The Fatui lying in ambush near the Whispering Woods sprang into action without any suspicion after seeing the signal flare fired by the debt collector, striding toward Mondstadt City.
As the Fatui Skirmishers drew closer, they discovered that Mondstadt City's main gate was now completely deserted. There were even two pools of blood on the ground outside it. Everyone assumed the two chief inspectors had already cleared the way for them and charged forward without hesitation.
When the main Fatui force crossed the bridge leading to Mondstadt City, another flaming arrow shot out from the lookout post atop the city walls.
A single flaming arrow was hardly worth mentioning before so many Fatui soldiers. Even the officers who noticed it paid it no mind. Besides, judging by its direction and force, it did not seem capable of hitting them anyway.
But how could Amber, a sharpshooter who never missed, have deliberately aimed wide? Her target this time had never been the Fatui on the bridge, but the Jumpy Dumpties the Knights of Favonius had placed beneath its arches in advance.
There was no need to elaborate on the power of Klee's Jumpy Dumpties here. What was more, Acting Grand Master Jean had brought out every Jumpy Dumpty she had confiscated from Klee over the past few years and quietly placed them beneath the arches of Mondstadt's bridge.
As Amber's flaming arrow flew straight beneath the bridge, what would happen when fire met bombs?
Art... is an Explosion!
BOOM!!!
The deafening blast startled even the sleeping civilians of Mondstadt awake, making them think it had thundered outside.
A small mushroom cloud rose above Mondstadt's bridge. The Fatui unfortunate enough to be crossing it suddenly sensed a flash of red beneath their feet, and a terrifying surge of energy erupted underneath them.