[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

As the battle approached, the dispute between the king and the general became more and more intense, and the atmosphere in the barracks became tense.After another night of arguments, Logan returned to the tent and sat down heavily.

Decades ago, he fought with King Marek, and after countless arduous battles, he finally regained Ferelden's independence.Marek ascended the throne and became the king of the new country, and Logan also jumped from a poor boy to a general under one man and above ten thousand.It's as beautiful and magical as any saga is - so it's no wonder King Kelan has naive fantasies about war these days.But for Logan, he never felt that his future life would be as safe and secure as the ending of the hero saga.If years of leadership have taught him anything, it's that commanding a battle should never be taken for granted, always have retreats and backup plans.

However, under Kailan's stubborn persistence and heroic fantasy, all his security preparations may be useless.If the battle situation is really out of control, the last resort Logan can take - the means to maintain Ferelden's military strength, is probably to abandon Kailan and retreat...

But Kailan is the king of Ferelden after all, and he watched him grow up; all the soldiers who followed him were Ferelden's soldiers. This was still not an easy decision for Logan, and he didn't feel lost. In my own thoughts, I didn't know how long it was before I was interrupted by the guards who lifted the curtain.The guards reported that two sergeant majors had asked to see him—Barnes and Cosmo, who commanded Lozelling's army.

After thinking about it for a while, Logan remembered who these two men were: the soldiers from Lorzelling had only arrived here for four or five days, but their fighting skills and the number of dark descendants they had killed had already caused a small commotion in the barracks.He nodded, and the guards backed out, and a moment later, Kelly and Bucky stepped into Logan's tent side by side.

Bucky stepped forward to salute and introduce himself, while Kelly was half a step behind, concentrating on herself, silently casting a sound-proof spell.After sensing the shadow barrier, her understanding of magic improved again in just a few days. Without Logan noticing it, their conversation was already isolated from the outside world.Kelly cast another warning spell silently, and then by bowing her head, she secretly pointed her hand behind her and tried to cast a confusion spell on the soldiers outside the tent.The experiment was very successful: even through the curtain, she could sense that the magic was indeed working.

After the completion of the three spells, Bucky also finished the introduction. When he said that they came here with important information, he paused and looked at Kelly.Kelly interjected: "The number of darkin troops is not the current estimate of [-] to [-]. ——they have fifteen thousand darkin troops."

Logan's eyes sharpened immediately: "How did you get this number?"

"As you probably already know, I'm the best fighter." Kelly flipped her hands over, holding a ball of cold ice puck in her palm, and clenching her fist to disperse it, "But I'm also a magician. A few days ago, I noticed that the dark descendants were acting differently, so I secretly transformed myself and went to investigate. I found that there are actually two camps of the dark descendants, seventeen kilometers apart. So far, what the scouts have found is only the first camp. The number of darkin, but their real main force is in the latter camp, where there are at least [-] darkin troops."

"You're a wild mage," Logan said, and Bucky frowned, but didn't interrupt, "Why should I trust you?"

"The darkborn will not let me go because of whether I am a mage, or whether I have entered the Dharma Circle." Kelly shrugged, "We all know the dispute between you and the king, and we don't want to lose this war, so I will go to investigate and come to you. If you don’t believe me, I can take you to see it with my own eyes.”

"There isn't any magical transfiguration capable of carrying other humans," Logan said coldly, "and, why would I take the risk?"

"Because it's about the life and death of at least [-] soldiers and King Kailan?" Kelly asked with a smile. Although Logan remained expressionless, she didn't miss his suddenly dilated pupils and tense muscles .

"You know, if the two of us really want to kill you, Kelly alone can kill you a hundred times on the spot." Bucky added threateningly, "And if you're not here, the king will definitely send all his troops away Wasted on pointless proactive aggression. We are all human, why should we help the darkin side?"

"So, do you dare to come and see for yourself?" Kelly pulled Bucky up with one hand, looked at him with a smile, and stretched out her hand in Logan's direction. After a while, Logan stood up and walked up on her hand.

"Hold on tight," Kelly reminded, and she Disapparated with the two of them.

The next moment they appeared on the platform that Kelly opened up earlier, Logan apparated for the first time and gasped for a while, but before his breathing fully recovered, he was completely attracted by the darkin camp below force.He took a step forward in shock, standing on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the dots of flames below—the place where they were located was on a high terrain, and it was possible to estimate the darkness below just from the area of ​​the darkin camp that was within sight. The number of descendants is no less than [-], and the camp of dark descendants extends to a place that is difficult to see, and there will be more troops outside of sight.Logan looked around again. Although it was completely dark, he could tell from the nearby terrain and mountains that this place was far away from Ostaga—it was definitely not the place that the scouts discovered earlier. camp.

