The 4th annual offline tournament, "Best of the best".

He took the Crest of Valor, dismissed the hero Dess, then found him again in the tavern (if you search, you can find dismissed heroes; you can't buy them back on the same day). He bought him back in the tavern the next day (heroes don't lose their artifacts; only their troops disappear) and gave the Boots of Swiftness to Gunnar. This didn't affect the outcome of the game at all. Personally, I didn't go to the northwest of the Dungeon at all; you don't even need to go there – it's a waste of time. If you hadn't placed an antimagic garrison... at the entrance to the Inferno lands. Even if there was a regular garrison instead of the antimagic one, and even if there were MORE troops there than in the antimagic garrison, you would have been even more surprised; the map could have been completed in 10-12 days instead of 23...