A Major Event by the Sea, I'm Entrusting It All to You! (Extra Chapter for Alliance Leader "BirdZ")
The tropical jungle in January was a lush, verdant green, filled with a warm, gentle spring breeze. In the ancient ruins of the First Holy City, tall, sacred Kapok Trees stood everywhere, and low, climbing vines and flowers spread everywhere too.
This ancient holy city in the rainforest was so vast that it could house thousands of tribal chiefs, envoys, and warriors, along with a full four thousand men of the Imperial Guard Legion. Yet it was also so desolate; between the mottled bluestone blocks, the wilderness and vitality of the jungle filled every gap. Even with so many tribes pouring in, they still had not trampled flat those stubborn, flourishing grasses and shrubs.
Before the coming of the industrial age, people had always been somewhat helpless before the thriving rainforest. And the tribes of the tropical jungle had long since grown used to all of this.
"Ancient Rain Tree Spirit! When we lived, we embraced the trees. When we died, we were embraced by the tree roots..."
In truth, just as the tribes of the plateau naturally worshiped God Mountain, the tribes of the jungle often worshiped divine trees. All kinds of ancient divine-tree beliefs were deeply imprinted in the hearts of the jungle tribes! Just like the Kapok Divine Tree worshiped by the Maya People: It held a revered position, towered into the clouds, connected heaven and earth, linked the three realms of gods, humans, and the dead, yet had no emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, standing transcendent beyond the gods!
To conform to the traditions of the Jungle Tribes, what Xolotl did was, after the huge divine carving of The Main God upon Snake Mountain, order the Totonac painters to carve another image, The Main God upon the Kapok Tree. Then, before the carving of