Era of Madness

Plan B: wrecking havoc

"How sad, I can't even remember how much time it makes since I was so moved about a human's death" Cain sighed. "Well, I can't say I truly feel much remorse, you wouldn't have let him escape anyway, am I wrong?"

There was seemingly nobody anywhere around, and yet Cain knew he was here, hiding viciously, maybe even right beside him.

"Don't you think it's petty to refuse talking to me like that just because I pulled an innocent little trick on you to so you'd give me a bit of help?" he asked again.

Suddenly, feeling something strange with his right arm, Cain looked at it to see his hand had disappeared.

"Fine, petty games you choose, petty games you'll get" he said.

At this moment, as he walked forward, Cain seemed to vanish into thin air. A few seconds later, he reappeared in an entirely different part of the planet, on top of a gigantic floating skyscrapper.

"Hmm, let's see, what should I do now..."

Until now, everything had gone as planned. As an anonymous source, he had succesfully informed Cifer of the Nova beast corpse's presence in Ghost London around a week earlier. He had estimated this time to be just long enough for the criminal organization to analyse the situation and decide if the risk of getting in Ghost London was worthy, and just too short for them to potentially send someone more qualified on Londris.

Of course, the hermetic suits allowing them to make it possible were also a gift from him: thanks to Glenn Keters' programs he had stolen a few weeks earlier on Glactia-62, he had managed to hack many databases from various scientific organisms across the Galaxy, mainly from the Paraise Council, the SGO Republic, and the Athenor Stellar Field, known for its bio-technological advancement. With these scattered datas, it became possible to conceive the hermetic suits fast enough.

Of course, to do that... well, he had to make some compromises. He himself didn't have the technology necessary to create these suits fast enough for them to be ready before Tyler, John and Erica's arrival. To solve this problem, he couldn't do anything but get help from Yoria. As a stellar commander from the Empire, she didn't have any trouble to secretly make a few elite labs stop their activities right away and craft the hermetic suits fast enough, and then send them to Cifer.

In the first place, the Paradise Council or the SGO Republic could've definitely crafted these suits in the first place. They simply didn't know that a Nova beast corpse was hidden in there, and therefore didn't consider it worth the effort, and the risk to enter Ghost London.

'Even knowing it, I too wouldn't have done this if it wasn't for Yoria blackmailing me into this' he thought, sighing, feeling a bit resentful.

In the first place, Tyler and the others having anything to do with Ghost London was not part of his plan. But, a week after their meeting on Glactia-62, Yoria had contacted him to merge their respective plans. Cain knew from the first second it'd be to her advantage, but could he refuse? Of course no... She had made sure that this plan would still be 'advantageous' for him... or with more direct words that it'd still be far better than her leaking his plans.

'Well, I guess I can do with it. But she really doesn't make it easy'

In the first place, Yoria had asked him very clear things: provoking Tyler's death, leaving his corpse in Ghost London, and making sure both Erica and Saginus stayed away from it. The only informations she gave him to make it easier were Saginus' presence around Ghost London, and his personality.

It was relatively had, but Cain had found a way around. First, of course, orchestrating their arrival on Londris and their mission in Ghost London. Saginus was the Sin of Greed, with an authority over Dreams. Cain was the fallen angel of Will, and had the exact same influence over Dreams. From what Yoria said, this psychopath was often walking through people's dreams to make them go crazy, so Cain didn't think too much, and used his power for Saginus to 'accidentally' end in Tyler's dreams.