After Elizabeth implemented the changes, things began improving greatly. The new titleholders were incentivized to keep their constituents happy, as elections would occur every three years.
According to Elizabeth's directives, the House Commoner's representatives began easing business regulations.
The Blue Bloods kingdom had very restrictive laws for starting a business.
Commoners needed a noble partner to start a company, and there was too much red tape everywhere. Those laws should have been repealed, but because Elizabeth didn’t want a void to appear, she and the House of Commoners' representatives passed those old laws as placeholders until replacements were designed.
After a year, those laws have been replaced by more business-friendly laws.
Elizabeth has been far less busy. She has spent time with her husband, Mike, and three sons.
She fears the future.
As a vampire, she will outlive all her family, so now she better be with them for as long as possible.
Alex IV saw all this and shook his head again and again. He cannot disagree more with Elizabeth on her actions. Seeing her like this, he gradually lost interest and returned to sleep.
...
A hundred years later.
Elizabeth has remained king for a century!
In the last century, she reformed everything; now, nobility is just a title and has no real power. Every elected official receives a title and loses it when they leave office.
Laws have become fair, with everyone equal under the law.
There have been attempts to rebel in the east, but Elizabeth quickly crushed them. With her absolute personal power, even if something went wrong, she was able to fix it.
...
Elizabeth was sitting on a chair beside an old man in a well-lit room.
The old man was on a bed. He was her third son, John. He was dead!
Looking at the corpse emotionlessly, she closed her eyes, stood up, and left the room.
She has watched as everything she knew died; time killed all she cared about.
By now, she began thinking about Alex IV’s words. “Nothing really matters!” she thought.
She spent years with her family and enjoyed it all, but what difference did those fun days make? Her sons still died, and her husband Mike passed long ago.
Mortal life is like grass; it grows and withers after a while. Vampires are like mountains; even if they dry up, they still remain.
She can now completely understand why John, Alex III, and Alex IV think like that. After living for so long, everything began to lose its meaning.
For a child, everything is new, and time passes slowly for them. For an adult, rarely anything is new; a year passes in a blink. For a vampire, who can live forever, after a few hundred years, there is nothing new; everything is bland and the same.
Looking at mortals with a vampire's eyes, they indeed look childish. They fight and worry about all kinds of unimportant things.
Elizabeth has observed generation after generation of mortals being born and killed. Even a century is enough for a few generations.
She did improve the lives of many, but people didn’t become happier for it. After a few years, elections became normal, and people began looking for new problems. She understood one fact in her bones: humans look for problems.
Before, their problems were food, clothing, and survival. After she improved things, the problems also changed from those fundamental things to more surface-level stuff, like having a better house, food, spouse, etc.
No matter how much one improves things, humans always find problems because they want to improve. From this perspective, Elizabeth didn’t do much; all her effort did was change things people complained about.
A while ago, she announced her retirement and an election for electing the new chief representative. She wanted the king's position abolished, so she named the new leader the chief representative.
The next person was elected and is now in charge.
Looking at the blue sky, she felt tired. The death of her children has left her with deep emotional injury.
Grandchildren never become like children. Parents see their children as part of themselves and love them more. When most mothers look at their children, they see an extension of themselves; they will protect the child even at the cost of their own lives.
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But grandchildren are just different. Of course, exceptions exist, but one's own child comes first for most.
Elizabeth closed her eyes. She wants to rest now, like Alex IV and others.
...
Five million years later.
Star World is a modern world.
Because of the cultural settings of the 'Alive' civilization, they can never go beyond modern. Now, the world is developed to the peak it could.
There is barely any green space, and everywhere is filled with tall buildings.
There are hundreds of billions of people in the world.
All farming is done with improved seeds and artificial light underground. Modern civilizations are advanced enough to control the content of the atmosphere completely. They would balance the number of plants that consume carbon with the emissions so that the world doesn’t become hot due to emissions.
The world was, in general, balanced and well-run.
...
In the central sea, a ship was scanning the area.
Around 1,000 years ago, they detected a very weird emission from this area; they tried to send submarines to look at what it was, but all their attempts failed. Since then, they stationed a ship there to keep an eye.
In the ship’s main cabin, Dan was looking at the monitor.
“The emissions are getting stronger and stronger! Send another signal!”
The subordinates nodded and began pressing buttons. Modern civilizations cannot control computers with their minds; that is for advanced civilizations.
...
Rob opened his eyes.
He has been sleeping in this bottom sea area for millions of years.
He can feel the world is halfway into complete realization; his ghost body is strong enough to feel the world as a whole.
“Again?” he laughed. Just now, he felt the signal.
