
The huge and strangely shaped slithering animal kept on approaching. His five eyes emitted a red glow, and the two large fangs in his mouth that resembled crab claws were endlessly drooling thickly. When close enough, the beast spouted liquid from its mouth and it soaked the bodies of Nala and the Batari Mahadevi.
The two warriors from the one-moon world immediately jumped in shock and jumped as far as possible while shaking off the sticky liquid all over their bodies.
“This is disgusting.” Batari Mahadewi said with a loud voice so that his voice was not drowned by the sound of a waterfall that directly fell into the lake.
“And toxic!” nala said in a loud voice as well. Both of them immediately threw themselves into the lake to clear the sticky liquid from their bodies.
The ugly beast did not remain silent. He darted into the water to catch Batari Mahadevi and Nala as food. Easily, the two warriors managed to cripple the ugly beast whose arrival was truly shocking.
“The strength is not much, but the shape is really surprising. And I did not realize the arrival of the beast.” said Nala annoyed.
“Ordinary people who got hit by the liquid must have died.” The Batari Mahadewi.
“You all right?” ask Nala.
“Yes, my body is immune to toxins, you know that right.” Batari Mahadewi.
“Hah...then why every time we find strange fruits, you always tell me to eat first?” ask Nala.
“For I know how much you care about me.” Batari said Mahadevi while laughing at Nala. Sometimes the beautiful girl joked to unravel the tension after escaping death. Sometimes he did intend to find out, whether the man in front of him was still stiff and cold in nature, although so far Batari Mahadewi often made him laugh.
Nala only smiled wryly, then the dark prince's incarnate man ruffled Batari's hair several times before he sat down cross-legged to recover his energy. Mahadevi did the same. The sound of the waterfall plunging into the underground lake made the atmosphere not as quiet as it should be.
“Energies in this place are purer than those at ground level.” Batari Mahadewi.
“I think we're getting closer. I could feel the radiance of energy from the main energy source of the Fire Island. Look that way, there's a small hole. Maybe that's the path we have to go through.” Nala.
“Yes, I also felt this pure radiance of energy coming from that direction.” Batari Mahadewi. The young man and the young man then continued the search. They crept in the increasingly narrow and hot cave lane.
The giant crystal looks beautiful but offers death to anyone who comes close, except those with high strength. The room was also filled with poisonous gas emanating from the boiling crater steam.
Batari Mahadevi and Nala fortified their bodies with a sphere-shaped energy shield, then both approached towards the giant crystal in the middle of the space. With the hovering position and within the giant ball-shaped energy shield, Batari Mahadevi and Nala did not want to linger to immediately start the stages that Zotha's grandfather had taught to absorb pure energy from the main source of the island of Fire.
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A month had passed since Batari Mahadevi and Nala were in the cave. While in the center of Fire island city, the occasional small geromblan of silver men had already started attacking. But the royal army could easily extinguish it.
Zotha and the seven guards of the Temple of Holy Fire never left the temple to keep the temple safe. Zotha believed that the two guests would become ordinary warriors if they successfully completed their underground process. If the two succeed, then Zotha will not have to worry anymore about the attack of silver men who come simultaneously, whether it will happen.
Zotha knew that the silver men came from a source of energy, a legendary figure who in the past had been imprisoned in a fairy tale book stored on the island of Gold. It's just that he does not know how the troublemaking creatures in the past of the three-month world can finally escape.
Zotha also knew that part of the creature's power had melted into one body with Batari Mahadevi. It's just that he never touched her. If the creature still creates fragments of itself in the form of a silver man, it means that the strength of the creature has not fully recovered after thousands of years confined in the book of fairy tales.
Therefore, the creature wanted to take the power from the fire island and with that power, it could take the main energy source from the other islands. The four main energy sources in the three-moon world were interconnected, and in order to master all four, it had to start from the energy on the island of Fire, then the island of Ice, the island of Thunder and lastly was the island of Gold.
The arrival of Batari Mahadevi on the island is a surprise for the creature because in the body of the girl stored the main energy of the world one month. Unfortunately, he was so careless by infiltrating a part of himself in the form of a twin sword, the embodiment of a pair of wings of a silver man who had been killed by Batari Mahadevi.
The creature thought, by infiltrating that very important part of his body, he could take over all the power stored in the body Batari Mahadevi so that the creature could recover its energy fully. In reality, he had instead lost that very important part of his body. Therefore, the silver men he sent on the island of Fire insisted on pursuing Batari Mahadevi and reclaiming some of his power.
The creature that has not yet appeared in its form is still trying to provoke the power of the Fire kingdom by destroying small villages through the silver humans he created. That way, he could slowly erode the strength of the royal army outside the realm of the kingdom.
It did not actually escape the attention of Zotha, the great teacher who is the oldest man on the island. Zotha knew that his opponent was very clever and cunning. If he came out of the temple, he was worried that was what the creature wanted.
After all, Zotha had not been able to figure out the existence of the creature. Zotha had lost Xima because he was lured by the creature's ruse. The old man did not want to repeat the same mistake of leaving the holy temple. Meanwhile, the silver men could freely destroy the small villages on the island of Fire.
The royal troops sent to various villages as small groups would make it easier for the silver men to finish them off. Thus, the, efforts to erode the power of the Fire kingdom can be said to still work well and just wait for time for the three-month-old world troublemaking creatures in the past to be able to destroy the center of the Fire island city with effortlessly.