Every monster in that level of the dungeon had vanished once Enid and Elodie's clone had started fighting. They had essentially torn the entire area to pieces.

"Running, huh? That's all you were ever good at! Just like a cowardly rabbit!" Elodie fired another pair of arrows as she pursued after the ninja down another tunnel. Enid quickly spun on her feet, delivering a roundhouse kick to the arrows to knock them aside. She then threw a flaming fireball from her leg back toward the shadow doppelganger.

Elodie blocked the attack with her forearms, taking the burn like it had been nothing more than a toasted sandwich being thrown at her. She pulled back the string on her bow. Three bright pink arrows quickly appeared. She let go of the string, watching the arrows fly right for her childhood friend.

"Hrk-!" All the arrows landed their mark, hitting the side of the Level 3 ninja from shin to shoulder. However, in half a second, she vanished in a puff of smoke leaving nothing behind but a wooden log that had the arrows embedded in them.

"Where'd you go now, you little coward?!" Elodie called out, her patience beginning to grow very thin. Before she knew it, Enid had appeared behind her, falling from the ceiling with her right leg raised high blazing brightly, she slammed her leg downward with a burning hammer kick hitting Elodie in the back of her head.

The Level 4 hero yelped as she fumbled. Her hat and part of her hair was on fire from the attack. She had to quickly throw her hat aside and pat out the flames.

"My hair…!" Elodie growled, looking at the ninja. Enid stood, silent, waiting for her next move, yet the flames on both of her boots were blazing out of control, as if they were fueled by her high-running emotions. "Take this!" the point academy student clone jumped high into the air, beginning to spin around before starting to rain down a hail of arrows. Enid did her best to dodge, counter or knock aside the arrows, but they eventually started to overwhelm her.

"Crud…! She's not giving me a chance to even breathe!" the purple haired girl growled as an arrow hit her in the shoulder. She took it out right afterwards and tried to continue dodging the rest, not caring for the pain. There was no point holding back now. There seemed to be no way to tire out the clone.

"Fine! If you want to be like that!" the Level 3 ninja began running toward one of the walls in this open part of the cavern, with a trail of arrows following behind her. "Talk to the foot!" Enid jumped onto the wall and bounced off it, right toward her enemy. Square in the head, she delivered a flaming kick to her, sending her falling back to the ground.

"Ow! M-my face…!" the clone was upset to feel the scorch boot imprint on her cheek. However, she noticed something wrapped around her left wrist. It was a rope with a heavy weight on the end, with a kunai deeply impaled into the nearby wall, high up near the ceiling to stop her from moving. "What is this?!" the doppelganger struggled but was unable to break free from the rope with just strength. She was about to try and cut it off with an arrow.

"Too slow," Enid's voice called as another weighted rope attached to Elodie's other wrist before she could grab her bow, with a kunai flying past it and embedded the second rope tightly. She could not move. Elodie was forced onto her knees by another pair of weighted ropes wrapping around her ankles. Enid kept it up, throwing one rope after another, until Elodie was pinned down by ten bindings.

"Argh! You pathetic, no good…!" Elodie cursed, trying to get out of them with all her might but failing.

"I promise… The next time I meet the real you, I'll talk with you… a real talk," the Level 3 cashier swore, she vanished in a puff of smoke. In a few seconds, there were ten exact clones of Enid all standing at the end of one of the ropes each, having appeared from thin air.

"You lose again…" the ninja clones all lit their legs on fire before jumping up and beginning to slide down the ropes toward the clone, leaving a blazing trail behind them on the ropes. Elodie had a tear run down her cheek as they all collided at once into her. A large explosion of flames followed from the combined power of the ninja and her clone technique, she had spent a lot of time perfecting it recently for good cause.

"Hup!" Enid landed nearby at the exit of the large part of this floor in the dungeon. She stared at the flames for a short time, not able to bring herself to move. The bright embers reflected in her eyes.

"Enid!" the bodega cashier heard, looking over her shoulder to see Rad rushing to her. He had already gotten K.O. to a safe area and came right back.

"Hey Rad," Enid greeted her co-worker, barely twisting her head to see him.

"Where's Elodie? Did she run away?" the alien stock boy looked around, thinking maybe the fire was made as a cover to escape from the rough fight.

"No, Rad… there's only one Elodie left now," Enid answered, her gaze fixed on the flames. She huffed, turned away and began to walk away, wanting to check on K.O.

"Are you sure you can keep going? I know that had to be rough on ya…" Rad commented. Normally he would not even try to show emotion and would keep boasting about how tough he was, but even he knew how deep it must hurt to see a childhood friend like that in a battle so tough in all kinds of ways.

"Rad, I'll be fine… Memories hurt, but there's a reason they're around, right?" Enid mused, "Can't keep the good without keeping the bad… I'm hoping one day, I can turn some of my bad ones good."

"Uh…?" her co-worker did not know if he should take that as a reassurance. He followed along. Enid would tell him if something was wrong, but she was grateful for his worry.

"You sure you can walk?" Enid asked K.O. as they continued deeper into the dungeon's many floors. They were getting close to catching up to Leistung now, if he had not escaped.

"I'm fine, Enid! Elodie just fought dirty! We just need to stop Leistung before he recovers," K.O. responded. He refused to hold them back just because of his own personal injuries. He was happy to know that the fight with that doppelganger went alright.

"Wait, do you hear that?" Rad quietly interrupted the two before they could argue further about the youngest hero needing to rest. After a moment of silence, they were hearing far off voices coming from deeper in this Level of the dungeon. It took them a short time to get close enough to make out the words.

