Reached a church in the north where enemeis called spitters seemed too challenging, so retreated back to the beginner zone near the bat cave start area and bumped into a mage with ice projectiles.

Tried getting away, but ran backwards into a bunch of spiders further slowing me down = dead.

Figured enemies in the starter zone, at least in the overworld and not in any dungeons/cave areas would not just be instant fail deaths, I guess not. Are enemy spawns static, or do they get harder as the game goes on?

Putting this game down now for a long while after that cheap death, it isn't fun spending hours to grind back to level 4 to just find an impossible enemy in the overworld to deal with. No idea where im even meant to grind at that point.