[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

"What?" Bucky asked in disbelief.

"It's like -- a five- or six-year-old kid suddenly got access to a button that can detonate nuclear bombs around the world if he presses it," Kelly said. It’s just that she didn’t choose to do it. Until one day she’s old enough to really understand what the button in her hand means—it’s that fear.”

"So exaggerated?" Bucky asked in surprise, reaching out to stroke her hair to comfort her, "There is such a terrifying magical power over the shadow barrier?"

"It's hard for you to imagine. If you don't come into contact with the shadow world, you will never be able to imagine it." Kelly said, her voice trembling slightly, "You don't know that it is such a huge magic power—the magic power in this world is completely comparable to that. Not worth mentioning, so thin it's almost negligible! You saw how much I can do with just this side of the magic, Bucky, if I can communicate with the shadow barrier, man, I can do anything with magic --anything--"

"Shh, don't get excited, Kelly, don't be nervous, I know you won't do anything bad with magic." Bucky comforted softly, and Kelly shook her head without answering. "Is it bad to use such power, Kelly?"

"No... as long as the magic power of the Shadow Realm is used properly, it will only improve my current magic ability. With the addition of serum, my body can withstand more magic transmission than ordinary mages... if I practice , Maybe it can amplify the effect of magic ten times and a hundred times, no wonder the mages here are very good at group spells." Kelly said, "But deep in the shadow world... that's another matter. I can feel that if the magic power Use it too much, go too deep, or break the shadow barrier the wrong way... there are very dark, very evil forces in the very depths of there, and even the evil of Horcruxes is not worth it in front of that power Mention."

She shook slightly, and pressed Bucky tightly, "Remember to remind me that I must, never, ever be able to use blood magic. This kind of magic is really evil in its bones - use it a little bit in a limited way That's all, if the blood mage can't hold back, I can't even imagine the consequences."

"I'm sure you won't." Bucky shrugged, "But, okay, I'll remind you.——So, I think this is actually a good thing, isn't it? the presence of barriers?"

Kelly froze for a moment, thinking for a moment.

"Yes, this is indeed a good thing..." she said, "The Cruciatus Curse in Harry Potter has been regarded as the Unforgivable Curse, and the most evil and terrifying black magic is nothing but Horcruxes. The blood magic here still does much less damage... You're right, it's a good thing they don't know about it, and Merlin is indeed a great magician, from another point of view.— — but on the other hand..."

"Do you want to extend Harry Potter's way of casting spells here?" Bucky asked, "If Merlin can eliminate wizards' knowledge of shadow barriers, so that they don't even know the existence of shadow barriers, what can be done here? cannot--?"

"This must be very difficult. Here, every mage knows the existence of shadow barriers, even people who have a little understanding of magic. It is necessary to completely erase the existence of this concept, and let the shadow barriers completely calm down like air. Awareness requires the help of a very powerful authority—for example, the Androst Church. But the church has always been hostile to mages, and if they really cooperate with them, I don’t know how many mages will die in this transformation.” Kelly said, "And the church has no influence in the Devant Empire, and the magisters there will never give up chasing magical power for the sake of safety. But you are right, this method is still worth promoting, at least those who have no ambitions , Mage who is not strong enough can choose to use magic in a safer way."

Fortunately, they had no patrol mission that afternoon, so Kelly stayed in the tent all afternoon and night, writing and drawing, or constantly trying to sense the shadow barrier.After dinner, there was another battle meeting, and Bucky went to attend it. He came back very late, but what he brought back was not very good news.

"Kailan has already proposed the siege strategy so early?" Kelly asked a little surprised, "We have only gathered more than 3000 people now, and I thought he would wait until the [-] army was assembled before he came up with such a risky strategy. .”

"Probably earlier, you know this is the first war meeting I've ever been in," Bucky said, "Of course Logan disagreed, they basically had a fight at the war meeting—really, Kay Lan is really too young, and I know that before the war, it is a big taboo for the generals to discord. Logan probably also took this into consideration and made a lot of concessions to him, but they definitely didn't end their quarrel."

"You know, they'll keep arguing until the fight starts." Kylie sighed, "So we must be rooting for Logan?"

"I'd definitely pick Logan," Bucky said. "Kelan's nice, you know—warm, genuine, but I wouldn't trust him with my life in a fight. He's still gotta grow up." , War is not as simple as in the legend of heroes."

"Then, we can act quickly." Kelly said, closing the magic book at hand, and putting it in the bag, "The tower first or scouting the plague first, choose one?"

"Let's scout the plague." Bucky said, standing up, "just tonight?"

