Whilst that's true it's still against Jake's morals, and it's still messed up even if he WAS dying, it's like someone killing a dying family member, still illegal XD
I don't remember what his name was but I'm pretty sure it was Jake's trainer in the first Ordeal, during the period where the arena training place got poisoned
From what I remember reading there's a book 2 and book 3 that'll come out, where book 2 will have a different protagonist and book 3 will return to Klein for the Western Continent. I think it's a safe assumption that they'll answer a large remainder of questions. (^ - ^)