Chapter 123:

Cognitive Dissonance

A gun?

Why would Priscilla be carrying a gun?

Aiden was momentarily perplexed.

“Rebecca” was at the moment suspended and below steady surveillance by Harold’s folks. Usually, she would not have had the chance to acquire a firearm.

Nonetheless, the silhouette revealed below the opponent’s higher garment unmistakably outlined a gun. Priscilla had truly hid a gun behind her, like an spy…

Wait, was the particular person he had simply handled actually Priscilla?

In a second of doubt, the “phantasm” unraveled.

With only a blink, Aiden realized that the particular person earlier than him had modified.

Though he could not see her face from behind, her hair coloration and size have been fully completely different from the “Rebecca” who had appeared earlier than him simply now.

He… had truly “misseen”!?

This hair coloration was the identical because the investigator who had simply appeared below the streetlight.

Realizing one thing, he reflexively aimed the gun in his hand on the lady who had been standing below the streetlight simply moments in the past.

As his imaginative and prescient shifted, the particular person below the streetlight had astonishingly was the “Rebecca” he had knocked down!

“You are two steps too late.”

“Rebecca,” or slightly Priscilla, stood beneath the streetlight, giving him a triumphant, shallow smile.

Initially, she and the monitor waited close to a road near the jail, utilizing an animal acquainted to watch Aiden’s departure from the jail and his actions.

Thankfully, the acquainted she used occurred to be a crow, which when flying over the streetlights, didn’t solid a shadow on the bottom. Even Aiden, geared up with Dailey’s summoned shadow demons, didn’t detect the animal surveillance.

In fact, being simply an animal acquainted, it posed no menace to him in any respect. To assault Aiden, Priscilla needed to personally method him.

After confirming Aiden’s actions, Priscilla set off to trace him halfway.

On the proper second, she shortly distanced himself from the monitor, swiftly turning into an alley to hide himself, and briefly disappearing from the monitor’s view.

When the monitor below the affect of the “Cognitive Dissonance” spell swiftly caught up, she noticed Aiden strolling forward.

In that second, she believed that the particular person she ought to see after turning the nook was her monitoring goal. So, below the spell’s impact, she mistook Aiden for “Rebecca,” who Harold had ordered to be monitored, and did not seek for her hidden monitoring goal, and as a substitute she following intently behind Aiden.

Because the monitor started to tail Aiden, and shutting in, Aiden sensed the pursuer and recognized them as Priscilla, who was meaning to hurt him.

Utilizing easy psychological spells, Priscilla induced a situation the place each people mistook one another for herself, participating in a battle of wits and ambush. She seized the chance to develop into the hunter after the prey was caught.

She did not have full confidence in confronting Aiden head-on, however she might swiftly shut the gap and unleash highly effective psychological assaults unexpectedly when his consideration shifted to the monitor, leveraging his cognitive dissonance.

Because it stands now, Aiden has misplaced all technique of retaliation and is at her mercy.

Subsequent, all she must do is totally seal his recollections, then swap consciousness, and she’s going to declare his physique!

Priscilla started casting her spell, and out of the blue, Aiden felt numerous chilly, laborious chains from the depths of his consciousness, like a swarm of snakes, focusing on and entwining his recollections, locking them away.

His Recollections started to blur – he realized he was about to fulfill the identical destiny as Rebecca.

At this important juncture, he frantically looked for any lifeline in his thoughts, till the unusual divine incantation taught by Abigail out of the blue surfaced in his consciousness.

The divine incantation! Although uncertain of the consequences of uttering this divine phrase, this unknown impact was his solely hope for salvation.