TIKZ [Moving To The Golden Age]
038 - MAGIC TRAIL

In a large courtyard, gathered together by soldiers and knights, they grabbed the weapons they controlled and drove away the large object that covered the sunlight from the mansion they were protecting, the house of Wiyasa Kabalan.

"Stop! Put your weapons down!" hayan's orders. The knights and warriors lowered their weapons which led to a huge bird flying above them.

"Supreme Father please temper your anger! We can talk if there's a problem!" shouted Hayan as the Great Hermit continued to fly over his residence, not descending after the troops dispersed from the middle of the field.

Shortly after scanning the residence with his strength and not finding the Idaline, Fusena flew low and her mounts shrank to match the size of the courtyard.

"Say. Where's my student?"

In the hermitage, Fusena felt the aura of Idaline vanish from her reach. Ruru, a call garuda bird informs the last location he saw Idaline was the residence of Wiyasa Kabalan. But Fusena did not find Idaline, there was only a faint force from the former portal that Idaline opened.

"Idaline went to–" Yet Hayan explained, Fusena flew high with the power of light, flying the trees and the knights who stood firmly.

Fusena stopped at the riverbank. He put his hand in the water to catch the body of the Idaline conch.

"Why do we get a curse like this? Danger once, the river flow is very heavy," Fusena's scolding mixed with worry. Fusena put the body of Idaline on the ground.

Ducting out a bit of his strength then a light shot out from the body of the Idaline conch. Fusena heaved a sigh of relief seeing the siulet she knew had returned.

"Calm down. I just wanted to try something new, "Idaline squeezed her wet hair out.

Fusena stared intently at Dina's transparent body. "Ruru will come with mbak" he said before disappearing.

"Why not release the curse?" ask Ruru.

"He has a plan. If it reaches its limit, stop it. You know how stubborn he is,"

"Yes. In the past, Ewo the elephant wanted to ascend above the lava that would erupt. Knowing she's about to be stepped on, Ms. Lin still keeps Ewo from going there,"

"Take good care of him,"

"Surely,"

"Ru, mending you to be a little bird," Idaline smiled, Ruru instantly turned into a soft and adorable Javanese gelatic bird.

"Now take me west," Idaline went back to being a mas snail and stuck to Ruru's back.

"Why not just human form?" ask Dina. They are flying above the clouds. Dina's body follows where Idaline's body goes.

"It takes great strength to resist the curse. Maintaining the human form is very difficult. Now that I'm doing my asceticism, "Idaline got shut up and tried to focus.

A second later Idaline frowned and opened her closed eyes because the vibrations from Dina's body disturbed her so much that they were now bound by a mistake.

"That's.who is he?" asked Dina with a look of fear.

"What's wrong?" ask back Idaline saw Dina's pale face. He looked around and tried to feel the power but found no one.

"His strength is so great that it feels like I'm going to drown as he stares,"

Idaline thought hard and found no one other than Fusena who had met them. "He is the Great Sage" answered Idaline again closed her eyes and began to pacify her mind so that it would no longer be disturbed.

"Him? Not her?" thought Dina astonished.

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"Master, thank you for saving me," Kirana clenched her palms forward and her body slightly bowed to Djahan who was facing the cave door.

Djahan saw Kirana at a glance and then refocused on observing the cave door.

"My daughter, my daughter," Kerta who was watching behind the undergrowth appeared, running towards Kirana while stretching out her hands.

"Yahanda!" Kirana received the embrace of her father.

"Oh daughter. Daughter," Kerta peppered Kirana's crown repeatedly. "How are you doing? Is anyone hurt?" Kerta looked at her daughter from top to bottom.

"No, father. This young man has pinned me down,"

"Oh yes," said Kerta realized the existence of Djahan. "Mr Mahapatih I am very grateful to you. Somehow if you don't come," Kerta insisted on giving a big tribute but Djahan ignored him.

"Yahanda!" call Kirana aghast. His father was a king, how could the man rest? In front of mahapatih? Someone number two in royal order? Then Kirana remembered the face of Djahan when visiting the Maja Kingdom. "What's up, father?" ask Kirana in my heart.

"long story. But now come here son, this young man is Lord Mahapatih. Give the right greetings," explained Kerta still in a position of calm.

"I-I'm sorry for my stupidity," Kirana insisted on following Kerta and the whole bodyguard laid down his truth and rested.

