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Epic lich at his mercy? Well, sort of, except he still needs the high-level sorcerer, and Xykon was still the only one available.
Please. No arcane caster would be an improvement over Xykon after Dorukan's Dungeon. Xykon actively murders goblins for fun. There are other arcane casters in the world. Yes, it'd take time to find one suitable, but Redcloak literally doesn't age. He is in no hurry.

Gobbotopia is really the only alternative Redcloak has, but it is not yet proven to be stable and even that is threatened if Xykon decides to go even further off the deep end and obliterate it in revenge.
Wow, it's almost as if the biggest threat to the cause right now is the Bone-Lord himself.
Redcloak's situation is less sunk cost fallacy and more tiger by the tail with a side order of tunnel vision. He may have a way of obliterating Xykon, but he can only use that once, at the cost of losing the epic-level sorcerer he needs and at the cost of losing everything if he fails. So he'd better be pretty certian that he wants to use it.
Redcloak does not need an epic sorcerer, just a moderately high-level arcane mage. Team Evil routinely surrounds themselves with troops that are loyal to Redcloak, not Xykon and Redcloak knows Xykon's abilities exactly. The simple fact that he hasn't made a single assassination attempt is proof enough that he just doesn't want to get rid of Xykon despite all the harm he's doing to the goblins Redcloak professes to care about.