ADILAGES
THE JONGGRANG 2

Arriving on the slopes of Mount Jalatunda, Bandung Bondowoso immediately began his work. Relying on Himawari's Sword, the ice prana freezes the mountain rocks and makes holes with prana that whirls like a giant drill of modern times.

Not too many stones were eroded on the first day. So Bandung continues to dig patiently, take a break when tired and meditate when it runs out of prana. Some Pengging soldiers in “location project” only duty guard, feed, up and down the prince with a rope and raise the fragments of stone with a basket.

With the pattern of work that Bandung dig day-night. He just realized, this task he did because of his love for the people of Baka, not for Jonggrang. He wanted to be a good king, not a colonizer, let alone a plunder. A sense of joy in the heart of Bandung, making the work faster, more powerful.

One night, while digging, Bandung heard the sound of water flow from the rocks below. His heart was excited, it meant that his first test assignment would be completed tonight as well. With the spirit of Bandung gathered the prana of ice and concentrated it on the tip of his sword.

Suddenly, the rocks seemed to fall from above. Overwhelmed, Bandung was forced to swing his sword upwards to break the stones into small pieces. A few moments later, the well wall shook as if there was an earthquake, followed by a shock and a very powerful thumping sound.

Bandung pointed his sword blade that shimmered like a lamp upwards while rebuking. Nothing fell but pebbles and dust. With a bad feeling, he tried to look up. Sure enough, there had just been a landslide or something like that, so the mouth of the well was covered in a large rock. No more noise above, lest all the soldiers there fall in an avalanche. Even worse, if Bandung does not come out quickly, he will die out of air.

The prince's brain thought hard. The ultimate attack is indeed able to break the prana stone armor, but he needs a lot of water to scrape the real stone. From where can he get water to strengthen his ice prana in this confined condition?

Suddenly Bandung remembered one very important and decisive thing. Without wasting any time, he pointed his sword downward, to where the water supply was. With the rest of the prana, he went back to digging and drilling. The only hope, hopefully saturated whirlpools that crowded the mountain's abdominal niche will provide a strong enough upward thrust.

When Bandung finally managed to make a hole, suddenly high-pressure water spurted. With one last blow, Bandung made the hole so big enough, until the bursts get stronger and higher, far up. and push the big stone that covers the well hole until it falls down.

Of course Bandung came out of the well by setting foot on a burst of water while exerting true energy. Finally, the free air was inhaled deeply. In extreme exhaustion, Bandung lay near the water shower, resting.

Some of the corpses of Pengging soldiers appeared to be sprawled not far from Bandung's place, making the leader howl mournfully. However, there was something strange about the corpses. Their position is not like an avalanche of rocks, too close to the fall.

Even more suspicious, there are no new landslides on the almost bare rock mountain. Lest the fall was just a few big stones and one giant stone.. as if “ landslide” stone was really intentional. But, it took at least ten extremely strong and powerful people to knock out and roll the stones.

Bandung just realized, there is one person in the Kingdom of Baka who is able to do it alone.

\==oOo==

“Confess only you, Queen Roro Jonggrang!” exclaim Bandung Bondowoso while pointing Himawari towards the throat of the beautiful and cunning woman upon her return in Keraton Baka. “You must have hidden the war criminal, Patih Gupala in this palace, then ordered him to lock me to death at the bottom of the Well of Jalatunda!”

Roro Jonggrang was surprised not to be a bitch. “What!? You misunderstood me, Bandung! I told you Gupala disappeared after the war, ‘ right? I've heard reports about ‘badas’ last night, Bandung, and it's not a deliberate incident at all!”

“How can the large stones roll themselves from the top of the mountain?”

Confidently Jonggrang brushed off Himawari's blade to the side, then stepped closer to the handsome-sakti prince. His voice became very sweet-tasting. “O beautiful prince, remember that your terrible action caused constant shocks and vibrations on the surface of the mountain? The falling boulders were located along the mountain slope not far above the well. So, it was the violent tremors that caused the stones to fall, killing the soldiers as well as clogging the well hole.”

Bandung. Jonggrang's explanation was quite reasonable, although it contained some coincidences. Perhaps this is the will of the Almighty to test the sincerity of the heart of Bandung through the stone that fits close the mouth of the well. After all, the sparkling in the eyes of the beauty implies a newly-rising love, it is impossible for Roro Jonggrang to cheat this prospective companion of his life.

