KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

The Strength II

The city of Bandar Agung is quite crowded as usual. What distinguishes it is that day the workers of an inn called Blue Lotus seemed very busy. Their inn room which numbered less than thirty rooms was not usually booked out. 

“It seems, today many people are coming from various directions to this city huh, bang?” asked a astonished firewood seeker to his companion.The firewood ordered to them from the restaurant opposite the blue Lotus inn was even tripled from a normal day.

“True dik. Seems so..” his colleague answered briefly sambal continued his work weeding ready-to-burn fish on the edge of the kitchen of the restaurant.

It was the day that the meeting was agreed to. Although this meeting is confidential, but the presence of about a hundred foreigners in a small town like Bandar Agung will of course still be realized by some people. 

The host of the meeting was actually Pendekar Indung Imau, a nickname for Imau Gading college professor. Indung Imau means mother tiger, because this college is considered to have given birth to many young tigers in the martial world. Pendekar Indung Imau is willing to host because it began to get sultry with the lunge of the soldiers of Lamahtang who lately increasingly unsettling in the area around the city of Bandar Agung.

“Just make them act and disturb the community. Oppresses instead of protecting. They are nothing but robbers and criminals in uniform! Once a robber keeps robbing even in uniform!” that was the sentence uttered by the Great Master as a greeting before about a hundred warriors who were gathered in the hall of his temple.

“Force us, if not able to welcome the warriors properly. Solely because of the limited space we have” he said then ended his fiery welcome and burned the spirits of the warriors.

“Gentlemen, we gather today in order to unite our strength. Our enemies are the same. Our enemy is clear. Let us first set aside our interests in order to face this same enemy. Of course we agree that, this black sect is very dangerous for the future of this country! The future of our children and grandchildren!” This fiery sentence was uttered by Benduriang who was famous for being a talking hero. 

Long-widded this former senopati speaks. However, each speech always represents what every swordsman who is present feels. No one disputes. Every sentence he spoke was able to burn the chest of each listener to move to fight.

“A leaderless group is called a horde. And the hordes will produce nothing but their great numbers! Of course we're not just a gang. We want that from our meeting today, we can move effectively! The herd of buffalo is actually stronger than a tiger, but a herd of buffalo is always defeated only by a tiger because the buffalo is only moving on its own and is not organized!” Benduriang's words this time seemed to slap the faces of those present.

How all this time they seemed to just be silent no matter when one by one the white flow groups were destroyed.

How then have the same dangers been and are being experienced. They agree, that their selfish attitude during this time is one of the causes of the increasingly strong black flow groups!

It turns out that unknowingly, they also had a hand in the destruction of their country by the actions of black groups. 

“For that, we need a leader to unite us!” The sentence ended Long Benduriang's speech before the man returned to his seat. 

A boisterous sound immediately filled the hall made of woven bamboo with the roof of the rumbia leaves. They all agreed with Benduriang's statement, but struggled to determine the right leader. 

Several names have appeared, including Benduriang and Rambang Dangku and ki geringsing himself. However, Ki Geringsing felt inappropriate so resigned.

Rambang Dangkupun resigned from the nomination because he realized that his incompetence as Mahapatih had a share in the fall of the kingdom into the hands of the black-flow alliance, even though this was not true. Benduriang certainly did not dare to intervene in the decision of the former leader. In fact, the former Mahapatih threatened Benduriang not to participate in withdrawing from the nomination as the alliance chairman.

“I have an idea. What if the leadership of this alliance we leave it to Pendekar Indung Imau or Ki Tungkal Anom? He is the strongest, and I think we all recognize his leadership of this college alone is more than enough as a proof of his ability.” Said an elder in the middle of the audience. He was a wandering swordsman nicknamed the Golden Fox.

“Aih... I'm too old to be a leader, preferably young!.” Tungkal Anom refused.

“I represent young people, handing over our youth mandate to Ki Tungkal Anom!” Said a young warrior from another angle. “That disagrees, please stand.” he continued. No young warrior stood.

A boisterous voice again filled the room before they simultaneously mentioned the name of Indung Imau many times in the room. Exactly cuddle.

Finally, in the meeting, it was agreed that ki Tungkal Anom or Pendekar Indung Imau as the Leader of the White Swordsman alliance. The new group named itself as the group ‘Star of Hope’.

The Star of Hope group which is now led by Pendekar Indung Imau or Tungkal Anom officially formed that day. Some great warriors were chosen to head sections or divisions with special duties. The rest, they become members of the division and the formed part.

At least, the Star of Hope is now divided into five parts or divisions with special tasks. Although all of the divisions have combat missions, but the division into five parts is none other than for them to work in a focused and efficient manner.

Benduriang, the former Senopati who always deal with the world of intelligence is believed to head the Information division. They are made up of young warriors. Even though they are young, they are still included in the level of magic warriors so that their ability to move is not in doubt.

Their main task is to gather important information that alliances need as well as to be a liaison between divisions or parts. The number of warriors who joined in this division was 27 people and 16 of them were female warriors. Therefore, this division named itself as the Pigeon Squad.

For the task of weakening the economic power of the black stream, even the economic power of the royal court in general then formed an economic division called the Picker Squad.

The main task of the Picker squad was to seize and cripple the economic paths of the palace or the black-flow alliance. Several gold mines, trade routes, as well as tributary and tax towing officers were the main targets of the Picker Squad's operations. In addition, they are also tasked with helping people overcome poverty and hunger with the funds they manage to collect from their actions later. This task is then entrusted to Rambang Dangku, the former Mahapatih Kingdom to take care of it.

Rambang Dangku gladly accepted this task. For him, this is an opportunity to do the best directly to the people of Lamahtang. In the past while serving as Mahapatih, Rambang Dangku was actually quite concerned and concerned with the fate of the common people in the Lamahtang region. Unfortunately, he had to move himself into a landlady for some villages. His proposal to form a special kind of ministry dealing with poverty was rejected by the Third Prince who at that time did not show any symptoms of rebellion. With this new task, Dangku hopes that there will be many things he can do.

Formed also in the alliance a special division dealing with health problems. The division was in charge of treating and treating wounded warriors on duty, manufacturing various drugs as well as neutralizing the poison widely used by black-flow alliances to suppress villages and oppress them for their benefit.

They named this small group by the name of the Pure Flower Squad, after the Swordsman leader of the squad. Pure Flower is a powerful female physician. In his team, there were only six people as members. It all just so happens that female healers come from all over the world. One of them was the wife of the late healer Mo You.

Not to forget, to enlarge the organization while maintaining their struggle relay, also formed a division that handles recruitment and training for its members. This division is entrusted to its management by Imau Gading college warriors. Has no name, and has no chairman in charge. Each member of the other divisions is indirectly responsible for recruiting new members on strict terms, among which is to be at a level above Madya Swordsman.

The last squad is called the Sweep Maize Squad. His job was to help the entire division that needed help. Moreover, his main task was to clear the nearby villages of the black-flow group of alliance members. Contains senior and famous warriors such as the Ghost Sword and Golden Fox Swordsman. Ki Geringsing himself is also a member of this Sweep Corn squad.

After the meeting, they then pledged their allegiance to protect each other, take care of each other, and always in favor of truth and justice and always fight for the interests of the people as a warrior. The pledge is followed by wisdom by all the warriors present. Even the sky seemed to bless them by listening to the thunder that accompanied the heavy rain after the pledge was said.

That day, a new hope re-emerged in the minds of the warriors. That they are able to overcome the chaos and disaster due to the power of black flow.