The Sacrificial Ceremony, Population Migration

A grand sacrificial ceremony was held outside Shuigu City. The War Priests marked out the sacrificial grounds and built the Main God's divine altar. They sang ancient, simple songs, lit a roaring Sacred Fire, then prayed upon the high altar, offering up the heads of the divine-descended enemies.

Firelight shone, and sacrificial hymns echoed. Xolotl wore the black wolf's ritual robes and held the "Death God Skull" scepter as he stood at the highest point of the several-meter-tall divine altar. He lowered his eyes and looked down. Tens of thousands of legion warriors cheered and praised beyond the altar, like bees spread all through the mountain forests. And thousands upon thousands of Tlaxcalan captives lay prostrate at his feet, like ant swarms carpeting the wilderness!

".I received guidance from the heavenly god, climbed God Mountain, and found the ancient temple! The Main God sheltered me, and the Death God bestowed a divine object upon me! It is the head of the Blood-Tongued Black Wolf from myth, the 'Death God Skull' that possesses Divine Force!"

Xolotl looked down over the crowd before him, feeling the power within divine authority that struck straight at the heart. He raised the brand-new scepter in his hand high, revealing the black skull at its tip, proclaiming the divinity that ruled all living beings!

Very soon, low cries of shock rang out from every direction, accompanied by devout prayers. The Tlaxcalan present were all seized by bewildered terror, shocked and uncertain. They had all heard the mythic legend of the "Death God Skull," and they also believed in the lofty divinity atop God Mountain. Only, why would such an inherited divine object have fallen into the hands of the Mexica commander?

"I control a mighty legion and wield the Divine Force of volcano and death! In