Alexi Ethren calmly posed a look towards Iona Ethren before he glanced at his father, who still seemed to be screaming and begging for mercy.
At this point, he figured that his father was going to die within a few minutes if he kept this up, so he used the core of the array to stop producing flames and instead sealed his father inside.
Kaiser Ethren groaned in pain. His entire body was burnt, scorched so much that even good facial features weren’t visible. He became charred black while possessing no dark blue hair, revealing himself to be bald.
Not to mention that he was completely naked, his display akin to being publicly shamed and humiliated. However, right now it was least of his concerns as he was still groaning in pain.
"Good..." Iona Ethren narrowed her eyes as she uttered a word of content.
She cast her eyes to Kaiser Ethren, her husband, and yet there was no trace of worry or care.
"First Mother, you’ve misunderstood again. I’ll execute him after I and my master publically announce his crimes. There’s no need for First Mother to step in these muddled waters."
Iona Ethren glanced at Alexi Ethren as she knitted her brows. Just when she was about to reply, she was interrupted
"First Mother, why do you think that your son, Hadre Ethren, the newly crowned Emperor hasn’t appeared yet?"
Iona Ethren narrowed her eyes that it became two tiny slits.
"It’s because the Emperor and I reached a consensus. I swore to the heavens in front of him that I would not target the throne of this Empire before the coronation ceremony if he didn’t appear in this scene."
"And from the looks of it, the new Emperor seems to have turned a blind eye to my actions..."
Alexi Ethren chuckled.
Iona Ethren looked stunned on hearing this revelation.
"I see..." She closed her eyes before opening with a determined glint, "If that is my son’s will, then so be it!"
Then even without turning to give a final look at her husband, Iona Ethren left the scene as she took to the direction of her new palace, living as the Empress Dowager.
Alexi Ethren became stunned for a moment before he shook his head.
’Sigh, a power-hungry woman indeed... She decisively chose to follow her son’s footsteps since he is now in power...’
’But for Hadre to not reveal his intentions to his mother...’
"Kaiser Ethren you womanizing scum! You will pay for your crimes!"
Five minutes were enough to time for Kaiser Ethren to at least save his face by literally keeping up and restoring his appearance. Yes, with some kind of medicinal pill, he had begun to heal his burn injuries, mainly over his face before he moved on to his privates.
He already wore new clothes, taken from his spatial ring but even then, his new clothes were stained by the pus that came out when his skin regenerated
He looked like a bloodied man who had jumped out of a heavily contaminated sewer.
However, when he heard the voice of this woman, he shuddered. It was that same voice that enraptured him into scheming for that woman when he was a madman, killing his own daughters so that he could father sons by relying on evil rituals and techniques of dubious origins.
Alexi Ethren blinked and wondered why his master changed her voice.
The answer was revealed the next moment.
"Arianna..." Kaiser Ethren seemed to mutter in a trance as his lips moved. However, it came off as inaudible to the others.
"Pfftt!!" But then he suddenly laughed as he sprayed a mouthful of blood, his injuries becoming even worse in the process.
"Hehehe!"
Alexi Ethren’s master who was called Arianna laughed with him. Their peals of laughter were equally crazy as if they weren’t expecting it would come to this stage at all.
Alexi Ethren frowned for a moment before he bellowed at his father, "Old fart! Stop laughing at my master!"
Kaiser Ethren looked at Alexi Ethren with a dumbfounded expression on his face.
"Hahaha!" He couldn’t help but laugh again, further aggravating his injuries in the process.
"I understand... I understand now! I understand why my life would fall into this mess!"
"How long have you been calculating this!? Hahaha!"
Kaiser Ethren couldn’t hold his crazed laughter. It was as if he realized whose fault that he was going to die and no longer cared about his life and death.
"Hehehe... Laugh all you want... For this day, I’ve been calculating for two hundred and fifty years, the day I can personally behead you myself!" Arianna coldly chuckled.
"Hahaha! Behead me yourself!!?"
"Look at you! You haven’t even grown in cultivation since the time I made you my woman and had you birth my child!" Kaiser Ethren mockingly laughed.