While the ladies chatted along the winding forest path, sharing stories, laughter, and small secrets with each other as they walked, the imposing Living Forest was already coming into view in the distance, it's ancient trees towering high into the sky.
Due to the sheer amount of concentrated magical power crammed into the bodies of the queens and their companions — power that radiated outward from them like heat from a roaring fire — no monsters dared to wander even within several meters of where the women walked, their survival instincts screaming at them to stay far away from such dangerous and overwhelming individuals.
"My, the monsters living in Verdant Spire are so humble and well-mannered, are they not?"
Sakura commented with a light laugh, as one unfortunate two-headed dog spotted them from a mile away down the path, immediately turned around and retreated back into the bushes without any hesitation or aggression.
