#in order to subdue them you have to cleanse the light from them - either via attacking or by using some ACT

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

due to several factors, including:

what happened to spamton seems like the natural step up fron what happened to jevil: jevil was given information by the manipulator, allowed to “see” beyond his prison with hidden knowledge, but nothing further than that. spamton was given instructions and, presumably, some key that led him to believe that the lightner body and soul would be enough to “ascend” him - but the voice abandoned him before he could actually go through with it.

spam’s fixation on “heaven” (think of the stereotypical sunday church heavan - bright and gleaming white)

the emphasis in chapter 2 on the idea that darkners are fundamentally stuck - they can’t enter the light world, they can’t even leave their own dark world in most cases without turning to stone, and any attempt to fight back against this will either bring the apocalypse or just kill them, depending on strategy

the fact that in order to even have a chance against the next secret boss, according to seam, you’re going to need something called the “shade cloak”

i think the next secret boss is going to be the next step up from jevil > spamton. someone who actually did follow the voice to heaven, to freedom, and it broke them. we know that even knowing about the true nature of their world tends to mess darkners up, imagine what seeing it would do.

maybe they’re still suffused with light, in a warped connection that’s basically a tear in reality. it’s blinding and, unless you have the shade cloak, will instakill you. but despite the fact that it’s breaking them, they’re still desperate to get back into the light.