The demonstrations in the Southern Continent grew larger and larger, with massive processions spreading through the streets and alleys, stirring up waves of protests in every city.
Such a large-scale protest, this group of people has never witnessed a moment when the Pale God kills.
Such overwhelming public opinion demands a positive explanation, whether it's a direct massacre or something truly as they wish. In any case, the Pale God has focused all his attention on technology since the coronation must provide an explanation.
After five years of Norton, the Pale God Norton has finally revealed his attitude toward the parade to the outside world.
The Vampire Blood Progenitor Abraham, representing His Majesty's will, convened a dethronement ceremony in the Holy Empire's capital city.
The ritual's content was the procession's pursuit of true dominion over the Southern Continent.
According to Abraham, the Vampire Blood Progenitor, starting from Norton eleven, all administrative power over the Holy Empire of the Southern Continent will be handed over to Queen Maria Miles of the Holy Empire. The Pale Holy See will no longer participate in administration, retaining only religious authority.
Furthermore, the Pale Holy See no longer enforces faith, the number of sects is no longer controlled, and the twice-yearly Mass are changed to once a year, with the corresponding expenses still borne by the Holy Empire of the Southern Continent.
This reform, which maintained the separation of religious authority from political power, symbolized the Southern Continent's complete entry into the industrial age in both politics and technology.
At the same time, this is also the first record of a superhuman being from the mythological era bowing down to humanity, setting a great precedent for the spirit of later generations who dared to resist the gods and question everything!
Of course, these are all historical records from the Southern Continent and subjective praise. In reality, those who truly understand the history of this period, or those who study the history of this period from the perspective of the poor, would prefer to call this so-called great victory of mankind in the struggle against the gods 'the rise of capital and the fall of communism'.
With the Pale Holy See issuing a written statement and truly relinquishing power, public opinion across the entire Southern Continent completely reversed.
Norton, the Pale God who was attacked, criticized, and even constantly slandered in the past, was suddenly crowned with the virtuous title of 'sage king'.
Newspapers across the Southern Continent vied to publish articles, using the title "Pale God, Noble Deity" to wildly promote Norton's name as a holy God. They lavishly bestowed upon him qualities he didn't actually possess, such as kindness, nobility, and gentleness, along with various other high praises, in order to create a golden image for Norton. They also used public opinion to fix him on this golden image, hoping to truly restrain him under the weight of this reputation and prevent him from acting recklessly based on his own power.
Just like Homelander, who was packaged as a superhero by Vought Corporation, controlling such powerful beings with uncontrollable strength through mental manipulation and flattery is far better than using force to forcibly confront them.
This is also where their cleverness lies; knowing they don't have the power to overturn the table with that Pale God, they know when to stop.
It must be said that the people from the Southern Continent are quite capable.
But their skill level is clearly more than that.
As the Pale God was continuously praised, various noble qualities that He did not actually possess were bestowed upon Him, and Norton was thoroughly hailed by the public opinion of the Southern Continent as the greatest God and the most holy deity.
As public opinion gained momentum, those who used to march and demonstrate under the banner of justice were now being stigmatized by major newspapers.
In order to incite deeper conflicts and gain greater public opinion to increase newspaper revenue, and to ensure that the instigators behind the scenes lose control of the demonstrations, some newspapers, under the manipulation of the masterminds behind the initial demonstrations, began to criticize those who had acted violently in the past, in order to dampen the enthusiasm of these demonstrators.
Public opinion began to reverse, and the offensive strategy began to change.
Countless accolades have been bestowed upon the Pale God, while countless criticisms of the past protesters have begun to circulate among scholars, literary giants, and newspapers. With such polarized public opinion, the Pale God has not yet transformed into a Homelander of swayed by public opinion; instead, it is the participants in the recent protests who have been stabbed in the back!
Especially many of the young people who are leading the group.
They had just set up their ranks, even losing their jobs, all for the sake of participating in this march and demonstration to obtain financial assistance from their supporters, hoping for a windfall, or perhaps to use their passion to ignite a wave of change in the Southern Continent and express their patriotic fervor.
As a result, the Pale God has now become the one being praised, contrary to his usual behavior, while these people have been labeled as ungrateful and tyrannical. Even their supporters have stopped supporting them and are demanding that they immediately disband the march.
This bizarre act of betrayal, which yielded no results and even resulted in the loss of their jobs and reputations, drove the main leaders of the protest group completely insane.
In the eleventh year of Norton, public opinion reversed, and the Pale God was once again venerated as the Holy God and the orthodox god of mythology. However, the leaders of the demonstrations were dissatisfied with this outcome. Having gained nothing and even ruined their reputation and future, they decided to take a desperate gamble. These Human Federation and once again instigated the people to march, destroying city factories and engaging in frenzied demonstrations using violent means, hoping to obtain some compensation from the Holy Empire government.
However, how could the wealthy class of the great Southern Continent possibly spend their money on this group of insatiable lower-class people?
Thus, at the end of the eleventh year of Norton, Her Majesty Queen Maria, who had gained power in the Holy Empire, established a council to unite the wealthy class in assisting with governance. Although this action divided the power in her hands, it also increased the number of people in the management class, greatly improving the level of risk resistance. The Queen's reputation and power would be Human Federation, which would lead to many wealthy people willingly serving the Queen.
And so, this parliamentary administration under the divine right of kings has finally begun to address the demonstrations and protests within the Holy Empire.
In the twelfth year of Norton, the Holy Empire government spent a huge amount of money to establish imperial military and police agencies, and dispatched imperial guards to use flintlock muskets and even cannons to reason with the demonstrators.
It is reported that the conflict lasted for a full month, and more than 3,500 people were killed by the Imperial Guards during the demonstrations.
The total number of Imperial Guards mobilized during this period reached as high as 100,000, with enormous expenses far exceeding the amount demanded by the protest leaders by a hundred times... They would rather spend a fortune to kill people than spend a small amount of money to resolve the issue. This classic tactic completely unveiled the curtain of capitalism of the Holy Empire in the Southern Continent!
Similarly, it was recorded in the history of the Southern Continent as the ' Moment of Awakening '.
As for what has awakened, only the Southern Continent legislators who manage the writing of history books know.