However, a hug, let alone a friendly kiss from the beautiful queen was still a distant action. “Nah, the important thing is that now you have passed the first test, Raden Bandung Bondowoso. There is only one more task that you must fulfill in order to be worthy of being a true king for Baka.. and myself.”.

Jonggrang said it in a very seductive style, making Bandung gulp, the principle of his grammar almost faltered. To be sure, it was Bandung's common sense that began to be blinded by his absolute love for Jonggrang.

“About the second test..” continued Jonggrang. “As you can see, the people of Baka are suffering greatly. As his father prepared for the war, he drew very high taxes and recruited soldiers from among the common people. Baka country is a disgrace, so that people forget religion and spirituality.”

Bandung stunned. He had seen the condition of the people when he first arrived in Baka, but did not expect “damage” they were this severe.

“Many people are forced to beg and become slaves. Many are criminals, even many are cannibals.”

Bandung asked, “Lantas, do you have any plans to improve this situation?”

“There are some plans that have matured after agreeing with the advisers and royal elders. But all of that will be useless without restoring the morals, morals and spirituality of the people first. And I have a way to clean both at once.”

“What is it?” Bandung began to be interested in knowing Jonggrang's thoughts. If the two of them unite, it could be Pengging-Baka will be a large and prosperous country.

“Negeri Baka needs a great place of worship, so great that people always remember to worship in order to get blessings.”

“I mean Your Majesty, a kind of very unique temple, difficult to match any country in the world?”

“Persis.”

“But, to build such a temple it took many years and cost no small amount.”

“I know. Therefore this is the second exam assignment for you, Prince Bandung Bondowoso,” Roro Jonggrang said. “Build a thousand temples in one place in one night. When you pass this exam, we'll get married the next morning.”

“Only gods are able to complete this task,” protest Bandung.

“Then only the god deserves to be my companion,” respond to the beauty.

Bandung had wanted to hit the queen did not know himself and at will, Jonggrang continued to talk, “Don't be angry first, honorable prince. I am sure, people who dig Jalatunda Well alone in a short time must have the divine power or equivalent. With the same level of devotion, you will be able to complete this task anyway.”

Wrongfully. The power required to build a thousand temples overnight was definitely a thousand times greater than building a single well on a mountain in a week. Bandung only realized, Jonggrang deliberately put forward this condition because he wanted to die. It could be a suicide tactic, giving a third party a chance to seize the throne of Baka if Bandung attacks and kills Jonggrang. If Bandung succeeds Jonggrang will choose suicide rather than let the occupier get everything he wants.

So, for the sake of his love for Roro Jonggrang and the people of Baka, Bandung had no choice but to answer, “Good, I will carry out this task.”

\==oOo==

Throughout the afternoon, Bandung Bondowoso sat cross-legged, thinking hard while looking at the vast expanse of rocky hills in front of him.

This is an impossible task. Even if I deploy the entire Pengging army of a thousand and use Himawari Sword again, it is impossible to complete this task overnight! It's a foul tactic to finish off my entire army, so that Baka can strike back at Pengging, avenge his king! This is a trap that will surely benefit Baka, whatever the outcome! If I hadn't been lured to Jonggrang! If only I could be cruel!

In the mounting annoyance, Bandung humiliated his fists hard on the ground. Himawari's Ice Sword lying on the ground jumped and flashed due to the shock of the fist force. Then, suddenly Bandung was flabbergasted to see the sword shaking violently.

More miraculously, Himawari's long Sword changed shape and grew bigger, becoming a giant human figure with its entire body was an ice-white crystal. Bandung gaped to see this figure for the first time. “Just…! You... the original form of Himawari Sword?”

“To be precise, my intelligent master,” sahut the crystal giant. “I am Himawari, the ice genie of snowy mountains in other parts of the world.”

“A person... jin? I heard that the jinn are very powerful, with magical powers that are almost equal to the gods. Why are you even in the shape of a sword?”

“That's because the Almighty balances my great power with curses, is locked in or is changing into an inanimate object. Otherwise, whenever my power is released, the balance of nature is disturbed.”

“Ah, apparently that is what my teacher, Oonakh Dhuryan meant when he said, ‘If the balance of nature is disturbed and you meet a dead end, Himawari's true form will appear and improve it as before.’ Then he passed down the ice sword to me.”

