Norton learned the church intended to burn him as a sacrifice, but he revived as a vampire and escaped. After hiding in a cave and testing his abilities, he returned to Holy Lord City, where two Holy Knights tracked him to his lair and attacked underwater.
After becoming a Vampire, Norton fled the Church’s reach and survived in the wilderness as Holy Lord City collapsed. He settled in Lino City, where Adam’s new Church policies and the approaching Werewolves threatened his quiet life, but he chose to stay.
Norton hunted Church personnel and discovered that his flesh and blood could transform creatures, as Coal Ball’s bite turned Father Abraham into a vampire. After learning how the Church understood vampires and divine power, Norton found he could handle a silver cross that burned Abraham.
Norton seized control of Lino City and built a vampire regime while the Church prepared to investigate the new vampires and fight the Boya Empire. As the threat of discovery grew, Norton began planning escape routes and weighed how to preserve his power.
Norton escaped Lino City and built a vampire kingdom in Sesvia, using strict laws and institutions to control the Blood Clan. As the Papal State’s war turned into mass extermination, Yalian III led a coalition against it, while Norton sensed a chance to advance in rank.
Norton built the Blood Court into a rival power while the Church advanced against it, and he forged an alliance with the Boya Empire to fight the Papal State. At the imperial banquet, Elizabeth killed King Rosen, and Norton’s confrontation with Yalian III turned the alliance into open conflict.
Norton’s campaign against the Papal State ended with Yalian III taking the Holy See, but Norton’s attempt to reach the divine corpse awakened Kuba. As Kuba revealed that God’s will was returning, Norton found that his essence could survive attacks that destroyed his body.
After Kuba’s defeat, the Southern Continent endured centuries of upheaval while Norton remained sealed beneath the Holy See. When scholars unearthed and revived him, Norton reclaimed his power and vampires, while the Church and empire began responding to his return.
Norton returned as a godlike Vampire Progenitor and built a following across the Southern Continent, while Miles XIII brought him into the Aodelan Empire’s rule. As scholars failed to find a way to harm Norton and rival powers planned conflicts around him, Norton backed scientific research and accepted the prospect of continental unification.
Norton turned the Southern Continent’s wars and a coalition’s rebellion into an open display of his godlike power. After crushing the uprising and executing its leaders, he founded the Pale Church and the Holy Empire, though resistance plunged the continent into chaos.
Norton’s rule gave way to Parliament’s growing power as the Southern Continent’s elites allied with the Northern Continent and brought War Machines against him. Norton survived their assault and fled, leaving the elites convinced that he could be challenged.
Norton’s war against the Holy Empire ended with his conquest of the Southern Continent, where he imposed a system of control that eased poverty while deepening fear. As Norton’s paranoia and fear of God worsened, Abraham and Elizabeth struggled with whether to seal him away, while Duoxia sought a new path and the Northern Continent prepared for nuclear weapons.
Norton’s fear of God and Jonah drove him to remake the Holy Empire into a military state and wage a ruinous war against the Northern and East Continents. As the empire collapsed and Jonah’s awakening seemed imminent, Abraham prepared a testament and waited at the Holy See while a dark figure appeared beyond the capital.
Norton drew Jonah into his scheme to absorb the Garden of Eden’s souls, but their fusion devastated the world and left Norton’s fate uncertain. Abraham seized power and rebuilt the Southern Continent before his rule ended in assassination, while humanity later inherited a world without extraordinary beings.
The Human Federation’s excavation of ancient ruins awakened Norton, whose return overwhelmed the military and forced humanity to negotiate with him. As a public ceremony welcomed him back, Norton recovered his sense of self but faced unrest and the consequences of his power.
After humanity’s return to ordinary life awakened Norton’s humanity, he turned from games to investigating the universe’s heat death and learned that God might descend through believers’ minds. Norton tried to redirect humanity’s worship toward himself, but a million believers gathered at the Wailing Wall and the Pale God appeared in the sun.
Norton’s peaceful order began to buckle under humanity’s growing unrest and the appearance of Soul Matter in reality. As the Human Federation prepared for war, the first Subspace jump returned a ship overrun by monsters, leaving humanity’s colonies divided over expansion, immortality, and the Pale God.
Norton manipulated humanity into war to turn people back toward him, while the Pale Church and Human Federation devastated each other. As the war opened a bridge between reality and Heaven, monstrous mutations overwhelmed the battlefield and the Pale Church suppressed the resulting panic.
Humanity fought the spreading Aberrations for centuries as the Pale Church tightened its control and Norton watched faith and suffering grow. Duoxia eventually accused Norton of creating the crisis, and the revelation plunged the Federation into chaos.
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