Sorry, I don't know your masochism level <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> But going south: 2 Troll kings and entering the Dark Forest then as a 10er - hmm, suicide or masochism lvl 10?
I'd stay in the northern parts and avoid the Cursed Abbey, the steel archers in there will more than spank you...
How do you deal with corpses and zombies, boars, bees, wolves, trolls etc? They are in the northern parts.