The Dragon God Swordsman

13. Shaded

The sky is still lowering the water and has not shown any signs of stopping. Now it was exactly midnight and they should have arrived by now. Due to the very high rainfall makes the horse ridden by old men slip and fall into the hillside. The old man managed to survive but his horse continued to fall down the hill and was washed away by the swift flood.

Aryo who saw the incident hurriedly approached the old man and helped him. Because it is certain that his travel companion did not suffer any injuries Aryo intended to invite him to find shelter.

“Uncle should we continue on foot. We also can not continue the journey in the rain as great as this, I am sure not far from here there must be a place for us to shelter” Aryo invited to the old man.

“Sorry young master, our journey has stalled due to the mistake of hambur” said the old man.

“This is not the fault of uncle, circumstances that make us this way. Let's continue our journey” take Aryo back.

Both are now traveling on foot, slowly but surely they are sure to arrive even if a little late.

As they descended the hill from afar there appeared to be a small hut with torch lighting. Both of them accelerated the steps to get there to ride the shelter. Slowly the cottage they could see clearly but there was an awkwardness going on in the house.

“Uncle have you ever seen anything like this?” asked Aryo who seemed to not believe what his own eyes saw.

“Hamba just this time saw him young master, this really does not make sense” replied the old man as he rubbed his eyes hoping that all he saw was a dream.

Both are not far from the cottage. The phenomenon he saw was so alien and so unnatural. This is because the hut was not exposed to the slightest rain and above the hut like there is a translucent wall that holds the raindrops at this time.

Their daydream finally broke when they saw a figure coming out from behind the cottage door. The figure was wearing a yellow robe with a staff only as tall as his thighs. Aryo noticed more carefully the figure in front of him is an elderly with a body condition that has been bent, maybe the age factor according to him.

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Ki Ratno walked slowly towards the door of his house intending to go out to meet the upcoming guests. After he came out he found his guest standing pecking and his eyes glaring at him. He smiled warmly as he waved his hands to get the two of them closer to his cottage.

“Did I dream or did that person wave to us young master?” the man spontaneously asked after seeing the wave of the hand.

“Not an uncle's dream but it's real, that guy wants us there to meet him” Aryo replied.

The two looked at each other and soon decided to approach the person. When it was near the person smiled kindly and immediately let the two enter the cottage.

The atmosphere inside the cottage was very simple and arguably a little uncomfortable to live in by someone. They wondered inwardly how there were people inhabiting this cottage that was far from the crowd. The two were still looking at the state of the cottage until a foreign voice distracted them.

“Large rains like this finally brought me a guest. Sorry if my cottage is not comfortable, I honestly did not expect the arrival of 2 people with soaking wet like this”, Ki Ratno told his guests.

“It is precisely we who apologize uncle, we here want to ride a ride in the shade for a moment until the rain stops and continues our journey” Aryo replied politely to the person in front of him.

“In a trip? May I ask where you guys are going” Ki Ratno asked again.

Now the old man and Aryo look at each other, actually they think their purpose should not be anyone knows because it is a very secret place. Seeing his guests like that Ki Ratno laughed and tried to melt the atmosphere.

“Hahahaha it's okay this old man understands, it looks like you guys are going to do an important task. Before that let's dry your body first” said Ki Ratno back.