We rested for 4 hours. Lots of rests on blocks or 1 road to GO but eventually we started anyway.
Ivor with only 3 archers, but there's an external dwelling of horses, nice. GO is on rough terrain, high chance of a restart on encounter (another restart after 2 hours of play and I wouldn't have survived it :) ) so I don't go into the underground. The respawn is big, no time for secondary heroes in the first week, just scouting and collecting goodies. In one corner in the backwoods a Griffin Conservatory was found, and 3 artifacts: cudgel +6, cloak +2+2, and hat +5. Damn, it's a couple of days to get there, a couple of days to gather, and a couple of days back, way too long, and traveling without a main hero is scary — the guards are decent. I started building horses in the castle, took the external dwelling of horses, and stood on it with a horse.
121 I buy everything I can and head towards the underground. There I spot Leosnow's main and Shakhti already with angels. It got scary, I don't know how many they had, but I had 11 horses (I missed checking that there wasn't even a citadel — I was sure there was at least that). I turn around and head to the backwoods to collect goodies. On the way back I got a double mana fountain with a secondary hero.
127 I attack, the final is practically hopeless. We trade oil, I slowly crawl forward, occasionally shooting arrows at the eyes. Since my spell power is 5 and Shakhti's is 4, on the 5th round when the oil wore off, there was a regular melee, after which no one survived.