The Sun God lowered His eyes, letting night shroud mountains and sea. And when He opened them again, His gaze had moved from West Mountain Port at 38 degrees north latitude to the Lake Capital at 19 degrees north latitude. In that Golden Mountain Bay, the reflection of Goldstone's small temple flickered and vanished, then transformed into the incomparably majestic Mexica Great Temple on the shore of Lake Texcoco!
"Morning Sun rises high, and blood-red is the gaze of the gods! O supreme Main God, He has sent a blood-red oracle down to the mortal world!..."
At the top of the seventy-meter-high Great Temple, Sacred Fire several meters tall was kindled, and the burning scent of sacrifice drifted through the air. Countless people, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, knelt together on all four sides of the Great Temple, devoutly awaiting the will of the gods.
"Ah! The god has arrived!..."
High Priest Uger raised his reddened hands, singing and chanting in fanatic rapture as he danced around the sacred flames. And after a full quarter-hour of ritual dance, his whole body suddenly trembled, and he dropped to his knees at the Divine King's feet.
"The god has arrived! He has descended into the Divine King's divine body, and through the Divine King's mouth, He proclaims to the mortal world!... O supreme Main God! Please guide the Mexica People!..."
"O supreme Main God! We beg for Your guidance!..."
A deafening chorus of pleas rang out from the mouths of hundreds of Alliance priests, then spread downward layer by layer, turning into a fanatical roar from hundreds of thousands!
"O supreme Main God! O supreme Divine King! We beg You!..."
Amid the shouts that shook heaven and earth, Divine King Avet rose from his throne and walked, step by step, up