Once with a friend we attacked Drume from waves etc and he also attacked Lion Commanders, finally they got killed, when Drume already had red hp, then we was kick out of the room, luckily no one came after us to the boss room, monsters that were in in the boss room they killed a Drume and we got loot.
There were also cases where friends had the same situation, but unfortunately someone followed them into the room and unfortunately they did not receive any loot. I suspect that you can also fail in the first phase. But I'm not sure about it, I haven't had this situation.