While your journey you would have to cross a bridge but there are 3 bandits on your way. Now this is what I would really like to see in graal quests. After having a convo with them you would have a choice to either pay them 1500 gold or fight them to death. Now instead of reviving after every time you died, you would get a "quest failed" notification and go back to the last check point which was "get the map from the elf" you then become wiser to use healing and friends to beat them