Azure Dreams - 100% Speedrun (5:54:17) World Record

Almost 3 hours improved on my previous PB (8:47:56) and nearly an hour faster than Hextree's previous WR. This run was all over the place. Basically the same initial strats as with my bookless% WR, with a few extras. Mainly, grabbing all familiars and evolving them in one run with the Balloon. In other words, Manoeva + Picket for duping purposes, a Roche fruit, Mazarr Seed and a few Leolams. Storing one of the above-mentioned items inside a Manoeva helps you go over the 5 item limit entering the tower, so you can bring Manoeva (with stored Mazarr in my case) + Picket + Balloon Egg + Roche + Leolam = 6 items. You could also store an item with Picket to bring 7 items total. Dupe Mazarr's until you're level 35-39ish so Balloon will be able to fly to the top upon hatch. Then just fly to whatever floor you need a monster book entry for and Roche any evolvables, hatch and level them up (or underflow them with Clown and get 1xp). Leolams are useful for flying up several floors, however, not nearly as important as I thought. That's the theory. Of course, in reality, I forgot about Nyuel / Battnel, and I ALSO missed out on a Naplass; I'd marked it off the tracker. I also got trolled by Water Picket not showing up, so I had to spend extra time on floor 25. In this case, it wasn't nearly as bad as with Bookless%, however. Lastly, I couldn't get Vsync toggle to work with DuckStation (that I switched to only recently), and you hear me mention it about a 100 times during the run. This discouraged me to the point where I was about to give up pretty late in the run. Luckily, I did not. If the extra climb was removed and vsync toggle worked, I'd say a sub 5 in this category is definitely possible. Book Tracker by Hextree: [https://www.speedrun.com/azure_dreams...](https://www.speedrun.com/azure_dreams...) Bookless Tracker by Hextree: [https://www.speedrun.com/azure_dreams...](https://www.speedrun.com/azure_dreams...)