ADILAGES
AROK 2'S

Even though he was ready, Barong had to let some of the opponent's shots hit his body like a rain man, and straddled the rest with both arms full of dirt prana.

“Heh, basic search die! Feel the torment of hell from within your own body!” Okkult then hit a row of black nails that are full of poison. But the pale face was more and more flabbergasted, his nails seemed to hit a stone or metal, unable to penetrate the Barong Rock Armor with full strength.

“Because of you.” Barong had indeed been waiting for this Okkult melee attack. He then held tightly to the arms of his enemy, then pulled and greeted the woman's body with a series of powerful fists full of power.

Okkult's agonizing cries came to a sudden halt, as the half-ghost woman had already fallen unconscious. No matter how much Barong wants to avenge the death of many people on his culprit, he deliberately does not use his death-stroke, Bear's Hugs. Killing by breaking the main support bones of the opponent's body was simply not his style.

One opponent was incapacitated, Barong turned his head, looking at the condition of his comrades. Relying only on ferocity and physical strength that can be changed, the lack of mental gangrene becomes an easy target for Dahlia, the violinist magic.

Gangrene fights like a confused person, no longer able to exert a style. So Hima took advantage of the opportunity by incising a lot of incisions in the body of the super burly pocong. But the opponent's fists also landed on Hima's body, making this fight seem balanced.

“Don't, Barong,” said Dahlia as she continued to swipe her violin, keeping her magic from continuing to torture the opponent. “Thanks to your help earlier, we can both compensate Gangren. Move on, our comrades definitely need the strongest swordsman Adilaga at the forefront. Trust Gangren and Okkult on us here!”

Barong glued for a moment and concluded, “Alright. Take good care of yourself.”

“You too,” Hima said as she continued to fight. “One more time, thanks for your help, Barong.”

“Sama-sama.” Barong knew that both Hima, Dahlia and Reog had cleared the way for other Adilaga associates to quickly save Cakra and Rangda before it was too late. So without further ado, he darted further and further into the cave, following Dahlia's instructions.

\==oOo==

The further into the depths of the cave, the more strange the scenery. The walls of rough rocks are now replaced with straight walls full of relief carvings like temples. Even the lighting turns into a torch with a magical fire that continues to burn, will not be extinguished even if the air is thinned or blown as hard as any wind.

Barong walked quickly while observing the relief images. As far as his experience as a fan of ancient cultural relics of the archipelago, his mind immediately captured the story behind this row of images.

From the picture of a woman drinking a kind of potion on a herd of snakes, then the snakes bite the woman. Perhaps because of her magical power, the woman did not die, or rather only died temporarily. His body turned scaly like a snake, even the lower half of his body formed the body of a snake. The woman was then described as exerting many venomous snakes, which then bit many people, men and women. At its peak, the victims of the snake also rose from its death into human-snake demons that live eternally.

At the end of one of the reliefs, depicted the snake-legged woman sitting on the throne shaped head of the snake, beside her were rows of serpent-men who were working as slaves, serfs, also many marched holding weapons, becoming soldiers.

Seeing this last relief, Barong was stunned. As far as his memory and knowledge, the row of reliefs is very likely to be the “komik” of ancient times that tells the Legend of Nyi Blorong, the Queen of the Snake Demon.

That said, the secret of eternal life or very long life in Indonesia is almost similar to the story of vampires and werewolves, wolf stealth from foreign legends. The difference is, the container for the spread of “the curse of immortality” is not a wolf, nor a bat on a vampire, but a poisonous snake.

Barong inexhaustible, then what is the relationship between these reliefs and the place of this “ main event SS”? Is the power of vampire snake Nyi Blorong a real mystery in this “pyramid” of Sadahurip Mountain? The only way to ascertain the truth is to step forward, that was Barong's conclusion for a while.

After all, the hustle and bustle of the fight instantly forced Barong to postpone his “view” and rush to participate.

“One more Adilaga member is coming!”

“Quickly, we wiggle him too!”

The voices came from the waroks and leak, a dozen of them charging in unison towards the new intruder.

“One more time, Earth Shakes, Sky Fears!” Barong did a variation, this time stomping on the floor of the cave with his right foot. The steps of the attackers were chaotic instantly and they fell on the floor. Then Barong pushed his body with a left foot, gliding like flying with two outstretched fists, breaking through the encirclement with a single blow. He did not need to look anymore, because obviously now all the attackers have fallen.

In front of Barong now emblazoned an unbalanced fight as well. Two super heroes on Adilaga's side, namely Taruna and Solara are desperately fighting two super villains plus an elite army of SS Corporation. Barong is not yet familiar and does not know the strength of these “new enemies”, so he chose to tackle a barrage of bullets and paralyze the mercenaries of the SS Corporation.

