It was still very early in the day and I had managed to get to the second hint before the sun could even reach it's peak in the sky, meaning I had way more than I needed to find the treasure, the girls would let me stay however much I liked today as I helped them with their task yesterday, so staying until the night wasn't much of an issue.
I left the tree from the top and headed east, following the directions given to me by the second panel, I knew I would need to walk for a few hours as all these hints were separated by a long distance, but it didn't bother me in the slightest.
On the way I met a bunch of monsters, expected, but easily dealt with nonetheless.
The harder encounter in fact was when I was surprised by a bunch of 'demon trees', which were monsters I had first encountered during that placement test on my first academy year, never knew it could be useful but here it was huh.