"The sea is so clear. It really takes some getting used to."
After swimming through the sea for only a short while, the Banshees began to marvel at it.
When they had entered the sea before, it had been filled with either pollution or monsters. Now, neither could be seen. There was only crystal-clear seawater and the occasional school of fish swimming past.
"Sister Ash, what do you think the Abyssal Trench looks like now? Do you think the pollution is gone?"
Ash flicked her serpent tail without slowing down in the slightest. She hesitated for a moment before replying, "It should have collapsed over there. The Abyssal Trench was originally the entrance to the Sea God Temple. Now that the Sea God has... gone into the boiler, the Sea God Temple probably no longer exists either, right?"
When Castel had returned to reality before, there had been a faint sensation of something shattering in the surroundings. Mortals might have overlooked it, but Transcendent races like the Banshees could sense it.
Though they had yet to investigate it, they guessed that the Sea God Temple no longer existed. That space without seawater had likely perished along with the Sea God.
"Come to think of it, where are we going first? Gem Bay is so big. Should we split up to explore it?"
Gem Bay's official name was the Masha Archipelago. Dozens of islands, large and small, were scattered throughout these waters. Aside from the largest, the Pirate King's Court, there were several major islands with populations exceeding ten thousand.
The currents between the islands were exceptionally complicated, and the waters were thick with reefs. Without guidance from Gem Bay's pirates, even docking there was difficult for outside ships. It was a place that was easy to defend and hard to