8 Goddess of Flower Sanggana
Hard Blood 10: Stiffened Enemy
*Blood in the Demon Kingdom (Hard Blood)*
“If until the Demon Kingdom has been conquered and I have not got the love of the Slurred Girl, I will admit defeat!” yelled Joko Tingkir declaring his commitment before his colleagues and citizens of Kademangan Binowengi.
A middle-aged female student who walked with her two goats, only looked at Joko Tingkir for a moment. He continued to leave the place while directing his two goats with a small bamboo stick.
The goat-angooning woman continued to go to the slum side of Kademangan. He arrived at a red-ground neighborhood that was quite muddy. After putting two of her goats in the cage, the woman immediately left without sandals to a crowded place by men. They're gambling cockfights.
The woman came to a moustached man sitting cross-legged in a bamboo hall that only fit one butt. The man in his forties sat facing seriously into the cockfighting arena, which was a ring fenced in knee-high bamboo slats. In front of the silaannya there is a coconut shell bowl, in it collected into pieces of betting money.
The men were bustling in favor of one of the two fighting roosters. They're standing outside the fence.
“Hujam wear your fist, Jago Puncture!” the owner of one of the chickens.
“Give Kick From the Sky, Curses Win!” shouted the other man, the owner of the chicken.
The other men were shouting loudly. Although not the owner of the chicken, but they bet money for the victory of one of the chickens. Anyway, a lot of.
“Guttering Bewok!” call the woman the goat manger, she still carries her bamboo wood.
The call made the man in the hall look up. Although not brewokan, but the name Bewok has been attached as strong as the mouse glue in his name.
“What's up, Loss?” ask a man named Talang Bewok.
The woman named Rupiyah brought her lips closer to Talang Bewok's ears. That means there is important news. Though for quite a long time there was no important news related to their secret work.
“There are dozens of riding warriors in the center of Kademangan. One of them shouted about ‘If until the Demon Kingdom has fallen’!” rugiyah whisik.
“They stopped by or just passed?” ask Talang Bewok.
“They are stopping by to rest!” said Rugiyah who whispered but half shouted, because the sound of the cockfighter was so noisy.
“Alright,” Talang Bewok said while nodding.
Rugiyah then stepped away from the place where the soil was moist and many footprints were chaotic.
“Bandeng!” yell Talang Bewok.
“Iya, Chicken Chief!” sahut a young man among the saboteurs.
Although called the Chairman of the Chicken, Talang Bewok is not angry, it is a term that has been socialized. He is indeed known as the Chairman of the Rooster, but when called, shortened to just the Chairman of the Chicken.
The young man in black without buttons named Bandeng, immediately came to nearby Talang Bewok.
“Seplace me. I have important business!” talang Bewok's Order.
“Ready!” answer Bandeng like class leader.
Talang Bewok then moved down from his throne, leaving a coconut shell bowl with his betting money. Bandeng soon replaced.
Talang Bewok immediately went to a bunch of banana trees. He just took a piece of banana leaf that he peeled with his knife. After that, he went up to his house. His wife who was cooking in the kitchen was not loved, let alone tempted.
Inside the room, he wrote something on a piece of young banana leaf using a knife tip engraving. It turns out he understood reading. After writing, the sheet he rolled carefully so that it formed a tiny twisting, but not as beautiful as Sandaria.
The roll is inserted into a small short bamboo rod that has only one end hole. A small bamboo stick then he tucked it behind his clothes.
Talang Bewok is back out. Behind the house, he had a horse. Without using a saddle, he climbed onto the horse's back and then swatted it running on the clay which easily created a trail, especially the horse's footprints.
Talang Bewok went to the end of Kademangan then continued to go to a small forest at the foot of the hill. When he arrived in the forest, he kept coming in. Not too long ago, he arrived at a wooden hut that was quite hidden.
“Message for Palace!”
Those are the words of Talang Bewok to Rembang Seto, the dashing man of the forest dwellers. He gave a small piece of bamboo containing a banana leaf twisting that he carried. Afterwards, Talang Bewok immediately left. His job is done that far.
Rembang Seto then entered the house. Inside, he took out a banana leaf splinter, but did not unroll it. He then took one arrow from the bamboo roof hanging on the pole of the house. The twisting of banana leaves is tied to the stem of the arrow.
Afterwards, Rembang Seto took a bow. Armed with a bow and an arrow, he came out.
“Honey, I went to the ravine for a while!” rembang Seto said to his wife who was drying antelope skin.
“Iya. Careful, Kakang!” sahut the wife.
Rembang Seto left by running quickly among the forest trees. It didn't take long to arrive at a ravine. Below is a steep river. Across is the same cliff of a ravine above which is forested.
As a person who spends a lot of his life in the forest, Rembang Seto is used to climbing trees. Deftly a whole ape, the man climbed up a tree to the highest branch that was strong enough to hold his weight.
Rembang Seto stood gallantly on the branch. He pulled the bow strings that had been mounted arrows. He clutched closely across the ravine.
The set!
The arrow shot far away, crossing over the ravine into the forest beyond the abyss.
Teb!
If ordinary archery was generally about a hundred meters away, but this one was more than two hundred meters away.
The arrow was stuck on a rectangular board nailed to the height of the tree. On the board was a picture of a black apple in the middle. Arrows are embedded right in the picture of apples, showing the quality of the shooting Rembang Seto.
The sound of a loud arrow was heard by a man fishing in a pond, not far from the trunk of the tree where the arrow was stuck on it.
The half-century-old man decided to pull his hook out of the water. There are no fish stuck in the eyes of the hook, except earthworms that have not been eaten. He put his fishing line just like that on the edge of a pool that is not so big.
The man then jumps like a ball bouncing up and up. He stopped on a large branch, a place that made him able to reach the arrow that stuck deep enough. To pull it off, he had to exert a little energy within.
After that, he again jumped down to the branch for the sake of the branch to the forest land. He continued by darting away, showing the science of his body is quite high.
Not too far from where it's headed. The place is a wooden tower whose height is not inferior to the height of forest trees in general. On top of the tower was a giant bow mounted firmly on the tower.
On top of the tower there was no one, for he was the guardian of the tower. Hence he was known by the name of the Arrow Tower Guard.
He then mounted an arrow as big as a spear on a giant bow. To install it, the Arrow Tower Guards had to exert some power in order for its thick arc strings to be retracted to the maximum to the locking point. Once attached, the arrow snaps untouched.
The Arrow Tower guard then tied the small arrow he carried to the arrow spear shaft, like a child and mother.
The direction of the arrow does not need to be set again, because the suit is raw.
Chequek! The set! Seb!
When the Arrow Tower Guard pulls the small lever, then remove the lock. The giant arrow shot very far and landed on an empty land.
The loud sound of a punching, attracted the attention of the two men who were on guard. It turns out that there is also a tower on which there is the same tool.
The messenger arrow will be fired again from the tower towards the Demon Palace's surroundings.
Such is one secret message delivery that can cut the time of one day of riding. (BH)