[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

Bucky didn't answer, just sighed in her ear, and finally let go.Kelly looked him over eagerly, adding a diagnostic spell, before reassuring.

"What's the matter?" She asked almost pleadingly, while pulling Bucky into their tent.Bucky shook his head: "It's nothing, just a little tired."

"The devil will believe you." Kelly complained, while reaching out and turning his face away, "What the hell—"

But she didn't finish a sentence, and she met Bucky's eyes.Kelly suddenly understood.She was all too familiar with that look: she'd seen it on her face countless times when she missed McGonagall and Elfstone, the Weasleys, Steve and Peggy, Eggsy and Roxie... The same look again.She felt a twist in her heart, suddenly felt unbearable, and looked away.

"You miss Steve and the Howling Commandos," she whispered, "don't you?"

Bucky put his arms around her: "Yes, I do miss them." After a moment, he said quietly, "That doesn't mean I regret coming here with you, do you understand?"

"I know." Kelly said, and put her arms around him, "When this war is over, when they kill the big devil, we will leave this world, okay?"

"Don't you have three years left to stay?" Bucky asked, "You don't have to..."

"It's not for you, do you think I don't miss Steve and Peggy?" Kelly asked, "I've been thinking about it for a long time—when the big devil is defeated and the plague recedes, I will probably use One or two months to teach Elwin the method of casting spells without touching the shadow barrier, copy some books from him to study the magic of this world more deeply, and then we will go to Kirkwall to say goodbye to Maria and the others, and then You can leave this world. How about it?"

"Sounds great," Bucky said, "as long as you don't leave early for me—"

"Keeping Ostagar is the biggest change I can make in this period of time. Teaching spellcasting without touching the shadow barrier is probably the second biggest, or maybe the two are tied. In short, there are only three years left, and I can still do it. What happened?" Kelly said, "I'd rather leave early with you."

"So you want to go back with me?" After hugging and snuggling for a while, Bucky let go of his hand and asked with a frown, "I'm pretty sure Steve or Peggy must have told you to go back later... ..."

"Oh, so you overheard my conversation with Peggy outside the ward." Kelly laughed, "Yeah, I have such a plan. Whenever I go back, the government will not completely Forget it in the back of your mind, don’t you? It just so happens that I also collected some World War II materials in Harry Potter, and I’ll go back and explain it to them earlier, and I’ll be relieved as soon as I’ve gone through the review process. Besides, if there’s something really wrong with the upper echelons of the military Spy, let them keep an eye on me instead of focusing on the SSR and Howling Commandos."

"No." Bucky rebuffed without thinking, "Kelly, if you see yourself as a—a decoy or a target—"

"I'm the perfect target," Kelly said. "Don't worry, Bucky—you think about it, what can they do to me? Whether it's Hydra or the US government, they can't control me, Couldn't threaten me, couldn't even hurt me - just put me under house arrest, and I could Apparate if necessary. Is there anyone better to be a target than me? If their target changed It's another thing to become an SSR or a Howling Commando, you are still in the military, and the generals above will make life hard for you if they oppress you."

"That's different," Bucky said. "The Howling Commandos have the support of public opinion, and they dare not do anything to Captain America."

"Oh, come on, Bucky, don't tell me you really think those reporters will be of any use in this kind of thing." Kelly curled her lips, "And, I'm going back sooner or later, aren't I? I can't keep It's not my style to blame you for my troubles."

"Uh huh, your style is to actively seek trouble." Bucky said, Kelly smiled and punched him, Bucky smiled and sighed again: "Why are you and Steve so disturbing?" Heart?"

"It's as if you're making people feel at ease." Kelly complained unceremoniously, "Forget it, you should have realized that the three of us have always been the same, and maybe only Peggy is more normal."

"Yeah, it's hard work for her." Bucky shrugged, "Okay, okay, I can't persuade you. But you must be careful, okay?"

"You too," Kelly said, "I'm sure I can't go to the front with you guys, take care of yourself and Steve."

Although she hadn't planned to listen to Peggy and Steve's persuasion for a long time, but this matter has been discussed with Bucky, Kelly still feels a lot easier.The next day, when she came to the mage camp in a good mood, the other mages hadn't gathered yet, but Erwin greeted her alone.The two briefly greeted each other, and Kelly led him to a remote corner next to him.She turned her back to the camp and faced Erwin, spread her palms, and a small fireball rose in her palm, and when she clenched her fist, the fireball disappeared.She spread her hands again, the fireball ignited again, and once she clenched her fist, it disappeared again.Erwin stared at her palm intently, with a very surprised expression on his face - a mage of his level can naturally feel that Kelly's spell just now did not touch the shadow world at all.

"Why—?!" He opened his mouth and asked with some difficulty.

"Magic doesn't just exist in the Shadow Realm." Kelly said, she explained to Bucky the metaphor of the semi-permeable membrane again, Elwin's magic has a profound foundation, and it doesn't need to be explained in such detail and quickly After realizing it, after Kelly finished speaking, there was no other expression on his face except shock.Kelly understands his feelings very well. In this world, her theory is equivalent to directly subverting the worldview of these mages.She gave him ample time to comprehend the fact, and it took Erwin a long time to recover from the shock, his eyes gradually becoming urgent. "Can you -- can this method be promoted?" He asked eagerly, "In this way, many young mages will not have to die in the robbery..."

