The sword combustion build is getting pretty optimized now. Movement and pathing was clean, room and mimic rng was quite good, and the stat selector and stat room rng was quite good as well. The only marginal improvement could come from the relics. Getting a first selector urn could save some time, and a lot of my later relics were pretty bad. I also didn't get lvl. 5 combustion for a while. There's also the possibility that war gear strat could be faster, and someone could always get lucky and get war gear from the A2 selector immediately or from the A2 shop. Regardless, the rng requirement to get a faster time is getting fairly high, so until the record gets beat I probably won't try many more sword no ember shop runs. Reach out to me through the ember knights discord or speedrunning ember knights discord by @LeGAT if you want to start running Any% No Ember Shop and want to understand how the build works or want tips for the build! I'd love to see the record get pushed even lower...maybe even a sub 8 is possible...who knows.