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Artemis, Wade, Aech, and Shoto all go to Castle Anorak to fight the sixer army, and when they get there, there are thousands and thousands of avatars waiting to join them. Wade had programmed a droid inside the sixer base to grab an antimatter bomb, go to the top of the castle, and detonate it. When this happened, the avatar holding the artifact that kept the shield up was killed, dropping the shield.

Wade is really nervous to meet Artemis and everyone else because he is afraid it would ruin their friendships, but he knows that defeating the sixers is more important. Once he arrives, he is informed that he wont event meet Artemis until after the fight, so he sets up his OASIS rig, and logs back in on Morrow's internet so the sixers dont know where he is.

Wade escapes IOI's facility with a hard drive of everything on their intranet, and he sends a message to all OASIS players telling them to meet at castle anorak because he knows how to break the sixers shield. He meets Artemis, Shoto, and Aech in a chatroom and Ogden Morrow shows up, and tells them all that he has chartered planes to bring them to his mansion in Oregon so they are safe during the fight.

Wade talks about how he has been taken by IOI because he has an outstanding balance that he owes to the company, so they make him work for them as a tech rep. He then reveals that he has a master plan because he bought IOI access codes on the black market seven months earlier, and he was going to hack the company from the inside, and figure out how to get to the third gate.

Key's gate has been blocked off by the sixers, and once they find where the gate is, they could end the hunt, and own the OASIS.

The scoreboard, and his name now has 2 gate icons next to it, meaning he has passed through the jade gate. This worries Wade, and a few days later, Sorrentos score goes up again, signaling that the sixers now have the final key, and all they need to do is go through the final gate. Wade kicks it into high gear and clears the second gate, and finds the crystal key on a planet coded by Halliday, but the crystal

Wade escapes frobozz with the jade key, but sees that Daito's name is no longer on the scoreboard, and he assumes that Daito's avatar was killed. When he meets with Shoto, Wade is told that Daito was actually killed in real life by IOI employees, they broke into his house, and killed him. Shoto gives Wade some of Daitos belongings. In the next few days, Wade sees Sorrento's IOI employee number go to the top of

Wade goes to the planet Archaide where he believes that there could be the possibility of finding the jade key there. Instead, he finds a museum of old games, and a pac man game. He plays pac man and gets a perfect score, and then he gets an email from Aech, saying that he knows where the key is and that his debt is paid in full. Wade decides to go to the planet Frobozz, where the key is.

Wade logs out of the OASIS after the sixer attack, and he is hit with a realization that he doesn't live in the real world, but rather a fake one. He spends all of his real money on equipment to make the OASIS a more enjoyable place. He knows that nobody in the real world knows him, but he is a celebrity online, and thats why he doesn't ever want to stop playing the OASIS.

Wade is invited to Ogden Morrows birthday party, which is a very exclusive event, and Artemis is also invited. While they're there, everyone is posting pictures of them online, and the sixers hear about this. Soon, there is a hole blasted in the roof, and sixers are pouring in to try and kill wade and Artemis.