If he's truly being honest, Ashton has no idea where he's going...
Sure, he had the rough location of where the ruins of City M ended up on the map and he had the general direction for where the Last Bastion is...that being said, the map they had isn't complete nor reliable.
See, there's no way he could just follow one direction and hope for the best. Sooner or later, he'll come up with something that would force him to find another way which would also de-rail him from his destination.
And in this particular scenario, it was sooner than he would've liked...
Around...10 or 11 kilometers away from the ruins of the city, Ashton encountered his first environmental challenge in navigating this unknown and incredibly dangerous world.
As it turns out, the location where the ruins end up happened to be on top of an elevated island.
No, not floating, just really elevated...
