Rajawali Sakti Swordsman

The Secret Puri Merah Bag. 4

The day went slow. Kandara Jaya was already convinced that Rangga and Pandan Wangi were not from the Red Castle horde. Even he did not hesitate to give information about the Red Castle group who reportedly nested at the top of Arang Lawu Hill. Rangga himself explained that he and Pandan Wangi were on this hill because they followed the footprints of the horse.

"So, the trail disappeared on the edge of the ravine?" ask Kandara Jaya who still keeps a secret about who she really is.

"really. I tried to follow in that footsteps, but somehow so rough to get here" said Rangga.

"It must be the Red Castle people who destroyed the village" muttered Kandara Jaya.

"I don't know for sure who did it. The state of the village is very sad. All the residents were killed, no one was alive" Pandan Wangi said.

"They are cruel people. I've been trying to destroy it for a long time" Kandara Jaya said.

They continued to talk to each other while walking. Without feeling they had already reached the edge of a large and deep abyss. Kandara Jaya examined the gorge. He was stunned to find the conjoined tendrils, and broke off in the middle of it. He remembered Kitri Boga and Lawawi Girang.

Around the lip of this gorge there are so many horse-footed sites. It was so clear on the wet grass. The trail disappeared and stopped here! It seemed impossible that the horses were descending the abyss! very deep and deep. This is what I thought! Stifling.

Punan Wangi quietly checked around the edge of the gorge, not letting loose following the footsteps of so many horses. The girl checked up to a tall and tight bush. Here the footprints of the horse also disappeared severed. With a piece of wood, Pandan Wangi fluttered the item. His eyes were wide, because behind the bush was a cavity. It looks like a mouth of a goa.

"The back...!" Pandan Wangi yelled.

"What's wrong?" rangga asked, jumping right up to him.

"There is goa" said Pandan Wangi while continuing to spread dry bushes that seemed to deliberately cover the mouth of this cave.

Kandara Jaya also immediately approached and examined the condition of the cave mouth which has now been widely opened.

"I checked for a moment" said Rangga as he stepped into the cave.

Rangga walked slowly with an alert attitude. The situation in this cave is not too dark because there is still a little light coming in. At the base of this elongated cave there are many horse footprints. Rangga continued to walk following this long cave passage. And he was stunned when he saw many horses gathered in a spacious and bright room.

The room was topped with a large hole like a huge mountain. There's no one here. It is difficult to calculate how many horses there are in this room. Rangga spread his gaze. All the walls were made of rough stones formed by nature. Apparently, this hallway is the only one that exists.

Rangga soon returned to see Pandan Wangi and Kandara Jaya waiting outside. The warrior Rajawali Sakti stepped quickly, so that not long later it was in the mouth of this cave.

"How's it?" ask Kandara Jaya impatiently.

"There's nobody inside. Goa is dead-end," said Rangga.

"Deadlock...?!" Pandan Wangi seemed to be in disbelief.

"Yes, dead-end. Goa this is where the horses are kept."

"What...?!" Kandara Jaya was surprised.

"There are dozens of horses inside there, but no one is in sight" Rangga explained.

"Impossible! So where did those people go?" gerutu Kandara Jaya's.

Rangga did not reply. His eyes were staring straight at the ground. Indeed there are only horse footprints. But... Suddenly he flinched, and immediately squatted. His hands were fumbling the grass around him. Rangga continued to follow the thin tracks of human feet that were traveling with the footprints of horses. It is very thin, so it is difficult to see if not really thorough.

The warrior Rajawali Sakti stopped when he arrived at the edge of a large and deep ravine. Again he took a long and heavy breath. All traces seemed to be cut off on the lips of this ravine. Slowly the Swordsman Rajawali Sakti stood up. Pandan Wangi and Kandara Jaya were by his side.

"You ever clash with them?" rangga asked without turning his eyes to the top of the hill covered in thick fog.

"Ever, several times" said Kandara Jaya.

"What do you think?" ask Rangga again.

"The level of intelligence is very high. But not everything. There is also a decent, even low ones exist," explained Kandara Jaya.

"Rightly, how many people have enough intelligence?"

