Swordsman Without Friends
Strange Steps of the Undead.

In a chaotic era such as the end of the Majapahit royal reign, it becomes commonplace when there are many riots everywhere.The chaos does not only hit the common people, but also the people, but also spread to the martial arts.

Many royal dignitaries began to connect with colleges and silat parties in order to get support in the event of a power struggle in the palace. or it could also be when the subordinate kings want to rebel and intend to break away from the Majapahit territory that has been greatly weakened.

In the Pungingan area which is the outermost border area of the Wonokerto duchy, there are several silat societies that try to instill their influence there. one of them is a silat association consisting of members of the kingpins called the beggar's association 'Branch Ireng.!'

Speaking of this association, actually this group was only established a few months ago and is a fragment of the beggar 'Red Snake' which is much larger and is based in the suburbs of the king of Majapahit.

They deliberately chose the Rump, because in addition to wanting to stay away from the territory of the Red Snake beggar association, they wanted to, also caused by the Rumpingan area even though it is only a stabbing but very crowded but less noticed by both government officials and military people, so they will be more free to move to spread their wings.

If the kingpins have associations, then the thieves, pickpockets and street snatchers also have their own associations.there are some names of the alliance group for the pollers in the martial world at that time. one of them that has been very famous for a long time is the group of thieves 'Maling Lightning.!'

It is said that the association which became the ally of thieves and long-handed people was once founded by two silat figures. one of them is a powerful thief mandraguna whose two fingers are stumped and clever disguise. he is commonly referred to as the 'Maling Lives.'

The other is an old man who has a fondness for smoking tobacco pipes, likes to dress perlente, berblangkon and has a strange nickname the 'Angel Copet.!'

For some reason the Maling Nyawa, one of the founders of this association suddenly withdrew and disappeared from the Maling Kilat association.some say there was a split between the two leaders of the association, other news said he had been caught and beheaded by the kingdom and other news that was not clear.

But beyond that there is a rumor that says that in fact the Maling Lives has long been a member of a society of the strongest assassins at that time named group of 13 Killer.!

It is not clear where the actual location of the headquarters of the 'Maling Lightning' association is, but their members are scattered everywhere, not least the Punggingan area.This is in accordance with their group motto, 'Where there is money and valuables, there is also Maling Kilat.!'

The last few days the members of the Beggar Club Ireng held a relationship agreement with Maling Kilat. They were eyeing something but could not afford to take it until forced to ask for help from the group of thieves, certainly with a very expensive fee.

And now two of his men are moving around a skinny young man who limps his left leg. ''I'm tired of having problems, nor do I like to look for problems, but if those problems come threatening, I won't be silent either.!'' said the limp young man while shifting his legs half a step. his head and body were made to bend slightly to make him look stiff.

The two men laughed in disdain at his attitude. ''If we were to deliberately bring trouble for you, what could you do, you lame fool.!'' taunting people from the Maling Kilat group.

''A limp and a weak person would pretend to be a hero, I think you've wanted to die quickly. Huh, ha.!'' the beggar member Limpal Ireng laughed with a laugh.At the end of his laughter this black-clothed beggar directly smashed his fist forward, as his feet swept down. clearly the target was the head and limp leg of the skinny young man who was indeed Pranacitra. from the roar of the wind his punch signified the strength of his attack was quite great.

''This man was so cruel, just because he wanted to bend a limp and weak young man to the point of having to expend such a powerful force.the poor limp., etc., you are just unlucky because you are in the wrong time and place.''the inner members of Maling Kilat seem to sympathize with the limp who will collapse sprawled.

But all of his shadows instantly froze at what was happening.when a fist pricked his head and a kick swept his leg. Pranacitra made a strange movement, next to his feet bent and then stepped forward with his body bent rigidly rotating semicircle. in people's view the strange movements of footsteps and body were ridiculous and pointless.but amazingly two opponent attacks he was able to dodge easily.!

''Little crazy limp, you can't be.!'' the beggar snapped out in anger and shame as his attack failed to knock down the crippled young man.This time he purposely doubled his attacks. in one blow he had released four punches and two leg kicks that targeted the head, stomach and waist of the limp.

Still with a stiff attitude, knees bent, body half bent and head down. Pranacitra moved dodging between the roar of the opponent's attack that came threatening him. With his strange footsteps, the rain of his opponent's attacks can be avoided. At the end of the movement of his rigid irregular steps, the, the young man turned back his body and hit his palms against the back and left rib of the beggar.

'Sheet., dhaas, dhees!'

'Aakh.!'

Beggar member Ireng Centipede screamed loudly backbone and his ribs felt something broken.The body of the person collapsed instantly.with the sound of groaning pain this person tried to crawl awake. from the corner of his lips came droplets of blood.I dream he never thought that the limp young man who looked weak and sick had a strange and surprising silat.!

Pranacitra glanced at both palms of his hands.not to mention his opponent, he himself also never expected that the Strange Steps Life Corpse he just learned turned out to be so great. though this science prioritizes defensive and evasive movements and only occasionally reply to attack opponents.

''I didn't think you were great as well as a limp youth, now let me try out your abilities.look at the attack.!'' exclaimed the man of the Maling Kilat group from his warning before attacking, Pranacitra could feel that this man had a knight soul.

Without changing the horses of his body that was bent stiff like a corpse, Pranacitra back to play the science of the Strange Steps of the Undead.!

When viewed at a glance Pranacitra's footsteps when playing this silat science style feels stiff and many weaknesses, but actually very flexible and tight fortify him. if the attack of members of the beggar association centipede Ireng rely more on fists and kicks that are hard, then the attack style of the members of Maling Kilat prefer claw strikes and grip very fast. this movement is named 'Finger Clutch Claw Polisher.!'

Apparently the magic of this man is a level higher than the beggar.although up to the seventh he has not been able to knock down the limp, but, but instead Pranacitra can also feel the sharp wind of the opponent's attack that up to several times tore his clothes to tatters camping.

Among the fighting was increasingly crowded by spectators who came to gather.The soldiers of the duchy had also arrived.but they were just on guard so that the people were not exposed to one of the sasara attack. they realized this was the business of the people. there are unwritten boundaries between them.

At the end of the twentyth century, Pranacitra suddenly stood up his stiff body bent.His eyes stared at the attack of his opponent's pair of claws.His limp left leg swept forward followed by his two palms slashing across. this was a deflecting motion as well as cutting off the path of his opponent's claw stance.!

'Wheet., bheeet, bheet.!'

'Dhaas., dhees., braaak.!'

The members of the Maling Lightning Society fell headlong, even though the limp's two palm punches were able to hit his chest, but the force of the punch was not to the point of causing him to be deeply injured.

Over twenty moves he continued to shower this sickly youth with his pair of claws, but only with strange rigid strides like a corpse could all his attacks be avoided.

More surprisingly, this limp was only two-three times to attack, but it was able to make him fall down.!

''Who is this lame, pale-looking, sickly young man actually, I feel that he deliberately reduced the force of his punch when it hit me.'' thought the man as he stood up. he gasped when he saw that there were dozens of beggars from the Ireng Centipede, including the injured black clothes, moving around. From his attitude they seemed to intercept his retreat.

Instead Pranacitra was still pensive. ''If my first attack was on the beggar, it seemed like the inner power that came out could not be controlled, but on the last attack of the style when I used to hit the bamboo hooded man, he said, the flow of energy in me can hold some..''

''What., does., this mean that I have started to be able to control the magic power vortex that is inside my body.?'' inward Pranacitra while looking at his palms.