More than ten days later, with Schierke and the giant pet lizard Annie had once again mercilessly "abandoned" providing aerial patrol and scouting support, Guts, Farnese, and the others finally managed to safely bring the three thousand Knights of the Silver Hand under the Army of the Light back to the Holy Light City—a place that had, for some reason, become somewhat dilapidated and bore signs of battles everywhere.
Only after asking around did they learn what had happened. During the nearly month-long period when Guts and the other commanders had taken their most elite cavalry out to watch the battle, especially during the twenty days when the world underwent its great transformation, the Holy Light City had, like everywhere else, inevitably come under attack from all sorts of terrifying creatures that had suddenly appeared.
Unlike Guts and the others, who knew roughly what was going on, none of the soldiers and commanders left behind had the slightest idea what was happening. For the first few days in particular, they had continued patrolling and keeping order as usual, right up until they saw all those extraordinary beings.
Chaos, then, had been inevitable.
In any case, during the period that followed, all sorts of creatures, monsters, magical beasts, and even beings from legend had visited this great city, which was home to at least a hundred thousand people.
To be fair, after the chaos began, the commanders and soldiers left behind had reacted quickly and fought with all their might to defend their homes and people. But faced with attacks from all kinds of terrifying monsters and powerful creatures they had never seen before, they had still been forced back again and again, losing nearly every outlying town, village, field, stronghold, vast stores of supplies, and military camp beyond the city