Michael couldn't help but feel as if he was blind. How could he have not seen this before? This was what the Ersatz had been planning this entire time!
He immediately looked towards his Mini Drones. Thousands of them, flying in the air of New Sparta like invisible eyes, looking down at the festivities below.
The Upper Echelons had draped everything with happiness. With celebrations and food. Yet, that was only the surface of the truth.
If one were to look, really look at the people in New Sparta, one would see the anxiety and worry in their eyes. The trauma from the attack before had completely made them think that at any second, another horde of Monsters were going to attack them and finish the job they failed before.
And this was only exacerbated by the fact that magic was gone. The only power accessible even to the likes of normal, ordinary people, was suddenly gone from reality as if it never even existed in the first place.
