After checking the room where her weapons and sacred gems were located, the Queen of the North Coast returned to her room. She only hoped that Nyi Centil's departure from her palace would not cause a commotion outside, which would tarnish the good name of the North Sea Kingdom and have to be held responsible.

*****

The afternoon in the valley of Mount Semeru seemed quiet, only the howling of the wind could be heard combing the leaves of the trees growing in the mountain valley.

In between the dense trees in the valley to the east far from the settlements, a shadowy figure appeared to flash, seeing from the way it flashed it seemed like it was not just anyone, the figure must have quite high body lightening skills.

The shadowy figure stopped running when it arrived in front of a large hole like a cave mouth, four men who were on guard in front of the large hole immediately blocked it when in front of them stood a beautiful woman wearing brown.

"Stop..! Who are you who came as if secretly to the palace of this Underground Kingdom?" asked one of the men who turned out to be a soldier from the Underground Kingdom that he had mentioned.

“I am Nyi Centil, is Brother Joyo Kandis in the palace?” the beautiful woman in brown asked back with a flirtatious smile.

“Does Nyi Centil have an appointment with His Majesty to meet today?” the soldier asked again.

Nyi Centil smiled flirtatiously again, the soldiers on guard at the gate of the Underground Kingdom palace looked at each other. Two of them immediately ran inside, it seemed they were going to tell their leader who Nyi Centil called Joyo Kandis.

“We did not promise to meet now, but if he knew I was coming Brother Joyo Kandis would definitely welcome me happily at the gate of this palace.”

Not long after, a tall, sturdy man with a thick mustache appeared from inside, behind him several soldiers followed the man’s steps.

“Dinda..!” the man with the thick mustache exclaimed.

Nyi Centil acted even more flirtatious.

“Brother Joyo Kandis.”

They seemed to jog towards each other and for a while they were seen embracing each other, like a pair of lovers who had not seen each other for a long time and harbored deep longing.

"I never thought we would meet again after so long, I really missed wanting to meet you," said Joyo Kandis, the King of the Underground Kingdom.

Nyi Centil became more and more flirtatious, she deliberately wet her lips with her tongue making Joyo Kandis' Adam's apple go up and down.

"Me too, and after this meeting we will never be apart again. Because I have decided to live with you in this palace."

Joyo Kandis was very happy to hear the story from his lover, he took the hand of his beloved woman into the palace of the Underground Kingdom that he led.

"I am very happy to hear your words, let's go in, let's talk inside."

As the name implies, the Underground Kingdom is indeed located underground in the valley of Mount Semeru, at first glance from the outside it only looks like a large cave but when you enter there are stairs leading to a fairly large and magnificent room.

The kingdom is said to have been helped to establish by genies and ghosts, who were in league with Joyo Kandis as a fairly well-known black magic figure in the eastern part of Java.

In the palace there are also many secret rooms that not everyone can enter, including the palace soldiers themselves without permission from Joyo Kandis. There are also many traps in the rooms, it is said that on certain days the rooms will be inhabited by Joyo Kandis' friends who are in the form of genies and ghosts to party.

Joyo Kandis and Nyi Centil entered a room where almost all the walls were beaded with gold, as were all the objects there, from the tables, chairs to the cups that Joyo Kandis and his trusted people in the kingdom usually used to drink from, were also made of gold.

It was truly a very rich kingdom and full of luxury. All the wealth and luxury were easily obtained by Joyo Kandis because he was in league with the genies and spirits, so it is no wonder that until now we still hear of people who perform persugihan in places that are considered haunted. If currently persugihan requires sacrifices, the difference is that in the past, loyalty was only asked and freedom was given to his allies, to do the things they wanted and there should be no prohibitions or interference unless they asked.

“The splendor and luxury of the Underground Kingdom that Brother Joyo leads is truly extraordinary, almost everything is covered in gold!” Nyi Centil exclaimed in praise.

Joyo Kendis smiled.

“All of this will also be yours later, the most important thing now is as I once said if you want to live forever on land you must perform a ritual by meditating for three days and three nights without eating or drinking. Are you able to do it?”

Nyi Centil smiled back.

“Hmmm, Brother seems to not know that I am not a human but a kind of ghost or fairy who lives at the bottom of the ocean. Never mind three days and three nights, I can even go months without eating or drinking.”

Joyo Kandis nodded his head, then invited Nyi Centil to a room in the form of a bedroom.

“Oh yeah, I forgot. Come with me, I will show you a room that you will later use to perform the ritual.”

Unlike the other rooms, the room that Nyi Centil and Joyo Kandis entered was not decorated with gold but rather like a cave with chunks of rocks and a slightly damp dirt floor. The room looked unkempt because there were spider webs everywhere, so that to get to a large, elongated rock where Nyi Centil meditated, they had to rake through the spider webs first.