The ancient Aztec temples and palaces appear solemn and mysterious in the night, with exquisite patterns and symbols carved on their walls.
The air is filled with a unique scent of burning incense, which is a spice commonly used by the Aztecs in sacrifices. It has a mysterious and solemn taste, which makes people who have been accustomed to this ritual since childhood involuntarily immersed in this atmosphere.
In the temple, priests were performing their daily rituals. Their prayers and sacrificial flames stood out against the night sky.
Under the guidance of Montezuma II, Favia soon approached the top floor of the Great Temple.
"God only allows one person to listen to the divine prophecy. I can only send him here. I will wait for good news from you, the messenger, on the first floor."
After saying this, Meng Er returned along the original path, leaving Favia alone in front of the pitch-black gate.
After Meng Er's figure completely left, the silver-haired young man planned to push open the door.
In his opinion, Tlaloc was seriously injured by him not long ago and is no longer in there, so it was very smooth to get the Sun Stone -
"........"
However, this idea was immediately shattered because Favia couldn't push open the door.
"who is it?"
The sound even felt like an echo in the highest point of this silent temple.
However, the door remained motionless.
So after thinking for a while, Favia took a deep breath and said slowly,
“…Tlaloc, I’m here to negotiate terms with you.”
233: It's very simple. I will become the new 'sun' (5k)
Before Favia reached the temple, a violent tremor enveloped the room containing the Sun Stone.
"Great Tezcatlipoca, I'm so sorry for alerting the enemy. Please forgive me..."
The returning Tlaloc paused for a moment, holding on to the dimmed pointed whip and breathing heavily.
Under Favia's attack, not only did cracks appear on her weapon, but the wound on her chest was also spreading to her neck. She needed the help of the Aztecs' belief in the rain god and the hummingbird in the temple to heal her injuries.
Originally, the black-haired girl was ready to accept the scolding from Smoky Mirror, but then she discovered that her brother, who was bare-chested and had a coconut-haired hairstyle, was missing.
"...Brother?"
As if she didn't quite believe that Smoke Mirror had suddenly disappeared, Tlaloc even called out to him, but there was no response. However, she didn't show any reaction to this because she didn't think that Smoke Mirror would disappear inexplicably. She must have had his own ideas about keeping it a secret from her.
“…Damn it! Damn outsiders!”
Then, Tlaloc came to his senses and couldn't help roaring.
"Kill you, I will definitely kill you!"
Although she looked like a petite girl, at this moment she was roaring angrily like a lion, destroying everything in the room uncontrollably.
"Damn you, bastard. I'm going to kill you. I have to kill you. I'll peel off your skin and put it in the temple for thousands of years..."
Although she couldn't destroy anything due to the existence of the Sun Stone, the black-haired girl continued for a long time before stopping. Finally, she roared at the ceiling several times and finally regained her composure.
Perhaps it was because he felt much better after venting, Tlaloc felt refreshed all over.
But after a few minutes, the black-haired girl who was resting with bated breath suddenly felt the presence of someone behind the door, who seemed to be about to open the door without saying hello, so she asked subconsciously.
"who is it?"
Afterwards, in the silence of more than ten seconds, she heard an extremely familiar voice——
“…Tlaloc, I’m here to negotiate terms with you.”
Hearing this, she instantly became uneasy. Although she had thought that the human should have come to Tenochtitlan, she never expected that he would come to the Great Temple so soon...
Damn, this outsider's purpose of coming here is indeed not simple. He stared at this place as soon as he came in. Is he trying to steal something?
And what's going on? Why is he calling me Tlaloc? Does he know who I am? How is that possible? I haven't even introduced myself... Could it be that the Aztec king told him? But if that's the case, why didn't he say Lord Left Hummingbird?
After Tlaloc brainstormed for more than ten seconds, she slowly spoke:
"I have nothing to say to you, outsider. This is not the place for you. Go away, or you will meet with disaster sooner or later."
"Lord Rain God, I represent Lord Quetzalcoatl."
"Haha, are you clear in your mind..."
The black-haired girl was still thinking about what words she could use to successfully use her identity as the "Rain God" to drive Favia away, but she didn't expect the next moment -
"I know it very well, but the time we meet again is so fast. Are you ready to kill me?"
came Favia's voice.
The door that only Tlaloc and the Smoke Mirror could open opened.
In response, Tlaloc's expression froze and he couldn't help but hold his breath.
"How did you get in?"
The black-haired girl's words seemed to remind Favia. The silver-haired young man, who had been planning to ignore her and walk straight ahead, turned around and said with a smile,
"I have some of your blood on me. I tried to drip it on myself. I didn't expect it to work."
"...you bastard."
Tlaloc cursed as calmly as he could.
But Favia didn't care too much and continued walking towards the direction of the Sun Stone.
"If you take the Sun Stone and really abolish the sacrifice, this place will fall into destruction! You idiot!"
Realizing this, the black-haired girl ran to the Sun Stone at high speed, opened her hands to stop him, stomped her feet and glared at the silver-haired young man.
"It's stupid."
There is no magic residing in the pupils, it is just a pure color. The young man's eyes are naturally blue.
Just like a dark blue ocean.
".....Eh?"
For a moment, Tlaloc seemed to have not expected Favia to speak so calmly in front of him.
“There are many people living on this earth. Most of them are hardworking, enthusiastic, and strong, but not beautiful. Because they have to be cut into pieces as sacrifices every day, they are always covered in blood.
