Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 128: Fuse and War Agents

Setting sail from the core territory of Byron and Catherine, Great Taiman Island, and continuing westward for 600 kilometers, is a one-day and one-night voyage for the Golden Deer.

You can reach a huge crescent-shaped island - Yucatan.

The island covers an area of ​​2.3 million square kilometers, more than 10,000 times the size of the Great Thai Man Island, and is the largest island in the western part of the Bantaan Islands.

When the first group of Castilian colonists arrived here, they almost thought they had discovered a whole new continent.

This is a huge treasure house full of wealth.

There are spice forests, gold and silver mines, and a large amount of corn, beans, and cocoa generously gifted to mankind by nature.
Nature also feeds an abundant population.

The brown-skinned Taino people of the Bantaan Islands established two indigenous empires: the Taya Empire and the Azik Empire, which were located in the north and south and confronted each other.

If you draw an east-west line from the Taiman Islands, it will pass exactly through the border between the two empires.

It is also one of the islands closest to the two empires.

It is only that naturalists and historians have counted all the countries of the world that have been discovered.

So far, no unified empire has been discovered that has truly achieved centralized power.

Both the Azik Empire and the Taya Empire, like the Holy Silver Empire of the Old World, are unworthy of their names.

In essence, it is just a large bulk federation with relatively unified culture and language.

The only difference between the three empires is the strength of the city-states to which the supreme rulers belong, and the remote control over each city-state is difficult to describe.

this day.

South of the border between the two countries is the largest city of the Tayal Empire, Chichen Itza, which means "in the center of the wellhead of Itza".

Surrounded by magnificent buildings such as the Pillar Hall, the Ball Court, the Market, the Temple of Warriors, and the astronomical observatory, stands a huge nine-story square cone pyramid.

It is only one level lower than the highest-level thirteen-story pyramid in the Taya civilization, which once enshrined thirteen crystal skulls.

The exquisite feathered serpent patterns carved on the tower indicate that the "god" enshrined in this pyramid is none other than one of the main gods of the Tayyap civilization: the feathered serpent god Kukulkan.

Phew——!
As the high-pitched eagle cries that pierced gold and split stone rang out, eagles with wingspans of over three meters rose from the noble mansions across the city.

After flying around the pyramid three times, they landed one after another at the square temple entrance at the top of the pyramid.

They shook their feathers and turned into a group of agile indigenous men and women.

They are a group of [Eagle Spirit Warriors] who are at least at the second-level professional level corresponding to the [Ladder of Glory].

Some Eagle Spirit Warriors carried a few young people on their backs, who seemed to be the outstanding descendants of the family.

They wear characteristic indigenous fabrics, colorful raptor feathers on their heads, and various nose and ear ornaments made of turquoise.

A few wore clothes clearly made from Old World linen and carried fine steel swords and even flintlock muskets.

Obviously these are not a group of primitive people isolated from the world.

Everyone walked silently into the temple of Quetzalcoatl and took their seats in a square stone hall.

Most of them had gloomy faces and were worried.

Boom!
An elderly shaman wearing a gorgeous feather crown and colorful feather clothes slammed the snake staff in his hand, which was carved with a feathered serpent and inlaid with a crystal skull, hard on the ground.

The eagle-like sharp bright yellow eyes scanned every member of the tribe present, and said hatefully:
“Everyone should have heard what happened to our Princess Kayatri and two other princesses of the southern Taya city-state when they married into the Azik Empire ten days ago.

A third-rank [Eagle Spirit Warrior] risked his life to escape from Azik Royal City and came back to report the news, but he only brought us such bad news.

What do you think we should do with Chichen Itza?"

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd in the hall suddenly became angry:
“The Azik people actually dared to do such a thing, it’s clear that they don’t want peace anymore.

They have told us bluntly that they will fight the war to the end, whether we kneel down and beg for mercy or not.

Sooner or later, we will all be sacrificed on the bloody altar, skinned and heart-dug out."

"Revenge! For the sake of the princess and the king, we in Chichen Itza must take revenge on the Aztecs!"

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Soon there was only one voice left, and that was:
"revenge!"

Especially a group of young people who were specially authorized to attend the meeting, their eyes were almost burning with anger when they thought about what had happened to their princess.

Among the group of eagles here, there are actually doves who advocate peace, but they have been completely forced into a dead end by the actions of the Azik Empire.

There was no longer any possibility of peace or compromise with the enemy.

And no one would have thought that just ten days ago, the attitude of all of them, including the dead king, was actually quite different.

A group of [Tiger Warriors] from the Azik Empire suddenly came with gifts from the emperor, asking the city-state's King Kalhua to marry his daughter, Princess Keyatli, to their emperor.

Except for most of the young men in the city-state, all the nobles, shamans and King Kalhua present readily agreed.

