The Fire Dragon Sword
The city of Arkantara II
"It all started with the discovery of a small red stone while my brother and I were hunting. A few days after my brother found the red stone, a warrior came to see him in the palace. After the arrival of the mysterious swordsman, Saragi begged father for permission to leave the palace for a few days.
My brother's temperament began to change after returning to the palace, he began to aspire to the throne of Arkantara and forced his father to immediately crown him king. Our originally close relationship became tenuous because he considered me a rival for the throne.
Slowly but surely, he began to infiltrate dozens of warriors into the palace soldiers who later known if they were holy temple troops. And at the height of my father's death, he seized the throne of the kingdom and arrested me on charges of rebellion. I managed to escape and hide in this valley, "Maruli began to tell Sabrang about the appearance of the holy temple troops.
"Red rock?" Sabrang and Emmy looked at each other.
"The stone was only as big as my fist but I felt something strange about the stone. I held it a few times, and felt an evil aura enveloping the red stone," replied Maruli softly.
"Pomegranate red dust, can you take me to where Saragi found the stone?" emmy asked arrived.
"I'll try it a little harder because the forest is right behind the Arkantara palace. If I may ask, what is the matter with you holy temple warriors?" ask Maruli.
"There have been a few problems in the past, and I have to make sure of something" Emmy replied quietly, she couldn't possibly say if their appearance might be related to the book of the Sabdo Lodge.
"Whatever you will do, you should be careful to face the warriors of the holy temple. They have a strange science of canuragan, everyone who is killed while fighting with them always has the same wound, his whole body is covered with sword wounds" Maruli warned.
"Wounds all over the body? don't don't?" Emmy recalled the wounds that Ciha had gotten while in the dimension of space and time.
Maruli took a deep breath while looking at Sabrang, although the canuragan knowledge that Sabrang showed yesterday was high but she was still worried if the young man had to face the holy temple troops.
"Rest, tomorrow before sunrise I will escort you into the capital but I do not guarantee your safety after being inside the capital," Maruli lowered her head as she stepped away.
"The noble sword wound all over the body that he told me about is it related to Ciha?" ask Emmy after Maruli leaves.
"I also think so, Uncle Wardhana once said to me that when he and the White Fox came out of the dimension of space and time, they felt that there was one person coming out of that dimensional space. It seems like the forces of the sacred temple and the space-time dimension are related," Sabrang replied slowly.
"If it's true that the man who came out with Uncle Wardhana was one of the sacred temple troops, then who locked him in there?" emmy said while thinking.
"We will find out if we succeed in investigating who they really are, but before that we will go to Mount Sinabung first."
"Sinabung Mountain?" Emmy scrunched her forehead.
"The story is long and many things happened after the incident in Gunung Padang. There's someone I have to meet and according to the teacher, he's probably at the top of the Sinabung mountain" Sabrang replied as he invited Emmy to rest.
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Agam Argani was seen walking into the training room inside the cave. He then asked some Sacred Temple warriors who happened to be inside the cave to come out.
"Come out, and don't bother me for a few days" said Agam, who was immediately nodding back.
Agam then sat down on a stone while closing his eyes.
"This damn wound really hindered my kanuragan development, I had to quickly awaken Mr. Mandala," Agam began to drain the energy in and concentrate on the stomach.
After the pain he felt every day began to disappear, Agam rose from his seat and pulled a small lever near the stone he was sitting on.
As he began to pull the lever, a swordsman seemed to run from outside the cave with a scared face.
"Sorry chairman, I'm late" said the swordsman.
"You're always late, Aidan. If you don't master the ice-style of freezing that guy's body, I've killed you, '" replied Agam annoyed.
"Sorry chairman, there's a bit of a problem I have to solve" Aidan replied quietly.
A door that was on the cave wall opened as they spoke, a cold aura instantly overflowing from within that secret room.
"Forgot that problem, let's go in," Agam stepped into the secret room that had its entire wall covered in ice.
A corpse appeared to be confined within a very thick chunk of ice. Long enough Agam stared at the corpse of a man in astonishment.
"It's a pity that he is dead, his body is really special and very suitable to be the new body of the Mandala Rakyan master," said Agam amazed.
"Isn't Dwipa's body always special?" reply Aidan slowly.
Agam nodded slowly while watching the swordsman's body.
"That eye can kill anyone in an instant, I'm sure with this body, master Mandala Rakyan will become an invincible swordsman. We were lucky to find Naraya Dwipa's body before it rotted."
