War Rages
"Watch your heads! We got incoming!" The war had already started. I still do not know who was the one who started this whole thing, but when I find them, I will definitely kill them.
There are three things that I have realized about this current battle. First is that barriers are basically useless against the enemy's strange weapons. Second, they have a group of mages who are creating mutli layered barriers around the weapons, which is keeping long ranged attacks from hitting the weapons. Third is that we can stop the attacks from the weapons if we use fire magic on them and blow up whatever is benign shot at us before it reaches us. I have a squad of fire mages whose only duty is to stop any of those new weapons from harming our people.