Chapter 9 Tagak
"--and that's how to use martial arts weapons, any questions?" Moku asked with a straight face.
He spun his spear then plunged it into the ground. Moku stepped closer to Xago who was bleeding and was torn in the stomach.
Xago's face paled as he continued to press his stomach, his intestines almost bursting open. The stab from Moku's spear not only penetrated but tore through his stomach.
Moku sewed Xago's belly casually. Today, apart from introducing martial arts weapons to the orcs, Moku also managed to discover many things from his research on orc body resistance.
Moku marveled at the body of an adult orc that was still able to survive after being hit in the back of the head, slashed in the neck, hit hard behind the ear, stabbed in the solar plexus, and intestines burst out.
Of the nine adult orcs, only three were without bandages and stitches from the mortal wounds.
The orcs saw Moku who looked happy as he put Xago's intestines back into his stomach and then sewed them up. They begin to reconsider Moku's sanity.
Moku stood up and faced the orcs who were sitting cross-legged after sewing back Xago's stomach.
"If there are no questions, I'd like to ask. Have any of you seen or know what the similarities in the way I wield the six weapons are?" Moku asked.
The orcs started racking their brains recalling the way Moku used the six weapons.
"You use it very quickly and accurately, every attack you launch will make the opponent's body unable to move or be injured with mortal wounds" Laya replied while holding his chin.
Moku smiled and nodded, "That's right, every attack I launch will aim at vulnerable points on the body. These points are called Hampal Points.
Attacks at these points will cause death or permanent paralysis of the enemy's body, but with ours' body regeneration power, the wounds will be restored without causing any permanent effects".
At first, Moku didn't want the orcs to attack each other's Hampal points during training.
However, after treating Goku's broken throat, Moku learns that the orc's body can even heal wounds from attacks at the Hampal point.
"any other?" Moku asked again.
The orcs began to think again, looking for similarities in the use of these weapons.
Mige thought hard and lowered his head. Then he saw his legs. Mige seemed to have an idea.
"Don't tell me it's a step...???" Mige whispered.
But Moku heard Mige's small voice and replied "You're right the similarity is a step"
The orcs took a breath, they again remembered the movement Moku made.
When receiving a hit Moku will bend it and his front foot will move forward or backward, Forward if the weapon's range is short and back if the weapon's range is long.
However, the legs on the back will be in the same position, only turning slightly to adjust the balance.
"It's a silat footwork. We call it 'Tagak', this is the opening move of the dance and fight of silat users.
The movement looks beautiful but every step will position the body in a state ready to attack, dodge, or parry.
Generally, the silat movement will wait for the opponent's attack and then counterattack, either catching and locking or dodging and hitting.
To learn silat, the first thing you have to master is Tagak.
Tagak means that you respect your enemies and don't underestimate them.
A lion will still hunt with full strength even if it faces a rabbit.
A harmless enemy is a dead enemy,
so that while there is still breathing, a beating heart, and a functioning brain from the enemy, you must remain vigilant. Continue to attack and attack with full alertness.
In a battle of life and death only the angel of death can stop the fight.
Tagak also means giving a prayer to God,
Meeting the enemy is a destiny of God,
as someone who learns silat, we don't look for enemies,
we fight just to survive and carry on the orc lineage,
The enemy is a destiny and a trial from God,
they are both a blessing and an obstacle for us to become stronger,
therefore we must give thanks.
Any questions?" Moku explained.
"Who is the god you mean?" Kagan asked.
Orcs have the concept of divinity, they pray when they get game or pray when they are about to fight.
The concept of divinity was first introduced by Shaman to the previous orc tribe. But the Shamans themselves do not really understand the god they will worship.
He only felt that the power he possessed came from another almighty being.
However, he was killed in an extermination incident by a mage. His teachings on divinity were only brought by young orcs who did not yet have the maturity to understand them.
So at this time, adult orcs were often seen praying or performing worship rituals but they did not understand where the prayers and rituals were directed.
They were just doing what the Shaman had taught them. They only do this in memory of their destroyed tribes.
Jordan Peterson says,
"Something we can't see protects us from something we don't understand.
What we cannot see is culture in an intrapsychic or internal form.
What we don't understand is the chaos that produces culture.
If the cultural structure is disturbed, without realizing it, chaos will reappear.
We will do anything to prevent a return of chaos."
So it can be said that the concept of divinity is a human way to avoid himself from something he does not understand.
God is the one who is blamed and worshiped for everything in human life.
