SAKYA PARAKA: THE LIBERATOR

The Hill of Varsani

On the hill of the goddess Daru, fifteen four-meter-tall rakshasa started popping up in all directions. Surround the celebration participants. Without a mace in his hand, they easily caught the participants who had trouble running because of the weight with the offerings they were carrying.

Sakya who has sensed the presence of rakshasa. It quickly took out its sword and killed one rakshasa nearby.

"Bratha Tivara, bring the others here!" sakya shouted at Tivara.

Tivara who was going down the hill heard Sakya's cry. He sees Sakya under the hill and a rakshasa lying next to him. How'd he do it? Is that a sword?

"Everybody follow me!" Tivara acted immediately. He has no time to think about the way Sakya killed rakshasa. He called out the remaining participants.

In a critical situation, time is important. The faster it responds to the odds the more likely it is to stay alive, and at the moment Tivara sees an opportunity to escape.

Sakya moves in to kill the second rakshasa, with the aim of widening the exit. Actually, Sakya can kill everything easily. But for some reason he tried to restrain himself.

Two rakshasa had already fallen, the exit was getting wider. The residents have arrived at Sakya's place. Seeing Sakya succeed in killing two rakshasa they try to hide behind Sakya.

"Run towards the Lokapatti warriors!" yell Sakya. Quickly the participants ran towards Lokapatti.

"I'll help you!" tivara shouted directly at the horses.

"Go! Take the others to safety! I'll drive them out! Don't worry I'll catch up with you," Sakya shouted directly at the rakshasa group that was running towards him.

Knowing that she will only slow Sakya down because she is not holding a weapon, Tivara immediately turns back and runs after the other participants. "Be careful Sakya!"

Sakya nimbly avoids the rakshasa ambush. For Sakya, the rakshasa moves very slowly. Sakya leads them to a place hidden on the other side of the hill, and begins to kill them one by one.

Another detached Rakshasa heard the screams of his friend instantly coming closer. Like his friends, those who come only take their lives.

Only one rakshasa remained, and he walked back slowly. I wish Sakya was unaware. How could he keep fighting while some of his friends die with their heads apart and others die split in two. Even if he was given nine lives, he was certain that he would still die nine times.

"Stop! I'm not gonna kill you. I need you alive."  Sakya gave the order to the rakshsasa.

"You speak our language?" ask rakshasa in shock. This is the first time that a human speaks the language of rakshasa.

Sakya doesn't speak rakshasa. He only delivered 'messages' in his prana through telepathy. He was forced to speak by telepathy because the rakshasa was not a praboditha, so he could not catch the message in the prana that came out when Sakya spoke. While the language spoken by the rakshasa can be understood Sakya.

"Jawab. Why are you here?"  Sakya immediately asked. It would take a lot of time if he had to answer the question of the rakshasa.

"This is what we do every three months. Ka—we took the human offering handed over by your leader," replied the nervous rakshasa. The aura emitted from Sakya's body frightened her. For some reason, his mouth and knees felt weak.

"Explain to me in more detail!" tell Sakya, a little scream.

"A—I don't know much, which I know your brother offers our clan chief a human offering every two months on a continuous basis and the number will continue to grow on condition that we don't touch his city," rakshasa fell down.

Sakya's suspicions are finally proven. From the beginning he had been suspicious, how could a city with wooden walls survive this long without an attack from the rakshasa? 

In fact, the city of Lokapatti is just a farm, and humans are the livestock.  Of course the head of the rakshasa clan agreed to it, they could obtain an endless continuous supply of humans. It is better than continuing to hunt at the risk of running out of food sources.

To Sakya the most shocking news was about the clan head being able to communicate with the duke of Sena. This indicates for sure that the head of the rakshasa clan was a dwi praboditha because Sakya knew that the duke of Sena was not a praboditha.

Humans may have a chance of winning against rakshasa in long-distance combat using a bow, but fighting rakshasa praboditha is like a cat trying to push a large banyan tree. They will never succeed in bringing it down.

"What did you do to the humans you took?" ask Sakya.

Silly, say workers when slaves, free from suffering when eaten ah .... Sakya's lips twitched at Rakshasa's reply. He began to be impressed by the intelligence of the rakshasa that was in front of him.

"You said you had a king? Tell me how strong he is!" sakya's Letters. He needed to know all the information that could be used in the future.

"Of course he's very strong ah, Ba—just imagine! To become a king, he had to defeat ten clan leaders simultaneously.  Oh yes, we are made up of fifty clans meaning we have fifty clan heads. Imagine that! to become the clan head, you must defeat ten other rakshasa people. Emm... Did I tell you we have five generals? Imagine that! To ...."

"Enough!"

Huh, tell me about the clan chief and the General to scare me. You think I'm scared?

"You may leave but give my message to your clan chief! Say that the duke of Sena will no longer send human offerings. Lokapatti town belongs to humans now! If you come we will kill you. Go!" sakya exclaimed kicking rakshasa to the verge of collapse.

"Wait ... Tu—wait, you are strong enough for a human, my clan head is happy for a strong person. Imagine you become the new duke of Lokapatti ... No. .. a king, a king of men. We still have five farms ... Uh ma—I mean five built-up areas and you'll be the king. How's it?" haggle the giant.

"Go! If I still talk, I'll cut off one of your legs. 'Imagine' you come home jumping up and down to your town. I'm not dealing with the weak," Sakya exclaimed as she sent out another kick

The rakshasa immediately turned around and ran without saying another word. Sakya saw him go and smiled. Then he walked back up the hill.

Behind the hill, there is a large carriage pulled by two elephants carrying bamboo cages containing humans captured by the rakshasa.

Sakya sets them free and tells them to return to the town of Lokapatti.

"Thank you Bratha, are you Vaidya Shrie's sister? You are the saviors of my life. I don't know how to get back at him" said a grandfather who came to him and bowed to him.

Sakya knows this grandfather. He is Vatsa's grandfather who is now Shrie's servant.

"Grandfather doesn't owe me anything. Let's go!" Sakya smiled. Sakya frees all and together they descend the hill of the goddess Daru.

 

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Abuba was a Lokapatti warrior captain. He had fifty soldiers as his subordinates. Every two months the troops he led were tasked with escorting the participants of the offerings of goddess Daru to the Varsani field.

After driving the participants to the border, they usually wait and wait under a tall and shady banyan tree while talking.

"Captain, can we go back now?" ask a soldier with a snub nose to abuba.

"We execute the command as usual. We wait until the afternoon we return to the city" replied Abuba. His eyes were straight ahead towards the hill in the Varsani field.

"Nobody's ever escaped, Captain. If we go home now we can spend more time in the tavern 'Wahah Dwipa', he he," the snub-nose soldier suggested with a smile. His friends nodded and laughed.

"Shut up! Damn, someone made it back. Everyone prepare! Hold them alive but make sure they don't have the energy to run anymore ..," cried Abuba wrathfully. He cussed while standing up taking his wooden spear.

"Hey ... Rakshasa-rakshasa, what the hell are they doing?"

The Lokapatti soldiers immediately stood up and took their spears.