Hero/Henchement bug?
Gingetsuryuu
Apparenlty monsters are only loaded when a player enters a certain range of them, atleast it apears to be so in Melandru's Hope. So it, in effect, makes doing that Securing the Forest quest real quick and safely by simply dying, selecting a hencheman as a focus, and ordering them to run to the points, as the enemies don't load as they run.
Faer
Securing the Forest has always been easy... You can visit the points before taking the quest. Throw together a decent running build, and you can solo it with a Survivor-in-the-Making character.
Gingetsuryuu
But with this, you can do it with a single hero with some running skills without needing any defensive skills, as there aren't monsters.