Here I forgot to mention at the beginning of the review that this description is specifically of my own Walkthrough, not like an ideal way to do it :) There are almost always several options for where to go. For some reason, I decided to choose this route — heading southeast and getting the Blindness spell, and then moving toward the Barbarians.
it's just that I envisioned a more logical (easier) approach on this map — going upward, picking up crusaders there, then heading the opposite way through the respawn towards the conservatories (two, where the griffin external dwellings are) or through the devil legion with losses but gaining tempo, going to the shrine with Slow (above the second conservatory over the griffin external dwellings), and only then moving into enemy territory. But here it turns out this is how people play — placing a portal in the first month, beating up enemies without Slow)))
by the way, wasn't resurrection via clone archangels considered?
I just thought now, why bother if you can just level up the main hero (and Prayer is really a powerful spell anyway), mana will be sufficient, and there won't be enough power for a proper resurrection regardless, while there it's purely based on the number of archangels in the stack....