“You should have died, damned child!”I gasped. My head turned to stare at a young man below me. His expression looked angry and hated me.My teeth grit. “What do you mean?”The young man looked at me with disgust that was clearly in his eyes. “Your parents should know that keeping you alive was a mistake! Look now! See! The world will fall because of you!”My breath is short. My body feels hot when my gaze is fixed on him.I screamed, “I didn't ask for any of this! You—”“Who cares?” the young man cut loudly. “Whether it's the Cursed or anyone else, things will be the same! Whatever will happen after this ritual, all because of you! Did you hear that? You!”I froze without being able to say anything. The truth contained in the young man's words hit me so hard. Blood filled my mouth as I bit my lip hard.Another voice that sounded weak from behind me joined in, “Immortal laws have become too soft in this century. In the past, babies born with holy blood always ended up in the arms of d
“We're late, Dad!”Linda shuffled her feet worriedly. Her eyes stared at the line of trees darting outside the window of the car they were traveling in towards Alas Purwo (Purwa Forest). Aryadi held the woman's two hands, who constantly squeezed each other nervously. Linda turned to the man who had been her adoptive father for years. Aryadi embraced and patted the vampire-woman's shoulder gently.“Think positive, Lin,” Aryadi said calmly. For a moment he was silent, then took a deep breath. “Or at least you can … consider this all the result of my mistake, as you said earlier at the Black Wolf tribe headquarters. If that could make you a little more relieved.”Linda jerked her hand and looked at Aryadi with a look as if she had been offended.“That won't change anything, you know,” Linda hissed, suddenly feeling angry. “Yes, I could think of you that way, but this worry won't diminish one bit. I feel like ….” Linda half raised her hands in the air, then threw them down in despair. “It'
“Dad, are you okay? Dad? Hey! You looks angry! Are you okay?”Aryadi gasped from his reverie. He turned to look at Linda with a smile on his lips. The man nodded in response to his adopted daughter's question. Linda smiled, releasing herself from Aryadi's embrace. The two of them then turned to the car window beside each of them, without realizing that they were simultaneously sighing heavily. Exactly what they thought was different, but the point was the same.Barbara and Burhan.Just then the car stopped. Aryadi, Linda, Elder Brahma, and the driver named Arto got out of the private vehicle. They arrived at the edge of the forest, in a clearing a few meters from the main road. Linda looked up for a moment. Her eyes then explored the towering trees with thickets below.The roar of another car that was heard grabbing the attention of the four of them. A white Avanza stopped, followed by an army green Jeep behind it. Six people got off from the Avanza while only three people left the Jee
A few meters after they entered the depths of the forest, Elder Brahma stopped his steps and turned around. The remaining nine people looked at the elder with questioning eyes.“Use your supernatural running speed,” said Elder Brahma, greeted with nods from the rest of the group.Everyone except Linda suddenly let out a growl. In a split second their bodies yawned and turned into black wolves as big as bears. Linda took two steps back unconsciously. Secretly she was intimidated. Being alone in the midst of a wolf-shifter horde is arguably not good for the calm of a vampire like Linda, but once she tries to suppress her feelings. It's not the time to be overreacting. Time is wasted enough without having to add to this trivial problem.The wolf Elder Brahma growled again, this time sending command through mind to all the wolves at once to Linda. In a flash, the nine wolves and a vampire-woman were already running at inhuman speeds.The sky was completely dark as they cut through the sile
“It took more than ten hours to get to Pacitan by car! Can't the witches create some kind of portal to get there?” Linda yelled at almost everyone in the room. Everyone was silent, didn't know how to respond.The group that came from the Bangka Belitung Islands was already inside the headquarters with a feeling of anxiety that they could no longer be detained. Elder Brahma tried to calm Linda down, but the vampire-woman brushed his hand away. Aryadi's expression also looked extremely frantic. Ever since he entered this room that looked like a large meeting room, Aryadi could only pacing around restlessly.The door to the room suddenly opened and a burly man in a red coat entered. Linda recognizes him as Rokan Allegro, a vampire who leads the Indonesian Immortal Center or INDICENT as well as this headquarters. The man had a stern face with blue eyes and dark skin. Just like Elder Damar, he is also a Caucasoid of the Halmahera Tribe, which is mysterious in the eyes of humans.“Master.” L
Those seven figures dressed all in dark red suddenly just appeared somewhere in the Demon Forest. For a moment they stabilized themselves. The Body Transfer is not a convenient instant transport option even for the witches themselves. It felt a little wobbly when they had hit the ground at their destination. For a witch who isn't used to it, the worst thing a witch can feel is vomiting and extreme dizziness. However, the more familiar they were with the Body Transfer, the less effect they felt.A certain flash of lightning and thunder cut through the sky in the middle of the forest. The witches rushed rushing towards the source of the lightning noise. One of them briefly glanced at the shadow of his own body.“The Wrinkled Ghost follows us,” he warned the others as he continued running.They all glanced at the shadows of each other's bodies, which looked odd and too solid to be called shadows. However, that didn't stop their steps at all. The Wrinkle
The day Hugo appeared at Aryadi's house ….Saga snorted as his eyes watched the passing vehicles from his bedroom window. His mouth pouted while his hands clasped together. Resentment seemed to fill the expression on his cute face. His adoptive parents caught Saga on the phone with Bara. Using only the threatening gaze of a mother who is angry with her child, Saga's mother signals for him to activate the loud speaker mode on his phone. As soon as Bara said that her parents would come to Bangka to explain everything to the girl, Saga's parents glared at once.“Let me know later,” Saga replied quickly as Bara was about to hang up. Saga immediately got up from his bed while pocketing his cellphone and looked at his parents with one eyebrow raised. “Why do you have to order me—”“You shouldn't have to interfere in other people's business, Saga,” interrupted his father in a low voice.
“Pa! At least we have to report this on INDICENT, right?”It's been a week since Saga found Mr. Aryadi's disheveled house. However, when Saga tells his adoptive parents about this, they refuse to do anything and strictly forbids Saga from boasting about it to anyone.Every day, every moment that Saga can do, he always takes the time to come see Mr. Aryadi's house again and again. While there was still no sign of the inhabitants of the house, again and again, Saga allowed himself to dart and flash around, trying to figure out where the family had gone. Since the disappearance of the small family, Saga can't reach Bara's cellphone at all. Mobile operators always answer that the number dialed is inactive or out of range.One day Saga had to visit several other cities close to the city of Koba, asking his friends about the characteristics of the Bara family. Or for that matter, the characteristics of Bara and Mr. Aryadi, because Saga doesn't really know what Bara's parents look like. Howev