Recaps

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 escaped Lino City with Abraham and Coal Ball as Church knights attacked, and he traveled across the Southern Continent before reaching Mann.
• Norton seized control of Mann, made Elizabeth a blood slave, and organized the town’s people into vampire generations under his rule.
• Norton established the Blood Red Church, named Coal Ball the True Ancestor, and sent vampires across Sesvia while Abraham’s Inquisition punished those who broke the laws.
• After years of conditioning Elizabeth, Norton had Prince Plum Blossom turn her into a First-Generation Vampire and gave her authority alongside Abraham.
• Abraham secured the Sesvian royal family’s conversion, then expelled them from the palace and declared that the Blood Red Church would govern the kingdom for Norton.
• Norton arrived in Sesvia and built a system of vampire lords, slave labor, human provisions, and divided oversight, while restricting people from leaving the expanding Blood-Red Holy See.
• Pope Adam ordered massacres to prevent neighboring kingdoms from recovering, and the destruction of Savanea turned the war into a struggle for survival.
• Yalian III led a reorganized coalition against the Papal State, and after years of immense losses the war stalemated again as Norton sensed an opportunity to advance.

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 transformation advanced the Blood Clan, and he established the Blood Kingdom while claiming that his death would kill every vampire.
• Adam’s Church intensified its persecution of vampires as Norton’s Blood Court grew through forced labor, reforms, and expansion.
• Norton’s experiments revealed that his flesh and blood caused mutations, including a malleable Primordial Lifeform, and he later left his laboratory to resume ruling.
• Yalian II died after urging Yalian III to avoid war, remain wary of vampires, and free Boya from the Church’s control.
• Adam expanded into Kate by winning support from its residents, prompting Norton and Yalian III to plan an alliance against the Papal State.
• Norton arrived at the Boya capital in a palace hauled by vampires, and Yalian III hosted a banquet where King Rosen insulted the Blood Progenitor.
• Elizabeth beheaded Rosen, and Yalian III ordered the knights to stand down while secretly planning to exploit the incident against the Blood Clan.
• Norton declared he would command Boya’s forces, attacked Yalian III’s guards, and pushed his palace into the imperial palace as Abraham and the other vampires fought.

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.

• Norton led the Blood-Boya Allied Forces in a prolonged war against the Papal State while building the New Faith to undermine the Old Faith.
• Yalian III secretly worked with Duoxia, then captured the Holy See, hanged Adam, restored the imperial line, and made the Holy Lord Church the state religion.
• Norton flew toward the Holy See to seek the divine corpse, while Yalian III revealed it to Edward and learned that Norton was approaching.
• Norton killed Yalian III and fought through the Holy Knights before finding the pale corpse and recognizing Karl, once known as Bill.
• Karl tried to remove the bone nail and died after Norton struck him, while the Holy Knights knocked the corpse’s cross down and dislodged the nail.
• Kuba awakened beneath the sunlight, burned vampires across the Southern Continent, and crushed Norton repeatedly without destroying his essence.
• Kuba revealed that God had created the vampire body to study change and reproduction, and warned that God’s will was descending as Norton reconsidered existence level.

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.

• Kuba and Norton fought over the bone nail and cross, and Kuba sealed Norton beneath the Holy See before ascending toward Heaven.
• With Norton gone, Saint Peter unified the Southern Continent under the New Faith and persecuted vampires, while Abraham tried to preserve the Blood Court through a new faith devoted to Norton.
• Floods, plague, political upheavals, and overseas trade transformed the Southern Continent over the centuries as Norton remained imprisoned.
• Scholars Qiaona and Luowei joined an expedition to the Holy See, where researchers uncovered Norton’s sealed cavern and the Church removed his body from the cross.
• Norton awakened, killed Pope Lai'ao'duo, and used his power to revive the dormant supernatural species.
• Norton reunited with Coal Ball, restrained the revived vampires, and appointed Abraham his divine emissary while declaring himself the God of the Garden of Eden.
• Norton considered ways to overcome the limits of his divine body, while Emperor Miles XIII investigated his identity and wondered whether modern cannons could defeat him.