Jin Himawari nodded. “You remember your teacher's message, what a good student. Well, I already know about this difficulty you are facing, and I am willing to help you.”

Bandung's smile expands. “Thank you in advance, loyal friend. Now, let's draw up a plan..”.

As the sun sets behind the horizon and the crescent moon begins to reach the sky, Bandung Bondowoso and Jin Himawari begin to work. First of all, Himawari used supernatural powers to duplicate himself to the sum of a hundred jin of twin ice. Next, fifty jin of ice began to build temples, composing and sculpting stone after stone at an astounding speed.

Aware of the lack of building materials, Bandung Bondowoso along with the fifty twin jin remaining darted to the Jalatunda Well. They straddled the large rocks of former avalanches and former wells, even eroding mountain rocks that might fall if there was another landslide later in the day. All the stones were then flown to the site of the construction of the temple. It took six hours to fly back and forth until all the stones were completely removed and enough building materials were in place, even excess for supplies.

Back at “location project”, Bandung Bondowoso saw a third of the number of a thousand temples have been completed, lined up neatly around the temples of the main places of worship that are still half-completed. There are still six hours until dawn. Now, with all the existing workforce, jobs can be completed faster.

Assisted by the jinn, Bandung then not only acts as a foreman only. Armed with the knowledge of Himawari Ice Tread, Bandung helped cut large stones into blocks of exactly the same size. His overflowing love also affects a hundred Himawari twins, until their work becomes more beautiful, sturdy and perfect.

Without notice, it stayed less than an hour before dawn. It looks like nine hundred and ninety-nine temples have been lined up regularly, forming a very slick formation. Surprisingly, the stone materials were completely depleted, and eighty jin had already flown away collecting stones. How could that be? Is Bandung or Himawari miscalculated?”

“Just relax, my lord,” said the original Himawari with a hunting breath. “We are definitely able to finish the last temple on time.”

Bandung just nodded. He was bathed in sweat, and his whole body was painful and achy.

Suddenly there was the sound of chickens crowing in the distance. Not only one, as if all the roosters in the Kingdom of Baka earthly welcome the dawn.

“Jeez, isn't dawn still an hour away?” yang Bandung Bondowoso, did not believe his hearing.

“Ya, right! Calculation of my time cannot miss!” himawari. “This hasn't even been twelve hours since sunset! Look, even though there's been a glimmer of light from the eastern horizon, the sun hasn't risen yet!”

Suddenly, the spies of Ratu Baka who was in charge of watching Bandung sprang up. One of them exclaimed, “Fajar has arrived! This is the Queen's word! Bandung Bondowoso, the thousandth temple has not been completed, you failed to complete the task and did not pass the test!”

Of course Bandung did not accept the verdict. “Wait a minute, the sun has not yet risen! Just because one chicken is crowing wrong and the other chickens are following it, doesn't mean the morning has really arrived! Come Himawari, we can still finish this last temple!”

“Wait! Very presumptuous of you to refute my word, prince!” A woman's cry made Bandung turn his head, seeing Roro Jonggrang sitting with his majesty on a golden train. “The chicken tree is a sign of nature that does not depend on time, and dawn can arrive before sunrise!”

Bandung felt really furious. He should have been more thorough and brought in more supplies to get the job done an hour earlier. Now he has lost. Dismissed his hopes of interrupting Roro Jonggrang and showing his authority as the new ruler of Baka. So, forced to stay one thing to do Bandung. “Come, Himawari! We're taking out Queen Roro Jonggrang this dissident!”

“Good, milord!” Quickly, Himawari and his twin who had all returned to the construction site stormed forward. Suddenly, a single song made all of them come to a halt in air.

It turned out that Roro Jonggrang got off the golden train and plucked his sacred musical instrument, Kecapi Jangkar Sukma, exerting his power at a very precise moment. It turns out that the lute music is able to deceive creatures as tough as Jin Himawari. This is a surprise that is really unattainable mind crazy Bandung.

“Memuja Roses, Jerking Hearts!” Roro Jonggrang suddenly changed the rhythm and melody of his soy sauce quotes. The Himawari in the air were like being struck by lightning, all of them covering a pair of taper ears each.

Bandungpun forced to cover his ears while holding a very painful tension all over his body. He looked at Jonggrang, as the spies placed themselves behind the queen, all closing their ears. From their calm attitude, apparently they were not much affected by this torture song.

