The Legend of Garuda Sword

8. Hordes of People

The sun shone on the world this morning with warmth seeping into the bones, greeted with the sweet chirping of birds. It was as if nature was at peace without any negative aura breaking the balance of nature itself.

Isuke managed to reach the beginner swordsman stage. He also felt his physique become stronger and more energetic.

That's what he got from training a month ago. Isuke is currently reading the Garuda Wing technique. He intends to study it now. He can't wait to go on an adventure and find his father.

Isuke is ordered to train in his silence room with Master Lin. In addition to getting direct guidance from Master Lin, in the silence room will also be faster in learning martial arts. One minute in the real world is equal to two minutes in a quiet room.

After Isuke searched for a safe place so that no one would disturb him during training, he sat down in a stone cave two meters deep. The cave is like a former tiger, but it has not been used because of the many cobwebs. He closed his eyes and went into his silence.

*****

While elsewhere,

This place is called Roztint. Now the location of every city on the continent is far adrift, blocked by forests. People who want to go to other cities must spend days. Since there are no modern vehicles, humans only walk or ride horses if they have. Usually people who have wealth own horses.

This city is precarious because there are a bunch of people who mess up. Makes a wise and very affectionate mayor of his people worried.

" Mayor Hin, this morning the criminals messed up in the western market" his assistant said, reporting a bizarre incident.

" Hong Li, what exactly do they want? I am very worried about my people. If they want treasure then I will love "The mayor called Hin is very anxious and troubled while looking at the city he leads from behind the window of his study. Mayor Hin looks young, even though he is 45 years old.

" According to the information, they were aiming for the heirloom object "The 50-year-old man named Hong Li answered the Mayor's question.

Mayor Wu Hin was very confused, he did not know where the heirloom that the bad guys were looking for. Actually he already knows the reason they messed up but the problem is, until now he does not know exactly what kind of objects they are looking for and where it is.

" Hong Li, please find out where the heirloom is! If you find it then bring it, I'll give it to them myself! " Mayor Wu Hin looked dizzy with the circumstances. He was sure that some of his people would die being killed by the criminal. He does not like his people to be hurt.

" Good mayor Hin, I will try to "look doubt in Hong Li's face. Hong Li had already searched the heirloom information several times but, the results were still nil.

Afternoon at the market in the western town of Roztint

A 20-year-old man and a 15-year-old woman were running as fast as they could towards the forest. They were chased by a group of people wearing black robes with spider marks on their backs.

The two men had run past the crowd, but still the robed man was chasing after them. When she entered the forest, the woman was tired.

" Sister, I'm tired brother! " Efforting to run the woman whined to her brother.

They both stopped in the bushes. The criminals chasing them are getting closer. Finally the man who was being chased just now decided to run while distracting the one who was chasing them. " Tsuruna, you stay hidden here and take care of that thing!, brother will divert them. You don't come out before you beat them and you promise to come back here ".

The woman who turned out her sister wanted to ask about her brother's safety later, but her brother had darted away and her existence could no longer be felt by him.

The younger brother just held tightly to his katana while hoping that his older brother would survive.

At first the younger brother would fight them, but the older brother forbade, because their numbers were too many. They finally decided to flee into the forest.

*****

The elder brother continued to run into the forest very quickly. In the end, he was surrounded by exhaustion.

'Wire, I'm besieged there's no way but to fight' he murmured.

" Young man give me that heirloom or you we kill! " One of the leaders of the criminals who surrounded the brother threatened, but the threat had no effect on the brother.

" I won't give it to you! " She said standby and clenched her fists. It was as if he was ready to fight against the group of fifty villains that had been chasing.

The fight was finally unstoppable. The older brother who turned out to be exhausted could easily be defeated. Just exchanging dozens of moves with a few people, he was already lying weakly on the ground.

The criminal who was after him asked what he was looking for, but the brother did not answer. Several times the criminal asked but did not get the answer as he wanted, the brother only replied that he did not know about the object they were looking for. He had to lie to protect his brother who was hiding. The criminal was irritated because the man in his catch was so stubborn. Finally, he was killed with his head separated from his body.

The criminal returned to his native place as they were exhausted from running for nearly six hours and messing around in the western market of Roztint. They left the corpse of the young man without properly burying him.

*****

Isuke who was training in the silence room immediately walked out of the place because he heard the sound of a fight. Master Lin also ordered Isuke to check what was happening in the commotion.

As Isuke exited the stone cave where he was training and looked towards the fight from the top of the tree, he saw a young man fighting the adults of dozens.

At that time Isuke wanted to help the young man but teacher Lin forbade him because Isuke was not strong enough. Especially among those who surrounded the young man there were earth level warriors.

Finally Isuke only noticed the fight and saw the leader behead the young man without a sinful face and leave him.

Isuke, who had just seen the sadistic killing, felt nauseous and had no desire to eat. He was so disgusted and horrified by the incident. But teacher Lin warned that in the swordsman world, killing was common.

Isuke ate the young man's corpse properly after the besiegers had left the site.

After finishing, Isuke intends to stop his training and wants to bathe in the river. At first Isuke will bathe on the beach, but he does not like it because the sunlight on the beach is very hot.

Teacher Lin understood his disciple's strange behavior. Maybe because Isuke is still too public with his thought killing.

After a few minutes of searching the river, Isuke found the river and immediately washed the clothes he was wearing. He then hung his clothes on the rock. Because it was still daytime so he was very relaxed because the weather was hot.

Now he is soaking on the river side with his head on the river bank and his body floating in the water. He soaked his body without a cloth. He felt safe because this was a forest, so there would be no one to peek at or pass through there. He enjoyed this until he slept.

***

At the place where the woman was hiding

'Brother, why so long? Are you okay' The sister is worried about her brother.

' Okay, thirsty again, I have to find water before you come back here' In addition to his worries, the sister is thirsty and intends to find water to quench her thirst.

He also searched the nearest river. For a few minutes he searched, finally he heard the roar of the river water. He walked towards the origin of the sound and it turned out to be a river.

When he was about to take water from the river bank, he used his katana to tell him to walk so as not to fall into the river. But he accidentally stepped on a rock and slipped down.

" Yet......"

" Ouch..." When it falls.

'Why is this place so soft? and what is this?' he felt astonished that he had fallen on a soft spot and his hand was touching something like a small and short stick.

*****

Isuke who was sleeping fast on the river bank awake because he felt that something fell from the sky on his body, he also felt amused because it seemed like the junior he had was being touched by someone.

Finally he opened his eyes and immediately shouted

"KYYAAAAAA............"