572 The Destruction of the Ancient Imperial Family (1/2)
”Uh, sorry, let me begin again.”
The old man seemed embarrassed while he spoke.
”Let's start with the old Imperial Family. At that time, my father was still the Emperor, and although he wasn't the most virtuous man of the universe, he wasn't a tyrant.”
Traces of nostalgy could be seen on the old man.
”My big brother was born far before I was, but my father felt that he shouldn't become an Emperor. He didn't have a precise reason, just his intuition, but the intuition of a ninth level immortal can't be underestimated, so he worked hard to have a second son. You should know that for strong people, having children is far more difficult than for mortals.”
Yale nodded when he heard the last words, he knew that very well.
”When I was born, my father planned to make me the successor, but the family had rules. Although if the Emperor wanted to choose a son to succeed him, the order of birth didn't matter; only those that became immortals and obtained the legacy training method from the Imperial Trials can be chosen as the Emperor. Thus, my brother was still the successor since he was the only one fulfilling the conditions. However, he wasn't happy with just being the successor until I have grown up...”
The old man clenches his fists until blood appeared on them.
”His ambitions were far too great, he always dreamed of becoming an unparalleled existence on this universe, my father's decision was correct, he wasn't someone who should become an Emperor, but he should have killed him. If he had killed my brother when he had that bad feeling about him, everything would have been different.”
Yale felt that the old man was starting to lose the focus again.
”Sorry, I got emotional. The tragedy started the day I became an immortal and went to the Imperial Trials. Despite its name, it wasn't really dangerous, just some time-wasting traditions, so I went there directly after making the breakthrough. A great mistake.”
Even more blood appeared on his clenched fists.
”My brother predicted it, and he knew that it was his last chance. Once I cleared the trials, I would be the official successor. Since he was born a lot of years before me, he was already a ninth level immortal at that time. Moreover, since he liked to battle, he had an important position in the army, which helped him to turn a great part of it against us.”
His big brother had planned that for a lot of years, and there were enough people hungry of power on the army to make a small army of his own.
”It was a surprise attack. While I was at the Imperial Trials, my father was killed by a surprise attack of one of his own guards, who betrayed him to follow my brother. I was also assaulted by a ninth level immortal inside the Imperial Trials. However, they wanted me alive to execute me publicly while claiming that I rebelled to become the Emperor immediately and not just the successor. With my father's death before I completed the trials, my brother became the Emperor automatically, so he wanted to show his power to the others.”
In fact, it was illogical to think that the old man would have killed his father before obtaining the qualifications since his brother would be the one benefited in that way, but the brother didn't care about that because if someone didn't believe him, he just needed to execute it.
”Wait. I can't believe that a ninth level immortal was killed by another ninth level immortal that easily even if it was a surprise attack.”
Yale was sure that the Emperor was extremely strong, or he wouldn't be able to rule the whole universe, so it was difficult to believe that he died with just one attack.
”I had the same doubt when I heard it. After investigating about it, it seems that he obtained a certain item from a higher universe by smuggling.”
After hearing that, a word popped out from Yale's mouth.
”Existence Eraser?”
He had already dealt with people with smuggled Existence Erasers twice, so he wouldn't be surprised if there was a third case.
”No, I suppose he wanted one, but there were rumors that our father survived to be erased once, and although it was just a rumor, I doubt that he dared to risk offending the Council of Gods. The thing he got was poison, one strong enough to kill a ninth level immortal if it entered into his body. The weapon that killed my father had that poison on it.”
It wasn't cheap obtaining smuggled items, so it wasn't strange that he could just afford one item at that time. After all, he couldn't use the resources of the universe at will before becoming the Emperor.
”I wasn't killed, but they destroyed my chances to train more in the future and put me in jail while waiting for the execution day.”
It was for that reason that the old man looked so old and was still at the same level as at that time.
”I survived because of my brother's overconfidence. He didn't expect that I had a treasure with me that would teleport me far away. It was a present from my mother before she ascended due to becoming a Minor God.”