Under Pressure

"I'm here to help you, Summoner!"

No one could see the hidden fire in Kayle's calm eyes, but the fury in the Judicator's heart was now burning fiercely.

If Yogg-Saron successfully deceived everyone by transforming into Aiden, wouldn't it be smearing the real Aiden's name?

This avatar of Yogg-Saron was still "strenuously" attacking the tentacles and Faceless Ones that suddenly emerged to block his path to the Well of Souls.

But at this moment, the last thing Yogg-Saron's avatar wanted was help. Aiden inside its belly was wreaking havoc, and whether N'Zoth's entire plan would succeed depended on these crucial three minutes—every second it delayed now was related to the final success or failure!

"No, I don't need—you return to your position, Kayle, that's an order!" The fake Aiden commanded with a stern face and a stiff tone.

Kayle was silent. She accelerated her approach. A large patch of tentacles suddenly emerged, trying to knock her down from the air, but she instantly activated her golden Divine Aegis, protecting herself within it, completely ignoring the attacks of these minions.

Then she flew to the fake Aiden's side, pouring her divine power into the Judgement Blade.

Everyone who inadvertently saw this scene thought she was determined to help her commander, even Yogg-Saron's avatar thought so. It even felt that it had no flaws.

Until this sword suddenly stabbed into its back, the blazing holy fire attached to it before it could fully react and take action.

"Ah—are you crazy, Kayle!" The fake Aiden cried out in pain, narrowly avoiding a more fatal attack.

He turned around in anger. If its mental power hadn't captured the other party's attack trajectory, this sword might have directly made it unable to maintain its current form.

But the other party's attack had already told it the fact it least wanted to see—this angel had already discovered something.

Kayle continued to attack aggressively, each sword strike faster than the last, targeting this fake commander.

This immediately attracted the attention of almost everyone. No one could figure out why Valoran's most famous hero would attack her commander, until she spoke in a cold voice:

"You are insulting this image and his name, Yogg-Saron, face judgment!"

"Have you lost your mind, Kayle! See clearly, I am your commander, the master of you and the Valoran Federation!" The fake Aiden shouted in exasperation while resisting.

It understood that its identity had been exposed, but it was not without a chance. At least it seemed that only the angel Kayle knew this news. If it could use this identity to deceive others for a few minutes, it would still be the one to win in the end.

Just over two minutes, Yogg-Saron believed it had a way.

The other heroes had almost understood the dispute between Kayle and Aiden:

His Excellency Aiden believed that Kayle had been affected by Yogg-Saron and lost her mind, so she was attacking her commander like a madman; while Kayle revealed that this Aiden was fake—in fact, it was an avatar of Yogg-Saron!

If the former was true, then it was not too serious, but if the latter was true, then it would simply be a disaster, and people couldn't even imagine how serious the consequences would be!

"Stop, stop immediately!" Alexstrasza the Red Dragon Queen shouted angrily.

She flew over, wanting to mediate the conflict between the two.

No matter who was telling the truth, if they continued to fight like this, there would definitely be no good outcome.

She had enough prestige among everyone to do this, and she also had an unshirkable responsibility.

The Red Dragon Queen flew over. She breathed out a scorching dragon breath, and all the Yogg-Saron tentacles and Faceless Ones nearby were instantly scorched. Then she landed, standing between the two.

Yogg-Saron's avatar and Kayle both retreated and looked at each other warily.

The fake Aiden complained at the first moment. He shouted, "Red Dragon Queen, I'm very sorry that my subordinate has caused trouble for everyone. She may be troubled by Yogg-Saron's mind control. I think she needs to go to the Well of Souls to calm down."

Alexstrasza was noncommittal. She turned to Kayle and asked loudly, "Angel Kayle, what do you say?"

"Just now I received a message from the commander, 'The one on the ground is an avatar of Yogg-Saron. Dispel the illusion, restore your sanity!' , those were his exact words. I am sure it came from the real commander, our Valoran leader, not this avatar of Yogg-Saron in front of me."

