"Have you checked underwater?"
"Underwater?"
The two banshees froze. After thinking it over carefully, shock appeared on their faces.
This really was a case of overlooking the obvious. Banshees were an aquatic race, yet they had instinctively searched on land. They thought humans were a land-dwelling race, so whatever they hid should be on land as well.
But Theus was human. He knew that humans loved hiding things in places inconvenient for themselves to reach.
Especially since the people of Gem Bay were pirates. Hiding something in the sea was perfectly normal.
If it wasn't on land, then they had either dug three feet underground to hide it beneath the earth, or found a way to conceal it within the intricate waterways between the islands.
But that intricacy only applied to humans. After receiving Theus's suggestion, Ash's side found something underwater in just half a day.
The banshees lived in the deep sea year-round. The water-domain perception and darkvision Theus had gained through the Symbiotic Pact were both their innate talents. What was pitch-black underwater to humans could not hide any secrets from the banshees' eyes.
In Gem Bay, after receiving Theus's suggestion, Ash immediately had the banshees patrol the sea.
"Lord Ash, we searched the nearby waters and didn't find anything. But..."
The banshee excitedly swayed her snake tail.
"There seems to be an underground waterway beneath the Pirate King's Court."
"We sensed a long, narrow waterway beneath the Pirate King's Court. There is a natural cavern underground here. I guess it leads all the way to the sea!"
Ash nodded. "Let's go take a look."
The banshees arrived at the place where they had first landed. This was the Pirate King's Court, where a massive hole had been blasted open—the location where the Pirate King himself had originally