Time in Cocytus was not measured in hours, but in the consolidation of influence. Following the fall of Bernard Sargas, the foundations of the old order crumbled with the same inevitability with which winter claims the earth.
Lloyd did not allow the power vacuum to be filled by chaos; instead, he orchestrated a controlled demolition of the deceased man's reputation. The leaked documents were more than mere evidence; they were precision weapons that painted Sargas not as a fallen leader, but as an excised parasite. Slave trafficking and pacts with nameless entities became the sole legacy of a man whose memory no one dared to claim.
As Sargas's name rotted into oblivion, the territory under Lloyd's command began to mutate.
