At the end of the year, December drew to a close, and the five ill-omened days of the year's end arrived—Nemontemi. According to the shared tradition of the Nahua and Maya Tribes, this was the time when the gods ceased to shelter mankind, when the world became fragile and filled with uncertainty. These were days of chaos, danger, and blankness, and also the proper time to hold sacrifices and rewards and punishments, to display the divinity of kings.
"The Main God bears witness! Kuakehu, you besieged Cloud City, ambushed the Zapotec legion, and rendered meritorious service on the southern campaign! I, the Mexica Divine King, in the name of the Main God, enfeoff you as a glorious noble of the Alliance!..."
"I am willing to die in service to the Divine King!..."
A three-tiered Divine Altar had been built outside Yodzocahi. Tens of thousands of Alliance legions encircled the valley beyond the city. The Divine King Avet wore the intricate regalia of a Divine King, a feathered crown blazing like The Sun upon his head, and sat high at the top of the Divine Altar. Royal Legion Commander Kuakehu knelt and bowed on the second tier. At this moment, his expression was stirred as he listened to the Divine King's enfeoffment, relying on military merit to leap upward in a single bound, from an ordinary hereditary noble into the highest level of the Alliance pyramid!
"Kuakehu! Your fief is here, in the valley lands of Cloud Land! The fief covers twenty thousand mu of fertile Cloud Land and grants you one thousand households of Mixtec tribesmen!..."
"The Main God witnessed your valor, and also witnessed your loyalty! At present, the southern campaign is still continuing, and the Alliance's royal legion cannot do without an outstanding commander like you... And the