Elric fell as he felt the overwhelming divine presence of these winged beings floating above.
Their figure emitted not just an incredibly holy aura but a natural absolute dominance over him and everybody and everything! And with ist is an unshakable feeling that everything that happened in Elric's life is all under the complete control of the Highest being whom those Angels worked for.
That fateful night that started with a flash of lightning, his acceptance to the offer of the Ancestral Dragon, the rampage that he dealt after and probably his journey to the Elemental realm was under the watchful gazes of this magnificent heavenly beings.
But what for?
Elric deeply realized that all the sufferings and loneliness he had experienced were all parts of the road prepared for him. The death of his loved ones, the different people and creatures he met along the way. The countless fights and laughs and goodbyes. Everything is under their watchful gazes.