Ten Days, Take It Down! (Thanks to book friend 20170510 for the reward of an Alliance Leader)
"Death is a journey. Oaxaca is the place of the setting sun. Enemies who enter this valley will sink together with the dusk..."
"Xolotl, what are you reading?..."
"Oh! Divine King... teacher. The Main God bless us! I'm looking at the stone stele erected in this camp. It seems newly raised, probably left behind by the Zapotec priests? But the Pictographic Script carved on it is very ancient, and actually rather similar to the murals carved in the Holy City of Teotihuacan!"
"Let me see... wind patterns, white lines of death, a valley, a sun, the horizon, a broken Obsidian War Club, fallen men?... Is this a stele cursing us?..."
The wind came from the Oaxaca Valley, carrying the scent of green grass and damp earth. Traces of the battlefield still remained, but to prevent plague, the fallen corpses had all been buried in burial mounds. The warriors of the Mexica Alliance wore dark-green battle garb, yet copper plates clattered as they moved. Looking ahead, the warriors' forest of golden Copper Spears wound forward, crushing every stockade that blocked their path. And this was already the third valley camp the alliance legions had broken through after entering the mouth of the Oaxaca Valley!
"The meaning of this stele is... the setting sun?..."
Divine King Avet frowned as he looked at the stele left by the Zapotecs, truly rather displeased. If the comet they had seen when first entering Oaxaca could still be explained as the death of the enemy leader, then these steles used by the Oaxaca tribes to frighten them were, without question, curses upon the invaders.
"Heh! These Zapotecs aren't much good in battle, but after battle, their false-god sacrifices and curses are astonishingly numerous... But the light of the Main God shines upon us, and the spells