Light Novel:Volume 5

* Japanese
* English

## Synopsis

After leading Rohzenheim to victory, the No-life Gamers set their sights on the Rank S dungeon in Baukis—the Tower of Tribulations! With Meruru back in the party, Allen and his friends dive headfirst into the dungeon that no one has ever cleared!

After defeating a Demonic Deity and leading Rohzenheim to victory, the No-life Gamers now set their sights on the Rank S dungeon. Before they head to Baukis, though, Allen uses his new elven connections to arrange for the Gamers to graduate from the Academy early.

Allen then brings the gang to Krena Village to drop in on his family and introduce everyone. What's supposed to be a simple trip, however, quickly escalates into something more. It turns out that when Keel's family had their House restored, their lands were also returned to them—including the nest of the white dragon that has terrorized the area for centuries!

The group eventually makes their way to Baukis and reunites with Meruru with much pomp and circumstance. There, they stand together before the Tower of Tribulations, the Rank S dungeon that no one—not even Hero Helmios nor the champions of ages past—has ever cleared.

Challenges and encounters galore await the No-life Gamers where all the world's greatest fighters gather!

## Chapters

* Chapter 1:Returning to the Academy
* Chapter 2:Royal Audience
* Chapter 3:Homecoming
* Chapter 4:Fighting the White Dragon
* Chapter 5:Triumphant Return
* Chapter 6:Traveling to Baukis
* Chapter 7:Rank S Dungeon
* Chapter 8:Admiral Garara and His Crew
* Chapter 9:Gathering Medals
* Chapter 10:Memories of the Past
* Chapter 11:Joining up with the Hero's Party
* Chapter 12:Golem,Come Forth
* Chapter 13:The Power of a Spirit
* Chapter 14:Searching for Orichalcum
* Side Story 1:Treason
* Side Story 2:Rosetta the Phantom Thief
* Side Story 3:Meruru's Golem
* Side Story 4:Uncocquered
* Side Story 5:Pelomas's Contract
* Side Story 6:Creating a Fortress City
* Side Story 7:The Land of Spirits

## Adaptations

This Volume was adapted into following material:

* Manga

## Afterword

> Thank you for purchasing this book! I am Hamuo, the author.
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> Hell Mode now has five volumes out. This was made possible thanks to everyone who picked up a copy and enjoyed reading it. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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> If you’ve been reading all the books so far, you’ll know that this volume is the first one where we didn’t manage to feature a full arc. I managed to do so for the frontier village arc, the manservant arc, the Academy arc, and the Rohzenheim war arc, but it was just not possible this time. I’m truly sorry. I got a bit too passionate about dungeon crawling.
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> The upside to splitting the arc into two volumes is that I got the space to write a few more side stories than usual. It became an opportunity for me to flesh out the world a bit more with events that I didn’t get to include when writing the Rank S dungeon arc for the web novel version.
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> This is the afterword, so I suppose it’s time to share something about the production process of the book itself. The truth is, when I was writing the second arc, I was considering ending the entire series by the fifth arc. However, Allen’s adventures continued growing in scale. As of now, March 2022, we have five volumes out, but the story’s only just beginning. I have every intention of continuing it beyond volume ten.
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> When volume six comes out, you’ll get to read how this attempt by Allen and his friends to clear the Rank S dungeon shakes out. And if you continue following the series, you’ll find out the full scale of their grand adventure and how their story eventually ends.
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> This is about all I have to say about this volume and its side stories. Now, this is the part where I give out tidbits about my time growing up to meet my word count. I hope you stay with me.
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> In the afterword for volume four, I talked about how my family ended up building a house and settling down. That house was in the countryside and, although not too big, had a garden.
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> This was when my father took up a hobby—he started a two-by-one-meter field in the garden. He grew vegetables such as cucumbers and eggplants, and he was really into it. Honestly, there was no way his stuff could compare with the produce sold in the supermarket; I remember his oversize vegetables being served at our dinner table. When I commented on them, however, he never got angry. Or at least, I don’t remember him getting angry.
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> Something else that happened back then was that, during my school days, I got a hamster from a friend. He said his had birthed too many babies, and he was looking for people to take them in, so I said yes.
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> The astute among you might think, “So this is where Hamuo got his name from!” I won’t say it’s entirely unrelated, but honestly, I just picked “Hamuo” as a pen name pretty much on a whim.
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> I’ve loved animals even since I was young, but the mood at my house always seemed like pets weren’t welcome. So I decided to secretly raise the hamster in my room on the second floor. I thought that I could get away with it as long as I didn’t get found out, but I got found out in two weeks.
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> Thankfully, I didn’t have to get rid of it. Instead, my parents gave me permission to raise it, and so I began taking care of it with proper supervision. I put in what looked like shavings into a big plastic cage and installed a running wheel and a wooden nest. I remember this being one of the funnest times in my childhood.
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> When the shavings got dirty, I threw them away in a corner of my father’s field, thinking it could become fertilizer.
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> Several months after I began keeping the hamster, when spring was turning into summer, something green bloomed in the field. Turns out a few leftover sunflower seeds that I had fed my hamster had taken root and were growing. When summer was in full swing, the entire field became filled with sunflowers. I remember being impressed with how much vitality sunflowers had.
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> Even so, my father did not get angry, and our house garden was decorated by sunflowers for a while.
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> That’s about it for this story of how I spent my childhood in the home that my father built.
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> It appears I have reached the prescribed word count. Hell Mode is being published not only as a light novel but also as a manga serialization that’s doing quite well—volume three is being released in the same month as this book. I hope you enjoy the story in a different way with the wonderful depictions of exciting action and interesting expressions.
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> Let’s meet again in the next volume!
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> Hamuo