The Seaborn, caught off guard, received a deep, bone-cutting slash from Alfonso's blade. It used the force of the blow to retreat several steps, but before it could regain its footing, a sharp whooshing sound came from behind it.
Under the pressure of death, the Seaborn rolled and leaped out of the lethal attack range.
In its peripheral vision, the Abyssal Hunters, who should have been blocked by the Terrorfish swarm below, had somehow broken through the defense and reached the deck.
"We are very sorry for leaving such a large hole in your deck!" Specter, who emerged from the hole simultaneously with Skadi, bowed to Alfonso.
"You shouldn't apologize for damaging my ship; those Seaborn have caused far more damage to my Iberia than you have. You should apologize for letting it escape!"
Alfonso was very displeased that the Abyssal Hunters had wasted such a good opportunity to kill the prey.
At this moment, after forcefully taking another blow from Alfonso, the Seaborn leaped to the bow of the ship, and in front of it was its goal—the vast sea.
It clearly recognized that its "compatriots" on the large ship had become irrational. If it stayed here, it would only die meaninglessly. It did not fear death, but it did not want to die without value.
And now, if it jumped into the sea, the sea would heal its body, and it also needed to return to the Great Group. Perhaps it could learn from the consciousness of the Great Group why its "compatriots" made it feel so strange and bewildered.
However, when it leaped up, it was not met by the white waves, but by a sharp weapon suddenly extending from the depths of the sea.
Unprepared for defense, it was severely wounded by this blow.
And it also saw the person who had harmed it, the man it had previously considered a "compatriot," who stood beside Amaya.
At this moment, Skadi looked with disbelief at the man who emerged from the sea. His sharp movements and familiar weapon—this was Urbian, the leader of her own Team Three.
"You've regressed, Skadi. You're much slower than before, and much more cautious. It seems life on land has greatly affected you!"
As he spoke, Urbian's weapon once again slashed at the Seaborn.
In an instant, the Seaborn was cut in half at the waist, its upper body flung onto the nearby deck.
The Inquisitor's hand cannon and Alfonso's scimitar simultaneously pointed at the Seaborn.
"Be careful, it's still alive!" Gladiia, who leaped onto the deck from the other side, keenly noticed that even with such severe injuries, the opponent was still stubbornly alive.
Before the two could act, they saw the Seaborn wave its remaining front claws, tear open the deck, and leap back into the ship's hold.
"You dare to bore through the deck, are you actively jumping onto the chopping block, you unpalatable thing!" Alfonso scoffed at the opponent's action of jumping back into the ship's hold, and then jumped into the opening himself.
"No, it's actively entering the ship's hold. There are others of its kind inside the ship! It's looking for her!" Urbian, who had boarded the ship with Amaya, understood the opponent's motive in an instant.
At this moment, for a piece of prey, there was only one reason for it to actively enter the hunter's dwelling: there were companions inside. He could hardly imagine what would happen if the two met.
Inside the ship's hold, Kanna, walking down the corridor, suddenly stopped. She saw the strange Seaborn not far away, dragging its half-limp body on the ground, chewing on a Terrorfish in its mouth, and walking further into the ship's hold.
When it met Kanna, it cautiously slowed its pace.
"I can feel your hunger. Do you want to eat me too, predator?"
Kanna tilted her body. "You're not worthy yet. Go, evolve, let me see your growth."
Compared to Terrorfish, jellyfish were undoubtedly more to Kanna's taste, and she also knew that once this creature ate Amaya, it would evolve into a jellyfish form.
Kanna was somewhat disgusted by eating humans, but eating a jellyfish that had eaten a human was not a big problem.
For some reason, the predator in front of it let it go, but the Seaborn knew its life was short. The Terrorfish it had eaten would not be enough to heal its wounds.
It fled past Kanna with confusion, and soon the hunters followed.
"Where's that Seaborn?" Gladiia saw Kanna standing by the corridor, examining a beautiful Iberian painting.
"Oh, it ran this way?" Kanna pointed to the passage where the Seaborn had fled.
"Why didn't you stop it?" The Captain, walking past, frowned.
"The Abyssal Hunters kill it for honor, The Inquisition kills it for faith, you kill it for food, and I haven't found a reason to kill it yet... Oh, can I have this painting?"
Hearing Kanna's words, the few who had caught up were speechless, but as Kanna said, she was assisting Iberia as a Rhodes Island Operator to resolve this matter. As it stood, the situation on the Stultifera Navis was already clear, and whether she acted or not would not affect future developments.
"Take whatever you want. These are useless to me now. Their existence is not even as good as a piece of wood that can be lit," Alfonso said before stepping in the direction the Seaborn had fled.
"Oh! Then I won't be polite!" With the owner's permission, Kanna immediately put away the scroll in her hand. She walked towards the deck, casually taking down the paintings on both sides of the passage and stuffing them into her spatial ring.
As her feet stepped onto the deck, the sound of the waves on the sea surface suddenly subsided.
"The ocean falls into an unprecedented calm, anomalies appear on the coast, violent tides and irregular waves symbolize the coming of disaster.
All sounds are covered. From the waves hitting the shore to the city's bell tower, all noises gradually die out. Until people's words disappear, until the wind also quiets down — The Great Silence arrives silently."
Kanna walked step by step to the ship's rail, reciting the records about The Great Silence from The Inquisition that she had seen from Carmen earlier.
"It's certainly interesting. If there weren't sudden chaotic noises by my ear when I sleep, it would be a good thing. Is this The Great Silence? But it seems your abilities aren't up to par. I remember the records in the dossier stating that that Great Silence covered the entire ocean, and Iberia's coastline was almost completely destroyed in that cataclysmic silence. But this... 'Little Silence'? Is that all you've got, you weakling..."
In front of Kanna, a jellyfish, a human-shaped jellyfish, rose from the sea. It hovered above the bow, its low murmurs covering all sounds in this area.
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