True Martial Arts
Still in the Chase!

“A-what is it, dar-from the darkness?!” Kaia said tremblingly. Kala did not answer but focused on hearing.

The sound was gone. The sound of Alang was heard shortly after the rustling sound disappeared. The forest calmed down for a while, before the sound of wind rustling could be heard from above. When Kala turned his head, he found flashes of iron reflected by sunlight, plunging rapidly down.

Kala pushed Kaia away with her feet, then fended off the sharp iron that looked like a sword. The iron was blown everywhere, but there were some who managed to stick on the dry land near Kala.

Kala retreated to near Kaia who fell to protect her. The wind swish sounded again, this time from the direction of the trees and from the four directions of the wind eye.

A flash of four red-colored shadows shot out and stopped a few spears from the bodies of Kala and Kaia. Four men in red uniforms with batik gloves draped around the waist. They wore black masks with scary smiles. In their hands, a machete was drawn. From their horses, it was seen that the ones who came this time were professionals.

From the Prana level, they were at the Spirit Crystal Realm, but his reflection of the level was very vague, their chances were much higher than that level.

“What do you want?” kala said calmly. They didn't kill him right away, which meant they had some offers.

“Where are you from?” ask one of them, pretty sniffy.

“Where are we from? It doesn't matter, it's none of your business.” Kala replied no less ketus.

“This is our forest area, from which you guys are our affair,” said, “don't force us.”

They narrowed the distance with Kala while giving off a menacing aura.

Kala smiled faintly. “Can I confess that this is my territory. Yes, of course this is my area. You better step aside before I get angry.”

They looked at each other, gestured but still did not attack. When smiling thinly, they are professionals who are very trained, proven that his speech did not give emotion once to them.

“Brothers, we try to be polite with you. We are the password of Gold Golok College. It is only natural that if we were wondering, you did not pass the road but entered the forest directly. Not to mention your pet has attacked us first.”

“Your reasons are reasonable.” Kala smiled. “We are from Telu Forest, want to go to Red Cup city.”

“And why don't you use the main road?”

She smiled coldly again. “There is a special reason for that.”

They looked at each other again and nodded once.

“Brothers-Sisters all please come with us.” They're hollowing a machete.

“Enak only! Whoareyou? Want to kidnap us?!” Kaia said with emotion, Kala gestured for Kaia to calm down.

“Listen, I don't know exactly about Gold Golok. We can't go with you guys, wherever it is. Please do not block our path. Let's just say that we are hunters who used to roam in the wild.”

“Cannot. We have to protect you.” He disputes. “We will take you to our college. There it can be ascertained, Brothers and Sisters all can sit safely.”

Kala shook his head slowly before spreading a dense murderous aura. He also signaled to them that there was a net above. The four remained silent.

“Let us make sure if so, so that you believe.” The masked man said again. “If our guess is correct, Brother is the one who saved one village from Geowedari attack. If that's true, we're looking for Brother. But if it's wrong ...”

“Ya, that's right.”

“Well, dear brother. May I call you a Hero.” He looked down a little. “If we had known a little about the problem of Heroes. Our school can provide full protection. Our patriarch also personally wants to meet with Heroes.”

Kala slit her eyes. “You know that we are being hunted by troops from darkness?”

“Iya. But we don't know for sure. What is certain is, we were ordered to pick up the Hero by the Patriarch.”

Kala investigated their eyes, not seeing the lies of all of them. He finally smiled kindly then put the keris into the sheath. Kala did not keep his keris on the interspatial ring, of course he was not too stupid to raise suspicion. That way, for the first time, he tied Keris Garuda Puspa on his back.

“Thank you for specifically picking us up. Looks like we'll trouble Gold Golok College for tonight.” Kala laughed lightly.

They nodded with satisfaction. “Here the road, Heroes.”

Kala smiled awkwardly. “Sorry, looks like a break first.”

Kaia, who was able to rise, is now completely unable to rise. Kala did not force Kaia to walk, they already had protection for now.

They laughed for a while before making a fire in the middle circle, they sat around the fire. The smoke flew pale into the sky, Kala knew that with the smoke then their position would be discovered, but Kala also knew that they did not dare to attack the five strongest princes at once. Unless they are too many.

Alang descended down, greeting the four people from the Golden Gulok while Kaia shifted her body into leaning against the tree. When they joined the four men, they burned some fresh meat.

“If you may know, why is your Patriarch looking for me?”

“We do not know, if we know, we are also prohibited from spreading to others.”

Kala nodded slowly, he was just testing the strength of the Gold Glade College. If they have arrived at the level of successfully educating students to become professional instructors, it means Gold Golok is not just any college.

“Eak ...” Alang whispered softly to Kala, with fear.

Kala quickly looked back, where there was a fairly high hill. From there, he saw a black shadow standing, right at the top. Slowly came the other black body shadows, in total there were six black shadows. Kala's feathers stood up, all this time he ran from them, and now the two were eye-to-eye even from a very long distance.

Kala could not see the look of their faces even with the Eye of Garuda. Immediately, Kala informed the four princes of the Golden Gauge.

“West move, on high hill, six black shadows.”

Getting Kala's direction, they simultaneously looked in the same direction. Six black shadows were still standing there, not moving at all.

When the meat was ripe, the six shadows had already disappeared from the top of the hill. Kala did not know to be happy or afraid because he did not know where the six shadows went.

The Four Gold Gauge Pranors distributed the grilled meat quite dry, but to Kaia, it was a sumptuous meal after a week of eating bland pastries. The four of them had no one to eat, perhaps they were already highly trained or they were unwilling to unmask. Clearly, the pranor can resist hunger with Prana, but it tastes very bad.

