"Montezuma Zoque! Granting titles for military merit and transferring nobles to new fiefs is the Main God's guidance, and more than that, it is the Alliance's great policy! The fiefs in the clouds will take the Mountain River City valley as their boundary and divide Cloud Land into east and west. The western Mixtec cloudlands will be enfeoffed to the generals of the Western Route Army, while also accepting a portion of the nobles transferred from within the Alliance. Therefore, this fertile land from the western cloudlands to the seacoast is no royal center, no private backroom grant promised to Axayacatl's line! This fief is to be divided according to the laws of military merit, fairly and by achievement, among all deserving officers and warriors of the Western Route Army!"
Great Chieftain Yuchi's corpse listened quietly. The fate of the Mixtec cloudlands was not decided by the Mixtec. Hundreds of Alliance nobles and warriors of the Western Route Army also surrounded them on every side, all looking toward the "Prophet" who represented the Divine King.
At the center of the crowd, Xolotl's expression was grave. Facing Montezuma II's challenge, he raised the Obsidian Feather Crown and pressed a hand against the sacrificial Obsidian Dagger at his waist. His gaze was cold and stern as he swept it over all the nobles and warriors, and his voice was low as he stated the Alliance's laws of military merit plainly.
"The Main God bears witness! Granting titles and land for military merit is the Main God's will, unshakable through every divine war, and it is the foundation of the Alliance's divine wars! As for Alliance nobles who migrate out from the Alliance's various city-states to assimilate newly conquered fiefs, compensating them with transferred fiefs is also a state policy the Alliance settled