It didn’t move the story forward. After much anticipation the thought for me at least was that this would aid the plot, it didn’t. The overall plot of the movie itself left a bit to be desired because it was hard to grasp why/how Conrad mentally got there until Julius explained it with 20 minutes left.
The fight scenes were great. The rallying of the magic knights was great. It was emotional. But it seemed like a lot of misdirected energy that could’ve gone towards pushing a great storyline further.