Pangawasa Warishing (Giant Tree Ruler)
Chapter 7 - Sacrifice

A woman and two men were walking inside a forest filled with huge trees.

“Well, well, I also did not expect to be stuck here, wkwkwkw.” The hero said that with a loud laugh.

“Part of what does the Hero go to this place for? There's no way you're also after the sap of a giant tree right?” Rani asked who was still astonished by Wirayuda's behavior.

“Well, well, of course not possible, wkwkwk.” The Hero answered with another loud laugh.

Rani narrowed her eyes while giving a suspicious look at the Hero and asked. “Then what are you here for?”

“Akuh?” The hero points to himself with his index finger. “Yeah, well, I just want to see this forest, hehehe.” this time with his hesitant laughter.

“What can you see from this forest?” Rani is still glaring at the hero with her eyes set.

“Well, well, a lot, for example this big tree, instead of these trees is cool, wkwkwk.” The Hero laughed loudly again while patting the trunk of a tree with his right palm.

“Tuan Wira, you can't possibly find the Giant Rubber Tree right?” Ask Prabu, who can already walk normally.

“Haa.” The Hero was silent for a moment and continued. ”Well, well, what am I looking for is just a myth. Wkwkwkwk.”

He always laughs when he talks. Thought Prabu.

Rani furrowed her brows, it seemed like she was getting suspicious. “You're not after eternity, are you?”

“Hah” The Hero is silent for a moment more, then continues. “Well, yeah, for what? I am already very strong. Precisely I doubt anyone can kill me.” said that arrogantly, while puffing his chest.

Rani began to believe a little. “Truely too, for what Master Hero wants to obtain immortality it must be very torturous if not able to die. What happiness can he get from such a life.”

Hearing that the Hero immediately responded. “Well, well, right, who is a fool who wants to live forever, indeed he thinks by just playing with women of various ages will make him happy, stupid once.”

Rani's eyes were fixed on the Hero with a sense of jiji, while Prabu just laughed amusedly.

“Ehh.” The Hero was struck by that gaze, he knew, he had revealed his secret.

“It is hard to believe that this person is a Hero of this continent.” Rani said full of disgust.

“No, no, you misheard. That's I mean, someone else, well, well, someone else.” Reply to the Hero.

Rani did not care about his words, she instead made a wider distance from the Hero who looked like a Disciple-level adventurer with an heirloom sword hanging on his left waist.

Seeing the action of Rani, the Hero can only be subdued limp.

They continue their journey, to find members of the party Rani and Prabu.

The one leading the way was Prabu, while Hero Wirayuda was watching the back side. Rani walks in the middle of the two of them, but is closer to Prabu.

Heroes who see Rani's attitude now, can only resign.

“Yeah, yeah, so why are you here, do you want to go after that Rubber?” The Hero asked in a loud voice, because of their rather distant distance.

“We are here escorting a child who wants to get the Rubber, to his grandfather.” Rani replied, without looking at the Hero.

The hero looked a little surprised, put his finger on his lips, then muttered. “Yeah, well, What the hell does that grandpa also want to play with women of different ages?”

“That's just you thinking like that.” Rani answered, annoyed.

“Well, well, how can he hear?” The hero is astonished by Rani's hearing ability.

“His grandfather Penta suffered from a rare disease, so he intends to get the sap to cure his grandfather.” Said Rani again with a bit of judes,

“yah, well, so be it apparently.” The hero feels enlightened.

Rani who is currently slightly glancing towards the hero can only sigh at his behavior and shake her head.

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A wave of water coiled above Dyah's head. Very quickly an object came out from within that wave and slid into Garuda piercing the Coral. Instantly Garuda who was about to leave from in front of the Coral split in two in his stomach.

“Nimbali Heritage Ocean Spear.” That was the word that Dyah said while taking out the spear that split the body of Garuda's clone.

The spear was a trident with a longer center while the sides of the spear eyes curved out at the ends. At the link between the head of the trident and its staff was a white jewel attached. The stick on the trident is sea blue to the bottom and there is a snake carving wrapped around the stick. The wand looked like a very expensive heirloom, or it wasn't for sale huh.

The spear struck the ground after splitting the half-human creature. The creature turned into clay, as well as the creature that was impaled behind the Coral.

