THE SUN GOD SWORD
Buyung Upiak
After a day of walking, Sungsang Geni started to see a small fortress at the end of his eyes. The fort was built with large wooden fences that were supplied to the ground. Big and pretty sturdy.
On top of the tallest tower, fluttering black bat flags.
There were about 100 men standing guard outside the fence, ordering nearly 200 captives consisting of many backgrounds. People, soldiers and warriors. The houses of reot of course surrounded the place.
Tomorrow was the rice delivery schedule, the young man had brought 3 sacks of rice and the rest was the straw ash they sank.
When their distance was really close to that place, the pace of Commander Ireng stopped. There were Demon Bat warriors on patrol, it was possible.
“I can't believe that prisoners or commoners could kill 100 of our soldiers in Buna Village.” One of the guards said to his friend.
“Surely from Surasena warriors, I am sure of that. They began to dare to fight us, whereas all this time we can suppress them.” replied the theme.
Waitie? They already knew a small village called Bunja was attacked. Sungsang Geni doesn't believe that. There must be an enemy party that managed to escape when Bayangkara attacked.
Or maybe they sent out a hidden spy, who had quite a great ability, until the young man of the sun was unaware of it.
“We cannot use the tactic of sending rice into their headquarters.” Mahesh said a little whisper. “They must have anticipated our arrival, I'm sure it's.”
Mahesh's words have a point, with strict guard like this must be the enemy is carrying out a plan to welcome their arrival.
“Genius we will spend the night here.” Cempaka Ayu provides solutions. “We will learn the situation.”
Sungsang Geni agreed, so they again pulled back about 500 meters from the territory of the small Demon Bats Headquarters.
“Tonight no one can sleep, we are already very close to that headquarters.”Mahesa gave a warning.
Sungsang Geni went alone, he did not want to be disturbed. Then he chalked up the study of the wanara ciung.
“Uncle Pramudhita, I'm sorry to interrupt your time.” Sungsang Geni gave a small smile to the burly man who was now wearing the royal attire of the Deep Sea. “But I need your help.”
“No problem, now what should I do?” Pramudhita turned to the left, at the soldier who was sharpening a sword or making an arrow. “Have you started it, Geni?”
“Ya, we managed to control one small village.” Answer the young man. “There stands the small headquarters of the Devil Bats, I want Uncle to investigate it.”
Pramudhita understood, he then floated quickly.
The arrival of Pramudhita made the feathers of several demon bat warriors stand. He floated past the wall, then glided on a sizable base. Like ghosts.
The base consists of 3 floors. The bottom is made of concrete and stone but the highest part is only made of thick boards.
But he became a little wary, there were two people, no! But there may be 5 warriors with a power in 2 jule, and one of them is 3 jule felt from inside the 3rd floor.
When he entered the door of the base, the first sight that greeted Pramudhita was 400 soldiers gathering weapons and armor. They will move to inspect the village that Bayangkara has captured.
Of those 400 people, about 100 were swordsmen. This was unexpected, they turned out to have quite a great warrior.
The leader was called by the name, Buyung Upiak. His person was old, had a very thick and long beard and eyebrows that almost covered his eyes.
“Did anyone please pass the password have not returned?” Buyung Upiak looked down on his four subordinates.
“It seems there has been no news about who the person behind the village attack was.” One of the four men answered.
“Badly, if he can't get one piece of information, I'll kill him myself.” Buyung Upiak growled.
The old man had never been proud of leading a small headquarters like this. Together with his 4 stupid subordinates. He had to think about everything alone, especially when dealing with the post.
Actually he was not a believer, every day the old man was always suspicious if only his 4 subordinates might drop his position.
So he had his own room, ordering the most sturdy room padlock on the plain.
Buyung Upiak was an ally of the Demon Bats, but he did not care about that status.The only thing he cared about was the treasure and gold. That was the reason why the old man was really ambitious to have an even higher position.
Meanwhile, his 4 foolish subordinates were not easy to navigate. They tend to be stubborn and consider everyone in this place weak, of course Buyung Upiak exception.
The four men had different powers. Some are in charge of supervising the village, some are being telik cipher, then guard the fort and lastly serve as executioner.
Kismojoyo is a swordsman who is assigned to oversee 5 villages under the auspices of the small headquarters. He had the most troops among the 3 others, around 400 soldiers.
Every day the soldier was getting less and less, Kismojoyo was iron-handed and a little cruel. So he will not hesitate to kill his men who he thinks are stupid. He is the most stupid among all the others.
Pramudhita long enough to investigate the officials of this small headquarters, until finally he decided to go back to meet Sungsang Geni.
***
The young man of the sun was still sitting in his original place, waiting for the information that Pramudhita would bring.
Not long after, a small coughing sound began to fill the space of his head.
“Did you find any important information, Uncle?” Sungsang Geni immediately asked.
“Yes,” Pramudhita replied then told him all the things he got inside the Devil Bats' small headquarters.
Sungsang Geni only mangosteen as long as they hear the words Pramudhita. Until a while he could conclude, that the enemy had a strong enough swordsman.
“3 jule, it is equivalent to the power of Bengal Brown or college elders within the swordsman Union.” Sungsang Geni muttered softly. “They have great people apparently, we can't be rash in acting.”
If within the small headquarters had 5 great people, then what about the branch headquarters or even the main headquarters led by the commander of the Demon Bats?
“But they have a weakness.” Pramudhita continued his words. “Mermaid Upiak never trust with his 4 subordinates, we can use it to make them fight each other.”
Sungsang Geni thought for a moment, what Pramudhita said is true. Now he must think about how to meet Buyung Upiak.