The entire forest went up in flames.
Exsaa didn't hold back in the slightest, triggering her Fire puppet and Earth puppet to explode soon afterward.
The real reason she had sent them out like this was because Vellan knew that her strongest puppets had a coordination-of-the-four-elements battle formation they could use. Those four were best, and together, she could crush even the weaker mid-tier Gold Mancers in this region of the continent.
Of the four of them, when given time to prepare, Exsaa wasn't just the strongest by a small margin—she was undoubtedly the strongest by vast measures, so much so that even Vellan wouldn't dare to cross her.
When Vellan saw her bring out those four puppets, he logically thought that she wanted him to become the fourth cog in her wheel and coordinate in the battle along with the three other puppets, something to which he obliged.
