so I fought the apprentice on my second ever quest, the battle took me over an hour to complete and then one of my students leveled from level 2 all the way to 30 from that one battle...
Anyone notice the diary said if He didn't kill Alice the Queen would, and that the Queen would take HIS time. maybe there's another secret we never knew about...
just uploaded a fix (of sorts). the red tiles are much darker than the green tiles now. So you should be able to get past this point