Black flames burst out of the Dueling Arena. From the camp, the entire arena looked as though it had been hit with Diffindo, falling apart in every direction.
The wizards left in the camp had no time to react. The roar of the blast left them dizzy and stunned, and the sudden, violent explosion made blood run from their ears as they stared blankly at the black inferno rising abruptly from the direction of the Dueling Arena.
With a deafening bang, a vast shadow loomed down from the sky.
The boxes on that half of the stands, including the very conspicuous Harris's box, had all been flung into the air. The stands where they had originally been collapsed with a crash, and not even the black flames could hide the dust and smoke shooting into the sky.
Because these boxes were protected by magical runes, they were still able to remain basically intact. Even so, the immense flames and the force of the explosion had torn each box from the arena and hurled it skyward, sending them flying into the air, where they slammed into buildings high above outside the Dueling Arena, then bounced away and plunged diagonally downward.
The black flames that erupted immediately afterward wrapped around the surrounding buildings, ripping them apart until they collapsed, with crack after crack ringing out without end. Even the tall water towers, and the water in their enormous tanks, ignited instantly like fuel when they met this black Greek Fire, allowing the flames to keep expanding and spreading until everything was dragged into that black ocean and reduced to nothing.
The wizards around the Dueling Arena had no time to react at all before they were instantly swallowed by row after row of black flames like towering waves.
Most of the wizards