"Vampire Racial Stage Division."
Norton felt somewhat heavy-hearted as he turned the page of the book.
He had to admit, he felt like he would have been better off not reading this book at all. Before reading it, Norton had no psychological burden whatsoever - his days were just about pretending to be a beggar while killing church members, living quite happily.
But after reading it, he felt somewhat unhappy.
Church personnel might not be able to connect all the clues together because the Divine Corpse hadn't been publicly disclosed, but as a modern person, Norton could use his vast knowledge from his previous life to see deeper problems through subtle expressions.
For example: The Divine Corpse was hung on a cross, so the cross gained the power to harm vampires.
This statement sounded fine at first, but the more you thought about it, the more problematic it became.
If it was just the specific cross that hung the Divine Corpse that had power against vampires, that would be understandable - after all, daily contact with a god would naturally be imbued with some of God's holiness.
But just because the Divine Corpse was hung on a cross, suddenly ALL crosses could affect vampires - that was a huge problem!
Just because the Divine Corpse was hung on a cross, the world gained a completely new rule - what kind of conceptual-level power was this?
Norton genuinely felt an overwhelming, monumental power emanating from these few sentences!
The so-called Divinity and Status Hierarchy in this world were far more terrifying than any descriptions of divinity and status he'd read about in novels from his previous life!
The casual expressions of higher Status Hierarchy beings could become rules that changed the fundamental logic of lower Status Hierarchy beings - the manifestation degree of this Status Hierarchy was absolutely exaggerated!
In the novels Norton read in his previous life, descriptions of divinity merely symbolized power - stealing each other's divinity was just stealing power, merely another term for power. But the divinity in this world was truly, genuinely omnipotent divine will.
"Then what's the point of growing stronger!"
Norton felt this world was utterly powerless.
When he was still an acolyte, he felt completely powerless against the behemoth that was Holy Lord City. Now that he had become a vampire, he remained utterly powerless against God.
At least against the Church he could punch Father Mia. But against God, he had no possibility of resistance whatsoever.
Using force to break through all methods? That was pure nonsense. Your so-called power, when facing God, might become useless if He just changed His mind. This kind of fundamental, rule-based suppression left all species with no possibility of resistance!
Moreover, Norton thought of Coal Ball and Priest Abraham.
Before Coal Ball devoured Norton's flesh and blood, he couldn't feel any Life Hierarchy gap from Coal Ball. But after Coal Ball devoured his flesh and blood, he could sense that Coal Ball's Life Hierarchy was slightly lower than his.
This was easy to understand - before Coal Ball mutated, it was just like Norton, both creations of God, so their Life Hierarchies were equal, and he couldn't feel this gap.
But after it devoured Norton's flesh and blood and mutated, it began transforming into Norton's creation, so its Life Hierarchy became one level lower than Norton's.
This undoubtedly proved that even if Norton had incredibly good luck and managed to devour God's flesh and blood or blood, he would never be able to surpass God - he could only remain inferior to God!
After all, how could something created from scraped-together fragments of God's genes possibly grow to be more comprehensive than God itself?
The tiny gene fragments scraped out when you were created already determined your growth limit!
This feeling of having a growth limit, forever unable to escape God's control, was utterly powerless.
If the Church oppressed people in this world through force and ideology, making them unable to resist, then God made you completely powerless to resist from the very rules and fundamental composition of your being.
No wonder the Church worshiped God - even this oppression of life was so similar.
"Origin! This is the true, genuine Origin!" Norton let out a long sigh, suddenly finding a word that could describe God.
The Origin of everything.
Whether it was power, life, or anything else, everything was included within God. He was the Origin of everything, so He could also determine everything!
"Then wouldn't this world be too monotonous? When the world was created, its capacity and variability were already determined. A world created would have no possibility of change whatsoever.
Wait, hiss... How is this different from what scientists proposed in my previous life about the universe's total mass being conserved?
Damn, could it be that Earth also has a god?"
Truly Norton - his thoughts would always wander off track. This mental illness from being imprisoned for twenty years still hadn't completely healed even today. Dıscover more novels at 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⟡𝘧𝙞𝙧𝙚⟡𝘯𝘦𝘵
But then again, if he couldn't even overcome a mental illness, how could he overcome God?
Norton pulled his thoughts back and continued flipping through the book in his hands.
After removing the methods the Church used to deal with vampires, the most useful remaining content was the research on vampire stage changes.
When vampire numbers were high, the Church specifically captured vampires for research. This was something proposed by the Pope at the time who pushed through opposition. According to the records, it seemed every Pope was very enthusiastic about researching vampires. Only in modern times, as vampires neared extinction, did the Pope's efforts in this area decrease somewhat.
Despite researching for so many years, the Church still hadn't made much progress in vampire research.
According to the Church's research, vampires were divided into three stages.