Of course, Loki was also losing 100 years of his lifespan through the inquiry that he was trying to push through, and he, too, was consuming lifespan to enhance his speed of travel. In fact, he was using six Divine Metacs at the same time, so he was consuming 36 years of his lifespan per second for it.
This put the total amount of lifespan that Loki was consuming at 196 years per second. So Loki was losing 78 years per second more than Forced Exchange.
Monarch Forced Exchange didn't know this and only thought that Loki was using one Divine Metac to speed up. He thought that Loki was losing 6 years per second, not 36 years per second, so he believed that Loki was only losing 166 years of lifespan per second.
The loss of 166 years of lifespan on Loki's part is still 48 years above his own loss of 118 years per second. This gave him the confidence that he would outlast Loki in this struggle.
