Can't progress past Act 1 cruel Ogham Village

I am currently on Ogham village, act 1, cruel. I have defeated the area boss (executioner), and released the prisoner (leitis i think her name is) on the platform. After speaking to her she teleported to clearfell. I also followed them back to clearfell and spoke with her again at the camp. My active Quest (currently is "The mad wolf of Ogham"), updated to say "infiltrate the manor beyond the village" and "find count geonor" as the two objectives. I then exited the game for that session.

When i came back i had to rerun the ogham village + boss fight (which i expected as i was off for more than 15 minutes) but after defeating the executioner again i found i could not progress to the next area (manor Ramparts), the glowy light effect with the name of the next area just isn't there. The minimap has a quest objective icon on top of the lever to free leitis (which i cant interact with as leitis is already freed back at clearfell). I went back to clearfell and went through every single piece of available dialogue, just in case, came back, reran the area a third time, defeated the executioner once again and still have same problem :(

Any help would be grand.

Edit: I found a solution, although I still cant manually progress from ogham village to manor ramparts it seems the game unlock the waypoint in the ramparts even though i had never been there so i was able to progress. Still a weird situation though XD

Happend to me on PS5. Killed him multiple time, but because girl is not there (she is already in your camp) you cannot progress.
I dont know what changed, but i logged in after few days and Executioner was already dead (not respawn again) and I cannot progress to next location behind him. However i find out i have active teleport to Manor rampants already.
So maybe try to look at if you dont have active teleport to manor rampants too.
Or try to log out after you kill the Executioner on his dead body if it help.

I really dont know what change in my game, that he was dead and not respawning again.