"I don't know for sure. But the one wearing the red robe, it felt that had quite a high intelligence. A definite number I don't know."

"Hm..," Rangga muttered indistinctly.

Swordsman Rajawali Sakti his gaze turned to Pandan Wangi who stood to his left. Then his gaze turned back across the ravine.

"You can jump over this chasm, Pandan?" ask Rangga.

"Maybe" said Pandan Wangi hesitated.

"Try doing!"

"What...?! Crazy one! You want to make me a guinea pig, huh?" gerutu Pandan Wangi.

"I just want to know. In that way, we can measure up to where the level of intelligence they have," Rangga's voice sounded calm.

"Let me!" kandara Jaya Sergah.

"Don't!" prevent Rangga.

"Why? Me or your sister are the same!"

"I'm sorry, not that I don't believe in your abilities. But it's best to let Pandan Wangi just try first."

Pandan Wangi just shut up. He did not want to argue with this Swordsman Rajawali Sakti. Long enough he was with Rangga, then he already knew very well all his nature and actions. Indeed, sometimes Rangga's actions and thoughts are very difficult to understand. But Pandan Wangi felt sure that everything Rangga said, of course, had also thought about the consequences. The young swordsman could not possibly let Pandan Wangi get wretched.

Without saying much more, Pandan Wangi immediately shrieked loudly, and his body shot high into the air. Several times the somersaults in the air to add to the swing of the jump, but Pandan Wangi has not yet reached the other side. The girl's body felt slumped down.

"Hait..!" suddenly Rangga jerked his hand towards the body of Pandan Wangi who was ready to be crushed at the bottom of the ravine.

From the palm of the Swordsman Rajawali Sakti it rushed a beam of bluish white light across the ravine. While Pandan Wangi's body continues to slump as fast as being sucked in the mouth of the ravine.

"The back...!" scream Pandan Wangi horrified.

"Yes...! Hiya...!" Rangga added strength in his effort to launch rays to reach the body of Pandan Wangi. But the tip of the white light did not also reach the body of Pandan Wangi which continued to deteriorate deeper into the thick foggy abyss. There was a shrill scream and echoed from within the abyss.

"Hope...!" yelled Rangga loudly.

Pandan Wangi's shrill screams were high, disappearing as his body was engulfed by the mist that covered the inside of the ravine. Rangga shouted to call Pandan Wangi. While the girl's body had already disappeared swallowed by the ravine.

"Oh! Pandan..," said Rangga, then fell to his knees.

"Rangga..," Kandara Jaya held onto Rangga's shoulders kneeling on the brink.

Slowly the head of the Swordsman Rajawali Sakti turned to look at Kandara Jaya. Then his gaze turned back to the abyss before him. The situation inside the ravine remained dark and foggy. No more sounds there.

"I'm sorry, Pandan. I didn't mean to harm you," said Rangga Iirih.

"Rangga..," Kandara Jaya's voice was heard.

"No! He can't die! I..., I love her. I love Pandan Wangi. Nooo...!" Rangga was hysterical.

Kandara Jaya was confused by Rangga's hysterical attitude. He did not understand the meaning of Rangga's words. Pandan Wangi is actually Rangga's sister. But the words spoken from Rangga's mouth... It seems Pandan Wangi is a much loved lover.

"Listen to me, Pandan! Justjust listen... I love you, Pandan. Ilove you...!" very loud Rangga's voice, to echo throughout the corner.

"Rangga. Stirrup..." Kandara Jaya tried to calm the day Rangga who was being whipped with regret, because it had asked Pandan Wangi to jump over this gorge.

Rangga stood up straight. The two eyes look glassy, staring straight at the top of Arang Lawu Hill. Slowly he looked down into the dark abyss covered in the fog of the Swordsman Rajawali Sakti who let out a long sigh feeling his shoulders being patted.

"I feel what you are feeling right now" Kandara Jaya said attentively.

"Yaaah..," Rangga let out a long sigh. I don't feel like saying anything else.

"You've been trying to help him. It is not your fault, Rangga," back Kandara Jaya tried to calm the day of the Swordsman Rajawali Sakti.