Moreover, now Himawari's “flakes are blowing and evaporating vanished, leaving the genie's real body that still continues to survive. The Pengging soldiers in the barracks far from where Bandung might be fighting the Baka army now. The strange tones of Roro Jonggrang continue to flow, the torture of the tribe that will not stop until the enemies fall.

From the results of his “observation”, one idea came to mind in Bandung Bondowoso. While continuing to endure the pain, the young man walked on, step by step towards Roro Jonggrang. After feeling close enough, Bandung suddenly ran. Pain in the body more and more stabbing, but run a man who is prime full of prana it does not recede in the slightest.

Realizing the danger, Jonggrang's lute game accelerates, sending more shock waves. However, Bandung is getting closer and closer.

At the peak of his pain, the prince of Pengging leapt as he could, even the hand in his ear stretched out forward. Before Jonggrang had evaded, Bandung Bondowoso had grabbed the strings of his soy sauce with one hand, and blocked the beautiful girl with the other hand so that she could not pluck the strings.

“Please, cut my throat, I would rather die than marry or fall for you, cih!” threaten Roro Jonggrang while spitting, showing his true character.

Jin Himawari who had just been freed from magic was preparing to finish off the spies. But something made him realize. “Roro Jonggrang! The song earlier..It turns out you have a magic that is able to control the mind! Don't you deliberately make chickens crow, until all creatures think dawn comes an hour earlier than it should!”

“Jeez, could be, Himawari! Quick, just confess to you, Jonggrang!” bandung Timpal.

Keris still threatens the throat, Jonggrang laughs loosely. “Hahaha! If so, what do you want? Killing me? That's what I want, isn't it? Whatever the way, you will never be able to get Baka and Bandung will never get my heart!”

Bandung. “So you've never loved me in the least, Roro Jonggrang? All your sweet words and attitude all along turned out to be fake? I was just used and targeted by your revenge?”

“Yes! The only place I will love you is in hell! Huh, I originally wanted to make you give up because I knew your magic wouldn't be enough for this second test. But baby, you cheat by using the help of the jinn with the magic like a god. So, it's only natural that I reply to him with supernatural powers anyway, right?”

Bandung Bondowoso and Himawari were silent to hear it. So did the Baka spies and soldiers who witnessed all this. In an examination without clear conditions, the action of Bandung, which should be assisted by a figure of equal divine power to overcome the impossibility is only natural. Jonggrang should have accepted the reality with a chest of air, but it turns out he justified all means so that Bandung lost his authority. Although Jonggrang's actions are also not to blame, it clearly provokes the anger of many parties, especially high-level creatures such as Jin Himawari.

“It turns out you really are a peacock-feathered crow, Roro Jonggrang!” hitrak Himawari with blazing eyes. “As you know, yesterday my lord, Bandung had said if he lost, he was willing to let go of you and the whole Baka Country and go back to Pengging empty-handed. Of course you swore you wouldn't attack Pengging for the rest of your life! But you humiliated my master, and worse, me! So I, Himawari, will reward you with the death penalty!”

“Please, I don't care anymore. Bandung just to slice the keris!” challenge Jonggrang.

“Tak is just that!” continued the jin. “I will also destroy all the people of Baka and make his city only inhabited by hauntings. Everyone who saw this knows, don't try it with Jin Himawari!”

“Wait, Hima!” sergah Bandung suddenly. “Don't punish the whole country for the sin of their queen! Never mind, just let Baka take care of himself! We go home to Pengging!”

To Himawari, the master's words were like chaff thrown into a fire. “A-does my master also side with them now? I-this I can't take! Wh why? Why?”

“Because I love Roro Jonggrang and the people of Baka State with all my heart, that's it.”

Sincere love means that if one cannot have, one must be able and dare to let go. Jin like Himawari will not be able to understand this Bandung thought.

Himawari's wrath peaked, until his whole body shimmered dazzlingly. “Then I must also eliminate you, my gentle and foolish master! If you want to carry the power of gods, you must dare to be cruel!”

“Wow, wow, apparently someone started the party without inviting me huh?” a heavy voice suddenly sounded. All eyes were on the speaker. Bandung recognized him as a tall man big like a giant, with a face like a thick-mined gorilla named…

“Uncle Patih Gupala!” shouted Roro Jonggrang, not knowing to be happy or anxious. The time of the arrival of the protector of this country is rather wrong.

