A bloody crackdown, under the command of the Vampire Prince Abraham, swept across the Southern Continent.
Its laws were unprecedentedly harsh.
Those who committed petty theft were killed on sight. Bandit strongholds were simply crushed by the army. Urban gangs were executed without trial, from top to bottom. Even those who marched in protest against such brutality were crushed under the tracks of tanks.
The fighting reached city intersections, where crowds surged, until the entire city fell silent and a curfew was imposed spontaneously.
Whether you were forced or not, whether you were only acting in self-defense or not, once you're labeled a criminal, the best outcome is death.
Tank units patrol the city around the clock, and anyone who dares to cause trouble is shot on the spot.
With such violent methods, the entire reclaimed area of the Southern Continent returned to peace in just two years.
The survivors of the Southern Continent were more obedient and docile than ever before. No one dared to mention the various controversies surrounding the Pale Holy See anymore, and no one dared to hold demonstrations or protests.
Such harsh methods finally brought together the survivors of the Southern Continent, enabling them to truly begin rebuilding.
However, due to the significant decrease in population and the sheer size of urban ruins, modern urban construction is better suited to selecting open areas in the wilderness and rebuilding cities from scratch, rather than digging up the ruins.
As a result, major cities relocated and selected new construction sites.
Abraham Uncrowned King, still had some skill.
Combining Norton's past management methods, it boldly implemented a nationwide integrated development strategy.
The plan is to relocate a large number of people from the Southern Continent to several specific regions, creating several mega-cities with huge populations, in order to achieve prosperity in advance and radiate outwards to the surrounding areas.
The Holy Empire reverted to the communism of Norton's time, Pale Holy See had the authority to select a group of extraordinary individuals with special abilities in farming, machinery production, and various other areas, specifically for farming, machinery production, and construction, in order to accelerate the production process.
For example, the Vampire race, which is tireless, incredibly strong, and has thick skin, would be used to perform physically demanding and high-intensity work such as farming, steelmaking, and mining, 22 hours a day.
The remaining personnel were assigned at various levels, and based on their individual characteristics, they were assigned to corresponding positions to engage in production.
Abraham's early brutality was reminiscent of Stalin's absolute iron will during the Soviet Union era, intimidating the survivors throughout the Southern Continent.
This made the implementation of his laws extremely smooth.
With the blessing of extraordinary beings, the ruins of the Southern Continent are undergoing rapid changes and gradually emerging from their trauma.
However, the Godfall War inflicted far too much damage on the Southern Continent.
Leaving aside the fact that the past industrialization process was completely destroyed, most of the highly skilled personnel were also lost in the war.
The technological level of the entire Southern Continent was roughly equivalent to its population level, and it was driven to the point of extinction.
Industrial products that could be easily manufactured in the past can no longer be produced. Even a complete industrial system is difficult to rebuild.
The books and talents that had been preserved in the past were almost completely wiped out, and the Southern Continent was forcibly pushed from the industrial age to a semi-agricultural age!
This made the reconstruction of the Southern Continent extremely difficult.
Moreover, the sky was dark, and even electricity had become a scarce resource on ordinary days.
In comparison, the situation in the Northern Continent is far worse.
The War Machine the Eternal Life Society used to intimidate the people was completely destroyed in the War of the Gods' Fall, and the surviving army was left behind in the Southern Continent and could not be brought back. With the mysterious disappearance of the newly crowned emperor Jacob, Jonah, the god they had pursued all their lives, vanished into outer space along with the Pale God, and the once powerful Eternal Life Society came to a true end.
The immense trauma of war, the vivid memories of past suppressions and massacres, and the massive casualties caused by geological disasters resulting from the Pale God's pushing of the Southern Continent Plate—all of these factors led to the eventual collapse of this stubborn empire that had persisted for nearly a century for a single goal.
In the first year of Maria, on the day that the Uncrowned King Abraham ascended the throne, the Northern Continent was plunged into absolute turmoil.
Various gangs, bandits, and robbers took advantage of the chaos to rise up, committing arson, murder, looting, and all sorts of evil deeds.
In August of the first year of Maria, countless rebels took to the streets, stormed into official residences and the imperial city, and rushed into the homes of the once high and mighty nobles, dragging out their entire families, even their maids, and hanging them from streetlights.
Chaotic battles erupted continuously in major cities, with gunfire ringing out constantly in the streets.
This is a revolution, a revolution belonging to the people of the Northern Continent!
The identities and membership lists of the former members of the Eternal Life Society have now become the death list of those who control the absolute national structure of the Northern Continent. There is no more convenient and quicker method of cleansing than slaughtering those on this list...
