Yes... that was not all.
After all, wigh so many people battling each other, the Sponsors were watching.
With how things eventually turned out in Soren's previous loops and everybody died, it was clear that the goal was to remove attention from its head.
It had already attacked and killed a few cadets which was an issue.
However, the top three parties fighting and killing themselves, all while the Sponsors were watching would be much worse.
So many deaths. So many casualties of promising seeds.
Attention would shift from it.
Plus, the assumption that it was no longer a threat simply because it remained in the false Glass would back it up.
Soren remembered the Shade Stealer gathering all those Glasshearts.
Their Soulbound warriors were dead, and while that meant the Shades within were injured—they were still very much alive.
For all the freedom the Shade Stealer talked about, those shades would havd to spend their lives in their Glasshearts.
