The Arkana: The Demon Hunters
Heroes

Slamet and Rizky are almost out of breath in the face of the incoming demons. Every now and then they glanced at their Captain who was dealing with the Ratnakusuma traitor. The battle between Adit and Yudha intensified.

"During your absence, your fire is a bit cold" Aditya said provokingly.

Yudha replied to Adit with a faint smile. "Yaaa—we'll see." Suddenly, his body was engulfed by a burning black aura.

Adit re-installed the horses, then advanced before Yudha attacked. Although it had coated itself with atma, but the heat from the aura of darkness belonging to Yudha still felt stinging.

Yudha clasped the skull necklace she was wearing. "The face of the flame is dark," he murmured softly. Black flames enveloped Yudha's hand. He stared flat at Adit and then hit him from afar, releasing a black fireball towards Aditya.

Adit hit the black fireball with a fist layered in red fire to make Yudha attack melt with the night wind. However, as soon as the fireball was gone, Yudha's figure was already right in front of him.

The man fired a quick punch at Adit's face, but Adit caught a fist that almost hit his face. Yudha quickly slid her left knee to slam into Adit's stomach, but Adit held Yudha's knee with one of his idle hands. Not quite there, Yudha's left hand released a successful blow to Aditya's face, making the captain retreat a few steps.

"Lower heat?" asked Yudha staring at the charred bruise on Adit's cheek.

Adit held the wound on his face while his gaze glared sharply at Yudha. "Lumayan."

This heat battle continued even more heated.

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Ratnakusuma.

Arkanta still walked towards Dursasana clutching the sword of Mahesageni. Behind him were Bima and Santi who followed.

Dursasana looked towards them with a smug smile while lowering her body position, preparing to lung at anyone who dared to come out of the archway.

"My company is to the end, Mahesageni" Arkanta said. At that instant his sword was bathed in blue flames. The cold-looking man took his first step, dashing rapidly towards Dursasana. The blue flames on his sword flared in the wind.

The blood of Dursasana was boiling looking at the human spirit that was running towards him. "Don't die fast, yeah." The demon disappeared from the sight of the three of them, leaving a crack in the ground where it rested.

"Arkanta, lookout!" exclaim Santi.

In an instant, Dursasana's fist was already right in front of Arkanta's face as the man passed through a span of Ratnakusuma's arch.

However, Dursasana was wide-eyed when his punch hit nothing. Arkanta halted his steps just before exiting the arch, he had sharp acceleration and smooth, illusory movements that often outwitted his opponent.

Arkanta believes Dursasana is definitely progressing. When the demon was already unable to dodge due to the loss of footing, Arkanta continued his restrained steps, lunging forward with the sword he had swung to Dursasana's neck.

Now it was Arkanta's turn to turn wide when his sword swing failed to kill Dursasana. The demon pushed its head forward and bit the sword of Mahesageni with its teeth all fangs.

Arkanta was unable to draw back his sword. On the other hand Dursasana who had stood on the ground was about to beat him with his fists.

However, again the blow failed to hit the target. Arkanta retreated, releasing the sword Mahesaheni left at the mouth of Dursasana.

Bima's coming. He leapt high into the air and shocked Dursasana from above with a full-power punch. The blow struck Dursasana to the point that his head smelled the ground.

"Fuck!" aspir Dursasana looked up to look full of anger at Bima.

"I've said, that's how you demons should see humans" said Bima.

Dursasana twisted his body and got up while making a whirlwind. Wind blades randomly shot out bombarding the front area of Ratnakusuma.

Arkanta rolled back his sword and exchanged positions with Bima. Now he stood in front of his two comrades and protected them both from Dursasana's attack.

At one point, Dursasana stopped spinning and widened her legs, she pressed her palms against the ground while muttering something with incomprehensible language. An inverted pentagram sigil appeared on the ground, centered on the devil's palm. In an instant Dursasana disappeared from the sight of his three opponents. Leaving a suddenly silent atmosphere. In the midst of the silence it was calm, but boisterous, as Arkanta was being stalked by death.

"Dead."

Arkanta was goosebumps when he heard Dursasana whisper from the left. He swung Mahesageni's sword to his left side, but there was no one there. On the other hand, on the right side of Arkanta, Dursasana was ready to hit him with a palm. The demon tricked him by manipulating the wind to send his voice to the left side of Arkanta.

"Bhumi hero," murmured Arkanta as he plunged Mahesageni into the ground in rapid motion. Instantly a blue pillar of fire appeared with Arkanta at the center of the foundation, burning Dursasana who was about to attack him.

Dursasana screamed from the burning blue flames of Mahesageni, but he was still able to move and still tried to attack Arkanta. The demon kicked Arkanta through the wall of his blue flame pillar until it hit the Commander's left arm. Arkanta bounced to the wall of Ratnakusuma.

"Ackanta!" exclaim Santi.

The handsome man got back up, standing with his sword. "I'm fine." His left hand dangled down like a toy that looked limp. "Just broke a dictatorship."

Santi sweated to see the strongest man in Ratnakusuma get serious injuries. Of course with one hand, Arkanta's fighting power was drastically reduced. On the other hand, Santi is currently unable to help much, because Kris Kinatah disappeared somewhere right before he left.