As if to answer Jonggrang's premonition, Gupala continued to talk, “Thankfully I decided to just show up before the short-sense big genie ruined the event. My plan is to take control of Baka Country itself, not destroy it.”

Bandung Bondowoso gasped to hear it. “Plan? So all the tests of Roro Jonggrang's wits...your thoughts?”

“Yes, I even went into action secretly to make sure you failed. Rock avalanche in Jalatunda, sabotage in the complex of a thousand cantdi so you're out of building materials, that's all my hand. Roro Jonggrang even persuaded me to reply to your ‘ cheats’ by engineering fake dawn.”

Bandung let go of his check, with clenched hands he turned to Jonggrang. His eyes looked like a cornered ferocious wolf. “That's true, Sri Ratu? That's how deep your hatred for me is, until you let, even help your uncle cheating?”

“Ya, no mistake!” exclaim Queen Jonggrang. “Uncle Gupala has told me that you killed my father in a vicious manner when he was already helpless. The Baka army you're chasing and you're finishing. Furthermore, on your way to this palace, your army has destroyed villages and massacred all its inhabitants. Even children and the elderly you can't forgive!”

“LIED! That's slander!” sergeant Bandung, the emotion of his young blood spilled unstoppably. “Your father fell knightly on the field of action, and I am determined to fulfill his original mandate because of my admiration and respect for him! If I didn't care, I would have been in Pengging a long time ago! If I were cruel, the Keraton Baka would have been flattened with the ground the first time my feet stepped on it! Try, think through it! Why am I here if not for the awe that turns into love?”

“Do not want to believe that goat-furry wolf, Your Majesty!” hashe Gupala. “Good heart or not, invaders are invaders! This is precisely the golden opportunity that I have been given so much! Baka's army has destroyed Bandung's army here! Just finish off the leader, then Baka will invade Pengging Country again with a thousand soldiers!”

“What!?” Benak Jonggrang reacted quickly. “Didn't uncle say Baka's assault force has been wiped out by Bandung? How can we recruit and train that many troops in such a short time?”

Gupala tongue kelu, he has been speechless. The next moment, his tone of voice and facial expression turned ferocious. “Everything I do is only for the sake of the resurrection and success of Baka State. All the ways I've done, but unfortunately, my dear niece seems to have been lured by the good looks, devotion and compassion of Bandung Bondowoso. Nah! The land of Baka must not be ruled by foreign kings and assassins of my brother!”

This time, Roro Jonggrang shook his head. “No. Since the Baka State was established, the people have always suffered under tyranny. As father glanced at the neighboring country in envy, all the resources were spent on building an army, and the people were starving because of the high taxes! I, the new queen of Baka was determined to change all this and believed Bandung could help me with her experience. But no, uncle tricked me by saying he was as cruel as dad. Now that the truth is revealed already, how could I possibly trust uncle again?”

“Is that your final decision, queen?”

“Ya.” Jonggrang nodded steadily.

“Alright, then you guys have given me no choice but to do this!”

With a very fast and sudden movement, Patih Gupala jumped up high into the air. He then touched Jin Himawari who was still very weak and had not recovered due to the Jonggrang attack.

“You absorbed my ice energy!” Himawari groaned in pain, a large amount of his true energy being sucked out by the giant human. All of Gupala's skin and body turned blue, and his hair became completely as white as snow. His heavily stocky body grew and expanded, making all his cloth clothes torn.

Instead, Himawari grew weaker until his body shrank and turned into a sword form again. Deftly, Bandung Bondowoso grabbed the fallen sword. But he did not dare to be rash and immediately moved backwards. He could not yet estimate what sequence Gupala had after absorbing Himawari's ice prana, nor whether the sword would still obey its master.

“Hahaha! This rare terrible prana is now mine, completely mine! It's okay I don't have power, I'll destroy Baka and Pengging, and I'll build a new country where I'm king! Then from there, I will unite the entire archipelago!”

Everyone who witnessed this knew, Gupala had gone mad. But none of them, even Bandung Bondowoso himself knows the right way to stop the creature digdaya.

Suddenly Roro Jonggrang approached Bandung Bondowoso and whispered his plan. Hearing it, Bandung was shocked and protested, “Don't, Rara! Let me do it! You are the queen of this country, do not sacrifice in vain!”

