Amon rose to his feet and gazed into the distance through the window. The torrential rain seemed ready to drown the world. Nights in the old district were far from bustling, with few vehicles passing by. Only a handful of lights adorned the world with brightness.
"The sight in the sky that day sent chills down my spine. It felt as though I'd fallen into an ice cellar, as if some immense disaster were about to arrive. Maybe I was just too sensitive, overthinking things...
"After that day, there were many more rumors online about the end of the world... In fact, prophecies of doomsday had been widespread long before then. Some said the Maya had foreseen this day thousands of years ago—that 2012 marked the end of the fifth Sun Era, the time when doomsday would come.
"The Maya were the most precise astronomical observers of the ancient world. They could even observe the far side of the moon, which never faced Earth. They created the solar calendar, recording the past, present, and even future in history. They believed it had all been predetermined.
"In the Maya worldview, history was finite. There were five Sun Eras in total. The first four each had flourishing civilizations, but all ended in destruction. Matlactli was destroyed by floods, Ehecatl by wind serpents, Quiahuillo by Huo Yu, and Tzontlilic by upheavals of the earth...
"Fortunately, an ancient civilization was preserved through every previous catastrophe, and those civilizations ushered in a new Sun Era. But there would be no sixth one. Once the fifth Sun Era passed, there would be nothing left—zero, emptiness, the destruction of everything."
Xia Mi's expression had turned grave, because this was not merely Maya history. It was also the history of Dragon Raja! Those four catastrophes had been the