lowest level of this sect swordsman could even work as a capable ghost repellent and was difficult for ordinary humans to do. Moreover, this Sect also mastered a wide variety of power sealing techniques and spirit seals, as well, travel sukma raga and the like and other supernatural things that are very difficult to find a match throughout the Golden Rice Island. This made Gentayu remember the life story of Ryu who was finally able to occupy the bodies of some animals thanks to the help of this sect in the past.

Of course Gentayu is not able to explore everything completely. But his knowledge and mastery of the scientific foundations of this sect was clearly still much better than ordinary disciples of this sect in general.

As his contribution to the Seven Curtains sect, Gentayu helped the disciples and some teachers in the sect to improve their martial arts and engineering skills. The sect members who studied to him enthusiastically turned out to be very much after knowing his strength and football lunge all along. Gentayu taught them martial arts and techniques according to their respective characters.

The students were divided into several groups, namely those who pursue self-defense techniques taught the science of Fire Dragon Shield, groups of weapons users, especially swords were given the Single Sword and some refinement of the techniques they mastered, as well as the ones they mastered, as well as a group of women who specifically studied the heritage of the Silver Moon Swordsman.

They were all taken in turn towards the lakefront world for reasons of time. After all, the time Gentayu had was very little, whereas many things had to be done and controlled by sect members. The best option is to teach them all in a place where time can be saved with maximum results.

The happy news came after two weeks this sect occupied its new headquarters.The elders who served outside the sect to save two seals and one ‘ball spirit’ turned out to be all safe except for elder Shou and his team served on the silver rice island.

The Sengkuang elder, elder Min and elder Shin were greeted with joy as they returned to their sect's new headquarters, even though the Sengkuang elder had to go home empty-handed.

Elder Ming and elder Shin who teamed up as a team were lucky enough to successfully snatch ‘Bola Arwah’ from the group of white explorers treasure hunters. The spirit ball itself is in the form of a black crystal that emits a cold but terrible aura so that the explorer group intends to sell the seal to a Palace official, namely the Third prince or Prabu Win's half-brother, the Exorbitant Prince. When elder Ming and elder Shin came and met them, the group was on their way to the palace. Refusing to be bought properly and injuring the Ming elder, they eventually seized him by force.

Later it was discovered after the two met with Sengkuang elders, that the Third Prince was the mastermind and sponsor for black-flow groups. It was from the Exorbitant Prince that the source of funds and resources flowed in large quantities for this black flow to move against and destroy the straight flow groups, including their sects.

Elder Sengkuang himself immediately recognized Gentayu as a young man who faced off with the figure of the holder of one of the seals he failed to get, namely the Devil's Coral. The elder Sengkuang was also aware of the existence of Ryu's spirit in Gentayu's arm. Sengkuang then explained to Gentayu that the condition of Ryu's spirit was injured. Apparently, the wound was obtained when they met the Demonic Coral as well.

“Of course you didn't notice. After this, it is better that your best friend be placed in one of the weapons only. When in the body of life, any spirit will feel pain when the body in which it is sick or injured. Conversely, when the spirit was injured the body it was in did not feel it. Characters like this that make it better placed on weapons only. Especially the heirloom weapons. The heirloom will be able to protect it, as well as the power of the spirit can increase the power of the weapon.” Elder Sengguang who explained the condition of Ryu turned out to be a master of science related to spirits.

“Ah, that's what I want to do actually. At once, if allowed I want to study with the elder.” Gentayu replied with a plea and enthusiasm.

Since then, Gentayu diligently studied the sealing science of the Sengkuang Elders. Of course, it is a high-level science that must be learned from the basic level. But as long as Gentayu could learn about it in the lakeside world, time was not a problem.

Finally, after a month later passed, Gentayu once again managed to improve his abilities. It was not just his ability personally, even the young man had managed to improve the abilities of the entire sect members significantly.

By now, one-third of the senior sect members had emerged as new capable master swordsmen, almost on par with the elders. And there were no more junior members even though they were currently still below the level of an Expert swordsman. With this new power, the Seven Curtain Sect would be able to deal with the onslaught of the combined black flow groups though. Even if the sect lost, but at least the black stream group of its attackers would take tens or even hundreds of years to recover. Truly a powerful force of something called : Time!.

In that time, Gentayu managed to recover Ryu's condition. The wounds that the spirit received from the Demon Coral turned out to be quite fatal. If the elder Sengkuang too late realized, maybe the spirit was now destroyed.

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Meanwhile, the black-flow alliance that was originally about to attack the Red Dragon sect headquarters was careless because it found the former headquarters had been left in a destroyed and charred condition. The heat of the rest of the burning base underground can still be felt up to a week later since the arrival of the figure of the Silver Cloak, Panunggul Sewu.

The black-flow alliance could not even hold more than five minutes in such a stuffy and hot place.

“Setan Pedestal! How could they be destroyed like this? Are there any other groups moving besides us?” Mpu Jangger exclaimed impatiently to the college leaders who accompanied him.

“Ah! Care demon! What matters is that this sect is already destroyed! And we'll just report to the prince. No matter who destroys us, our task is obviously lighter, right? Hahahahaha.” The middle-aged warrior named Gandos or Swordsman Dagger of Satan, representing the Devil Hair chimed in and was greeted by the laughter of the other four leaders of the group.

“Then, what are you waiting for? Let's meet the prince immediately and prepare to take over the palace in full force!” Red Kala fighters looked excited.

Suddenly, in the midst of the discussions on the horses of the leaders of the college, from the rear of their troops were heard the screams of death that continued to grow and crowded.

“Who dares attack us? Are we framed?” The thought of Mpu Jangger.

The situation of the rearguard forces became increasingly chaotic. The sound of the clanking of weapons and energy explosions began to be heard accompanying the screams and screams of the death of the five members of the group. The five leaders of the alliance, namely Mpu Jangger from Segoro Geni, Gandos from the Hair of Satan, Kalapati from Red Kala, Goddess of the Black Rose from the Rose of Upas, and, and Piyut or the Blood centipede swordsman of the Black Centipede simultaneously leaped from above the horse and floated above the heads of his troops towards the source of the chaos on the rear side of the troops.

However, their arrival was immediately greeted by hundreds of fireballs that shot out very quickly and were difficult to follow by the eyes of ordinary humans.

‘Whuzz.. Whuzz.!’

‘Whuzz.. Whuzz.!’

All five were forced to clump together and do several flips in the air to avoid the fireball attacks.

The fireballs failed to hit their targets and pocketed the tops of trees around the place. The trees that were hit by the fireballs immediately burned and became ashes, while the heat that only passed through the bodies of the five leaders of the alliance group was able to scorch their clothes.

“AAAUWWW..!” there was panic from the Black Rose Goddess.