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.

active, with the

all working in sync to

it.' As Britta's blade neared Lux's

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

could she have accepted that Jet and Lux—the two Adventurers who saved

herself back then.

what Britta kept

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

least to find out the truth, she still believed that Sebas was mistaken, and that those two

Guildmaster's corpse and the culprit casually handling

to herself the moment she

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

she eventually outgrew him and became rebellious, but

his corpse being desecrated like that took her over

the excuses she had in her mind—concerning

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

At least

struggling to make the choice, Sebas held

made her even

couldn't she just abandon these feelings and march

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

time she spent in

mad

monster underneath, she could

that was why she

current state of things, her instinct took over, and

and relied heavily

just so she

she was able to close the distance between her and Lux, and that was why—as the