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

[Greater Full Slash], and [Mortal Enlightenment]; all working in

still don't want to believe it.' As Britta's blade neared

first told her about all of it, she found it ridiculous to believe. It took a lot of convincing to bring everyone to his side, but she was the last to

that Jet and Lux—the two Adventurers who saved her life and inspired her to be better—were

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

what Britta

of them for a long period of time, and connected so many

wanted to believe

she agreed to help bring them in, at least to find out the truth, she still believed that Sebas was mistaken, and that those two

seeing the Guildmaster's corpse and the culprit

the moment

like a father to her. Back when her weak father died, he became the

outgrew him and became rebellious,

desecrated like

the excuses she had in her mind—concerning

time to pull together enough resolve to do what she was about to do. It was disgusting how she

least

she was struggling to make the

even more

Why couldn't she just abandon these feelings and

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

spent in his embrace, and the warmth

was mad

a monster underneath, she could not let go of her feelings

was why she went for

her instinct took over, and the resolve she couldn't find

and

so she

was able to close the distance between her and Lux, and that was why—as the blade was about to slice