575 The Next Day

At sunrise the next day, the Holy Light returned. The dazzling glow compelled the believers to kneel and pray. For some reason, though, the residents of Holy City did not emulate this act; they were forced to clean up, burying the corpses of those massacred the night before. The residents did this with tears in their eyes. 

At 10 pm the previous night, some people successfully snuck into Holy City. A lot of believers had already lost their lives during the battle that had occurred earlier, and most of the survivors had garrisoned in Shamshire, as angels had ordered. Thus, Holy City did not have many guards and was at its weakest. The group of people that snuck in then proceeded to carry out mass murder.