The Hero's Path

I finally registered on this forum, just to make this post) How do I get the Ash?)) I failed chemistry, the bank gave me my million and said "oops, never mind!", naturally, the million ran out, after which I finally started to pay closer attention to what quests I had taken (hehe), I barely realized that the game is radically different, I panicked when, for the first time, when exiting the dungeon, instead of the usual horse, there was a red circle, I ran around for a day, looking for the exit (by the way, is this a bug or a feature?), it also crashes on loading from time to time, but it doesn't bother me. I haven't finished it yet, because the Ash issue has been bothering me for the past three days. I've already played for 85 hours)