your questions regarding the game rules (improving the interpretation).

Because this is the shortest path to this ГО on foot. The General Rule for breaking through such a ГО is written for situations without control. Using DD - you can jump to the cell to the right of the efreets. And with flight/wings - one should move along the shortest path within their own respawn - in this case, via the snow cells that are blocked by gold dragons.

why "should" you?))) what makes you think that's how it should be?))) on what basis is such a cutting of a person's strategy and possibilities happening? after all, it's also an element of strategy: where and how to position the same old dad the day before breaking through the ГО, off to the side and seeing a few cells of the treasure zone (which might show nothing at all), while you still spend moves running cross-country even if without penalty, or at the road by the ГО spending nothing, and then decide which way to look with wings or spoons...