Manasdev's arrival distracts the ninth elder, and the serpent saves its own life by jumping into the nearby purple water. Seeing this, the 9th elder feels anger within his soul. He shouts loudly in anger, then lowers his head to calm his mind and says, "How did you find out about this place, and so quickly?"
Manasdev says, "It seems you haven't forgotten me."
On this side, when Dev reaches the innermost end of that cave, he is stunned, as if a sleeping beast is before him that he cannot provoke. He says, "What is this?" In reality, before Dev was the farthest end of the cave, and beyond it was a vast underground space. There were thousands of eight-legged red balls, hundreds of blue balls, and more than fifty purple balls. In the center of that underground space was a chasm, and across that chasm was a palace. Seeing all this, Dev instinctively utters, "What is this?"
Dev wonders whether he should go past the cave entrance, beyond these eight-legged machines. Just then, he recalls an incident from his childhood, when he was about ten years old. He had tried to light his father's lighter in the bedroom, even though he had never lit a lighter before. When it didn't light directly in his attempt, he tried holding it from the front and turning the roller. This time, the lighter lit, but in holding it upside down, his hand got burnt, and the lighter slipped from his hand. He rushed out of the room in a hurry to wash his hand. He thought the lighter must have gone out.
But this was not true. When Dev returned, the fire in the room had spread beyond his control. He felt that now no one would save him. He had done something very wrong today. But when his father came, instead of scolding him, he simply told him not to do it again and started checking him to see if he was hurt. He couldn't understand what to do. He felt his father was not like other fathers.
A few years later, when he grew up, he learned that once the company had suffered a huge loss due to the burning of secret company files. Although many of them were copies, some were not, resulting in a massive loss for the company. That day, a warm feeling arose within Dev that his family was a gift to the world. He would never let it be taken away.
And his father hadn't even scolded him for not graduating and simply told him to follow his profession. That's why he had gone to the U.K. and other countries to learn his professions—writing and cooking—as skills. But when he returned to India from America that night, he saw those demons who had injured his innocent father just for a map. That day, Dev tried his best, but still couldn't save his father.
That day, he had vowed that he would drag those demons and their family to the depths of hell. Dev did not want to experience that weakness and helplessness again. He would become so strong that no one in this entire world could even look at him and his family with ill intent.
Remembering these things, Dev's heart starts beating fiercely. He lifts his head and decides to go towards that palace ahead. However, he had not forgotten the softness of life nor his own heart and soul. He thinks that if there are any good people among the demons' family, he will spare them, to reform his own life. But not those who had targeted his family.
He observes that all the balls were sleeping. High above that place, the cave's ceiling was decorated with jagged rocks hanging down at many points. Sharp rocks above and sleeping eight-legged demonic balls below—it was enough to instill fear in anyone's heart.
Dev says with a new gleam in his eyes, "Enough is enough." And carefully places his feet on empty spaces, avoiding the sleeping red balls. Fearing that none might wake up, Dev had now slowed down his breathing as well. He was in the guise of that hero, and it seemed as if he was handling a critical situation from a hero's movie.
As Dev moved forward, assessing the situation and area, he spotted a place where the path led straight to the chasm. But if he wanted to go that way, he would have to take a leap. Dev says, "I can go straight, but there's a risk of the balls waking up at short intervals. The longest jump I've ever taken is eight feet, but this distance seems more than eight feet to me." He analyzes the situation and realizes that even if he goes straight, he would have to jump two or three times. He thinks he will have to take this risk.
Dev adjusts his body posture to take the jump. After all, this was the biggest jump of his life. Dev comes very close to a red ball and braces his front foot, to reduce the distance between him and his destination. The distance from his thumb to a red ball was now barely three inches. Dev leaps from that spot and feels that this time he has jumped a bit too high.
Midway, looking at the cloth on his hand, he remembers that he is disguised as an actor whose height is much greater than his own. Seeing this halfway through, a smile appears on Dev's face. Dev was now confident, although he was worried that upon his landing, the sound might wake these balls.
Dev curses himself. Such an important thing, he remembers now "when he could no longer turn back." However, earlier Dev hadn't heard them react to sound. Manasdev had also thrown a stone at it, and it woke up then, and "I had also woken it up the same way." Dev says nothing can be done now and increases his speed.
After all, who knows, inside that very palace, 10,000 gold coins might be hidden.