It was amidst the rainy season of the year that peculiar ship docked at the port of Palembang. Words spread from mouth to mouth of the common folk of Srivijaya; every one of them may have different version of the story but either versions will contain one outlandish word: Mongol. Regardless the fact that half of the common folk may likely didn’t have the faintest idea what and where the Mongol Empire was, they all knew that the Mongol ship at the port was not a sign of good news.