He stood there silently for a moment, then turned around abruptly, and strode up to Kelly and Bucky: "Very good. What do you want?"

Kelly raised his eyebrows at him, and Logan snorted coldly: "You brought me here, it shouldn't be as simple as letting me see the darkin army with my own eyes."

Kelly shrugged: "Yes. After all, as a free mage, I have to be more cautious." She turned to Bucky, exchanged glances with him, and then took out two identical palm-sized hourglasses, and put one of them Turn it over and place it near the corner of the cliff, and the sand in the hourglass will flow down slowly.

"I'll go back to the barracks first—I don't dare to take the charge of letting the general disappear in the middle of the night." Kelly said with a smile, "I'll come back to you in a quarter of an hour."

She took another hourglass and Apparated back to Logan's barracks.The tent was empty, and the spell she had cast was still there.In this short period of time, no one should come to Logan again, but he is a general after all, and he is busy with affairs, so to be safe, Kelly still added more powerful confusion spells to the two guards at the door, letting them Don't let anyone into the tent.

There is a huge map on the table in the tent, Kelly copied a copy and put it in the space bag.She wandered around doing nothing for 15 minutes, and when the sand in the hourglass drained out, she returned to the cliff again, and saw that the two were still discussing endlessly.

"It seems that the general and I are more cautious, and feel that the three oaths of the unbreakable oath are not enough, or it is safer to use a contract." Bucky said, "So, Kelly?"

Kelly nodded, took out a roll of parchment, tapped it lightly with her magic wand, and Bucky continued: "We have discussed a few things just now, the first one is that we should be in any situation where our lives are not threatened. His majesty will not do anything to harm his body or interests; on the contrary, unless we take the initiative to take action, he cannot damage our lives or interests in any way..."

The Darkin camp was right under their feet, and it was inconvenient to light up the lamp. Kelly tapped the parchment lightly with her wand, and rows of faintly fluorescent writing appeared automatically on it.The three discussed for a while, and finally settled on six rules. In addition to the most basic of not threatening each other's lives, Logan should try his best to fight for Kylie's identity of using magic publicly; After the plague is over, Logan will try his best to promote the autonomy of Ferelden's ring, etc.However, after all, there was a common enemy, the Darkborn, and the demands of both sides were not too much. The discussion was quick, and it took about a quarter of an hour to finalize the words that fell on the paper.Kelly tapped the parchment with her wand, cast several complicated spells on it, and the three signed their names respectively.

"This piece of paper has been enchanted by me, but I think it's safer for us to make an unbreakable vow." She handed the parchment to Logan and said with a smile, "Bucky should have explained it to you ?A total of three oaths are made in the form of questions and answers. Once any party violates the oath, he will die immediately, and there is no chance of redress or repentance."

Logan said coldly: "Do I still have a chance to refuse?"

Kelly winked at him apologetically: "I know it's shameless - but as long as you don't intend to break the contract, you will definitely not suffer." She smiled and drew out her wand, "Come on, you two hold hand."

Logan and Bucky held hands, Kelly tapped her wand on their clasped hands and nodded to Bucky.

"Logan McGee, are you willing to abide by the contract you just signed?" Bucky asked.

"I would," Logan said.A thin tongue of flame shot from the wand and wrapped around their hands.

"James Barnes, would you like to guarantee that both you and Kelly Cosmo will abide by the content of the contract?" Logan asked.

"I would," Bucky said, and a second flame wound up.After that, both of them paused for a moment. After all, the content that both parties need to abide by has already been signed in the contract.A few seconds later, Bucky asked: "Are you willing to not endanger the life and status of the Gray Robe Guardian and Maria Hawke's family without being attacked by them first and knowingly?"

Logan paused for a moment before replying: "I do."

A third tongue of flame spewed from Kelly's wand, forming a dazzling chain with the first two, wrapped around their hands, and then disappeared into their skin without a trace.Logan withdrew his hand and stroked the part of his hand where the tongue of fire had submerged, but Kelly knew that he would not feel any strange feeling there.

"Okay, I'll send you back first." She said, put away her wand, and motioned for the two to grab their hands respectively. After a soft "snap", the three of them returned to the tent again.Logan looked around the tent, as if he still couldn't recover, but he quickly regained his composure and strode towards the entrance of the tent.

"You two come with me," he said, "to see Kailan."