Akash Vs Thiss Part 2

I couldn't understand why they weren't stopping the fight. 

Thiss had just admitted to wanting to essentially kill Akash, to rip his body of its individuality and add it to their growing hive mind. 

Surely that was against every rule in the book?

<Unfortunately… it's not. Akash's body would still be alive,> BB said, <Though how one of the Morde Kash managed to make their way through Initiate selection process and into tournament like this is yet another mystery.>

I'd never even heard of the name before, but if they were anything like the cybernetic hive minds I'd watched in TV shows and seen in video games, then if Akash let himself become infected by whatever method they used to convert others to their kind then it would be nigh impossible to get him back again. 

Every instinct inside me was burning, telling me to jump through the window, crash down into the battleground and blow Thiss away with a cavalcade of energy beams.