"How can you get Naraya's body of chief?" ask Aidan curious.
"The body of seven stars with the eyes of the moon, I can't imagine how much power master Mandala would have" Aidan replied.
"Chairman, Your Highness Saragi is calling you," a soldier suddenly shouted from outside the cave.
"The weak king always troubles me, if all the Red Mustika pomegranate I have got, I will kill him with my hand" Agam clenched his frown.
"Make sure this room continues to freeze to keep Naraya's corpse intact until we manage to collect all of Demila's Red Mustika," Agam ordered as he stepped out.
"Okay, chairman" replied Aidan quickly.
***
"When my father was still in power, he quietly built a secret path to get out of the Capital in anticipation of a possible siege by the enemy. Father built an underground passage connecting this valley with one of his confidant's houses in the capital, which is why I chose this valley as a hiding place," Maruli showed me a cave in the valley.
"Did your brother not know this secret path, sir?" ask Emmy to worry.
"No, this secret passage was made only for the king and my father had actually appointed me as his heir before Saragi forcibly took the Arkantara throne," Maruli began to step into the cave followed by Sabrang and Emmy.
"Arkantara Keraton is deliberately built in this place because the path is quite difficult. To enter the capital there are only two paths that can be taken and all are guarded by the forces of the Holy Temple, if there is no secret path you will not be able to enter without making a fuss," Maruli began to explain the location of the Arkantara palace and the uniqueness of the place.
"Since the armies of the sacred temple became part of the palace, Arkantara which was once just a small kingdom turned into a feared great power. It was the art of war and the science brought by the holy temple warriors that made the Arkantara warriors very strong.
But all that scientific progress was not matched by the lives of its people, Saragi led Arkantara with an iron fist. He will kill anyone who tries to oppose him including dozens of ministers who are very loyal to his father. My sister is actually a good child, but the introduction to the sacred temple troops changed all of her nature," Maruli let out a long sigh.
"Holy Temple troops, I'm getting more and more interested in them" Sabrang said softly, he walked quickly as he looked at the end of the passage.
"As I said earlier, your curiosity can lead to death, they are not warriors who can be easily defeated," Maruli tried to warn Sabrang.
"You take it easy, sir, with his current abilities may be a holy temple that must be careful. He now looked so much calmer that all of his weaknesses seemed to be covered up. Right now I'm not sure there's a swordsman who can match her," Emmy replied as she looked at Sabrang who was walking far ahead.
Maruli fell silent after hearing Emmy's words.
"Is that the young man? other than the strange moves he used yesterday when stopping time, I don't see anything special about him but why is this woman so confident in his abilities?" maruli said in her heart.
After arriving at the end of the hall, Maruli hit the wall several times as if to signal someone. Before long the sky of the cave shifted and looked to a young man from above.
"War?" the young man looked puzzled as he looked at Sabrang and Emmy.
"Relax Arga, they are my friends" said Maruli slowly.
Arga nodded in relief, he stretched out a rope that had been strung together to form a staircase.
A fairly large inn greeted Sabrang as he climbed up, they appeared right in an empty room close to the inn's kitchen.
"The Leaf Green Inn is the largest inn in the capital of Arkantara, from which we exchange information about the palace situation. Dozens of warriors come and go all the time, no one will suspect you" Maruli explained.
"Arga gave them the best room especially for the merchants, I am lord Damar and his palace was hosted during his time here" said Maruli.
"Both Prince," Arga asks Sabrang and Emmy to follow him.
"Let's come with me, sir" said Arga politely.
Sabrang nodded slowly as he followed Arga from behind, occasionally seeing the dozens of room doors that he passed through. One of the rooms instantly caught his attention as he felt a huge aura from within the room.
"Sorry sir, is it true that here is a special room for merchants?" ask Sabrang slowly.
"True sir, some of these rooms are very expensive and indeed we provide for the traders," replied Arga confused.
"It is impossible for a merchant to have this much internal energy, I believe the person in the room is a matchmaker" Sabrang said in his heart.
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This time I want to explain about Naraya who was mentioned by Agam. Must be many asking if Naraya is still alive?
I made sure Naraya was dead, so the one in the ice cave was only his body that Agam would use to resurrect Mandala Rakyan.
I would also like to thank the TUNA ASMARA sect troops who helped to raise the PNA star rating that was passed down last night ok a group of irresponsible people.