Reveal The Secret's
CHAPTER 17 _ Secret Technique
The description written in the history book of the kingdom of Gunma does not look complete. In the book only written about the explanation of the kingdom's territory and relations between royal allies. For the internal problems of the kingdom only recorded a little and seemed to hang without a clear problem solution.
In many books written about the prosperity of the kingdom of Gunma alone, this is very different from the story of Master who explained that there are many big problems in the kingdom, and it was not recorded on the pages of history books.
The next day Sasha returned to Gunma to ask Zen about the lantern that Sasha had obtained.
When Sasha's room shows at 20:00, Sasha enters the portal to Gunma.
When arriving in Gunma, it looks like a beautiful twilight sky as if welcoming the arrival of Sasha. While on the way to Zen's house, Sasha was amazed to see the atmosphere of Gunma village which was decorated with lanterns along the way. In addition, the residents are busy cleaning the road from scattered garbage.
I don't know what celebration there is in Gunma kingdom.
After a while Sasha walked, she finally arrived at Zen's house. Zen looks are tidying firewood that is beside his house.
“Paman” shouted Sasha from a distance.
Sasha walked towards Zen.
“What uncle is also tidying up the house like other residents” asked Sasha.
“I do always tidy up the house every day. The villagers are preparing for the Queen's birthday celebration party which will be held tonight” Zen replied.
Zen explains to Sasha the tradition that the kingdom always uses if the Queen has a birthday.
If the Queen's birthday arrives, the residents will decorate along the way and also decorate their homes with various decorations. Whereas if the King is a birthday, the residents do not need to decorate their streets and homes, but each head of the family will be invited into the palace to give do’a for the King to also celebrate fireworks in the royal palace.
After Zen explains the Queen's birthday culture and explains some of the other cultures in the Gunma kingdom, Sasha asks about the lantern of courage they were looking for.
“Uncle, I want to inquire about 7 lanterns of courage. I just got 6, need one more lantern, when we go looking for the last lantern uncle” asked Sasha.
“For the last lantern I do not understand about its existence, we should go ask Guru” Zen said.
They also prepared to meet with the teacher. Zen and Sasha headed for their horse beside Zen's house.
Guru was in Nara village, precisely there was a Temple in Nara village that Master used to calm down and train some of his students.
The journey to the village of Nara is not too far but can not be called close as well. Zen and Sasha had to pass through Kiso village to get to Nara village.
It was already dark, Zen and Sasha finally arrived at the Nara village Temple where Master lived.
The temple of Nara village is not so big but the architecture is much better than some buildings on the side.
They entered the temple to meet the Master. This temple can be entered freely if someone who enters it has a bond with the temple or Nara village. Since Zen was a disciple of Master, he could easily enter the temple, but not with Sasha. Sasha felt a pressure pushing her away from the temple.
“Uncle, can't I enter” asked Sasha.
“It seems like it is. You wait here for a while, I will meet Master in” Zen said as he descended his horse.
Shortly after Zen entered the temple, he came out with Master.
“Teacher, if I can't enter the temple, there's something I want to ask” Sasha told Guru.
“Of course you can, let's go into” said the Master who stood in front of the temple gate.
Sasha walked to the temple. Somehow after Master allowed to enter the pressure that had previously pushed Sasha to disappear and Sasha's steps became normal.
They headed inside the temple and sat in one of the rooms.
After they sat down casually, Sasha began to explain some of the information she got from the history books of the Gunma kingdom. Sasha also inquired about the disappearance of some residents as they searched for 7 lanterns of courage that were considered as a rebel strategy to weaken the defense of Gunma kingdom.
“Teacher, is there a strong explanation for the case relating to the 7 lanterns of courage it” asked Sasha.
“Will I explain” replied Master.
The teacher explained that there had indeed been such an incident, but about the insurgent stratagem was not true at all. The one carrying the information was one of the clan members from Nara village who had just returned home from hunting, He got information about the 7 lanterns of courage from writing on the cave wall that he accidentally found. The inscription explains that there are 7 lanterns of courage scattered in various directions, and for anyone who can gather to the 7 lanterns of courage it will be able to learn the secret technique.
This news quickly spread throughout the kingdom of Gunma and some soldiers and residents were competing to find the lantern. But the seekers to the 7 lanterns were not in destiny to be able to find the lanterns, they finally died when they got the test of courage.
Zen had also tried to find the 7 lanterns, but he failed at the 3rd level. Automatically if you have got a few lanterns and then fail the next test then the lanterns that are in can disappear and return to their origin.
“Then how about the 7th lantern, I just collected 6 lanterns before” said Sasha.
“Do you know the meaning of infinite” asked Master to Sasha.
“I think unlimited it is somewhere without end” replied Sasha.
“It's not that easy to conclude. In this world everything has an end, even ants that are difficult to count actually have a number, it indicates there is an end. In addition there is also the term end of the sky and also the end of the earth” explained Master.
“Then what exactly is in that infinite sense, or where is that place” asked Sasha with a puzzled face.
“The one called infinite is yourself. Every human being will indeed meet death, and that is the end of life. But in terms of courage, humans have no end, human mentality will always improve with time and every human has a level that is not the same” explained Master.
“Do not ask again and now come with me” take Master.
Master led Sasha and Zen towards the field behind the temple. This field was commonly used to train temple disciples.
At this time Master does not accept students because there is a secret task that He is living. Zen was Master's last student in recent years.
After arriving at the field behind the temple, Guru asked Sasha to put the lantern according to Master's direction. The lanterns are placed on the field and form a formation that if drawn in a straight line will form a square six.
“Sasha, now you try to sit in the middle of this formation and understand whatever will happen” Master said.
