No one knew what Annie had said to Saitama, and Shilke hadn't eavesdropped. All she knew was that after the mighty Lord Saitama had been kicked over and sent on his way by Annie, a giant blue portal had opened in the palace gardens atop Falconia.
Afterward, Shilke hurried back to the City of Holy Light through that portal and held an urgent meeting with Guts, Casca, Farnese, and the others, who had no idea what had happened and were still cleaning up the city's aftermath.
It was a long night. Shilke had to move heaven and earth just to get Guts, Farnese, and the others to believe what she told them, and to persuade them to prepare for what came next.
And so!
Early the next morning, as the dawn once more illuminated Falconia—the first time the city had seen darkness fall—a ragtag force of survivors, having barely restored some semblance of order and gathered again under a certain commander, nervously assembled before the fortress-palace gates, ready to storm in and see what had happened. What suddenly appeared before them was a magnificent formation of ten thousand elite soldiers: the three legions from the City of Holy Light, standing ready for battle.
Then the survivors learned that the Falcon of Light, Griffith—or rather, the Falcon of Darkness, Femto—had been killed. They learned that the Army of the Light had wiped out all five members of the God Hand, Femto included. And they learned that Queen Charlotte had also died at Femto's hands—that Femto was the one who had disguised himself as the Falcon of Light, Griffith. The survivors, already demoralized and lacking any will to fight, instantly fell apart.
Some of them probably couldn't accept the truth and simply fled. The rest had no choice but to lay down