Pirate Kingship

Set sail from the core territory of Byron and Catherine, Grand Taiman Island, and continue to sail west for 600 kilometers, which is a one-day and one-night voyage for the Golden Deer.

You can reach a huge crescent-shaped island, Yucatan Island.

The area of ​​this island is as large as 2.3 million square kilometers, more than 10,000 times that of Grand Taiman Island, and it is also the largest island in the western part of the Bantaan Islands.

When the first batch of Castilian colonists arrived here, they almost thought they had discovered a new continent.

This is a huge treasure house full of wealth.

Spice forests, gold and silver mines, and a large amount of corn, beans, and cocoa generously given to mankind by nature.

Nature also feeds a sufficient population.

The brown-skinned Taino people of the Bantaan Islands established two indigenous empires: the Taya Empire and the Azk Empire, which were located in the north and south and confronted each other.

If you draw an east-west line from the Taiman Islands, it will just pass through the border of the two empires.

It is also one of the islands closest to the two empires.

However, naturalists and historians have counted all the countries in the world that have been explored.

So far, no one has been found that has truly completed the centralized unified empire.

Whether it is the Azik Empire or the Taya Empire, they are all like the Holy Silver Empire of the Old World, all of which are unworthy of the name.

In essence, they are just a large-scale bulk federation with relatively unified culture and language.

The difference between the three empires is only the difference in the strength of the city-states to which the supreme ruler belongs, and the remote control of each city-state is hard to describe.

This day.

South of the border between the two countries, the largest city of Chichen Itza in the Taya Empire, means "at the center of the wellhead of Itza".

Surrounded by magnificent buildings such as the column hall, the ball court, the market, the warrior temple, the astronomical observatory, etc., stands a huge nine-story square pyramid.

It is only one level lower than the highest-level thirteen-story ladder pyramid that once enshrined thirteen crystal skulls in the Taya civilization.

The exquisite feathered serpent pattern carved on the tower body shows that the "god" enshrined in this pyramid is one of the main gods of the Taya civilization: the feathered serpent god Kukulkan.

Cry!

With the high-pitched eagle cry that pierced through gold and split stone, eagles with wingspans of more than three meters rose from the noble mansions throughout the city.

After flying around the pyramid three times, they landed one after another at the entrance of the square temple on the top of the pyramid.

Shaking their feathers, they turned into a group of agile native men and women.

They were a group of [Eagle Spirit Warriors] who corresponded to the [Ladder of Glory] and were at least at the second-level professional level.

Some Eagle Spirit Warriors carried a few young people on their backs, who seemed to be the outstanding descendants of the family.

They were wearing characteristic fabrics of the natives, with colorful raptor feathers on their heads, and various nose and ear ornaments made of turquoise.

A few people wore clothes that were obviously sewn from linen in the Old World, and hung exquisite steel swords and even flintlock short muskets.

Obviously, this was not a group of primitive people isolated from the world.

Everyone walked into the temple of Quetzalcoatl silently and sat down in a square stone hall.

Most of them looked gloomy and worried.

Boom!

An old shaman with a gorgeous feather crown and colorful feather clothes slammed his snake staff with a feathered serpent carved on it and a crystal skull on it.

His sharp yellow eyes like an eagle swept over every member of the tribe present, and he said hatefully:

"Everyone should have heard about our Princess Kayatri and the other two princesses of the southern Taya city-state who married into the Azk Empire ten days ago.

A third-level [Eagle Spirit Warrior] escaped from the Azk Royal City at the risk of his life and came back to report the news, but only brought us such bad news.

What do you think we should do in Chichen Itza?"

As soon as the words fell, the hall was immediately filled with indignation:

"The Azk people dared to do such a thing, it is clearly No more peace.

They have told us nakedly that whether we kneel down and beg for mercy or not, they will continue the war of glory to the end.

Sooner or later, we will all be sent to the bloody altar, skinned and heart-dug out. "

"Revenge! For the princess and His Majesty the King, our city of Chichen Itza must take revenge on the Azk people!"

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Soon there was only one voice left here, that is:

"Revenge!"

Especially a group of young people who were specially authorized to attend the meeting, their eyes were almost on fire when they thought of the experience of their princess.

In fact, there are doves who advocate peace among the group of eagles here, but they have been completely forced into a dead end by the actions of the Azk Empire.

There is no possibility of making peace with the enemy.

And no one would have thought that just ten days ago, including the dead king, the attitude of all of them was actually different.

A group of [Tiger Warriors] from the Azk Empire suddenly came with gifts from the emperor, asking the city-state's King Kalhua to marry his daughter, Princess Kyatri, to their emperor.

Except for most of the young men in the city-state, all the nobles, shamans and King Kalhua readily agreed.

Although the princess of Chichen Itza was a famous beauty, their Taya Empire had long since fallen apart and even attacked each other.

