KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Fire Gate

“Then, Grandma... Why did they get the title of Seven Guardians of the gate? His impression harassed their majesty which was only equated with the palace gate guard soldiers.” Gentayu asked again while his mouth was full of purple tubers that turned out to taste very delicious.

“That's because they keep fortifying and keeping the seal of Evil Mislan Katili's power can't be released. So that the power does not rise or be raised again.” The old woman replied as her hands began to open the wrapping of the mysterious object referred to as the pair of Gentayu pendants.

“According to the records I read, each of the seven warriors was a disciple of the two God of light who descended to earth and was able to repulse Mislan Katili's forces earlier on the border of the Yellow Valley Empire. About a hundred years later, they just showed up. But the seven of them are said to have remained alive until several hundred years later. The disciples of his successors did not find their tombs.that is the underlying belief that they remained alive.” The woman had now finished opening the mysterious object from her black bundle.

“While the two gods of light who are believed to be their teachers are Haruta and Murata. Both must educate the seven great disciples and no longer go down directly because they are not allowed to interfere directly in the affairs of human nature. However, the presence of Mislan Katili has damaged the balance of nature. If the two also go down directly, the imbalance will get bigger. The human realm could have been the arena of open warfare between the Gods and the Devil Nation. But honestly I don't believe in that reason.” The woman then conveyed her opinion.

“After all, it is actually man himself who must be responsible for creating his own world peace.” The woman ended her opinion. Then shows an object whose shape can be changed by shifting the formation of its constituent consisting of dozens of cuboidal stones that are attached to each other like a magnet. The change in formation ended with a cube that showed a picture of fire with a black dot in the middle.

“Enter your locket here, and we will see what the secret is” The woman asked Gentayu to pair her pendant on the hollow cube section in the middle of ‘symbol api’ after previously sealing the room with another magic formation for the sake of secret security them.

Gentayu immediately carried out the woman's instructions, and...

‘Click!’

The stone cube shone brightly before it dimmed back.

Nothing happened.

They waited for a moment vigilantly. But still nothing happened.

“What's wrong?” Gentayu a little astonished.

“Entahlah... unfortunately I do not explain anything about this. It seems even youths do not understand how this thing works.” The woman answered listlessly.

“Why grandma doesn't try to drain a little energy power in?” suddenly Gentayu like getting an idea.

“Ah, why didn't I think?” The old woman felt enlightened.

His hand immediately touched the side of the flame on the cube and slowly channeled its inner power...

‘trek..tek,tek,tek...’ the rocks of the small cubes forming the whole cube move and the picture of the fire then changes shape again...

‘Click.!’

Another ‘klik’ sound was heard before the cube stopped transforming and displayed a picture of matahri on one side replacing the image of fire.

“What does this mean a hint? Earlier in the fire, now the sun..” the woman muttered in astonishment also confused.

“Ah, how about we just follow, Grandma? We sunbathe under the sun.!” exclaim Gentayu spirit that immediately approved the woman.

The stone cube was placed in the sun with the sun facing the sky, and....

‘Click..!’

There was no change in formation as before, but the cube emitted a dazzling glow that shimmered and changed its color on the right side of the cube and radiated horizontally....

Gentayu directed his palm to sense whether the rays that appeared were hot or contained a certain air..... It turned out that it was just light like light in general without the radiance of energy that had the usual power of a punch energy beam.

“Aih, not hot. No taste whatsoever. It's an ordinary ray... Uh, wait..” Gentayu realized something.

When it is brought closer to the source of the light from the cube on the right side of the cube that leads horizontally and fluoresces widens with increasing distance from the cube, he found that the color-changing rays formed a certain pattern that was caught on his palm as an image. No mistake, it is a picture. It is a projection of a particular image.

“Grandma, quickly get me the black cloth...”.

‘LOT!” a broom handle punch came back to Gentayu's head before the young man finished his sentence.

“Aduh!” Gentayu. “Sorry Mother.! Alright.. I'll grab myself” Gentayu who realized his mistake because ‘reign’ the old man immediately ran back into the hut picking up the black cloth wrapping cube all this while grimacing.

“Let's see what this picture is.” His murmur was heard by the old woman nearby.

The black fabric that was originally a wrap wrapped around the cube stone served as a screen to capture images clearly in the sun. Its size was only about three times the width of a palm, yet it was more than enough to display a fairly clear image.

“This... isn't this a map?” Both of their eyebrows are shrinking.

It turned out that the treasure that had been guarded desperately was a map. But what map? Both are confused and astonished.

Gentayu tried to understand the map. The map is almost like a living picture. Each important point is accompanied by a real picture. There is a bridge with a red dragon on its right-hand side as the number 1 point. Then there is a point in the form of a mountain that has a volcanic peak with a marker in the form of two curved reyung trees cross each other as a gate not far from a waterfall that is still one stream with a river on the bridge marked number 1. Then the third point is a vast arid meadow with a stone resembling a trident in one corner adjacent to a giant banyan tree that rises towards a ravine as a marker.

Everything is a mystery. Because these three places have never been explored by Gentayu and the woman. Even the map shows what, or who they don't know yet. Whether it brings good or disaster. Whether good or bad is still dark at all.

“what is clear, now is your turn and your task to uncover and discover the meaning of the clues in this map. My business is done with my giving up this task perfectly. I will do one other thing that my teacher also has trust in me besides this cube stone, which is to lower my knowledge to you. Seeing the attack of the black flow group to the Golden Sun, it looks like your time will not be much more to relax..” The old woman broke the deadlock by explaining her intention to help Gentayu travel a little.

“Alright, Grandma. Maybe this is my line of hands. I will accept it” Gentayu replied steadily.

“Good then. You must not know me well. If you've heard of this generation's Silvermoon Swordsman, I'm the one.” The woman finally introduced herself and opened her identity before making Gentayu as her student.

Until a few days later, Gentayu will study and explore the sciences of the Swordsman of the Silver Moon. Of course, these sciences will complement his magic because basically the Golden Sun and the Silver Moon are ‘sang’ science that complement each other the small gaps between the two. Although actually the Golden Sun alone or the Silver Moon alone is sufficient enough to reach the level of the Swordsman Sakti.