User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 416: Tartarus Arc: Final Part, Review and Commentary/@comment-3424593-20150119133849/@comment-7418318-20150119142953

I think Mashima only showed the statue for symbolism. We've only ever seen it standing proudly on top of the guild and now it's lying on the ground broken as if to say that the time of Fairy Tail is over.