This instead made him feel, for a moment, as if he'd suddenly lost a lot of his goals.
When he walked out of this Great Tomb of the Undead that had been completely turned into an Obsidian crater, he was actually surprised to find his two sons still waiting outside the gate.
"Father Emperor..." The two Undead, who looked like dried corpses, gazed at the person walking out, and the instant they sensed that soul now free of all shackles, they broke into smiles.
Seeing these two sons who had long since become Undead, the Old Demon Emperor's expression was extremely complicated: there was melancholy, helplessness, and also a final trace of release.
"We two were lucky. We got assigned to watch the gate at the outermost edge, so we actually escaped that fire that was like divine punishment… all the other high-level Undead inside died instead…" the eldest said. He was a Sub-human with a few lizard-like traits.
