However, even with Gaia at their throats, they were a thousand times unwilling to directly initiate any form of hostility with Draco.
It was now obvious to them that the period in which the ancestor cut off contact with them must have been a time where they had some form of direct conflict with Draco, leading their Ancestral Makers to suffer extreme losses.
Because of this, the Ancestral Makers likely initially planned to completely abandon them straight up, feeling them a useless burden but then changed their minds and decided to 'activate' them as sleeper agents to perform one final suicidal act like death soldiers.
They had no concrete evidence yet, but they unanimously came to this assumption after witnessing the entrance of the trio compared to the events that happened previously. Given how Gaia was also pressing down on them without a care, they couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts.