The Legendary Axe/Zone 5

Outside
The fifth zone is broken up into two parts, first outside a fortress, and then inside the labyrinth of fortress rooms. Surviving the trip to the front door won't be easy. As soon as you begin walking, a pure white nomad will sneak up behind you. Like the red nomads, they remain crouched. Clear this one away and proceed to the right. If you thought it wouldn't be too soon before you saw another spear wielder, you were wrong. One will approach you next. Since there's only one, use the same strategy as at the end of the last boss fight: back away until you are at full strength, then run in, and jump attack the enemy before backing off and repeating the process one more time.

One more white nomad will approach you from the right before you begin to drop down a set of stairs. Three item statues all offer health items if you already have full axe power. The next section is extremely dangerous. You're about to fight a squad of brown nomads. These nomads jump up in the air before throwing their axes at you, either high or low. These axes will actually boomerang back. To make matters worse, you most jump over a gap to reach them, and if you are not careful, the nomads or their axes can hit you and shove you backwards, falling through the gap to your death. It is recommended that you jump over the gap without hesitation, and then squat down as soon as you land. The nomads typically toss their axe high first, so it should sail over your head. Then stand up and approach them when it's safe. You must survive five platforms like this. The first, third, and fifth platforms only contain one brown nomad, while the second and fourth contain two.

When you reach the end, you'll see two item statues at the bottom of a climb up to the level above. Now you must traverse far to the left in order to reach the next section. Along the way, white nomads will appear and attack you continuously. You may be inclined to fight them all, but you might actually be better off ignoring them as long as you have some health. The game will never allow more than three big enemies on the screen at a time, so once three of them have shown up, they will chase you and negate the appearance of any more nomads. Jump up to the steps with the item statues to get away from the nomads, and proceed to the right.

If you kept the three white nomads alive as you climbed up the steps, they will actually pursue you on the level below, preventing any other enemy from appearing until they can't follow you any longer. If you cleared away the nomads, you will be attacked by a new enemy, a rock throwing ape that busts out from behind a wall to attack you. They carry large stones over their heads which they chuck at you when you get close. The safest strategy to employ should be the familiar tactic running away to the left until you strength meter is full, turning around to attack, and then running away again until your meter is full.

After you drop down some stairs, you'll face another spear wielder. Following him will be two rock throwing apes, and then a second spear wielder. Use the same strategy of hitting them with two full powered strikes to defeat them. You will see three item statues on the ground. Pay special attention to the scenery when you hit an enemy with a fully powered strike as it causes some of the background to become transparent, revealing two item statues near the ceiling on either side of the middle ground statue. Proceed to the right to reach the interior of the fortress.