KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Trident Stone II

Benduriang and Mahapatih Dangku looked at each other. Dare not to ask and reluctant to ask even though very curious. Eventually the two of them chose to remain silent while watching what was to come next. Gentayu itself seems a little confused to see the cube-shaped object for the first time changed with a completely different shape. Disc.

Seeing that there was a basin on the trident-like piece of rock that was very identical to the shape and size of the disc in his hand, Gentayu tried to stick and match the two. It's strange! If the trident rock was originally coated with protective energy with a very strong repulsion so that it cannot be touched, now the opposite happens. The rock was precisely as if it was about to suck the hand of Gentayu holding the disc as it was brought closer towards its basin. The closer the attraction gets the stronger. Eventually the disc clung perfectly to the circular basin on the neck of the trident stone.

Nothing happens next.

Silent.

Gentayu wobbly, Benduriang and Mahapatih Dangku just frowned. Waiting for something magical to happen.

Nothing happened at all.

Second, two seconds, five seconds, ten seconds...

When Benduriang and Mahapatih Dangku thought about turning around because nothing happened after waiting for more than a minute in silence, the earth where they stood suddenly shook quite strongly.

“Forge!!” Benduriang said half yelling at Mahapatih Dangku.

Mahapatih of course knew that it was an earthquake, but there was something more interesting going on.

The trident stone suddenly emitted a very bright light. The sun was shining while staring at him during the day. Very blinding to the eyes and feels warm tend to be hot. Gentayu's body standing nearby was not even visible because the dazzling light was indeed encircling his body and the area around the trident rock.

Lokajaya who had been playing alone until standing watching the phenomenon from a distance before running to approach the two confidants of his late father.

Benduriang and Rambang Dangku who were trying to protect their eyes from the dazzling rays with palms in front of the faces were shocked.

The dazzling light grew brighter and blurred their eyes. The brighter, the brighter and bigger before...

‘ZAP!!’

Disappeared suddenly along with the disappearance of Gentayu and the trident rocks from their view. Leaves only the grass and the footprints of Gentayu on it.

Benduriang half ran towards the former trident stone disappearance following Gentayu. The former senopati wagged both hands into the empty space of the former foundation stone trident and Gentayu. But I don't feel anything. Blank.

“She Disappeared??” that was all that came out of his lips.

Shortly after, Lokajaya caught up with them with fear looming over her face. The boy immediately ran hugging Benduriang's right thigh. Benduriang lifted his tiny body and carried it back to where they had rested before. The two former military chiefs of Lamahtang are now overwhelmed with confusion.

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Meanwhile, Gentayu felt like his body was enveloped in a warm light that now lifted his body into space. It whirled around and launched towards a dark spot at the end of the light passageway at a speed never imagined. Gentayu again felt as if the blood following his entire internal organs was left behind his body which continued to slide faster and faster.

The sensation was similar to when he moved from the former headquarters of the Red Dragon Sect on the edge of the forest of the Kaling valley region to the Valley of the Seven Curups. The difference was, at this moment his entire body was spinning like a bullet so that his stomach felt like it was being stirred.

As he was about to lose consciousness due to the speed beyond his reach, Gentayu felt his body being blown out of the passageway into space. Really space, because even Gentayu hit a bird that was flying before it reached the clouds and again slid downwards profusely..

Gentayu saw the nature below which looks green spread with the curves of water looks like a snake swerving at some point towards another bluish expanse in the distance. The expanse of green color and the bend of the water is getting clearer as the closer he is to the surface of the land. He realized that the bend of the water was nothing but a river, and the vast expanse of greenery was none other than the vegetation and forest trees that now seemed clearer.

Gentayu closed his eyes as his body increasingly rushed to the earth without being able to reduce his speed. Feeling that he might end up as a meat rod as a result of crashing from that height, Gentayu could only resign. All he could do was try to concentrate his profound energy on his two hands that would momentarily crash into the ground, hoping that at least his body would not shatter as a shred of flesh as the impact occurred.

How shocked Gentayu when he found his body did not land on the ground, but actually slid into the earth. There was no pain as his body passed through layers of soil and rocks towards the interior of the earth.

‘Am I dead and now sent to the underworld for the crimes I committed?” It was taken for granted that in fact he had died crashing into the earth, and now his soul was being sent to hell, or in Gentayu belief known as the underworld.

Whatever it is, Gentayu really has resigned. After all, all this time his life was also not too much to do meaningful things? Even how many times had witnessed a massacre without being able to do much? Perhaps, the lower realms were a suitable place for him for failing to save his teacher's disciples, failing to save the Green Bamboo Sect, failing to save Lamahtang, even failing to protect the king's life..

‘Byur!!’

Gentayu came to a realization from his wild thoughts as his body suddenly splashed completely into the deep water. A well! And he was now completely shocked! How deep this well until the momentum fell from space was not able to deliver it to reach the bottom of the well. And Gentayu really dislikes being in the dark water!

“Ahkk... What is this?”

The surprise that he experienced did not stop. A whirlpool formed suddenly under his feet that had stopped sinking. Suddenly he felt sucked into another hole behind the whirlpool emerging from the depths with all of a sudden.

‘WHUZZZZZZ.....!’.

The hole again spouted Gentayu's body up to the surface, even so strong the spray was able to throw Gentayu's body out of the well he now saw turned out to be a hole at the bottom of the waterfall.

Gentayu was thrown up, right towards the waterfall and his body immediately disappeared into the back of the waterfall.

‘Bruk!’

Gentayu landed roughly on the rock floor behind a slippery waterfall. In the prone position. Apparently he entered into a cave quite wide behind the waterfall.

His bones felt like they were crumbling. Maybe some are broken. His wet body and clothes make the slippery goa floor more slippery.

“Welcome young man.!” A female voice sounded above the sky. Beware of gentayu of course.

Immediately he flipped his body and tried to get up from his prone position.

“Sss... who.. who's miss? Dddi..ddi.where am I?” Gentayu could barely control himself. Too many things startled him making him very nervous and alert.

“Guests who come, should say hello and excuse me. Let alone the host has welcomed. Is this how white-flow warriors are educated?” The originally soft voice had now turned heavy.

Gentayu. His head seemed to be trying to find the source of the voice that had just rebuked his attitude which was considered impolite. But he found no one but himself in that place.

“Did you not see my presence?” the voice was now heard under Gentayu's body.

The panicked Gentayu immediately jumped to his feet, and only found a trident.

Wait, trident?? Ah, what else is this? Can this trident talk? Could it be that there is a spirit in it as well?

The trident then revealed an increasingly bright golden light.

Now we see the trident. A trident with the decoration of a circle of blackish discs between the base of the three blades of his sharp spear eyes. The disc is clearly a Gentayu disc that now seems to merge with the disc itself. The disc stood upright and floated as high as the eyes of the foot but did not move.