"Your Majesty, look at this!"
Amy excitedly turned to show Ella the gift she had received. It was a beautiful gold corsage, even the tassels were made of gold, dotted with beautiful turquoises.
"Aztlan respects magicians who can control fire, because they may all be candidates for the next sun." Tesosomoc said, "When we were in Britain, we were enemies, but now, you are a friend worthy of admiration. "
"That's right." Ousalmat clapped his hands again, "Give this young magician the gift that is most worthy of her status!"
Two more warriors came up, lowered their heads, raised their short golden spears and shields above their heads, and motioned for Amy to take them. The pirates who came with Ella were stunned. They had looted all over the world. This was the first time they saw pure gold shields and short spears. Regardless of the value of gold, this outrageous use of gold is enough to make it a national treasure. And the person who sent this treasure was just a small city-state affiliated with the Aztlan Empire!
"Thanks! I'll keep them as family heirlooms!"
Amy took over the golden shield and short spear, and sitting on Fenrir, she suddenly became much more majestic.
"You still need a pair of armor forged from gold." Tesosomoc commented, "But this is not a gift that this small city-state can give. When you return to Tlacopan, I will personally give you a set and start from scratch. To the feet!”
Then, he turned to Ella and said: "Of course, I will also prepare a gift worthy of you - a set of top-notch green cotton robes for the envoy of God!"
"Hehe...hehe..."
Although Ella knows that green is to Aztlan what purple is to the Seven Hills Empire, the green cotton robe is most likely equivalent to the purple robe she wore in the Seven Hills Empire, and is a very valuable gift. But the green feathers on her head kept shaking, making her feel like the chief of some barbarian tribe.
"It's just Amy... If there is anything delicious on the table then, I won't share it with you!"
"Your Majesty, what did you say?" Amy turned back curiously. She didn't hear clearly.
"It's nothing." Ella smiled, "I just feel a little pity. After all, I am a priest and you are a warrior. I'm afraid we won't be able to sit at the same table at dinner."
"Of course, the envoy of God is received according to the standards of a priest." Tesosomok nodded, then stood up and apologized to Ella, "I am on a stretcher and cannot serve the table. I cannot accompany you to dinner. I will first write a letter to Tenochtitlan and Texcoco and ask them to send a fleet to pick you up on the island.”
Ousomat reacted and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, it's dinner time. We have prepared the banquet, please follow me!"
"That's right." Ella's stomach was too hungry to scream, "Which direction does the cave go to?"
"Cave?" Ousalmat was stunned for a moment, "What cave?"
"Eh?" Ella was also stunned, "Don't you live in a cave?"
——This group of Aztlan people used stone tools and traveled in canoes. How could they not live in caves? That savage named Bobo also lives in a cave!
"In the eyes of the God Envoy, is Aztlan such a savage?" Osomat's face turned green.
"Quetzalcoatl has been away from Aztlan for too long. The Aztlan it remembers is from hundreds of years ago." Tesozomoc, who was about to leave, turned his head to help Ella rescue him, "Maybe in When it left, our Aztlan lived in the cave. It must have explained this when introducing it to the Lord God Envoy."
Ella thanked Tesosomoc for his rescue, and at the same time scolded him secretly in her heart - according to this theory, Quetzalcoatl would tell her some basic information about Aztlan. Then if someone discovers that she actually knows nothing about Aztlan, wouldn't that be the end?
And Osomarit was not willing to accept this statement: "Even if it was hundreds of years ago, it shouldn't be a cave..."
"Osomat, put down your arrogant attitude, you are facing the envoy of Quetzalcoatl, and a guest from afar." Tessosomok interrupted Ousomat angrily, "Quetalcoatl is leaving. How can you possibly know the current situation in Aztlan after you have been there for so long? If Master God has any doubts, just explain them to him one by one."
Osomarit swallowed his breath and bowed to Tesosomoc: "You are right, Tratoani."
But when he raised his head, a trace of displeasure could still be clearly seen on his face.
"Come with me, Lord God Envoy," he said, "I will show you around our cave."
Amy complained to Ella in a low voice: "Your Majesty, look at the trouble you caused by talking nonsense!"
"What do you mean I'm talking nonsense! Amy, don't you think so?"
"Hmm... But anyway, don't talk nonsense anymore! Tessosomok is gone, and there is no one to smooth things over. If anything is exposed again, it will be a big problem!"
After following Osolmat and his group for a while, a small town appeared in front of them. As Ousalmat said, it was not a cave, but rows of thatched and wooden houses similar to those in the Swedish countryside, with a few brick houses mixed in. They were probably the residences of prominent people. Among them, only one building is made of stone. It is in the most conspicuous position in the town. Although it is not big, it looks like the palace of Osomat.
"Does the Lord God Envoy know this kind of building material?" Ousalit said with a thorn in his words, "This is a very rare building material. Only the Chalco city-state in the southeast of Aztlan can produce it. It can be transported here across the sea. But It took a lot of effort.”
"Wow, so awesome, so awesome."
In order not to continue to irritate Osomat and to get her meal earlier, Ella could only applaud expressionlessly - she did not dare to say that the sewers in Sweden were all made of stone.
However, Osomarit did not see the perfunctoriness in it. Ella's reaction made him feel a little more comfortable.
"In the years since Quetzalcoatl left, Aztlan has been developing and expanding, and it is no longer what it used to be." Osomat patted his chest confidently, "Come on, I don't understand anything you don't understand. I can explain it to you."
It is said that stone is used, but it only refers to the main house. The other ancillary buildings are still only made of bricks. Walking into the courtyard, there were about a dozen servants lined up on both sides, each carrying a flower basket filled with petals of flowers. Ella thought the flowers were for scattering and walked right through them. But these petals did not fall down. But I saw Osomarit reaching out and grabbing a handful of petals from a flower basket, wiping his face and arms. When he turned around, the nobles following him were doing the same thing.
"Master God Envoy, aren't you going to wipe it?" Ousalmat asked Ella as he grabbed a handful of petals.
Ella realized with embarrassment that this was Aztlan etiquette before a banquet. She didn't know how old this ritual was. If this was a ritual that existed before Quetzalcoatl left - then her identity would be exposed.
She had no choice but to bite the bullet and said:
"As a messenger of God, you must keep your body clean at all times, so it doesn't matter if you don't need to wipe it. But since the master asks, then wipe it!"
Afraid of revealing her identity, she grabbed a handful of flower petals and hurriedly wiped her face. When she turned around, she found that some nobles did not wipe their face, and she was relieved.
——Cheating is indeed full of risks.
Ella is completely ignorant of Aztlan's etiquette, but her identity as Quetzalcoatl's messenger prevents her from showing too much ignorance of etiquette. Imagine a foreigner who speaks a foreign language and knows nothing about the local situation suddenly comes and says that he wants to be the supreme priest of this city. How will the local people react?
After walking through the courtyard, Ella's back was covered with sweat. Although her stomach was growling, she no longer had the energy to focus on it.
