The air seemed completely still. Everyone focused their attention on the water bowl in Ella's hand, and they were so nervous that they even forgot to breathe.
As the last drop of water was poured into her stomach, Ella's wrist suddenly shook and she dropped the bowl to the ground. Amidst several painful coughs, she grabbed her throat and slowly, slowly squatted on the ground.
The priest raised his hands to the sky in excitement and almost shouted.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?" Amy asked with concern and anxiety, "Are you okay?"
"I didn't control the amount well. Ahem... I'm still a little... uncomfortable."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ella rolled her eyes suddenly and fell limply to the ground!
"She's dead!"
The priest could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart and shouted loudly. He walked back and forth in front of the tribesmen, raising his hands happily every few steps and shouting:
"She's dead! She's dead!"
Amy rushed to Ella's side anxiously. Before she could take a closer look, the sight of Ella's death made her eyes lose their luster.
"Lord God Envoy!"
The Aztlans rushed up from behind carrying Tesozomoc. Before reaching Ella, Tesosomok rolled off the stretcher and crawled towards Ella. His Aztlan warriors lined up and stood between Ella and the tribesmen.
The priest still didn't calm down the excitement in his heart. His walking gradually turned into running. As he ran, he continued to shout excitedly.
"We won! We won!"
Under the influence of the priest, the tribesmen also cheered and praised the greatness of the God of Spring Water.
The faces of the Aztlan warriors under Tesosomoc gradually showed a look of anger. Seeing this, the leader of the tribe signaled the tribesmen to quiet down, and then shouted to Tesosomok:
"Don't look at us like that. This is a fair contest. It was initiated and accepted by your priests themselves. Tesosomok, now the winner is decided, I guarantee that all of you remaining You can all leave here safely. I will also give you material help, and the warriors of my tribe will also protect your safety. I hope this competition will not affect the alliance between us and Aztlan."
"Covenant...covenant..."
Tesosomok gritted his teeth in anger. This tribe is an ally of the Aztlan Empire, but not an ally of Tesozomoc. Once Ella died, all his plans to replace the Sun King were in vain, and the lords of the various states in the camp could no longer support him.
But I heard Amy suddenly say in a very low voice from the side:
"...Your Majesty, if you dare to pretend to be dead for me again, I will burn you with fire."
"Guah!" Ella screamed strangely and sat up from the ground, "God of spring water? God of spring water, are you still there?"
In the eyes of the stunned people, Ella glanced around in confusion, as if she had just woken up from a deep sleep.
"I'm...back? I'm back...well, I'm back."
She nodded in an extremely exaggerated manner, then stood up, separated from the Aztlan soldiers, and came to the leader.
"As promised, I have already drank the spring water." She said, "Do you want to continue the competition?"
The leader glanced up and down at Ella with startled eyes. The girl who drank the deadly black spring was not only alive, but it was not an exaggeration to describe her as alive and well. Even he could only ask hesitantly at this time: "Weren't you just... dead?"
"The God of Spring Water has no intention of attacking me. Under the protection of Quetzalcoatl, how could I die because of this non-hostile divine power?" Ella replied quietly, "Didn't you say that this is a place where the living and the The entrance to the world of the dead? I just went to the underworld through the entrance and chatted with your spring god for a while."
"Chat? You?" The priest pointed at Ella with a trembling finger and said in a voice that was also trembling with anger, "You are talking nonsense again. How can you, a minion of the evil god, meet with the God of Spring Water?" ?me……!"
"I endured the power of the black spring and passed through the passage between the two worlds. Why can't I meet the God of the Spring?" Ella glanced at the priest disdainfully: "I can't even feel the power of the God of the Spring. Why are you telling me what to do?"
"I...you..."
The priest choked on Ella's words, turned to the leader angrily and shouted:
"Munamenek, immediately order the capture of this magic stick! Let her be executed on the spot in this holy place!"
Unexpectedly, the leader shook his head: "This is not possible."
"No... Munamenek, do you know what you are talking about?" The priest pointed at the leader, his voice becoming more and more angry, "If you betray the God of the Spring, the God will permanently expel you from the tribe!"
This is the most serious threat. The priest does not have the power to banish the leader, but once the god of the tribe issues a clear oracle through the mouth of the priest, everyone in the entire tribe will stand against the leader. In this sense, the priests were the ones with the highest authority over the entire tribe.
But this time, the leader did not listen to the priest. He looked at the priest and said:
"This girl said something about the covenant between the God of Fountains and Quetzalcoatl before. It's best to confirm whether her words are true, so as not to violate the will of God. Can you please confirm it again?"
"Confirm? Of course." The priest nodded without hesitation, "Prepare animals for sacrifice for me, and I will use dance to attract the words of the gods..."
"No, it's not a dance." The leader shook his head and said, "This girl claims to have seen the God of Spring through the Gate of Two Worlds. We'd better give it a try?"
"We... Munamenek! You and I are only mortals after all. How can we dream of leading to the world of gods? How can we realize it?"
Hearing this argument, Ella lost no time in lifting the bag of plant ash.
"The items I use for protection are right here. If you want to use them, feel free to use them. The God of Spring Water just said that he also wants to see his followers."
The priest stepped back cringingly - Ella's look frightened him. He was keenly aware that the powder after burning these weeds would not give him the same help.
"Just follow the steps that the girl just did." The leader encouraged, "Since the people of Quetzalcoatl can do it, you are the servant of the God of Spring, so you can do it too."
The priest spun around in a circle with his trembling body, his eyes sweeping over the tribesmen one after another. From the eager and expectant eyes of the tribesmen, he knew that he had been forced to a dead end.
"Okay... okay... I'm going to try to see the God of Spring Water now."
With a trembling voice, he prayed to the spring alone. Then, with the hump on his back, he danced an indescribable deformed dance all alone. After doing all this, he scooped up the spring water, followed Ella's example and poured the spring water through the plant ashes, and caught the filtered spring water below.
He imitated Ella and drank all the spring water, but before he drank half of it, he immediately threw away the bowl and covered his throat in pain. Soon, he covered his stomach with a ferocious expression and started wailing.
