Thud, thud, thud!
Sifa sprinted through the cabins, the Calamity Spear in his hand crackling as lightning flickered along it.
After blasting Constantine into the cabins, he had expected Vice Admiral Deep Sea to charge back out and fight him for another three hundred rounds. But after waiting for some time without any response, Sifa had a bad feeling.
He hurried into the cabins after him, but Vice Admiral Deep Sea was nowhere to be seen. However, wherever the pirate admiral went, he left his surroundings damp. For a Hunter, there could hardly have been a more direct or clearer trail.
Following that trail, Sifa ventured deeper into the cabins and soon reached the bottom of the ship.
Here, he heard the splashing of water, making his bad feeling even stronger.
Two steps farther down the stairs, he saw that the bottom of the ship was already flooding. The water level was rising rapidly. Someone had clearly damaged the hull, opening a breach that let seawater pour in.
Looking at the cabin beneath his feet, which had already become a swimming pool, Sifa did not rashly enter the water, wary of an ambush from Constantine beneath the surface.
He swung the Calamity Spear down into the water. A series of thunderous booms rang out as the spear called down a bolt of lightning, which punched through several layers of the ship and blasted into the seawater below.
The lightning scattered into tiny electric serpents that darted wildly across the surface.
If Constantine had been hiding in the water, that should have given him a nasty shock. Yet nothing happened; the water level simply continued to rise.
Sifa's jaw dropped in surprise. "He ran?"
"Constantine ran?"
"He came charging in for a boarding action. Wasn't he here for revenge? To wipe