The brilliant detonation flashed throughout the sky like a flare, illuminating everything around for miles.
Just as Karlia intended, she was able to contain the blast so well that it barely scraped the top of her building, consuming everything else around it. In a single strike, everything dissipated into nothingness… Karlia included.
Serah's eyes widened in both shock and relief as she saw nothing left of Karlia. She was utterly consumed, after all.
'I won! I… won!' Inasmuch as she had forged a kind of bond with Karlia over the short span of their conversation and their fight, they were still enemies.
Serah knew that what she did was just—hence the relief.
"Haa…" Serah huffed, finally releasing herself from her INVINCIBLE state.
Her Original Magic began to have a strain on her once it reached a particular threshold, but it wasn't simply the power that exhausted her. It was [The Sun].
'The overwhelming power is still a lot. I can't control it for very long.' Serah heaved.