Chapter 114: Chapter 113
“Though the hypothetical deduction explains the chanism of spell creation, it cannot explain the most fundantal source of energy, that is, the issue of energy conservation.
Energy neither arises from nothing nor vanishes into nothingness, it can only transfer from one object to another, and energy can be converted between different forms.
If the effects, power, and energy of spells originate from mana and free energy elents, where does the energy within these free energy elents co from?
As high-sequence superheavy elents, they might have significantly prolonged decay tis due to the ‘Stable Island,’ but it is impossible for them to exist stably for hundreds or thousands of years like iron or carbon. If they were present in nature from the beginning, they should have completely decayed and disappeared by now.
However, during the process of out-of-body ditation, I could see that there are many free energy elents, and they seem to ‘generate from nothing.’
But ‘generating from nothing’ isn’t without reason.
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The appearance of a new elent can be through two paths: either through the fusion of low-sequence elents or the decay of high-sequence elents.
For free energy elents, the latter can be mostly ruled out, because high-sequence elents have shorter existences. To continuously produce free energy elents, a constant supply of even higher-sequence elents to decay is required. So, how are these higher-sequence elents produced? They still need the fusion of low-sequence elents.
Therefore, free energy elents are produced by the fusion of low-sequence elents. The specifics of the fusion is unknown at this ti, but it should be different from the uncontrollable nuclear fusion of Earth’s hydrogen bombs in modern tis; it must be a milder, more natural form.
Nevertheless, one fact remains unchanged: the process of producing high-sequence superheavy elents from low-sequence ones requires the absorption of energy, or rather, the utilization of external energy to et the conditions necessary for fusion.
Just like on modern Earth, to detonate a hydrogen bomb through uncontrollable nuclear fusion, it is necessary to place nearly an atomic bomb within it. Only an atomic bomb explosion can create an environnt for nuclear fusion to ignite the hydrogen bomb. This is also why the technology for hydrogen bombs must be developed after the technology for atomic bombs.
So, the question arises: where does the energy absorbed for the generation of free energy elents from low-sequence elents through an unknown fusion process co from?
One guess is radiation.
Just as high-sequence elents decay into low-sequence elents with a high radiative response, releasing energy, fusion, as a sort of reverse decay from low-sequence to high-sequence elents, also requires energy absorption through radiation.
Where does this radiation co from?
Radiation cos from everywhere.
In fact, radiation, as a form of energy, contrary to common belief, is not rare at all. Radiation can be found in every corner of a world—its land, mountains, rivers, caves, etc.—associated with radioactive nuclides such as uranium series elents, actinides, thorium series elents. Even within human bodies, there are radioactive nuclides—like 40K.
Of course, the most important source of radiation cos from the cosmos, from stars.
Just as the energy on modern Earth cos from the Sun, the energy in this world also originates from the Sun. However, unlike Earth, according to ditative out-of-body observations, not only is the Sun acting alone, but nurous constant stars surrounding the planet seem capable of projecting radiation here.
Could this be the true aning of ‘Star Body Projection’?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But there is a high probability that it is the projection of these stellar energies that provides low-sequence elents with the conditions to form free energy elents, thus continuously producing free energy elents.
After being assimilated, the free energy elents react swiftly during the release of a spell. While displaying special states (spell effects), they rapidly decay back into ordinary low-sequence elents and release energy, which is the energy of ‘Star Body Projection.’
The transford ordinary elents will one day accumulate enough star projected energy to turn back into free energy elents, then be consud again and revert to ordinary elents. This is a cycle of the elents and also a cycle of energy and matter.
In short, spell energy fundantally cos from Star Body Projection, from the energy projected by nurous special stars in the cosmos of this world.
In other words, wizards are rely using energy from distant stars to cast spells.
This stellar energy obviously isn’t inexhaustible, just as the Sun has a lifespan of only about ten billion years. These stars capable of Star Body Projection may exist for a considerable length of ti, but they will inevitably end their lives and stop the process of Star Body Projection.
When that ti cos, free energy elents will no longer be produced and will disappear completely from the world. The era of wizardry will end, and the Age of No Magic will descend, becoming like modern Earth.”
“Ssha… ssha…”
The quill paused, and Richard stood up. His eyes twinkled as he stepped out of the study, walked into the courtyard outside, and looked up at the night sky.
In the naked eye state, he could only see the ordinary expanse of stars that appeared no different from modern Earth. In reality, it was very possible that this starry sky would eventually beco identical to that of modern Earth.
In so sense, the current world was really quite similar to Earth.
Richard was thinking.
Back in the forest, when he had pointed out the Polar Star to Pandora using the stars to judge, he had determined that the current world should actually be around the year 2100 on modern Earth, in the future.
But he should also have considered that the position of the Polar Star is cyclical, repeating every Platonic Year in astrology, every 25,800 years.
Perhaps the current world was the year 2100 on modern Earth, but it could also be a point in ti 25,800 years ago. More likely, not just one Platonic Year, but two, three, ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand Platonic Years ago.
In fact, even ten thousand Platonic Years, at just over two hundred million years, is nothing compared to the age of the entire planet and the universe.
According to research on modern Earth, the entire universe has a lifespan of 13.7 billion years, the Milky Way ford roughly 12 billion years ago, the Solar System 5 billion years ago, and the Earth 4.6 billion years ago.
Comparing to the Earth’s 4.6 billion years, the length of 25,800 years is truly minuscule, barely worth ntioning even for the duration of a species or civilization.
Consider this, if Earth’s 4.6 billion years were a single 24-hour day, then for the first 4 hours, there would be no life on Earth; only afterwards did the simplest single-celled organisms appear.
At 6 a.m., the most primitive algae appeared in the primordial oceans, and throughout the day, into the evening, they perford their lonely act.
By 8 p.m., mollusks began to appear in the water.
Then, over the next three hours, arthropods, fish, vertebrates, amphibians, and reptiles erged.
Then, at 11:30 p.m., the dinosaurs made their belated appearance, only to be exterminated 10 minutes later by a massive asteroid from outer space or so other cause.
After the dinosaurs, mammals and birds diverged, and in the last ten minutes of the day, the ancestors of primates appeared. Within the last 2 minutes, the brains of so primates tripled in size, becoming humans.
At the very end, in the last 20 seconds of the day, the true recorded history of humanity began (one million years), and the so-called genuine recorded civilization of humanity occupied rely 0.1 seconds of this 24-hour day (5,000 years).
The cosmic, planetary, and stellar lifespans are too long; the existence of a species or a civilization is almost negligible. After all, even if they existed for two Platonic Years, ten tis the duration of recorded human civilization—fifty thousand years—on the 24-hour clock of the planet, it would only be the second hand ticking once.
So, could it be that a true wizarding civilization once existed on modern Earth, one that lasted longer than human civilization, but they lived in so gap in ti, like a point between the age of dinosaurs and human civilization, where they existed, developed, were destroyed, and left no trace?
But now he had suddenly found himself in the midst of it all.
Richard continued to think.
Why, exactly?
When sothing resembling “transmigration” occurred, when the impossible beca reality, when the system of science was challenged, when the logical world had its gaps, one must ask why.
So, why indeed?
He really wanted to find the answer.
So he could only research and analyze bit by bit, trying to understand the principles of the current world, and then go on to explore this most fundantal secret.
Maybe he was living inside a box, maybe he was living inside a book, who knew?
After a while, Richard withdrew his gaze, turned around, and walked back into the house.
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