Thomas
*There was two heros patrolling jumping hundreds of feet at a time continuing to patrol the heavily fortified beaches the trenches were dug so well and deep made in an incline so any forces would basically have to climb directly up a hill into a hail of hell fire practically. There were thousands of troops constantly patrolling once there was a threat the bells began to ring out across the coast line all the troops began to rush Into positions as the two heroes flew into the air where the beam was coming from only the heroes were able to see and identity this threat as the vast ocean and distance from the human eye was only so good, they casted barrier spells one after another confident enough it would hold off any attack however this would test the reaction time of the aicrotor forces. If the heroes weren't in play vylius may have been able to make a move.*

*The two heroes casted there magic together no activity for months but now when winter has hit and snow began to pile around in the bitter cold he wanted to attack this was a problem it aggravated the heroes as the casted magic to meet with dark beam causing it to explode against there barrier this rocked and shook the earth from how powerful the two opposing magics collided with they had resorted to containment but if he wanted to attack them through far distance they would have to devise a plan to attack the bells continued to ring as men moved into there positions with winter here morale amongst the men was low, troops were getting sick left and right and not alot of doctor were available to treat them all so the heroes had to step in occasionally but this depending on how often he would attack could throw a wrench in there operation.*
Peggy
*The bright red/black glow returned emoting from the Banished Lands as another ear piercing screeching sound his heard as another Dark Beam attack attempted to obliterate their defenses.*
Thomas
*The hero sent out a beam of light into the sky the third hero was being awoken from there bed in the barracks they would be getting there gear on and getting ready before heading over to reinforce the spells now with three heroes they were confident that anything the dragon shot at them wouldn't go anywhere they also didn't have to exert as much mana anymore and did the spells together it was much much easier to hold back the lower spells however it would rattle the troops on the ground that heard it and put them in a hyper aware state.*
Peggy
*Another Dark Beam attack was on its way, across the sky shrieking before exploding as it collided with the barrier.*
Thomas
*The heroes remained occupied with this development continuing to cast there spells to fight back the magic from the dragon.*
Peggy
*Yet another spell was being casted. A brilliant red and black light shimmered as the dragon was creating a long object of pure dark energy with his hands. Then his booming voice could be heard coming across the ocean.*
"Abyssal Armament: Spear!!"
Thomas
*The heros saw the spell and by the booming voice assumed it was a powerful one of them spoke out there spell* `"Holy Shield Of Valkyries."` *The flow of mana increased all across the barrier ranking the hit if they didn't reinforce it, it would have been damaged.*
Peggy
*The spear would hit the barrier causing a 10ft aoe dark explosion and as quickly as it arrived it disappeared shortly afterwards. He would cast it again, his booming voice would echo.* 
"Abyssal Armament: Spear!" 
*Another spear of pure dark energy hurtled towards them.*
Lilian
*While this occurs, there was worse occurring within the trenches - the impoverished Aicrotor army was not made for defensive holds like this, the conscripts they usually bring just to slow down the enemy's charges crammed into trenches, spreading disease amidst the rest of them - and the rats, there were so many of them that they seemed to be crawling out of the ground itself, likely attracted by the food the army had brought with them - or the corpses of those who fell victim to the diseases that were running rampant.*
Thomas
*The heroes kept reinforcing the barrier with large amounts of mana they would hold the barrier for the foreseeable future until he ran of mana the evil dragon.

Troops of aicrotor in the trenches kept trying there hardest killing all the rats they saw sometimes the very hungry peasants on the front lines would eat the rats. The disease infested trenches were absolutely disgusting they saw the rats eating at there peoples dead bodies they were ordered to start burning all dead bodies as an attempt to slow down the spread of diseases*
Lilian
Vylius and Okia - Whenever they want.

*To the troops and peasants' shock - eating the rats slowed down the spread... And then bigger, larger rats, like ones from the depths of the sewers of human cities started showing up - matted with buboes, their flesh was unwholesome to eat, and they were defecating in the water supplies and food, while the corpses burn in mass graves over the days of plague.*

*Following this, new diseases begin to show up - more exotic than the normal diseases that follow a poor army in a trench, these were horrific - spreading necrosis through fingers that lose their sensation, some people waking up with their fingers unknowingly eaten off in the night by rats feasting on the necrotized flesh, and worse besides.*
Thomas
*The troops would just kill the big rats and burn there bodies en masse and they began to bring in bob cats into the trenches to handle the grotesque rats that are bigger and not safe to eat they brought in from the mountains releasing hundreds around the trenches they would hunt the ears as it was an abundance of food supply the cats wouldn't be so territorial.

When they realized the food and water supplies and food rations began to her rat feces on it they called upon there mages to do there best in cleansing the food and water but with so little mages in the front it was hard and would only slow down the spread of diseases. The army reacted in kind to the plagues but the upper echelons were getting tired of the poor peasants complaining about the trenches there food and water supplies they saw it as they were lucky they got anything at all. Those that began to get the newer diseases they simply killed them the captains and commanders wouldn't use there healers on peasants so they instructed to kill and burn any infected.*
Peggy
*Black and red electricity crackled in the dark dragon's palm. He would raise his claw in the air and bellow...* 
"Black Lightning Bolt!!"
*A black and red lightning bolt went straight for one of the heroes, as the lightning bolts are drawn to targets gifted with mana.*
Lilian
*As the infected are killed and burned, bobcats eat the remains just as readily as they do the hideously large rats, which tend to fight back - which is odd for rats, but these were rodents of unusual size... Whatever the case, bodies burn, bobcats eat, and diseased rats slowly begin to disappear - except for the bobcats, who have rapidly decreased the number of rats in those coming days, and now are running out of rat to eat - and burnt manflesh is unpalatable... But there's all these sickly peasants around, and... Yeah, dragging in territorial bobcats from the mountains to eat the rats was now becoming a whole new problem.*

*Of course, that was only for the poorest soldiers - the upper echelons had their own food, their own water, their own healers, and those damned peasants should just stop complaining and die on an enemy's blade already! The bringing in of healers reveals not just that the diseases were slowing in spread... But that these diseases, at least the ones that had the grotesque, leprosy-like symptoms, were unnatural - at least, if the overworked healing mages that actually HEALED the peasants bothered to examine things closely.*