After tossing The Tower card in front of Leonard in the sewer, Abner rode the Bone Dragon out of Cherwood Borough using Dream Traversal.
Though it was afternoon, plenty of Backlund's clerks and workers worked night shifts. Some were still asleep at this hour.
He then went to a Safe House he had rented in advance in East Borough. After sealing the room, he entered the Dream Labyrinth Tower through the Dream-and-Reality Door and began studying the captured Desire Apostle.
He did not let the dream touch any memories concerning the Twilight Hermit Order. Instead, he questioned the man about his origins and the current state of the Blood Sanctify Sect's three great Demon Families. Even inside the Dream Labyrinth Tower, he might not be able to block that King of Angel's perception.
According to the Desire Apostle, the Nois, Beria, and Andariel Families had not settled into the arrangement described in the original work, where the latter two submitted to the Nois Family. Instead, they had entered a new era of all-out confrontation.
The Andariel Family had only regained its strength after receiving the support of Ialdabaoth, the Dread Duke, sometime in the past century. It had even managed to resist the Nois Family's encroachment.
That, in turn, had given the Beria Family, which had already submitted to the Nois Family, ideas of its own.
Jason Beria, the Desire Apostle, was one of the Demons harboring such ideas. That was why he had accepted the mission to assassinate Duke Negan: for a chance to become a Demigod, or even reach a higher Sequence.
What interested Abner most was that, during their fiercest clash with the Nois Family, the Andariel Family had fully unsealed a seal-type Sealed Artifact. The power it unleashed had actually driven back a Blood Archduke of