The promised mech duel never came up again during Oliver's visit to Axelar's villa. The pair of wastrels spent several days carousing together in the prosperous and highly-populated Tyon System where Axelar lived.
If they weren't drugging themselves stupid with potent recreational stimulants, the two friends who befriended each other in their mech academy days went out and partied all day and night.
The extreme decadence the two partook in simply boggled Ves' mind. During a single casino visit, Oliver casually squandered a few million Terran dollars at the high-tech gambling tables!
As for Axelar, his losses amounted to more than thirty million T-dollars!
If they were a little bit more sober, then they could have limited their losses by making more prudent bets. Yet even when they gambled away so much money that they could have outright bought out a small state in the galactic rim, they still didn't stop injecting themselves with stimulants!