What happened next left a large part of the audience impressed. The water from Min's two creatures combined, forming a spiral, and didn't even manifest as a simple elemental counterattack. Instead, it acquired an ethereal quality, very similar to that needed to execute healing, as it collided with Liora's flames.
Instead of generating steam and dissipating, the water seemed to combine with the fire, neutralizing it in a way that defied conventional physics. The flames extinguished as if the sum of the two energies equaled zero.
The fire and water simply disappeared.
"Impossible!" Liora exclaimed to Ren, her surprise evident. "You said my fire couldn't be extinguished with water!"
"I said black fire could not be extinguished with ordinary water," replied Ren, allowing himself a brief smile. "But your fire isn't completely black yet, and I taught Min a trick to attack the 'negative spiritual properties' of black fire."
