"Fire isn't going to work here," Korde commented. A few of the fire balls hit him as he changed positions with the ax to use its head and slammed it on the ground creating a pillar of black fire exploding straight up around him. "KUROI HASHIRA!" He then jumps up out of the pillar of fire in a flash and is right in Leon's face. "Especially fake fire," he finished as, instead of using the ax in his right had to swing, he just used a fiery punch with his left to hit Leon in the got and use the blast to knock him back. There was no taste to the fire that was thrown at him. Had Leon used any other magic element, he probably wouldn't have just noticed that Leon was an illusionist.

Meanwhile the attacks on the crystal prison seem to be working, slowly, cracks are starting to from in it. The close observer would even see Terra's eyes start to crack open.