The Musafir

First Cagak and Kiai Kedai

Meanwhile, the fight and the battle is still ongoing, even more fierce. The sword lacing was exchanged for the sword lashing, the tread style was exchanged for the tread style, the kicks were exchanged for kicks, even the gazes were exchanged for gazes!

The actual fight is too protracted this finally makes Mantingan realize that in fact they are not pitting ability or silat science, they are pitting energy in.

Seeing from the movements of his opponent who only fended off and attacked small, Mantingan learned that the person deliberately made the fight go slow but drained his strength deep.

Mantingan thought, did the First Cagak know that his seven chakras had opened and were able to hold power within? Or is it that the opponent knows, but has a greater inner power reserve than he does?

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HOWEVER, Mantingan had to be completely wary of the old swordsman who was his opponent this time around.

May he know that Cagak Kedatu is a warrior who comes from the underground network of the martial world. Their network is always the first and most complete in getting all the news and information in the martial world, no matter if it is just small news or even big news.

Could it be that all the hidden skills, skills, and powers of the Mantang have been known to the swordsman?

Indeed, there is such a possibility, but it does not rule out the possibility that actually the First Cagak does not know too much about Mantingan.

He remembered that although the information and news blew very quickly in the underground network of the martial world, but still all news and information was valued at a price that was not small if sold there.

Often the price to pay is not money. Although the Sword Intan Group was one of the largest groups in the underground network, but there was still the possibility that they did not get all the news and information that was sold expensively.

The mantel trying to remember. What was the price paid to capture the North River Angel alive? Whatever the price was, it must have increased so much that the Diamond Sword Group intervened on this matter that they should have underestimated.

The Mantingan finally decided to move away from the First Cagak. The old warrior continued to chase after him, but all his attacks were easily avoided by Mantingan, so he decided to stop anyway.

They stood on the roofs of two different buildings. Stare at each other sharply. Their gazes were much sharper than the sword in their hands.

“Why are you retreating, Hero Man?” Ask the First Cagak after a moment of silence like a dead statue.

“For I have known thou art deception, Mr. Swordsman.” Mantingan changed its name to the first Cagak swordsman, however the opponent was indeed worthy of respect because it still did not use a cheat scheme until now.

“See what is it, Son?” So by the First Cagak also changed its name to Mantingan. “Maybe what you mean is a stratagem.”

“True, Mr. Swordsman. If my really low and baseless estimates have caught Father's stratagem to drain my inner energy.”

The First Cagak was seen laughing over the burning rays of fire. “Your estimate is true! And again, the crowd is right if they say that the Child is able to read the omens.”

“Will you continue this strategy?” tanyanya, ignoring the praise of the First Cagak far across there. “Are we exchanging styles just once, but be the determinant of who will be lying covered in blood?”

“Please a little, Son.” The First Cagak let out a voice that sounded too friendly among the screams of death of his troops. “For a swordsman your age, you are too bloodthirsty.”

“I won't put any hesitation on my enemies, Father. Know that.” Mantingan also replied in a friendly voice, although the content of his words did not put a sense of friendly.

“Then between the two of us there must be a dead one of them, right? Ah, what a pity, even though this old man is eager to become a teacher for you.”

“There is no thought, my old friend who actually became a teacher for you, Son. Kiai Kedai, is that not the way you crazy toothless parents drink that tea?”

Mantingan was silent and still put on vigilance, but nevertheless the statement sounded very surprising to him. Due to his curiosity, Mantingan did not stop the swordsman from telling a story.

“I remember about half a century ago, how the Shop that still uses its original name, Akrawarman, first arrived in Javadvipa. It was like a dead man in his little sailboat, coming into the lips of an estuary. Daku who happened to be looking for an ant nest on the edge of the estuary found it.

“Kutebak that he for a few months just eat the power in alone during the sailboat, so based on my pity brought him home. Until weeks later, his condition improved until he was able to say a sentence.

“He called his name Akravarman, coming from Jambhudvipa, concerned with the collapse of the conquered Salankayana House of Gupta. He claimed that he was a mercenary who escorted Jayasingawarman's party to Dwipantara, and in the middle of the sea he had to outwit the enemy who was chasing the party, using only a small sailboat.

“I really felt really amazed when I heard the story of beating three big yachts alone in the middle of the ocean. Until it is known that the three ships were deliberately sent by the Emperor Samudragupta to finish off the Salankayana nobility to the roots.

“At that time I introduced him about Yawabhumipala and civilization in it, namely Salakanagara who seemed to immediately peck his passion for adventure in my beloved country.”

Mantingan is quite choked with the statement of the First Cagak swordsman who said that his teacher has the real name Akrawarman, and at the same time mentioned that his teacher was from Jambhudvipa!

And when the First Cagak said “my beloved land”, which at that time of course there was only Salakanagara, then Mantingan began to meet the bright spot of the intervention carried out by the Intan Sword Group.

“I remember very well how we drank a cup of bitter tea that was dripped with our blood, as a sign of the rapture of brothers, who said their relationship would be much tighter than the siblings chosen by fate. Right after that, we went on an adventure together.

“Akravarman taught me a lot of new silat science that has greatly improved my abilities. At first I refused, knowing how valuable the sciences were if they were shared. But he said that all the knowledge he gave was only to return the favor.

“But unfortunately a thousand dear, since the expansion of the Taruma region our relationship has stretched. Akravarman still sided with Jayasingawarman, despite not showing it openly to me. While I still side with Salakanagara, my beloved country.”

The old warrior was heard sighing long as a sign that he had closed the story.

Without further narration though, Mantingan can guess about what happened next between Kiai Guru Kedai and the First Cagak.

Two friends who have raised each other to be brothers in fact have to separate in their own way.

“So you're here for supporting the rebels?”

“We loyal supporters of Salakanagara, will feel his heartache if equated with the rebels. We are native land fighters, about to restore the power that should be in this land.”

“How you can spread noise and anxiety like this is still not something that can be justified.”

“Only that is the only thing we can do to undermine the power of Tarumanagara, Son.”

Mantingan heard Cagak Kestu put a sense of regret on his words.