Boom—
Amid a series of dull booms, the multicolored magic faded away. When the spectators finally recovered from the dazzling magical radiance, they discovered that a vast shadow had engulfed the entire venue!
"Huh? What is this..." Coming to their senses, the spectators looked around curiously, only to discover that the entire Grand Magic Games Arena had been shrouded in an unexplained darkness.
Just as everyone was puzzling over it, a perfectly synchronized series of switches clicked on with a bang, instantly flooding the surroundings with light! Dozens upon dozens of magical pillars of every color appeared before their eyes. Looking up, they realized that countless multicolored magic crystal lamps on the underside of that enormous "shadow" overhead had illuminated the venue! The hundred or so enormous columns of colored light before them were also being projected down from those huge, shining "lamps" above—
"All right, sorry for the wait, everyone!" As the spectators stared in bewilderment, Pumpkin Man's voice suddenly rang out from high above. Standing inside a cyan pillar of light, he slowly rose toward the matching cyan crystal surface overhead. Seeing everyone turn toward him, he cleared his throat and announced loudly, "Welcome to the Grand Magic Games' special Arena! What now stands above all of Flare Corona is a fully materialized virtual setting! An illusory battlefield in the sky—"
"The manifested battlefield—'War' Flare Corona!!!"
"And these multicolored pillars of magic you see are the special elevators that will take you into the aerial battlefield, 'War' Flare Corona! Simply step into the nearest elevator beam, and it will automatically guide you through the corresponding crystal lamp surface above and into the spectator stands! Every match and competition from this point onward will take place inside that magnificent 'War' Flare Corona! One final thing: to accommodate the ever-growing