The Thousand Mask Warrior

The Battle Over the Ninth River: Groaning with a Faulty Face

The religion of Islam entered Champa since the 10th century AD, where previously Shiva religion from the land of Hindustan influenced the beliefs of the population as in Java. After that, Champa was occupied by Le Thanh Tong, a Buddhist, the ruler of the kingdom of Daisy Viet also from 1442 to 1497 AD.

However, after the attack of Daisy in 1471 AD, the Champa people even more embraced Islam that came from the country of Hindustan and sea trade directly from the Arab land. Perhaps this is a form of resistance to the Vietnamese Network and the identity of the Champa nation.

It's just that, just like the Javanese at that time, the influence of Shiva religion is still very strongly rooted in their lives. The Champa people are made up of three groups based on their beliefs. What is starting to grow at this time is Cham Islam. Later the second is the Early Cham known as Cham Bani and the Later Cham or Cham Shiva. The Early Cham do not embrace Islam fully because it does not pray five times a day like Muslims in general, but only Jum’at prayer only. They are also not required to fast in Ramawan, which is Ramadan for the Cham Muslims. Only priests or elders fast to represent him.

Trust has been fused into a part of the identity of the Champa nation. Thus, not a few of them consider Islam as a culture rather than a religion. These pirates especially. They use the dark forces known in both religion and Islamic culture and use them for their own purposes.

Jann is the name to describe a wide variety of jinn. The Jinn used by the leader of the Champa pirates is in fact already powerful in the earth before man himself was created. When the beginning was created by the Almighty, the possessor of the universe from a pure, smokeless fire, the Jinn were begotten on earth. They had their own government and civilization, laws, even their own religion and prophethood. Unfortunately, the Janns attack and oppose the good jinn among themselves to spread evil in the face of the world and disturb all creatures, so that the Almighty sends the angels to take over the earth and punish the jinn. Many of them hid in various places around the earth, or were caught by angels.

That is what Zakariya al-Qazwini, an alhi falak of Persian Arab descent, was born in 600 Hijri or 1200 AD.

The bastard Jann who turned away from the teachings of the Almighty good, who hid in the dark corners of the world waiting for humans to be their vehicle to spread evil and power over the earth again.

“Your invulnerability is just one of the dark heroes in the world since human times were not yet created. There is nothing special but slavery that is asked by them, O Champa,”, said Fong Pak Laoya in Champa language that is fluent enough to be understood by the opponent. He squeezed the yellow paper inscribed with the ancient Chinese script from the blood, then stuffed it into his mouth and tried to swallow it.

The pirate groaned with a nagging face. The words of Laoya were meaningless to him, though he understood them all, every word. Now it was time for the pirate leader to avenge the attacks that had hit his body earlier.

“You're the one who should be quiet, fucking shaman!” shouted the pirate leader. His small body slid towards Fong Pak Laoya. His sword stretched out ready to slash the head of the Laoya.

Fong Pak Laoya was waiting for an attack from pirates with the immune knowledge obtained from the work of the jinn. Unfortunately, the spell has not been read. It takes a while to get the best results. However, what to say, he was forced to retreat far and return to using the steps of his Thaijiquan style that was soft and firm at the same time, while casting spells in the day. The yellow paper was still inside his mouth, not yet swallowed.

A single wild slash almost smashed onto Laoya's head. Two more crossed slashes tried to reach his stomach and chest. Fong Pak Laoya still tried to dodge without counterattacking. A scene very different from before, especially now that Laoya has put his weapon back into his belt.

“What are you doing, Laoya. Why are you just avoiding? Reply with your magic!” yu exclaimed quite worried about the changes. Pratiwi himself seems to have also prepared his attack. Not why, but there are already three more shots from the enemy and the Laoya just dodged. How long will this happen?