However, this cleaning method did indeed cause trouble.
Whether in the Southern Continent or Northern Continent, the empires of the past had only one way of preserving talent: turning them into Vampire with endless lifespans.
The current purge primarily targets the Eternal Life Society, its followers of the gods, and other non-human species, aiming to completely eradicate these human traitors who are not of one mind with their fellow human beings.
As a result, a large number of talented people who had been stored up in the past died in the purge. In fact, the nuclear weapons technology that was once mature in the Northern Continent was wiped out by the purge.
The various machine factories rely entirely on their old equipment, and once damaged, they are difficult to produce again. As a result, they have indeed reached a point of technological stagnation, just like the Southern Continent.
During the purges, some gangs and criminal organizations began to grow stronger, while some bandits began to establish themselves as mountain strongholds and even attack cities.
Those former members of the Eternal Life Society were all shrewd individuals. They often cooperated with these violent elements, recruiting security personnel while joining forces with the violent elements to resist, arrest, and execute these revolutionaries.
Ultimately, this revolution was initiated by a group of ordinary people who were afraid of being oppressed and harbored resentment. They acted impulsively and rushed to the forefront. Such actions could not possibly last.
In the third year of Maria, the first wave of resistance fighters in the Northern Continent were either killed or scattered.
This movement resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Although it failed to reform the Northern Continent system or truly eradicate the rule of the Eternal Life Society, it was the first time in the history of humankind in the Northern Continent that an unequal society of exploitation and oppression was eliminated, and the first attempt to build a fair, just, and prosperous society. It dealt a heavy blow to the rule of imperialism and capitalism and greatly inspired the proletarian revolution and the anti-capitalist and anti-oppression liberation movement of the people of the Northern Continent.
Most importantly, it completely disrupted the very foundation of the Eternal Life Society's unity, turning them from a tightly knit group back into the selfish, greedy, and incapable-of-unity nature of the capitalist or landlord class.
It is historically known as the August Revolution, or the ' Bloodshed Movement '.
This also made the members of the Eternal Life Society truly realize that they were no longer believers in God, but just shameless landlords or capitalists.
Unable to build War Machine to consolidate their hegemony, and amid the terror of the August Revolution, the members of the Eternal Life Society once again realized that they were merely landlords, members of the privileged class, and members of capital.
In this way, their previously suppressed greed resurfaced.
In just five years, the Eternal Life Society split internally, and major cities, regions, and states began to fragment, turning the entire Northern Continent into a chaotic society composed of more than a dozen major warlords and countless minor warlords.
They cooperate and check each other, yet they also expand by annexing one another.
In just five short years, the Southern Continent has been revitalized under the rule of the Uncrowned King Abraham, while the Northern Continent is filled with warlords who are constantly fighting each other!
In such a chaotic world, human life is as cheap as grass, and the people of the Northern Continent suffer even more severe oppression.
It's unclear whether their past victories in suppression have made them arrogant, or whether they feel their future is bleak and want to quickly collect money to accumulate enough wealth to flee the country.
These warlords treated the people far more cruelly than the Gothic Empire of the Northern Continent!
In places where power struggles are blurred, after a major warlord levies taxes, a dozen or so smaller warlords managing the same area will also levy taxes in succession. Even if you are lucky enough not to live in such an area, the so-called major warlords, who are actually capitalist Eternal Life Society, will increase the taxes, levying taxes such as air usage tax, rainwater irrigation tax, or even fart tax.
Such a harsh environment naturally became a breeding ground for revolution.
Ten years into the Southern Continent of Maria, a hooded speaker appeared in a tavern in the Northern Continent, a land rife with warlords.
Based on the past policies of the Pale God Norton, it was slightly modified to create a completely new system.
They even had in-depth research on this system, not only having reform charters but also movement programs and revolutionary slogans...
Even though some claimed that the speaker in the tavern had shed his human skin, spread his wings, and transformed into a terrifying monster several meters tall when he was captured by the warlords of the Northern Continent, the new system and even the course of action he described still attracted a large number of followers who were willing to share life and death with him.
In the winter of Maria's fifteenth year, beneath a dark and cold bridge arch, led by a mysterious hooded figure, a group of passionate young people from the Northern Continent, driven to the brink of oppression, formally declared the establishment of the ' Northern Continent Human Federation,' establishing the fundamental principle of 'human-centeredness.' Their primary goal was to create a beautiful society where only pure-blooded humans existed, based on true pure-blooded humanity...
The system that everyone in the Southern Continent used to reject was, in the Northern Continent, the kind of wonderful life they dreamed of, yet it was like a fleeting dream...
It has to be said, this is truly an extreme irony.