At this moment, accompanied by the death knell of a fallen nation, the beings of hell were awakened, and obscure colors surged beneath the earth like a tide.
But above ground, a dazzling halo suddenly rose.
A colossal disk, like a gigantic sun, emerged from the Sky Dome.
Atop the pitch-black pyramid, countless Hell Swarms shrieked. Like chickens on an assembly line, they spilled blood for gods long fallen beneath the chopping of sacrificial blades.
Thus, the enormous disk in the Sky Dome, adorned with countless jewels, was gradually stained red with blood. Ancient calendars and the authority inherited from the gods descended.
It was an ancient relic that established the order of time in the mortal world, cycling time through six revolutions during the ancient Sun Eras!
—Divine Calendar!
"I summon you, King of the Present!"
Liz raised her eyes. Blood decorated the paint on her face as she spread her arms and cried out to the Divine Calendar in the Sky Dome. "You are the Lord of Impermanence! Eternal enslaver, enemy of all directions!
"I am your messenger. I am the flute of Tezcatlipoca!
"Now, heed my voice, answer my words, and enact your authority and laws!"
At the very center of the massive Divine Calendar stone disk, the rock-carved face shook off a shower of dust at the call of the Noble Blood Sacrifice.
As it spun rapidly, the stone face changed without cease, tracing back toward the past, causing the calendar carved upon the disk to reverse as well.
It crossed beyond the present age and stretched toward bygone times.
From the Four Movement Calendar to the Four Water Calendar, the Four Rain Calendar, the Four Wind Calendar...
As the face resembling the contemporary Feathered Serpent vanished from the disk, the grim, cold visage of an