Majapahit Kingdom, Century Fourteen

Chapter 6

The old grandfather was none other than Sang Panembahan Mahendraguna, a powerful hermit who had been meditating for decades at the top of Mount Mahameru. The villagers who live around the mountain, simply call it Grandpa Semeru. Apart from being imprisoned, this grandfather liked farming, grew vegetables and also liked to travel to the villages to give discourses to the village and mountain people, and he often helped those who were sick. Nobody knows where this extraordinary grandfather came from, whose life was very simple, but none of them did not have any respect for Grandpa Semeru.

Thus, since being helped by this powerful grandfather Dara Lasmi lived at the top of Mahameru, managing all the needs of the grandfather and also educating Ratnawulan her beloved only child. Just as Grandpa Semeru said, since living on the mountain, Ratnawulan showed that she had the dexterity and heroic qualities, no different from a boy. She received training in martial arts from her mother and within a year, all of his mother's intelligence had been passed on to the end!

Dara Lasmi was deliberately educating her daughter to become a female warrior, because not only are dexterity and courage needed for someone who lives in such a dangerous place, she also aspires to have her son take revenge on Kartiko later! Besides giving silat training, Dara Lasmi also gave work exercises that a woman should know, namely handwork, cooking and others.

How happy Dara Lasmi was when she got the fact that after completing the martial arts lessons she had given her, Ratnawulan began to learn lessons from Grandpa Semeru himself! And when he saw the way Grandpa Semeru gave his son his training in entrepreneurship, he was amazed to find that he was an expert who was hard to match! Having just received a few months of training, the Ratnawulan movement has become evident when the child is practising Martial Arts. The movements are not only fast, but also very extraordinary. When Dara Lasmi was a child and was at her father's house who was a close friend of Pencak, she had often seen her father's friends playing silat, but she had never seen movements that were as fast and powerful as the martial arts science taught by Grandpa Semeru to Ratnawulan.

So this young woman secretly gave thanks in her heart to the Almighty who had brought her and her child together with Grandmother Semeru.

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Time is beating very fast. Seven years passed imperceptibly as if the seven years were only seven days. Like time, everything on the surface of this earth moves forward, changes and grows imperceptibly. The seed sprouts, becomes a meaningless blade of green grass, then grows big, branches, leaves, flowers, bears fruit! What was never before appeared, the small one became large, the large one grew old and finally disappeared again on the earth. All of this happens with the passage of time, is imperceptible, suddenly has happened and so on, as long as the world still exists.

However, among all the objects in the realm of the world, Mount Mahameru is a very sturdy object, apparently not affected by time, or if it is affected, then the chances are very small, not visible to the human eye. The condition of Mount Mahameru seven years ago with the current situation is still the same. The mountain still towered high, its head vanished in the swallow, like a giant in Samadhi. Big, tall, haunted and triumphant, witnesses to the death of all events who see them patiently and in silence. Mahameru understands that all events that occur on the surface of this earth must occur and they should be, so he does not want to interfere with, neither encourage nor prevent, leave everything to the Administrator.

Flowers bloom and fall repeatedly on the slopes of Mount Mahameru. Old trees fell and new trees grew. But the beauty of the slopes of the mountain has not changed, both the flowers are various and the colour and fragrance that refreshes the air, and the greenness of the trees that fill the forests around the hull and foot of the mountain.

One beautiful morning on the slopes of Mount Mahameru. The Batara Surya had just reappeared after resting all night behind Mount Mahameru. Its reddish-yellow light was like pure golden rays through the thick morning dew, as if it were holy water poured from Surgaloka. Everything feels the warm pleasure brought on by the sun's rays, a pleasure that makes everything feel grateful that it is still alive on the surface of this earth. The sound of birds, which hundreds of kinds fill the air with chirping and singing, are very melodious and evoke a joyful atmosphere, no less beautiful as the sound of singing or beautiful with the sound

singing or any gamelan.

It is difficult to describe or describe the beauty of a natural excursion in the morning on the slopes of Mount Mahameru because the language of the world is not strong enough to describe that smooth and holy beauty. If someone happened to be in that place and witnessed all these beauties, without looking up at the immense vastness of the heavens, he would feel how insignificant he was among all these glorious beauties.

As the sun rose higher and higher, from behind a group of the mountain rose-trees with their pink flowers, a humming sound could be heard. The humming sound grew louder and it could be seen that the man must have been heading down the slope.

Not long after that, he appeared who was humming earlier.

And if the voice was very sweet, then the person is even more attractive. She is a teenage who will not be more than seventeen years old. The beauty of her face rivalled that of the roses that were beginning to bloom, even the jasmine and Cananga flowers that grew nearby became red with shame and envy at the virginity of the virgin.

Her long black hair fell down her back, fresh and plump, decorated with fragrant jasmine flowers and pure white. Above the left and near the ear decorated with red roses. Her eyes were wide and very clear, with white in them reminiscent of the jewels that adorned the tips of the leaves this morning, while her beaded eyes were black and emitted a sharp, shiny light. The pair of eyes that are tapered on the right and left are made even more beautiful by the long lashes that curl upwards, plus a pair of dark, small, crescent-shaped eyebrows.