For later generations, Honolulu, Pearl Harbor and Oahu will come to mind when they think of Hawaii, after all, the capital of Hawaii at that time was Honolulu on the island of Oahu, and Pearl Harbor on the island was also an important naval base.

But in fact, Oahu is not the largest island in the archipelago, and to the southeast of Oahu lies the largest island in the entire archipelago - Hawaiian Island, which is more than 10,000 square kilometers.

The island is twice the size of the other Hawaiian Islands combined, and it's constantly expanding — it's made up of five volcanoes, and each eruption creates new land.

Because local volcanic eruptions tend to flow magma into the sea, there are many places where there is no magma invasion except for lava passages, which is sufficient to establish settlements.

In particular, these islands tend to lack dangerous creatures, and even in the tropical rainforest climate, they can be considered a relatively friendly place for pioneers.

For the indigenous people, these slow-erupting shield-shaped active volcanoes are both a curse and a blessing. It is said to be cursed because it destroys a lot of things every time a volcano erupts, while it is said to be blessed because there is a lot of fertile soil formed by volcanic ash on the island.

The Hawaiian Islands were settled by Polynesians, who were adept at traveling across the sea, but were still farming, so they were naturally very happy with the geography.

Compared with the industrial society of the future, this purely agricultural society, especially the agricultural society with stilted buildings as the main building, was more resistant to natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

As a result, most Polynesians who immigrated to the Hawaiian Islands chose Hawaiian Island as their settlement site, and dozens of tribes were formed on the island.

Over time, these tribes joined forces and annexed each other, eventually forming multiple alliances of tribes that were sometimes allied and sometimes hostile, and if nothing else, the entire island could eventually be unified.

In another world, Kamehameha the Great of Hawaii set out from here after unifying the island of Hawaii and led an army of more than 10,000 people and more than 2,000 canoes to unify the entire Hawaiian Islands.

But in this world, the history of the Hawaiian Islands has taken a different path due to the unexpected arrival of the remnants of a Mesoamerican city-state, making history very different.

By the time Liang arrived in a warship, the island had been completely Mesoamericanized—the remnants of that city-state had established a city-state on the location of the city of Hilo in another world, and ruled the entire island in doing so.

Although no one clicked on the metal smelting technology tree, the invaders of the Mesoamerican city-states were able to triumph with their greater organization, stonework skills, and greater supernatural power

Before the arrival of the invaders, Hawaii was a land of gods, and natural spirits such as wood gods, flower gods, forest gods, and freshwater gods answered people's prayers and drew the power of faith from them.

With the landing of the invaders, everything changed. Even if the power behind the invaders was only the heart of a demigod, it was not something that the natural elves of the Hawaiian Islands who claimed to be gods could fight.

Especially after the Blood Sacrifice, the heart of the gods can bestow unprecedented strength on the remnants of this city-state, and can snowball after conquest.

Over the next few decades, the indigenous tribes on the island of Hawaii were either completely defeated or became vassals of the city-states, forming a Mesoamerican system of domination

Under this system of rule, the people of the city-state were the core of the entire state, ruling over the surrounding agricultural tribes and collecting various offerings to keep the city-state running.

The surrounding tribes or villages were responsible for the production and provided agricultural products, handicrafts, labor and even sacrifices for bloody sacrifices.

As for the farther afield, there are indeed some tribes of rebels, but these tribes are all scattered tribes, basically the remnants of the previous tribal alliance.

When the tribal confederation was broken up, the city-state deliberately kept a number of hostile small and medium-sized tribes that were not eliminated as a training place for their own troops, as well as a source of slaves and sacrifices.

It's just that even with such a clever design,

The island's tribes are still dying out at a rapid pace, forcing the city-state to expand to other islands.

Even before they attacked Oahu, Maui, Lanai, and Molokai had been ruled by the city-states and had been squeezed clean in just a few decades or even years.

But what the city-state didn't expect was that a new expedition sounded their death knell, and with Liang En's strong intervention, the seemingly powerful army fell apart after just a few hours.

Therefore, when Liang En's ship approached the city-state, he found that the city-state looked normal, and even found that Liang En approached with a warship, and a dozen canoes carrying samurai sailed out of the dock and rushed towards him.

But in less than a minute, the entire fleet was sent to the bottom of the sea by Liang En's warships, and then the artillery began to fire cannonballs at the seaside city-state.

With the roar of heavy artillery, the wooden fences surrounding the city were blasted open one after another, and the temples and palaces made of stone gradually collapsed in the explosion.

As for the samurai who tried to resist, they were smashed to pieces by the cannonballs on equal footings with the priests, and although they tried to resist with supernatural strength, they were of little use against the cannonballs that were temporarily enchanted.

Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the shelling, Liang En turned into a sword light under the cover of the Phantom Moon Duel and flew towards the largest temple, and then rushed to the location of the top hall of the pyramid-shaped temple.

As a theocratic state with gods at its core, the best things are bound to be hidden in the temple. So Liang En's first target was the temple in front of him.

Sure enough, when he flew to the top of the temple, he saw a number of samurai trying to divert some things under the command of the priest, and following the team, he soon found a small pyramid on the side of the temple that was used to hide treasure.

This Mesoamerican pyramid is only two stories tall and has few carvings on it, so it's easy to pass it off as an unimportant building if you're not careful.

Because it was blocked by the Great Pyramid in the direction of the sea, no shells fell in this place.

When the door of the pyramid was opened by the guardians, Liang En immediately felt a trace of divine power coming from inside.

In order not to alarm these priests and warriors, Liang En simply stood not far from the entrance of the small temple pyramid and observed the situation inside through the gate.

Fortunately, in the chaos, these people did not close the door in order to speed up the transfer of materials, and gave Liang En a chance to peek inside the temple.

In contrast to the exterior, the interior of the temple is filled with elaborate carvings and is decorated with a large number of ornate textiles made from parrot feathers, as well as various plant fibers.

In the center of the temple was a square pool that glowed with golden light, and the priests and warriors threw into the pool what they had just carried out of the temple.

The power of the gods came from this pool, and although he could only faintly feel the faint power, Liang En could be sure that it was the same source as the power of the heart he had obtained before.