"Clatter."
A crystal goblet filled with wine was placed on the table by two pale, slender fingers. Judging from the marks on the rim, it seemed that someone had taken a small sip.
A pure silver spoon scooped up the iced watermelon crisp cake on the table. A dollop of cream with pink jelly was caught in the spoon and slowly detached from the cake, being stuffed into a pure white mouth without lips.
That's right, Norton doesn't have lips.
His mouth closed, leaving only a narrow gap.
But this did not diminish his exquisite beauty in the slightest; on the contrary, it highlighted an inhuman, bizarre Divinity.
"Call..."
Seemingly enjoying a bite of cake, his two narrow eyes closed slightly, forming an extremely thin slit. On his perfect face, devoid of eyelashes and eyebrows, an expression of extreme comfort and ease was on display.
Norton's facial structure is extremely strange; he has no eyebrows, eyelashes, or even nostrils, but a rather delicate and well-defined protrusion at the nose.
However, the overall smooth shape complements the absence of lips and corners of the eyes perfectly.
Exquisite and perfect, yet devoid of human form.
Even after seeing that face countless times since becoming Vampire, Abraham still felt a strange, inhuman fear. Even though Norton seemed to be in a good mood, he was still on edge and dared not make a sound.
After a long while, Norton, having enjoyed the delicious food, finally opened his eyes again, his golden eyes finally focusing on Abraham, who was waiting respectfully to the side.
"Your Majesty!"
The old Vampire Abraham immediately bowed and saluted, adopting a humble posture.
The pure white, non-human creature sitting on the soft sofa nodded slightly, seemingly in response to Abraham.
However, she then straightened the pure silver crown on her pure silver hair, smoothed her full head of silver hair, and acted as if no one was around.
Abraham was not surprised. His Majesty seemed to have become increasingly lazy in recent years, and it was rare to see him so leisurely enjoying a meal like today. He usually spent most of his time reclining on the sofa quietly reading books, rarely making any other demands.
It seems that because the changes in public opinion and forms in human society today have not been unexpected, there is a certain leisure and elegance to be found today.
"Your Majesty, public opinion has developed as you predicted. It started by celebrating the success of the Subspace Jump, but has now shifted to questioning why you did not take the initiative to suppress the mutated creatures and help humanity surpass the speed of light."
Furthermore, the scale of the skepticism is growing, with the internet flooded with doubts and denials against you. Some have even formed organizations to spread these doubts and fabricated rumors.
Even worse, some blatantly spread rumors, claiming that humans are merely nourishment you've kept in captivity. They assert that you could easily help humanity transcend the speed of light and solve the problem of human reproduction with a mere thought, yet you haven't provided any assistance because you don't want the human population to become too large and escape your control...
Abraham sighed softly, his words carrying a sense of helplessness.
This powerlessness is not because these rumor-mongers are right, but because of the insatiable greed of humankind.
Indeed, these questions are valid. Norton can indeed solve the problem of human reproduction and expansion in an instant, and he can also forcibly suppress all the strange creatures created by souls invading reality.
However, whether or not you want to do it is Your Majesty's choice, not Your Majesty's obligation!
The Pale God Norton, the true God who maintained peace in the Human Federation for three thousand years and granted humanity the power of immortality, could actually have refused to grant humanity the opportunity to evolve. He could have remained high above, watching humanity fight and die.
But His Majesty is merciful. He suppressed peace for humanity for three hundred years, he granted humanity longevity, and he even transformed things to help the human race develop and prosper.
Today, instead of feeling grateful to Your Majesty for immortality and evolution, humanity has begun to question why Your Majesty hasn't done more.
If Your Majesty truly grants their wishes once again, will their next step be to become God themselves?
While longevity and long life bring extensive knowledge and far more meticulous thinking than ordinary people, they also lead to indifference towards life and a tendency to judge issues from an emotional and personal perspective.
The Abraham of the past would never have thought this way.
Ten thousand years ago, all he wanted was to live. In the time of Jonah, he felt he had lived enough and wanted to save all living beings, to break free from the repression within his heart that he had never dared to touch.
Today, his perspective has moved beyond himself, beyond good and evil, and he has begun to examine human nature and all problems.
Therefore, he now sees the baseness of human nature, just like Norton.
Not only did he see it, but even Duoxia, who was once known as the 'reformer of society' and the 'Pope', saw it as well.
"Perhaps the continuation of humanity does not necessarily require peace. War, oppression, exploitation, and competition can actually better promote the spontaneous correction of human society."
Standing next to Abraham, Duoxia was dressed in a suit, wore glasses, and held a book on human psychology and sociology, looking every bit the old scholar.
They haven't wasted their time over the years; they study philosophical works on human thought every day.
This kind of scholarship, which directly studies the psychological and social foundations of humanity, is the kind of work that truly abandons all emotions and conflicts of interest, and straightforwardly depicts human nature and sociality.
However, these kinds of things all have drawbacks. The more you look at them, the more you fall into emotional nihilism, and the more you disregard the joys and sorrows of individual lives.
But isn't this also a symbol of becoming a deity?
High and mighty, cold and indifferent.