> Hello: I'm also having trouble with level 9. For one thing those arrows are a pain in the butt. I have tried to go to every spot in that large area but those arrows will not let me go where I want to go.

You can get around them. Note that you can always step sideways off an arrow, and that may be what you need to do to get everywhere in that area.

> How can I get my monsters to stop fleeing in the middle of a battle?

Summon monsters that aren't such fraidy cats.

> OH I did find the town on this level but after taking what I wanted I left it then got killed. I wish that every checkpoint had a place to get more monsters at.

After leaving the town area, there should have been checkpoints and a portal right there. Had you used up all the checkpoints there? In any case, you will actually NEVER* find a checkpoint that isn't within safe walking distance of a portal. Why? Because otherwise if you died and got sent back -- alone -- to a checkpoint without a portal handy, the game would suddenly become potentially impossible to win. So I'm a little confused about what you're talking about with this comment -- after leaving the town area on level 9, there's a portal basically right there.

(*The exceptions are rare and include situations where a checkpoint resides in an area where you're not intended to have any monsters in the first place, such as just beyond a force field that strips your companions away.)