Lama Rangga lamented and regretted the event... Rangga raised his head when he suddenly heard a very delicate voice. Seen across the ravine there, stood about ten people in red robes with three-tipped spears. Kandara Jaya was also shocked when she saw the horde that had been standing across the gorge.

What makes Rangga very surprised is the presence of a woman wearing tight blue clothes middle held both hands by two people from the horde. His long black hair was wavy, unraveling loosely covering his face. The pieces of body and clothes he wore were very similar to Pandan Wangi.

"Pandan..," said Rangga. 'Pandan...! You're that?" rangga shouted accompanied by the exertion of energy within.

"Ha ha ha...!" one of the people in red robes laughed out loud.

"He will be an offering to the god of immortality of our nation!" a voice sounded.

Kandara Jaya is looking for the source of the sound. While Rangga still looked straight across the ravine. It seems to be making sure that the woman who drooped limp was Pandan Wangi.

"Give that offering to the Great God of Eternity!" another big voice sounded.

"Rear.., tolooong...!" the voice of a woman's scream.

Simultaneously, the two people who were holding the woman, stepped forward a few steps. Then the woman threw him into a wide and deep abyss. The shrill shrill scream sounding slashed further and further weakened, along with the sliding of the woman's body being swallowed by the stomach of the ravine.

"Pandan..," said Rangga. The voice of the woman is very similar to Pandan Wangi.

"Ha ha ha...!" there was a loud laughter.

After snarling a few times, the Swordsman Rajawali Sakti was bouncing high into the air crossing an extremely wide and deep abyss. Kandara Jaya can no longer prevent. Rangga was so fast moving and was now clumping in the air.

When Rangga's position in the middle of the abyss, the ten red-robed people immediately jerked their hands quickly. Hundreds of small red objects, hurtling towards Rangga.

"Review, secret weapon...!" yell Kandara Jaya warned.

"Yepy...!" Rangga shouted loudly screeching. His body circled quickly in the air, dodging the red-colored secret weapons that rained down on him. The secret weapon resembled small spheres, slumping down into the abyss before reaching the other side. No one managed to touch the body of Rangga who continued bouncy approaching the lip of the ravine across there.

Kandara Jaya could hardly believe her own vision. The ten red-robed people leaped like flying towards Rangga before reaching the edge of the abyss, directly attacking with three-eyed spears.

Rangga immediately deployed the style of 'Rajawali Wing Splits Mega'. With this style, he can freely fight in the air, like fighting on the ground. Rangga was a bit surprised as well, as those red-robed people could fly like birds. His movements were fast and dangerous. The warrior Rajawali Sakti was a bit overwhelmed as well as facing his opponents in a fight in the air, on the surface of the abyss that was ready to swallow anyone.

"I wouldn't be able to match them without a weapon" Rangga snorted inwardly.

Sreth!

The sparkling blue light instantly refracted as the Rajawali Sakti sword had come out of its war. With an heirloom sword in hand, Rangga was like an angel of death ready to take his life The blue light flashed hunting the red-robed people. Several times the Rajawali Sakti sword clashed with three-eyed spears. And this made Rangga so shocked. Because, there has never been a weapon that is intact when it collides with his sword! But the spears in the hands of those red-robed people did not change in the slightest.

Step by step immediately passed quickly, Rangga found it increasingly difficult to fight in the air continuously. Several times he had to borrow power as his weapons clashed, in order to stay in the air. But the way it could be known quickly The red-robed men had no one to banging weapons anymore. They seemed to deliberately avoid, even fighting by keeping their distance.

"Comebody! I can enter the abyss if this continues," thought Rangga.

Several times he tried to get out of the fight. But his efforts always fail. The red-robed people were like they had read every move of this Swordsman of the Heavenly Guardians. Even it could easily break Rangga's attack in the middle of the road.

"Suiit...!" suddenly Rangga whistled loudly. The red-robed people who numbered ten people simultaneously jumped to the edge of the abyss, as soon as they heard a shrill whistle from Rangga's mouth. Just when their feet landed sweetly on the edge of the ravine, in space was seen a blackish-brown object hovering, then swooping down.

