The grand sacrificial ceremony was held outside Water Valley City. The War Priests demarcated the sacrificial area and erected the Divine Platform for the Chief Divine. They sang ancient hymns, lit the blazing Sacred Fire, and prayed atop the high sacrificial platform, offering the heads of divine enemy descendants as sacrifices.
The firelight illuminated, and the sacrificial songs echoed. Xiulote, dressed in the ceremonial dress of the Black Wolf, holding the Scepter of the Grim Reaper's Skull, stood at the highest point of the Divine Platform, several meters high. He looked down, seeing tens of thousands of legion warriors outside the platform cheering in praise, resembling bees swarming in the mountain forests. Thousands of Tlaxcala captives were prostrated at his feet, like an ant swarm covering the plain!
