Hyper-Dimensional Player-Chapter 553 - 99: Divine Spirits Submissive! Corn Goddess – Yolani

Vulture Plain.

On this vast plain, two armies are currently engaged in battle. Although their numbers are small, the warriors they dispatch are fiercely brave. They fight not with the intention to kill, but to capture as many prisoners as possible.

The entire battle lasted for about a morning. As the victorious side returned to camp, they brought back hundreds of captives.

Upon returning to the camp, the primitive Witch Sacrifices here immediately came forward to greet them. They are called Witch Sacrifices because they are more ancient and ignorant, possessing both the magic power of wizards and retaining many features of priests from the Dark Ages.

The leader of the army returned to his tent, leaving everything else for the Witch Sacrifices to handle.

They imprisoned the captured enemies and then provided them with fine wine and meat. All the courtesy was according to the warrior standards, and the treatment they enjoyed even far exceeded that of ordinary soldiers.

"This is my beloved son."

Warriors escorted the captives to the distant temple pyramid, pointing at each of them to complete a sacred ritual.

Those captives softly responded, "This is my respected father."

Glorious War.

A war that exists for offerings.

These hundreds of captives were sent to the temple pyramid. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Here, traces of the Snake God are scarcely seen, for their main offering is to the Sun God-Tonatiuh.

Swarms of temple guards sent these captives to various temple altars.

The first to hold the sacrificial ceremony was Xipe Totec, the Lord of the Skinning, a god of rebirth who also oversaw agriculture, plants, disease, spring days, silver smith, liberation, and seasons.

This ritual required a specialized skinning person.

As the sacrificial ceremony commenced, priests began to cover the captives’ bodies with a layer of chalk material, and on their heads, they would apply the sticky resin of the rubber tree, allowing the Aztecs to affix turkey feathers to them. The captives’ faces would also be smeared with milky tree sap.

No need to say much more about the entire skinning process, as it can be roughly imagined, but not all captives were sacrificed in this manner.

With the sun blazing overhead, nearing noon, the second batch of sacrificial ceremonies began.

Priests used a finely polished stone knife to start digging out the captives’ hearts alive. Some were beheaded, some were shot with arrows and javelins, these different sacrificial rituals were dedicated to different divine spirits, and soon most of the captives were completely disposed of.

But this was not the end, the real grand blood sacrifice would take place the next day.

When the second day arrived.

Those esteemed captives would be sacrificed through dueling. It is said to be a duel, but it is not a fair one, because the enemies are not only Eagle Warriors or Jaguar Warriors who are well-equipped, while the captives had only fake weapons, using feathers to symbolize armor, and stones to symbolize knives and swords.

They would be killed quickly.

Subsequently, the god’s spokesperson, the Aztec High Priest would remove the captives’ hearts, as offerings for the gods, then use a hollow stick to dip into the wound on the offering’s chest, representing the act of letting the sun drink the blood.

Next, he would give this stick and a bowl of offering blood to the victor, who would carry it around the city, allowing all the Aztec deities to taste the blood’s flavor.

When he returns to the starting point, the priests begin to peel off the skin from the corpses and dismember the captives’ bodies, and then warriors would apply oil on their bodies, a kind of lubricant, otherwise, it might be uncomfortable to wear human skin.

Sometimes this honor, the warriors would also let the penitent wear it.

Having them wear human skin around the city, receiving cheers from people everywhere, and only when twenty days later the sacrifice is completely finished can they remove the human skin and bury it under the temple.

This blood sacrifice ritual was rarely seen even in the Dark Ages.

No doubt.

At this moment, what they are holding is a grand blood sacrifice ritual, which needs to last for twenty days.

In ancient legends, at first, their ethnic belief was in the Snake God, but later the Snake God abandoned them because the Snake God did not like blood sacrifices.

The Snake God was a benevolent god.

After the Snake God left, his belief gradually vanished, and the newly born deity was Sun God-Tonatiuh, who was a sun god that liked hearts, and it is said he devoured the hearts of the gods. He was also a war god, Aztecs would offer living human hearts to pray for victory in war.

The sacrificial ceremony gradually reached its climax, when someone threw the captive’s corpse down the high platform of the temple pyramid.

Just then.

The sound of galloping hooves echoed, followed by several native warriors wearing feathered hats, riding hastily into Cortezac City, coming before their King, Monte Ma II, the leading warrior knelt on one knee and said, "Your Majesty."

"Nomadic tribes from the east have invaded our lands, attacked Teotihuacan, and looted the Pyramid of the Moon."

This caused the gruesome and bloody sacrificial ceremony to pause momentarily.

But at the High Priest’s gesture, other priests continued to peel the captives’ skin, while Monte Ma II, sitting on the throne, frowned and beckoned his High Priest.

Eastern nomadic tribes.

They came aggressively, not only continuously conquering multiple tribes but also occupying a city in the south and looting the local temple pyramid. This land is rich in gold, and the temple contained many gold artifacts.