Chapter 554: All Debts Paid, a Family Reunited

The scent of ozone and ash hung heavy in the Jinling night, a grim incense for the funeral of a dynasty. The once-proud Woolf family estate was a ruin, its opulent halls silenced, its members either dead or kneeling in the dust, their fates hanging by the thread of a single man's will. Maximus Woolf stood on the highest point of the shattered manor, his black windbreaker fluttering in the breeze that carried away the last vestiges of battle. His face was a mask of cold indifference, but his divine...