There was another deeply troubling problem.
At the time, the Turan People had yet to find a good way to store Mandala Fruit for long periods.
These fruits had been genetically modified, contained trace amounts of Spirit Magnetic Material, and had absorbed vast quantities of Spiritual Energy from the Crystal Veins. Their properties were extraordinarily unstable; each one was practically a ticking time bomb.
At the time, the Turan People had not yet invented the various Witch Doctor Secret Medicines.
If large quantities of Mandala Fruit were piled together without treatment, the Spiritual Energy stored within them would only produce reactions akin to "resonance" or "harmonic vibration."
Once the Spiritual Energy turbulence exceeded the Critical Point, it would blast tens of thousands of fruits, along with the warehouse, every building around it, and all the residents nearby, straight into the sky.
After such accidents happened time and again, the Ancient Turan People, preoccupied with winning the Monster War, could only temporarily abandon the idea of storing Mandala Fruit on a massive scale.
Faced with Mandala Fruit filling every pit and valley, the best way to deal with them was to eat them, then vent them to their hearts' content through sweat, blood, and the urge to kill.
Otherwise, they might as well have let them rot in the wilderness and return to the ecological cycle.
All these factors meant that Turan Civilization at the time was utterly unprepared to face a famine with no end in sight.
Utterly horrified, the Ancient Turan People turned hopeful eyes toward the Spirit Magnetic Material experts living aboard Hope.
It was these experts who had modified the Mandala Tree.
They could also be called the last batch of scholars and technicians in Turan Civilization.
Yet even the experts could not explain why the Mandala