"I brought him here just like you demanded! What stunt do you think you're trying to pull?!" Andenna's angry voice rung out. Enid Rad and K.O. hid behind several sets of rocks. The saw the farmer talking with the suit clad man himself.

"The plan was to just bring the one kid. Not all of Lakewood plaza!" Leistung countered, "I don't like people trying to mess up a deal… Did you think if you brought a few extra heroes that you'd be able to do as you pleased without consequence?"

"He wanted to bring me here…?" K.O. was hurt. Andenna was a part of whatever Leistung was doing here. A trap seemingly been placed but had then gone wrong at every step.

"I did everything you told me to do and you said you wouldn't hurt my family! That was the deal!" the middle aged farmer looked ready to attack him, despite his dislike of violence. Though the trio of heroes had no clue how he beat them down here to arrive so much quicker.

"Hey!" K.O. gained their full attention. Leistung let out a frustrated sigh and shoved Andenna to the side.

"I'm impressed by your cohorts, kid. I was thinking they stood no chance against that copy I made… I suppose Level 4 is weak in three-on-one," Leistung shook his head, upset. His plan had been dismantled so easily without even too much effort.

"Andenna, you were trying to bait K.O. here?" Rad questioned, disbelieving it all. The man seemed so humble too.

"I-I didn't have a choice! I'm sorry…" Andenna apologized profusely, but it seemed a fight was going to happen no matter what.

As Enid and Rad charged for Leistung, the suited man pulled out a small round metallic ball from his pocket that had a button a top of it.

"I got what I needed from here… wish I could've gotten more Iridium, but I'm not as foolishly greedy as most evil idiots," Leistung hit the button and threw it down. The ball opened up small pores, which spewed out clouds of various colored smoke that enveloped the whole area in seconds.

"Where'd he go!?" Enid coughed. She could not see even her own hands in this rainbow of smoke.

"Get back here, you coward!" Rad called out. He would begin blasting wildly if he could see straight, but he did not want to risk hurting his friends.

K.O. was trying to look around, but he suddenly heard Leistung's voice. "Y'know, kid… You sure are impressive with how resilient you are. It reminds me of my dad when I was younger… I'm going to let you in on a little secret for your hard work," the mind reader laughed. The Level 1 hero felt his whole body freeze up when he felt something on the back of his head. He quickly turned around, but he saw nobody there. Leistung was enjoying teasing him, his obvious fear of having his mind read was a practical toy.

"I don't want anything you have to offer!" K.O. swung wide into the smoke, but hit nothing.

"Don't worry. It's an important thing that you might be interested in knowing… y'see, it's a secret, but the POW cards actually have three levels they track. One is Hero Level. Another is Villain Level. And last but not least… is the Hazard level."

"Hazard level…?" K.O. thought, not sure why the POW card company would need that or why they would keep it secret from the public. When the smoke began to clear around him, he looked down and noticed a POW card on the ground.

"Leistung's POW card?" K.O. picked it up. An eyebrow was raised when his eyes glazed over to the bottom right. The color of his Level numbers were not red or blue. They were bright yellow with black stripes. Leistung was Level 6, yet there was no indication that he was evil in the POW card company's eyes. When he tapped on the yellow and black numbers, they flipped to red to show his villain Level, which was only Level 2. "Oh…?"

"K.O.?! Are you alright?!" Enid called out. The preteen boy made a snap second decision to keep the information he had been told secret, if Leistung was trying to mess with them then he was not going to allow it. It was then that he heard rocks falling right after from the ceiling above him, but he had no time to react.

"Watch out!"

K.O. closed his eyes, expecting to feel the weight of being crushed any second from the boulder trap, but he felt nothing. It took a moment before he willingly opened his eyes as the smoke cleared.

"Are you alright…?" Andenna asked, gritting his teeth. He had caught the boulder on his back, having to put in a lot of effort for his legs to not give out.

"Rad! Help over here!" K.O. called. Rad quickly fired a beam at the large rock, levitating it off to quickly throw it aside.

"Where'd Leistung go?" Enid ran over, looking around desperately for the monster maker.

"He… got away. I'm sorry. All he left was his POW card," K.O. apologized, feeling terrible for letting the one gloved man escape like that. Andenna held his head, his back hurting a lot.

"Aw, man! We went through all that for nothing…" Rad wanted to yell his frustrations out, but now was not the time. "Will you be fine, Andenna?" He doubted his box lifting record to be half the weight of that boulder.

"I feel like this every day, it's just a part of the farmer life," the middle aged farmer insisted. He pledged guilt for the way he hurt them, but with Leistung leaving them here and presumably fleeing Stardew Valley, it meant Andenna's family was under no further threat.

"We'll help you out of here, but after that, we're leaving," Enid bluntly put it. This whole charade just hurt K.O., and that in turn made her very upset, she could care less about a few puncture wounds on her body.

"Heh… guess I had this coming…" Andenna took a moment to pull out the all too familiar prismatic shard from his pocket that he had promised as a reward. He handed it over to K.O.

"Is there a doctor in this town?" Enid asked. They did have to deal with their injuries as soon as possible, the last thing she wanted was to get an infection.

"Yeah," Andenna nodded, "there's a clinic next door to the store my wife used to live in."

"Okay, Rad, you help Andenna walk and I'll carry K.O.," Enid ordered.

"Uhh… right, yeah," Rad wanted to argue, but the two were in too much pain and exhaustion to even think about going further, he had no real choice on the matter if they wanted to make progress.

"Hazard level…?" K.O. pondered about what Leistung said, holding his POW card in one hand and the bright rainbow gem in the other,

"Maybe Dendy will know what that is…"