Ved opened his mouth and a cloud of gold dust spread out covering hundreds of thousands of kilometres.
Everybody within the cloud was trapped in an illusion, since he couldn't put them to sleep he put them in an illusion.
Dream mist and the dream law were more effective when the targets were asleep but casting illusions to awake targets was feasible.
Those strong enough to resist his dream illusion knew better so they did not, even those who didn't know him well enough opened themselves to him.
The rest were either strong enough to not be a weakness or weak enough to not be able to resist his illusion.
The illusion in question was designed to make them despair, only despair without any hope can deal with hope.
So that what Ved did, he created an illusion designed to make them lose hope in the sovereigns.
To make it believable be mixed the illusion with truth, it continued where they last perceived reality.
