Outside, Ojama Yellow hopes Syrus isn't planning on going inside and suggests a meadow to visit instead but Syrus reminds him that no such place exists. Suddenly, OY sees a shadowy figure and ponders whether or not he/she's seen him/her before before racing to catch up with Syrus. At the duel, Skull Knight sets 1 monster and 1 card face down for his turn. Axel activates Blaze Accelerator, then sends it to the Grave for Tri-Blaze Accelerator and uses its effect to target Skull Knight's face down monster. However, Skull Knight activates Reverse Effector, which puts his face down monster to Attack Mode since it was targeted with a Spell Card effect.

Since Magical Merchant, the monster that was face down, has a Flip Effect, it gets triggered, forcing Skull Knight to flip over cards on top of his Deck until a Spell or Trap Card is picked up and therefore added to the hand while the remaining cards are sent to the Grave. MM is also sent to the Grave and TBA's effect is negated by RE's effect. Since Axel's discarded monster was Volcanic Scattershot, it deals Skull Knight 500 damage since it was sent to the Grave, leaving Skull Knight at 3500 LPs. Next, Axel plays Volcanic Slicer (1800) in Attack Mode and uses its effect to deal another 500 damage, putting Skull Knight's score at 3000. Setting 2 cards face down, Axel ends his turn.

Skull Knight uses Synthesis Spell, a Ritual Spell Card that brings out Lycanthrope (2400) in Attack Mode and gives it Undead Lineage to boost its ATK by 500 to 2900 and if Lycanthrope would be destroyed by a card effect, the Equip Spell is destroyed instead. Skull Knight attacks, taking out VS, leaving Axel with 2900 LPs and triggering its own effect, dealing 200 damage to Axel for each Normal Monster in Skull Knight's Grave. Axel activates Volcanic Armor, dealing Skull Knight 500 more damage since he destroyed a Pyro-Type monster, putting him at 2500. With 14 Normal Monsters, that's 2800 damage for Lycanthrope's effect to leave Axel down to just 100 Life Points.

Axel opens his turn by sending his TBA to the Grave for Volcanic Doomfire (3000) in Attack Mode. Next he activate his face down Volcanic Mine to put a Bomb Token on Skull Knight's every open Monster Card Zone (Surprised Bomb is allowed considering it's usually changed in the TCG and Cemetery Bomb is the only exception thus far). He takes out Lycanthrope with Doomfire's attack, leaving Skull Knight with 1900 and triggering Doomfire's effect to destroy Skull Knight's remaining monsters and deal him 500 damage per destroyed monster, winning the duel.

Skull Knight says that Axel will fall before the Supreme King before being sent to the stars while surrounded by villagers. Axel comes down by rope with a tied up Guardian of the Labyrinth in his arms. He explains that Skull Knight disguised himself as Ancient Brain to get into the city and Guardian of the Labyrinth was going to help by opening the gates for the Supreme King. After some insisting words from Maiden of the Aqua, Axel agrees to help and gives the villagers tasks. As the gates close, a villager announces the arrival of an army and Axel's plan is quickly put into action.

Turns out the army they thought was SK's is actually reinforcements as Aster explains that the group thought Axel could use backup. The groups' leaders discuss a plan. Meanwhile, Chaos Sorcerer informs SK about the latest phase of their plan and SK mentally adds that it'll all be his soon. Talking Shield (Guardian of the Labyrinth's Talking Shield for short) insists he'll behave and takes them inside where Chaos Sorcerer catches them and is sent to the stars. Zane agrees to take on CS in a duel, figuring he's a strong duelist. The others head out, getting stopped by the Skilled Dark and White Magicians. Aster agrees to duel both of them and plays Destiny Hero - Double Dude to fight back, ordering Axel to get going.

At last, Axel encounters SK and after some back-and-forth conversation, the duel begins with Axel setting 1 card for his very short turn. SK uses Dark Fusion to bring out Evil Hero Wild Cyclone (1900) in Attack Mode and attacks, stopping Axel from using his face down card with EHWC's effect, leaving Axel down to 2100 LPs. Since EHWC dealt Battle Damage, Axel loses all his face down cards (The real card only destroys all of the opponent's face down Spell or Trap Cards.). Axel brought this destruction upon himself and coming here sealed his fate!

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