KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)
Mazandaran
The old woman who looked still strong enough stood up. Walking towards the window, and standing his back to Gentayu who was staring at his back with a very high curiosity.
“Tuition Gate Guard?” Gentayu repeated the women's words calling the name of the group of warriors referred to as the ancestors of his teacher.
Then she turned around, walked over and sat back in her wooden chair. He took a deep breath before he started telling stories.
The Seven Gatekeepers, are an alliance or association of great warriors in order to carry out a great mission together. The mission was to defeat and destroy the power of Mislan Katili, the strongest man of his time who was titled as the King of Darkness. Mislan Katili himself was a king who lived and became the king of a great kingdom in the Middle Continent. The Central Continent itself was another large landmass that was far from the Great Golden Island where Gentayu lived today.
The kingdom led by Mislan Katili was actually not too big at first. The kingdom was founded by nomads after conquering several cities around Lake Mazandara, a lake whose banks are almost invisible because of its vastness. This huge lake was located in the region of the Central Continent. Because of its location on the shores of Lake Mazandara, this kingdom is also known as the kingdom of Mazandaran by outsiders even though its original name is the kingdom of Hyrcania.
Its vast territory with very abundant resources made the kingdom's society prosperous at first. But because of the basic temperament of this nation that is very warlike, making the wealth of the country can not be enjoyed by the people of the government. State budgets have always been more to finance war than they have been used to boost the prosperity of its people.
In fact, often the reigning king had to raise his people's taxes just to cover the cost of the war. Ironically, these wars are often triggered by greed and the character of the fighting hobby of these rulers. The reason for starting a war is not always a matter of territorial expansion or defending the sovereignty of the country. War is often waged only because of trivial problems, such as the Princess of King Mazandaran who lost beautiful from other royal princesses. The people of the two warring countries ended up suffering the most as a result of the war.
This condition experienced its peak when Mislan Katili ascended the throne.
Mislan Katili who ascended the throne by taking power from the rightful king is not a descendant of the king or comes from a noble family. He is not even believed to be part of the human race. At least, she was present in this world through an egg that fell from the sky, not by being born a mother from the marriage of a man to a woman as is common to man. That is what is recorded in ancient manuscripts that can be studied and spread to date in various libraries throughout the country.
In the ancient texts it is mentioned, upon his arrival to this world, the sky suddenly turned dark. Thick clumped black clouds covered the sunlight all of a sudden. Strong winds and storms swept the land accompanied by thunderous rain of lightning. Then from behind the black clouds in the sky, a gigantic hot fireball shot out and crashed into the earth. The place that was hit by the giant fireball turned into a crater and is currently in the southern region of Mazandaran or Hyrkania. After the fireball was cold, it turned out that leaving sparkling golden eggs invited human greed to approach. Therefore even then, the three kingdoms around Mazandaran must be destroyed by the war for gold eggs as big as a horse carriage that is not stopping to light up. Of course predictably, after the destruction of the three kingdoms, it was the Mazandaran kingdom that then ruled the former territory of the three kingdoms and brought golden eggs to his kingdom. They did not realize that they were bringing calamity and disaster into the royal palace.
The golden egg from the sky was then placed in the royal square as a symbol of the wealth and glory of the kingdom. But the oddity that was originally considered a miracle began to occur after the first full moon of the golden egg was in the royal square. Everyone who touches the golden egg, if they have the disease, will recover instantly. No matter how bad the disease. While people without disease, when touching it will find his body much stronger, more energetic and healthy.
Of course this miracle soon became an interesting thing for the entire kingdom. Since it was widely known, then the soldiers get the priority of touching the golden egg to get strength and cure the disease suffered. Of course, the goal is to start a war with a new power immediately.
After the second full moon, another strange thing happened. The egg stopped healing and gave strength. The egg was precisely as if sucking the life energy of other residents who had not touched the egg before. They, suddenly experienced a sense of weakness without energy. Many of them fainted in the street. Initially the doctors of megira were in an outbreak. But they soon realized it was related to the golden eggs because the victims were those who had absolutely no access to the royal square.
Not only that, it turns out that all the babies who are being conceived suddenly disappeared on the third full moon, followed by the widening of ‘wabah’ which makes people lose their life energy abruptly.
The palace began to panic. Intentions to attack other kingdoms after feeling the soldiers and troops grew stronger was canceled. Soldiers with strength above normal humans began to be ordered to destroy the golden eggs that were considered the bearers of the disaster. Not only was it unbreakable, even the egg was actually increasingly emitting black energy that was getting stronger after the magic swordsmen helped.
On the fourth full moon, the golden egg turned pitch-black after nearly half of the people who lived inside the royal walls died in terrible conditions. A body that only leaves bones clad in skin without life energy even before they die. They just dry out.
King Mazandaran immediately evacuated all relatives and residents of the palace, along with all the remaining soldiers and citizens to get out of the royal wall. They fled to the east, towards the border region with the Hidama empire.
The Middle Continent did consist of many kingdoms and three great empires, namely the Hidama empire in the eastern part which was located on the Sea coast with the region encompassing the major islands in the east, the, The Huang Empire on the mainland, and the Tatar Empire that controlled the region of the highest mountain range. All three although competing in many ways but always refrain from getting into war with each other. In addition to the three empires, there were also many kingdoms. These kingdoms were partly subordinate to the empire and partly independent. Mazandaran was one of the independent kingdoms with a territory almost equal to the Hidama empire.
