Harvesting Plant-based Emotions
The black mist continued to condense.
It grew darker and more concentrated until it formed a small, dense sphere of negative emotions, swirling with malevolent energy.
Aksai's conduct inside the Everwood Farm had been relatively modest. It wasn't like the corrupted druid inside his Devil's Den, where despair was a daily occurrence for those trapped.
However, Aksai had conducted many human experiments inside the farm over the years. After the creation of the Sentient Scarecrows, the production of negative emotions increased significantly. This was because his AI-enhanced Smart Puppets had fragmented consciousnesses inside them.
A part of these fragmented souls was completely loyal to Aksai. However, they were still fragmented consciousnesses. The ones not tamed by Aksai's subroutine neural link fabric produced abundant negative emotions—so much so that the combination of Everwood Farm and the Demon Tree started acting like the Devil's Den on their own.