In the sprawling metropolis of Elysium City, where skyscrapers pierced the heavens like arrogant fingers and the streets pulsed with the ceaseless rhythm of human ambition, there lived a man named Victor Kane. He was not born a villain; no one ever is. Villains are not delivered screaming into the world with black hearts and cruel intentions. They are forged—slowly, deliberately—in the crucible of betrayal and loss, tempered by the cold indifference of a society that preaches equality while rewarding only the ruthless.