Iluna raised her hand and spun the Phantom Long Spear in a graceful flourish. As she lifted it, Golden Thunder was already coiling around the shaft amid crackling thunder.
To her surprise, though the spear looked strange, it was remarkably suited to her power. She then realized that she had always been skilled with this sort of weapon, and precisely because the spear was not physical, it could better contain the Great Power of the Sun.
She did not know where the spear had come from, but as she floated above the sea beneath the stars and raised it high, she distinctly felt as though the stars filling the sky were responding to her coming strike.
"I wonder where Emilia found this weapon."
Crack!
Golden Thunder streaked across the night sky above the falling meteor. As everyone's attention shifted to Iluna, they saw dozens of bolts of Golden Thunder continuously striking straight down through the space around her raised spear.
Her right arm holding the spear drew back to gather strength. After the gold lightning struck around her, it swiftly converged upon the spear. At the same time, she thrust out her chest and forced her head and legs backward, bending herself like a drawn bow in midair.
Iluna could clearly feel that this next strike was the best strike she had ever been able to make. Its power might not necessarily have been her greatest, but she had never before experienced such a perfect sense of stored force.
Thinking, I can gather strength like this in the future too, she was even dyed gold by the leaping Golden Thunder. Responding to the thought in her heart, she hurled the Phantom Long Spear, wrapped in Golden Thunder, upward.
"Thaumaturgy—Sunlight Gun!"
At first, the spear she threw from her hand was