The Samurai armor leaves clanged, the militia prostrated on the roadsides, and the birds and beasts hurriedly retreated. Combined, it marked the return of the kings. By sunset and moonrise, with bonfires blazing, the two had returned to Tree Snake City and entered the Temple of the Telascallans together.
Looking around the great hall, the blue-green abyss melded with colors, and the decorations were splendid. The golden statue of the God of the Hunt was gone, replaced by a newly carved statue of the Chief Divine. The sculpture seemed hastily made, rough in appearance but exuded the awe-inspiring and majestic aura of the Mexica's Chief Divine. Half of the murals on the hall's walls were covered, unable to depict new scenes, so they substituted it with the Sun Hummingbird of the Chief Divine, inscribing mysterious square pictograms.