Everyone needs hierarchical values to keep them out of chaos and confusion.
God will occupy the highest position of the hierarchy value, no matter whether they are worshiped or not.
Moku wants to create the foundation of orc life. He wanted to create a culture where all orcs would wake up from their slumber to train and fight.
The concept of divinity is the most powerful way to create an army that is not afraid of death. The concept of divinity is the most powerful way to unite them and provide a reason to persist.
Moku always thought what god had in mind to create a race as pathetic as orcs. Without mana flow and without a life partner.
It was too pathetic, but Moku looked at it from a different perspective. Where there are disadvantages, there will be advantages.
The advantage of orcs is that they have a very absolute reason to loot and snatch women from other creatures. That reason is to survive.
The orc race is like being forced to become a villain for all intelligent beings in this world. They can fight, battle, and destroy to their heart's content.
With one reason 'they just want to survive'.
Because it is only natural that all beings in this world want to exterminate their race.
Moku as someone who aims to challenge the sky, is revived in the body of a creature who will become the enemy of the whole world.
As if to say Moku only had a choice to destroy this world or end up the same as his previous life, aging and lying paralyzed.
"He is The One,
He was the god who created orcs and made them a warlike race.
He who created the strong body of an orc with amazing regeneration abilities.
He who created the orcs as a race that only had males.
He who created the orcs as a race that had to survive by plundering and seizing women from other species.
He who created orcs to have a reason to fight.
Fight for survival,
Fight to become stronger,
and fight because we love it!" Moku stopped and looked at the orcs in front of him.
The faces of the orcs changed, their eyes burned, and they understood.
'If their race wasn't for the weak'
"We are a fighter race!
We born to fight!
We wake to fight!
We eat to fight!
We train to fight!
We fuck to fight!
We will die in battle!
Thousands of creatures will scream the name of our race in fear!
and believe me when we die, The One will welcome us to his paradise with open arms!
He will smile and swear in his own name that the orcs are the only one fighter race!" Moku raised his fist to the sky. As if promising to god that they would fulfill their duty.
"YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
We are a fighter race!
We born to fight!
We wake to fight!
ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ
We eat to fight!
We train to fight!
We fuck to fight!
We will die in battle!
Thousands of creatures will scream the name of our race in fear!
and believe me when we die, The One will welcome us to his paradise with open arms!
He will smile and swear in his own name that the orcs are the only one fighter race!" The screams of fifteen orcs shook the hill of Green Caping, making their vows to God.
"The first thing you have to do to fulfill that promise is to train until your muscles are torn and your bones are crushed.
You guys have to train harder and go crazy like me.
You will torture yourselves until you faint like I have been doing all this time!
Do you guys dare?" Moku spoke defiantly.
Hearing Moku's challenge, all the orcs laughed with joy, even Goku and the other adult orcs laughed until their wounds opened.
Zalthu once again became the representative and stood up, with a smirk on his lips, Zalthu looked at Moku, and spoke in a voice that was also defiant, "Give me your worst!"
Hearing that Moku also laughed loudly.
"Okay! I'll teach you footwork in silat.
the first is the wind step pattern,
the second is the lightning step pattern,
the third is the water step pattern,
the fourth is the fire step pattern,
the fifth is the mountain step pattern,
and the sixth is the valley step pattern—"
The orcs watched closely, but nevertheless they saw Moku as a dazed person walking back and forth in different directions.
But they understand that whatever Moku does looks simple but can create dangerous attacks.
So they didn't say anything and waited for Moku to explain.
"—and if I combine it in a move using weapons it will become—" Moku took out the karambit tucked in his cindai and started took a step.
The orcs who had been waiting for this took a closer look. Especially Viggu who almost bled to death by karambit.
Moku stepped forward, lowered his body, and moved his karambit.
Karambit seemed lost in Moku's hands, he seemed to be hitting with his bare hands, but the gleam from the sharp edges of the karambit showed that every hit was actually a stab.
Moku move very fast, every step was very fluid, and agile.
Sometimes he lunges nimbly like a blowing wind,
sometimes he moves very fast like lightning strikes,
sometimes he bends lithely like flowing water,
sometimes he retreats and advances swiftly like a blazing fire,
sometimes he dodges slowly like a solid mountain,
and sometimes he stands still and waits like a dark valley.
Moku finished his demonstration by looking down and cupping his hands together.
Moku didn't say anything, turned around, and took some timber and a rope of animal skin.
