Pendekar Batari Mahadewi: The Journey to Find Your Self
Episode 233 Warm Welcome to Agrapana
Nala was still calm even though Vidyana started to panic as the black dragon demon waiting for the lake began to show off its power.
“Do we have to fight? If you had a problem with the prince of darkness in the past, it certainly was none of my business. I told you, I'm not the prince of darkness!” nala.
“Although you have said it repeatedly, but my eyes cannot be fooled. Inside your body is the soul of the prince of darkness!” said the black dragon demon. His eyes were full of revenge.
In the past, the prince of darkness had killed the black dragon's demon lover for not serving and following his orders. At first, that black dragon demon was an ordinary human, a white flow swordsman with the title of Dragon Killer swordsman.
The darkness astonishment shattered the body of the Moon Flower warrior and threw it away in that lake. The Dragon Killer Swordsman was furious. He attacked the prince of darkness, but what a force, he was just like a squirrel in front of the leader of the demon army.
In a single strike, the body of the Dragon Killing warrior was destroyed, yet his vengeful spirit and soul were still left in the lake. The soul survives on a dragon mustika that he instilled on his body when he was alive as a dragon demon hunter.
So he rose again as a vengeful demon. Black energy enveloped his body and soul. For thousands of years he has been a powerful demon and never appeared until that day he met the prince of darkness in another form, Nala.
“You forced me, so I had no choice,” Nala said.
“Yes, you're the only one I've been aiming for to survive to this day since that time. If today you don't kill me to the point of breaking my soul, then at any moment, my grudge will continue to turn on me,” said the black dragon demon who had changed shape into an old man.
“Good. We'll just start!” Nala standby. The black dragon demon also did the same thing, it emitted even more powerful energy, then streaked as fast as lightning attacking Nala with mesmerizing moves.
The black dragon's stealth strength was incomparable to Nala's strength even though he had braced himself for over a thousand years. However, the strong Nala basically had no martial arts skills, while the opponent was a former swordsman who had both beautiful skills and not a little fighting experience.
The powerful Nala could not easily cripple the black dragon demon in the figure of an old geezer who was moving agilely overran Nala with deadly attacks.
If only Nala did not have the strength of a three-moon world that protected her body well, she would have been dead since the beginning of the black dragon demon attack. So far, Nala has not shown her true strength. In the old way that he had, he wanted to test himself. And true, even though he was strong, his fighting abilities and experience were extremely ugly.
“I don't think you can survive even if you don't have the dark prince's consciousness. The defense of your body is very good,” praise that black dragon demon that has exerted all-out ability and strength.
“Already, uncle. In this fight, I have not used all my strength. I don't consider uncle an enemy at all, and I'm really sorry if in the past I've made you hold a grudge, and I don't know what I did in the past,” says Nala.
“Just let go of your abilities, let's kill me, young swordsman!” the black dragon demon attacked again. He did not want to use the body of the dragon as a demon centipede against Batari Mahadewi with the body of a centipede. Turning into a monster is powerful, but slow in many ways. And of course, the former master swordsman knows very well about it so he still uses the form of an old grandfather figure.
Many times Nala failed to entrap the old man's body with the ground, and when Nala became the ground, the black dragon demon grandfather could also easily deal with it. Then enough Nala to play around. It becomes a particle of energy. Simultaneously, the old geezer groaned in pain, as if his entire body was gnawed at something invisible.
Slowly, the old body shrank until the bones were wrapped in skin. Unfinished to get there, the leather-clad bone slowly decomposed into fine dust that flew with the air. All that remained was a piece of stealth mustika lodged within the old grandfather's head.
Nala felt sorry if she had to waste that mustika. So with the magic ability he had, Nala turned a stealth mustika with a size almost as big as a human head into a pebble, then he kept it.
Vidyana was just wide-eyed to watch her sister's incredible fight, and she also could not believe that Nala could turn the stealthy mustika into a pebble. In his mind, he confirmed the old grandfather's remark, that Nala was the prince of darkness. But the brother did not want to ask directly, he preferred to listen to his sister who told the story first.
“I just saw your ability this time,” said Vidyana.
“This smile is greater than the two demons I fought before, before I met brother,” Nala said.
