Seeing one of their number explode like that, and now this powerful magic Arthur was using made the still living attackers begin to back off, then try to escape him... Neither of them of them got very far before before those tendrils of heat sought them out, struck them and in an instant, vaporised them with the heat. They didn't even have time to scream...

With them gone, all that was left to do was pick up the pieces. Might as well start by pulling out that stake, right?