Aztec Eternals

The red-haired hunter Chabo, wearing straw sandals, set off from the village of Snake Lake occupied by the scouts and ran all the way north. He walked through the lush lowland forest, over deep and shallow rivers, lakes and streams, and stepped on the soft edges of cornfields. He passed large and small waterside villages, encountered small groups of militiamen collecting grain, and saw waves of large groups of warriors heading south. Finally, he finally came to the edge of Qinbo Ali, the city of Erashui, and saw the vicissitudes of low stone buildings, as well as large and small pyramid temples.

"Broad nose, thick lips, deformed eyes, and a helmet like a clay bowl. What a strange sculpture, a strange god!"

Cha Bo's eyes stopped for a while on the vicissitudes of ancient stone carvings outside the ancient city, and he curled his lips inadvertently. Ever since the Legion went south to the seashore, such worthless stone sculptures have often been seen, like the remains of ancient civilizations.

He heard from the priests accompanying the army that these stone-carved ruins and portraits all came from the ancestors of various tribes in the world, the Olmec people. The stone carvings depict gods and men from the second era, who were revered by the Teotihuacan people in the third era, and they were called "old gods".

More than a thousand years ago, the ancient Chimbo Ali inherited the afterglow of the Olmec civilization and formed a large-scale settlement for the first time. More than 800 years ago, the Teotihuacan people once ruled here and established the most prosperous city-state in the entire coastal lowlands. Subsequently, the Teotihuacan civilization collapsed, and the ancient city of Cimbauari also fell into a long-term decline.

"Gods who can't be beaten, die as soon as they die! In the world now, only the supreme main god can fight best! Praise the main god!"

While thinking wildly, Chabo showed the scout pattern wooden plaque to the patrolling Mystec warrior squadron. Then, he looked around the large and small stone huts in the city, looked at more than a dozen tall pyramid temples, scratched his head, and asked the familiar Captain Mixtek loudly.

"The Lord God bless! Tortilla, I have the latest military situation, and I want to report to Chief Black Wolf! Where is the chief?"

"Oh, praise the Lord God! The Great Chief is in the Main Temple, meeting with the Great Chief's envoy and the local tribal leaders."

The tall "corn cake" turned around, put the copper spear in his hand on the ground, and replied with a simple smile. In Mixtec, his name is jita, which means cornbread.

Hearing this name, he was born as an ordinary Mixtec civilian, and he was destined to be a low-level warrior in the tribe for a lifetime. However, after he surrendered the Kingdom of the Lake, he was promoted to a third-level warrior because of his bravery in battle, and he also served as the captain of a hundred-man squadron. At this moment, the smile on his face was sincere. Because, only in the army of the Great Chief of the Black Wolf, did he have a chance to make progress.

"What? The envoy of the Great Chief?"

Hearing this, Shou Chabo was startled, snapped his fingers, and tried hard to think.

"The leader of the black wolf is the great chief, and His Royal Highness the Death God is the great chief, so who is the great chief? Uh, forget it, I can't think of it. The chiefs didn't say anything, don't worry about it!"

After a while, Chabo shook his head vigorously and stopped thinking about it.

In the Black Wolf Legion, Red Monkey, Red Deer, Red Frog, and several leading chiefs never mentioned the name of His Royal Highness Death God, and never mentioned the great chiefs of the alliance. Therefore, for the dog-born warriors in the legion, the object of their allegiance is by no means the king of the Mexica Alliance, but the only Supreme Highness!

"Torco, where is the main temple? Is it the largest pyramid temple in the center?"

"Oh, no. The biggest one is the Feathered Serpent Temple."

"Is that the second biggest one on the left?"

"Oh, no. That one is the Temple of the Sun."

"Is that the third one on the right?"

"Uh Chabo, look at the mural of rain, it's very similar to the one in my hometown God Stone City, it's obviously from the Temple of Rain"

"Damn it! Where the hell is it?"

The red-haired hunter Chabo finally got angry. He widened his eyes and stared at the "tortilla" fiercely.

"I have the latest military information! Take me there!"

"Oh, good! Actually, it is the last one, the smallest one, the newly built temple, which is the main temple"

Gita, a Mixtec warrior, carried a spear and led the red-haired hunter Chabo to the depths of the ancient city. Pyramid temples with towering blue gray and carved murals stood beside the two, quietly telling the vicissitudes of history.

More than 500 years ago, dozens of wilderness tribes in the north migrated southeast to the coastal lowlands in order to avoid the prosperous Toltec Empire. These martial tribes who went south from the plateau immediately took a fancy to the lowland plain where Qinbo Ali was located. They defeated and integrated the local Teotihuacan remnants, occupied the lush Cimpo Ali, and gradually took root. Afterwards, these martial tribes going south continued along the coast, intermarried with the seaside tribes along the way, and extended eastward to Hidden Snake City hundreds of miles away.

