Complex sentence: Fearing the council too much to try and influence their actions, he instead became an exceptional spy for Xervish Flydd and manipulated him into destroying the node at Snizort.
Split into simpler sentences: Fearing the council too much to try and influence their actions, he instead became an exceptional spy for Xervish Flydd. Finally, he manipulated Flydd into destroying the node at Snizort.