>>530676387
assuming you land close enough besides it, there is decent enemy density inside of it and things give a lot of runes, the miniastels only have 600 hp for 20k runes and aside from dragonkin + astel everything can be handled at a fairly low level
on top of this the first circle forces you out of noklateo, day 1 ends in any opposite corner of the map typically, so essentially you're going to be doing your normal stuff after the first circle all the way until the day 2 end?
I'm not sure I like that you have to backtrack for astel though, there's the bonus of higher chance of legendaries early on in the run (especially grafted and marais) but that's a decent bit of backtracking
still nice to mix up the routing tho