＄03-00-13-21-2-0


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？1：I think we got away!
？2：Are they not following us into the temple...?

？！

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＠Mash
So it would seem. Do they recognize this temple as sacred ground or something?
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＠Habetrot
Beats me. I can't even tell if those things are intelligent or not.
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＠Tepeu
It may not be intelligence so much as ecology. Some sort of animalistic instinct that causes them to band together to protect their territory when they sense danger.
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＠Nitocris
That reminds me of the story of the man who ran away from a pit of snakes only to end up in a nest of scorpions.
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＠Nitocris
...On a different note, is it just me, or is it rather hot in here?
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＠Nitocris
I know temperatures in Mictlān are generally hot, but it's almost like...the air itself has become pure heat.
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？1：It's not just you. The heat coming from below is intense.
？2：Yeah. Every breath I take feels like it's burning my throat.

？！

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＠Da Vinci
Yeah, no regular humans could survive in this environment without a Mystic Code to regulate their body temperature.
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＠Da Vinci
Although, I also notice this temple is similar to other buildings in Chichén Itzá, which means it's originally from the Ka'an kingdom.
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＠Da Vinci
And that means that at some point, humans WERE able to live here. Do you know anything about that, Tepeu?
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＠M：Tepeu
I can only tell you that I've heard the name “Calakmul” passed down in a few oral traditions.
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＠M：Tepeu
Based on all the information we've gathered so far, Calakmul would seem to be where Mictlān's humans originated.
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＠M：Tepeu
They later migrated to the upper strata, and eventually founded the prosperous human kingdom of Ka'an.
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＠Wak Chan
Hm? So, they moved up 'cause it was too hot for them to keep living down here?
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＠M：Tepeu
No, it doesn't seem so. In fact, it seems this heat was instrumental to Ka'an's creation.
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＠M：Tepeu
You see? These patterns on the wall tell their story. I believe you call this a mural?
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＠M：Tepeu
Looking at the first mural, it seems Ka'an used this geothermal heat to advance their society.
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＠M：Tepeu
Ah, yes, I see... Fascinating. It makes me wish we could stay here indefinitely...
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＠Nitocris
That's not an option, Tepeu. Time is of the essence. Not to mention there's no telling when those things might come in here.
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＠M：Tepeu
I understand. But there's still a lot to be learned from this mural.
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＠M：Tepeu
It seems that as long as we read it in the correct order, it will lead us to the heart of the temple.
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＠M：Tepeu
“Chiconahualóyan.” That's what it seems to be called in the Ka'an language.
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？1：You can make out that much from these scribbles!?
？2：How did you get all that from these doodles!?

？！

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＠Da Vinci
Tepeu's[line 2]no, all deinos' brains are as powerful as supercomputers. Decrypting something like this is no problem for them.
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＠Mash
Chiconahualóyan...
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＠Mash
In Aztec mythology, that was the name of the Mictlān underworld's lowest layer; it was a world of peace and regression shrouded in thick fog.
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＠Mash
The dead people who managed to make their way here from the first layer would have their souls purified and be released from their suffering.
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＠Mash
That is why it was also known as “the true Mictlān.”
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＠Nitocris
So this was the underworld's finish line.
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＠Nitocris
When we saw ORT's corpse in Metztitlán, it wasn't inside a building like this.
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＠Nitocris
So it must be even further down...in Chiconahualóyan.
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？1：Would you show us the way, Tepeu?

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＠Tepeu
Of course. My whole purpose on this trip has been to be your guide.
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＠Tepeu
Since it seems this is my final task, I will do my very best to ensure you all arrive at your destination.
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＠Tepeu
In the beginning, the world contained a tree.
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＠Tepeu
The tree connected the land to the sky, and beyond to outer space.
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＠Tepeu
Once connected, outer space summoned a star.
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＠Tepeu
This star was shattered to pieces, and the world set ablaze. The visitors who escaped the planet[line 2]the Malla, or “greenery”[line 2]set about rebuilding this world.
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＠Tepeu
This brought about an age of gentle reptiles with neither predators nor foreign enemies.
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＠Tepeu
This age of reptiles lasted for one hundred million years until the second star was summoned[line 2]a terminus star.
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＠Tepeu
The Malla went on to create a world underground and became a miniature sun.
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＠Tepeu
This was how Mictlān began.
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＠Tepeu
This all lines up with what Xquic told us.
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＠Tepeu
The Malla were a fibrous life-form which came here three hundred million years ago from another planet.
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＠Tepeu
They fused with the surface's flora and used that network to stabilize the continents into one huge supercontinent.
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＠Tepeu
Dinosaur life flourished on this supercontinent for almost one hundred million years.
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＠Tepeu
But then, sixty-six million years ago, around the same time as Proper Human History's fifth mass extinction event, another meteorite collided with the planet.
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＠Tepeu
This was the terminus star[line 2]ORT.
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＠Da Vinci
Yeah. ORT's collision with Earth should have wiped out the dinosaurs...
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＠Da Vinci
...but the Malla protected them by creating Mictlān and becoming the sun they needed to survive.
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＠Da Vinci
They then started modifying the dinosaurs' DNA and eventually evolved them into a new form of humanity, the deinos.
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＠Da Vinci
Then, after another sixty million years had passed, the fourth mass extinction event occurred, about six million years ago.
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＠Da Vinci
That was[line 2]
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＠Mash
That was when ORT began functioning again after being shut down.
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＠Mash
ORT went on to destroy the sun, nearly driving Mictlān to ruin.
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＠Mash
But then the deinos and the Ka'an[line 2]every living being here[line 2]banded together to cast ORT down to the very bottom of Mictlān.
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？1：Yeah, that's what Xquic said, but...
？2：...Hm? Hang on. Wouldn't that mean[line 2]

