The desperate gamble that could have been a self-destruct move was, thankfully, the correct answer.
The Red Core was indeed the Enemy Core.
And our real core had been hidden inside it.
Looking at the Blue Core in front of me, I stopped time again and thought.
I had somehow managed to see through the trap, but...
The situation had only improved slightly from the absolute worst.
I still had three cores left to destroy.
The number of ogres spawning every 30 seconds had swelled to 24.
The First Turret in Lane 2 had just been pushed through. The other two lanes probably wouldn't last much longer either.
...From here on out, it was purely up to luck...
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