Knowing that Garuda who is being fought by Rakryan suddenly disappeared.

Immediately Dyah approached Karang while carrying a bottle made of ceramic.

Penta who saw the condition of the Coral from afar, fell down in shock, his face was very pale.

Rakryan who had escaped from the shackles of Garuda, grasping the two very tightly, he looked very upset at this moment. “SIALLL, SO SHE'S THE REAL ONE.” her screams are full of anger.

“Now drink this, let's quickly drink.” Dyah immediately raised the head of the Coral. “Come open your mouth. Come on, although this can't heal your legs, at least it can stop the bleeding.“ Dyah seemed to shed her tears.

But the coral still did not want to open his mouth, he shook his head and smiled.

Corals coughed and spewed blood. But after that in a faint smile. His lips moved like he wanted to talk.

Dyah who kept shedding tears caught the intention of the Coral, and brought his ears closer to the mouth of the Coral.

“Te-ri-ma-ka-sih.” The voice was soft and weak, but it felt so loose, it was the sentence that Dyah heard, and it was the last sentence that He heard from Coral.

More and more tears came out of Dyah's eyes. Knowing his best friend who was no longer breathing, he hugged the head of the Coral while crying. “Ahhhhh ,Karangggg, Karangg, this is too ..., why, why, Karangggg..”.

Penta who saw Dyah crying, shed tears without her noticing. This was the first time Penta had seen Dyah cry. What Penta knew was that Dyah was always laughing, having fun. But this was the female side of Dyah that Penta had never seen.

But what shocked Penta the most was the death of the Coral that tried to protect her.

Why, why, why, you protecting me, do I deserve protection? I did hire you to protect me, but is it necessary to sacrifice your life? Wh-wh-what for? What am I saved for? I'm just a burden, I can't do anything. I'm not even an adventurer.

Rakryan who was still standing in the distance lowered his head, clenching his hands tightly while holding both of his swords. “Sial, shit, shit.”

As they grieved over the loss of their best friend, a sword of light tried to slash Rakryan from the side. The conscious Rakryan quickly held the slash with both of his swords, but since he was not in a standby position, Rakryan was thrown far enough away and hit the tree very hard. He vomited blood, probably because of the impact.

Garuda seems to be back again, but this one Garuda is different, he uses black fur leather. And his head looked a little different, not a little, this one his head was like a human, but only his mouth was still beak-shaped. And the creature still has wings.

Garuda who was more like a man turned the sword of light he held into a spear, then threw it towards Penta who was still sitting in silence.

Dyah who had just placed the head of the Coral carefully onto the ground. Realize if the creature tries to attack Penta again. Reversing his body, while the Ocean Spear that was still stuck on the ground moved towards Penta. Striking the spear of light, the two eyes of the spear collided to cause sparks, the two objects remained in such a position in the air for a few seconds. Penta was saved.

But actually it was Garuda's human-headed plan, shifting Dyah's focus on Penta, which he was actually aiming for was Dyah. When Dyah controls the Ocean Spear to save Penta. Another Garuda flew in from the left direction of Dyah, directing the light sword to stab Dyah from the side.

Dyah who was a magician was impossible to fend off that swift attack with magic without any preparation. Especially at the moment he is not in a standby position.

Dyah turned his head towards the attack on his left, convinced that this was the end of his history. His sight became dark for a moment.

A slash from bottom to top right split the still-headed Garuda bird.

A figure of a man who came at lightning speed slashed down the half-human Bird with a sword 10 cm wide. His slash made it destroy the trees behind the creature and split the ground 20 meters away.

Seeing that figure made Dyah open his eyes wide. The familiar figure was now right in front of him, saving him from death. “Sister Wira!” Dyah said with teary eyes, though she had been weeping from the death of Coral, but it seemed that Dyah's gaze was now more grateful.

“Yeah, yeah. You're still as whiny as Gita.” Said the hero.

“I, I ..” Dyah then bowed his head sadly.

“Well, yeah, we'll talk later. I need to discuss something with the bird's mouth anyway.” The Hero Wirayuda turned his head towards Garuda who had a human head. And with lightning speed Wirayuda shot towards Garuda, swinging his sword like he was hitting a baseball.