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＠Mash
Senpai? Is there something strange about the mural?[sr]You've been looking at it very intently[line 2][wt 0.7][charaFace F 5]Oh.[bgmStop BGM_EVENT_79 1.5]
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＠Mash
This order of events is...the opposite of what we thought. In this mural, ORT doesn't emerge until after the sun has gone dark.
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＠Mash
But then, that would mean...um...
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＠M：Tepeu
Yes. Xquic misinterpreted these events.
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＠M：Tepeu
ORT didn't destroy the sun. It went out before that.
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＠Wak Chan
What do you mean, “it went out”? Did the priests mess up or something?
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＠M：Tepeu
No, it was just the sun's time. Not even beings as advanced as the Malla were able to create a sun capable of perpetual operation.
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＠M：Tepeu
It stopped running after sixty million years, leaving Mictlān covered in darkness.
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＠M：Tepeu
We deinos can't function without sunlight, so we went into hibernation for the next hundred thousand years.
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＠M：Tepeu
During that time, when the deinos were no longer Mictlān's dominant species, the human nation of Ka'an flourished in our place.
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＠M：Tepeu
They never received the Malla's protection. From the moment of their conception, the sun had forsaken them.
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＠M：Tepeu
That's why they built their civilization around geothermal heat. Camazotz was a king of darkness from the very beginning.
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＠Camazotz
Only Mictlān will die when the sun goes out. I will never change.
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＠Camazotz
The deinos will accept their extinction, as they did before.
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＠Camazotz
But not me. I'll never go extinct. I can live off the heat of the land alone, even without the sun.
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＠Nitocris
Hold on. Does that mean the deinos[line 2]the Malla, didn't do anything to help defeat ORT then!?
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＠Nitocris
That the only ones who could fight to protect Mictlān when it lost its sun were the people of Ka'an[line 2]no, Camazotz alone!?
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＠M：Tepeu
Since the sun had gone out, yes. That must have been the case.
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＠M：Tepeu
Humans mustered all their might to shut ORT down, and the sun returned to Mictlān once again.
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＠M：Tepeu
By the time the deinos had woken up, the kingdom of Ka'an was gone.
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＠M：Tepeu
We never saw Ka'an. Theirs was a civilization that developed during the hundred thousand years the sun was absent.
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＠M：Tepeu
And we used what remained of their civilization without a second thought.
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＠Wak Chan
...I see. So that's why the deinos were always so afraid of Camazotz.
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＠Wak Chan
We had no excuse for what we did to his people's legacy...
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＠M：Tepeu
The kingdom of Ka'an is arguably Mictlān's only mythology. Now we know that Camazotz was very much a resident of that mythological world.
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＠M：Tepeu
The mural ends here. Chiconahualóyan must be deeper inside.
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＠M：Tepeu
The last part of the mural says:
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＠M：Tepeu
“When the king tore open the terminus star, it became the space tree's seedling.”
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＠M：Tepeu
“Do not touch the star's body, for it has become the foundation of Mictlān itself.”
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＠M：Tepeu
“The terminus star is now nothing less than the Seedling of Emptiness.”
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？1：Then, does that mean[line 2]

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＠Mash
If the terminus star became the space tree...does that mean ORT fused with the Tree of Emptiness...?
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＠Da Vinci
...Yeah, looks like that's what happened.
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＠Da Vinci
Maybe ORT absorbed the Tree of Emptiness as an energy source after the people of Ka'an wounded it...
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＠Da Vinci
...or maybe the people themselves used the Tree to finish ORT off.
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＠Da Vinci
Either way, now we know that ORT and the Tree of Emptiness are fused together. That explains what happened to the Tree of Emptiness outside.
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＠Da Vinci
The tree itself may be dead, but it lives on in a different form.
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＠Da Vinci
It looks like we have a new ultimate objective. Or rather, we've gone back to the one we started with.
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＠Da Vinci
Our job in the Seventh Lostbelt is to destroy ORT.
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