
Maura looked alertly facing the snake, she did not want to let her guard down in the slightest. Moreover, he also had to keep Nala who had been silent in fear.
"If you lose, you'll be here forever. Accompanying me to guard this forest from rotten humans and other cursed jinn" continued the serpent genie.
"And if we win then you have to be the door and the vehicle for us to get out and get in easily" Maura said.
"Alright, you have to beat me first. If you can subjugate myself and break this curse, then I will keep this promise" said the serpent genie.
"Alright, I accept your challenge" Maura said confidently.
"Are you sure about all this? Do you know that you're dealing with this is a dangerous genie?! He could have tricked you!" nala disagreed with Maura about it.
"You don't have to worry, I know what I have to do" Maura said.
Maura gets ready to start a battle with the genie, while Nala hides behind a large tree located quite far from there.
He did not want to be the target of the next attack from the serpent genie, as he studied the spells from his book. Maybe he could help Maura with that, he thought.
"Alright, arrogant son of man! Get ready!" yelled the genie while attacking Maura using his head.
Maura several times dodged the attack, she flew here and there and jumped from one tree to another.
He tried to buy time while waiting for Dewi Srikandi channeled his psychic knowledge, knowledge inherited by Dewi Srikandi who is believed to be able to destroy the genie.
Although he was big and looked heavy, the snake genie was very agile and agile once attacked Maura, several times the genie used his long and thin tongue to attack Maura.
But Maura managed to dodge, she had already turned half into Goddess Srikandi. Her clothes turned into the clothes of Goddess Srikandi, she used that golden yellow scarf as a weapon against that ferocious genie.
After that battle, Maura finally gained sufficient knowledge to defeat the genie.
"Use that as the last weapon to defeat him, I suggested beheading him. Then he will die and the curse will disappear by itself" whispered the Goddess through their inner path.
"Alright, trust me with all this" said Maura who was impatient.
Suddenly the shawl turned into a fiery whip, Maura was surprised to see the miracle. He was both happy and afraid of the whip, he was afraid that if the whip even hurt himself instead of the genie.
"Haha! You have a weapon as well apparently, well I will also take out my weapon as well" said the snake genie.
Then he spouted his venom towards Maura, swiftly dodging Maura and flying down on the snake's head.
"Basic of an accursed man! How dare you stand on my head! Don't you know, if my head's worth much!" yelled the genie did not accept his head was trampled so by Maura.
The genie shook his head so that Maura would fall and Maura would not hurt his head, now he knew that the head was the weakness of the serpent genie.
He repeatedly whipped his whip towards the body of the caterpillar genie, even though the whip was not too long, but when Maura used it the whip immediately extended Touching the genie's entire body.
"Akhs! No, sick! Stop, no! Don't do it, I could die!" yelled the genie in pain.
Over time the snake genie's body weakened, and he seemed to have exhausted and was not strong enough to resist the attack, Maura saw a small mustika coming out of the genie snake's head.
Mustika is a greenish-blue stone, shimmering in a greenish light that is so beautiful that it can attract anyone.
Maura pulled the mustika from her head, and she heard the genie's voice asking her to cut off her own head. Maura was astonished by the request.
"I have no more strength and power, it must have come out of my head. That means I'm no more what², I'm no more than an ordinary snake" said the genie snake.
Maura did not give up the opportunity to slash the snake's head using a whip that had turned into a very long and sharp sword.
The head of the serpent genie was slashed away by him, Maura jumped down from the head of the snake and landed on a branch of the tallest tree there while watching the snake.
Suddenly a yellowish-white light emerged from that severed neck, there was a figure coming out along with that light.
The figure of the old man with the appearance of a swordsman in the past, although his hair, beard and long mustache were all white, but his body was still standing upright with sharp eyes.
"You, who?" asked Maura curiously.
"I am the spirit of this serpent genie, in other words I am his true form. Thank you for taking the mustika in my head, otherwise I will be a snake demon forever" he explained.
Maura bengong heard that explanation, seeing Maura like that the figure was just a small chuckle.
"I know you are confused by all this, I deliberately sought out a strong man like you to free my curse" he said slowly.
"But what are you really? A genie or just a curious spirit trapped inside a snake body or what??" maura asked again curiously.
"I am a genie, and I may be older than the genie who clings to you!" said the figure of the genie earlier while referring to himself.
"Did she realize your presence earlier, Dewi" murmured Maura to connect with Dewi Srikandi.
"Of course, from the beginning you emerged from the surface of the lake, he already knew of your arrival" said the voice of Goddess Srikandi inside him.
"How can you?" asked Maura curiously.
"Because he can smell your body, it's because your body odor is similar to your late mother's body odor.
Maura, before your mother conceived you. She came here with me, we came to save her husband's brother's wife.
That is the mother of the young man" said Dewi while looking at Nala who had been busy with the book.
"But didn't Nala's mother die in the tea plantation?" maura said curiously.
"Rubber, but before he was also kidnapped like his son, after surviving he was still targeted for his life, until it happened to come to haunt his children" said Dewi explained everything.
"But why are you quiet, why not help their mother? And why didn't you tell me about this?!" maura was angry.
"My job was to help and support your mother, but unfortunately she was stuck back after your mother died, I was just with you. If my master does not ask me to not move" said the Goddess again.
"How do I know, my guy is still a kid!" grumbling Maura was annoyed.
After that Goddess apologized and went back to silence, it seemed like she left Maura alone with that genie.
"As per my promise, I will open that door and let you in. I'll wait here" said the figure.
Suddenly on top of the snake carcass there was a black hole gaping wide, he asked Maura and Nala to enter the black hole.
"Go, you're close. Help your brother and quickly come back here again" said the figure again.
Maura immediately entered the black hole that pulled Nala's hand, when they were greeted with heavy rain with a dark night atmosphere in the middle of the forest
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