[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

This is the first time Kelly has seen demons: they are the most common type of monsters among the Darkborn, they look a bit like the half-orcs in the Lord of the Rings, they also have certain intelligence, and their fighting power is slightly higher than that of ordinary human soldiers.Bucky's arrow didn't kill the devil in one blow, but it greatly boosted morale. The other three archers followed him to shoot arrows. The devil hit four or five arrows along the way, and finally Hit in the forehead by Bucky's second arrow, he almost fell down in front of Kelly.But after it, another five or six demons rushed out of the forest.

"Don't panic. Don't leave the team!" Kelly ordered, taking a step forward, holding the shield with her left arm, and leaning forward. The tip of the long shield hit a dwarf's weapon, and it was hit with great force. Leaning back, he swung the long sword in his right hand vigorously, and chopped off its head with one blow.Kelly turned her shield to block another demon's head-on knife, and quickly stabbed the arm of a demon on the right with a weapon, freeing her companions, and then slapped her shield hard The demon staggered back a few steps.Under this blow, she herself was also secretly surprised: if the strength of this blow was replaced by an ordinary human, it would have been enough to be knocked out, but the demon just staggered back a few steps, and then rushed forward again, his body The quality is basically equivalent to about one and a half times that of a human soldier.Kelly raised her shield and easily blocked his attack. She stabbed with her long sword and hit her throat. Then she swiped violently, cutting off half of the devil's neck. The devil fell to the ground and did not move.Kelly stepped back half a step to maintain the formation, quickly glanced at the battlefield, and saw a soldier being forced into an extremely dangerous situation by the demon.

"Careful, Davis!" she shouted, but Davis was too far away from her to make rescue difficult.Seeing that the soldier's two-handed sword was hit sideways, the epee in the demon's hand was about to fall on him, when suddenly an arrow pierced through the demon's throat, and the strength of the arrow took it completely Leaning back, the attack in his hand also lost its strength, followed by another arrow piercing its eye socket, and the demon fell to the ground, motionless.

"Everyone supports each other, try not to face the enemy alone!" Bucky shouted loudly on the cliff, "Archers pay attention to the battle situation below!"

After all, they had two teams, which had an advantage in numbers. Although they were flustered for a while due to their first battle, under Bucky's command and Kelly's intentional care, they quickly wiped out all the demons in this team .Bucky jumped off the cliff: "Is anyone hurt? Kelly, be alert. Everyone else, assemble!"

Although a soldier was injured, fortunately, he was stabbed by his own weapon in a panic, and the wound was not polluted by the toxin from the demon.After a brief battle summary and rest, they continued their patrol and eliminated another team of demons.Near lunchtime, when they were about to turn over, Kelly stopped abruptly.She quickly made a gesture, and everyone immediately arranged a battle formation skillfully.

"At least two teams." Kelly said, quickly scanning around with Bucky. Unfortunately, they were in an open area without any terrain advantages such as cliffs. "It's about 500 meters away from us... "

They stood guard on the spot, and the enemy didn't approach very quickly. After a while, Kelly clenched the shield in her hand, "They also found us." She said, "100 meters, everyone——"

Her voice was suddenly stuck in her throat, and all her attention was drawn to the sensing area.It was hard to describe the feeling, as if she had been looking at the world through a glass window covered in white mist, and now, suddenly, someone wiped away a piece of mist, or rather even broke a piece of glass, and from the broken window What comes in—— what comes in—

"Kelly!" Suddenly someone yelled in her ear, and then her left hand was grabbed by someone who rushed up from behind, blocking the shield in front of her.The next moment a huge fireball hit the middle of the shield, exploded, and flames splashed everywhere. Kelly was unprepared, and was shocked by the explosion and fell to the ground together with the person behind her.If it weren't for the super soldier serum, if it wasn't for someone hugging her tightly behind her, she thought she would even fly backwards.