Before others realized how terrible this news was, the fake Aiden immediately interrupted, "Are you crazy, Kayle? If I am fake, wouldn't others be able to see it? Don't you know that Yogg-Saron is best at creating illusions and making us suspicious of each other? Now we are about to win, you see, Yogg-Saron is already so weak. If we don't take this opportunity to seal it, I'm afraid we will never find a better opportunity!"

It pointed to the giant pit in the center. Because Kayle and it were fighting, everyone's attention was drawn to it, and the heroes' attack on Yogg-Saron's main body was greatly weakened.

"You see, our attack power has become smaller! If we delay any longer, all our previous efforts will be wasted!"

People looked over following the fake Aiden's instructions. It seemed that for the reason he said, the wounds on Yogg-Saron's body, which had just been severely damaged, were rapidly recovering! Those terrible scars were almost healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in people's perception, Yogg-Saron's main body was rapidly recovering its vitality!

"It seems to be true! It is really recovering!" Someone couldn't help but exclaim.

"Quick, we can't stop!"

"Intensify the attack!"

However, people didn't know that everything they saw was an illusion. As long as Yogg-Saron was willing, it could turn the illusion into any appearance at any time—making the Yogg-Saron body in the middle heal instantly, or even weaker, it was all in its mind.

Kayle said coldly: "My mind has not been affected, but you are being affected. It is weaving a terrible illusion. Everyone present is in a false illusion. I think this is what the real commander wants to tell us."

The fake Aiden rebuked with "heartfelt grief": "Kayle, are you still not awake? I am clearly here. How could the information sent from inside Yogg-Saron be the real me? That can only be Yogg-Saron's trick! Go to the Well of Souls to sober up!"

"I believe what Kayle said is true." A voice rang out from the crowd, and everyone turned to look. It was the Fallen Angel, Kayle's sister, Morgana, who had stopped attacking Yogg-Saron's main body. Her expression was somewhat reluctant, but she still said, "At least I believe that if all of us were to be controlled by Yogg-Saron's mind-influencing magic, Kayle and I should be among the last to be controlled. It's absolutely impossible for us to be the first!"

"You are sisters!" the fake Aiden said in a strange tone.

"But our positions are different." Morgana glanced at her sister, raised her head proudly, and said, "We are enemies now!"

"I can also testify!" At this time, Nocturne floated out. It knew that time was pressing. After Kayle said that sentence brought by the real commander, Nocturne immediately felt that things were probably very dangerous, and that most of the people present were probably affected by this mind-control spell.

After it stood up, it immediately told everyone about its discovery just now, as well as the abnormal behavior of this commander.

Nocturne's faintly glowing eyes looked at the fake Aiden, "Then, 'Commander,' would you think that I, who can break mind-control magic, am also being controlled?"

Before Morgana and Nocturne stood up, everyone was leaning towards Aiden because he had always been prestigious, and people were willing to believe him.

But now people are starting to waver.

If Nocturne wasn't lying, then this Aiden's handling of things was indeed very strange, especially those abrupt tentacles and faceless ones that seemed to want to stop him, but actually seemed to be cooperating with him.

"I also have something to say!" Queen Alexstrasza suddenly spoke. Beside her, King Mimirion had just walked out of a Mind-Control Well.

"I have already proven through experiments that Mimirion was also affected by mind-control magic just now, but he didn't notice it, and even I didn't notice it. As Angel Kayle said, this is indeed likely to be a conspiracy!"

As an intelligent robot manufactured by the Titans, she had previously followed her own logic. Although she saw that people's hearts were full of negative emotions, they did not seem to be affected by their minds, so she did not take the initiative to stand up and remind them.

But when Kayle questioned this Aiden, the crisis handling method in her logic took effect, and she immediately found Mimirion to test whether other people's minds were affected.

The result was obvious.