"Quick! I'm not strong!" rangga shouted when he saw the giant eagle.

It's strange! The ten people in red robes immediately took off their weapons and knelt With their hands outstretched up, they bowed and came back straight, like they were worshipping a god.

"He! Why are they so?" The astonishment did not understand.

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Rangga ordered the giant eagle to land across. The ten men in red robes continued to worship. Very sweet Rangga jumped down from the back of the giant eagle. His feet were about ten people who remained on their knees with their palms touching the ground.

"Who among you is the leader?" ask Rangga.

One person who was in the middle instantly moved forward. He remained on his knees and bowed while kissing the ground several times. How respectful.

"What's your name?" ask Rangga. "Punish servant. Forgive all the sins of the slave nation, the Great God of the universe," said the man continued to worship.

"I asked, what's your name?" Rangga repeated his question.

"Slaver's name is Natrasoma. And they are the retainers of the servants, Gusti the Great God."

"Hm...."

Rangga turned his face to the other side. It looks like Kandara Jaya is still standing in amazement of events that have never been witnessed at all. It seems like I am dreaming right now. Really come, he was almost fainted when he saw a giant eagle swooping down to snatch Rangga. Kandara Jaya was flabbergasted because the bird was so docile, it even understood Rangga's orders. And even more astonishingly, the red-robed people instantly worshiped. It seemed, Rangga and the giant eagle were their god.

"Rajawali, bring Kandara Jaya here!" Rangga.

"Khaaghk!"

Then the wings of the giant bird were flapped. He floated up, and quickly grabbed Kandara Jaya's body. Of course the young prince was screaming in fear. He thrashed around trying to escape from the clutches of the giant bird's claws. Rangga just smiled seeing Kandara Jaya scared to death. The young prince's face looked pale, despite being beside Rangga.

"Thank you" said Rangga, patting the head of the giant eagle, then kissing it softly.

"Rangga..," Kandara Jaya shuddered in horror at the sight of a giant eagle nearby.

"It's okay. He is my best friend" said Rangga kalem.

Rangga's attention turned to the ten red-robed people who remained kneeling before him. His eyes stared intently at the one who was at the front. The person who claimed to be named Natrasoma.

"Natrasoma, I ask you to answer honestly. Why did you commit murder and destruction of these villages around the foothills of Arang Lawu?" ask Rangga.

"Wait a minute!" cut Kandara Jaya fast before Natrasoma answers Rangga's question.

"What's up, Kandara Jaya?" ask Rangga.

"I want them to open the veil that covers his face" Kandara Jaya said.

The ten men raised their heads.

Without being asked twice, they immediately opened the veil that covered the head and face. Kandara Jaya and Rangga were flabbergasted when they saw their broken faces like the undead. The flesh and skin of the face are peeled off, revealing the bones.

Kandara Jaya shuddered to witness the terrible situation. They also have no hair. The scalp is also flaky in some places.

"Already, already! Close again!" said Rangga could not bear to see such a terrifying sight.

How not? They look more like the undead! It's hard-to-understand. Under such circumstances, they were still able to survive. Worth it, they always wore long robes that covered the entire body. Only the hands look intact and not deformed.

In the mind of the Swordsman Rajawali Sakti, a plan suddenly appeared after seeing the state of the ten red-robed people. What else saw their attitude being so frightened when the giant eagle came fulfilling his call. Giant eagle that has taught and educated Rangga to become a swordsman choose a match until now.

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The giant eagle flapped its wings, soaring high into space. Rangga looked at him until he was no longer seen, disappearing behind a mega blob. Meanwhile Kandara Jaya remained standing beside him. His mind was still filled with all sorts of questions raging about. Questions that were hard to answer, and left him still astonished.

Rangga stepped his feet closer to the lip of the ravine. He was standing right on the edge of a gaping wide abyss. His gaze was straight looking down at the dark one with a thick blanket. The regret hit his heart again. Somehow the fate of Pandan Wangi in the ravine there. Somewhat long ago also Rangga stood looking into the abyss. Taking a deep breath, flipped his body.

