Emery and the others worked together spending half a day trying to overcome the formation that encompassed the entire mountain. Unfortunately, their efforts only bore minimal effort as they only managed to return back to the huge boulder.
Moreover, now that they were already deep inside the forest, they discovered that not only could they not move forward, but they also could not find their way back. It was as if the trail they blazed earlier had vanished out of existence.
"We are basically trapped in here!"
In moments like this, Julian stepped up and started to come up with a different strategy that could possibly solve their current predicament.
He began by separating the group into two teams, whereupon he directed them to go in the opposite directions from each other while marking each tree they passed using two different sets of markings.