Thanks to iiCrowii for discovering the manipulation possibility at the end of 2015. I was able to expand on the idea and get all vital items, defeat the Axe Knight at level 7 with no weapon, move through Charlock in the dark, and defeat the Dragonlord with spells that normally have a 1/16 chance of working against him.

Thanks to Ouijawii for his discoveries of arrow manipulations and item buffers, which allowed for a lot of extra time to be saved. Thanks to CaracarnVi and Ouijawii for their excellent runs and the innovations they created in the process.

I always prided myself on creating every part of my routes, but the Metal Slimes Ouijawii found might be the fastest ones we're going to find, so I decided to fight the same ones. Everything else in this run is my own routing (other than the fact that, despite taking a different path, I ended up finding the same Goldman outside Rimuldar by sheer coincidence).

This route marks the first time I actually used a Torch in Charlock... and didn't use one in the Grave! I had come up with the idea to use a Torch in Charlock to eliminate a lot of wall bonks, but Ouijawii was the first person to implement the idea in a run. He also eliminated a safety save after picking up the Token, something I also knew I would eventually do. Major props to Ouijawii for a lot of subtle frame-saving ideas which helped me look at my routing process in an entirely different way, which resulted in, among other things, the fastest level 7 Dragonlord fight I have ever routed.

In this run I got the Grave dive I was looking for, which resulted in another massive time save.