The Hollow Reckoning

In the iron-choked city of Velmora, energy heir Lucas Marrow mows down a janitor in a drunken haze. Desperate to bury the scandal, his dynasty picks a scapegoat—the victim's son, Daniel Grae. Broken and coerced, Daniel swallows the blame and vanishes into the prison abyss. Seven years later, he emerges not as the meek mechanic who went in, but as a ghost molded by darkness. Adopting a new identity, he slides into Lucas's inner circle, a shadow servant who quietly dismantles the Marrow empire from within. But as his vengeful machinery grinds toward its spectacular climax, Daniel discovers that the abyss he stared into has hollowed out his own soul, leaving nothing but a self-destructive thirst for annihilation.