"No wonder Ilvermorny sheltered its students. That seemingly normal act had caused them to be hated and isolated by every faction... Such hatred couldn't be reconciled. Just as Essex said, unless one side killed the other completely, it would never stop!"
Thinking of his purpose in leading the delegation to North America, Vaughn found it somewhat troublesome.
However, now was not the time to consider such things.
Switching back to his view of reality, Vaughn saw that Essex, whose emotions he had stirred and whose mind had consequently fallen into a negative state, had already lost his reason.
This was the best opportunity to bypass the other party's mental defenses.
Vaughn did not delay any longer. He rose and walked to Essex's side, drew his wand, and pressed it against his temple. Using the memories and emotions he had absorbed from Essex, he wove a new Personality Armament.
An "Impostor"!
This was a new function Vaughn had refined, designed specifically for wizards proficient in memory magic or possessing mental defenses such as Occlumency.
Just like now, the many processed memories and emotions of Essex turned beneath Vaughn's Wand into white mist sparkling with tiny points of starlight.
Just then, vast amounts of processed memories and emotions belonging to Essex turned into white mist glittering with starlike specks beneath Vaughn's wand.
They entwined and fused together. Soon, a humanoid figure extremely similar to Essex rapidly took shape as Vaughn waved his wand.
"Go!"
Vaughn lifted his wand, raising the humanoid like a puppet, then "pressed" it into Essex's mind.
The next second, Vaughn "saw" it descend, glimmering with tiny points of light, into the storm of the mind. The boundless mist extended by the first Personality Armament immediately gathered around it.
The humanoid and the mist gradually sank into the storm,