The path through the jungle was somehow more and less treacherous than they had imagined. They had fully believed that even at the slowest speed, they could reach the center of the battlefield in just a matter of hours, but they hadn't expected the constant diversion they had to take along the way.
The straight 2 kilometers ended up being around 5 kilometers in terms of how much they had to walk.
The pathway was less treacherous because the forest became sparser and sparser as they moved forward, with only a flat grassland remaining as they came to the center.
But at the same time, there were also a lot of different stacks of stones on the path, sometimes hidden in tall grasses, which caused them to slow down. That made the pathway more dangerous.
Stanley walked at the front, one step at a time. He had somehow stopped Rey from blowing himself up on their first 5 minutes of the journey, and since then he has been at the front.
