How long had she been imprisoned and tortured?
Even Sellen herself could no longer remember.
That pack of mage scum who had abandoned the exploration of the Primeval Current—maggots who had grown complacent and stopped searching.
Turning their rotten lives into star seeds and using them for research had been the greatest use they could serve.
Unfortunately, she had still been caught by them. Rotten as they were, they had once been the elites of their respective classrooms.
Locked up here and tortured day after day by that band of psychopaths, she could not even kill herself and transfer her consciousness.
But now, everything was different. Someone had opened this basement.
If she had him kill her directly, she could use the contingency she had prepared beforehand to escape this place.
"Hey, the one over there, could you do me a favor?"
Enduring the pain, Sellen took the initiative to make a request of Lucian.
"Sure. What is it?"
"Do you want me to smash these crystals?"
Of course Lucian would not refuse. He had come here for Sellen.
"No. No one besides those mages can unlock this shackle."
"Come on, ahh! Just kill me."
Lucian hesitated. This was different from the plot he knew.
In the game, Sellen asked for the thing called a Primal Glintstone to be removed from her body, then installed into a puppet, allowing her to change bodies.
But now, she was directly asking Lucian to kill her.
Had Sellen prepared a contingency long ago, allowing her to revive somewhere else after dying?
That was probably it. Sellen likely did not trust a stranger to safeguard her Primal Glintstone, so she had used another method.
It could not be that she genuinely wanted to die.
Seeing that Lucian still had not acted, Sellen spoke