The Martial Unity

The Beggar's Sect was kind enough to also include scientific literature on the Great Forest of Hypnonarak, including confidential internal evaluations and reports of the Panamic Ecological and Environmental Association.

The fundamental mechanism and principle of mental energy consumption were entirely unknown to researchers and scholars who had looked into the matter.

'That's because they don't understand the phenomena of thought from a perspective of physics or chemistry.' Rui mused.

However, they had nonetheless done a lot of due diligence when it came to the scientific method of inquiring into the Great Forest of Hypnonarak. They conducted many experiments examining the correlation between the neurological parameters of a subject and the effects of the forest on it.

They found that both quantity and quality mattered. Larger brains experienced proportionally high suppression due to the consumption of energy while greater intelligence and cognition also corresponded with greater suppression.

'That does explain why it has a greater effect on Squires and Seniors.' Rui mused. 'Higher Realm does correspond with more powerful bioelectric activity. After all, stronger Martial Artists tend to have much greater senses which requires a correspondingly greater mind to process.'

The result was such that mind-consuming flora weeded out a lot of fauna. Life was rather unviable for them as the very nature of the flora was hostile to their state of being.

The greatest threat of the Great Forest of Hypnonarak was not giant beasts like phoenixes or dragons that could tear one apart. The greatest was actually the silent plants, shrubs, and trees that silently fed on thought.

time selecting a wide variety of various plant lifeforms from across the Beast Domain that had such predatory traits and then decided to

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released substances that had a hallucinogenic and stimulant effect on the nervous system and the brain, causing the

there were plants that naturally produced narcotics to cause the victim to lower their guard, eventually causing them to die, turning them

what he was more interested in was the effect that the Great Forest of Hypnonarak

industries in the broader geographic vicinity of the continent were actually sustained by the supply of narcotics

of narcotics from the Great Forest of Hypnonarak to many

could artificially generate the experience of blissful happiness and joy were naturally clamored for by countless people, desperate for the alleviation from the horrors of reality

abysmal amount of wealth by harvesting some plants, processing them a bit, and then selling them for substantial profit margins over enormous scales, then

blame them even if he disapproved of the entire business. At the end of the day, the market for these

voluntarily went out of their way to

their throats, but such a thing did not happen. Those that never sought it, would never be affected by the drugs

a self-destructive knowing the consequences of their actions full well, then the responsibility on any third party that facilitated

industry, that was a force that he was not strong enough to confront. It was a whole other beast compared to a local assassination industry like

gathering the various plants