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.

lifeforms from across the Beast Domain that had such predatory

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Forest of Hypnonarak were not its only threats. The forest was apparently infested with Noremin, Clacomel, and

hallucinogenic and stimulant effect on the nervous system and the

produced narcotics to cause the victim to lower their guard, eventually causing them to die, turning them into nutrients for the flora

in was the effect that the Great Forest of Hypnonarak had on human civilization in

broader geographic vicinity of the continent were actually sustained by the supply

narcotics from the Great Forest of Hypnonarak to many places around

experience of blissful happiness and joy were naturally clamored for by countless people, desperate for the alleviation from the horrors of reality that these narcotic substances provided

advantage of that. If one could gather an abysmal amount of wealth by harvesting some plants, processing them a bit, and then

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

these drugs and voluntarily went out of their way to purchase them despite

thing if drug dealers and trafficking rings forcefully shoved it down their throats, but such a thing did not happen. Those that never sought it, would never be affected by the drugs

personal responsibility. If an adult voluntarily and actively went down a self-destructive knowing the consequences

place. He was under no illusion that he could cripple the narcotics industry, that was a

profitable the narcotics industry was, gathering the various plants needed to produce the narcotics