Every expert candidate needed to find out the reasons why they fought.
No expert pilot exhibited any uncertainty about their purpose because each of them had gone through this crucial cycle.
Without a reason to fight and without an ideal to uphold, why should they wield the extraordinary power that came with becoming a demigod?
Every expert pilot stood for something!
Every expert pilot excelled at something!
Every expert pilot was willing to die for something!
Until every expert candidate resolved their doubts and inner struggles in order to define these qualities, their half-formed force of will would never achieve the purity required to trigger a breakthrough.
These challenges had stopped every expert candidate in the Larkinson Clan from transitioning into actual expert pilots.