Illusions can deceive her senses, but as the manufacturer, she knows very well whether the Mind-Control Well and other equipment have worked!

Mimirion was really affected by mind-control magic, but he didn't notice it at all. Even Freya, who had been monitoring everyone's mental state, didn't notice it. Doesn't this prove Kayle's words that 'people are being deceived by illusions'?

"Queen Alexstrasza, it was I who led people to free you four guardians from Yogg-Saron's control." The fake Aiden said with a very heavy expression, "I am very disappointed to see the heroes under my command questioning me, but this should be even more vigilant, vigilant about the conspiracy of the Old Gods. Now it seems that it is not only Kayle and the others whose minds have been affected, but also you."

His sophistry made people confused again for a while. After all, just an hour ago, the four guardians were indeed controlled by Yogg-Saron, and no one knew whether the restart mechanism really restored them to normal. Especially since the corrupted Prime Guardian Loken was not dead.

Alexstrasza was also a little confused. It seemed that both sides were right, but neither could really refute the other.

"Listen to my orders, go to the Mind-Control Well first!" Alexstrasza weighed it in her mind and quickly made such a decision.

If what this Aiden said is true, then people should go to the Mind-Control Well to sober up and avoid being secretly controlled by the real Yogg-Saron.

If what Kayle and the others said is true, then doing so is not wrong. Because if they are still in the illusion now, anything they see or hear cannot be taken seriously. For example, Yogg-Saron, who is rapidly recovering in the center of the lair!

'Catch this Aiden, he is likely to be fake!'

Just as Alexstrasza issued such an order, her sister Ysera's voice suddenly came from her mind.

She couldn't help but look in the direction of her sister—Ysera didn't seem to be looking this way at all. She was staring at the giant pit in the center of the lair, or rather, paying attention to Yogg-Saron's main body in the giant pit.

'Could this be the voice of Yogg-Saron confusing me?' Alexstrasza couldn't help but think.

If she does this, the consequences may be very serious—you must know that not all of the heroes of the Valoran Federation believe in Kayle and others' words. At least, without definite evidence, many people are unwilling to see their commander suddenly attacked by people from other forces. Even if she is a Dragon Queen, she can't do such a stupid thing.

Once the conflict intensifies, it is likely that their group will fail to crusade against Yogg-Saron, but instead, an internal conflict will break out!

After such a period of time, more than two minutes have passed, and there is only the last minute left before Yogg-Saron finally launches.

Yogg-Saron's clone even secretly rejoiced. As long as there are no huge accidents in the next half minute, then these people will have no chance at all!

Even if Aiden is wreaking havoc in its stomach, it won't help—alright, it's not completely useless. At least now it is almost in so much pain that it wants to die, but it doesn't dare to show any abnormality in front of these mortals.

It thought fiercely that as long as half a minute passed, it would repay all the pain these mortals and Aiden in its stomach had brought it a hundredfold!

But at this moment, Ysera suddenly launched!

Almost as soon as Kayle said those words, mentioning "dispelling illusions and restoring sanity," Ysera instantly understood.

Why she would simultaneously sense two illusions: one was the illusion of Garona assassinating King Llane, and the other was the illusion that when they first entered the lair, Yogg-Saron's main body was still hidden in the giant pit, and the center of the lair was being covered by a huge magic barrier.

Because everyone is now in this illusion—Yogg-Saron's main body has not emerged from the giant pit at all. What everyone has been attacking is actually the magic barrier that is immune to all damage!

Doesn't that immediately prove that what Kayle said is true, that the real Aiden is still in Yogg-Saron's stomach, and that the person who has been leading them to attack this false illusion is Yogg-Saron's clone!

Thinking of the horror of this conspiracy, Ysera even trembled in her soul!

She felt a little self-blame for why she didn't react sooner, but only now understood the role of the second illusion.

It's never too late to mend the fold after the sheep is lost.

Ysera immediately used her divine power to fully break the illusion in front of her.