THE SUN GOD SWORD
Ape Demon
The journey of Sungsang Geni and Cempaka Ayu has been going on for several days. There are a lot of things that they go through with that time. Their relationship seems more familiar than ever, yes, although sometimes the grumpy nature of Cempaka Ayu often makes it difficult for the young man.
At certain intervals, Sungsang Geni studied the gathering of natural energy contained in the book of shadow swords. Ever since he returned from the softened realm, finding leisure time was apparently harder than beating the enemy.
So far there was no sign the young man could master it, this was harder than he thought.
“Geni, it seems we are approaching the top of karakatau mountain...Look!” Cempaka Ayu pointed at the high peak that was in front of them. “I feel the stealth energy coming from the region there.”
Sungsang Geni looked up, noticing the plume of smoke coming out from the crater hole. The mountain was bigger than Mahameru mountain, and also looked even more terrifying. But calm down, they would not cross the mountain peak.
Sungsang Geni opened a piece of paper made by a Surasena royal scholar. It was an approximate map compiled based on Aji Saka's notes. Not so accurate indeed, but enough to be their travel guide.
The map looks like continuous dots, with large circles as a guide. It was a star map, where the direction was determined by the movement of the sun and the stars at night.
“Geni, look! It's like a trail of warriors sent to Swarnadwipa.” Cempaka Ayu glanced at the former road that was slightly down on his right.
Sungsang Geni returned to reading the map for a while, looked at the sun and then looked at the top of the mountain in turn. “Hem...it looks like this road is right.” He stroked his chin.
Commander Ireng also did not miss, he sniffed first through that road. Its black snout tracks the human footprints that may have passed through this path.
“Gerr..” the animal stopped. This was a large tree with roots that were also large and very long, growing right on the lips of a deep ravine.
Sungsang Geni glanced at the bottom of the ravine, looking boundless dark. Then he noticed a bridge made up of tree roots winding all the way to the other side.
The bridge is made of a very natural process, Sungsang Geni does not know for sure why the roots of this large tree like banyan cross the gorge.
But across the ravine there, there is also a tree similar to the roots of the display that crossed to here.
So the bridge is made of two large trees whose roots are wrapped around each other and opposite.
Sungsang Geni walk first, take the bridge that always sway if blown by strong winds. They walked hand in hand with Commander Ireng in the middle of the line.
It did not take long, because indeed the bridge was not too long, they finally set foot on the other side of the ground.
If Sungsang Geni looks again, the gorge appears to split through the Kerakatau mountains. “This is like the land area boundary of Swarnadwipa with land java.”
“Or maybe this is the limit of human and ape stealth,” added Cempaka Ayu.
Commander Ireng again walked first, after a long time he growled behind a slightly winding road. Sungsang Geni immediately ran after the wolf, but what happened? The sight in front of them almost made Cempaka Ayu vomit.
“Bau land is the same as land in general.” Sungsang Geni said. “That's the sign, they ate all this meat.”
What Sungsang Geni meant was, if only these bones were the result of the decomposing corpses of humans and animals, of course, there was an unpleasant smell on the ground due to the decomposing flesh.
But in fact there is no smell of saltpeter in the soil, it means they take all the meat without exception also the internal organs to eat. There are also bones that still look new, indicating they have just eaten something here.
“If noticed, this road is indeed the best place to ambush prey..” Sungsang Geni looked at the situation around him. “The beast and man will surely pass through this path, and at that time the demon apes will ambush them, killing and taking their flesh without remaining.”
“Then we have to be careful starting from here!” Cempaka Ayu reminded. “We have entered into their territory, perhaps at this time they are spying on our movements and waiting for an opportunity to kill.”
“Salah if maybe they are spying, of course at this time they are watching our movements. I feel the existence of stealth energy almost on every side of this forest.” Sungsang Geni.
Then the three of them walked together, along a path filled with animal and human bones with almost 100 meters long.
Every step they walked, then the existence of the stealth energy was getting stronger. The towering trees roared in the wind, making the feathers of Cempaka Ayu stand. The current situation is truly terrible.
After passing through a long line of road full of bones, they were finally startled with sounds like broken branches on top of a large tree. The sounds are getting clearer every second.
The three of them stopped their footsteps, watching every shady wooden tree on their heads. Sungsang Geni had not yet shown any reaction, he still refrained from acting rashly, while Cempaka Ayu began to channel his profound energy into the hundreds of bones behind him.
After a while later, the slashes of wood pieces flying rapidly from the top of the tree swooped towards Sungsang Geni, not but towards the three of them without exception.
In the attack, Sungsang Geni managed to become a shield for Cempaka Ayu and Commander Ireng, but then other attacks began to come in a row.
“This is not just ordinary wood!” Cempaka Ayu said. “They channeled the energy to make this wood hard enough, but to me it's not a problem.”
The girl then unleashed an attack, and instantly hundreds of bones slid like arrowheads quickly slammed into each branch of the tree that moved.
Sungsang Geni became a little surprised, Cempaka Ayu's attack turned out to be even stronger than a year ago. The girl has also been seen several times controlling attacks with specific patterns, making the rate of the bones appear to vary.
Done it. It seems that the attack of Cempaka Ayu made the creature did not resume its action. Or maybe there are some of them who were hit by the attack Cempaka Ayu, thought Sungsang Geni.
“You have entered our region!” a heavy and hoarse voice suddenly resounded on each side of the jungle. “Don't expect you guys to come back alive!”
“Show me your form!” sungsang Geni. “Why should you hide? Is it so ugly that you're ashamed to show your form?”
“Your name is also a human child!” The voice reverberated, then there was a loud laughter. “I hope your canoeing is sharper than your tongue.”