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Chapter 1359: Living Sacrifice Customs
Amaterasu looked at the clothes in front of her and sighed heavily.

It was too revealing. She vaguely expressed to the princess her desire to add some cloth. In the end, some cloth was indeed added, but it was all luxurious clothes made by woven gold into the cloth. You could tell they were extremely heavy just by looking at them. Most importantly, they looked out of place with the people around them.

So Amaterasu decided to take some time to challenge this outfit.

At this time, there was a cheer from Turan City. She tilted her head in confusion. Blaze didn't come back, so what was there to cheer about?

Sitting on a high chair nearby, Vidoflnir, with his legs crossed, tilted his head and looked outside the rock window.

"It looks like the gods have arrived, but their powers seem to have been greatly reduced due to the upheaval. They look only slightly stronger than ordinary people... Oh, there's a special one in there."

Amaterasu curiously leaned on the rock window and looked out. Her eyesight was not as good as a chicken's, and even if she squinted her eyes, she could only see a few blurry shadows.

But she saw the "special one" that Vidoflnir mentioned, and she couldn't help but notice it. It was the leading male god with bronze skin and short hair that looked like flames.

What made Amaterasu frown was that the male god wearing blood-stained blue feathers was not unmoved or arrogantly ignoring the welcome from humans, but rather a worse form of [scrutiny].

She had seen this kind of look before, and sometimes ancient gods like Athena and Odin would look at the goblin sacrifices with this kind of look. But they didn't do it on purpose, it was just a habit.

It is natural for gods to accept sacrifices from believers. Even gods have accepted offerings from humans. Otherwise, what would they eat? It is the unspoken rule of gods to remember to give protection to humans after receiving offerings.

Of course, I heard that there are some gods that will not bring down disasters if you give them sacrifices.

But the male god looked at the humans around him with an expression examining a sacrifice, and she thought of the local custom of sacrificing humans alive.

Even in the ancient era of the gods, human sacrifice was a rare thing. Only when the gods were offended to death would they be required to perform a living sacrifice. But in this land called "Butterfly", living sacrifice seemed so natural.

It's okay for the gods, but it's the same for humans too.

"Are you here?" Quetzalcoatl's voice came from behind. He left the throne room where he used to indulge in decadence and self-punishment, and stood in front of the rock window, looking down.

He frowned when he saw the male god who was leading the group.

Frowning is a very subtle expression for Quetzalcoatl, a narcissistic and mysophobic being. He would either hold his forehead with his hand, looking like he couldn't bear to look at it, or he would praise, and frowning is somewhere in between.

"Who is that?"

"Huitzilopochtli."

"Vicillopopopopop?"

"You should call him Zuo Hummingbird. He is one of the four gods created by the original gods, including me. He is the lord of fire and the south, the god of war..." Quetzalcoatl sighed and held his forehead because Amaterasu couldn't even pronounce her name properly, and then his expression became complicated.

"He was an advocate of the system of living sacrifices."

"Then you must hate him!" "..." Quetzalcoatl paused and shook his head. "Living sacrifice is the basic rule of the first three solar eras. He just supports the ancient rules. I am the one who changed the rules. Besides, he is one of the four gods born with me. He is my brother."

"Hey~~" Amaterasu leaned on the windowsill, holding her cheek and sighing, "After talking for so long, you just want to say that you can't be annoying. Is that an ugly behavior?"

When talking about "ugly behavior", Amaterasu even imitated Quetzalcoatl's tone. Although Amaterasu couldn't pronounce the name properly, she imitated the tone exactly.

"I hate this guy." Amaterasu pointed at the left hummingbird simply and bluntly, "And I'm sure you beautified him for your own aesthetics. He is not a supporter of living sacrifice, but a fan."

"Look at the way he's looking at the humans around him. He's selecting the victims for his sacrifice."

"..." Quetzalcoatl answered with silence, which was basically his agreement. After a long time, when there was no sign of the left hummingbird, he slowly spoke.

"You can't hate it. The sun should love everyone equally. If there is even a little darkness in your heart, it will show on your sun shirt."

"No, I just hate him, and you should say it out loud." Amaterasu shook her head stubbornly.

"This is not only ugly, but also dark and dirty. It is a condescending criticism and..."

Quetzalcoatl tried to reason with Amaterasu in a slow and polite manner, but Amaterasu was only dignified on the surface, and what she said was highly rude.

"If I keep it in my heart, my heart will be dirty. In order to keep my heart pure, I speak out this thought, but it will only dirty my mouth. I can just wash it with water and rinse my mouth."

Quetzalcoatl opened his mouth and his hand was shaking as he pointed at Amaterasu. He wanted to say that he had never seen such a shameless person.

But this is a bit dirty, and it can't be said, and Amaterasu is just expressing her own thoughts. What if this kind of thinking is normal in the environment Amaterasu lives in? Is his criticism considered a kind of arrogance?

When Amaterasu saw Quetzalco pointing for a long time without even uttering the word "you", she knew that Quetzalco was in trouble.

This is the reaction of a person who has a god-level mental cleanliness disorder and is strict with others but harsh on himself. He demands things of himself before he demands things of others, and the result is that he can't do anything.

"You have never expressed your disgust towards others, and you have never mentioned your opposition to human sacrifice to Left Hummingbird or even other gods."

"...I once suggested that interfering with the rules created by others would have serious consequences." Quetzalcoatl lowered his head and sighed deeply. "In the First Sun Era, I was dissatisfied with the rule of the Black God and made demands on her to do better."

"Her response was that she could do whatever she wanted, so I tore the Sun Suit off her and kicked her into the water, where she turned into a night leopard and ate all the humans of the First Sun Era."

"That was a painful lesson. Now that I think about it, the reason she attacked me in the Fourth Sun Era was just for revenge."

"You are so troublesome. You even take such a bad thing on yourself." Amaterasu curled her lips, stood up and patted her skirt.

"Let's go, I feel the left hummingbird approaching, he seems to want to see you, and he seems to want to see me too."

(End of this chapter)