"Maximus IV loathed the mainland and everyone in it with intense passion. Therefore, he provoked the Grimsbanne to end this land once and for all. That was his goal from the beginning."
Maximus IV had played all of them. He had played a song and everyone danced to his tune. It all started with Miguel and Alexander's friendship to Aries's captivity until now when she was the current Queen of the land of vampires.
Everything was all part of Maximus IV's plans.
Aries wouldn't be surprised if Maximus IV's death was planned. Provoking the Grimsbanne Clan, specifically Abel, was guaranteed death. If she would guess based on Maximus IV's personality, it wasn't farfetched.
If Maximus IV was going to die, he would surely choose whose hands he would die. Just who was the only person whose strength and existence Maximus IV acknowledge and respected?
Who else? Abel Grimsbanne.
Maximus… That obsessive freak.