Sylas stood there for a long while. His approach to things was slowly changing.
He felt that if he was going to truly change things, and if he wanted to stop getting caught off guard like this, he had to skew things in his favor more.
Trying to be stronger than everyone was nice. He liked the feeling. He would keep pursuing it.
But that didn't mean that he didn't need backup plans. And then backup plans for those backup plans.
For example, he was thinking about going to System Cities one by one to conquer them, dealing with this lingering danger in one sweep. But how long would that take? And as the City Lords continued to grow in strength, wouldn't he just be slamming his own head against a wall?
Why not take a different approach?
If the System Cities were truly as he speculated and just secret methods for them to fail the Summoning rather than helping them pass it as they should, they were certainly linked to the core of Earth in some sort of way.