They did not enjoy the food, or in other words did not have time to enjoy the food; packed up and went to Gold Golok College.

***

Although they had moved quite quickly, Gold Golok College was still not seen until the night of the pick-up. The four princes warned that at night, the power of darkness would increase, but they had to keep resting after drowsiness struck.

“If from here, maybe our Gold Golok College can be reached by noon tomorrow, that's all if we get up early and walk fast. If we relax, it will probably take an entire day,” is obviously one of them while staring at the fire.

“As long as they do not attack,” says Kala, “even walk a full week is not a problem.”

After some light talk. Except for one of the princes who had been silent, just listening. It seems like he is a sarcasm or a man who has gone mad due to frequent wars.

They started to make the bed. Kaia will probably sleep for a full night, but Alang and five men will take turns sleeping.

Who got the first turn of course from the Gold Gollok, Kala slept as fast as possible. And in anticipation of the danger grabbing onto Kaia, he slept beside her. Kaia did not refuse, she knew the nature of Kala.

Kala was awakened when the two people felt unstoppable drowsiness. Kala was on guard with one of the Gold Golloks, Alang also woke up to stand guard with Kala.

When she saw Kaia, she slept so well with a thick blanket. Sleeping on the bed of his own house, not in the wild in conditions of great danger. Kala could only laugh softly while shaking his head.

To melt the atmosphere, they chatted with hot tea. He hears more, because he only needs to hear.

“Red Grail and all the colleges there are piling troops on the Ash Wall. There was movement from the Black Moon, they attacked several times by throwing projectiles into the Pandataran region.

“That's why we know that the predicted darkness has come. No signatory and Geowedari should be at war. They only incited intense sheepfighting carried out by the Black Moon. And if they knew that Telu Forest had been controlled by the Ice Crystal Castle which seems to be the Black Moon.”

“Abu Wall is a wall that stretches separating West-Central Java with East Java?”

“Yes that's right. The wall was built by ancestors and the Mandataran-Geowedari alliance to ward off black attacks from the Eastern Region,” he replied. “In Garuda's time, it wasn't long before he disappeared and was presumed dead. The wall was very difficult to penetrate, ancient Prana ancestors still accompany the Wall Abu.”

Phuket ....

Kuping Kala caught the sound of iron. Very slowly but the ears still catch the sound, but not just the ears of Kala only.

“Enemy!”

Quickly they stood up. The desing of iron with the exit of the machete and keris from its nest filled the silence. The other three friends immediately woke up and prepared as well, while Kala was still late in responding, he woke up the last with a half-sleep condition.

Alang who did not know when to fly now has given the opening attack. Kala pulled his right leg towards the right right right where Alang opened the attack.

The fire hits the trees. The forest that was calm became boisterous. Enemies were seen with half of their bodies engulfed in flames, standing in rows with long great swords raised to their faces. They stepped forward calmly and a good move.

Kala jumped first in front of the enemy, making a stabbing movement to the heart. The enemy swords twisted and quickly fended off Kala's attack. With Kala's failed attack, his other comrades counterattacked at once.

Kala retreated backwards and then the four men went forward to attack. From that attack, Kala became worried. The strength of the enemy is quite large, not to mention their fighting techniques offset the silat that is usually taught in the archipelago. When worried that the enemy that will come later will make a great war endless because the strength is balanced.

There was no time to reflect, the four people from the Gold Gulok were overwhelmed against six enemies at once. Kala gave pencak silat attacks combined with sword techniques and Cotton Techniques.

Kala's spinning body carried his sword, like a windmill with a sharp blade. It was enough to make the enemy desperate until they were finally separated from each other.

Actually they tried hard to retreat, but Kala did not let them run so easily, as a result they were separated quite far. One Gold Gauge pranor leaped backwards letting her opponent retreat, but her attack switched to another desperate enemy. As a result, one managed to run, but one even got two opponents at once. Not to mention his friend was unwilling to help and continued to retreat behind the darkness.

Kala did not agree with how to fight like a coward, but he had to be happy because one opponent they managed to kill, not to mention the opponent Kala was facing at this time was already much injured.

The four dark men retreated, while two of his friends died. One was gang-raped; one was killed by Kala alone.

They disappeared without a trace in the dark shadows. When there was no intention to chase them, it was a bad idea.

With a breath that was still up and down, Kala examined the opponent's body. The entire body was covered in black armor, or perhaps black steel. This steel is very strong, Kala even needs a strong effort to penetrate the armor before making an attack into the body.

Their faces are also covered in strange masks that are not uncommon in Java. The mask looks a bit like a goat. Their heads were also covered in black iron head armor, complete with goat-like horns.

Just seeing him was already terrifying. This is the man from the darkness. Kala ventured to forcibly remove the mask. When the face behind the mask was plastered, Kala was surprised to take a few steps back.

The face behind the mask was deathly pale, as if there was no blood flowing in it. Not to mention the slightly blackened eyelids with half-open black eyes. It is nothing different from Satan.

“People of darkness are terrifying.” Kala shuddered in horror before going forward to inspect the other body parts.

In addition to the black eyes and eyelids, the blood of this person was also pitch-black. Does not smell fishy but stinging foul smell like the smell of rat carcasses.

Kala inspected the black sword, palpating a hint of the coldness of such a sharp sword eye. Swords that are large and quite light, can be called good swords in the archipelago.

Kaia went to check on the men with a face of disgust and fear. The four people from the Golden Gulok let out a long sigh.

“We better hurry to Gold Golok College,” said one of them.

“Middle of the night like this?” Kaia protested, her sleepiness is still said to be quite heavy.

Kala answered. “Kaia, do you want those horrible people to come back with their friends or even their troops?”