Optimal spawn when heading into Danger saved about a second. I've also been working on tightening up Minos: playing version 1.0 means Calm affects enemies offscreen, which allows for a tighter gate entrance, and you can click twice on the Minotaur's corpse to loot it remotely. Overall, I came into Dragon phase 1 about six seconds ahead of WR.

I've been practicing an old technique for killing the Dragon, where you ask Gort to sacrifice himself right before the Dragon reaches half health. This leaves the Dragon dead to a single Force Bolt in phase 2, but you risk popping the Dragon during phase 1, which soft-locks the game. (You can see this happen at the start of the video.) On my next attempt, I clicked the menu option too late, but I was far enough ahead of my previous record that I decided to finish out the run.