ADILAGES
AROK 1

In his lifetime, it has only been the last two years that I Made Johnny Wardhana often felt the spirit of fighting overflowing. Especially at this time, in this Empati-encoded jet plane, the big, burly body seemed to smolder, the blood as if boiling.

How not, this is a golden opportunity to end a series of tempests that have been haunting Johnny and his family for about two years.

When receiving news about “this important breakthrough” from I.N.D.I.G.O through communication nanochip planted to stick in the nape of his neck, Johnny hurried to leave the Wardhana Enterprises Headquarters meeting room on the sidelines of an important meeting. He then drove alone to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport and immediately boarded Sempati disguised as his private plane.

Less than two hours after departing from Denpasar, Bali, the voice of the pilot who was a special agent I.N.D.I.G.O woman sounded melodious from the intercom. “Near the drop location, the jet plane mode turns into helicopter mode in three, two, one... now!”

There were sounds like shifting steel plates. The speed of the aircraft is now changing more slowly than before. The noise of a muffled jet engine changed the sound of a giant propeller rotation.

Time to change. The medal necklace depicts the face of a sacred lion, Barong on Johnny's chest glowing white-lightly. Johnny's long hair decomposes and turns white. His body was clad in a white costume, covered in golden white armor. A golden-white mask covered Johnny's handsome face, making him seem even more formidable. This was the figure of the heir of the Sacred Lion of the Gods, Barong.

The next action, Barong put on a parachute backpack and prepared at the door of the plane. When the door of the plane opened, it was clear that a single mountain was surrounded by forest and rice fields.

Towering 1320 meters from the surface of the ground, the strangest of Mount Sadahurip in Sukahurip Village, Pangatikan, Garut, West Java is a pyramid-like shape in Egypt. Although the five sides and the position is not exactly facing the direction of the wind, this mountain has made a scene in the archaeological world because it is thought to be a pyramid building or a relic site of space creatures.

For a moment, Barong was stunned. When this was indeed his destination, there must be another mystery within this mountain waiting for him. A much bigger and more dangerous mystery.

Once close enough, the pilot's voice echoed again. “Please plunge. Good luck and congratulations, Swordsman Barong.” Barong half wished it was the voice of Wenny, Johnny's wife. He jumped from the helicopter, hoping to hear the voices of Wenny and his children again.

Parachute expands, the superhero drifts slowly until it lands on a rice field near the mountain slope. Barong took off and left his equipment, then ran fast towards Mount Sadahurip.

However, where exactly are the “ secret places for the main event” in Gungun Pyramid Sadahurip? The answer was clearly displayed in front of Barong, the place where the fiercest battle erupted.

As Barong ran closer, it appeared that the agents and soldiers of I.N.D.I.G.O in purplish blue uniforms were being pushed, when facing the combined forces of warok and leak. Beyond a doubt, the enemy who is superior in number even increases stronger, combat weapons are unable to compensate.

While shouting like a lion roar, Barong plunged in to help, subverting the enemies one by one. He had indeed faced leak and warok forces before, but the dark prana of the troops here was clearly stronger. While fighting he tries to track down the prana's additional source. Sure enough, it came from the gaping entrance on the slopes of the pyramid mountain.

At least five warok fists and ten leak kicks landed on Barong's mighty body, making the burly swordsman stagger for a moment. One leak thought it was an opportunity and would immerse his poisonous nails in the opponent's body. Barong is on standby. One fist full of ground prana landed him flat on the face of the leak, the opportunity was scrapped.

Barong fought as he continued to advance, accompanied by cheers of encouragement from I.N.D.I.G.O agents and cries of pain and anger from enemy forces. Armed with experience as a boxing athlete, Barong moves very agile like a butterfly and “mengat” accurately like a bee. As a result, the spirit of the invading army was lifted, gradually but surely they began to urge the defending soldiers.

Getting closer to the slopes of the pyramid mountain, looks tractors and heavy equipment parked not far from the mouth of the cave. With his super vision, Barong recognized the keris emblem on the side of each vehicle. It's not wrong, it belongs to SS Corporation. The cave must have been the result of an excavation under the guise of archaeological research. Then SS covered up his “reses” from the public eye by stopping research. Then publish “faktaf” that Sadahurip is just an ordinary mountain, there is no strangeness of anything other than its shape that almost resembles a pyramid.

The sounds of loud clashing near the row of heavy equipment seemed to lure Barong closer. His premonition was right, it looked like two tough warriors were competing there. One was thin, had dreadlocks and wore a black lacquer-faced green costume from neck to toe. The other one is large and stocky, costumed orange color combined striped-loreng and brown armor.

Barong knew, he had fought with both of them. Looks like the green costume is being the months of his opponent. Each fist that was thrown by “Barong” Twins seemed much more powerful than before. One fist of the orange mane from below hit the dreadlocks on it until it soared upwards. A second, more powerful fist was ready to welcome that defenselessly fallen body.

