ADJOINING REALM
STILL LONG

Just when Darto finished taking care of their last enemy, Jaka immediately stood up in his sitting position and said, "Kang ... How's our friend doing?"

Darto just shrugged his shoulders to answer Jaka's question, then grabbed Jaka and walked towards the door where they had originally entered the dark place.

When Darto and Jaka reached their destination, they saw Maung who was still continuing to flow his energy to three friends who were still drooping.

Darto and Jaka immediately approached and sat next to Maung afterwards.

"How are they doing, Maung?" tanya Darto was brief.

"They're running out of energy, Dar. It seems like it's just the three of us that they can't absorb the energy" Maung replied.

"meaning?" jaka Timpal.

"Ah I was wrong, it should be just me and Jaka that they can not suck," Maung continued.

"What do you really want to say?" Darto asked again.

"That's wrapping around the prey, Dar. They continue to suck energy from their prey victims. We're wrapped up like cocoons, I've heard their names from one of the old acquaintances. They're called hordes of silkworms weaving memories" Maung replied.

"Then? Why don't the three of us faint like them?" darto asked back while pointing at three friends.

"Their energy is really the caterpillar's food source, Dar. Another case with me who has the same energy as his, we both have black energy in our bodies so he considers myself as their entourage," Maung replied back.

"Then what about me?" ask Jaka.

"You're fitter after waking up, aren't you, Jak? Your body is special Jak, because it can devour all energy. It is not they who suck, it is you who get their energy by force. While Darto, it may take years so that they can drain all the energy you have in your body" Maung explained.

"G ... I seem to remember. Indeed it will take a very long time to drain the energy of the relics of Eyang Darma," Darto slightly chuckled.

"So?" ask Maung.

"What?" answer Darto and Jaka simultaneously.

"You just want to look?" sahut Maung with a probing face.

"Ah .. sorry .. ha ha ha ha ha," Darto laughed.

Jaka immediately scratched his head at that time, then helped Maung to energize three friends who were drooping in front of them.

So did Darto, he immediately held Sastro's head and channeled his energy.

The three of them shared their energy to the three friends who had not regained consciousness as well after quite some time. But slowly but surely, fingers belonging to Sastro, Wajana and Komang began to move.

They began to move their hands and feet, until they finally realized perfectly.

"Rgh ... My head ..," said Sastro as he tried to sit down. He held onto the temple while forcibly closing his eyes.

"What's happening to us?" wajana said while holding her neck.

"I remember the last time we were together behind the pesantren" Komang said, holding her neck as well.

"Tag ... The same Darto Jaka has finished taking care of the enemy that makes us enter the world of illusion. You guys are not helping, it's good to sleep," said Maung jokingly.

"We're back?!" shouted Sastro gleefully.

After that, Darto and Jaka explained the incident that had just happened to the three men who just woke up.

Maung also listened to every story that Darto and Jaka told, because he did not see their fight at all.

After all was told, Darto again asked three of his friends, "You want to come? Or do you want to stay here for a while and recover some energy first?"

"At least .." replied Wajana while reaching into her pants, "I brought this just in case," he continued while removing a handful of cheri fruit from behind a fold of tarik on his thigh.

"Where do you keep the fruit, Jan?" tanya Jaka while trying to lift the array of Wajana.

"Guus!" Wajana immediately brushed off Jaka's hand while putting on a strange face, "If you want to eat!" continue with a trenchant tone.

Everyone who witnessed the openness at that time, witnessed the silliness of Jaka and also the shy face of Wajana.

Seeing the fruit issued wajana is exactly the same as what Darto had eaten when being treated Mbok Kanti. Darto immediately grabbed the three fruits, then ate them without hesitation.

Everyone immediately followed Darto, they grabbed the fruit in the palm of Wajana's hand, then ate without warning.

After days of being trapped, hunger completely filled each side of their stomachs. But miraculously only by eating three cherries that Wajana gave, the problem of lack of energy and hunger was immediately resolved.

Darto was not surprised by the effect that the fruit gave, because after his stomach was pierced by Gending's hand, he only ate such fruit for four months.

After their stomachs filled, the six men stood up again. Feeling lethargic, tired and also pale face that was originally owned by three men has also been successfully overcome.

They stood staring at each other in silence at the time, before Darto finally said, "We are close to our goal. You ready?"

All the men immediately nodded at that moment, their gazes returned sharp, and the sound of beating also clapped back inside their chests.

After nodding at each other, Maung rubbed the eyes of Sastro, Wajana and Komang. This time the six of them would no longer be circling around in a dark place, as everything could be clearly seen in the darkness, after Maung wiped their eyes.

In less than five minutes they all made it through the dark labyrinth, and finally they came to the spot peddling twenty-three doors lined up in front of their faces.

The exact same place as what they had once been in the illusionary world, yet the atmosphere was entirely different.

The four doors closest to the position of the six men standing were already open. Not for the other 19 doors.

They were still tightly shut, as if they had never touched at all. Despite the misgivings present at the time, the six men still had to step forward and ascertain what happened to the open door.

"It seems I know the meaning of this door," said Darto right after finishing making sure one by one the contents of the room, of the four doors that opened.

"What's this all about, Dar?" sahut Maung's.

"The first door contains the scales of a snake, the third door contains a forest of charred grass like a plinth, and the fourth contains a pile of silk feathers, maybe the second door is a nest of centipedes when viewed from the posture of the ground. It seems like all the rooms belong to every creature that I have ever defeated" said Darto with a sharp gaze.

"Snakes for Gending, the centipede behind the pesantren, Banaspati, and also the caterpillar. This is really their room. It seems like there are still a lot of enemies that we have to face," Darto continued with a downcast face.

At that time Darto's mind was really a little chaotic. He did not expect that the obstacles he would face would really still be long.

But even so he had no other choice, with heavy steps but an unshakable heart, Darto approached the fifth door, and tried to open it.

Seriate.