Demon's Blazon Theory Route

Axl Theory route (aka TAS route with a couple of fixes)

After thinking too much about the game, and checking some of the new strats of the newest route by Broedgeman, I though for a second "There should be ANOTHER route for this game".

I checked the route again, and again, and it seems already optimal. Still, there was something bothering me: Stage 2's backtrack. So, in a stupid call, I just decided that it was a good idea (aka I love early resets [I'm serious]) to just pick everything in level 2 before  Crest of Time.

In the first try, pick the urn. Ideally you should survive. Odds are you will not. DON'T DIE HITTING THE MERMEN. Doing so, will boost you up and will make you lose at least 4 seconds. The purpose of dying is just going back to the route faster.

After that, you go for Belth (early reset). That road will net you another 2 health containers and 2 urns.

Enter again into Stage 2. This time, pick the Talisman AND EQUIP IT AS SOON AS YOU PICK IT. ALSO DON'T GET HIT BY THE MERMAN THERE. If you get hit, you will have a tight time to get out of there alive. The reason to equip the talisman is, most likely another merman will spawn in the entrance of the cave. So, you can shoot him down faster with the talisman on and you can get a better chance to survive.

Follow the Graveyard Cave route as always. Nothing changes here (If you do the route above though, you will get a tough time because of the lack of health).

Enter again into Stage  2. Buy two Sulfurs. Get the items from the Graveyard Cave and Sulfur out.

Doing this, you will get rid of the backtrack for Stage 2, and also you will have 3 more HP, which would lead to another hit to spare for Grewon.

After this, is just the regular new route except your last places will be Stage 1 Health Container then Sulfur Out > Scula > Trio the Pago > Phalanx.

Update 18/Sept: I don't think this route is worth it. The current route aims for getting Crest of Time asap. This route is intended to get rid of the backtracking from Stage 2. It could work since you will get 2 sulfurs, but at the cost of dying once and having a slow Graveyard Cave. Also, having one more hit to spare for Grewon isn't worth it, since ideally you don't want to get hit at all.

The route would be this:

Stage		Route and notes (Most of them are covered above)

1) Stage 1	Regular stage. Forced Backtrack for the Health Container
2) Stage 2 	Take the urn. Die. Kill Belth.
3) Stage 2	Take the Talisman. Kill Ovnunu.
4) Stage 2	Get 2 sulfurs. Clean the Graveyard Cave. Sulfur out.
5) Stage 3	Regular route. (urn, talisman, die...)
6) Stage 4	Take the urn. Tornado regular route.
7) Stage 4	Kill the Flier.
8) Stage 5	Regular Grewon route.
9) Stage 5	Regular Arma 2 route.
10) Stage 6	Regular Crawler route.
11) Stage 6	Regular Holothurion route.
12) Stage 1	Health Container. Sulfur out. If you don't have 20ZAM, you can destroy the first vessel of this stage.
13) Stage 3	Regular Scula route.
14) Trio the Pago
15) Phalanx