“Many demons attack you, there must be a reason right?!” Vidyana.
“Kakak has heard for himself the reason,” said Nala.
“Yes. I don't know how to get rid of the dark soul that's locked up in my body,” said Nala.
“If the soul is free, but you can control it with your current consciousness, you will be stronger for sure,” Vidyana said.
“Not easy. The reason I never sleep again is because the dark soul is so strong it wants to control my body,” Nala said.
“Already, there must be a way. Mustika what do you want?” ask Vidyana.
“Maybe one day it will be useful. So just keep it. You don't have to use mustika like this. It won't be good. I will help you improve your skills in other ways,” said Nala.
“I don't really want to be strong anymore. My goal in being strong was to protect you. Now you can stand alone. I'm quite like this,” said Vidyana.
“No, if there is a good chance, big brother should improve the ability, I promise I will help you,” Nala said.
The two brothers continued their journey. Nala did not expect that upon her return to the world of one moon, the path of life she traveled became never again easy. The power he possessed actually made the dark soul aura within him even more visible and difficult for him to hide it.
After arriving in Swargadwipa, it does not mean that the two brothers did not meet with problems. After all the two of them were warriors with black energy. Since the invasion of the kingdom by a group of black warriors, and since the Mahapatih Siung Tigers Kumban ordered to eradicate the black warriors in Swargadwipa, the black warriors could no longer openly show themselves.
But even though it can disguise and fool most people, for a high-level swordsman it is not difficult to know the basis of energy possessed by someone.
Several times Nala and Vidyana were blocked by a group of white warriors. Nala's explanation would not apply, so instead, Nala had to fight and make them faint unharmed. Thus, he slowly showed that not all black stream warriors intended to be hostile to white stream warriors.
The two of them only really felt relieved after arriving at Dhyana city. At least there has never been a blatant dispute between black and white warriors. All are equal when in the holy city.
Nala confirmed the words of Batari Mahadevi that in the city was indeed deserted and most of the people who lived there were hermits. The atmosphere and energy built there was peaceful, and therefore, anyone who came there would be more interested in meditation than fighting.
It is not difficult to find a sacred temple where the residence of the teacher Agrapana. As usual, the old man welcomed all his new guests in the same way. The skinny old grandfather walked slowly as if he had no power when he welcomed his two new guests who were standing in front of the entrance gate of the sacred temple.
“Welcome. I've been waiting for you both. I have an important message to convey. But, you cannot enter the holy altar before cleansing yourself. Please meditate in this courtyard for a moment. When it's done, I wait for the two of you inside the holy altar,” said Agrapana.
Nala remembered Batari Mahadevi's story about the holy altar, and the rules set by Agrapana turned out to apply to her and her brother. The two of them had to be silent for a moment among the hundreds of hermits who looked like dull, dusty stone statues.
What happens in Nala and Vidyana meditation? Just like Batari Mahadevi and Jalu experienced when they first came to the temple, Agrapana's grandfather presented himself in another way. In Nala's meditation, the grandfather was transformed into Batari Mahadevi. While in meditation by Vidyana, the old hermit changed into his mother. That is the first lesson; overcoming incertitude.
From that moment on, Nala and Vidyana really admitted that the grandfather who was one of the oldest people in Swargadwipa was worthy of being a teacher of anyone. The Vidyana who had my mind at last was not a being and was subject to every lesson that grandfather had given him.
“Tari has been going to other regions since a few weeks ago. He wants you to be here, and be a protector in case something unwanted happens in Mahabhumi,”, Agrapana's teacher told Nala.
“So I have to be here? Though I want to catch up with him,” said Nala.
“It will be fine, trust me. I think you should be here. As long as the situation is still safe, you can learn a lot with me. Maybe in the near future, brothers and sisters like Tari will also come here. You will also get acquainted with the elders of the warriors in Mahabhumi. Sometimes they visit here. But more importantly, you must train hard to suppress the dark soul within your body. I will help you, but the success is only in your hands,” said Agrapana.
Nala complies with Agrapana's advice. Moreover, he also did not know where Batari Mahadevi was. At least, in that place, there were things he did and there were things he had to conquer.