However, it seems that Dursasana also received quite serious injuries. His face was almost shattered from recklessly breaking through the blue pillar of fire of Mahesageni. The blue flames belonging to the sword were not playful. Mahesageni is capable of killing high-class demons.

"At least Dursasana also weakened thanks to the Commander," said Bima. "It's my turn to move forward now."

Dursasana clasped his palm. "Nirvana of sin," he murmured. This time he had the serious intention to finish off the three humans in front of him.

Suddenly the aura of killing him again radiated to make Arkanta, Bima, and Santi goosebumps.

The cornered Dursasana finally pulled out one of its flagship moves. From various angles, the shadows around him formed waves of darkness that surrounded all of them. The boy-shaped devil laughed maliciously, as if enjoying the fear emanating from his opponent's face.

The three of them were trapped in a dark vortex. It felt, this wave of darkness was increasingly suffocating, making the three humans difficult to breathe. Arkanta felt helpless, his strength as if being sucked out by the darkness of Dursasana. The blue fire that enveloped Mahesageni was suddenly extinguished.

Santi tried to strengthen his aura to repel the darkness of Dursasana, but his ability seemed to be sucked by the darkness of Nirvana Sin.

Dursasana walked towards them while laughing. "Effort, man! That's your power, right? Trying."

His laughter suddenly broke into silence as the darkness of the Nirvana of Sin suddenly vanished without a remnant. Dursasana stared at the roof of Ratnakusuma. There was a man sitting there staring at him.

The man looked sharply at Dursasana. Her hair was long and neatly tied in a tall bun that symbolized wisdom. Strands by strands were swaying in the night breeze.

On the other side Santi smiled. "It's just right that Kinatah's kris is gone, apparently the original owner has come."

"What are you doing here, Wirochana?!" ask Dursasana.

"You said humans are low, right? But why take it so seriously against a creature as low as man, Dursasana?" wirocana asked back in a soothing voice.

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Tantric.

"Help my four war generals, tetra pralaya," said Darto staring at Bowo. "They're the ones who'll kill you."

Bowo and Yasa gulped. From the aura alone they understood that the four creatures had more terrifying powers than the other creatures that surrounded Tantra.

"Giant," said Darto glanced at the large demon with a body coated with black armor.

The creature took one step forward while gazing towards the bowo.

"Kill him" continued Darto.

Hearing his master's orders, the Giant immediately shot forward towards Bowo.

The bald man was wide-eyed when such a large creature was able to move very quickly towards him while dragging a huge mace.

Bowo moved, trying to fight even though his body was trembling. The bald man was like being faced one-on-one with Buto Geni. It's just that this one creature is smaller in size than Buto Geni, but its speed is unreasonable. The creature swings its sound sideways.

'Damn, can't avoid being next to it'. Think Bowo.

Bowo gathered the atma in his hand for a short time, then struck the mace with his fists.

Darto glanced at Manta who suddenly rolled away from him, then got up and ran towards Bowo. He helped Bowo hold the cudgel off with Bengisura.

Only, as fast as Bowo and Manta's bullets bounced towards Yasa, hit the boy until it hit the front window until it broke and shattered. The three of them scattered on the living room floor.

Darto walked towards them casually. He dragged his sword until it let out a sound that made the three people even more horrified. At one point, Darto pointed towards Yasa.

"If you choose to come peacefully, maybe I can release your two friends" said Darto.

Yasa rose up unsteadily. Desperate the mind to give up because of the fear of losing again. He fears Bowo and Manta are dead silly just for his useless self. However, just as he was about to speak, Bowo patted him on the shoulder.

"Yasa is not going anywhere," Bowo replied firmly as he got up and walked to Yasa's front, protecting him.

"This is Yasa's house, and no one can take him away" continued Manta who stood beside Bowo.

Darto sighed, then stared at Bowo and Manta. "Negotiation ended. They both haru—"

A rock hit Darto's head. The man rubbed the blood flowing on his forehead with the back of his hand. Slowly he turned towards the gate.

"Puppet the dog" said Mahari.

"You know what you just did?" tanya Darto who turned her gaze from the blood in her black gloves towards the gondrong man with the middle bangs running deeper and deeper towards him.

"Yaaa—just took the lives of the students themselves anyway," replied Mahari. "Again, still got the guts? Inget me, right? That's you, that's running away from the hotel rooftop time in Surakarta?"

Darto. "So you were the one who came with Arkanta?"

Mahari laughing. "Yes."

"You should be grateful that I ran away from Arkanta. Now that guy's not here, you should be worried."

"It should have been Arkanta who was worried if there were no great men." Mahari pointed to herself.

"La-ri, boss Ma-hari," muttered Yasa stammering.

"The sun?" ask Darto. He pointed his sword towards Mahari while his left hand held the black book. "So you're the one? Mahari Sagara, The King of Spirits."

Mahari smiled at him. "You'd better leave now, but I'm still acting like a fool."

"Tonight. I, Darto Sagara, will take the title of the Spirit King from you. Get your troops out, King!"