The Church is quite authoritative when it comes to being inhumane.
Norton is usually somewhat human, but when he stops being human, he's even more inhumane than the Church.
The conditioning of Elizabeth continues, her mental torment of pain is estimated to last a full ten years, in order to completely destroy her psyche, deeply imprinting Norton's terrifying image in her heart, making it her eternal nightmare.
Of course, this is just one manifestation of Norton's inhumanity.
The true scene where he stops being human still needs to be demonstrated when facing Marn Town.
The population of just Marn Town alone is far too sparse compared to the vampire army Norton desires. Even the entire small country of Sethvia with its four hundred thousand people might still struggle immensely against the Church.
So to rapidly increase the vampire population, Norton dispatched all the second-generation vampires, sending them to other cities in the small country of Sethvia to establish their own families.
That's right, to establish their own vampire families, not to let them reproduce without restraint.
Norton could actually select some weaklings among the eleven or twelve-year-olds in Marn Town, have Coal Ball suck their blood, infect them into first-generation vampires, and then release them all to spread infection randomly.
In one sentence, only vested interests will actively maintain the order that gives them benefits! Only by making the vampire clan strictly hierarchical will all first-generation vampires and those wanting to become first-generation vampires spontaneously maintain Norton's rule.
Moreover, the advancement method of these new-style vampires is also related to hierarchy. For third-generation vampires to advance to second-generation, it's not achieved by how much blood they drink or how long they live, but rather by first-generation vampires performing the First Embrace on them again. Similarly, for second-generation vampires to advance to first-generation, they must also have Coal Ball suck their blood and then spit it back to them to complete the advancement. It seems the fundamental reason they can advance is the amount of mutated genes in their bodies, not the quantity of blood consumed.
This advancement method undoubtedly facilitates hierarchical division and management.
If he were to massively reproduce first-generation vampires now to accelerate the vampire population, it would indeed have some use in the early stages, but the cost would be the vampire species completely degrading into chaotic monsters with social hierarchies inferior even to werewolves, with various vampire levels mixed up, management unclear, and some perverts engaging in massive slaughter and large-scale uncontrolled reproduction... until eventually the whole world becomes like a cesspool due to vampires. And the large-scale uncontrolled vampires, because of their poor social nature, would disobey Norton's management, leaving Norton with no control measures other than eliminating them... This scenario has already played out in Rino City.
Therefore, brainwashing methods and obedience control similar to the Church's are extremely necessary - using first-generation vampires as nobility and second-generation vampires as the foundation of order to establish a pseudo-church that oppresses third-generation vampires!
The Vampire Progenitor Norton waved his hand grandly, conscripting five hundred third-generation vampires from Marn Town and unconverted blood slaves to work day and night on construction in Marn Town.
In just three months, a relatively large-scale hall was completed, named by Progenitor Norton: the Crimson Church!
With the establishment of the Crimson Church, Coal Ball was sent out by Norton to take the fall.
As the true progenitor who creates first-generation vampires, Coal Ball was conferred by Progenitor Norton as: the True Ancestor of the Vampire Clan, enshrined in the Crimson Church, achieving the position of Prince! Updates are released by novel_fіre.net
Coal Ball's current physique is already considerably larger than ordinary vampires, plus as the true progenitor of vampires with true damage effects in attacks, it serves as both a mascot guarding the Crimson Church for intimidation and as the mother body for reproduction, becoming the spiritual leader of all vampires.
Why a spiritual leader? Because Norton is the actual leader.
And currently the only first-generation vampire Abraham was conferred as Duke Abraham, achieving the position of Vampire Duke.
To highlight his exalted status, Norton specifically gave him the position of Chief Justice of the Crimson Church Tribunal.
Vampires need their own laws to ensure Your Excellency Norton's rule and the obedience and stability within the clan, so the existence of the Tribunal becomes particularly valuable.
Upon learning that he had become the Chief Justice who could judge all vampires, Abraham almost got excited to the point of messing himself right then!
Abraham loves power more than anything!
The other second-generation vampires, because they possess reproductive transmission abilities, were all conferred as Barons, allowed to go out and establish vampire families, but under the unified control of the Crimson Church. All actions must follow the vampire laws established by Norton, and must not be violated arbitrarily. Otherwise, once discovered, they would be stripped of their eternal blood and suffer the torment of eternal damnation.
Norton's purpose in establishing this so-called Crimson Church wasn't to disgust the Church with the name, but rather he genuinely plans to learn from the Church's management system to cultivate members who devote themselves entirely to the Church, similar to missionaries and Church Knights.
So after the Crimson Church was established, Norton gathered all the young children here, using his own upbringing environment and what could be called imprisonment methods to brainwash these children mentally and train physical obedience.
Damn it, this Hakino has truly become the dragon-slaying hero who ends up as the evil dragon!
With Norton establishing the Crimson Church, various systems within the vampire clan gradually matured over time.
Although the transmission efficiency of second-generation vampires couldn't match the exponential growth of first-generation vampires, with sufficient numbers they still couldn't be underestimated.
As the overall system of the Crimson Church matured, the birth of external vampires gradually stabilized.
The nobility throughout the Kingdom of Sethvia were unknowingly transforming toward vampires.
And as the vampire population increased, Norton's sources of information finally reconnected with the Southern Continent.