--- Hunter ---
More testing needed to be done. That was the obvious, if more annoying conclusion Hunter reached. She'd fought treants before quite a few times but never around anything she wanted to keep intact. Well, there was that one time when she was summoned to defend a town from a treant that got destroyed, but in fairness she was summoned during the fight. Some desperate guy had offered 'everything' to kill the treant after she was summoned into his ruined home.
The town was already half gone by the time she was summoned, and it wasn't more than three quarters gone by the time she finished. Most of that was because the treant was able to summon large roots that spread like a wave breaking apart houses as they went. There wasn't a good way to block that sort of attack because sure, you could stop a few of the roots but they just reformed behind you and kept going.
Just be clear (following up on Yesterday) that I haven't officially changed my stance on this being the second last arc. It just means I'm going to have to do a lot more soul searching about what I want to do going forward. I'm pretty far ahead of releases though so a lot of this stuff is locked in.
Anyway, have fun with Kamiko, Hunter, Meg and Bower! Hopefully you guys still enjoy this because I had blast writing this until I had that crippling realisation of what I was actually doing!