The trouble with Fire Elementals lay in two aspects: first, their attacks had the characteristic of igniting anything flammable upon impact; second, they themselves were made of flames, meaning merely getting close could cause burn damage. In actual combat, the first issue could be resolved with an Elf Priest's Water Conjuring Spell, and as long as they were quickly eliminated, the threat of the latter wasn't so significant.
Once they grasped the knack of it, the battle became much easier, and if one disregarded their ability to ignite, the combat power of the Fire Elementals was even less than that of a Berserk Demon (though Bruto would disagree). The group didn't take much effort to clean up all these enslaved elemental creatures and advanced to a spot only thirty feet away from the Lava Lake.
