There are stories in which change happens slowly. Step by step. And then there are stories like this one.

When Max Veith, the shadow tycoon, stepped down in secret, nothing remained but a rumor. No official obituary, no grave, no closure. Just a secretive retreat—orchestrated, planned, disguised. But the world sensed it: something had happened.

Volume I ended where all order threatened to collapse.

Financial markets reeled. Political systems flickered. Nations sought direction. No one knew where the growing uncertainty was coming from. No one mentioned his name—and yet it was his absence that had an impact: Max was gone. Mateo remained.