"Praise the Main God Huitzilopochtli! The punishment of life and death is the Main God's judgment, to decide the nobles of the mortal world!... We beseech the just Main God to send down a divine omen and decide the fate of the guilty!..."
Before the altar on the second-and-a-half tier of the Divine Altar, Xolotl straightened his sacrificial robes, adjusted his feathered crown, then pressed down the mask of the god. Afterward, he lifted his head toward the sun in the sky and cried out in devout prayer! His shout spread above and below the Divine Altar, making the watching nobles and Samurai widen their eyes one by one. And the six or seven noble generals being held beneath the Divine Altar, who had routed from the ambush, were even more lost and terrified, constantly begging for mercy.
"Please! Prophet! Please, spare me!!..."
"The Main God grants revelation! The divination yields seven, the Gen Hexagram, corresponding to mountain—sentence: stoning!"
"No! No! Our Red Sandalwood Family rendered great service for the late lord Axayacatl! No!!..."
"Ah!! Urgh..."
Very soon, two royal guards dragged the wailing noble to the execution ground beneath Yodzocahi. Then rocks smashed down from the wooden wall, and in an instant there was no sound below, only a slowly blooming splash of blood, like the most heart-shaking mark.
"The Main God reveals! The divination yields four! The Zhen Hexagram, corresponding to thunder—sentence: thunder execution!..."
"Divine King, spare me! Divine King, spare me!! Ah!!..."
"Boom!..."
Green smoke rose, thunder deafened the ears, and the stone shot took away a life in an instant. The shrill cry still echoed, but the figure who had cried out had already fallen like a rag. This terrifying scene of divine punishment made every onlooker tremble with fear, not even daring to let their