Chapter 48: The Sacrifice
Kazan opened his heart to the gods, and endless frustration overwhelmed him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"We killed a hunter, a samurai, the master of a family for an illusory hope. The Aztecs were never sincere in their pleas for peace, and they did not hesitate to kill outsiders with surprising speed. What the hell am I doing......"
The patron saint of the clan did not react, and the stone faced Kazan coldly, and the samurai could only see the greed for the sacrifice from above.
"I offer you a sacrifice, the soul of a mighty hunter. ”
Kazan sliced Sue's chest open with a sharp obsidian dagger, and as he expected, the powerful heart was still beating, albeit scarred - an arrow piercing the heart was the real cause of Sue's death.
Blood gushed out, and Kazan was careful not to let the blood flow out of the corpse's chest, and he snapped the veins attached to it, lifting the beating heart.
"His soul has not yet left, please accept this sacrifice at the price of the peace that will be granted to my family, as it was before......"
The gods didn't respond, just as usual.
But Kazan suddenly felt a sense of despair that he had never felt before.
In this rainforest, where hunting survives, the Mayans kill a real hunter, and no one knows what the Maya have lost except him.
Perhaps in the distant past, at a time that no one knows, the end of the Maya was already predestined.
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"Thank you very much, in fact, the Aztec warriors had very few betrayers, and this time the Mayans helped a lot, and the peace process between us benefited a lot from it......"
Tonan was disappointed because he found that his superb acting skills had completely fallen into the eyes of people who did not know how to appreciate it. For the high priest of the Mayan city-state, the Aztec diplomat's mixture of joy and reluctance, layered and always subject to strict etiquette was completely invisible.
There's nothing more frustrating than when you've done your best to kill a monster and grab a treasure, only to find out that the monster is a phantom.
But Tonnan's strong self-control prevented him from showing his frustration at all, he had already gotten the answer he wanted, and it was time to leave, leave completely.
The deaths of the two dinosaur warriors forced Tonan to take the risk of coming to the High Priest to confirm the situation, which was an adventure despite being expected.
But the results were pleasantly surprised, and could not have been better.
What Azholm said was all true, and he did fall completely to the Aztecs, and the Mayan stupidity was completely irremediable.
Tonan would return to glorious Tenochtitlan with the good news, and as was customary, the army conquering the Spring Springs would be under his command, and he would present the Aztecs with a glorious victory on the ground.
Compared to all this, the stupidity and dullness of the old man in front of him was nothing more than an inconsequential joke, and Tonan nodded politely, and then took his leave.
When the High Priest was so furious about Azholm's disappearance that he ordered a search of the city, he would find that the Aztec mission had disappeared completely, but that would be much later.
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While the wheels of history in the rainforest are thundering, on the shore at the edge of the rainforest, a trivial thing is happening.
It's been four days since Sue left, and the rainforest is once again welcoming a few uninvited guests, and the hunters in the village have killed them as usual, but this time they feel that they should do something different.
The Rainforest is a greedy and bloody god, and the hunters have lost their harvest these days, and they know it's time to offer sacrifices.
The corpse of an explorer was hung from a tree branch, a face frozen with a death wail facing the sea, blood snaking down his body like a bright red viper.
......
The airship skimmed through the sky and flew in a southwesterly direction.
The eagle guided them straight to the place where the nest was, which Magellan always thought was stupid, but he couldn't think of a better way.
The eagles are busy preparing for the thunderstorms of the night, they are not good at and disdain to use the essence, but this race is a natural engineer and craftsman.
Magellan watched as the airship was protected by the Eagle Man's barrier, but he still had no hope for the future, thinking about how to survive the crash of the airship.
"Need help?"
"No," politely but firmly rejected Magellan, "you just need to rest well now until we find the Eagle's Nest, and then you will have a chance to show your talents, Professor Magellan." ”
"Okay. ”
Magellan nodded, turned and walked off the deck, a word flashing through his mind: "I hope so." ”
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Azholm was anxiously waiting for Tonnan.
Now that he had betrayed the Maya and the future was in the hands of this cold Aztec, hope had never been so sweet and painful.
A ruined village on the border between the Maya and the Aztecs, the dinosaur warriors who brought Azholm to the area after the rainforest ruthlessly wiped out its inhabitants hundreds of years ago, awaiting their commander.
Tonnan didn't keep them waiting long.
This sturdy warrior emerges from the rainforest with the news that Azholm really wants to hear.
"The High Priest is preparing a grand welcoming ceremony, and almost the entire city-state is preparing to please the descendants of Quetzalcoatl, it's time to prove your sincerity, Mayan. ”
"I'm an Aztec," Azholm said, carefully keeping a sense of proportion in keeping the opposition from looking stiff, "and I'll do whatever I need to do." ”
"Definitely something you can do. ”
Tonan smiled dangerously bloodthirsty, and at that moment, he looked like a cold-blooded beast in the truest sense of the word.
"What?"
Azholm almost wanted to give up, and he began to feel that he might be underestimating the things around him.
"Take me to the Spring Spring. ”
The priest, who had just renounced his Mayan citizenship, intuitively understood what the Aztec commander meant, almost instantaneously, began to wonder if he had fallen into the mad shenanigans of the gods: "What about your army?"
"Enough, I have twelve people, and two of them are powerful Allosaurus warriors. ”
Azholm looked around almost desperately: "You only have nine dinosaur warriors. ”
"And you. ”
Facing Tonan's smile, the priest couldn't help but laugh.
"There's no time to waste, the opportunity is fleeting, I'm not afraid of the Mayans, but I'm afraid of the outsider, the outsider that your father and teacher were so much looking forward to, is a monster crawling out of the darkness and destroying everything. ”