As Danyla and the others chanted, the dragonfire of Rafa and the other great dragons slowly engulfed the Dornish corpses and the scraps of their weapons.
Ralphanes's black-and-red dragonfire had always burned at an extraordinarily high temperature. Under the influence of the Blood Sacrifice Song, all her scales turned dark red, and the flames she breathed had even begun to take on a lava-like quality.
Many of the corpses were vaporized outright, while the scrap metal melted straight into liquid iron.
Even the purple-red dragonfire Myracis had always taken such pride in seemed lackluster beside Rafa's terrifying flames.
After breathing a single blast of dragonfire, Urrax, Digral, and the others wisely shut their mouths. They even shifted backward involuntarily, shaken by the terrifying heat.
"Angaa~"
Seeing that Rafa was about to burn away all their food, Myracis hurriedly roared at her in protest. Only then did Rafa stop, but most of the corpses had already been vaporized. The dragonfire dripping from her had even melted the plaza's sturdy stone paving.
The sight sent a chill down the spines of the Reach Army, even as their bodies sweltered, as though the heat of the dragonfire had wrapped itself around them.
By the end of the Funeral Rite, little remained of the thousands of corpses. All the scrap metal had melted into a pool of liquid iron, which cooled into smoke-black lumps with a faint dark-red sheen.
The once smooth, level plaza had also been melted by the dragonfire, leaving it rough and scarred even after it cooled. The craftsmen would likely need considerable time to grind it smooth again.
Still, the black-and-red rippling patterns across its surface lent the plaza a certain beauty.
Myracis and the others soon divided up and devoured the few Dornish remains. After absorbing the surging energy