Reincarnated Maid is About To Be Captured by All Players

A wind wall can only deflect ordinary attacks, and there are countless ways for ranged attacks to break through it.

“The trouble with large guilds… they have all kinds of people.”

Trafalgar muttered under his breath. Ordinary adventurer teams wouldn’t have a Beastmaster, but the vast scale of the Black Hawk Mercenary Group meant they weren’t short of talents.

Higdelytha immediately embraced Lily, but transmutation can’t transport others.

“Everyone! Please gather around me!”

I spread out my chains, weaving them into a massive spider web in front of me.

This was a skill that can be used with whips or chains: Net. Based on the length of the weapon, it weaves a shield-like net to defend against physical ranged attacks like arrows. Its effect isn’t as solid as a shield but has a web-like stickiness that temporarily halts any attacks that touch its edges.

It looked somewhat like borrowing arrows with straw boats, but in principle, it was hard to remove the arrows since it only temporarily halted their motion, not dispelling the magic within them.

For example, the 【Piercing Arrows】 stuck to the chains had an additional magic effect of inflicting extra damage on lightly armored units. Touching them recklessly would be akin to touching thorns with bare hands.

My woven Net left no gaps for arrows to penetrate. After a barrage of arrow rain, it was filled with magic-infused arrows. Moreover, arcane missiles were also incoming.

Arcane missiles, a common skill among mages, sacrifice damage for range and speed. They were using the arrow rain and arcane missiles to delay our escape. My scouting skills sensed multiple players riding towards us at high speed, seemingly specializing in riding skills, capable of short sprints with their mounts.

“There are so many of their mounts…”

“That’s normal,” Trafalgar said. “Many players in the Black Hawk Mercenary Group have noble titles with their own territories. The mounts bred in their stables are exclusively for the guild members’ use. As long as you contribute to the guild, you get assigned a mount.”

That was alarming – they even distributed mounts, no wonder they had so many people…

But this wasn’t good for us. Were they categorized as light cavalry? There were nearly a hundred of them, just the charging cavalry alone outnumbered any adventurer team we had encountered before.

As the arcane missiles approached, I seized the moment to confront them with the Net.

This intangible skill couldn’t be caught by the Net, but timing was key—

“You can even use 【Refraction】?”

Refraction, named after the phenomenon of light refracting off a mirror, absorbs projectile-based single-target skills and magic and redirects them back to the source.

The arcane missiles hit the Net as if striking cotton and, together with the absorbed arrows, rebounded towards the charging adventurers.

“Hmm?”

The adventurers were slightly surprised. Most of them immediately pulled their mounts to a halt, but a few broke away from the group, continuing their charge. It didn’t look like a lack of coordination; rather, they seemed to intentionally move to the front.

As expected, when the arrows and arcane missiles neared, the speed of these few adventurers slowed significantly, replaced by a phantom brick wall appearing in front of them.

Shield Wall, a skill that reduces one’s speed in exchange for expanding the defensive area and absorbing frontal impacts.

The arcane missiles and arrows were all absorbed by the Shield Wall, but I hadn’t expected them to cause trouble anyway.

I threw out my chains, hitting their mounts just as the Shield Wall ended.

Mounts in the game aren’t like those in some games that act like inanimate objects. They have their own attributes, like 【Courage】, determining their bravery. Whether they get frightened in battle depends on this. Of course, this also means that when a mount is hit by a strong attack and becomes uncontrollable, it will throw its rider off.

Several adventurers were thrown off their spooked mounts, but then a series of whistles came from behind, and the disturbed mounts calmed down again.

Another Beastmaster…

Perhaps due to some Buffs previously applied by the adventurers, the mounts didn’t die from the chain’s hit and were still able to fight. Maybe I should have aimed for the head.

But there was no time left. The second wave of fire suppression was imminent. Their plan seemed to be delaying us with overwhelming firepower – after all, who wouldn’t defend against becoming a pincushion?

This gave the special-attack adventurers time to advance, and the encirclement was also not idle, gradually closing in.

“Anna! We can’t keep this up, we need to break through.”

“We can’t just rush out… They must have adventurers specialized in geographical skills. We’ve been at the center of the arrow rains twice, it can’t be a coincidence.”

The advantage of the Black Hawk Mercenary Group’s numbers was becoming overwhelmingly apparent. If this continued…

“Eh?!”

Higdelytha exclaimed in surprise. I thought she might be injured and continued to hold up the Net while anxiously turning back to her.

“Lifa? What’s wrong?”

“The Golden Apple… it’s gone…”

“At a time like this…”

I was about to say we didn’t have time to worry about the Golden Apple when I saw Ivanhe, with the apple in his hand. He donned his helmet, mounted his horse, and placed the Golden Apple in a conspicuous spot.

“Wait, Lord Ivanhe…”

“Bravery to serve! Fearlessness to sacrifice!!!”

Ivanhe completely ignored me, shouting out a knightly creed, and charged alone with the Golden Apple.

【Anastasia’s fondness for “Ivanhe,” +3】