Dewi Purbalara was so sure that if Arya also submitted thanks to the influence of the white crocodile necklace that Arya wore around his neck, the White Crocodile Demon Queen also believed that the warrior would never leave the palace even though he was allowed to go out freely but would return there.

"Thank you Dewi, you have given me permission if I want to go out of the palace once in a while," said Arya.

Dewi Purbalara smiled sweetly.

"Hmmm, you don't need to hesitate, whenever you want to go out, I don't mind."

Arya smiled back, a plan emerged in his mind.

"Oh yes, if I may, I would like to walk around this palace and get to know all its residents."

"Go ahead Arya, do I need to accompany you?"

Arya shook his head.

"No need Dewi, I'll be alone."

Dewi Purbalara smiled again.

"Okay, if you need anything, just tell the people you meet around this palace."

Arya nodded and accompanied Dewi Purbalara standing up, he also stood up and said goodbye.

 

******

 

The White Crocodile Palace, besides being magnificent and multi-storey, also had a large yard surrounded by walls, if you look at the size of the skull pit, it seems impossible that the base has an area as large as the palace building.

However, that was the strangeness that also did not make sense to Arya, but after being at the bottom of the palace, Arya realized that he was in another world where even impossible things could come true.

Arya had now gone down to the ground floor, he and Dewi Purbalara separated in the room where there was a throne. Arya said goodbye to go out of the room to go around the palace, while Dewi Purbalara went to her room.

Before reaching the front of the palace building, namely the yard with gardens on the left and right sides, Arya first passed through several rooms and corridors where every 5 spears in the corridor there were always guards on guard.

It was no different from the White Crocodile Palace, a large Kingdom, only that the Kingdom and its palace were something supernatural and could only be seen by its followers or residents.

Arya asked Dewi Purbalara for permission to go around the palace for a reason, he wanted to see how many guards and soldiers and servants were in the palace. He also wanted to make sure whether all the palace residents other than Dewi Purbalara were humans like himself, or whether there were also some of them who were demons like the White Crocodile Demon Queen.

Arya went around the palace for quite a long time until he had finished exploring the whole thing, from there Arya was able to conclude that of the dozens of residents of the white crocodile palace, only a few people were of the same race as Dewi Purbalara, the rest were villagers who apparently came from various villages, not just from Serayu Village.

Arya chose one of the shady trees in the garden on the right side of the palace yard, there he sat down to relax while relieving his fatigue from walking around the white crocodile palace area.

"Hmmm, apparently most of the palace residents who follow Dewi Purbalara are residents of various villages. Only her ladies-in-waiting are of the same race as the Demon Queen," Arya muttered to himself.

Sitting leaning against a shady tree trunk and stretching his legs, Arya felt his fatigue disappear. The cool air there made the warrior yawn several times and soon he fell asleep, Arya woke up when it was past noon.

"Hoaaaaam..!"

Arya stretched his body several times while looking around the palace garden area.

“Apparently, this other world is the same as the world where I was born and raised, here there is also the sun and sky and clouds. The difference is that when you go out of the gate, you feel like you are at the bottom of the water,” Arya muttered.

Arya also knows the secret of the supernatural world, if you are in the palace area, it is no different from being in the natural world where humans generally live. However, if you are outside the palace, specifically outside the gate, the atmosphere will be different and you will feel like you are under the riverbed or the bottom of a skull.

“I should go out now to meet Ki Darmo in Serayu Village, when evening comes I will come back here so that Dewi does not suspect anything.”

 

After deciding his wish, Arya stood up from his seat and walked towards the gate.

“Excuse me, where are you going?”

One of the gatekeepers stopped him and asked, Arya smiled kindly.

“I want to go out and I have asked permission from Dewi Purbalara beforehand.”

Hearing Arya say that, one of the gatekeepers who came to stop him suddenly bowed respectfully.

“Please, Sir,” he said while signaling his friend to open the palace gate.

Arya returned his friendly smile.

“Thank you, I’ll just go out for a moment and I’ll be back. Don’t call me Sir, just call me Arya.”

The gatekeepers nodded, but still bowed in respect as if they were facing Dewi Purbalara.

When they arrived outside the gate and the atmosphere that was previously suspected was true if Arya at that time felt like he was under the bottom of the skull pit, he immediately shot up like someone who had just dived to the bottom of the water towards the surface of the river.

Just like Gento Ireng when he came out of the bottom of the pit immediately shot to the land at the edge of the pit, so did Arya who at that time had set both feet on the cliff in front of the skull pit.

With a relaxed attitude he then walked north where there was Serayu Village, Dewi Purbalara who was sure that if Arya also submitted to the white crocodile necklace that he was wearing, then the White Crocodile Demon Queen would not suspect anything by watching the warrior through her magic mirror.

Arya who had arrived in front of the house of the Serayu Village elder immediately called out.

"Ki... Ki Darmo..!"

The figure who was called who was indeed inside the house was shocked...