The first time they discovered him was millions of years ago. Then, they forgot about him somehow. A few tens of thousands of years later, they found him again, then forgot him again.
Modern civilizations think they are so great, but there have been many extinction events in history.
Every time, they lose everything and will be sent back to the beginnings of modern ages and come back again.
Except his soul splits, nobody else could live past 100,000 years. The technology to prolong the life of the brain past 100,000 years just cannot appear in modern civilizations.
Not to mention that when each extinction event happens, brain surgery and body replacement surgeries would be lost, so many of the older generation and billionaires would also die.
Shaking his head, he closed his eyes.
Now, he is so powerful that he doesn't need to defend himself. The tiny aura emitting from him is enough to destroy any investigatory device.
In any case, he is now in his ghost body, and those people can only feel energy emissions; they cannot harm him in his ghost form.
...
Rose was still alive. She was actually a soul split from Rob, so she managed to live for so long.
Even after her brain's expiration date, because she was a soul split from Rob, he just placed her in a new body each time.
What is it like to live for 6 million years? It is unimaginable for humans who barely live a hundred years.
Standing up, Rose went to one side, took a long tube, and put it in her mouth. A brown liquid came out of the tube, which she ate.
Then, she returned to her seat and closed her eyes.
There were also tubes connected to her bottoms, so she could pee and poo without any trouble.
This room is called a standby room. In this room, one can travel in time, basically. Drugs keep time perception hazy; one can think they have been here for a day, but in actuality, a hundred years passed.
This room is cheaper than the isolation room, which places one in a white liquid and keeps them for hundreds of years.
Rose is alive, but only biologically.
The human brain is not enough to comprehend memories of millions of years. Every time Rose changed her brain, she copied all the memories of the soul into the brain.
At first, some genius brains could barely handle it, but now, as the soul’s memories get copied into the brain, the brain shuts down. It malfunctions.
Advanced civilizations can solve this with artificial brains and AI helpers. But modern humans cannot do that.
Even Rob cannot do it; all his older soul splits are malfunctioning like Rose. Simply put, the human brain’s hardware cannot handle such a vast sea of information; if one cannot hold information, the hardware must be improved, but modern humans cannot. Even Rob himself cannot go into a physical body anymore.
...
In the world known as Alex Kingdom, the situation reverted back to the default of medieval civilizations, with nobles ruling everything.
This time, the biggest empire is the Red Empire. The royal family is the Red family, which is said to have a link with a vampire family. Nowadays, however, the vampires are legends.
People live miserably, with nobles draining them as much as they can.
All Elizabeth did long disappeared. Nobody remembers the Blue Bloods Empire, the Johnson family, etc.
Alex III stood up.
His clothes have become tattered again. “I slept too long this time!” he smiled.
He slept for more than 100,000 years straight!
Moving at 6% of the speed of light, he stole white clothes and an umbrella from some noble.
Returning to where the Blue Bloods city used to be, he was astonished. Even until 100,000 years ago, there was a city in this location. However, it was now a massive jungle with no trace of humanity.
Moving with unimaginable speed, he found the biggest city in this new dynasty in place of Alex City of his empire used to be.
He frowned.
There were massive candles, with a thousands-of-meters-long candle in the middle of the city.
“Candles?” he started poring through his old memories. After thinking for a while, he remembered he destroyed the Candles Empire when he was just born.
“Why are candles back?” he felt weird.
Going in, he saw the clothes of the people.
It was funny!
Everyone had a hat, and atop the hat, a candle was lit up. The guards had red candles, while commoners had white candles. The nobles, who skipped the line, had purple candles.
Walking to the line to enter the city, everyone looked at him like he had two heads.
The guard chief with three red candles looked at him wide-eyed and shouted, “Where is your Spark?”
Alex III asked curiously, “You mean the candles on your hat?”
“How dare you disrespect the eyes of the great candle?” the guard shouted as if Alex offended his ancestors.
“Red sparks, go and arrest him!” the chief guard shouted.
“Weird!” Alex III thought.
Every time he woke up, the world went through transformations. But never was it so weird.
The red guards surrounded him and arrested him. He allowed them to carry him to a prison.
He sighed and looked at the prisoners with gray candles lit up atop their hats. Even prisoners have candle hats!
“Where is your spark?” a prisoner looked at him as if he saw a ghost.
“Why do you have candles on your hat?” Alex asked.
Everyone looked as if they saw the most strange thing in their lives.
“What do you mean? These are sparks, the eyes of the great candle! How dare you disrespect it!” the prisoner, who was in rags and looked poor, looked at Alex III with murderous intent.
“A bunch of crazies!” Alex III thought.