"Don't panic!" Bucky yelled behind her, he jumped up from the ground quickly, and was stretching out his hand to pull her, "Don't disperse the formation, fighters, be careful to block arrows, don't drop your shields! Archers are the best at focusing fire!" The devil on the right!" Then he lowered his head, his voice lowered a little, but more panicked, "Kelly, damn it, what's going on?"

"They—they have a mage." Kelly panted, and quickly regained her senses, getting up from the ground.

"I know they have a damn mage! Are you okay, have you been under its spell?!" Bucky's face changed color. It cut half of its neck gracefully and smoothly, and relieved a soldier next to it, "Kelly!"

"I'm fine." Kelly said, she still hadn't recovered from the shock, but the battle scene didn't give her much time to adapt, "Go ahead, leave the mage and archer to me!"

While speaking, she rushed towards the direction of the mage.Seeing her rushing, the demon mage immediately changed his target, and several archers also pointed their arrows at her.Kelly raised her shield to block the arrows, and changed her route to avoid the mage's magic. It took her only a few seconds, and before the archers had time to put the second arrow on the bowstring, she approached the sorcerer mage , A sword slashed down fiercely.

The sword edge fell on a protective layer around the mage's body, as if it had been smashed into some kind of sticky mud, and became a little stagnant, sliding past its side.But before the spell in the mage's hand could be released, Kelly raised the shield and slammed into its face forcefully.

Of course, the power of the shield was partly blocked by the shield, but the impact could not be completely offset. The Demon Mage was knocked backwards, and the spell was immediately interrupted.Kelly turned around to avoid one arrow, then moved the shield to the side behind to block the other two, and the long sword aimed at the body of the sorcerer mage again and pierced straight in.This time the blade still encountered resistance, but under Kelly's exertion, although it missed the heart, it still sank into the chest of the magician mage.Kelly twisted and twisted, and then dragged the blade to the side forcefully, the mage fell down immediately, and the magic shield around him disappeared.With a flick of Kelly's shield, just as the mage was about to fall, his staff flew away, hitting a demon archer in the face.She then turned around and rushed over, raising the sword in her hand and dropping the sword to end it.The other two demon archers wanted to escape, but Kelly easily caught up with one of them. When she killed the demon from behind, the last archer had already fled far away. Kelly stretched out his hand and threw the long sword into the air Go, directly pierced the demon armor, and passed through the chest.Kelly caught up with it in a few steps, stepped on its back, drew out her sword and beheaded it with another sword.

She looked up and found that the battle on Bucky's side was almost over.It seemed that when the battle started, Bucky had discovered something was wrong in time and caused everyone to disperse, so the fireball didn't cause much damage. Only Kelly, who was in a daze, didn't hear it, and was directly hit by the blow.Fortunately, Bucky was there to rescue the field, and the quality of the armor on everyone was decent, so they didn't encounter combat attrition.

"It must be some sorcery of that mage." A soldier said, "I heard that those mages have some spells that can immobilize people or confuse people's minds..."

"Probably so." Kelly said vaguely, "Fortunately, I was only absent-minded for a while, and Bucky woke up after throwing me down..."

They talked about the thrilling battle just now and the handover of the patrol team who came to change defenses, and then they went back to their tents.As soon as they entered their tent, Bucky held Kelly's hand: "What's going on?" He asked anxiously, "Are you really under a spell?"

Kelly didn't answer, but waved her wand first, cast a Silencing Charm and a Warning Charm, and then turned to Bucky: "No—I didn't," she said, her eyes sparkling and her cheeks flushed with excitement, " I felt the shadow barrier, when the mage cast the spell - I finally felt the shadow barrier! It's not that I couldn't feel it before, I actually knew it was there all the time but I kept ignoring it, just like you ignore the air around you That way—oh my god, can you imagine, Bucky, Merlin didn't invent magic—on the contrary, Merlin blocked magic!" Kelly said excitedly, "No, to be precise, Merlin blocked the shadow world—he used Wizards gave up feeling the shadow world! Harry Potter's world also has shadow barriers, but the shadow barriers there may have never been touched! Merlin, it's no wonder that none of the wizards of later generations can reach the height of Merlin, because he can touch the shadow world , he was able to obtain the huge power there! How could the later wizards surpass him?!"

