Parts and Whole (Part 1)
Silvery flames already seeped between Lith's fangs as he curled his maw up into a grin and when he opened it, a jet stream of Dread Flames burst against the red wave.
'That's impossible.' Shelk thought. 'Between the two of us, there's not a shred of world energy left. What are those things burning at?'
The answer was that unlike Origin Flames which ignited the world energy with a spark of life force, the Dread Flames needed to accumulate the world energy first. Only after replacing its six elemental components with their cursed counterpart was the world energy ignited to become Dread Flames.
It was the reason they would burn and destroy anything even in the absence of world energy. The Dread Flames packed everything they needed and when they met the Blood Tide head-on, they punctured it like a knife through a slab of meat.