The Abyss of Vengeance

In the fictional Kingdom of Astravia, a catastrophic crowd crush during the Feast of Saint Theron at Vintras Central Station leaves a young bastard, Julien, watching his mother die while his noble father, Count Philippe de Valtier, abandons them to save his own reputation. Rescued and reshaped by a ruthless moneylender, Julien reinvents himself as the financier Maximilian Roux. Three decades later, he returns to systematically strip the Valtier dynasty of its wealth, honor, and heirs. Yet as every pillar of his father's world crumbles, Maximilian discovers the insatiable chasm within himself—a hunger that can only be filled by sacrificing the last remnants of his humanity and, ultimately, his own life.