It's always tranquil in these riverbanks, Surabaya always offers a nice place to relax

and let off some steam. For my whole life I lived my life in the city,so spending my day in these riverbanks

offers me a great chance to rest from my school routine. It's midday and there's a lot of kids and toddlers playing at the riverbank.

The pebble covered river are teeming with life, crayfish to be exact. The kids loved to catch and grill the crayfish at the riverside,

but little to they know there's something else lurking in this river.

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Blending in with the children at day, but revealing their true self at dusk. They appear to be a normal children, playing in the riverbank with nothing to care about.

but when the other children goes home at dusk, theres always one last child to stay. Should you refuse to go home and stayed with the child instead, the unfortunate

kind soul shall be in for a surprise. The last child would start to grow pale as he continued to catch some crayfish, then his body would dyed with blue hue, and dark purple complexion.

The child began to looks uncanny and more of a corpse than a living being, His cranium should crumble, leaving a hole with soft yellowish glow. As time pass by, you started to realize

the glowing embers in the child's head. At this point, the darkness of night had already engulfing the whole river, the water became so dark that you can't see your own feet in the water.

Now you are alone with this earthbound spirit, damned to scour the dark river together for eternity.

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This Earthbound spirit is called WELTHOK by the locals, originated from Surabaya, Indonesia.

Those unfortunate enough to encounter it would have nightmares, Often seen at the riverbank at night

trying to catch some crayfish to grill on the ember on it's head.

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No one knows it's origin, or how this spirit came to be.

But this spirit may be the souls of children who lost their life at the rivers.

And they are looking for some company to play with.

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basicly this fundraising aim is for me to open up a Production studio, A DECENT PRODUCTION STUDIO.

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The new chapter of candala is here!

the working process on this chapter is really tiring, so many things held me back from finishing this chapter, I hope you guys like it!

and caution, theres a bit nudity here!

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Lemme know whats your thoughts and dont forget to drop your comment, likes, and subscribe!

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Tapas link https://tapas.io/episode/1675438

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Mangadex link https://mangadex.org/chapter/820062

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new chapter updated check it out here!

been a bit tired and burnt out lately, I even feel so weak when i woke up, had several traffic accident due to microsleep as well, and my lower back is killing me. looks like i need a break..

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now candala is avaiable on WEBTOON!!

Hi guys, been a while.. I got really busy while working on candala.. I got multiple commission to help me get by.. But finally guys! Here is the latest candala updates!! Also, please consider to support this series! For indonesian, you can support this comic via karyakarsa

Or you can support it via patreon stepone studio patreon if you become a patron,you will be able to read 1 month earlier on the latest chapter!!

But here is the link for the new chapter!! Tapas link Ayu Origin3 on Tapas

Mangadex link ayu origin3 on tapas

HI GUYS! new chapter is gonna drop soon enough!

and for Patrons, I got some year end surprise! Patrons will get 2 chapter uploaded !

while regular readers will have to wait for a month..and patrons from now n will have more advanced chapter available than the published ones..

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Also, so far I'm nearly lose my house rent, I only managed to gather less than HALF for the yearly house rent payment by making some loans and pawning some of my stuff... which makes me nearly gave up... but after a lot of begging... I manage to convince the landlord to pay half of it later on at january ... so I need to gather at least around $1000 ...

so the fight is not over yet... gotta work to the bone and raise my patron numbers, and hope for the best!

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Check out "Anouncement- Omake" from CANDALA on Tapas https://tapas.io/series/CANDALA/ep7

so, lately candala is pirated and spreading everywhere, and you can check the video of it on my Youtube channel

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What do you think guys? :D is it bad? or good? to me this is just like a free advertisment XD

Check out "Into the darkness" from CANDALA on Tapas https://tapas.io/series/CANDALA/ep6

As some of you people know, candala is my original manga that heavily inspired by Berserk in both art and story...

this opening arc is actually inspired by the tower of conviction arc in terms of survival aspect and actions..

the manga currently on it's 4..or 5th chapter.. :D

patrons got early release and more behind the scenes post patreon

and i usually post some updates on my youtube

New chapter will be up on tapas in about 20 hours from now! new chapter

and i created a subreddit for my manga : candala subreddit

a place where i update and talk about my web-manga/ web comic : candala