I learned about Fields in physics from this video, and i concluded that the concept of field is a theory.

I am going to focus on electric field and how i think it works. 'A charged particle creates a big Ripple on the field and due which the other charged particle gets repelled or attracted'. I hope this is correct because this is what i concluded after learning about fields and my question is also based on this guess.

But as i went further in my chapter(Electrostatics) i got confused as it said that Electric Fields are inversely proportional to the square of distance between the charges(r^2).How is this possible?, shouldn't the correct word be "The effect/ripple by a charge on an electric field is inversely proportional to square of the distance between them" and NOT "Electric Field is inversely proportional to the square of distance between the charges" ?.

Furthermore, the book also says "Electric Field Lines OR lines of electric force". So i think it is quite clear that the lines or arrows are for the ripple created on a field,right?.