The Thousand Mask Warrior

Mensa and Jogo do Pau

Pratiwi was again lying on the same bed when he was first helped by Yu. In this place Yu also re-used his Zhen Jiu ability, piercing the parts of Pratiwi's body that he was familiar enough.

Maybe Pratiwi will be more upset when he later realized that he was defeated by a peranakan Chinese woman with silatnya ability which is actually no greater than himself.

He may also be more burned with anger later when he finds out that his loved one, Jayaseta, is, he was married to another woman and that one of his twin grandfathers had died to wish Jayaseta's wife dead.

Jaka Pasirluhur with his butt hands, with a rampant fever, still forced his colleagues to make sure the people who attacked them were really dead, including the frontman, he said, Mandura is one of the twin warriors of the Poet Baka.

Their bodies were all burned to the ashes. Not satisfied, Jaka himself threw the gray into the ocean, in the port of Semarang.

While the fellow soldiers of the bodyguard Nyi Almira, buried with respect in Semarang.

They then rushed away, returning to Kotagede, Mataram. Although Almira is in a state of young pregnancy, but her safety is the first. They walked slowly along with a variety of pedicures and horse carriages.

Jaka Pasirluhur did not want to guess whether the people from the Hell Earth Needle had been completely killed by the warriors who claimed to be Jayaseta's friends. He had to take Nyi Almira away from Semarang as soon as possible.

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Indeed Larantuka is a kingdom on the island of Flores in the archipelago Nusatenggara east of the archipelago that adheres to the Catholic Christian religion because of the influence of the Pranggi Caucasians are very large. However, there are kingdoms that oppose Pranggi rule in Timor.

They are kingdoms that adhere to the Islamic religion and are incorporated in the Watan Lema alliance or interpreted as the Five Coast.

One of those kingdoms was Lamahala which had lived and developed before the 13th century AD. The existence of the Kingdom of Lamahala is also included in the Book of Negarakartagama, which mentions Lamahala is a kingdom that is incorporated in an alliance called the Islamic Kingdom of Solor Watan Lema with the Kingdom of Eggplant, Lamakera Kingdom, Lohayong Kingdom, the Kingdom of Lebala.

For a long time these two axes have been in conflict, competition and war. Lamahala Kingdom and Watan Lema is notoriously too formidable to be influenced, let alone conquered by Pranggi, in contrast to Larantuka who absorb Pranggi culture, religion and influence well.

Walanda, Pranggi's rival bule country, used this opportunity to stick its nails in the Timor area.

Walanda and his VOC had begun to try to use their influence since the 15th century. At that time, the VOC began to put pressure on Pranggi who indeed had more powerful influence there. In 1613 AD, Walanda conquered the Pranggi fortress in Solor, an island east of Larantuka.

The defeat at Solor led Pranggi to concentrate his power in the Larantuka kingdom. This is where the political competition between the colonial nations took place in the archipelago.

Pranggi certainly received full support from the Kingdom of Larantuka to maintain control over the sandalwood trade targeted by Walanda.

While on the other hand, Walanda uses the famous way, namely sheepfighting. The company embraces other kingdoms in the eastern Nusatenggara hostile to Pranggi, in this case of course what is meant is the alliance of Islamic kingdoms incorporated in the Watan Lema alliance.

The silat ability of the soldiers of the Solor Watan Lema Kingdom is very important to take into account. This is evidenced by the attack of the Kingdom of Solor Watan Lema to expel Pranggi from the Kingdom of Lohayong, Solor, in 1613 AD which was joined by Walanda. The attack was led by Captain Lingga of the Lamahala kingdom.

The royal silat Lamahala is known as Mensa with Malay silat style mixed with Javanese influence.

Rapid hand movements such as slapping and foot strokes are his trademark.

Lamahala and Watan Lema's forces attacked Pranggi with this fighting style, while Larantuka's forces had a style of flashing influenced by ancient Pranggi silat named Jogo do Pau and Pombo.

