He Became A Monstrous Genius After Obtaining A Time Dilation Artifact-Chapter 488. Blood without Bonds

Kailen and Arrie stood by the entrance to the house.

It was very simple. It seemed the emperor of the Arman Empire wanted to keep a low profile with his visit here.

He had simply come to see Kailen. He had come as a grandfather seeking a grandson’s forgiveness, not as an emperor.

Kailen and Arrie entered the building and headed into the living room, after the guards before the room respectfully permitted them to enter.

There, a handsome man with velvet hair and a solemn expression was seated. However, his eyes betrayed his young looks. The look in his eyes was that of someone who had seen the vicissitudes of life. Also, he was in simple clothes that were not fitting for an emperor. He looked very ordinary.

Kailen and Arrie naturally didn’t care about any of that.

The moment their eyes landed on him, the man bowed with his head on the ground.

If anyone were to see this, they would die from shock. The emperor of the Arman Empire was bowing down, forehead touching the ground.

Kailen was calm. Not even a flicker of emotion revealed itself in his eyes.

"I’m sorry for everything, grandson."

Kailen listened carefully, as the leader of the Arman Empire spoke with utmost sincerity.

Kailen naturally felt the sincere emotion behind the man’s words. But he honestly didn’t care.

A man who, for the sake of his pride, could not come to the aid of his daughter, which was Kailen’s mother, when she needed him the most, was not someone he would ever come to have any emotional connection with. He didn’t consider the man a relative.

Octavius Clover continued, "I was a bad father to your mother. I have been a bad father to your uncle, a bad husband to your grandmother, and a bad grandfather to you." Octavius had an extremely shaky voice. "I did not come here to tell you to forgive me. I know I do not deserve it. Neither did I come here to tell you to give me a chance to prove myself to you, that I’m willing to change. I only came here to let you know that I regret everything I’ve done and every decision I’ve made."

Kailen listened in silence. Arrie held his arm, caressing it softly.

Octavius proceeded. All this time, his head was still bowed.

"I know your mother would not even want you to forgive me for what I did if she were alive. And you are not entitled to forgive me either."

This was where Kailen interrupted him.

"Sit down, senior."

Octavius sat after Kailen spoke.

However, hearing Kailen address him as senior and not grandfather pained his heart. The young man really did not consider him a relative, but only called him senior because of the difference in cultivation levels.

"That’s where you are wrong. I knew my mother very well. At least, for the short time I grew up on Earth and spent time with her. Knowing her, although she was very stubborn, after she left to the Astral Empire, married my father, and even changed her identity," Kailen continued, gaze calm.

"And had a stubborn personality, she would have been willing to restore her relationship with you, if only you had been willing to reach out to her, especially during the time she was in trouble in the Astral Empire. But you didn’t, when she needed you the most. And that was where you drew the line between her, her descendants, and yourself."

Everything Kailen said pierced through the old man’s heart. It was the truth.

Kailen continued, "I understand that every word you have said is very sincere, and I know you mean it when you say you are sorry. Because I have my ways of knowing when someone is lying to me and telling the truth.

However, to me, you are just an old man through whom my mother was born. You don’t need my forgiveness, and I don’t need your involvement in my life. Also, Uncle Lawrence told me that grandmother told him she intends to use her mysterious background to destroy the Arman Empire if you don’t manage to earn my forgiveness. Tell her that there is nothing to forgive, and she can go ahead and do whatever she wants," Kailen said.

He added, a voice a bit tinged with emotion and sarcasm, "Also, if she could have helped my mother then, with her background, why didn’t she?"

His voice regained the usual calm. "You guys should simply stay out of my life from now on."

After that, Kailen stood up and left with Arrie.

The leader of the Arman Empire remained on the sofa, tears falling from his eyes.

Was this the price he had come to pay for choosing the well-being of his empire over his family? He thought in the past that duty to the empire came first. It seemed he had been wrong.

But he had realized it too late. He had failed in holding together the only kingdom that should matter to every man the most—family.

"You heard him right, Elysia?" Auctevius sighed, defeated, melancholic. At this point, he was not even thinking about whether or not his wife would raze the Arman Empire to the ground.

Kailen didn’t even consider him a relative. To the young man, himself and his wife did not exist.

A silhouette’s projection appeared on a hologram.

She had been on call, listening to the whole conversation.

Elysia sighed.

From the conversation that had transpired, there was no way Kailen Darkhaven would accept Auctevius, and even herself.

"At least you tried. If you are willing to change, I can give us a chance again. However, we both have to live with the regret of what happened. He’s also right. I hesitated as her mother when you failed as her father. Had I utilised the backing of the sect, she definitely wouldn’t have fled the Astral Empire in dire straits, and would not have ended up dying on Earth. You failed our family, but I failed our daughter, and this is the price we have to pay. We have a thriving empire, but our home is in shambles," Elysia sighed.

"See you at home," she said, and the hologram disappeared, leaving Auctevius, disguised as an ordinary man in another man’s empire, to his thoughts.