If a princess can be used to exchange peace with the powerful Azik Empire, even a short-term peace will be completely worth it.

However, what they don't know is.

At that time, the emperor of the Aziks had ascended to heaven and merged with Xipetotek, the highest-status guardian spirit [Lord of the Skinned] among the many objects of worship in the Azik Empire.

The way the princess married him was to be skinned and sacrificed as a sacrifice! !

At first, King Kalhua and his people were happily preparing to attend his daughter's wedding banquet.

But then, during the wedding ceremony, she was horrified to discover that the skin of her beloved daughter, the apple of her eye, was being draped over her body by a shaman, dancing in the wind.

In the Taya Empire, the other two princesses who married the "previous emperor" were treated in the same way.

Three people as beautiful as flowers died in a tragic way.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a third-level [Eagle Spirit Warrior] among the king's entourage, it would have been impossible to even escape and come back to report the news.

The old shaman who presided over the meeting paused the feathered serpent staff inlaid with crystal skulls again, and said in a deep voice to the angry crowd:

“The central city-state of our Taya Empire has long been destroyed due to internal strife, and the political structure has completely disintegrated.

Hundreds of city-states that spoke the same language and worshiped the same guardian spirits were torn apart.

There are three million people in the sky, but it is just a piece of fat that anyone can take a bite of.

But looking at the Aziks, since the founding of the country, successive kings have continued to use troops abroad, and they have never failed to expand their territories.

It now has a population of nearly 10 million and 371 city-states.

A steady stream of tributes supported the Royal City of Tenochtitlan, which was home to 250,000 people, which was also the largest city in the entire Bantaan Islands.

How can we, Chichen Itza, alone, seek revenge? Why can I take revenge? "

Everyone was silent.

Overseas areas that are not protected by the [Silver Law] are filled with even stronger tides of source matter.

There are forbidden areas everywhere that strangers are not allowed to enter.

And the protection range of their ancestral spirits, guardian spirits, totem poles, and even the tallest thirteen-story pyramid is still very limited.

There is no way to form a large and vast safe zone.

A city-state with a city as its core is their best choice, which is also commonly referred to as "one city, one country".

The vast land is divided into disconnected points by wider virgin jungles and restricted areas.

The Taya civilization has more than 100 cities, large and small, and city-states based on them. Most of them consist of a central city united with surrounding tribes and small towns.

The highest ruler is the hereditary monarch, followed by shamans, nobles, warriors, merchants, craftsmen, farmers, and slaves.

In addition to the Chichén Itzá, there are also the Quiche, Caikchi, Picomohi, Pocoman, Uspantec, Caquechikel, and Chutusil

Every city-state has its own interests. If Azik from the north hadn't been watching, they would have started a fight first.

Although the Azik Empire is not united, at least it is much stronger than them.

According to the current geographical location of the city of Chichen Itza, let alone revenge on Azik, I am afraid that a catastrophe will be imminent in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the silence of the crowd, knowing that they had no idea, the great shaman shook his head and continued:

“I do know of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The successive emperors of the Aztec Empire were too authoritarian and cruel. The Crown of Glory War was not only the target of our demands, but the city-states within the Aztec territory also suffered greatly.

Especially for some unknown reason, the scale of the blood sacrifice ceremony they recently held in the royal city was grander than any other, starting with 10,000 people.

It has aroused the hatred of many city-state kings within the empire.

An anti-Azik alliance came to me yesterday. It is said that they hired a group of white-skinned outsiders and were preparing to attack the royal city of Tenochtitlan.

Moreover, it is also the regular army of the Kingdom of Castile, which is the strongest outsider.

I think this might be the best time for us to take revenge. "

At the same time, this also explains why the Kingdom of Castile launched a war of annihilation at this time according to the news Byron received.

Before anyone else could express their opinions, a young voice suddenly said urgently in the hall:

“Great Shaman, we cannot cooperate with the Kingdom of Castile.

In the Old Continent, it was a superpower that started the Age of Discovery, controlled many powerful [Holy Relics], and was called the Overlord of the Ocean by other countries.

They are even stronger than the Azik Empire! "

Under normal circumstances, young people are not qualified to speak here. Everyone in the hall couldn't help but turn their heads and look in the direction of the voice.

Behind a tall, calm old man, a figure lifted off the linen cloak he was wearing.

The figure of an indigenous young man was revealed.

It's just that he is dressed in Old World attire that is completely different from other tribesmen, and there are seven or eight long and short flintlock muskets inserted into the armed belt around his waist and chest.

There is only an eagle beak pendant on his neck that seems to have been rubbed too many times and has become translucent (Chapter 64).

"Are you Wyandotte, the grandson of Geronimo, captain of the temple guard?

Weren't you kidnapped by an outsider's slave-catching team, and you managed to escape? ! "