Ten days had passed since the Exo-Planted Celestial Body Incident.
The Human Holy City, located in Italy, was still severely affected by the incident.
A great deal of manpower was currently being mobilized to repair damaged buildings and streets, reinforce the defensive fortifications, and increase patrols throughout the city.
Whether residents of the Slums, nobles, personnel from the Knight Academy, or even members of Knight Order headquarters, everyone showed varying degrees of fear whenever they recalled the incident.
The incident had directly destroyed roughly one-fifth of the Holy City's districts.
The spreading plant roots had also severely damaged the underground facilities.
The only strange thing was that the death toll was extremely low. Even those who had died were Steam Engineers... at present, the confirmed number of actual casualties was zero.
At present,
two knights clearing away plant remnants in the affected area were chatting.
One of them was a Lionheart Knight who had happened to be patrolling this district during the incident. He could be considered someone who had faced the incident head-on.
"Dunan, you were patrolling here at the time, right?
Can you tell me what happened? I was investigating something outside the city then. By the time I rushed back after receiving the emergency report, the 'impact' was already over."
Upon hearing this, Dunan used brute force to rip out a thick plant root embedded among the ruins.
"Nord, you have no idea how desperate I was back then.
The moment I saw that sight, I thought there was no way I would survive... yet here I am, standing here completely unharmed.
My scalp goes numb every time I think about it."
"Come on, tell me already. Stop keeping us in suspense."
"At the time, I had just finished investigating an Iron Mane Brotherhood hideout. The moment