Umm, Due to Game Evidence, you are wrong my friend.
In CC, he planned out the whole of Project Kid, a plan that would defy Fate and risk the whole time space continium to be destroyed. But as we can see, it was a sucess.
I do not think he continued building the Epoch for greedy reasons. I think his first thought was to make it to go back to Zeal and stop the Ocean Palace disaster from occuring.
But he got old and slowly was dying, so he left it to a hero, that would one day save the planet, as he repdicted. In the messages that he left, it seems that he was confindent that It would hapen one day.