Clearing the Hard difficulty wasn't "hard" at all, since it was basically the same difficulty as the original dungeon we had already run through.
And for us—who had already leveled past the required threshold, with the girls fully accustomed to the map's layout and monster behavior—rushing to the finish line took significantly less time than even our first full clear.
Of course, I didn't nuke the monsters this time. If I had, Miyabi and the rest would've gotten caught in it too.
Thus, we cleared the map as normally as we could, moving in tight formation, cutting through monster waves without slowing down, before finally arriving at the end and killing the Basilisk in just five minutes flat.
With the debuff potions on hand and me handling the boss from start to finish, there wasn't much suspense in it. It was less of a fight and more of an execution with extra steps.
"Good! After we clear up our inventories, let's tackle Hell difficulty next!"