"Natrasoma, tell me the truth. Why did you throw that woman into the abyss?" ask Rangga.

"Punish the servant, Gusti the Great God. Servant had to do it. The entire nation of servants is threatened to be destroyed if they do not obey the will of Her Majesty Dewi Sri Tungga Buana," said Natrasoma while bowing his body.

"Goddess Sri Tungga Buana? Who's she?" kandara Jaya.

"The goddess who gave us eternal life and peace in the universe."

"By sacrificing the girls?" Rangga shook his head.

"The girls were the choice of Her Majesty Dewi Sri Tungga Buana. They will be made ladies-in-waiting to decorate the royal palace of the gods in kahyangan."

"Why should it be thrown into this abyss?" ask Kandara Jaya still does not understand very well.

"That is the only way to the palace of the gods. Her Highness Goddess Sri Tungga Buana ordered us to show the way for the girls."

Kandara Jaya looked at Rangga with an incomprehensible eye. Rangga swung his legs closer to Natrasoma who was standing at the very front among the others. They stood with their heads bowed. I don't know why. As soon as they saw the blue light emanating from the Rajawali Sakti sword, they immediately thought that their Great God was coming. Especially after the appearance of a giant eagle. Rangga who realized this misunderstanding, made good use of it, although his mind still continued to wonder.

How could they consider him a god? He is an ordinary man. Same with them. But Rangga did not want to question him. So the use of this opportunity to uncover the mystery contained in this Arang Lawu Hill.

"Natrasoma among your people are women, right? Nah! Why kidnap girls from other villages? Even kill all its inhabitants. Is everything you do that is also the will of Dewi Sri Tungga Buana?" tanya Rangga started fishing.

"True, Gusti Dewa Agung," said Natrasoma as he bowed.

"Then, who were you throwing?" there was a slight pressure on Rangga's voice.

"A rough girl entered our territory. And Her Majesty Dewi Sri Tungga Buana wants to be sacrificed immediately."

"Bad girlish?" Rangga frowned.

"True, Gusti the Great God. My people found him drifting in the river. On his body was a sword and a fan from Ba...."

"Damn! You killed Pandan Wangi, heh!" furious Rangga cut out Natrasoma's words.

"For example, Gusti the Great God. We just carry out the orders of Dewi Sri Tungga Buana," Natrasoma's voice rang out.

His body was also shivering with fear. Rangga became furious, and his anger peaked. But all of a sudden he was not up to heart when the red-robed people in front of him dropped down and knelt down.

"Ah, Pandan... Why did you fall twice into the abyss?" sigh Rangga muttered, filled with incomprehension.

"Hamba received wrong, Gusti the Great God. We are all ready to accept punishment" Natrasoma said trembling.

"Wake up all of you" said Rangga. His voice is grand and authoritative.

Kandra Jaya itself had gawked to hear the voice of Rangga so great full of authority. Almost a day talking and getting to know each other, but only this time Kandara Jaya heard a voice so majestic gliding from Rangga's lips. The ten people in red robes stood up. Their heads still remained lowered covered in a conical red cloth.

"We are all ready to carry out orders and accept punishment, Gusti the Great God," Natrasoma said. His voice still sounded scared.

"There is no point in punishing you. I know you are innocent and suppressed by the demonic forces claiming to be Goddess Sri Tungga Buana," said Rangga.

No one opens their voice. The atmosphere was quiet for a while. Rangga looked at the ten people standing bowed in front of him. From the light of his eyes, it was seen that he was at war with his own mind. Rangga is now faced with two choices that are very difficult to solve.

On the one hand, he loves Pandan Wangi who now somehow fate in the abyss there. Rangga could not lie to himself anymore. He really loved that girl. But on the other hand his short-sighted soul is required to solve the crisis he is facing. From the answers and information provided by Natrasoma, there is a conclusion that these red-robed people are in a state of distress a demonic force.

Rangga's short-sighted soul said that he had to help these red-robed people. The people are referred to as the Red Castle Group. Rangga asked them to take him to the top of Bukit Arang Lawu. Of course they will be happy to take Rangga who is considered a Great God. A god who according to their beliefs is the king of all the gods that exist.

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