"Splash splash splash..."
The rain poured down, and the raindrops pounded on the ground with a loud splash.
The sky was as black as ink; it was noon, but it was already as dark as night.
However, after the incident a few years ago where sunlight pierced through the dark clouds and scorched the Vampire on the entire street, no Vampire dared to appear in any place without cover, no matter how dark it was outside during the day.
The heavy rains have been falling intermittently for nearly three months. Although it hasn't affected the entire Southern Continent, the resulting flooding has already had a serious impact.
In fact, the signs of the floods had already begun to appear when the holy war ended. In recent years, the floods have become more and more serious, with torrential rains lasting for a month at a time, causing a lot of flooding.
As time went by, the floods not only did not decrease, but increased, with heavy rains lasting for ten days to half a month, and intermittent rains lasting for two to three months.
In recent years, the water levels of major lakes and rivers have risen sharply, and houses in some low-lying areas have been submerged, causing countless people to become disaster victims, either starving or drowning, or being forced to migrate.
The floods were extremely severe, forcing the New Faith -controlled Papal State to expend enormous manpower and resources on flood relief and rescue, leaving it with little capacity to deploy troops on a large scale in the short term. This gave the Vampire a final chance to survive.
"Creak..." The bamboo window was pushed open from the inside, and then a pale arm stretched out of the window, catching a hand of icy rainwater.
"Alas!" Abraham sighed deeply, looking at the torrential rain outside the window and the slightly burning sensation on his hands.
In recent years, the living standards of Vampire have declined sharply.
As the holy light of the Holy See appeared, the holy aura of the entire world rose accordingly. Many of the weakest Fourth-Generation Vampire of that time could not withstand the scorching holy aura that permeated the air and were burned to death, or chose to commit suicide.
In recent years, although the holy aura in the air has diminished slightly, it still makes things difficult for Vampire; even Abraham can feel a faint stinging sensation on his skin.
Several years ago, after the Holy War ended, and with news coming from within the Holy See, Abraham immediately dispatched spies to the Holy See to check on Norton's condition.
Although Abraham constantly wanted to banish the progenitor and take his place, if the progenitor died, Abraham would most likely die with him.
Therefore, for his own safety, he had to go to great lengths to check on the progenitor's condition and see if he needed to rescue him.
The news from the Blood Court spies, however, greatly shocked Abraham.
His Majesty Norton was impaled on a pale bone nail in his chest, suspended from the pristine white cross! The cave was littered with the corpses of Holy Knight and statues of Blood Clan True Ancestor.
For some unknown reason, all the Blood Clan True Ancestor turned into stone statues, seemingly guarding the body of the progenitor, or perhaps unable to withstand the Pressure inside the cave.
The arrival of such terrifying news truly plunged Abraham into utter despair at that time.
But what followed was a huge surprise.
The opportunity he had longed for—to become the progenitor and take his place—seemed to have finally arrived!
As for the progenitor sealed in the cave, it was undoubtedly sealed by Bowser. Although it's unknown whether it was truly the progenitor Bowser, the fact that he sealed the progenitor but failed to kill him clearly confirms that the other party did not have the ability to kill Norton.
Abraham was overjoyed. If the one who sealed Norton was indeed the legendary ancient god Kuba, then if Kuba couldn't kill Norton, it meant that the Church was even less likely to kill him.
Even using holy light and silver objects was useless, since the holy aura of the Holy See back then was far, far, far stronger than what is projected onto images of God and religious ornaments today.
Even when that holy pillar of light shone directly on the Holy See back then, it couldn't kill Norton. With the current Papal State's methods, it's probably even less likely that they could harm the progenitor!
The New Faith now controls the Holy See, and it will certainly not release the Blood Clan Progenitor. Since Vampire are not allowed into the Holy See, doesn't this mean His Majesty Norton will be forever imprisoned within its Holy See?
Doesn't that mean that from now on, Abraham will become the true Blood Clan Progenitor, wielding supreme power?
Abraham, who had just learned of the news of his ancestors, did not yet realize the seriousness of the problem.
He only wanted to be the progenitor, but he didn't know that being the progenitor wasn't so easy.
With the establishment of the New Faith Papal State and its unification of the Southern Continent within a few years, a movement to eradicate Vampire began to rise in the Southern Continent.
With the large-scale eradication of Vampire, the remaining Vampire could only eke out a living in the city, and only after they dared not drink blood in order to survive did he begin to worry.
Faced with such a massive wave of public opinion, Abraham, lacking the supreme power of a true progenitor, would likely be worn down by the endless public sentiment.
The New Faith now holds absolute power, and with God's revelation, Vampire have been branded as unclean. This effectively condemns the Blood Clan to extinction. If Abraham were still considered the progenitor, wouldn't he be a target for attack?
Abraham, who had just been happy, was suddenly devastated.
In order to survive, he had no choice but to ruthlessly abandon his status as the Blood Clan Progenitor. He then went into hiding in the Blood Court, using the very unconventional Elizabeth to attract attention, while he secretly took control of the Blood Court.
In order to prevent the New Faith from becoming too dominant, he also used the same tactics that the progenitor Norton had employed, and began to establish another Protestant New Faith within the Blood Court.
Furthermore, in order to prevent the newly established New Faith from merging with the Old Faith, the human sect he founded was finally renamed the ' Common Lord Faith '.
Based on the New Testament constructed by Norton, they believe in the soul of Norton, who was killed by Abraham in the Blood Pact, as God, and in Norton's dead body, " Withering Death," as the Primordial God of Death, in order to spread their doctrines.
As for the origin of its name, " Common Lord Faith," it is quite simple.
They believed that Norton was the common ruler of all people, so they named her Princess to represent the meaning of being the master of the masses.
Their use of the history of Norton as the foundation of their religion was a helpless measure born out of necessity.
After all, if Norton doesn't die, he'll eventually rise to power again.
What if Norton resents Abraham for not saving him? Then Abraham would have to do something to prove himself: 'Look, Your Majesty, I, Abraham, have always remembered you!'
They used the fabricated history of Norton as a doctrine to demonstrate their loyalty to Norton!
Besides, everyone in the Southern Continent knows that the Blood Clan Progenitor was named Norton, and by establishing Norton as God and founding a cult, hasn't the public's attention been drawn to Norton and the New Faith Church?
And isn't Abraham, whom the New Faith interpretation Betrayal, the very same good man who betrayed the cruel progenitor Norton?
In this way, Abraham could demonstrate his loyalty to His Majesty, use His Majesty and New Faith to attract public attention, and remove the name Abraham from his name, thus becoming a member of the human faction.
Such a brilliant plan, killing three birds with one stone, truly showed Abraham's exceptional wisdom!
Anyway, he's not going to be the New Faith pope.