With Emperor Ganishka defeated and dead, the Kushan invasion had finally come to a complete end.
However, owing to some wondrous change in Emperor Ganishka's enormous body, the world had begun to become somewhat different. It was certainly more than just the Astral World overlapping with the real world.
Some beings had used Ganishka's colossal body as a catalyst, combining the original real world with the fantastical Astral World, and adding in the fantasies of people's legends to create an entirely new world. At the very center of this new world, now brimming with vitality, a magnificent palace and city were quietly appearing beside the enormous Tree of Light.
That was the kingdom of Griffith's dreams, the "Hawk of Light." He had named it Falconia!
To obtain it, he hadn't hesitated to transform the entire world into what it was now. Nor had he hesitated to cast countless billions of people and other living beings into the new world's irredeemable abyss!
However, Guts and his Knights of the Silver Hand knew nothing about any of that, nor did they want to.
After all, they had already escaped from the place that had once been the capital of the Kingdom of Midland and was now called Falconia, and had been traveling for a good three or four days. They had no idea what exactly had happened in the Wyndham region.
They had only learned from the Legion's green-haired witch, Schierke, that the world had undergone some kind of earth-shattering change. They'd also noticed some signs of it during their three or four days marching north. So, right now, all they wanted was to hurry back to their City of Holy Light and prepare its defenses as quickly as possible, in order to face the various crises brought about by the world's