Karl and Prince Corbin went over everything that had happened to their groups since they last met, and found that the Spellblades had not had a much easier time than Karl's group had.
Despite the fact that they had gotten stuck in a Cyclops spawn, the Spellblades had just had a terrible time getting out of the wilderness.
First, they had chosen to double back on their route, so they would be further from the major population centres. But that put them only a few kilometres from the Undead spawn, so they had ended up moving camp in the middle of the night.
Then they had come across a group of Nomadic Demons who were not happy with the trespassers on their pastures.
That had led to a small fight, but fortunately no casualties.