Reincarnated Maid is About To Be Captured by All Players

“Achoo~”

“Anna’s sneeze is so cute~”

“Lady Sister, now is not the time for such comments, is it?”

Somehow, I suddenly felt an inexplicable chill. Could it be someone is talking about me behind my back?

Chris, Nora, and I were doing our utmost to resist the onslaught of adventurers, but at this rate, we were bound to be captured. Just dealing with the close-combat warriors was challenging enough, not to mention having to guard against distant mages and archers.

The only good news was that the knights were actually being held back by Anna’s support team, so I couldn’t let their efforts go in vain.

“Lady Chris, Nora, please be careful.”

One of my chains ignited in flames.

【Fire Whip】, one of the fire magic skills, can only be used with whip-like weapons. It sets the weapon ablaze, with the side effect of damaging the weapon’s durability.

I had never seen my chains break, so I assumed they could withstand this side effect. The flames coiled around the chain, striking the edge of the ice wall with lightning speed.

The burning chain, like a 40-meter-long fiery sword, split the ice wall in half.

“Anna can use such powerful fire magic?”

“Lady Sister, I can do it too.”

Not to be outdone, Nora leaped into the air, took a deep breath, and spewed a ball of fire from her mouth, melting the falling ice chunks.

“Eh? Spitting fire?”

I could only perform a symbolic fire-breathing act as part of a circus act, lacking real lethality. How did Nora manage it?

Thanks to Nora’s flames, all the ice was cleared, and the ice wall was no longer an obstacle in our escape route.

I used wind magic to propel myself into the air, spreading my chains widely to defend against the archers’ sniper attacks, and also wrapped one around Chris, bringing her into the air with me.

“There are a lot of adventurers behind the ice wall!”

“There are so many of them… like a dark cloud…”

The area behind the ice wall wasn’t clear. The support team had done their best to hold back the knights, and we had to seize the opportunity to break through.

—Should I remove the limit?

I had only one chance each day to remove my limit, boosting my abilities to half the strength I had when I had a master.

The limitation was that it only lasted for three minutes. Should I gamble everything within those three minutes?

“Lady Sister, they’re in chaos down there.”

“A knight is breaking their formation?”

Huh? A knight?

Under the protection of my chains, we managed to land relatively smoothly.

The opportunistic adventurers immediately charged at us, but more were preoccupied with the sudden change in the rear.

In the light of the illumination magic, I quickly spotted the knight fighting in the crowd.

“Lord Ivaneh?!”

I didn’t raise my voice too loud, and this exclamation was quickly drowned in the noisy shouts. However, the knight fighting in the crowd, as if sensing our connection, noticed where I was and galloped towards us on his steed.

Ivaneh had equipped his mount with armor, sacrificing speed for the horse’s protection.

Since the last time Ivaneh drew the Black Hawk Mercenary Group away, I hadn’t seen him. Just like before, he precisely located me.

“Oh, my respected lady, what vile villain dared to harm you?”

“Why are you… here?”

“Guided by the father god!”

Ivaneh proudly responded, his helmet still hanging with a few arrows. Charging through the crowd on horseback wasn’t easy.

“Who is he?”

“Lady Chris, he’s the knight I mentioned to you, Lord Ivaneh of Smiley.”

I briefly introduced Ivaneh to Chris and Nora. With his timely support, perhaps breaking through was possible.

“Ladies, I shall cover your escape.”

Ivaneh dismounted and engaged in combat with the adventurers on foot.

Even without the Golden Apple artifact, Ivaneh would use his taunting skills, although its range wasn’t as wide as the Golden Apple’s.

“Nora, can you keep up?”

“Wherever Lady Sister goes, I shall follow like a shadow.”

“Good, good, always reliable, my Nora. Let’s go, Anna!”

Chris, being a countess’s daughter, was well-educated, including in riding, despite not being sent to a magic academy.

Ivaneh temporarily handed over his mount to us. I took Lily on the horse, led by Chris, and we attempted to break out using a charging tactic.

Seeing this, the adventurers quickly summoned a massive rain of arrows, and the mages created obstacles like ice walls. However, the ice walls they made were neither as wide nor as strong as those summoned by Duke Borgias’ subordinates, and were easily shattered by my chains.

I released a large number

of chains into the air, then solidified them with ice magic.

“Anna? What are you planning?”

“Just move straight ahead, Lady Chris.”

I didn’t freeze all the chains, just about half of them. The upper half remained flexible, while the lower half was solidified into a sturdy structure.

I began to spin the chains rapidly, spreading them like willow fluff in the wind. It was like a high-speed spinning top moving forward, knocking away nearby adventurers and intercepting all incoming arrows.

Only after we had left the area crowded with adventurers did I retract the chains. But then, Chris suddenly reined in the horse.

Ahead, a figure perfectly blocked our path.

“Duke Borgias…?”