Kelly nodded, and the two walked out of the tent and walked all the way to the edge of the camp. Since soldiers often walked around in the camp, their behavior was not noticeable.The two saw a loophole in the patrol team, quietly left the camp, got into the nearby woods, and stopped after walking for a while.Kelly took out a stack of black cloth from the pouch and handed it to Bucky.Then, she fell down on the ground, and in just a blink of an eye, there was no one in front of Bucky, and a huge white wolf stood instead.He bent down and shook off the black cloth. It turned out to be a cloak similar to the armor of a war mastiff, which just covered the white wolf's snow-white fur. Bucky tied the rope around the white wolf's abdomen and neck, straightened up, He smiled and hugged the giant wolf in his arms, rubbing it indiscriminately.

When the white wolf whimpered and broke free, the white hair on her head and neck was already in a mess. She showed her teeth to Bucky, and Bucky smiled and apologized, smoothed the white hair on her head, and finally gently Patted her neck. "I'll wait for you here," he said. "Stay safe, Kelly."

The white wolf nodded at him, turned around and disappeared into the forest, galloped, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Turning into a beast is much safer than reconnaissance in human form—just as humans will destroy all darkin, but not all wild animals; the darkin army will not spare any human beings, but the standards for animals are much looser many.But just to be on the safe side, Kelly made a circle from a distance.Her Animagus form also seems to be a "white wolf strengthened by serum", with a very sensitive sense of smell, and can accurately sniff out the location and even the number of darkin within a few kilometers.

And even if she has never even seen the shadow of the dark-born army, she can be sure that the number of the dark-born army is definitely not equal to the number estimated by Ostaga—since Kailan proposed the siege strategy , he must feel that the number of dark descendants is smaller than the number of human soldiers. Kelly estimates that it may be around three or four thousand.But in less than an hour, she had already run through the dark-born camp and transportation route that was more than ten kilometers long-this was only a part of it, and this did not include the width of the camp.The number of darkborn that she can detect alone is at least [-].But they were divided into two camps, front and back, separated by a distance of about tens of kilometers.This distance can be reached in a day if necessary, but for human scouts, their advance route will be completely blocked by the dark descendants in the first camp, and the judgment standard can only be judged by the slightly smaller camp in front Whichever it is...Kelly couldn't help sighing inwardly: Compared with magic, modern technology still has a lot of advantages.

She walked around the camp a few times, and finally stopped near a mountain wall. She lowered her head, bit the tie with her mouth and pulled it, and the two slip knots were immediately untied smoothly.The black cloak draped on her body fell to the ground, and the white wolf pulled out and returned to the human form. Kelly picked up the black cloth on the ground, cast the disillusionment spell and the concealment spell on herself, her feet touched the ground, and her whole body lightly Suspended flew up, without a sound, even with little magic fluctuations, as if gliding by the wind.In this way, she flew up a few hundred meters close to the mountain wall, and then slowly circled around the cliff. Finally, she chose a spot, slowly fell down, and finally stood on the cliff near the top of the mountain. on a platform.

The mountains near Ostaga are not flat, mostly rocky cliffs. The platform Kelly chose has steep rocky cliffs up and down. Only the square inch in the middle can barely accommodate two people standing face to face.She pulled out her wand and tapped on the nearby cliff, only to see that the rocks there melted into a liquid like water and flowed down, and the platform expanded a lot accordingly.Soon, all the rocks were melted away by her, and a small depression was abruptly cut out on the mountain wall. Seeing that the platform was big enough for three people to sit cross-legged, she put away her magic wand and looked down. One glance, and then it soared into the air again silently, crossing the other side of the ridge.This time, she no longer changed back into wolf form, but took a shortcut and flew back to where she left in a straight line.

The author has something to say: review the past for readers who have never played the game.Ostaga's failure was mainly due to three factors:

1. The main reason: Kailan's inexperience and excessive optimism.He miscalculated the number of enemies and proposed the tactic of encircling the enemy. However, 5000 people could not implement this tactic against [-] dark-born. Therefore, General Logan decisively gave up on him when he found that the dark-born army was too strong. Lead the main force to withdraw.

2. After Logan received the call for help, he did not carry out rescue, but immediately withdrew his troops and spread rumors, trying to blame the gray robe guardian, the protagonist of the game, for the death of the king.

3. The Darkborn dug a tunnel to enter the Tower of Isaac next to the Ostagar Barracks, and carried out a surprise attack.

On this matter, the author's own point of view is the same as that of the protagonist: in terms of character alone, Kailan is a good person, while Logan is in a gray area, and some of the things he does are indeed evil.But in terms of tactics, Logan is far better than Kailan.Ostaga's defeat of Kailan requires a negative main reason. (However I still decisively kill Logan every time I play the game)

Of course, this is just a point of view, you can disagree, but please don't fight.