The Thousand Mask Warrior

Toba Mossak

Jayaseta roaring with peudeung in his right hand. The curved shape of the sword reminded him of the shamsir and the moves of his late grandfather so that somehow, the movement of the use of the Persian sword that had melted into him reappeared mixed with all the moves he had learned.

Pendekar Toba, Pendekar Aceh and the warriors Bugis-Mangkasara must feel the pain of facing this teacher-student couple.

The grandfather wags the scabbard, then goes forward piercing. When the opponent was about to strike back, Jayaseta revolved like a typhoon forming a fortress with peudeung mowing down.

Two three warriors from the enemy side immediately fell. Datuk Mas Kuning directed the attack to the middle and bottom of the enemy's body, while Jayaseta equipped it with the roar of the sword blade to the neck and head. Blood splashing.

The warriors who all have their own history and interests on the deck of the Pranggi people's ship certainly do not have awareness of the joint attack movement. Maybe only the Bugis and Mangkasara people understand each other with their will in one group, but the Toba people and Acehnese warriors attacked with a frenzy, rumbling, flocking and scrambling for hoarseness.

Jayaseta looked at the Datuk, conveying a kind of veiled message that his teacher immediately understood.

The Datuk gave the end of the sheath to Jayaseta quickly. The two immediately swirled forward with a complicated movement, locking the enemy's arm with a strand of the sheath then the Datuk thrust his dagger into the waist and belly of the swordsman Toba. Jayaseta himself then removed the glove handle in his hand and slipped between the enemies, slashing at once two Bugis-Mangkasara warriors and thrusting the tip of the puedeung with a curved blade into the Acehnese swordsman, tearing his stomach.

The movement carried out by Jayaseta and Datuk Mas Kuning was a trick that was composed of winding silat pulut and like two people who danced but had great strength like a wave capable break through the enemy's siege. 

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Babiat Sibolang rolled back. Ginunting smears the chest of an Acehnese swordsman, while the stomach of fellow swordsman Toba Babiat Sibolang leaked pierced trident-eyed spear Narendra. Babiat Sibolang held back the rustling of his teeth clenched so hard with anger.

This pair of warriors seemed to be competing against each other to finish off the enemy. Babiat Sibolang did not expect at all that they turned out to have to face four warriors who were opponents of the match.

Babiat Sibolang let go and threw his dagger on the floor of the deckboard. He stared intently at the two warriors armed with forward-curving swords called ginunting and a three-eyed spear named the trident.

Babiat Sibolang placed a very low and wide, half-squatted horse. Both of his legs are raised alternately by following the weight point of the body. His breath was arranged in such a way and in a certain way, then his hands were rubbed against his back.

This is the attitude of the Mossak silat style belonging to the Toba warriors. Babiat Sibolang himself did not really succeed in learning the full range of styles and magic from his teacher. Exceptional perseverance and high religious sense make Babiat Sibolang reluctant to study further. He felt that he was smart enough to take the essence and core of Mossak silat elements so as to create his own composition.

The original Mossak silat makes a swordsman not only have great physical abilities, fast and sensitive, but also master pure energy or qualified inner energy. This inner energy results from the closeness of a warrior to the elements of nature which are the creation of the Almighty. So, it can be said that a person who mastered the silat Mossak has a closeness with the Supreme One as well. The ability to understand this nature in addition to making a Mossak fighter have power in pure power, he also has extraordinary sensitivity, so that even with his eyes closed he can avoid the opponent's attack and reply. This was because the swordsman was very familiar with the surroundings.

Babiat Sibolang is a man full of spirit but jumawa. He felt he had found the core of the nine levels of science canuragan Mossak Toba, but officially he had only reached the sixth level. With his own thinking and training, in the end he was able to create a silat style similar to the Mossak tribe Toba while composing the achievement of energy science in pure and breathing in his own way.

Katilapan did not linger decided to attack the rest of the Toba warriors, especially Babiat Sibolang had first invaded. Katilapan himself had wondered why the opponent threw away his sharp weapon and even empty-handed.

The new bed understood when his slash toward the chest of the opponent can be avoided with horses so low. One hand supports the body, and the other, in a shape that mimics the soles of a tiger's feet, beats the waist of a bed.

The bed jolted backwards and fell rolling over. The pain spread throughout his body. Apparently by releasing his weapon, the opponent's movements became more agile and his palm was fed with an unusual deep energy. The bed tried to get up, but the pain was still swirling around her waist.

Seeing his friend fall in one motion, Narendra immediately thought quickly that the enemy in front of him is not a swordsman. From the start of the battle, that person looked more resigned. Strike once two, look for a gap, then retreat. Now the movement is so fast and completely different from before.

So Narendra was reluctant to be driven and careless. He gave three stabs of his trident spear at once. Babiat Sibolang ducked low, shifted and chipped high. When both of his legs reached the floor, Babiat Sibolang immediately shot up.

Narendra did not expect the sudden attack, but he continued his attack with a long stab instead of dodging the enemy's counterattack.

Babiat Sibolang threw his arm hard to fend off Narendra's trident spear, then lowered his head and inserted both palms into Narendra's stomach and chest.

Almost Narendra's body was the enemy's open target if he did not cross the trident's spear shaft stretched across his chest and stomach. But the result, even though his body was not hit directly, Narendra was still thrown backwards as far as one spear. His chest was a little tight due to the impact of Babiat Sibolang's palm pressing the trident spear into his chest.

The bed rose and charged straight towards the Toba swordsman. His ginunting roared piercingly, slashing across short twice and once with a long slash. Babiat Sibolang dodged all attacks perfectly. His movements are like a man of trance. He moved low, down. Both hands widened, bending over the nape and back, so that these low moves make his body feel evenly distributed with the floor.

Narendra got into the battle. He jumped and thrust his trident towards the head of Babiat Sibolang. The one who was attacked again lowered his head, but then turned around and inserted a long kick that was thrown in a way that was rejected with both hands on the deck floor.

Narendra. His stomach was hit by a Babiat Sibolang kick. Not until there, the swordsman Toba is back to spin and with a long step again pounding his palm again into the chest of Katilapan.

Short screams sounded. The bed was thrown backwards and sprawled on the deck of the ship. His ginunting slipped out of his hand.

Jayaseta and Datuk Mas Kuning who had completed their task: paralyzing, maiming and killing the scattered warriors groaned on the floor of the deck directly approaching Katilapan. Jayaseta helped him stand up.

Jayaseta was then about to attack Babiat Sibolang before Katilapan held his hand and prevented him. "No need, Jayaseta. This man will be my opponent and Narendra. You better take a good look at the three Nias warriors, the gunners up there, including the skipper and the bule. They must have had a hidden plan. I will finish this one warrior," said Katilapan. He reached up to his plate and pulled out two sticks of rattan.