Tribulation Ritual is a way to test mages in the Dharma Circle today. Young mage apprentices who are successful in their studies enter the Shadow Realm alone to challenge a powerful demon to test their ability to resist the temptation of the Shadow Realm demon.Apprentices who succeed in the robbery ceremony can become official mages, and those who fail will die directly, without any chance to make up for it and start over.Every year, a large number of apprentices who are mentally unstable or lack magical ability are killed in the ritual.Kelly nodded without hesitation: "Okay. But this is an important issue, and we still need to think about it carefully. Please don't let others know for now——I can teach you how to cast spells first. If there is no siege today, after dinner I will come to you."

Erwin pondered for a moment, then nodded.When the two walked back to the camp, the other mages had already gathered. Erwin had made some adjustments to them in advance, reorganized a few of the original mages, and transferred two people to the medical department. There are fourteen mages in total.Kelly stood in front of them, scanned a circle of mages of different genders and ages, and nodded to them. "I'm Kelly Cosmo, a free mage. I haven't been rated by the Dharma Circle. I am proficient in all disciplines, including melee combat." She said, clicking on the No.1 mage standing on the left side of the first row, "What happened yesterday?" It's urgent, now, please introduce yourself..."

So since then, when there are no dark descendants attacking the city, Kelly's life has become a regular four-point line-the tent, the mage camp, the training ground, and the city wall.The mage's training progressed fairly smoothly, and the teaching with Elwin was even more unexpected.Elwin quickly learned to cast spells without touching the Shadow Realm. After several discussions, the two finally decided that once the war was over and the Ferelden Circle gained autonomy, he would teach this method on a large scale, and the inventor was dubbed Merlin. name.As the orthodox Chief Mage of the Ring of Law, Elvin received a completely different magical education from Malcolm. What he learned was completely academic magic, and it was also beneficial for Kelly to communicate with him.

After a month like this, it entered the severe winter season.The soldiers splashed water on the city wall into huge ice bricks, and Kelly led the mages to cast various ice elemental magics. The Darkborn could not attack Ostagar for a long time, and occasionally entered the territory of Ferelden through tunnels or small paths. The darkin were also defeated by the second line of defense led by Lord Aemon of Red Cliff, and turned around to attack Ferelden's neighbor Olei.

Olei and Ferelden have been at peace for decades, but historically the country was Ferelden's enemy.Decades ago, King Kelan's father had wrested Ferelden's autonomy back from the Oraei.Naturally, Logan gloated at this result and deliberately delayed the reinforcements, but King Kailan was in a hurry and kept persuading Logan Olei to send reinforcements to Ostaga, and now they cannot be ignored.Probably only Kelly and Bucky knew that there was another hidden reason: King Kailan had an affair with Queen Olei.

In the game, Kelly is very speechless because of this plot setting. No matter how much she likes Kailan's character, she can't deny that it is very immoral for him to do such things, no matter from the private level or the national level.In short, these days, the camp often sees disputes between the king and the general, but the severity is far less than when the war first started, and everyone is no stranger to it.

Therefore, when Kelly was training the mages this morning, she faintly heard the quarrel in the camp. She didn't really care. She was tired of hearing reasons and excuses.But this time the dispute did not subside as quickly as she had expected. Instead, the voice became louder and louder. Kelly listened attentively and couldn't help frowning.

"Erwin, you take them to train first." She said, "I have something to do, so let's leave first."

When she hurried to the king's tent, there were already several worried lords and curious soldiers standing not far away.Just as Kelly was walking over, she saw the curtain lifted, and Logan strode out angrily, without even looking at the people standing outside, he went straight into his tent and slammed the curtain.However, although the quarrel was over, Kelly had already understood what was going on from a long distance—King Kailan's affair was finally discovered by Logan.

His current wife is Logan's only daughter, plus how many battles Logan fought with Olei when he was young, it is not surprising that Kelly is so angry, but she blamed Kailan a little bit— —Yes, he is very brave and kind, and his youthful and inexperienced shortcomings are understandable, but he really has been adding chaos to this war... She was sighing deeply, and suddenly heard There were footsteps, and when he turned around, he saw the two gray-robed guardians who had just returned to the camp with dwarf and elf reinforcements a few days ago: the shield warrior Alistair, and the young heroine Solona.The two of them came here in a hurry, but when they saw the weird atmosphere here, they couldn't help but slow down.Solona asked Kelly softly: "What's going on?"

"Our general had a big quarrel with His Majesty the King." Kelly shrugged, "I hope His Majesty is still alive... Do you have any urgent matters?"

Alistair made a bitter face: "I hope he's still alive, we have something urgent to see the king—" He hurried into the tent as he spoke, and Kelly followed them, but she didn't have time to continue asking , suddenly heard a roar, shaking the ground under their feet, and there were exclamations in the barracks, and the three of them looked at the sky in unison: at the side of the Darkin camp, a huge monster was flapping its wings and flying.

"Dragon." Kelly couldn't help blurting out in a low voice.

"Yes," said Alistair, "the great evil has appeared."