The Divine Monkey's Worry: Not Feathers Flying Wild, But the Monkey of the Heart Climbing the Tree

"Main God bless us! Legion Commander, we've taken Shamu City and destroyed the last resisting North Tecos city-state! After more than two years of campaigning, the North Tecos tribes on both banks of the Great River have finally been pacified by us!... Next, do we continue north and pursue Feather Prince's remnants?"

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Morning Sun rose over the eastern mountains, drawing out long shadows that slanted west and fell into the rolling, isolating western hills. Ancient Shamu City stood in a basin among the mountains, beside the flowing Sand River, having endured for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

According to the God-descendants of North Tecos, the first ancestral God-descendants had carried the bloodline of the ancient Toltec. They had only hidden themselves in the wild mountains to escape the apocalyptic Divine Calamity. And once the Divine Calamity had passed, they went south from the north again, out from the upper reaches of the Sand River, from the "Great Sand River," out of the unbroken mountains and wasteland, and settled in this rare land of plenty! After that, the tribes gradually expanded south, until they reached both sides of the great Lerma River...

As for those Tecos tribes farther south, though their language and appearance were close to the northern Tecos people, they possessed no revered ancient divine blood, and were merely ordinary mortal tribes.

"That is what the North Tecos God-descendants say. But as I see it, the Tecos tribes of north and south were one family to begin with... They are all Wasteland Dog-kin who migrated south, and they are one family with us too!..."

Great Chieftain Divine Monkey Kuluka wore a feathered crown and stood atop Shamu City's walls, gazing north for a long time. To the northeast of Shamu City were unbroken mountains; to the northwest, a