Sam went quiet for a moment, his bluish form flickering unsteadily over the glowing grass.
Even he, with all his optimism, felt the weight of the aesthetic gap between them and that beautiful place.
They looked like intruders in a divine sanctuary, and the humiliation of another 'no' seemed more and more inevitable in the face of that splendor.
Since they were already there, they sighed and continued their approach with slow steps, almost as if they were walking toward a sentencing.
When they crossed the outer boundary of the guild base's passive purification barrier, the first being to notice their presence was a tiny, extremely cute fairy flying near one of the great tree's main roots.
She had translucent wings resembling glowing flower petals and light blue hair framing a delicate face. Beside her, a majestic unicorn with silver fur and a spiraled crystal horn rested gracefully on the grass, listening to the little fairy's murmurs.
