Time went back to a little while before the fight started.
While walking towards the injured giant, Peter suddenly found a little girl sneakily approaching towards them under the covers of trees and even terrain along a small canyon.
She just happened to be at a place which was almost out of the scope of his spiritual sense radar but was still included. Under normal condition, Peter’s spiritual sense only spreads around him with nearly thirty meters in radius and him as the center. In fully running state, it would increase to fifty meters.
He was surprised. This is not a place where a child could roam around freely without any accompany.
Then, he quickly noticed the fact that the little girl got the almost identical appearance with the corpse they found in the building. They must be twins.
Peter couldn’t wait to pull out a thread and follow it till the end.
Feeling that no one in the team had found out the careful little girl, he decided to communicate with their other party first. After all, it is easy to get the trust of children.
“Hello, sweetie. Why are you alone in the woods?”
The little girl, who was sneakily checking the crowd of strangers from a small canyon, was surprised by the sudden sound which appeared near her eyes.
She quickly crouched down on spot and looked around curiously. She became a little scared as she found nothing around her. But a man’s calm voice in the gentle tone appeared again.
“Don’t look around. I’m not here.”
Then, Peter was amazed by the timid looking little girl. She stood up again and asked while her curious eyes kept scanning around.
“Are you mister ghost? Do you want Lilith to do something for you? Mother told me that ghosts were born because they still got unfulfilled wishes.”
Peter looked at the four or five years old little girl with his spiritual sense and felt heavy.
He wondered what kind of parents left their cute child alone in the dangerous woods.
“I do want to be your mister ghost who has a wish to protect you. But I am not. Little Lilith, uncle is here to save you from this dangerous woods. Do you remember the armored knight who walked in the front with a sword in his hand? That’s me.”
“It’s safe here with us. You can come out now. Trust me.”
“But, uncle, you guys looked fierce.”
“Because it was necessary, Lilith. Uncle is the warrior of Sun God. Do you know the Sun God? He is a great being who loves and protect all living beings. Uncle has sworn to protect every innocent beings.”
At first, little Lilith showed her distrust. But after hearing that Peter is a warrior of Sun God, her thinking changed. She felt that she could trust on warrior of God. Isn’t her mother also serving a God?
After seeing the little girl’s changes and her movement to come out of the small canyon, Peter knew that he had gained her trust. He felt that things would be cleared soon.
After scanning the surroundings again and feeling that there was no danger, Peter took back the weapon and armor into his body again and stepped out to meet the little girl called Lilith.
While smoothing out the little girl with gentle words through distance voice spiritual technique, Peter narrowed the distance between them. He smiled slightly as little Lilith came out of the canyon.
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It was also the time when Ben and other guys noticed the little guy who came out suddenly as well as the giant suddenly became anxious for some unknown reasons.
Hearing the growls and the sound of gunshots, Peter immediately sensed the situation at the back with his spiritual sense. He was worried for a moment until he noticed that Ronald was just sent flying a few meters backwards without any injuries.
Of course, he also noticed that the giant looked more liked a giant bear with strange mutation.
At the same time, little Lilith seemed to remember about something and she became anxious.
“Please, please, don’t hurt her.”
Listening to the pleadings of the little girl, Peter opened his mouth and asked in doubts.
“Who are you talking about, girl? We are not hurting anybody here.”
The little girl pointed at the giant and said timidly, “Her. Mother told me to protect her before she left here two days ago. She told me that was my sister. Of course, I would not believe it although I haven’t met Luna for several days. It is impossible for her to grow up too big and ugly like that. Luna must be playing hide and seek with me.”
Then, Lilith said in a low voice, “But, mother told me to look after her.”
Peter suddenly felt like he got closer to the truth. But he wasn’t in a daze either.
“Stop your attacks. Fall back to the safe distance. Ronald! Don’t shoot that giant.”
Hearing the sudden shout, Ronald hurriedly raised the gun muzzle to the air forcefully as he was already pulling the trigger. Moreover, his target was the head of the giant.
It was too late when he heard the sound. Fortunately, his extraordinary nervous system and muscle reflex allowed him to raise the gun muzzle while the bullet was tapped in the butt.
The giant didn’t even know that she just missed the call of death very closely.
The bullet pierced the air five inches above the head of the giant and went to the sky after passing through some obstacles on its path. Ronald sweated and directly took back the gun into space ring.
He knew that he just broke what Peter told them before. He was afraid as he suffered the sudden heavy blow of the giant creature and wanted to eliminate it quickly to prevent followup troubles.
But he forgot that Peter didn’t allow them to attack the opposite party’s lethal parts, not to mention killing it directly.
Just when Ronald wanted to say something to Peter, he noticed another guy was sent flying towards him. Fuck. Is this targeting me? In a 360 degree open space, why does it have to be me?
Ronald quickly rolled to the left. Just after he left the previous place, Glenn who was sent flying hit the half broken tree trunk. Poor three years old oak tree really met the disaster today.
The other guys also stopped engaging the giant creature head on and started retreating to a safe distance. The suspected bear like giant creature was left alone in place while waving the arms left and right vigorously. After all, it was not just her who got mobility.
Especially, Peter and his guys were evolving and they were trained to fight in extraordinary movement speed. Even while wearing the heavy armor of nearly one ton and holding a shield weighing over half a ton, they could still move in a speed of nearly ten meters per second at their peak state.
As for the four normal men, they were retreating to thirty or forty meters distance which appeared safe since the fight suddenly started. They were already on the half way of it.
After all, the sudden fight was just a few seconds in total from the start to the sudden pause.
The giant creature looked left and right in doubts through eye-slit of her already cracking exo-skeleton head armor as she suddenly lost the sight of her enemies.
She looked around and noticed the small figure with a big figure standing together at the distance and felt anxious although she was feeling pains all over her whole body.
Due to Peter’s order, Ben and the others only used the heavy shield to defend against the giant creature. Even so, the giant creature suffered from collisions between her exo-skeleton and the shields.
“Oh-oh, oh!…”
The giant creature started calling as if sobbing while facing the direction of Peter and little Lilith.
Peter got a terrible guess. He hoped that the truth was not as he guessed.
At the same time, a small box truck slowly stopped behind the vehicles of Peter and his team.
The door at the pilot side was opened and a tall woman with a beautiful diamond shape face, neatly tied long brown hairs and a pair of silver eyes came out. Although she was wearing a robe which covered her body, it still couldn’t entirely hide her mature looking but youthful golden ratio body.
Seeing the patrol vehicle among the neatly parked pickup truck, she thought of her two children.
Her beautiful fingers became snow white as she held the tome tighter.
She quickly closed the door and ran into the woods without even locking the vehicle.
She became anxious and was in a hurry. After all, there in the woods, her two girls might be facing the law enforcers or could be worse. Her silver eyes looked colder while tiredness was shown on her face.