Therefore, many people were infected with the disease and died. Whether they were kings, nobles, or priests, they all had to pay the price.
This is Aztec, a world where everyone is destined to sacrifice. Is this world cruel?
Yes, I think everyone would feel the same way, but I will not deny the Aztec culture. Living in the cruel jungle means this result. "
Favia stood up, straightened his body slightly and showed a gentle smile that was inconsistent with the atmosphere of the scene. He looked at the black-haired girl with his blue eyes, as if he didn't care.
"No matter how advantageous the terrain is, no matter how prosperous the city is, no matter how rich the natural environment is, when you learn about some behaviors that subvert your cognition, no matter who you are, you will always have some resistance. I can understand your feelings of loving this city and the people in it."
"How could you possibly understand? You are just trying to deceive us with the help of legends. How could you possibly understand? You don't understand anything at all—"
"........Losing a fistfight between individuals is nothing, and so is losing a duel, but losing a war between nations is basically the same, with many lives lost or dragged away, and everything they have built and lived is defined as meaningless and then vanishes."
Favia raised his head, looked at one side of the dark room, and suddenly spoke.
To be more precise, he was looking far away - as if he was looking at something that had already passed away.
"Sixty-six years ago, there was a city similar to Tenochtitlan that was destroyed. Its name was Constantinople.
On the day the city was broken, the emperor who brought the end of the thousand-year empire told the city not to cry, because crying was a right only granted to the people who were to be protected.
Be angry, be as angry as an Asura, be as furious as a Rakshasa, that is what is promised to her and him.
As the last emperor of the empire, I have the power over the capital of the empire, even if the people I should protect have all turned to dust. "
Tlaloc fell silent.
Because she realized that the human in front of her was not lying. As the elf incarnated by the Moon Lake, she had already smelled the scent of the city he mentioned. It was a chaste and noble city, but unlike the Moon Lake, it did not have the same spiritual veins as the Inner Sea of the Star.
The Lake of the Moon is Lake Texcoco, where the wandering Aztecs finally settled and later built Tenochtitlan on it.
"Although I did not witness that time in person, nor did I see the emperor's end with my own eyes, I know that he had done everything he could, and Constantinople was also saddened by the emperor's death.
Constantine XI, you have fought, you have used up all your strength, you have done your best, it is time to take a breath, it is time to rest. "
A wry smile played on Favia’s lips.
This was the first time that Tlaloc had seen this man with such an expression, hopelessly unsightly and ugly, as if he were expressing regret for something, and it was also a profile that left her speechless after seeing it.
Then he turned, looked at Tlaloc and said:
"So, never make the same mistake again, that's what I have to do."
It’s not what you want to do, it’s what you should do.
To Tlaloc she understood neither, and she really did not understand the difference between the two.
But from Favia's voice, one could hear a determination that even her brother could not shake.
What exactly is this person like?
To the black-haired girl who had only received the parable from the smoke mirror, it was too vague. Even though it was so close at the moment, it seemed like an object that she could not understand at all.
However, the silver-haired young man seemed not to notice her surprise and continued:
"To this end, I have prepared a safe and foolproof plan for the Aztecs and this continent."
".....What's the plan?"
“Let Tonatiuh, the sun god of the Fifth Sun Age, truly become the only god of the Aztecs.”
In other words, it was to completely crush other Aztec gods in order to facilitate the spread of faith, carry out necessary religious reforms, and promote the Aztec mythology with them as the absolute origin.
However, when Tlaloc heard Favia's words, she immediately frowned:
"The sun god of the Fifth Sun Age... Tonatiuh? Is there such a god among the Aztecs? And he is the sun god?"
"Haven't you heard of that name?"
"No, I have never heard of it."
The dark-haired girl shook her head, and Favia could tell she wasn't lying.
This made him a little puzzled. After all, there were many different opinions about who the sun god of the Fifth Sun Age was.
But according to the Sun Stone, the fifth Aztec sun god was this Tonatiuh, who in some versions attempted to devour all the gods.
While thinking, Favia suddenly saw the Sun Stone behind Tlaloc. The sun carved on it was only...
Four? !
First sun, smoke mirror.
The second sun, Quetzalcoatl.
The third sun, the rain god.
The fourth sun, the god of fertility.
Why is the 'Sun' that foreshadows the Fifth Sun gone?
You should know that in the mythology of Central and South America, although death is the end of growth and maturity, it is also the precursor to a new birth. This does not only refer to the way of existence of living things, but also to the way of existence of the world. This world is always repeating destruction and creation.
After destroying the old world, the Aztec gods would inevitably create the next world.
People living in it witnessed the world of the sun, destruction and creation, death and birth.
After all, it is the sun that provides shelter for the flourishing of life, which is the center of the world or the world itself.
According to legend, the current world was also the fifth world created after going through such a process.
Thinking of this, Favia suddenly asked the black-haired girl who had been silent from the beginning, leaving him to think:
"Now, it's the Aztec Fifth Sun Era, right?"
"Correct."
Although he didn't know why Favia asked this common sense question, Tlaloc still answered it well.
"Then who is the fifth sun god you know?"
"You..." Seeing that the person in front of her really didn't know, the black-haired girl couldn't help but feel her cheeks twitching a few times, and then she suddenly realized, "Indeed, I just remembered that you are just an outsider who borrowed from the legend. It's normal that you only know a little."
