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

Slash], and [Mortal Enlightenment]; all working

As Britta's blade neared

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

accepted that Jet and Lux—the two Adventurers who

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

Britta

two of them for a long period of time, and connected so many dots that it

still wanted to

out the truth, she still believed that Sebas was mistaken, and that those two weren't… that Jet

Guildmaster's corpse and the culprit casually handling the situation, all her

the moment she

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

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

his corpse being desecrated like that took her

in her mind—concerning Jet,

to do. It was disgusting how she couldn't even find

least

she was struggling to make the

made her even

just abandon these feelings and

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

she spent in his embrace, and the

was mad

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

why she went for

over, and the resolve

her Skills and

so she

and Lux, and that was why—as the blade was about to slice off Lux's neck—she felt a sting