Five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the Blood Court Holy City has already taken shape.
The already large imperial city expanded even further after Norton took over, with all the wooden houses being demolished and Gothic buildings erected over five years to form a classic Central Europe architectural complex.
The Ancient Holy Noah Empire was different from the Ancient Holy Rome Empire in Norton's memory. Although it covered a vast area, it was still a large feudal state. Not only was it inferior to Rome in terms of its system, but it was also inferior to the Ancient Rome Empire in terms of architecture, technology, wonders, and heritage.
After all, the lords each governed their own territories, allowing them to live a life of luxury and inhumanity. But to expect them to develop technology and civilization was simply giving them too much credit.
This also resulted in a relatively uniform architectural style in the Southern Continent, consisting mainly of Gothic-style buildings with pointed arches, flying buttresses, and towering spires, as well as various large and small circular castles.
This led to the construction of the Blood Clan Holy City, which was truly similar to the spire palaces inhabited by Vampire.
The only difference is that the Papal State' monasteries and Holy See today, in order to highlight God's holiness and to distinguish themselves, underwent large-scale modifications to their exteriors based on Papal State architecture. However, this also became one of the reasons for attacks by the Boya Empire and other small countries.
Disregarding ancient customs!
However, His Holiness Norton was extremely supportive of these actions by the Papal State.
Although building this wonder required enormous human and material resources, it is also an important landmark that embodies culture and spirit.
For example, when you think of France, you think of Notre-Dame de Paris; when you think of Egypt, you think of the pyramids; when you think of the United States, you think of the Twin Towers... Although the construction of these wonders was a crime in this era of low productivity, they represent the carriers of culture and the connotations of spirit.
For example, when people mention the Blood Clan Holy City, they think of the Scarlet Tower built by His Majesty Norton. Naturally, images of the Scarlet Tower come to mind, followed by the image of the Blood Clan Holy City, and then the image of the Blood Clan...
In short, His Majesty Norton was incompetent and tyrannical, spending five years building a Scarlet Tower for himself with 50,000 Third-Generation Vampire, hoping to highlight the prestige of Vampire.
This Hajinuo...
The Blood Clan Scarlet Tower, stands over 230 meters tall and is constructed entirely of stone. A single stone brick and the exquisite patterns carved on it require a Vampire to grind for an entire day to finally achieve the required standard.
The Scarlet Tower stands 234 meters tall, with a base covering an area of over 10,000 square meters. It has a total of 39 floors, and its exterior is decorated with exquisite Vampire designs. Even the interior of each floor is adorned with intricate murals. The murals on all 39 floors together tell the story of the Vampire's birth, fabricated by Norton, as an epic to be preserved for future generations. This also makes Norton's fabricated history of the Vampire's birth more believable.
Such a massive tower, even in this era, is truly a magnificent spectacle! If it were built with the manpower and resources of this time, it would take at least a hundred years to complete. However, in the hands of Vampire who are virtually invincible except through special means, it is not a particularly difficult task.
His Majesty Norton built this tower not only to make his fabricated lies more credible and widespread, but also to make it tall enough that if the Holy Judgment Order came again and failed to drown them with the moat, Norton could stand at the top of the tower and throw them off, killing them by falling from the sky!
Norton truly hasn't forgotten his original aspirations.
With the completion of the Scarlet Tower, Norton moved in with his entire family, and a month has passed since then.
"Whew~~~"
A cold wind howled, bringing with it a lot of ice and snow. With the wind blowing, even the tall spire seemed to sway slightly.
At the top of the Scarlet Tower, the towering His Majesty Norton, dressed in a blood-red royal robe and wearing a scarlet crown, sat regally on his magnificent throne.
Five years have passed, and he has grown quite a bit taller, now reaching a height of 2.5 meters.
In addition, he is already at the point of advancing from the Second Stage to the Third Stage.
Norton's once withered flesh has now regained some plumpness. Although his body is still slender, it no longer has the skinny stick-like appearance of before. His flesh, which has regained some moisture, combined with his tall body, highlights a kind of slender and beautiful figure.
The only drawback is that the wrinkled skin seems to have been there for too long, making it difficult to regain its smoothness. Instead, it looks like the stratum corneum that has been soaked in water and is beginning to ulcerate.
This ulceration process is like those itchy and painful blisters that grow on your feet. You don't need to do anything about it; it will gradually dry up and then the skin on your feet will peel off.
However, the festering was so obvious and extremely unsightly that it transformed Norton from a dried-up corpse into a rotting body, with bits of dry skin occasionally peeling off his body, which was utterly disgusting.
Beneath the shed skin, the exposed flesh was white and wrinkled.
However, these wrinkles are no longer like the wrinkles caused by dryness, but more like the moisturized wrinkles caused by a baby soaking in amniotic fluid for too long.
Its white color is no longer the bluish-white that appeared before due to the lack of blood; instead, it resembles the skin of a white creature, an essential white.
Norton appears to be gradually molting, in order to form a completely new species...
His Majesty Norton, seated on his throne, had his reddish-brown eyes slightly closed, his expression solemn, as if he were engaged in some solemn mental activity.
Cold winds blew in through the windows of the tower in gusts, causing His Majesty Norton's blood-red Norton robes to flutter and his slightly peeling skin to sway, adding to the already grotesque and repulsive appearance of his body.
However, the tall figure seated on the throne remained motionless, like a stone statue, exuding a solemn and dignified aura.
But the wind in the air was getting stronger and stronger.
The cold wind blew into the hearts of the Vampire in the Blood Clan Holy City, causing a sharp, agonizing pain, as if their very souls were being ripped out!
"Aaaaaah!!!" A shrill scream echoed through the Blood Clan Holy City. Countless Vampire on the streets, whether Second Stage- or Third Stage, nobles or slaves, could not withstand the biting cold wind. It blew so hard that they let out heart-wrenching screams, and some even fell to the ground in pain, writhing and trembling.
And the situation was even worse for Grand Duke Abraham and Grand Duke Elizabeth, who lived at the bottom of the Scarlet Tower!
"Aaaaaah!!!!"
A piercing scream rang out from Abraham's mouth; the pain, emanating from within, felt as if a red-hot iron nail had been driven into his body through his forehead, causing him to spasm with agony.
Under such extreme pain, one only wants to tear one's own flesh apart and remove the burning hot nail that was driven in.
This caused both Abraham and Elizabeth to collapse to the ground in agony, writhing and twisting, their fingernails growing long and sharp as they tore at their skin, trying to rip their flesh apart alive.