The Silent Magic Vine is one of the rare Ancient Gods that survive by feeding on the emotions of intelligent beings. Among the ones Ange and the others have encountered, there are only Shay and Mawar. As for Demons, they don't count, since they only enjoy toying with people's hearts rather than consuming emotions.
Emotions are actually a type of power at the level of thought, similar to Faith Elemental Force, Soul Flame, and so on. But why are such beings so rare? It's because they're picky eaters.
If Shay didn't specifically rear a group of intelligent beings and scare them daily to generate fear, it would have starved to death long ago.
As for what the Silent Magic Vine consumes, that's even stranger—Silent Meditation?
"How about planting it in the Magic Academy and seeing what happens?" Negris proposed.