With direct contact having been made by the lightning and the following explosions Hood would have found himself virtually entirely saturated with the dark red energy which had been used to create these attacks. This was all that was required for a near instantaneous follow up attack once it was apparent that Hood had survived and a snap could be heard echoing throughout the realm, which triggered a change in the energy. All at once the thick and once harmless energy suddenly erupted into a dark red flame, a flame which required no oxygen to remain lit only a physical surface on which to burn until there was nothing left. If all went well Hood would be caught within this inferno upon every inch that had come into contact with the energy.