Although the princess of Chichen Itza was a famous beauty, their Taya Empire had long since fallen apart and even attacked each other. If a princess could be used to exchange peace with the powerful Azk Empire, even if it was only a short-term peace, it would be completely worth it.

However, what they don't know is.

By that time, the emperor of the Azik people had ascended to heaven and merged with Xipe-Totec, the Lord of the Flayed, the highest-ranking guardian spirit among the many objects of worship in the Azik Empire.

The way the princess married him was to be skinned and sacrificed as a sacrifice!!
At first, King Kalhua and his people were happily preparing to attend his daughter's wedding banquet.

But then he was horrified to find at the wedding ceremony that the skin of his most beloved daughter, the apple of his eye, was being draped on the body of a shaman and was dancing in the wind.

In the Taya Empire, the other two princesses who married the "previous emperor" received the same treatment.

Three people as beautiful as flowers died in a tragic way.

If there hadn't been a third-rank [Eagle Spirit Warrior] among the king's entourage, it would have been impossible for him to even escape back to report the news.

The old shaman who presided over the meeting paused for a moment before speaking to the infuriated crowd:
“The central city-state of our Taya Empire was destroyed long ago due to internal strife, and the political structure completely disintegrated.

Hundreds of city-states that spoke the same language and worshipped the same guardian spirits were torn apart.

It has a population of three million, but it is just a piece of fat meat that anyone can take a bite of.

On the other hand, the Azik people, since the founding of the country, successive kings have continuously waged war against foreign countries and have been expanding their territory all the time.

It now has a population of nearly 1000 million and 371 affiliated city-states.

The constant flow of tribute supported the royal city of Tenochtitlan, which was home to 25 people and was also the largest city in the entire Bantayan Islands.

How can we, Chichen Itza, seek revenge alone? And on what basis can we seek revenge? "

Everyone was silent.

Overseas, which is not protected by the [Silver Law], there are even stronger source tides.

There are forbidden areas everywhere where strangers are not allowed to enter.

However, the protection range of their ancestral spirits, guardian spirits, totem poles, and even the tallest thirteen-story pyramid is still very limited.

It is impossible to form a large safe zone.

A city-state with a city as its core is their best choice, which is also commonly referred to as the "one city, one country system."

On the vast land, it is divided into unconnected points by the even more vast primitive jungle and restricted areas.

The Taya civilization had more than 100 cities of various sizes, and the city-states based on them. Most of them were composed of a central city, which was united with surrounding tribes and small towns.

The supreme ruler is the hereditary monarch, followed by shamans, nobles, warriors, merchants, craftsmen, farmers, and slaves.

In addition to the Chichen Itza people, there are the Quiche, Kekchi, Picomoshi, Pocoman, Uxpantec, Kakchikel, and Chutushil.
Every city-state has its own interests. If Azik in the north hadn't been watching closely, they would have started fighting first.

Although the Azik Empire is not united, it is at least much stronger than them.

According to the current geographical location of Chichen Itza, let alone revenge on Aztec, a disaster is likely to happen in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the silent crowd, knowing that they had no idea, the Great Shaman shook his head and continued:
“I do know of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The emperors of the Aztec Empire were all too despotic and cruel. The War of the Crown did not only target us, but also the city-states within the Aztec territory.

In particular, for some unknown reason, the scale of the blood sacrifice ceremonies they have held in the royal city recently has become larger and larger, with at least tens of thousands of people participating.

It has aroused the hatred of many city-state kings within the empire.

Yesterday, an anti-Azik alliance came to me. It was said that they hired a group of white-skinned outsiders and planned to attack the royal city of Tenochtitlan.

Moreover, they were the regular army of the Kingdom of Castile, the strongest outsider.

I think this might be the best time for us to take revenge.”

At the same time, this also explains why the Kingdom of Castile launched a war of annihilation at this time according to the news Byron received.

Before anyone else could comment, a young voice suddenly spoke in the hall:
“Great Shaman, we cannot cooperate with the Kingdom of Castile.

In the Old World, it was a superpower that opened the Age of Discovery, possessed many powerful [Holy Relics], and was called the overlord of the ocean by other countries.

They are even stronger than the Azik Empire!"

Under normal circumstances, young people are not qualified to speak here, and everyone in the hall couldn't help but turn their heads to look in the direction of the voice.

Behind a burly old man with an intimidating presence, a figure unveiled the linen cloak covering himself.

The figure of an indigenous youth was revealed.

The only difference was that he was wearing Old World attire that was completely different from that of the other tribesmen, and there were seven or eight flintlock rifles of varying lengths inserted on the belt around his waist and chest.

The only thing on his neck was an eagle's beak pendant that seemed to have been rubbed so many times that it had become translucent (Chapter 64).

"You are Wyandot, the grandson of Geronimo, the captain of the temple guard?
Weren't you captured by the slave-hunting team of outsiders? How did you manage to escape back?!"

(End of this chapter)