Death God Black Wolf's Royal Banner had come from afar and now stood in the great camp at Snake Lake Village, a full section taller than Black Wolf Commander's marshal banner. The cheers in the camp rang to the clouds, so loudly that even the Totonac garrison in the military stockades more than ten li away could hear them clearly!
"Praise the Main God! Praise His Highness!"
After receiving the scouts' report, the great chief of the Golden Bay tribes, "Great Sun" Chichini, hurried up onto the walls of Golden Bay City and gazed toward the Mexica Alliance's great camp in the northwest. Across such a vast distance, he could not see the Alliance camp, nor the "Royal Banner" the scouts had spoken of. But he could see the nearest Alliance encampment several li away, and hear the heartfelt cheers of the thousands of Kingdom Warriors inside it.
"The Main God blesses us! His Highness, His Highness has come! This battle is certain victory!"
Great Sun Chief Chichini listened for a while, and his expression turned grave. The heir of the Mexica Alliance had come on campaign in person, which represented the will of that powerful alliance! And that also meant the Alliance mediation he had kept longing for and expecting was now impossible.
"The Mexica crown prince has come here in person. Without enough gains, he cannot possibly return! The Mexica People's offensive will probably begin very soon, and it will be even sharper than before. And for the Mexica People to have transferred so many reinforcements from the land of Tlaxcala... perhaps the once-mighty Tlaxcala Alliance has already been utterly destroyed!"
Thinking of this, Great Sun Chief Chichini's mood grew heavier. As the leader of the western Totonac tribal alliance, he knew far better than the distant tribes