Seeing that Gro seemed to be a dead consciousness, Richard quickly recalled the content of "Monroe's Chapter" and found that there was no record of the consciousness being pulled out and dying.

Looking down at Gro's body again, he found that there were no prominent changes in his heart and breathing, maintaining an ordinary appearance, and Richard couldn't help but feel a little strange.

It stands to reason that Gro's current condition should be normal.

After all, when he was in the forest, after his consciousness body was attacked by the crystal skull, his physical heart was beating so much that it almost exploded, and it was not as smooth as Gro's current life.

Don't...... This is what Gro looks like when he is out of his body normally?

Richard couldn't help but guess, and then found that there seemed to be only one explanation.

But why is this happening?

Richard looked at Gro's consciousness and saw that the other party's consciousness was like a kite at this time, bound by the transparent band at the back of his neck, floating around the flesh in the room, and after floating for a certain distance, he was pulled back by the transparent band, and the length of the transparent band seemed to be fixed and could not be retracted.

In the process, points of light of various colors flew in from the outside, entering Gro's consciousness like fireflies, flowing into the flesh along the transparent ribbon and then losing it.

Gro continued this process, constantly ingesting the points of light, constantly losing the points of light, and was clearly meditating. This shows that Gro is consciously in control, but he can't feel the outside world and can't move freely.

Is it because Gro's wizard talent is too low, which leads to this special situation? Could it be that because the talent is too low, Gro's consciousness body has a great restriction on its external perception, and it can't do anything other than ingest free energy elements?

That's really a bit ...... Well, unexpectedly.

Richard thought.

Originally, he was going to say hello to Gro's consciousness body, but now it seems that there is no need for this. In the future, it's best not to mention it either. Otherwise, let Gro know that the wizard's talent is so poor, and I don't know how he will feel.

Shaking his head slightly, Richard controlled the consciousness to quickly leave Gro's bedroom, leave the palace, and continue to rise towards the sky.

100 meters, 200 meters, 300 meters, 500 meters......

Eventually, Richard rose to an altitude of nearly a thousand meters, and the Emerald City under his feet had dimmed into a shadow, and the surroundings were quiet.

Richard was ready to get down to business, and that was the main purpose of tonight's out-of-body – to study the truth about mana.

Looking up, the starry sky is bright, and many stars are shining, like a searchlight mounted on the background of the universe, which seems to be within reach, but in fact it is far away. Richard knew that what he saw was not the stars themselves, but the rays emitted by the stars—rays emitted hundreds of thousands of years ago, millions of years ago.

In the surrounding area, there are many points of light of various colors, like swarms of fireflies, and like a sea of light. This is the same amount of energy that is free of all kinds, and it is the same as that of Gro in the palace. Richard pondered.

The difference is that the Gero consciousness body is trapped around the physical body, and can only find a way to attract energy elements from afar to the vicinity of the spirit body, and then ingest it into the body. And he can control the consciousness body to directly reach the place where the light is dense, and quickly ingest.

These energy elements are obviously very important, and only when these energy elements are successfully ingested into the body, stored in the magic source, and smelted into mana, can they be used to release spells and burst out with amazing destructive power.

And now, what Richard wants to figure out is what the so-called mana, the so-called energy element that can be smelted into mana, is something.

Like the magical elements, heaven and earth vitality described in many novels, or the rumored true qi and internal force, all have a high-energy response and are extremely powerful, so how do you do it?

You know, energy is conserved.

Energy is neither created nor disappeared out of thin air, it can only be transferred from one object to another, and the forms of energy can be converted into each other.

This is the law that Mayr, Joule, Helmholtz and other scientists have studied for most of their lives, and it has come to an end. If someone says that this is meaningless at all and can be overturned casually, it will definitely be shot to death by this group of scientists with coffin boards.

The conservation of energy cannot be violated, at least not easily under the existing scientific system. If the energy element and mana can burst out with powerful energy, it means that it should have this energy itself - the power of the spell is not generated out of thin air, but the power of existence is released in some way.

Just as explosives can burst out with powerful energy, it is because its special structure contains strong internal energy, which will be released quickly when burning.

So what about the energy element, the mana? Is it another dynamite?

Thinking about this, Richard stretched out his consciousness body in the air, ingested a large amount of free energy elements, and let them pass through the transparent band on the back of his neck to his body, where they were stored in the Dharma source.

In the process, Richard seriously felt the changes in the energy elements and felt the reactions in his body. After a moment, Richard looked at his surroundings. I saw that as a large amount of free energy elements were ingested into the body, the surroundings were a little empty, but the free energy elements in the distance slowly flowed to replenish them. Occasionally, in the void, points of light of various colors will be born out of thin air to replenish the free energy elements that are ingested.

Richard looked up at the many bright stars in the starry sky, I don't know if it was an illusion, at the same time as the light point was generated, the light of the stars seemed to fluctuate a little.

In this case......

......

After half ringing, the night was still deep.

In the courtyard somewhere in the Golden City, it was extremely quiet.

In the courtyard bedroom, Richard sat on the bed and opened his eyes. Then he stood up and walked out of the room.

In the living room outside the room, Pandora was leaning on a wooden chair, her eyes half-closed, and she didn't know whether she was sleeping or in a daze.

Richard's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but think that according to the taxonomy, the dragon should be a close relative of the lizard, belonging to the reptile family. The activities of reptiles can generally be divided into three types: daytime activity, nocturnal activity and morning and dusk activity.

Pandora's performance, however, is not at all like that of reptiles, but more like mammals. Well, not the people in the mammals, but the ...... in the mammals Cat.

For most of the day, Pandora spends her time quietly in a daze or sleeping, but she doesn't bother herself and saves some trouble.

Although Pandora has a lot of combat power, if the other party is like a tsundere lady, she really has to find a way to send the other party away. I didn't want to leave with the other party at the beginning, because of this concern, and later because of Gregory's death, I finally brought the other party out.

Now it seems that the other party is still very obedient and does not cause trouble.

Is it to buy a better set of bedding or animal skins for the other party, so that the other party is usually in a daze or sleeping, more comfortable?

Richard thought about it, decided to write it down for the time being, and then walked into the study next to the bedroom.

......