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from the wall of flame.
    It didn’t finish them?!
    The hellhounds survived.
    Every other monster in the swarm was burning. Their searedcarcasses littered the floor of the tunnel. Perhaps because hellhounds had the ability to spit fire themselves, they also had an unusually high resistance to fire magic.
    Their crimson eyes cloudy, bodies decorated with fresh wounds, the group of demonic dogs hacked the ash out of their lungs and released a ferocious howl in unison.
    “
OWooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOO!!
”
    “!”
    They launched themselves at Bell in a vicious rage. He was quick to dispose of the first one with a swipe of his shortsword and knocked the second one into the air with his shield.
    But the remaining two ran right past him.
    “Lilly, Welf—!”
    Completely ignoring the white-haired boy, the two beasts had their eyes set on the other two adventurers farther down the tunnel.
    Lilly and Welf took emergency action as Bell’s warning came echoing off the walls.
    Lilly did a half turn. Her best chance to survive the initial assault was to use the broadsword attached to her backpack as a shield.
    Welf took a defensive stance and raised his own sword high above his head.
    “—Garrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!”
    “Aggh?!”
    “Come get some!”
    Impact.
    The sword on Lilly’s backpack successfully repelled the hellhound’s tackle, but she wasn’t strong enough to stay on her feet, so she fell to the floor.
    Welf’s powerful swing missed its intended target.
    The other hound had Lilly pinned down, standing on top of her backpack and snapping its jaws just above her head. Bell flew in from out of nowhere and kicked the dog to the side after disposing of the one that came after him.
    The kicked dog hit the ground hard, its body broken at the same moment that the hellhound that dodged Welf’s attack collapsed.
    “Are you guys okay?!”
    “Y-yes…”
    “Somehow…Damn.”
    Lilly dusted herself off as she stood up. Welf smirked a thin, pained smirk as he grabbed his arm. The hound’s claws must’ve hit their mark; long streaks of fresh blood ran down his forearm.
    The pain of knowing he hadn’t been able to protect his allies pierced Bell from within. However, what he saw behind Lilly and Welf made his blood run cold.
    “T-there’s more!”
    The boy could see the shadows of several monsters making their way up the tunnel from the other side.
    At the same time, Lilly saw even more shadows coming from behind Bell and said in a very raspy voice:
    “Pincer attack…”
    “Well, isn’t that depressing…”
    A pack of Al-Miraj had made its way through the burned hallway, all the way up to their current position.
    The three adventurers were quick to take a triangular formation, their backs turned toward one another. Bell scrunched up his face as he looked past the remains of the hellhounds and to their next opponents.
    “Why is it that monsters spawn so fast in the middle levels? I need a break.”
    “Because it’s the middle levels, right?”
    “Ha, ha-ha…”
    Lilly pulled a few potions from her backpack and passed them around as the boys tried their best to lighten the mood.
    The liquid could restore their physical strength, but there was nothing they could do about the mental fatigue taking over their minds.
    It was hard for any of them to concentrate.
    “Mr. Bell, Mr. Welf, Lilly recommends we retreat. We need to rest and regroup. There will be no end to the monsters at this rate.”
    “Sounds great to me, but what are we gonna do about this?”
    “Focus on one side and…break through?”
    “Yes, Lilly believes that is best.”
    Lilly nodded at Bell’s idea. All of the monsters had started to surround them.
    The party knew that there was no more time for talking, and they readied their bodies for what was coming next.
    “Well, then…”
    “Yeah.”
    “…Let’s go!”
    The Dungeon slowly but surely took away every bit of mental and physical strength that Bell and his battle party had left.
    It wouldn’t let