Golden flames blazed fiercely throughout Magnolia like an endless sea of searing heat, dyeing the entire sky pure gold.
Even though the Fairy Tail members on the mountaintop were already far away, they still felt terrifying waves of heat rushing into their faces on the wind!
The ordinary townspeople sheltering in the valley were not much better off. Drenched in sweat, they kept wiping themselves down. Even at this distance, the terrifying heat baked the valley like an enormous oven, sending dry heat billowing through the air.
Yet, contrary to everyone's expectations, the terrifying flames they had thought would burn for at least several days and nights ended after only four or five minutes?!
Everyone was baffled, especially Natsu, who rolled around wailing, regretting that he had not gone down sooner to eat some golden flames. Now even if he wanted some, there were none left~
"I think the flames were so hot that they quickly burned up everything in town. With nothing left to burn, they naturally went out..." Lucy offered a strained explanation that even she barely believed. When everyone gave her exceedingly strange looks, she waved her hands and laughed awkwardly. "Uh, ha, hahaha, could you please stop looking at me like that? You're really putting me under pressure. I was just saying whatever came to mind! Yes, exactly! Just saying whatever!" With that, she fled without looking back.
Everyone turned their attention back to the town below. Even though they had already seen it once, they could not help drawing another sharp breath!
The town, once packed with a tangled jumble of buildings large and small, had completely vanished. Trees, rivers, buildings—everything was utterly gone!
All that remained was an enormous stretch of Scorched Earth, a testament to destruction and desolation! That vast black expanse looked