Sasha followed the instructions of Master.
While concentrating in the middle of the lantern formation, Sasha felt the energy from each lantern that started to enter Sasha's body. An unusual energy sensation, Sasha endured a pain that was hard to express by her body.
Sasha obeyed Master's orders. And just moments after that energy was released by Sasha, in the sky appeared a colorful round light.
“Open your eyes and look up” Guru told Sasha.
Sasha opened her eyes and saw the light that appeared.
There are 7 visible balls of light, each representing a lantern of courage. Light blue represents the lanterns of valor of the day level, black for the night lanterns, red for the lanterns of fire, dark blue for the lanterns of water, brown for the lanterns of the earth, purple for the lanterns of the sky, dark blue for the lanterns of the sky, and white is to the lantern of infinite courage that arises from within Sasha.
“Serap lah to those 7 balls of light, it will be a power in your soul” Guru told Sasha.
Sasha also absorbs the power of the ball of light according to Master's direction. In the process of energy absorption Sasha felt in his soul like there was a very strong energy vortex. Sasha again endured the unusual pain, more pain than when releasing energy from her head.
After 4 hours Sasha did the absorption finally he succeeded.
Sasha opened her eyes and saw Master as well as Zen who was meditating in front of Sasha. Sasha stood up slowly and called out to Master.
“Teacher, Uncle Zen. I managed to absorb the power of 7 lanterns of courage and now my soul feels so much stronger” Sasha said with a smile.
“Good, now I will tell you what you can do from absorbing that power” said Guru.
The teacher explained that in the soul of Sasha now there are many sciences that can be learned, it can be said that the soul of Sasha today is a library of knowledge that Sasha can learn anytime. But Sasha still can not carelessly learn the science, he still has to adjust the knowledge learned with his physical strength.
“So, what will you learn for the first time” asked Guru.
“Because what led me to look for the 7 lanterns of courage was because I wanted to unseal the secret scroll. I decided to learn the secret seal technique” said Sasha excitedly.
Sasha went back to meditating to find the secret seal technique in her soul.
After a while Sasha saw a golden light in her mind. That golden light emitted a light and conjured up thousands of seal images before him.
Sasha was amazed by what he saw. After the images of the seal before Sasha were lost, the inscription now appears again as a guide to learn the secret seal technique.
In the writing that Sasha saw in explained that the secret seal technique is a technique to lock an object by placing a spell formation on the object so that others who do not master the secret seal technique can't open it. In addition to sealing objects, this technique can also be used to seal human souls or spirits, the effect is very dangerous. A person whose soul is sealed will experience mental disorders and find it difficult to develop in martial arts.
But to be able to seal a soul requires a high level of comprehension of techniques. In secret techniques there are 5 levels namely, ordinary, basic, intermediate, peak, and god. Spirit sealing techniques existed at the god level, it took decades to be able to master up to the god level techniques.
In this case Sasha learned the ordinary level seal technique. At this ordinary level, it was usually used to seal letters or lower grade weapons. While the seal that was on the secret scroll was a mid-level seal technique. Indirectly Sasha must master the middle-level seal technique as well.
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After 3 hours Sasha learned the secret seal technique, she finally re-opened her eyes because she had mastered the ordinary level seal technique.
“Teacher, Uncle, it looks like I have mastered the secret seal technique of ordinary level” Sasha said in a feisty tone.
“Now you try to seal your sword and let Zen try to pull out your sword from within” said Master.
Sasha also started sealing in her sword. Ordinary level sealing techniques did not form symbols like on secret scrolls, there were only spell streaks written with ancient letters. While mid-level to god-level seals already use symbols, for example seals on secret scrolls. The seal uses an image of an owl's head surrounded by a spell.
Usually the image of an animal or weapon printed on a seal is a symbol of family or clan, while the core of the seal is a spell graffiti in the form of a circular, square, or other square.
After a while Sasha activated the seal on her sword, Sasha gave her sword to Zen for the test.
“Uncle Zen, please try the seal I made this” said Sasha giving her sword to Zen.
“Alright” says Zen.
Zen looked at the array of spells engraved from the base of the sword hilt to the end of Sasha's sword series. Zen felt a seal energy that was not too strong yet very pure.
“How Uncle” asked Sasha.
“Truly cannot be unplugged. Looks like you managed to master the secret seal technique of ordinary level” java Zen.
“Let me try to open it” said Guru.
Master also feels the same way as Zen, but Master can unlock the seal Sasha made.
“Her cup Master also mastered the secret seal technique” Sasha said in her heart.
“Don't be surprised, I have also mastered the seal technique of ordinary level, so I can unseal on this sword” said Master.
“But I feel something else from this sword, like there is a very strong energy force, but I don't understand what this energy is”.
For a long time Master looked at Sasha's sword that he was holding.
“What is Teacher, is there anything strange about my sword’ asked Sasha.
“I feel a very strong pure energy from this sword of yours. What have you put into this sword” asked Master.
“I only insert green stone and golden stone. Didn't Master already know it” said Sasha.
“Moreover what else” asks Master.
“What Teacher means is eternal fire. I used to burn my sword using eternal fire and it was like it was fused with my sword” explained Sasha.
“Hmmm... deserve” said Guru.
“Alright, congratulations to you for already being able to master the ordinary level seal technique. However to unseal on the secret scroll you must master the mid-level seal technique. Continue learning that tomorrow” said Guru while returning Sasha's sword.
After that Zen drove Sasha to rest. Inside the temple there are several rooms that the disciples used to rest after training.
“Happy rest, prepare yourself to continue training tomorrow” Zen said after dropping off Sasha.
“Thanks Uncle Zen. Happy rest also” said Sasha.
