Yet there was no desperate fight to observe, for the combatants were unequal.

The end came before they were aware of it.
Zog had been taken by surprise, and his great fear of Anko destroyed all of his magic power.

When the sea serpent slowly released those awful coils, a mass of jelly-like pulp floated downward through the water with no remnant of life remaining in it, no form to show it had once been Zog, the Magician.
Then Anko shook his body that the water might cleanse it, and advanced his head toward the group of four whom he had so opportunely rescued.

"It is all over, friends," said he in his gentle tones, while a mild expression once more reigned on his comical features.

"You may go home at any time you please, for the way through the dome will be open as soon as I get my own body through it." Indeed, so amazing was the length of the great sea serpent that only a part of him had descended through the hole into the dome.