John was very confident in the superiority of his system and abilities, yet he harboured a lingering uncertainty regarding his friends. They simply weren't ready.
The humans who had entered this trial struggled against the machine swarms; their failure was usually attributed to a few specific handicaps: the locking of their initial powers by the trial's rules and a crippling lack of knowledge about the Source Code World.
All this was destined to change the moment John claimed a territory. The decrease in one's strength was a side effect of belonging to a fallen race. And the lack of knowledge would be solved by him and his friends.
He was sure the humans coming to the pocket trials in the future would fare way better than previous human waves. And that would invoke a sense of greed and envy, a desire to take the privilege away from him and his friends by brute force.
