The professors and experts were enlightened after hearing Wenren Sheng's words.
That was indeed how it worked. If they obtained a Mysterious Object, they would certainly want to study it thoroughly themselves.
They were confident in their own intelligence and believed they could master such a thing.
"Seems that's really the case. Clever Men have a harder time surviving in the mysterious world," said one professor, adjusting his glasses.
Wenren Sheng smiled. He had only refrained from saying it outright to spare the professors' pride: the smarter someone without power was, the faster they generally died in the mysterious world.
Naturally, a clever man like him only lived better the smarter he was...
After chatting idly for a while, they entered the Accelerated Illusion again, one teaching and the other learning.
The learning resources Wenren Sheng enjoyed were something that not even several hundred million worth of school-district housing could have bought in his previous life...
Southern Continent, United City.
The Sole Supremacy Society was holding a Council of Elders meeting in its council chamber. The matter under discussion was a proposal Wenren Sheng had seen in the Strange Fish World... the "Population Increase Plan."
"We need to increase the population. Increase it drastically," the Grand Elder stated directly, announcing the meeting's topic.
"But the Fire Eye God has never given us such an order," the Sixth Elder said doubtfully.
"Do you know about the Flame World recently discovered in the Eastern Continent? It is one of the Fire Eye God's domains. The mages there regard population growth as their foremost priority. We need to take the initiative, rather than squeezing out a little only when pressed, like toothpaste," explained the Second Elder, who was in charge of intelligence.
"That is because the mages' power is closely tied to