As his slash hit the Garuda, a shockwave was created, the creature crashing as far as, smashing dozens of trees behind it. And stopped when the distance was already 100 meters from the Hero.

Smoke began to disappear from where Garuda had stopped. It was seen that the figure was still standing upright with his right palm pointing forward, resisting the attack from Wirayuda. The creature was not injured at all even though it had already crashed to that extent.

Seeing that Wirayuda grinned with his right lip, he looked delighted, perhaps. “Well, well, Bird's mouth, we meet again. Do you want to continue this game?”

Garuda was silent for a moment, then he opened his mouth several times. Instantly he disappeared. Along with the disappearance of Garuda, the presence around the group disappeared.

Well, well, gileeee, it wasn't that many more when I was the same he fought before, I thought I was going to die, gile, gile. That's what Wirayuda muttered in a position to raise his sword towards Garuda who had gone.

Wirayuda looked at the surroundings, saw Rakryan sitting under a tree with his eyes glaring at him, well, well, what's my fault?, then saw Penta who was still sitting in shock, and saw Dyah who was still down. “Yes, well, this is quite troublesome.” said as he put the sword into the sheath on his left waist.

As Wirayuda walked towards Dyah, his other friends arrived.

Rani who immediately saw the condition of the Coral covered her mouth with both hands, she immediately shed tears. “Current!”

Prabu who also saw the condition of the Coral just lowered his head without being able to say anything.

“Well, well, quickly treat your injured friends.” Wirayuda said to Rani who did not care about her mood.

Even so Rani nodded, it seemed like she understood why the Hero behaved like that.

Rani walked towards Rakryan whose injuries were the most severe among the others.

Prabu headed to Penta who was still sitting still. “Penta, are you okay?” prabu asked as he was beside Penta and crouched down.

Penta just continued to look towards the Coral with a blank look. And it seemed that he was unaware that there was a Prabu beside him who was calling.

Prabu also did not know what to say under these conditions. So he could only ask about Penta's condition to confirm her condition. Now Prabu knows the condition of Penta is very bad, maybe worse than Dyah who is still down near the body of Karang.

Wirayuda took the Ocean Spear near Penta and walked towards Dyah.

“Gita!” The Hero extended his right hand towards Dyah while his left hand held the Ocean Spear. And saying. “If you do not take out this spear maybe now will not meet again.” it with a very serious gaze.

Dyah raised his head, giving a grieving face to the gaze of the Hero. Her tears did not drop but still flooded her eyes. His immense sadness he did not hide from this figure he admired. He did not reach for that hand, and only gave a sad look to Wirayuda.

Wirayuda sighed, put his right hand over Dyah's head and stroked her, Wirayuda squatted down and as their eyes aligned, he said with a very sincere smile. “Take everything out, forget it and depend on me.”

She covered her face with both hands and cried hysterically.

—

After Dyah stopped crying, Rani treated her wound. There was no conversation between them. It seemed like Rani also did not dare to ask anything at the moment and only held Dyah's hand.

Meanwhile, Wirayuda had already finished wrapping the Coral body with ice magic.

“What will you do with that body?” Ask Rakryan who has recovered.

“Yeah, well, we'll go to the cave.” Answer The Hero.

“Gua?” Rakryan asked again with a serious look.

“Well, well, the Cave, where I hid, resting there is better than here.” Wirayuda replied flat.

“Bener too. Then I'll take him.” Reply Rakryan while looking at the Coral body wrapped in ice.

“Yeah, well, if that's what you want alright.” Wirayuda said lightly.

Well, well, when I want to bring magic, it's ice, where maybe I bring hand, must be cold. But this one even wants to bother, it's up to him. The hero is in the heart.

“Well, well, everyone let's get to my secret hideout. Gita, Penta can you run? Otherwise I'll throw you straight there.” Wirayuda announced that and then asked annoyingly.

Dyah nodded, Penta still silent, but already standing, despite Prabu's help.

Rani furrowed her brows and glared at the Hero.

Wirayuda who was aware of Rani's gaze responded. “Well, well, don't get mad so, I'm just kidding, kidding, okay.”

They all walked towards the place where Rani and Prabu fell, with a haru atmosphere that felt like fog.