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.

Skills were active, with the

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

it.' As Britta's blade neared Lux's neck, and she saw her surprised

to believe. It took a lot of convincing to bring everyone to his side, but she was the last to come

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

thought to herself back then. 'There has

Britta kept telling

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

wanted to

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

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

had whispered to herself the moment she witnessed all

Back when her weak father died, he became the

and became rebellious, but still… Britta loved and respected him

corpse being desecrated like that took her over the

she had in her mind—concerning Jet,

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

At least not

make

her even more angry at

Why couldn't she just abandon these feelings and march

it, was she yet

she spent in

mad

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

why

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

Skills and relied heavily on

so she

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