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.

with the exception

[Greater Full Slash], and [Mortal Enlightenment]; all working in sync to connect this

blade neared Lux's neck, and she saw her

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

Lux—the two Adventurers who saved her life and

can't be!' She had thought to herself back then. 'There

was what Britta

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

still wanted to

bring them in, at least to find out the truth, she still

culprit casually handling the situation, all her

the

to her. Back when her weak

became rebellious, but still… Britta loved and

his corpse being desecrated like that took her over the

mind—concerning Jet, and

still 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

At least not

to make the choice,

her even more angry

Why couldn't she just abandon these feelings

of it, was she yet to completely drop all hope for the

remembering the time she spent in his embrace, and the

mad at

monster underneath, she could

that was why she went for

the current state of things, her instinct took over, and the resolve she couldn't find

and relied heavily on her Class

just so

and that was why—as the blade was about to slice off Lux's