The Dragon Hermit's Love

The Sacred Temple of the Serpent Goddess

The group of mountain men led by Kok Satang then brought Inyoko and her friends to the village where the mountain humans live.

A place not far from the mountain top region where Inyoko and her friends stay.

They stopped for a moment at the foot of the mountain when they came down from the top of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain there is a gap like the mouth of a cave that is covered by creeping leaves.

On the inside there is a stone wall with a carved woman with a snake body with a crown on her head, carved the figure of the snake goddess they worship.

The large stone is like a door that can only be opened with a key held by Kok Satang.

It is no doubt that it is a sacred temple where the worship of the serpent goddess is.

The key used by Kok satang made princess Koa very surprised,because the key is a green snake head scales that are none other than the ancestors of green snakes that once inhabited the forests of the southern region along with mountain humans.

When entering the holy temple they could not see anything because the situation was indeed very dark.

Kok Satang asked Inyoko and the others not to continue their steps before getting direction from him.

There are many traps inside the holy temple.

Only the leader of the mountain men knew how to turn off those traps.

Suddenly a light appeared from the walls of the holy temple cave.

The light came from a torchlight hanging along the temple walls.

The life of the torch lights as a sign that the holy temple is safe to enter.

Along the temple walls are carvings and pictures that tell the history of mountain man life with the serpent goddess they worship.

After walking for almost half an hour in the cave, they finally arrived in front of the altar of worship of the serpent goddess which was right at the heart of the mountain, which was surrounded by a well whose water looked very clear.

At the top of the wall, it was attached to stalagmites that glittered like gemstones.

Right in front of the worship altar there is a throne with a snake-shaped carving.

The throne used to be occupied by the previous snake goddess.

In the center of the altar there is a statue of a snake with a stick that ends round like a ball.

Kok Satang twisted the round part on the stick.

Instantly the calm well water around the altar seemed to boil, from within the well appeared a large jade stone with a gold-plated box on it.

The well water regained its calm after the entire piece of jade together with the golden box appeared on the surface.

Kok Satang very carefully took the sealed gold box.

At the same time the necklace of green snake jewels belonging to princess Koa shone brightly, emitting a greenish light and filled the worship room.

Greenish light also came out from the cracks of the gold-plated box in the hands of Kok Satang, indicating that the green snake gem belonging to princess Koa is the same as the gemstone stored in the gold-plated box.

After princess Koa touched the gemstone in the box, the green light she gave off disappeared.

Kok Satang while kneeling and followed by another mountain man gave a gold-plated box containing one of the green snake gemstones to princess Koa.

"Force us goddesses, in this box there is also a book of relics of the serpent goddess"

"We mountain men cannot interpret every writing that is in it"

"We think this book will be more useful to you"

Princess Koa opened the box and took the book in question by Kok Satang.

Princess Koa was very surprised when she saw the contents of the book.

In the book the ancestor of the green snake tells of his life journey until finally choosing to settle together with the mountain man.

At the end of the book there are instructions and knowledge obtained by the ancestors of green snakes while in the forests of the southern region along with mountain people.

It is only natural that no mountain man can know the contents of the notes in the book, because it is written using the language of the snake.

There are only two humans who can use the writing and language of the snake clan, namely the dragon hermit Ghon Jong and Gwen's grandfather.

After retrieving the relic, the princess returned the gold-plated box and the green serpent gem contained in it to Kok satang.

Princess Koa asked Kok Satang to put the box back in its place.

Kok Satang's entourage and the mountain man along with Inyoko and his friends then came out of the sacred temple contained in the mountain.

They continued on their way to the mountain man village.

A human village located above the trees in the southern forest area.

Unusual village, very much different from the human village in general.

The mountain men make their home on the trees and make the mountain tiger as their pet.

The reason they chose the tree as their residence, because the southern forest was filled with wild creatures that could cross the place at any time.

But Kok Satang felt that there was something strange about the mountain man village he led.

The weirdness was felt by Kok Satang because there was no visible mountain man in the place.

Kok Satang ordered his followers to inspect each tree house.

After inspecting the entire house for a few minutes, however, the mountain men found nothing.

The inhabitants of the mountain man village suddenly vanished without a trace, there was no sign of the former fight or the traces of beasts crossing the place.

A situation that made Kok Satang feel very panicked.

"Brother Kok, you take it easy they're all fine"

"I felt the presence of many men in a meadow not far from here"

Inyoko interrupted.

Inyoko by using the aura of natural energy can feel the circumstances around her.

Inyoko's words made Mai Chen and the three girls who were with them so very amazed and amazed.

But Kok Satang felt a horror after listening to Inyoko's speech.

Kok Santang felt it was not a right decision to choose hostile with humans like Inyoko.

A meadow called Inyoko is a place of traditional celebration of mountain people.

Unlike the custom of humans in general, mountain people choose the time of day to hold each customary celebration in their tribe.

This is due to the situation of the southern forest area which will become very haunted when night falls.