An Extra’s POV

It was checkmate.

Lux' Magic was potent and versatile, but for her to match the kind of power that Sebas was unleashing, she had to pour all of her Mana to restrain him—albeit barely.

As a result of that, she had no proper defense in place around her.

With Britta's swift motion, and the deadly power she wielded with the blade, Lux's survival without a defensive barrier was zero.

Britta was an Elite Swordsman, which made her practically invincible to most when it came to the blade. Her Skills her buffed her physical state and attacks to an absurd degree. Plus, since she was a Heroic Rank Adventurer, her Stat were not to be discounted.

If anyone could kill Lux as she was now, it would be her.

However, this wasn't the only reason why the current situation was a deadlock.

Even if Lux was fast enough to focus on her own defenses to stop Britta's attack, she would have to ignore the constraints that currently stopped Sebas from landing a fatal hit on her partner—who was just initiating a process of counterattacking.

If she stopped the Constraint now, Sebas—the much faster and stronger one—was bound to deal the first strike and probably finish Jet off.

Everyone knew what kind of state Jet was in, so it was very possible for a point-blank explosive assault from Sebas to end his life.

Hence, a difficult situation.

No matter what choice Lux made—if she could even make any, given the suddenness of the whole thing—one of the two would have to die.

The only question was who?

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"Rahhhhh!"

Britta's voice pierced the air as her blade she made a powerful horizontal slash. Her target was Lux's head, and based on the trajectory of her swing, she wasn't going to miss.

were active, with the exception of [Night

Sense], [Greater Full Slash], and [Mortal Enlightenment]; all

don't want to believe it.' As Britta's blade neared Lux's neck, and

told her about all of it, she found it ridiculous to believe. It took a lot of convincing to

Lux—the two Adventurers who saved her life and inspired her to

thought to herself back

what Britta kept telling

admitted to being an expert who had been tracking the two of them for a long period of time, and connected so many dots that it

still wanted to believe

find out the truth, she still believed that Sebas was

corpse and the culprit casually handling the situation, all her

whispered to herself the moment she

a father to her. Back when her weak father died, he became the pillar she could

she eventually outgrew him and became rebellious, but still… Britta loved and respected

like that took her

had in her mind—concerning Jet, and his partner Lux—were slowly

took her time to pull together enough resolve to do what she was about to do. It was disgusting how she couldn't even find the strength in her to

least

struggling to make the choice, Sebas held the

made her even more angry at

couldn't she just abandon

now, after witnessing all of it, was she yet to completely drop

in his

mad

a monster underneath, she could not let go

that was why she

the current state of things, her instinct took over, and the

Skills and relied heavily on her Class

so she

was why—as the blade was about to slice off Lux's neck—she felt