IB weakness-chained spells off destruction

“You may have broken the hot and dry, but the hot and wet and cold and wet are joined
with it. There are no pure elements at the surface of the four worlds, but the isolated cold
and dry will use its great influence to disturb the world’s harmony. Earth born of fire, use
your great fusion to reinforce your meaning and strike the destroyer of the elements!!”
There were four elements.
In the largescale ceremonial magic used by the Golden cabal, you could not exclude any
of those four even if you only wished to use the one.
In a technical sense, there were no pure elements in this world.
For example, fire always contained some trace amounts of water, wind, and earth.
Trying to remove that margin of error would be the same as forcibly removing electrons
or protons from stable atoms or molecules.
“Westcott, Lady of the Masquerade Ball, and the rest. Look after yourselves. Do not get
caught in this and die.”
So destroying the magic was not the end of it.
Mathers had set his magic up under the assumption it would be destroyed.
The great destructive power that followed was an unstable element.
A horrifying white beam of light blasted forward from Mathers’s hand.
A hit from this would be fatal.
And Kamijou had already swung his right fist with all his might.
He could not dodge this attack.
He only survived because the carriage he stood on shook hard to the side. The white beam
passed right by his head and left a tingling pain on his nearly-scorched cheek. This was
no coincidence. The coachman holding the reins had moved the carriage at just the right
time.
- New Testament Volume 21 Chapter 3 Part 16