Meanwhile, the golden egg that had now turned pitch-black suddenly cracked from within. There was a purple light coming out from the crack. As the crack grew wider, the purple light that radiated also grew larger. When the egg broke, there was a creature standing. He is Mislan Katili.
Mislan Katili looks like a normal human being. His body was tall and perfectly sturdy. Curly hair with pale white skin similar to bone. Of course the thing that distinguished him from ordinary humans was that the skin was extremely hard and impenetrable to weapons. His eyes were all black, increasingly convincing that he was indeed not like an ordinary human.His body radiated a powerful force that even the vibrations of his energy could be felt from a thousand meters away for ordinary people. Of course for warriors who can even feel the vibration of other swordsman energy when ordinary humans are not aware of it, the energy radiance of Mislan Katili can certainly be felt in a very long distance though.
Mislan Katili floated from her already split egg shell. When he came out of the egg shell, the egg shell disappeared just like that somewhere.
Mislan Katili then looked up and pointed to the sky, then exclaimed loudly...
His voice was in the sky. The energy radiance accompanying his voice made his voice even audible up to a radius of tens of kilometers away. All the animals that were flying in the sky were forced to stop flapping their wings because of the sound of the sound. If there were a human standing near Mislan Katili at this time, seeing him laughing would have fainted and even died. How not, his grin when laughing shows a row of sharp teeth that are terrible. Like a shark in its smaller size.
After saying so, mislan katili said out loud:
“My team, Back you guys!”
As these words were spoken, far outside the palace walls, the scattered refugees including the soldiers and the relatives and dignitaries of the palace suddenly pecked. Their bodies suddenly cannot be controlled by their minds. Then, their bodies turned around and walked back towards the palace, fulfilling the call of Mislan Katili, the King of Darkness.
It took a few days before the first wave of refugees with lost consciousness arrived back at the Mazandaran sitana. A month later, all the refugees, including the king and his family, returned to his palace. But they returned not as rulers, but as slaves of Mislan Katili.
Apparently, the healing and health effects of the golden egg at the beginning of its arrival were a way to completely take over the human body that received its power. While those who died, are those who did not have time to feel the efficacy of the golden egg.
Of course there are still many survivors. They did not take part in the energy of his life and did not return to be called as slaves Mislan Katili. They were royal citizens outside the city walls, including warriors from sects and colleges who had not visited the capital for the past four months. It was they who then mobilized the power to destroy the evil forces of Mislan Katili and his army in the future.
Mislan Katili along with his army which later became a nearly invincible army began to destroy the kingdom around Mazandaran. The difference is that this time, they fought not only to control and expand the territory, but also to enslave the conquered citizens. Terror and fear always accompany this black army wherever the earth they stop. Because they now even make killing no longer as a means of proving strength alone, but killing as part of life. No matter what the soldiers or the ordinary villagers attacked, even the bayipun they would kill as long as they met.
At the beginning of his reign, Mislan Katili used refugees, especially soldiers, as his main force. In the ensuing development, this army of unconscious humans killed many. Since then, a new division has emerged in the forces of Mislan Katili, the Division of the Living Corpses who hunt, kill and terror without mercy and difficult to stop even without intelligence. Then from when, came the third division consisting of strange animals and creatures that also move as an army and terrorize humans.
The cruising power of this army even reached the border with the Hidama and Huang empires, thus causing resistance from these empires and the kingdoms below. But the growing power of Katili's Mislan army, especially his undead army harvested from every war by his followers made the two empires desperate. Slowly the territories of both empires were annexed and terror became more widespread. The murder continues. Humans are on the verge of extinction.
“So, I mean grandma, Mislan Katili's army is so strong and big because it consists of corpses and strange animals?” Gentayu interrupted the old woman's story in the middle of her story.
“True. But then Mislan Katili no longer controls his own troops. There were many black stream warriors who served and took advantage of the Dark King. It was these, who then controlled the undead army, as well as creating new armies of humans that they managed to kill from generation to generation.
“Then, why haven't I heard this story, grandma?” Gentayu asked innocently again.
‘LOT!’ a punch from a broom handle dropped by his head.
“Aduh.. why did grandma hit me?” his protest while holding his bumpy head later.
“That's a gift because you didn't study the book your teacher left so well! This story, must be in all the martial books on the island of Gold rice during the Fire. Basic slacker!” the spread to Gentayu.
Gentayu was just a whiny because everything this old woman said was true. As a wandering disciple, he had indeed inherited a copy of the Golden Sun Book. The story of Mislan Katili is found in the chapter Mukaddimah which of course is not read by Gentayu.
“Because I know you didn't read it, then I told you this. Heh, kunyuk! Why don't you ask how I know you didn't read your book correctly, heh?” The woman again ranted over Gentayu's unresponsiveness to the oddity he showed.
“Eh, yes... how, Grandma? How can grandma know?” timidly and fearfully Gentayu ventured to ask.
“Of course because I mastered the Science of the Silver Moon, a partner of the science of the Golden Sun, fool!”
Replied annoyed. “Let me tell you about myself. Now I will finish the story behind this jade pendant.”
