Arya secretly observed the man standing beside him, although the man was smiling but he could not hide that his facial expression looked fierce. His skin was black and around his neck was a necklace with a pendant in the middle of it in the form of a white crocodile head, Arya's blood immediately rippled and he believed that the man was one of the White Crocodile Demon Queen's men.

"Is he the one named Gento Ireng? Judging from his characteristics, Ki Darmo said he had black skin and a fierce appearance?" Arya muttered to himself.

"It seems like the thing I'm looking for is hard to find, I'll just excuse myself, Kisanak, to continue the journey," said Arya, stopping his pretense of looking for something by pushing aside the bushes on the edge of the skull's hole.

"Oh, please. Where are you going, Kisanak?"

"I want to continue the journey that way," Arya pointed to the north.

"Do you want to go to Serayu Village?" Gento Ireng asked again.

"Serayu Village? Is there a village settlement to the north?"

Arya pretended not to know that not far from where they were standing in the north was Sedayu Village, for a moment Gento Ireng's face frowned because it was unclear where the destination of the young man he approached at the edge of the skull pit was.

"No matter how I find out where this young man is going, what is clear is that he does not know about the existence of the white crocodile palace at the bottom of this skull pit. I should also immediately return to the palace to report to the Queen," Gento Ireng muttered.

"Yes, Sir, there is a village up ahead. If Sir will continue the journey soon, please do so, I will also return to continue my work catching fish upstream of the pit there," said Gento Ireng pointing to the upstream of the pit.

"Thank you Sir for telling me and also approaching me here," said Arya, his heart felt happy because he got a clue about what he was investigating at the edge of the skull pit.

Gento Ireng just nodded and tried to smile again so that his fierce look was not so obvious, he waited for Arya to leave first before he returned to the white crocodile palace.

Arya then climbed the cliff slope on the edge of the pool, then leisurely walked in the direction he had told Gento Ireng earlier, which was to head north. After Arya was no longer visible, Gento Ireng stomped his feet and jumped into the middle of the pool right into the whirlpool.

"Byuuuuuuuur..!"

Although jumping made the sound of splashing water, Gento Ireng's body was not wet at all, even entering the fairly fast whirlpool his body did not spin around at all but instead shot straight to the bottom of the pool right in front of the door of the white crocodile palace.

Several guards at the gate seemed to salute as Gento Ireng stepped towards the door to enter the palace, Dewi Purbalara who had been in her room also rushed to the room where her throne was.

The door to the room where her throne was opened, a fairly sturdy man with black skin entered and then stepped closer to Dewi Purbalara who seemed to have been waiting for his arrival there.

The man, who was none other than Gento Ireng, showed respect, before he was invited to sit on one of the chairs facing the throne where Dewi Purbalara sat.

"I would like to report that the young man on the edge of the skull pit is indeed not one of the residents of Serayu Village, as for his suspicious movements on the cliff slope because he was looking for his belongings that fell when he was about to climb the cliff," Gento Ireng reported.

Dewi Purbalara only nodded, although from the magic mirror in her room she could see Gento Ireng approaching Arya but the magic mirror could not catch the sound of what they were talking about on the edge of the skull pit.

"Where is the young man from?"

"I didn't have time to ask him where he was from, Your Majesty, I only got an explanation other than that he was looking for his belongings that fell in the bushes, he also said that he had just crossed the river and was about to continue his journey north," explained Gento Ireng while pointing in the direction Arya passed from the edge of the skull pit.

Dewi Purbalara suddenly fell silent and did not respond to what Gento Ireng explained, she was thinking about how to tell Gento Ireng her desire to take Arya to the palace.

Gento Ireng himself was confused to see his Queen who did not usually behave like that when he came to see her, even so Gento Ireng did not dare to ask, he just waited to see what Dewi Purbalara would say next.

"When you were at the edge of the pool and met the young man, I actually wanted to send another person to meet you and convey a message that I wanted the young man to be brought to this palace. However, that would raise suspicion, so I canceled it," said Dewi Purbalara.

Gento Ireng was shocked to hear his Queen's statement, his mouth gaped.

"So your majesty wants me to bring the young man to this palace?"

"Yes, now I order you to find the young man and bring him here."

Gento Ireng did not answer immediately, he was seen scratching his head which was not itchy. Even if he knew which direction Arya had gone, it must have been far and quite difficult for him to catch up.

"As I said earlier, the young man was going north, but he must have been far away, your majesty."

“I’ll see it with the magic mirror in my room,” Dewi Purbalara immediately stood up and headed to her room.

Apparently, to see something through the magic mirror in her room, Dewi Purbalara first performed a special ritual. After her mouth was mumbling for a while, then she pointed her right palm towards the mirror.

“Wuuuuuuus...! Blaaaaam...!”

A white ray shot into the mirror from Dewi Purbalara’s palm, as the ray hit it, smoke was seen billowing across the entire surface of the glass.

“Hmmm, that’s him. It turns out that the young man...”