Djahan still stood regardless of the feet of the people who rested on him. Several times the light appeared from his hands but was unable to open the door like Idaline did.

"Say. How did you get inside?" tanya Djahan looked coldly at Kirana.

"That's.actually.I was kidnapped.." nervously Kirana.

"Say it clearly!" furious Djahan.

Kirana took a deep breath. "Hamba was expelled from the palace then lived in a corner of the capital. At that time, I worked in a clothing store. When selling in another village, the servant was drugged and woke up in a cave full of strange things and was held there. Servant did not expect it turned out that the cave was in the ancestral tomb,"

"How did you get in?"

"Hamba doesn't understand,"

Djahan looked at Kirana in disbelief.

"Actually Goddess Galuh had visited in the first month of slave kidnapping," Kirana slowly feared the gaze of Djahan.

"Kirana don't make up!" angry Kerta. That eldest daughter how could she drag her sister in such a difficult time like this?!

"When the father knew on the day of the abduction, Goddess Galuh came out of the palace,"

"There's no ban for him to leave,"

"Call him here" Djahan ordered to break the boy and the father's argument. Djahan no matter what happens between the two, he must save Idaline at all costs.

"Sir please forgive the son of the servant. She must be confused because the kidnapper poisoned her brain,"

"No, father. I'm very conscious,"

Djahan gritted his teeth seeing the Daha warrior running like a snail to him. "Too long!" snapped Djahan and ran away as fast as lightning.

"You go after him! Make sure my daughter's safe,"

"Dad–" Kirana stared worriedly at the soldiers who ran away from them. The respect of his father who is too big is a little he understands the current condition of the Kingdom of Daha, his father should understand and not offend big people like Mahapatih Kingdom Maja.

As Kirana looked at the soldiers who were trying to chase after Djahan, a large hand floated into Kirana's face that had been rounded. Kirana did not expect, her father slapped her.

"Your sister worries about you all the time but now you repay her like this," Kerta was wide-eyed to realize her hand had sinned. "Pu.my daughter.."

"ALWAYS GODDESS GALUH!" kirana shouted holding her cheek. He breathed violently.

"I just remembered the painting in the manners lesson, he was Mr. Mahapatih from the Maja Kingdom. A respectful father signifies that now his position is higher, meaning that our kingdom has fallen?" kirana. Discussing his sister can only make dizzy.

"The Maja kingdom is getting bigger, we can't be neighbors, anymore,"

"And now my father is telling people to act disrespectfully?" kirana.

"I lost for a moment," Kerta realized the actions of their soldiers would offend Djahan. "You guys left stop them. Just watch from afar" he ordered the soldiers escorting them.

"Good, sir."

"My daughter. Forgive father,"

"Forget it. How did our kingdom fall? Although small, our kingdom is the center of foreign trade on this island,"

"Well! We give up because our competitors give up?" Kirana looked at Kerta with a look of disdain.

"Where possible," Kerta stared at his ancestral tomb from above the cave. "Yuwaraja became Wiyasa there and seized all the foreign merchants without remaining from our market. I do not want the people to suffer because of my father's greed. Bending the body is easier than seeing one starving citizen,"

Kirana silently digested Kerta's words and Kerta silently cleared her mind as well as neutralized her emotions. Kerta realized all this time he was not wise and it made him feel increasingly inappropriate to occupy the throne of the king.

"That person is really the Goddess Galuh" Kirana said breaking the silence.

"How can you?"

"Just because my father's favorite concubine drowned while on vacation together. Not that father can let his behavior just like that. The other sisters must be restless every day and upset every time they get the punishment they shouldn't" Kirana said.

Kerta was speechless unable to refute Kirana's words. The mother of Goddess Galuh died when together with him made himself feel very guilty to his daughter and closed his eyes for all the mistakes made by Goddess Galuh.

"Galuh the goddess liked Prince Inu. They must be together now,"

"They're not married" Kerta argued. "Prince Inu relinquished his position as heir to the throne to migrate. Looking for your whereabouts,"

"I'm not as pretty as I used to be. Where might the prince still be expecting me," Kirana held her acne-filled face and her swollen cheeks as she continued to eat and fall inside the cave.

"Do you love the prince because of his appearance?" ask Kerta. Kirana shakes. "The prince is willing to sacrifice everything to meet you. But where's your confidence as father's eldest daughter?"

