Major General Parison had snapped. The state of the base, along with the humiliation of being knocked unconscious and stuffed into a cabinet, had driven him nearly mad. As soon as he came to, he stormed into the control room and used his highest-level authority to activate every defense system around the Underground Factory.
Across the Zewar Desert, gun emplacements rose from beneath the sand. Cannons lifted their barrels, all aiming at the enormous Golden Dragon in the sky.
Major General Parison knew Modi was the real culprit, but he also knew the base's defenses could never hit such a small target. For now, he would take his anger out on the Golden Dragon and worry about the rest later.
The first shell fired, followed at once by a volley from over a hundred cannons. Shells rained down on Modi and the Golden Dragon Girl, with the Mechanical Five-Headed Dragon caught in the barrage as well.
This was exactly what Major General Parison had ordered: ignore the targets' identities and bombard the entire area...
The Golden Dragon Girl narrowed her eyes at the incoming shells. In her vision, their arcing trajectories were perfectly clear. She could even see the marks the rifling had left on them as they emerged from the barrels!
"Enchanted shells? How extravagant." Arudika snorted, but she had no intention of taking the hits. At her level, those shells would barely tickle even if she stood still and let them strike her. She simply did not want to dirty her scales again.
Her massive form vanished in a flash. When she reappeared beside Modi, she had returned to human form.
The Mechanical Five-Headed Dragon, on the other hand, had not expected shells to come from behind. Still dazed from the beating it had taken, it failed to