When midnight arrived, the atmosphere throughout Bucharest changed with it.
It became utterly silent.
No matter which corner one looked in, all traces of human presence had completely vanished. All that remained was a dead city that seemed uninhabited, radiating an eerie air.
No one wandered through the city streets at a time like this.
It was as though people had sensed the coming storm. They had all retreated into their homes and drifted off to sleep.
It was a very strange occurrence.
As Romania's capital, it was abnormal for it to be this silent, even in the dead of night.
Yet no one noticed.
At least, for the ordinary civilians, no one could possibly know what had happened in Bucharest.
On one such street, someone was slowly walking along.
"Tap... tap... tap..."
His footsteps echoed with startling clarity through the surroundings.
Fang Li walked down that street, ignoring the unnatural silence around him as he leisurely surveyed his surroundings.
"Has the barrier already been set up?"
In order to prevent ordinary people from getting involved, Fiore had been moving through the various streets before the operation began, working with Chiron's assistance to set up a barrier.
Under the barrier's influence, the citizens of Romania's capital had all shut themselves indoors and slept soundly at home. No matter how much commotion occurred next, they would not come outside.
Other than Masters and Servants, there should have been no one else capable of continuing to act within the barrier.
"Caules probably helped too, didn't he?"
Otherwise, with Fiore's abilities alone, even with Chiron's assistance, it would not have been easy to spread a barrier capable of affecting the entire city in such a short time.
Just as Caules had said, he would be useful in his own way. Once he realized