The Musafir
The Interest Behind the Sky Stakeholder
“The Sky Stakeout Amount has been predetermined. Dwipantara was given a two-seater ration for his warriors to occupy the Sky Stakeholder. And that is what caused the martial world of Dwipantara once again turbulent, because there was competition between the top warriors in the martial wells, martial forests, and even the underground martial world, he said,” clear Chitra Anggini. “They fought over the one seat left, because one seat was definitely occupied by Hero Man of Tarumanagara.”
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OF course, the statement was very surprising to Mantingan, as if nothing else was more surprising than Chitra Anggini's statement about the Sky Starter which also included his name as a warrior who had been confirmed to enter it!
It's so unbelievable!
Seeing the Mantingan's shock, Chitra Anggini immediately said, “Hero Man is the most talented young swordsman in Dwipantara. He managed to defeat the three great pillars of the Sword Intan Group, making the largest group in the underground martial world was destroyed.”
There was a misunderstanding, and Mantingan really knew it. It was not him who killed the two Pillars of Intan during the battle in the middle of the ocean at that time. The Unnamed Woman who killed them. And how he knew that the Unnamed Woman was far more talented and powerful than he was. If the Mantingan is likened to the sky, then the Named Woman is the sky above her!
“How can it be like that?” Manten shook his head. “Surely above the sky there is always another sky. So why should Sky Stakeholders be formed if it turns out that there are stronger than them?”
“I told you from the beginning, you will never understand the martial world.” Chitra Anggini said lazily before devouring pieces of chicken in his hand, because it was from earlier he delayed eating to explain the matter of Sky Stakeholder to Mantingan.
Meanwhile, Mantingan fell silent in his contemplation.
If Sky Stakeholders were not really needed in the martial world, this was precisely how kings removed the influence of the martial world from their kingdoms. Of course it is clear that the existence of warriors more often spread chaos which is also accompanied by fear rather than profit that can benefit anyone, he said, for no matter how the path of penjilatan is a path that is always wet with blood, which is also the perfection of the new self can be obtained from defeat in battle.
With only two Sky Stakeholder rations for Dwipantara, then there will certainly be a very fierce competition from warriors who want the authority of a Sky Stake. And that is how competition in the martial world can always mean no small amount of fighting and bloodshed.
“Executors who can defeat the Sky Starter will directly get the Sky Stakeholder's authority.” Chitra Anggini continued.
That means, someone who has been set to become a Sky Stakeholder can still be deposed from his authority if any other swordsman succeeds in defeating him. If so, the martial world would be extremely turbulent for the foreseeable future, as the challenge of fighting for the challenge of fighting would always approach the invincible Sky Stakeholders. Wouldn't that surely destroy the martial world slowly but surely?
“This Sky Stakeholder should be disposed of, or the martial world will be even more unfriendly in the future.” Mantingan expressed his opinion. “Didn't that way, talented warriors would always perish at the hands of the Sky Stakewers for daring to challenge them? And is not it so, that his work of the Sky Stakemen only kills warriors with no ceaselessness, and not keeps the balance of the martial world?”
Chitra Anggini replied, “The perfection of a swordsman is when he dies in the hands of a swordsman who is stronger than him. So dying in the hands of the Sky Stakeholder can be considered as perfection second to none.”
“Is dying everything to you?”
“Death is not everything, but death is the way of perfection for us.”
The mantang shook his head slowly. “This is not true. Not true at all. Sky Stake will actually mess up everything in the martial world.”
This time Mantingan fell silent, because he did not intend to argue anymore. It will provoke suspicion of Kartika who is definitely listening to his conversation with Chitra Anggini, because it is very unlikely for ordinary people like him to really know the martial world even to its meaning. Although maybe his identity has been revealed by Kartika, but still Mantingan does not want to reveal it directly.
“Currently, Hero Man is the most wanted man in Javadvipa. Even the warriors hunted him to the islands outside Javadvipa, like Suvarnadvipa's.” Chitra Anggini again opened the conversation, which was clearly done in order to cover his intention to commemorate Mantingan.
Manten frowned, then asked calmly, “Why is that?”
“Some parties feel they disagree if Hero Man is made a Sky Stakeholder. They argue that there are still many warriors who are more talented than Hero Man. Colleges send their best students to find and challenge themselves openly, while the warriors of the free flow moved themselves under the pretext of seeking the perfection of knowledge by challenging it even though their true intention was also to seize the authority of Heaven.”
The mantan shook his head in regret. Now realize how he is in serious trouble due to the authority of the Sky pinned to him even without approval at all. Not even three days he rejoined the martial world, but threat after threat hit him like heavy rain in a storm full of disaster.
“But Hero Man has never been found since the battle in the north sea. There was really no news of it, like it was lost in the earth. Even the college where he trained began to worry about him because the person they sent to find him had not brought any good news.”
Manten cleared his throat softly with an awkward smile on his lips. “Maybe he fell in that battle.”
“Many have put such conjecture. But earlier, the college where Hero Man trained had announced that the young man was wandering in a truly distant place. So that the assumption that Hero Man died in battle will always be an assumption that is not certain until the person appears or does not appear someday.”
The little mantle. “Hopefully my name which is so similar to it this will not bring any problems in the future.”
After swallowing chicken meat in his mouth, Chitra Anggini then said, “Why do you keep saying ‘ future’? Do you not realize that currently also Hero Man is in the shadow of an eagle who is ready to pounce on him anytime?”
At that instant the heart of Mantingan fell strongly. He held his face flat without showing any surprise at all. Secretly, he sent whispers of wind to Chitra Anggini. “Is this group also hunting me?”
Chitra Anggini nodded her head despite looking as if she was just bluffing her neck bone.
“Look at this Chitra! The food was untouched because it was too cool to talk to men!”
The words with a soft tone were followed by a tickling laughter from the others. Even some women began to stand up and approach Chitra Anggini even though not really Mantingan know the reason.
“Aih, since when are you interested in men?” One of the women who had been really close to Chitra Anggini moved pulled her chin. And in a very short time and never expected at all, something really not worth it!
Mantingan bought his eyes with a look of extreme disbelief, as the fact that he was nominated to be the Sky Starter was not surprising enough than the kiss. While Chitra Anggini just threw a lazy look at him.
