A mandatory Blue Slime / Yeti encounter?

[Own]

Every enemy in the game you have to kill at least once so far, aside from the Blue Slime and Yeti. Which seems a shame, since it means no speedrun strategies for dealing with them.

It seems like this could be fixed, if you wanted it to be, by having the path near the trees having a blizzard blowing past in front of them. The cold is growing stronger for some strange reason, and monsters empowered (Elite) by the cold step out of the blizzard for a mandatory encounter before you can approach the trees.



Then again Seasoone has a statue like Pumpkin Woods, so maybe there's already some planned mandatory thing to fight Seasonne enemies in the future.

 

[The G-Meister]

Mount bloom has one of those statues as well. There's clearly something going on with them, whether it's simply a place of worship or recurring quests with the bishop.