Then, more than three hundred years ago, the martial Toltec civilization on the plateau collapsed again in the chaos caused by the dog descendants going south. The Mexican plateau, with its many city-states and dense population, once again fell into a long and brutal melee.

During the century-long plateau melee, some Toltec remnants moved eastward to the seaside. They brought developed stone building techniques, the organizational form of city-state alliances, and built many large temples. It was also they who brought the polytheistic belief centered on the Feathered Serpent God and combined it with the local "old gods". The Toltec survivors who migrated to the east gradually merged with the wilderness tribes who moved to the south, and this formed the concept of the people of the hot land, the "Totonaks"!

Of course, the prosperous Mexican plateau in the center has always been the political center of the Mesoamerican world, and the fate of all ministries in the Quartet has always been affected by the hegemony on the plateau. A hundred or so years ago, after the rise of the Tepanek people, they once again collected tribute from the coastal city-state of Totonac.

More than 30 years ago, after the establishment of the emerging Aztec Tri-State Alliance in the Mexica Valley, the conqueror Montezuma I devoted himself to expanding his hegemony, summoned a huge army of warriors from the affiliated city-states, and opened up the war against the East. Ministries of vassal wars. He first marched to the northeast, making the Vastecs along the way surrender, and then went south along the coast, forcing the states in the west of Totonak to pay tribute.

It is said that in the ancient city of Feathered Serpent, Montezuma I stayed for a month, listened to the myths explained by the priests of Feathered Serpent at that time, and accepted the pilgrimage of the heads of Totonak. Then, he brought the Legion of the Alliance to Zimbo Ali, the surrendered city of Erashui, leaving behind the envoys of the Mexica royal family, and designated this place as the "place of accounts" of the Alliance, that is, the gathering of the tributes of the coastal states. land. As for the main temple in the city, it was only built less than 30 years ago after the city of Erashui became a vassal of the alliance.

"The main god who can fight! There are so many weird murals of gods, and I don't know any of them."

Hunter Chabo looked around, looked at the carvings on the temple, and blinked. He didn't know the old stories and didn't really care. Soon, his sharp gaze rested on the shining carving of the god, and a strong desire emerged.

"Hiss! The red eyes of these idols are inlaid with rubies! Ah, the helmets are shining gold, and the belts are countless silver grains. Lord God, what a wealthy seaside tribe!"

"That's not right! These local Totonac tribes are so rich! According to the surrendered militiamen, the nobles in Erashui City can eat meat every day, and there are endless salt and spices. Even Ordinary city-state warriors have several feather uniforms, and they don't look the same!"

The warrior Gita licked the saliva from his mouth, clenched the copper spear in his hand, and there was a pure and cold killing intent in his eyes, like a brown bear thirsting for honey.

"It's a pity that the envoy of the big chief stopped us and didn't allow us to rob! The local tribes were all defeated and surrendered. As a result, those rich and wealthy chieftains are just like normal people! Damn, really hateful!"

"Huh? The envoy is preventing you from robbing?"

Hunter Chabo stroked his chin, thoughtful. He suppressed his temper, looked at the shimmering golden temples and palaces around him, and stopped talking. The light rain fell again, hitting his red hair, not cold, but warm.

Centered on the ancient Erashui City, hundreds of miles along the coast, including Feathered Snake Ancient City, Jinwan City, Cone House City, Coyote City, and Hidden Snake City are all "hot spots" where the Totonak tribe gathers. This area is along the seashore, with abundant precipitation and hot and humid climate, which is suitable for crop growth. The rivers flowing down from the western plateau irrigated the lowland plains along the coast, and also formed densely populated villages. Along the coast, the development of a series of Totonac city-states gradually formed a prosperous coastal trade route, linking the trade between the Nahua Plateau and the Mayan lowlands.

Because of its vast territory and prosperous trade routes, the city-state of Totonac is rich. But also because the city-states are scattered for seven to eight hundred miles along the long coastline, the alliance of the Totonac city-states is extremely loose. The customs among the various ministries are not the same, and most of them do not belong to each other, and even are hostile to each other. In fact, only the priests of the Holy Land in the east and west of Totonac have the influence to call on the ministries to unite.

The drizzle hit the dirt road mixed with bluestone, making it a bit slippery to walk on. Compared with the big cities on the Mexican plateau, the city of Chimbo Ali in the jungle is not that big. Chabo, the hunter, walked quickly, and within a quarter of an hour, he arrived at the brand new main shrine of bricks and stones. And when he boarded the temple pyramid more than ten meters high, the open hall came into view and he could see everything at a glance.

The great chief of the black wolf is wearing armor and straddling a bronze sword, looking up at the sculpture of the main god holding a spear. More than a dozen Totonac god descendants wearing feather crowns were kneeling behind the temple with their heads bowed. And a great alliance nobleman wearing a feather suit and holding a scepter was frowning, facing the black wolf, and standing in front of the local nobles.