After finishing their conversation with Songyan, everyone followed Dahao to the innermost part of the Commission Office and began discussing the matter at hand.
"As you can see, ever since the Stellaron disaster struck, the madness of becoming mara-struck has been spreading.
"Becoming mara-struck is a fate Xianzhou natives have always dreaded. I believe you've already learned something about it through Little Fish.
"But under the Ten-Lords Commission's watch, cases of becoming mara-struck should never have occurred this frequently."
At this point, Dahao's brows knitted tightly. He paused for a second before continuing in an even graver tone:
"Yet now, more and more people, especially those who face pressure and danger like the Cloud Knights, have begun to become mara-struck.
"And the mara-struck forms these people take aren't quite the same as the ones I knew in the past."
Dahao lowered his eyes slightly and clenched his fists, but did not stop speaking.
"There's something very strange about this.
"The average age at which Xianzhou natives become mara-struck is between seven hundred and eight hundred. But the vast majority of those becoming mara-struck now are far younger than that.
"In the mara-struck incident Little Fish and the others resolved in Exalting Sanctum's square not long ago, one of the Cloud Knights was a newly enlisted recruit, only two hundred years old.
"Though we're reluctant to believe he became mara-struck at such a young age, that is what happened. It's clearly unlikely that both the witnesses and the Dragon Lady's diagnosis were mistaken."
Listening to Dahao's account, everyone gained a clearer, more precise understanding of the severity of the matter.
They also realized that this abnormal change was a matter of great consequence for the Xianzhou.
But March 7th still couldn't help feeling stunned by what Dahao had said. *Two hundred