The Papal State' Demon-Hunting Campaign has been ongoing for a long time, but it has become increasingly intense.
While it did involve a large-scale massacre of Vampire, the suppression of their minds reached an insane level.
Of course, even without the Demon-Hunting Campaign, their minds were already suppressed.
Countless people in the Papal State live in abject misery, and the once rampant Vampire are now like stray dogs, barely clinging to life.
Norton, the skeleton soldier who orchestrated this catastrophe, remained completely unaffected.
The scarlet royal robes seemed to have been soaked in blood, so red they were almost dripping with blood. The blood-red crown also reflected a faint, scarlet brilliance under the lamplight.
A tall figure lay supine beneath a starlight-lit roof made of glazed tiles. On the table to his left was a cup of the fragrant blood of a beautiful young girl, and on the table to his right were sweet blood pills made from the blood. The way he enjoyed himself was truly rare in this era.
But Norton has been begging for so many years, can't he at least enjoy himself?
"Keep building, keep building!"
The voice of the Third-Generation Vampire overseer rang out, accompanied by the sound of whips being cracked. The two Fourth-Generation Vampire worked together to lift the giant boulder and laboriously made their way towards the towering, pyramid-like building in the distance.
If you look further ahead, you can see that the area around this tall building is densely packed with the hardworking figures of Fourth-Generation Vampire.
Since Norton ascended the throne, he seems to have unleashed his true nature, utterly degenerating from a modern soul with a conscience into an oppressor of the feudal era.
Every word and action of his, every rule and regulation he set, upon closer inspection, all reek of two words: cannibalism!
Norton, simply by wanting to build a spectacle that is of no use to the current Blood Clan, would readily conscript tens of thousands of people to participate in its construction.
The hardship of the work and the demanding requirements during that period were comparable to those of the Empress Dowager of the Blood Court!
No one knows why His Holiness the First Ancestor built so many wonders, and why they were left unused after completion, seemingly simply for people to visit.
This is truly a case of disregarding human life for personal gain!
"Ahhh!" A few screams rang out in the distance.
The Blood Clan pyramid is currently 100 meters high.
Vampire were indeed adept at construction. After Fourth-Generation Vampire worked together to pile the giant stones to the top of the pyramid, they could have easily used their invincible bodies and physical strength, which were far superior to that of ordinary people, to jump down from the top and speed up their descent.
So at this moment, Blood Clan were jumping down from the top of the Blood Clan pyramid like dumplings being dropped into a pot. They would land on the ground, shatter into folded pieces, and then quickly regenerate using their regenerative abilities, so as to speed up their work...
Norton leisurely tasted the virgin's blood, savoring its exquisite flavor. His gaze occasionally lingered on the Blood Clan pyramid under construction, watching the figures plummeting down like dumplings in a pot. He couldn't help but cry out in despair, "All the palaces have turned to dust... Alas, in prosperity, slaves suffer. In ruin, slaves suffer!"
After saying that, he even pretended to wipe his eyes, what a crocodile tear!
This Hajinuo...
"Your Majesty, deeply moved by the suffering of the slaves, was overcome with sorrow and cried out: 'In times of prosperity, the slaves suffer; in times of ruin, the slaves suffer. Your Majesty's benevolence...'"
The beautiful historian standing beside the progenitor quickly recorded the progenitor's wise words so that future generations could admire the progenitor's noble thoughts!
Fortunately, although His Majesty Norton frequently conscripted laborers to build so-called wonders, he was always quite strict in his administration.
All Vampire must abide by the laws of the Blood Court and must not degenerate into sinful demons who kill indiscriminately. Moreover, most of their laws are designed to protect humans, so although humans within the Blood Clan realm are labeled as blood slaves and future slaves, their lives as humans are actually quite comfortable.
Even as a Vampire kingdom that feeds on human blood, Blood Court is the only country in the Southern Continent that has abolished human slavery, demonstrating how advanced its ideology is, truly living up to Norton's holy name.
Of course, His Holiness Norton's holy name is not only reflected in this.
Looking at the national systems and management levels of the various countries in the Southern Continent, whether it is the religious indoctrination of the Papal State or the feudal system of the Boya Empire, both severely suppress human creativity, resulting in no progress in science and thought for thousands of years.
On the contrary, the Blood Court's current management system has given humanity ample time and resources to ponder questions that have never been considered before. This has led to a flourishing of humanistic thought within the Blood Court in recent years, with technology also showing nascent signs of development. Literary works have emerged as a result, with a large number of books on reflection or stories constantly being published. It seems that a true golden age of humanities and technology is about to arrive, and it has even been hailed as an 'enlightenment' by some scholars within the Blood Court, who have recorded it in history books for future generations to verify.
How ridiculous that a human kingdom ruled by the Church and the king is ignorant and closed-minded, while a kingdom ruled by Vampire has sparked a wave of intellectual liberation.
As for whether this intellectual liberation would be detrimental to Norton's rule.
Norton had no concern whatsoever about this.
He is now creating the Blood Court, propagating the Blood Clan, building wonders, and distorting the history of Vampire birth... Every step of this is for the goals he set beforehand.
He would bury the old-era Vampire, bring the new-era Vampire to the forefront, and wipe out the only Church that posed a threat to the old-era Vampire, thus making himself truly invincible!
As for the so-called emperorship and eternal rule... he scoffed at it.
In this divinely created world, without transcending God, there is no true freedom.
The so-called emperor is nothing more than the highest-ranking slave!