It took the Dragon's Tooth Gang a full month and a half to locate the warlock Mepham.
Asking a smuggling gang like the Dragon's Tooth Gang, which had only risen to prominence in recent months, to uncover an Elite Warlock's hiding place was a little unreasonable of Aaron. After several months of growth, the gang still numbered only a hundred or two. They had their own operations and smuggling to handle; they could hardly devote all their energy to finding someone for him.
As a result, their leader Marlon had initially taken a rather perfunctory approach to helping find the warlock. He had assigned only a few men to investigate, and naturally, they had found nothing.
However, as Aaron rose to fame in Eveningstar Town, his reputation in Suzail also grew. Marlon's attitude changed immediately, especially after the Princess Regent publicly announced that she would grant Aaron his formal knighthood early and have the Music Academy compose poems about him.
He pulled a third of his gang's manpower outright and began a thorough search along the Dragonmere shoreline.
After a month and a half of searching, they finally had news.
East of Marsember, the second-largest city east of Suzail, lay a tiny fishing village called Dimlight Village. Several people had disappeared there over the past month or so, frightening the villagers.
Some villagers had seen the missing people seemingly answer some kind of summons in the dead of night. Their expressions vacant, they had kept saying, "The sea is calling me," as they slowly walked into the water and vanished beneath its surface.
The first occurrence had been understandable. The Ocean Goddess occasionally chose one or two lucky fishermen to bless. As a chaotic evil deity, her moods were fickle and unfathomable.
But after it happened several times, the villagers