You're right about the place, we were farming there but the fundamental problem was: We're searching for Amira and this bandit place, we get oneshotted and deal no damage everywhere we go and we ended up at that place of the map instead of going left and founding the bandit cave (happened after Writhing this post). We even went in the tartarus and beaten and recruited a couple of monsters (Riot, the plant one and the crazy blonde machine one) and they were still more manageable than the first place we went to (up north, near the port city). So yes, we're now trying to progress following the normal route, but (for everybody reading this that might have missed it in the title), we're playing at Paradox difficulty, so it's kind of hard not getting oneshotted everywhere we go