In addition, Norton decided to share the power held by Abraham.
They not only divided up the power they held, but even the power based on bloodline was to be divided up.
For Vampire, procreation is a very intimate and private matter. The resulting Blood Clan retinue is essentially the descendant of the previous generation of Vampire, since their bloodline is derived from the previous Vampire.
Therefore, lower-ranking Vampire naturally feel a sense of kinship and submission towards their higher-ranking vampires, sharing the same bloodline.
Previously, all Vampire bloodlines originated from Abraham. To prevent the Abraham bloodline from becoming too dominant and thus forming a united front to deceive the authorities, Norton vigorously developed Elizabeth's lineage, thus creating a situation where the two lineages progressed side by side and competed with each other.
As time went by, Norton seemed to be gradually becoming a qualified monarch, and his past struggles and good intentions had long since evaporated with the passage of time.
He actually gravitated more and more towards the Pope; he was a dragon-slaying youth who ended up becoming the dragon himself!
The influence of the New-Type Vampire grew rapidly and quietly in Sesvia.
To ensure he wouldn't run into trouble again due to the Church's discovery, Norton imposed a no-entry ban on Sesvia.
However, even without this ban, it's estimated that the Church wouldn't discover the Vampire problem in Sesvia anytime soon.
Because Sesvia was a small country, so remote that it didn't even border the Papal Palace, it was just a small carambhava among the coalition forces resisting the Church. Moreover, due to its remote location, it occupied a completely unwanted and isolated area, which meant that it had virtually no external trade channels.
Because of the various monsters in the wild, the investment required for a long-distance trade trip is ridiculously large. In remote small countries like Sesvia, where the purchasing power is low, a trade trip not only fails to generate profit but may even result in losses.
Therefore, apart from the various lords and the King of Sesvia jointly funding knights to voluntarily go out to trade, there were no other opportunities for trade.
However, this also gave the Blood-Red Holy See ample time to develop.
Twenty years after Norton left Lino City, the great war between the Papal Palace and the Boya Empire was still far from over.
The war, which lasted for twenty years, threw the Boya Empire and other small countries into a panic, wiped out the wealth of all the lords, and reduced their military strength and national power accumulated over a century to ashes. Only then did they realize that even without the Holy Judgment Order, they could not defeat the Papal State!
The Papal State ' ability to mobilize resources under its centralized system is truly astonishing. These vassal states often need to negotiate for a long time over even a small issue. However, by the time they reach a final solution and are ready to implement it, the Papal State has already defeated them, rendering the negotiated solution useless.
In addition, the Papal State were ruthless and indifferent to human life, sending all sorts of impoverished people into the battlefield as attrition armies and cost-free "filler babies" (a type of enemy), leaving the various lord states utterly powerless throughout the war, with even the Boya Empire complaining bitterly.
Furthermore, it has been revealed that the Papal State still possesses another team of Holy Judgment Order, which makes other countries even less willing to fight.
With Emperor Yalian II of the Boya Empire taking advantage of the chaos at the front lines, he and his crown prince Yalian III orchestrated a scheme to thoroughly consolidate the resources and lands of the various lords within the country. After nearly exhausting the power of these lords on the front lines, peace treaties spearheaded by the Boya Empire were finally sent to the Papal State in an endless stream.
For twenty years, although the Papal State had the upper hand on the battlefield, it had not made any territorial gains. The losses of those twenty years had also been a significant blow to the Papal State.
Therefore, according to the speculations of other countries, seeking peace now should be successful outright. At most, they might have to give up a small amount of their interests to the Pope in exchange for peaceful development.
However, reality was quite the opposite of what they expected. His Majesty Adam seemed determined to completely deplete the national strength of all nations in one fell swoop, ignoring their pleas for peace.
With a single gesture, the Papal State army, which had made no progress for twenty years, was able to unleash its full power and launch an attack on the territories of the Boya Empire and surrounding smaller countries.
His Holiness the Pope issued a terrifying and ruthless order to slaughter everyone in any city or village, anyone with a car wheel or more!
With the issuance of this decree, the original war of attrition instantly changed!
Damn it, you Pope are really dishonest! You're waging a war of extermination!
Such a brutal and inhumane massacre is unprecedented in history! Throughout the history of the Papal State, no pope has ever launched such a war of extermination that disregards human life. This is truly an act of tyranny, utterly inhumane!
However, it's most likely just a scare tactic.
Wars in this era were similar to those during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. It was a back-and-forth between nobles. When a noble was defeated, he would cede territory and pay reparations. Whoever received the serfs would profit from the spoils. Instead of slaughtering them, the lords cherished them, since the serfs were spoils of war, productive forces, and a source of food.
The Boya Empire and other small countries initially dismissed the idea.
Because this is an act of genocide unprecedented in history, they do not believe the Church will keep its word; they are more inclined to believe it is a morale war aimed at depleting the morale of their soldiers.
After all, population means productivity, food, and more people to exploit. The Papal State also consume a lot of resources. Even if they occupy land, they still need people to develop. After all, it is not a racial war between different races, so there should be no massacre. They do not believe that the Pope would be a fool who massacres his own people.
However, after the Papal State captured a city in a small vassal Boya Empire, the Papal State soldiers actually raised their swords!
In the year 2252 of the Catholic calendar, the largest massacre of civilians in history began in a city called Savanea.
The Church soldiers obeyed orders without question, and following His Holiness the Pope's command, they used cartwheels to compare the more than 30,000 people of Savanea one by one.
Anyone taller than a wheel cartwheel shall be executed on the spot!
The heads of the dead rolled in Savanea, the corpses piled up into a small mountain, and the blood pooled into a small river.
The stench of blood lingered for miles along with the cold wind, and the entire Savanea was practically turned into a ghost town by the carnage!
Savanea, a small frontier town that had never appeared in history, first appeared in historical documents in connection with a massacre.
The world was shocked when news of the Papal State ' bloody act spread!
None of the vassal states, including the Boya Empire, could have imagined that the Church was actually serious this time!
This so-called Pope is truly so incompetent that he even kills productivity!
What was his motivation? What did he really want?
With the revelation of the Savanea massacre, the nature of this two-decade-long war of attrition was completely transformed.