"Yahanda!" Kirana hugged Kerta again.

"Oh daughter. The father turned out to be caught in endless regret. Forgive father,"

"The best man is the one who realizes his mistake" Kirana looked up at the sky imagining a hooded witch she had never seen his face. "Thank you for the courage you taught me otherwise I will continue to quietly accept my father's orders and decisions,"

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"I forgive servant. The servant really could no longer summon the witch," Goddess Galuh prostrated herself begging for mercy in tears.

"Do you know who's with that evil witch?!" angry knights who often see Idaline.

"He is His Excellency Raden Ajeng Paramudita, the teacher of His Holiness Yuwaraja, the disciple of the Great Hermit, and the future wife of Lord Maha.aw," said another whispering at the end, grimacing in pain his foot was stepped on.

"You want to die?" reprimand the friend next to him after stepping on his foot.

"He was on the battlefield smiling only when Raden Ajeng's letter came and even delayed negotiations with Waluka all day because he wanted to reply to the letter as soon as possible,"

"It seems that I am not training you guys hard" exclaimed Djahan hearing all their whispers.

"Sorry, sir. This mouth sometimes cannot be controlled" said the friend who stepped on his foot while covering his mouth.

"My daughter.You must have another way, right?" kerta's face paled. Goddess Galuh was silent.

"The cave in the ancestral tomb is the way out. Servants can enter only when called by the witch," said Goddess Galuh.

"Daha is very brave to trap Raden Ajeng Maja kingdom," Djahan's body released an enormous aura until the surrounding land cracked

"Sir please calm yourself. Almost all the people in the army are ascetics, some magicians who have managed to find traces of magic in the cave door but they are not too strong to open it," explained soldier Djahan.

Djahan closed his eyes removing the aura of his ascetic body then he stood right in front of Kerta's head. "Is there anything you want to explain?" tanyanya sharp.

"Sir, this has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else" replied Kerta. "This, Goddess Galuh himself did it," he asserted.

"The Daha family and its subordinates will be under house arrest. Goddess Galuh as the defendant will be sent to the royal dungeon. The troops who have been training remain here. Yojo lead Watek for a while," Djahan held the saddle of the horse preparing to ride it.

"Wah wow. I thought this place was abandoned because there was no sound, it was very crowded,"

A white sembrani horse with red wings rests its feet on the ground. Everyone who looked down did not dare to raise his head, the look up reflex saw the rarely used royal mythical beast.

"We salute His Majesty Yuwaraja," said all at once as he returned to salute.

"Well, where's the teacher?" hayan asked Djahan who was coming down from the horse, ignoring the greetings of the people.

"What a coincidence," Djahan and Hayan walked over. "Idaline is in the cave of Daha's ancestral tomb. The door is covered in extremely powerful magic, the aura and science of ascetics cannot penetrate through it,"

"Wood!" call Hayan understand Djahan's intentions.

"Ready, Your Majesty," Bayu appeared as fast as the wind.

"Show me the way,"

Djahan, Hayan, and Bayu went to the ancestral tomb. Djahan explained the situation when Bayu focused on opening the magic at the cave door.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. This door is very complicated magic seal. Perhaps only father and Candra could open it," Bayu explained with his bloodstained hands.

"Can't you open it?" Djahan looked at Bayu in disbelief.

"I can open a little. Only rats can get inside,"

"Do it" Hayan ordered.

Djahan catches a mouse from the bush with his powers. He controls the mouse into the crack Bayu made in the hidden magic door.

"There is no life. It was full of strange objects," said Djahan unbinding from the mouse.

"Then they are gone" said Bayu.

"Why?" ask Djahan.

"There's a trail of people opening the door before the servant starts. According to Mr. Mahapatih, none of our witches have found the door yet and no damage to the magic seal means the key holder opened it."

"And on the way here there was a trace of magic on the side of the river. After sensing the energy inside, I was sure it was the same energy," explained Bayu pointing at the stream north of the ancestral tomb of Daha.

"How big is the magic trail on the river side?" Djahan didn't feel it, he learned a few things about magic.

"Size of the thumb,"

"What about the trail on the ground?" ask Hayan.

"Hamba found no trace of magic. But of the same size, there's a trail of curses stretching all the way to the magic point that I found,"

Hayan and Djahan were wide-eyed. Idaline cursed?!

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