Saved time down the stretch mostly lost time back and forth in the middle echelon. I initially was comparing against my sum of best then went and compared against my last completed run. For me runs die in one of 3 places either Diabolic Hall, Claudio, or initial recruiting seems to take too long. With the luck I had been having I was starting to think my 5:38 run was a fluke and I'd never improve on it. I also messed up my initial creating a Shadow Slime which was useful in like 1 whole battle that a second Togre probably would have been just as useful. Honestly though best way to improve time will be getting a large monster in Fortitude Lower. Unfortunately RNG didn't favor me this time.