Reincarnated Maid is About To Be Captured by All Players

The knights conducted simple negotiations with Enrique and began inspecting the goods in Enrique's merchant caravan.

All the personnel Enrique had brought were driven to one side.

"..."

Despite the protection of area silencing, I still couldn't help but hold my breath, trying to make as little unnecessary noise as possible.

The knights' armor was the best equipment Duke Borgia could provide, with defensive power and attributes far surpassing any adventurer or guard we had encountered before.

Additionally, there were many adventurers who clearly weren't on our side. If we were exposed, it couldn't simply be described as "more bad luck than good."

But as long as we passed this checkpoint... Lily would be safe...

Even though my faith wasn't particularly strong, at this moment I found myself praying to the god of the Abrahamic Faith, beseeching protection for our safe escape.

Enrique's initial prediction was correct. Due to the dual factors of time constraints and gifts for the Third Princess, the knights' inspection speed was obviously much faster than for other caravans.

Among Enrique's gifts were many porcelain items, which were inconvenient for armored knights to pick up and examine.

The jade lion was the same. When the knights inspected it, most considered the jade lion a valuable item and didn't pay it much attention.

[Detection] required a very high foundation in stealth and scouting skills, with learning difficulty no less than appraisal. Fortunately, that worst-case scenario didn't occur. Whether no one knew how to use detection, or they mistakenly thought the jade lion was solid and didn't use that skill.

Several other knights were responsible for inspecting the backpacks of Enrique and others. They could use guard enforcement privileges to examine all items in the backpacks, ensuring no one was carrying contraband across the border.

However, right now, Lily and I were the biggest contraband.

Lily didn't dare breathe heavily either, hugging me tightly and even burying her face in my chest for comfort.

I gently stroked Lily's back, using this method to tell Lily that we were still safe for now.

The knights didn't discover us.

They did notice the compartment under the wagon, removing wooden boards from both sides and carefully examining it.

After discovering it was a false alarm, they didn't linger at this wagon.

Watching the last knight turn to search other wagons, the heavy stone in my heart finally dropped, and only when I came to my senses did I realize my palms were soaked with sweat.

Lily, endure a little longer—we'll be safe soon.

About three minutes later, the knights completed their inspection and exchanged a few words with each other.

I couldn't hear clearly what they were saying, but they seemed not to have found any contraband.

That made sense. Except for us, Enrique wouldn't add absurd gifts among the presents for the Third Princess.

I continuously used my detection skill to observe their every move. Each passing minute and second felt particularly torturous. I prayed for no complications to arise.

Just let us pass through the barrier, just let us pass through the barrier...!

I don't know how many times I used detection to check the knights' movements, but finally, after several exchanges ended, the guards blocked passing adventurers and pedestrians while waving to signal Enrique's merchant caravan through. Chapters fırst released on ɴovelfire.net

"Wonderful... Lily!"

I desperately suppressed my excited, jubilant emotions.

"Don't make a sound. Hold on a little longer. I'm going to cancel the area silencing."

"Yes!"

Lily nodded obediently. Because she didn't have detection skills, she was actually much calmer than I was.

Knights and guards stood on both sides, seeing off the slowly departing merchant caravan.

The first wagon passed through the narrow exit and arrived outside the barrier.

The second wagon did the same.

The speed wasn't fast, but finally it was the turn of the wagon where Lily and I were hiding.

Outside would be a world of freedom belonging to Lily.

But we absolutely couldn't get carried away at first... We had to constantly watch for adventurers. Having just left, we were still close to Obi, and I worried there might be adventurers heading to Obi who would target Lily, so Lily would still need to hide her identity for a while, only going to towns after ensuring safety.

Although the sun had already set, I felt as if the world outside the aurora barrier was bathed in bright sunshine, filled with the breath of freedom.

The horse's head passed through the barrier. Everything continued as usual.

Although the exit didn't appear to have the barrier's invisible wall, essentially there was still barrier coverage there, otherwise I wouldn't have needed to cancel the area silencing.

The horse's entire body passed through unobstructed, and the wooden boards and jade lion also began passing through the barrier.

It felt like going through infrared security screening.

With liberation just one step away, I couldn't help but start thinking about this and that.

Then—

The [Barrier] made contact with Lily.

"Ah—!"

"?!"

Lily withdrew her left hand as if electrocuted.

Lily? Why...

Naturally, the horse wouldn't stop moving because of Lily.

The moment her entire body contacted the barrier, accompanied by a piercing scream, Lily's body underwent violent distortion.

The barrier itself was like an impenetrable electric grid for Lily. The contradiction between the continuing wagon and Lily's inability to penetrate the barrier caused Lily's entire body to be pressed against the barrier's transparent wall.

The barrier unleashed punishment upon Lily.

Whether it was lightning magic or something else was completely irrelevant.

Without hesitation, I embraced Lily and smashed the jade lion from the inside with my bare hands, jumping out of the wagon with Lily.

Why...?!

The lowest-grade [Barrier] shouldn't have such functionality at all!

I was certain that a Barrier capable of establishing exits and allowing passage was absolutely the lowest level. It couldn't possibly achieve precise defense targeting specific individuals. Otherwise, how could we have proposed a smuggling plan?

Smuggling through the lowest-level barrier was feasible. All of us were convinced of this. Whether Chris or Enrique, all believed smuggling was the most reasonable means of solving our predicament.

However, Lily was specifically blocked.