With a very mature calculation of time, Barong smashed his two fists into the ground with the ultimate style that is now his mainstay, the Earth Shaking the Sky in An uproar. The brown armour fell due to the earthquake that was the first part of this movement. And with the final part, Barong caught the body of the striped green in the air, avoiding him from additional injuries due to the gravitational pull and impact with the earth.

“Hey, you're still conscious, Reog?” barong exclaims to the gimbal.

Stunned to recognize his savior, Reog turned his body away while hissing, “Barong! How dare you interfere!”

“Surely I have the right to interfere! I want to make a calculation with you guys, Reog and Singabarong regarding the past fight, in Warok Cave!”

Reog protest, “For what? I have joined the Adilaga League, and now we are fighting against the Angkara Murca League and the SS. Let me handle Singabarong first! After the mission is complete, I will fulfill your challenge anytime!”

“You're a member of Adilaga?” Barong did not look surprised. “Then it's my business to stay with Singabarong.”

Suddenly Singabarong who just recovered from “gempa” was rising quickly and interrupted, “Hei-hei, apparently the supporter is my own twin, yes. Come Barong, it's time to determine who is the strongest among us!”

“Oi, oi, oi! Singabarong is my part!” sergeant Reog. “You go straight in there, Barong! Enemies are still many, help our colleagues there!”

“Good! Let's go boxing..!” Before Singabarong could raise his fist, the force of the earthquake that spread from Barong's body slings hit him, making the large body of the Demon Animal King was slammed far back, hitting a row of heavy equipment.

“Please, Reog!” Barong did not stop to ensure the condition of Singabarong. At least, the action was probably able to make Reog who was still injured due to previous fights can compensate Singabarong, his arch-enemy, the supreme leader of warok forces who branded Reog traitor.

“Good, careful, Barong!” At least now Reog knows, the superhero he once fell into was not vengeful to him at all.

\==oOo==

When crossing the threshold of “the entrance of”, the scenery is very dim around Barong like a cave in the mountains in general. The surface of the floor and the walls are very rough rocks. Also scattered are stalactites and stalagmites, with lighting mining lights connected to solar power plants outside the cave.

The leaks and waroks that were blocking Barong here were clearly stronger than the outside earlier. The signs of Barong's premonition were becoming clearer, there was an immeasurable source of darkness power within. It must be the source that is now targeted and used by the SS. But what is it?

Rather than second-guessing the answer, Barong chose to react to the sounds of a fight that was more rowdy than the one in front earlier. This time, however, there were fewer participants. At least Barong recognized the two heroes of Adilaga who fought there, namely Hima and Dahlia. Their opponents were Angkara Murca, Okkult and Gangren, kuntilanak warriors and pocongs.

Hima, the heir of the Eternal Ice Jin dressed in an all-blue-green costume using Himawari's Ice Sword, greeted the great body of the pocong, Gangren. But each Gangren wound quickly retreated, as if the attack had been in vain.

No different from Dahlia, a long distance fight with Okkult who flew freely in this large and spacious cave room never found a bright spot. After all, Dahlia had to avoid the poisonous nails that were still left on one of the hands of the half-ghost woman. After all, it is rather difficult to influence the mental Okkult who has indeed “rak” and “gila” with his penchant for torturing others.

Observing this fight for a moment, Barong got the idea. He moved closer to Dahlia and whispered his point. The masked face of the two-headed sweet-haired girl scowled for a moment. Finally he nodded and moved away, handing his opponent to Barong. The road was stumbling, a sign he had many injuries.

“Wah, wah, what's up with this?” okkult from a height. “The coward from Adilaga ran away, letting his partner replace him, not helping him fight?”

“At least we don't like to mess around,” the pretext of Barong. “After all, I was about to charge something from you two.”

“What is it? We owe no one!”

“In fact you are constantly piling up countless debts, life debts on your victims, including the driver and the driver of Wardhana Logistics.”

“Heh, to live our profession and devotion to the Eternal King, bloodshed is an inevitable necessity,” Okkult said, his attitude and tone do not imply the slightest regret. “That is precisely our pleasure, a lot of blood as an offering, a sign of our loyalty to the giver of power.”

Johnny's face behind Barong's mask frowned. The development of new information was not complete he digested, so he was forced to save it first to be assembled with other pieces of clues. This must have something to do with the culprit of the tempest that Adilaga will face later.

“Thank you for your explanation.. Okkult, right?” barong said based on the information he got from Adilaga's leadership. “As a reply, please attack me.” The strongest super swordsman stretched out both his hands.

Scornful smiles adorned the face of a dead Okkult. Barong, touted as the strongest super swordsman in the Adilaga League allowed himself to be attacked. Although this was a trap, it was impossible for him to be able to do much to an enemy that could fly.

When talking earlier, Okkult deliberately collected prana. Then he took off his ultimate streak, the Black Plague, shooting out long-haired skull shadows containing poison and dark prana, all leading to Barong's body.