Interestingly, Etzel had not launched her charge in order to defeat the Giant Serpent... She had merely been curious and battle-hungry.
That curiosity and hunger for battle had run through her entire life.
From the "beginning" of being born in Orion, emerging from a planet, to the "dream" of coming to Earth and meeting Cong Yu and everyone else, to this very moment...
She was still that same Etzel.
Perhaps this was her "end."
"..." Her magic had finished gathering.
Everything around her seemed to slow down...
Etzel's wounds had stopped bleeding, but that was not a good sign... In their place came black-gray ashes drifting away.
Only then did Etzel herself suddenly realize.
This attack of hers contained every last bit of her resolve...
[Burning Resolve: Final Apocalypse]
"Boom!!!"
Fast! The Light Beam fired from Etzel's lance was not especially grand in appearance, but it was incomparably fast.
Almost in an instant, the strange sky woven from pitch-black and pure white rippled beneath the attack, like layers upon layers of ring-shaped clouds.
It was as though the world had dropped frames just now. There were almost no transitional frames between "fired" and "arrived."
"..." So... did it hit?
Had that attack struck the Giant Serpent? Had it hurt it? Had it proven that the person called Etzel truly possessed great strength?
Etzel had no way of knowing any longer.
In an instant, Etzel, who had emptied herself of all her resolve and emotions, even her magic and life force, fell from the sky.
Her warhorse turned into pure magic power and gradually vanished into the air.
Glittering motes of magic wound around Etzel, like a sky full of morning stars buried alongside her.
Looking up at the beautiful, brilliant sky, Etzel's vacant eyes began falling toward the scales