Loken knew very well that his life was no longer fully his own.
Traps had been placed deep within his borrowed Spirit Core and his soul.
If he tried to warn Koya or anyone else, even for a moment, those traps would activate and end his life before he could say a single useful word. He did not even dare test them.
Not that Loken was truly loyal to Kalingoot in the first place.
He had always been wary of the First and Second Supremes. In his heart, he wanted them gone so that he could take full control of Kalingoot himself. That desire had never faded.
At first, he had felt trapped, stuck between fear and hatred. But then, an idea had slowly formed.
What if he let things unfold on their own?
What if the Dadangar Alliance and Aksai's forces clashed with the First and Second Supremes? What if they exhausted each other in open conflict? While they were busy fighting, he could quietly work on removing the traps inside him.
Plus, not everything had gone wrong for him.
