"The sea stretched boundless; the Heavenly Snake God rose from the ocean and became the sun in the sky!... The Divine Tree shimmered; the ancient sage sank into the roots of the giant tree and lit the starry sky of ages past..."
A Maya prayer in a peculiar accent rang out in the Main God's temple. And when Bertad raised his brows and looked over, he saw one of the last two clan envoys: Ewehai, envoy of the Reed Sea Clan from the distant Belizean coast.
"Hmm? What is he chanting?..."
"Ah, he is praying to the Sky Serpent Sea God and the ancient sage... You ask what the Sky Serpent Sea God is?... Supposedly, it is the sea incarnation of the Heavenly Snake God, a legend among the Maya tribes farther south. And the Reed Sea Clan believes that the Heavenly Snake God's incarnation in the sea is the truest and most essential form, and they also worship the Sky Serpent Sea God as their Main God... Mm, this is actually a saying from the highland tribes... The Reed Sea Clan is simply too far away! Their exchanges with the southern highland tribes are probably greater than with the northern lowlands..."
"The Skull of the Ancient Sage truly is an immortal divine object!... Honored K'uhul Ajaw of Mayapan, Ewehai offers you his greetings! We are all descendants of the Heavenly Snake God, sharing a common inheritance, and brother clans bound inseparably together!..."
".!"
Hearing that greeting, Tiakin and Tikalo froze in shock at the same time. The Reed Sea Clan actually dared, in front of true Heavenly Snake Divine Descendants, to pass themselves off as inheritors of the Heavenly Snake Divine Descendant bloodline too?
If those words had come from the Xiu Clan, then even if the Cocom Clan