Yes. That's my opinion anyways and the 2 runs in the category agree with me. (btw if you retime g0go's run it's technically faster than mine). But no where in the cat rules does it say you have to. The rules seem to imply that 100% entails max upgrades with the demon beast being a good metric to end the timer on. Idk, opinions anyone?

very late reply but I always assumed it meant that, yes. Besides, the rate which you can beat the three knights helps with xp build imo, so why not. You already kill Mcfluffenstein, Lenny and Demon, plus max level and all spells, why not go for the three knights as well. But I mean, this is just an old school runners opinion for a newschool runners world