Although Bandung became presumptuous by mentioning his small name, Rara shook her head while exposing her sweetest smile to the young man. “Still, only you have the appropriate strength to complete this gamble. If it fails, we can still unite in the afterlife.”

Bandung smiled bitterly in response to this interesting idea. Besides, there's no time to argue. Gupala is now floating in the air, gathering a combination of ice prana and land, ambitious to destroy the surrounding area as wide as possible.

“Good, let's do this!” Bandung placed himself not far behind Jonggrang, concentrating the ice prana to cover his ears and recover the energy on Himawari Sword. “Be careful, Rara..” whispered. While all the soldiers and spies in that place had fled uncommanded, retreating as far as fear of being hit by a terrible fight.

Standing at the front, Jonggrang looked directly at his uncle. Gazing at those pair of blazing white-flamed eyes, the doubt on his face turned into a smoldering determination.

Gupala insanity is impossible to overcome with magic song mind manipulation. After all, the skin of the giant man that became harder than the combination of stone armor and ice crystals was not necessarily impenetrable to any weapon. And the attack that will result from the show of divine power is not necessarily able to be fended off by a shield or prana as strong as anything.

Realizing all of this, Rara glanced at Bandung behind her, revealing her prettiest smile. “If you have the opportunity and time after this, I want to spend it in your love deck, Bandung Bondowoso!”

Almost simultaneously, the two magic fighters deployed their strongest attacks. Patih Gupala shot out a huge streak of ice rays, his power multiplied by a barrage of ground-rock prana all fused together like a frozen powered comet.

On the other hand, Roro Jonggrang plucked his soy sauce while wagging his fingers. The ultimate sound wave prana is radiated as seven colorful stripes like a rainbow. Then the seven Rainfall Tone Rainfall Rainbow arrays converge, centered as an array that targets the comet. As a result, the two forces clashed and scattered shock waves in all directions. The soldiers who were too close to the center of impact were thrown like they were swept away by a storm. Only those who are strong achievers including Bandung Bondowoso are still tracing the land.

Initially, the rate of the Gupala Frozen Crystal Ice Comet was hampered, even pushed back by Jonggrang's ultimate prana. But moments later, the prana of the comet began to press back toward the opponent.

Losing energy, Jonggrang survived desperately with teeth grinding and sweat pouring out. But what power, the pressure of the ice-rock comet that multiplied even broke the rainbow prana, severing all the lute strings and injuring the queen's fingers.

Worse, the body of Roro Jonggrang which is now only protected prana exposed entirely by comet ice that broke also into a storm. The girl's body was not hanucr but was wrapped in collected ice, forming a kind of giant crystal coffin that was upright like a monument on the ground surface. Apparently, Roro Jonggrang did intend to make his body a shield. Now the queen stood straight with her hands outstretched, smiling peacefully to meet the death that picked her up.

“Jonggrang!” Bandung Bondowoso could not hold back his tears to see his soul mate sacrifice life.

“Hahaha! Goody! I even still have enough energy to finish off Bandung Bondowoso and all the witnesses!” Gupala. “Once again! Frozen Crystal Ice Comet!”

“Just take you, Gupala, the murderer's own niece! Feel this!” Before the big man in blue had time to exert the ultimate again, Bandung first plunged the Sword Himawari into his stomach. Because Gupala's skin was so thick, only a speck of the tip of the sword penetrated into the body.

And that's enough.

“Heh, sure enough, a little needle prick like this won't kill me! Want to die with your lover, Bandung? Let me pass on your wish!” Gupala changed the nurse by concentrating the prana into his two fists raised high, ready to crush the head and body of Bandung who was only up to a giant when standing upright.

“Clearned!” Bandung instantly proved his words by exerting more energy, trying to immerse the sword even deeper. Not only that, he “injected” prana ice from his sword and body, which he gathered when Jonggrang faced Gupala earlier.

Is Bandung crazy? Is not with the same prana, Gupala becomes even more powerful? “Haha, did you finally decide to submit to me, wanting to help me unite the archipelago? Hey man, know yourself! I'm a god, don't need your help, let alone the extra energy that's just this sap!”