In the midst of the fierce battle, Barong had heard Taruna rebuke, “Blakk Jak and Artazure, you sly traitors! All this time you guys apparently want to fish, then trap us here?”

Artazure, the blue female ondel-ondel chimed, “Our real goal is to make Jakarta a better city as the capital of Singosari Raya Kingdom!”

Solara, the leader of Adilaga nicknamed the Golden Sun Queen was surprised. “What?! So that was also the main purpose of the SS Corporation? Reawakening Singosari Kingdom, replacing Indonesia?! This is a very, very outrageous act of treason!”

“Whatever you say, but we believe, in order for the country to be strong, it needs a powerful leader like a god. And we are both fully convinced, no one is better suited to be a leader, no one can exceed the power and power of our great leader, Kenneth Tohjaya!”

Barong jerks. Kenneth Tohjaya.. President Commissioner of SS Corporation? But, isn't the existence of this person always a mystery? Didn't he always leave everything to his assistant, Mr. K's?

Or maybe Mr. This K is none other than... Kenneth Tohjaya?

If Barong realized it from the beginning, not necessarily he could do much, dismantle and even thwart the entire plan Mr. K – SS Corporation's. So, inevitably this kind of situation must happen.

“Lantas, why bother driving us here? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't interrupt your ‘main events’?” sergeant Taruna while continuing to attack Blakk Jak.

It was precisely Artazure who was still busy avoiding the Whip of Samandiman Solar who replied, “We only obey the orders of His Holiness Murca. He said, this is part of his grand plan and we certainly dare not question it further.”

“Yang Mulia Murca... You mean Kenneth Tohjaya?” new Sergeant Barong paralyses the last SS soldier in the temple room in this pyramid mountain.

“Yes. And we are his most adoring followers,” said Blakk Jak. Obviously he would not claim Singabarong was the strongest in the Angkara Murca League.

Suddenly Solara distanced herself from Artazure and approached Barong. Said the woman, “Thank God you caught up, Barong! As you can see, we're stuck here. Please, you enter first into the main room of Sadahurip Temple through the stone door!”

Barong turned in the direction Solara pointed to, then replied, “Good!” He started running forward.

“Time is urgent! Save Rangda and Cakra first! When we all catch up, just take the next action!” solara.

Suddenly Artazure confronted Barong while shaking his news stick. “Enak just broke through! Step on my body first!”

“This time, with pleasure.” Barong pressed forward by concentrating his entire body weight plus the ground prana on his shoulder. Without mercy, Artazure was hit by a truck, bouncing down.

Barong then jumped over the body of the fallen female warrior and arrived at the threshold of a two-leaved stone door. The height of the door was more than twice the height of Barong's body, and the width was twice that of the two hands of the great swordsman.

Even Barong was moaning, his biceps muscles seemed to swell, exerting extra energy to open the super heavy door that had previously been opened and closed together by Artazure and Blakk Jak. Slowly but surely, the two leaves of the temple door moved open. Until the tall body Barong passed through it without the slightest obstacle.

\==oOo==

Barong stepped in an unusually spacious room, roughly capable of accommodating two thousand people standing, lined up in order. His eyes looked around him in amazement. Walls of stone stepped, patterned stone floor is orderly and neat, as if everything is tile. The atmosphere was brightly lit by the magical fire in the ever-flaming torches. Representing the element of water are trenches and ponds that decorate the entire room. Representing the air of course air from ventilation holes in between the stone walls.

This must be the main worship room at Sadahurip Temple. The most corroborating feature of this conjecture is the giant statue of a half-human, half-snake creature in relief depicted as Nyi Blorong, the Queen of Snakes. The statue was standing right in the middle of the room with its face held up and both hands stretched upwards. The statue was in the middle of a kind of stepped stage, bounded by a kind of moat filled with water.

Next to the statue of Nyi Blorong are two pairs of milestones standing parallel. In front of the statue was a kind of large table for the ritual sacrifice. However, what made Barong fixated was that, between the two milestones was bound a man, and a woman was stretched out on a stone table.

The condition of the man was very sad. His clothes were torn apart, and his body was bleeding from head to toe. The wounds were from lashes, dagger incisions or something. His head bowed, his long-boned hair covering his face. In a semi-conscious state, exhausted and in great pain, the man groaned slowly, hoarse and restrained.

On the contrary, the woman in costume in the style of an Ancient Javanese queen on the table did not budge in her stings. Her beautiful face that is no longer glasses and covered with bangs seems to glow, as if brightened with a golden crown decoration of the queen or empress, as if, his hair is rather short expands do not reduce the majestic nuances that surround this statue-like woman.

As Barong stared at the face of the “Queen Jawa” meticulously, his voice unintentionally hissed, “Gosh... He is Rania Giselda... heir Rangda!?” Based on information from the Lunar in I.N.D.I.G.O, the man who was confined was very likely the heir of Cakra.