Chapter 111

The cowboys continued galloping while shooting at the helicopters with their revolvers. Sadly, the bullets didn't do much more damage than a few scratches to the machines, which began to shoot at them with machine guns.

Even if some got hit by the bullets, the riders continued advancing towards where the Esvert waited for them.

When they were close enough for the cultivators to attack, the leader cowboy began to shout.

"Change to attack mode, now!" he said while grabbing his mechanical horse's ears.

Suddenly, the half-upper body of his horse began to rotate, so its head looked backward while the lower body continued running in the same direction. Then, the machine opened its mouth, and a canon appeared from inside it, with which the cowboy began to shoot bullets as if it were a machine gun.

The rest of the cowboys imitated their leader. Now, the bullets from the cowboys began to damage the helicopters each time they landed on them.

Seeing that the damage wasn't threatening to their mission, the dwarfs continued chasing them, but they changed their thoughts when they saw a giant boulder flying toward one of the helicopters.

Without being able to dodge in time, the projectile hit the flying machine, which fell to the ground completely smashed.

The other helicopter, finding itself alone, began to retreat as fast as possible, but a giant owl appeared out of nowhere and grabbed it from its tail, causing it to destabilize.

"Half-moon wing blades, activate!" the summoner shouted from the owl's back as he drew a card.

After saying those words, the owl's wings began to shine with pale light before it released two energy slashes from them. Those attacks managed to cut through the machine's metal, damaging its structure even more.

The owl separated from the helicopter before the cowboys began to shoot with their horses again. At last, a second boulder impacted it, making the flying machine fall to the ground, destroyed.

A few minutes before this, the army was infiltrating the mountain and had already begun exploring its tunnels. As a death scythe, they eliminated any dwarf they found in their path, so they didn't detect them.

In no time, they reached the open area with the statue the previous team had found while exploring.

There they found tens of dwarfs running from one side to another, carrying rifles and boxes with them.

After seeing this, the summoner drew a card from his deck without losing a second.

"Volcanic Fire Gorilla, burn them until they are nothing but ash!" he said, throwing the card to the ground.

From the card, a three-meter-high gorilla with a body made of red rock appeared. It began to hit its chest with its punch, and with each hit, its body began to glow more and more until it caught fire.

The gorilla's sound alerted the dwarfs, but before they could aim at the group, some cultivators dashed toward them before killing them on the spot. Sadly, even if they did that, the rest of the dwarfs became aware of their presence and prepared to fight them as fast as possible.

Because the army was higher than most dwarfs, they began to kill those closest to them while the others didn't have the angle to shoot at them. They advanced like an unstoppable force that barely slowed down when they found enemies on their path.

While running downstairs, Zack looked at the giant statue they had by their side and realized something.

"Something is shining on the crown of that thing!" he said before closing his eyes for a second." And I feel it is calling for us, so it must be one of our targets!"

"Go for it!" the summoner shouted to his summon.

Following the summoner's orders, the gorilla began to climb the statue until it reached its head. There it found an enormous jewel that was decorating the crown. Without thinking twice, it punched the jewel, causing it to break and become thousands of light particles. Those light particles fused to create a ball of light that entered the gorilla's body.

"There is something else below us. I feel it!" Owald shouted as he continued to descend.

Suddenly, they heard a voice coming from where they were heading.

"Otsi odot rop ragap sovieraf. Suem soa sedatam e asac añim a, iuqa sediv!" shouted the voice.

From a door at the bottom of the statue, a dwarf wearing a mechanical exoskeleton and carrying a Gatling gun appeared and began to shoot at the army.