“Oh yes? How about this big?” Bandung is shaking the energy, sending a large amount of prana into the belly of the giant. The prana immediately entered the processing center in the heart. The surprise made another prana, the ground prana in Gupala, react against the ice prana. These internal energy collisions create a chain reaction that spreads throughout the body in a matter of seconds. The pain is immeasurable.

“Aagh! Do it, Bandung! Let me channel it back to you!” Both of Gupala's fists missed, apparently Bandung had swiftly pulled out his sword and ran as far away. “Aaagh... i.. deceived... Destroy... all my dreams!”.

The collision of two pranes expands until it reaches the saturation point. As a result, the entire body of the giant exploded. So powerful and the amount of energy released, hundreds of temples closest to the center of the explosion were destroyed, not intact anymore.

Bandung Bondowoso even deployed all the rest of his prana to protect himself as well as “keti kuat” Roro Jonggrang behind him. Finally, the giant body of Patih Gupala brushed to the bone, completely unscathed. The source of the tempest for Baka, Pengging and Nusantara has been spilled, but the damage he has caused has left deep wounds. Losing kings, queens and patih, with no legitimate candidate to replace them, the Baka State was threatened with anarchy, unrest, chaos and eventual collapse.

Bandung Bondowoso doesn't care about any of that anymore. He simply fell to his knees, his hands touching the surface of the eternal ice that separated him forever with his soulmate inside. In fact, the man's tears fell like pieces of ice on the ground.

Today, no man is more devastated than Bandung Bondowoso. Want him to die just following Roro Jonggrang, but what about his father in Pengging? What about the people of Baka? Wouldn't they be dragged by it into destruction anyway?

Suddenly Bandung gasped, then looked at Roro Jonggrang in great astonishment. Because, a round brooch of iron dahlia patterned flowers embedded in the middle of the queen's clothes glowed like a rainbow, full of beautiful colors. Then, from the brooch seven colors of rainbows emanated, forming the image of Roro Jonggrang like a hologram in modern times. Of course, that image was the spirit of the beautiful girl.

Roro Jonggrang's spirit spoke very softly, “Bandung, forgive me for deceiving you all this time.”

“That's okay, Rara, it's okay.” Bandung is really out of words. “You don't have to apologize. It's not your fault. Blame fate for putting us in two hostile lands. You have the right to defend your country, as well as your father and uncle. The important thing is that now the people of Baka are spared from the tempest, but how will their fate be?”

“Therefore please, Bandung. Please lead and as our people, combine with Pengging if necessary, do not let the State of Baka destroyed.”

“Calm, Rara. For the sake of my love for you and for your people, I swear I will preserve the land of Baka as long as I am still in this world.”

“Ah, relax ahtiku. Thank you, Bandung Bondowoso, my prince. You really adore my heart. Goodbye, if I could.. accompany you as your consort.” With her last words, the image of the tribe of Roro Jonggrang slowly disappears from view.

Although still in tears, Bandung Bondowoso *** smile while continuing to look at Jonggrang's face and whisper, “Now you are my queen..”.

\==oOo==

Fulfilling the mandate of Roro Jonggrang, Bandung Bondowoso became the new king in Baka, then combined it with Pengging after Prabu Damar Maya died. Although Bandung has descendants and crown prince of his concubine, he still considers Jonggrang as an irreplaceable empress by anyone.

The temples damaged by the fight were restored and reorganized with human hands. Then the result is named Sewu Temple, Complex of a Thousand Temples.

The thousandth temple was finally built, but not in the Sewu Temple complex. The location is hidden somewhere, and it is very likely that the temple is the original tomb of Roro Jonggrang. In Prambanan Temple there is a statue of Goddess Durga which is believed to be the incarnation of Roro Jonggrang who long froze and became a stone, but no one can prove the truth of it.

No one but Bandung Bondowoso knows, the queen's tribe is still imprisoned in a brooch patterned dahlia flowers and all the science and magical power.

What about Himawari's sword? Immediately after his waiting genie went berserk and showed his true nature during the fight against Jonggrang, Bandung Bondowoso decided to hide the extremely dangerous ice sword in Mount Semeru.

So, buried the only ice-elemental magic weapon in the archipelago under a large chunk of rock on the highest mountain slopes in Java Island. Together with Bros Dahlia aka Badge Puspa Kirana, they are waiting for the arrival of a new heir who will unlock their curse.

The thousand-year curse of Himawari and Roro Jonggrang.