In real life, travelling anywhere interesting by foot would take days, not minutes. Forests and towns would be much bigger, and you probably wouldn't have to stab someone more than once to kill them...
Ohh how surprised you would be to find out that all of those are mooostly untrue (well half-true).
Points of interest in real life can be within a day's journey, forests can be tiny (though they typically have different names), and "towns" (as in populated settlements) can have about 5 buildings or less...
And to top it all off people have been known to survive a lot of punishment and it isn't unusual for someone to die AFTER a battle (Some famos examples of people who were riddled completely with arrows and bullets). So "probably" nothing, you will probably have to stab them a few times before they stay down.