Jogo do Pau which more or less means 'stick game' is a way of fighting using wooden stick weapons, while Pombo is shiny with locking and dings and fighting using a variety of sharp weapons, such as axes, sword and spear.

Jogo do Pau is known since the Middle Ages in Pranggi, which is around the 1300s AD as a style of low-light or ordinary people. This style of silat is also used by walking soldiers who are usually taken from poor farmers who cannot afford to have or are too expensive to be equipped with good quality weapons such as swords and spears, so that a long wooden stick becomes his choice.

What distinguishes this style with the use of Chinese toys, silat in the archipelago or spear is that the wooden stick of Jogo do Pau is used almost entirely to hit, bang or chop. Unlike the toya which can also be used for piercing.

Indeed, although Antonio da Silva or the King of Nio is a Catholic Christian because he comes from Larantuka, he has also studied Mensa silat.

However, a little bit, although the opposition always colored the two camps, Larantuka and Watan Lema, the two regions also equally influence each other.

King Nio is not a powerful man, far compared to the champions and warriors who spend time galvanizing themselves to become more powerful over time.

However, as a skipper, of course, this handsome Larantuka man should also equip himself with extraordinary courage, as well as, obviously, a little martialism.

After Jayaseta left the ship as usual, when the sun began to sink, King Nio trained himself with a Jogo do Pau stick combined with Mensa's short but fast silat steps.

The spirit again taperkan silatnya sensitivity is due to Jayaseta. He became encouraged to practice kanuragan because of the influence of the greatness of the masked swordsman.

Holding a cane at one end, he slammed it forward, sideways and turned. Sometimes with one arm often with both arms.

His dark body that was sweating unclothed clothes was sweating and almost invisible in the light that was slowly dimming and disappearing.

When he had reached about twenty-five steps, a figure appeared on the deck of the ship in front of him. First blurring, over time it becomes clear.

Wearing a loincloth, thin-bodied bare-chested, old and dirty, stood bent over less than four spears in front of King Nio.

A figure he knows very well. How not, King Nio remembered once that it was he who cut off the head of the figure with a kelewang and he himself also threw away the corpse of Karsa, who was, the grandfather who claimed to be a swordsman nicknamed The Poet Baka was into the ocean.

King Nio did not believe his vision. How could the old man come back to life? Vengeful anger was seen once inside both of his eyes.

King Nio is like seeing a ghost.

However, instinctively, driven by his sensitivity, believing in disbelief in what he saw, King Nio looked left and right looking for his leverage.

"You're looking for this, master skipper?" the truly Karsa figure raised a mule, belonging to King Nio of course, with his thin, dry right hand.

King Nio was alone on the deck of this ship. The crew is in the hull, stern or down to the market looking for crowds or enjoying the wine in the corner of the harbor to just relax enjoying the situation while on the mainland.

King Nio was completely alone now.

"I'm flattered, you're alive again just to get revenge on me" King Nio said, trying to relax.

Karsa wagged the kelewang that had been used to slash his head in the air, "Ah, don't be too proud and confident. Killing you just dirty my hand. But, yes, I did come to take your life. A lowly man who thought he could support and kill the Poet Baka so easily? You dream too high, master skipper."

King Nio tightly grasped his wooden stick.

"Then, I will kill all your crew, just for your satisfaction. Next the swordsman you carried on your ship will also smell the scent of death coming out of my blood painting."

King Nio raised his staff slowly, knee-high and prepared the Mensa horses.

Karsa chuckled, "You still believe in the masked swordsman, that invulnerability can be fought with a club, a mace or a stick?" he said while carrying his armour on his shoulder.

Karsa was about to open his mouth and again taunt King Nio when without warning, the skipper decided to attack the great grandfather.

King Nio leapt and struck his staff straight splitting from top to bottom, towards the head of the Poet Baka.