Chapter 198 The final showdown

The realization hit him like a physical blow, stealing the breath from his lungs as the full scope of her machinations came into focus. Of course – it all made perfect sense now. The woman's lust for vengeance, her thirst for revenge against those she perceived as having wronged her...it was the driving force behind it all. And he, the man who had once held her future in the palm of his hand, only to crush it without a second thought...he was the ultimate prize. The final piece to be swept from the board in her intricate game of carnage and chaos. A lesser man might have felt a twinge of admiration at the sheer audacity of Mariama's gambit, the cold, calculating precision with which she had executed her bloody campaign. But Agamemnon was no mere man – he was a force of nature, a titan of the underworld who had clawed his way to the pinnacle of power through sheer force of will and an utter disregard for the concepts of mercy or restraint. No, Mariama's stratagems inspired only a sim