"Calm down, Calm down, Kelly." Bucky stretched out his hand to hold her down, "I didn't understand, what's going on?"

"God, this—this is incredible, I don't know how to describe it to you, I think I need to talk to Dumbledore..." Kelly raised her hand to cover her forehead, "This is—it's like You suddenly find out that the President of the United States has always been a Hydra man, do you understand the shock?"

"Wow." Bucky imagined it and was taken aback, "So serious?"

"Basically, you know Merlin's status in the magic world..." Kelly said with a wry smile, "Let me think about it, how can I describe it to you..."

She thought for a long time, and finally looked up, Bucky had pulled her to sit down on the bed, "Let's put it this way, you imagine a large glass jar filled with a solution, and a semi-permeable membrane is used in the middle of the glass jar." Separated. You know about semi-permeable membranes, right?"

"If you're talking about the kind of membranes commonly used in chemical engineering that have selective passage of different particles, I know." Bucky shrugged. "But what does this have to do with semi-permeable membranes?"

"You imagine that the tank is a semi-permeable membrane that only allows magic molecules-we assume there is such a molecule-pass through." Kelly said, "The two sides separated by the semi-permeable membrane are filled with different concentrations of magic solutions. On one side is the shadow world, where the concentration of magic solution is very high; on the other side is reality, where the concentration of magic solution is very low, because the solvent here has limited solubility, and the magic molecules have reached saturation here.”

"I seem to understand a little bit." Bucky nodded.

Kelly continued: "So, the principle of using magic in this world is - we insert/introduce a conductor on the semi-permeable membrane, that is, use our own body to obtain magic molecules from the shadow world, and then use them Cast a spell. In this way, if we move too violently, it is very likely to leave a gap in the semi-permeable membrane, or even tear the membrane directly-in this way, the two liquids will mix together Now, all the magic carried in the liquid over the shadow world, as well as those demonic creatures, have also come here. Sometimes, these conductors can be replaced by blood and life sacrifices, so that violent communication will give half The transmembrane—that is, the shadow barrier—brings even greater damage, this is the principle of blood magic.”

"So, Harry Potter's magic?" Bucky asked.

"The magic on Harry Potter's side is that we don't use the semi-permeable membrane, and directly use the magic molecules on the world side." Kelly said, "Although the concentration of magic molecules here is very low, once we use Without these magic molecules, the solution becomes unsaturated, so the semi-permeable membrane will allow the magic molecules on the other side to permeate, so that the solution on this side will always maintain a saturated state. At this time, we continue to use the magic molecules on this side...you Understand? In the end, we can still use the magic power from the Shadow Realm, but we have to go through such a natural penetration path, so the magic power will gather much slower. But it is also much safer. Merlin's transformation of magic may be the result of research Such a more convenient path... No, he doesn't even need to research a more efficient method, as long as all the blood magic that can affect the shadow barrier is erased, wizards who are used to the existence of the shadow barrier will not deliberately Feel it, or walk through it, but naturally turn to find ways to use the magical power of this world more efficiently..."

In this way, why she is not limited by mana can be completely explained: the mages of Dragon Age have mana limits, in fact, their spiritual power has a limit for the conversion of magic power between the two worlds. Use magic potions or rest to restore mental strength before continuing to cast spells.But Kelly directly invoked the magical power of the world, and the mental pressure was minimal in comparison.

"I'm not sure I fully understand, but I do understand your analogy." Bucky said, "But why are you lost?"

Kelly shivered slightly, and she met Bucky's eyes, and Bucky was shocked to see the fear in her eyes.

"I'm scared." She said softly.