I gave away the Castle for 5k. I didn't take the respawn, since I saw a stack of pits + it was fine in terms of gold and roads. Then I scouted another stack of pits and the neighboring respawn was also Inferno. There was also a portal to the unknown and a neighboring respawn on the mud (turned out to be Necro). The opponent also didn't take it, so we played without a single restart. I wanted to go late-game through epic Demonizing. I broke through to the neighboring Inferno respawn and set up in two Inferno towns—one with everything including pits, and the other with everything including demons. I leveled up Enova's Logistics, Tactics, and Earth Magic, and also picked up Boots. I wanted to go for epic Demonizing, but fate decided otherwise. I started demonizing, broke through to the mud respawn, and took the maxed-out Crypt, demonizing, when I saw the blue player flash in the portal. I had to change plans. I turned around from the mud respawn, ran Enova to an easy treasure for trolls. I took it, then decided to break through with Cristian so the opponent wouldn't rush out of the portal, but then a surprise. The roads there were 4 turns long and free Necro territory. I had to take it and sit Enova there. I didn't think the opponent would attack. But he decided to go for it anyway. The first final battle ended with the opponent fleeing without an army. I had 13 demons, 15 gogs, and 2 ducks left. But he decided not to surrender. I didn't understand because I had cut him off from treasure, and he had probably devoured his respawns. But I saw him hanging out with Kyrr on the road to rush into my Castle as I thought. But he was trickier. He rushed in and landed on the portal with a full buyout and an angel that appeared from somewhere. I was a bit shocked. But I got my act together, bought mages, and to prevent me from casting two Ice Bolts, he cast Death Wave on me and himself, so he had no archers left. Then I cast Meteor Shower with Donkey on the crosses and pikes. I still had to kill somehow 3 horses, 2 ducks, and 1 angel with some meat. I attacked, shielded the gogs. The opponent spent his last two shots thinning out the gogs. Then they honestly fired 12 shots while the opponent broke through their guard (the terrain was just top-tier) and destroyed the ballista. In the end, the opponent forgot that I still had a shooter, which I used to kill the last angel and disrupt his plans for a buyout and terrorism with the angel.

Thanks for the game! 1-0