In the morning the activity in the line of deep defense was quite calm, the soldiers who had made their guard at night were relieved by their companions.

Because the weather was getting colder in the morning the soldiers wore cotton coats and woolen clothes, the sergeants and commanders had wolf and bear coats respectively.

Also in the mornings, the members of the supply committee spent distributing breakfast for soldiers consisting of a hot coffee with a tamale cake of green mole.

Despite not being the most nutritious breakfast, the soldiers liked to wake up with the coffee and the itch of the green mole, there was also a red mole tamale but the soldiers liked the green mole tamale more than the red one.

In the command room of sector B, Amancio was drinking hot milk chocolate with nutrients while reading the reports of the previous day, since the G.o.ds granted him another chance to live something within the change.

His body did not get sick and his wounds healed faster than others, the only drawback is that his consumption of sugar increased to the degree that even his wife is surprised.

When he asked Dr. Aulo about why this was happening in his body, he extracted a small amount of blood and a.n.a.lyzed it with one of the valuable microscopes made by the dwarves.

Aulo told him that somehow his cells multiplied rapidly but his multiplication was controlled in some way the G.o.ds granted him a capacity to heal quickly.

But Aulo was very emphatic that it is only the ability to heal quickly, if he does not have enough nutrients he will not be able to cure himself, so he specially designed for him, a powder of different nutrients that he must take daily for his body to store those nutrients and when suffer a wound can heal quickly.

Aulo did not like the dust because the more he took it he realized that his stomach began to grow as if he were getting fat but in one of the routines of the defense line an accident occurred.

One of the soldiers slipped from the top of the trench and fell on Amancio causing a broken hand, but to everyone"s surprise, he seemed to have an impossible angle, he regained his original shape in just seconds.

When Amancio opened and closed his hand he realized that he had no problem, then he checked his stomach and realized that he was thinner, he understood that nutrients were necessary and did not increase his weight.

Amancio sighed after reading the reports when a messenger came running "General is approaching a group of more than 1000 people with rare clothes, we can a.s.sume that they are not people from the Anahuac region.

We await your orders. "

Amancio rose from his chair "Let the troops prepare for any contingency and send a message to the emperor that the first northern tribes are arriving, I will meet personal that tribe."

Honovi the leader of the lizard tribe left their ancestral lands, fleeing from the cold and looking for a better place to live, on the way he could find some places to rest but the local tribes expelled them.

The tribe of the lizard is not violent so they decided to flee, on the way they pa.s.sed through a city called Teotihuacan where they only found human remains and signs of fighting,he knows some little Nahuatl because of the Mixtecs live close to their tribe, so he try to know with the locals what happened there.

There were only a few children and adults living in the city in a precarious situation, Honovi tried to communicate with them to ask what happened and the little he could understand was that their country internal conflict.

Hanovi supposed they were in a kind of internal war, he knew how destructive the internal wars were, during his childhood his father fought his brother for tribe control.

In the end, their father won but more than half of the tribe died in battle when he looked at the survivors he decided to take them with them to the south, although many of his people refused, one of the surviving women told them that they could leave them in the empire of Nova Roma.

When Hanovi asked more about the empire, he was surprised by what the woman said that children were not hungry and did not have to work, women have rights and men work for hours so they can spend time with the family.

Not to mention that the houses are comfortable and not cold when I ask Hanovi about why they had not gone to the place, the woman shook her head and said that the road was dangerous because there are bandits on the road.

These bandits are deserters of the king"s armies and the priests who decided to stop fighting to steal, they are not stupid and that is why they do not approach the line of defense of the empire but try to attack the refugees trying to reach the empire.

That is why they decided to wait in the destroyed capital of their kingdom to wait for an ideal time to reach the empire but since Hanovi was going with his tribe to the south he could take them to the empire of Nova Roma.

After this, they left again and on the way they could see the ruins of a city, unlike Teotihuacan this city was completely destroyed, when I ask what had happened.

The refugee replied that it was the city of Monte Alban but that it was destroyed by an army of giants that killed everything in its path, Hanovi asked what happened to those giants.

The woman replied that they had died at the hands of the empire and that the few survivors returned to their home in the volcano of the Iztaccihuatl, after that, I did not hear more information about their destiny.

Some time pa.s.sed and the tribe with the refugees, finally able to reach the border with the so-called empire of Nova Roma, were surprised to see a large number of soldiers taking care of the place.

The refugee told him to accompany him so they could talk to the soldiers about their status, Hanovi accompanied the woman to a building that already had soldiers waiting and Amancio himself ready to talk to them ...