[ WP ] The final boss of the game realizes that he 's up against a speed runner .

Rozgath the Terrible needed a few minutes to recover from the information he received. This hero had wasted no time in dealing with every obstacle Rozgath put in front of them. Not only did his most elite minions fall in a matter of seconds, they could n't harm the hero in the slightest! Rozgath had planned out a few worst-case scenarios, but this was beyond his nightmares. The hero had dodged his traps, ignored his deceptions, and had solved his puzzles without even reading the instructions. The only explanation was... 
 
 Was... 
 
... they had done this before. Rozgath had heard rumors that heroes of the past had known things before learning them, or even without learning them at all. He assumed they were just rumors -- sure, everyone knows heroes always won, but they were n't *gods* -- but it seemed that there was truth to them. *Heroes know the future*, he thought. Not the way oracles did, long-term and inevitable, but vague; these seemed like the opposite: short-term and specific, but preventable. 
 
 And this hero was not only going to prevent his reign of terror -- he never really thought he could win anyway -- but they would do it in less than an hour. 
 
 It would have been impressive if it was n't directed at him. 
 
 *Well, * he thought. *No way to stop this. They'd know about any countermeasures I'd take, even after this realization. Any new defenses will only be new to me; they'll have seen them before. There's nothing I can do, except... * 
 
 The choice crossed his mind, but he refused to accept it for another few minutes. But when no alternative presented itself, he gave in. 
 
 `` I'll be back in a few minutes,'' he told his guards. `` I just need to go clear my head.'' 
 
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 The hero Ysellan approached the throne room of Rozgath the Terrible. The guards were no match for them, as usual. And Rozgath was nowhere to be found. Not surprising; they were the one who discovered that if the game was completed quickly enough, the final boss would n't spawn. They did n't know why, but they were n't one to worry about things that could be exploited like that. Especially when it let them set a new world record.
