The Fire Dragon Sword
The Hidden Truth
After walking for a long time, Mahawira stopped his steps in a small lake near the waterfall.
The beautiful scenery and the splash of the waterfall carried by the wind create a very beautiful rainbow.
Wardhana took the scroll in her pocket and opened it.
"This is the place" said Wardhana slowly.
The image on his scroll was exactly the same as what he was now seeing. "Do you know who made this place?", asked Wardhana quietly.
Mahawira shook his head "When there was chaos in the Jawata mainland, our ancestors fled to the end of the land and found this place. It's all been like this without anything we've added or subtracted".
Wardhana turned towards Ciha who was replied by a nod by Ciha.
"It looks like this is the place we're looking for" said Wardhana slowly.
"You looking for this place? isn't your goal the fire-fighting lake?".
Wardhana shook her head softly "Many things I want to talk to your teacher about, I'll tell you all about".
Mahawira then touched the lake water with his palm and cast a seal, before a miracle happened, the lake water suddenly turned very clear. There was a staircase and a door on the bottom of the colorful lake.
Ciha gasped in shock after seeing the seal that was in the neat Mahawira.
"Where did you master the seal? that fog seal is only possessed by us, the Sky Star sect".
"You know this seal?", Mahawira seemed confused, because according to the story his teacher was only a mysterious swordsman who helped them escape who mastered the skill and taught to protect the place.
"How can you master that style" said Ciha half-screaming.
"Hey, be patient, you're not what you used to be", Wardhana calmed down Ciha, she was quite surprised to see Ciha's unusual reaction.
Siha, who was known to be very calm in any situation, now looks panicked.
"When we escaped from the land of Jawata, a mysterious swordsman helped us and found this place, he taught us the seal of fog to hide our headquarters. Is something wrong?".
Siha's facial complexion changed instantly, she sat on the ground as her legs suddenly went limp.
Wardhana who was beginning to understand the situation approached him while patting him on the shoulder.
"You remember what I said when we were in Swarnadwipa?" said Ciha trembling.
Wardhana seemed to think for a moment, "You feel like someone's watching us?".
Ciha nodded softly, "It was the Sect of the Star of the sky that had been watching us all along".
Ciha's words shocked everyone including Sabrang.
"You better watch what you say to Ciha, they've helped me a lot to find Dieng" Sabrang reacted, he pulled on Siha's clothes and looked at her in anger.
"I was born and raised in the Star of Heaven, if anyone wants to protect the Star of Heaven, then I am the one. But the fog seal was created by Lord Birawa along with the other chiefs, do you think I taught the fog seal to the Fire and wind Sect?".
Sabrang fell silent after hearing Ciha's words, his face now looked doubtful.
"Your Majesty, please be patient, don't we want to reveal everything? you have to think with a cool head", Mentari tried to calm Sabrang down.
Sabrang began to look calm after hearing Mentari's words.
"Forward" Sabrang said, releasing his hand.
"Mr Birawa didn't help you find Dieng, but she had to direct you to Dieng to find the truth about the fire. The Sky Star Treaty with lord Panca had a veiled intent, they did not want to hide Dieng but hid the fighting demon tribe until someone found them and purposely revealed the Flame-caught Lake.
We were all made pawns by him so that Masalembo could never be found. That was why there was a strict prohibition for the Star of Heaven to enter Dieng's third gate".
"So you're saying the Star Sect is working with Masalembo.
"It's most likely like that" Ciha took a slow breath before returning to continue her words. "I've sensed something strange since I came back from Dieng, Mr. Birawa as if directing me to help you find the Firefighting Lake. As you would expect sir, the fire-fighting lake was created to keep us away from Masalembo and my sect did that perfectly" Ciha said.
Sabrang looked at the sad Ciha, there was guilt in his heart. Ciha might seem to strongly accept this fact but Sabrang was sure deep down she felt disappointed in her own Sect.
Mahawira who still did not understand what they said ventured to interrupt.
"You better come with me quickly if the problem this time is quite heavy". Mahawira gives a sign to dive.
Wardhana again patted Ciha's shoulder to strengthen her. "We think about this matter later, right now we should be quick to meet the head of Fire and wind to discuss this matter".
"Wouldn't we go back to Jawata's land? if my guess is correct then they are in danger for not knowing who their enemy is".
Wardhana shook her head slowly "I'm sure Hibata is able to dismantle everything, which is why His Majesty chose him as chairman. All we can do right now is dismantle all of this as soon as possible".
After convincing Ciha they finally followed Mahawira to dive into the small lake. Mahawira dived first followed by others but without them knowing, some Masalembo warriors observed them from afar.
After a long dive, they appeared in a very calm river. Beautifully carved stone slabs lined up neatly around the river.
Wardhana's view stops at one of the most striking looking stones.
"(Sabdo palon - Book of Paratons - Resurrection of the sword of the Conqueror of the world)".
Wardhana asked Ciha to take note of it because it might be useful.
"I'm not far ahead" Mahawira pointed at the forest before him but his steps stopped as a huge aura came pressing down on them all.
The eyes of the moon Sabrang even instantly reacted, his eyeballs seemed to glow brightly. Sabrang's two reflex arms create dozens of keris energies in the air.
The atmosphere that was once liquid is now back gripping.
A body suddenly appeared and directly attacked Sabrang.
Sabrang directly pulled the keris energy to slow down the movements of the swordsman who attacked him.
"How dare you enter this place", muttered the swordsman, before long a sword energy shot towards Sabrang.
Mentari who was next to Sabrang directly formed an ice shield to protect Sabrang.
The swordsman's attack directly hit the ice shield made by Mentari. A deafening burst of deep power rang out in the air from the clash of sword energy with the Mentari ice shield.
The fighter is back on the move but this time the target is Mentari. The swordsman's speed was completely beyond human reason, he arrived near Mentari and immediately attacked him.
The mentari who reacted late tried to dodge as hard as he could but was too late. As the sword-eye was about to hit Mentari's neck, Sabrang formed space and time energy to pull Mentari in.
"He disappeared?" the warrior looked confused. Not yet finished the warrior's shock, suddenly dozens of keris energy appeared out of nowhere and directly attacked him.
"It was the eye that removed the girl and dozens of keris energies" the mysterious swordsman said as he looked into Sabrang's eyes.
As he tried to keep his distance, suddenly a coldness was felt on his back. The swordsman turned his sword backwards but a punch from the opposite direction hit his stomach. That violent attack made his body bounce far away.
"He's faster than me?", the swordsman tried to land.
"Nobody can escape my eyes". Sabrang moved around using his space and time, he immediately attacked him from behind.
The warrior could only resign when Sabrang chanted the sword of body destruction.
"Stop" Krisna's shout made Sabrang pull his attack suddenly and replace it with a black lightning fist.
Some parts of the swordsman's body crumpled when hit by a black lightning fist, his body bounced back before Krishna grabbed the swordsman and took him away.
"The strength of this swordsman is far above me" murmured Krishna astonished at the aura that enveloped Sabrang's body.
Krishna turned towards Mahawira and looked at him sharply.
"Can you explain who they are?" krisna said while examining Candrakurama's wounds.
Krisna's facial complexion changed after examining Candrakurama's wounds.
"He could have been hurt this badly?", murmured Krishna in surprise. He knew very well the ability of Candrakurama, not many warriors who can compensate the beloved Disciple but Sabrang was able to hurt him in a short time.