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.

his time selecting a wide variety of various plant lifeforms from across the Beast Domain that had such predatory traits and then decided to shove them all in one

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not its only threats.

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

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

the scientific insight into that interesting, what he was more interested in was the effect that the Great Forest of Hypnonarak had on human civilization in its geographic

geographic vicinity of the continent were actually sustained by the supply of narcotics harvested

reports on the flow of narcotics from the Great Forest of Hypnonarak to many places around the

The drugs that could artificially generate the experience of blissful happiness and joy were naturally clamored for by countless people, desperate for the

people willing to take advantage of that. If one could gather an abysmal amount of wealth by harvesting

if he disapproved of the entire business. At the end of the day, the

of their way to purchase them despite knowing the long-term effects that they

thing if drug dealers and trafficking rings forcefully shoved it down their throats, but such a thing did not happen. Those that never

personal responsibility. If an adult voluntarily and actively went down a self-destructive knowing the consequences of their actions full well, then the responsibility on any third party that facilitated that path was

it in the first place. He was under no illusion that he could cripple the narcotics 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 the Shadow Isles

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