He tied up three timbers and carried them on his back. Each of the timbers weighs over 50 kg, so currently Moku is carrying 150 kg of weight on his back.
"Each of you will practice this step pattern by carrying a timber or some. The weighs you receive will be different, depending on your individual abilities and will.
I will not determine how much timber you will carry, you will decide for yourself. The more weight you can carry, the better.
But I remind you one thing, you must wear it while you practice, and only take it off after the training is over.
Please carry your own timber!" Moku ordered.
The orcs began to load up. They tied timbers with an amount beyond their strength limit.
Even the adult orcs who had participated in the previous weapons demonstration ignored their injuries and did the same.
Seeing the orcs ready and standing, Moku show the step pattern once again.
"Wind!" Moku's cue.
The orcs than imitated him.
"Don't move, stay on your positions!" Moku stood back up and took the rattan from his back.
The rattan was not as long as those used for toyas or spears, only a meter long. But the end of the rattan is cut in four and stretched.
Moku walked towards the one in front and hit his hand.
Brakk!!
Akkhh!
Boku's hand was unharmed but the vibrations produced by the four ends of the rattan colliding spread to his bones making him groan in pain.
"LOW YOUR HANDS LOWER!!"
Moku walked back to Goku who was next to him, and
Brakk!!
Ukkkhhh!
"YOUR BODY IS LESS LOW!!"
Then walked over to the orc beside him, and
Brakk!!
Gakkkhh!
"STRAIGHT YOUR BACK! DON'T BLOV!" Moku corrects everyone he passes, Moku always finds the slightest mistake and punishes it with a slash of the rattan.
The orcs' groans of pain sounded every second, the weight they were carrying grew heavier, and their flexed legs and arms began to heat up.
The orcs knew that Moku was not a merciful teacher, from the previous weapon demonstration Moku didn't withstand his blows, slashes, or stabs at all.
Yet they just gritted their teeth and endured the pain. They desperately wanted to be strong and stop being oppressed by other, much stronger species.
Moku didn't continue the pattern of the next move, he continued to correct the orcs one by one with eagle-like eyes that saw the slightest mistake.
Actually Moku wanted to teach the orcs slowly, but that would take longer. They didn't know when their tribe would be found by the mage.
They have to be ready before that happens.
Moku continued to walk around the orcs one by one. Until he was sure there were no more mistakes, then Moku came back to the front of the line and showed the pattern of the second step.
"Lightning!"
The orcs imitated again and Moku ordered them to stay on the position.
Moku again corrected their body position one by one.
The sound of the rattan slashing against the orc's body was heard again.
Following behind it were the orcs' groans of pain.
As before, Moku is not merciful. He kept correcting and punishing by slashing the rattan every step pattern until nothing went wrong.
The faces of the orcs grew paler, sweat dripped down their bodies, the slashes of the rattan hurt more and more every second, the burdens they were carrying were getting heavier, and their thigh muscles and arms were getting hotter.
If an orc fell, Moku would hit him and shout "WAKE UP! GET UP! GET BACK TO POSITION!" until the orc returns to its original position.
"Valley!" Moku demonstrates the pattern of the final steps.
The orcs clenched their teeth and forced their weary bodies to imitate Moku's movements.
Moku did the same thing again, the sound of rattan slashing and orc groaning was heard again.
Moku had never taught silat to anyone before, so he just realized that teaching was not as easy as he imagined.
Datuak nan Sabatang is a strict teacher, when he was young Moku always looked at him angrily when he was punished by his teacher.
Now Moku understands that his teacher is trying to make him remember all the movements by heart.
Pain, anger, and hatred are the most powerful ways to make the body remember something.
That's why Moku wasn't merciful and hurt the orcs during this practice, he wanted their body to quickly remember the six step patterns.
The orcs' vision began to dim, their bodies were almost numb, and the weighs they were carrying already felt as heavy as a mountain.
Until Moku's voice sounded like the call of an angel from heaven.
"Done! You may sit down!"
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
There was the sound of the orc's body lying down, powerless, they just wanted to hurry back to the tent and sleep. However...
"WHO TOLD YOU TO LYING DOWN!!!?? SIT! SIT! STRENGTH YOUR BACK! SIT CROSS-LEG WITH YOUR BACK STRAIGHT! DON'T REMOVE YOUR WEIGHTS! SIT UP!" Moku shouted.
Moku walked quickly and hit the orcs who were still lying exhausted until they sat cross-legged with their backs straight.
Moku returned to his position and sat cross-legged.
"Now I will teach you about 'Asceticism'."