With Eric's exit, one could clearly feel the light faintly attached to Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge weaken a bit.
Takumi knew this was exactly like in the game: the rank of Blackbeard's Noble Phantasm had dropped!
Everything went according to their plan. Eric Bloodaxe became the first existence on Blackbeard's side to exit.
But Takumi didn't let his guard down because of this. Instead, he faced Hector with an even more serious attitude.
Knowing what kind of troublesome guy Hector was, he understood that the more critical the moment, the less he could relax, and the less he could give Hector a chance to cause trouble.
On the other side of the battlefield, Drake also fully demonstrated the strength a Holy Grail holder should have.
Her movements were ridiculously agile.
Under the joint attack of Anne and Mary, she constantly darted around the ship, seemingly handling it with ease.
"Ugh, this is a bit unfair, isn't it?"
Anne dodged a cannonball by a hair's breadth, rubbing her temples somewhat distressfully.
"Is it? Isn't this fighting style quite normal?"
Drake dismissed the cannon sparkling with golden light beside her, feigning confusion.
But the curve of her eyes and mouth exposed her true thoughts.
"Pulling out a cannon anytime, anywhere... very annoying..."
Mary said expressionlessly.
In the time the two of them fought Drake, she had rushed in front of Drake more than once, and more than once she was forced back by a cannon that appeared as Drake turned around.
To be honest, it was a bit frustrating.
"Yeah, yeah. Also, does the Holy Grail really improve a person this much? Our Captain clearly didn't change much before and after obtaining the Holy Grail."
Anne nodded in agreement repeatedly, her tone carrying a bit of disdain for Blackbeard.
"Maybe because my Holy Grail is male, and his is female?"
Drake raised her eyebrows, joking.
Anne & Mary: "..."
Has no one told you your jokes are actually quite boring?
Just as the two sides were talking, they coincidentally saw the pirates running back frantically from Blackbeard's ship in a panic.
Anne and Mary were a bit surprised to see this.
But before the two could figure out what happened, they heard continuous explosions coming from their own ship.
A wave of slightly warm air hit them. Accompanied by soaring tongues of fire, the Queen Anne's Revenge had already fallen into a sea of flames.
Misfortunes never come singly.
The two also discovered with astonishment that Eric was also retreating steadily under the combined attack of the little bull (Asterios) and Euryale. Almost at the same time the explosion occurred, he was cut in half by Asterios with an axe. The bloody scene was hard not to notice.
It seemed that in the blink of an eye, the originally favorable situation collapsed instantly.
Even the battle-hardened duo couldn't help but be greatly shocked.
"Surprised as we may be, we can't forget the battle, right?"
Drake, knowing everything was according to plan, naturally didn't get distracted. Taking advantage of the gap when the two were distracted, she decisively launched a sneak attack.
When the two turned their attention back, they saw Drake had set up the cannon again at some point.
The two flintlock pistols in her hands were also aimed at them.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
BOOM!
Drake didn't include both of them in the attack range this time but specifically attacked only Anne.
The reason was simple. After fighting back and forth for so long, Drake could see that compared to Mary, Anne's movements were obviously slower.
And slow movements meant easier to hit!
The bullets were used to block Anne's escape route, while the cannon was used to deliver a fatal blow.
The precise attack had already calculated Anne's retreat.
Sensing Drake's intent, Mary gritted her teeth. Her body, originally about to dodge, paused instantly, then rushed towards Anne's position.
Anne blocked several bullets with her flintlock pistol, but her movements stagnated because of this.
Seeing the cannonball about to hit her face, Mary suddenly darted in front of Anne, blocking the cannonball's path with the cutlass in her hand.
"Ugh..."
A huge force came from the blade, making it somewhat difficult for Mary's weak Strength to bear.
If it were just an ordinary ship-borne cannon, even using the Rune cannonballs made by Takumi, Mary wouldn't feel too strained.
But on the contrary, this whole set was equipment created by Drake using the Holy Grail.
Even though it looked similar to ordinary cannons, its power and speed were not comparable.
Knowing this, Mary went with the flow to unload the force, letting the cannonball graze the cutlass in her hand, thereby changing the cannonball's direction.
The cannonball shot out, hitting Blackbeard's mast.
The two, having resolved this attack with difficulty, cast cold gazes at Drake.
But they saw Drake whistling at them with a relaxed face, pointing her chin behind them.
Discovering that the battlefield had become much quieter at some point, the two seemed to realize something, their bodies stiffening instantly.
Slowly turning their heads to look behind.
The first thing that entered their eyes was the big guy Asterios. In the distance, they could also see Euryale drawing her bow and aiming at them.
Finally, the group of pirates surrounding them.
"Seems our pirate career is ending again..."
Seeing this, Anne sighed with emotion.
"Too lame. Not happy."
Mary drooped her eyelids.