As Selene realized, she snapped a twig and pushed all of them to the ground so the giant wouldn't see them.
As the giant robot kneeled, it looked around the bush but eventually ignored it, thinking it was a squirrel or some other woodland creature.
The attention of the giant was again directed at his foot; as he scooped what he stepped on, he realized it was a group of squirrels. He then dug a proper grave and put them there as a way to honor their memory.
Simon watched as the giant gently mourned the death of such small creatures, he felt his heart melt at such action.
"I would've never expected to see something artificial as a robot have such a gentle heart."
As the giant left the general area the trip got out of the bush, Lucia commented on the giant's behavior
"Hmph I can't believe a robot could be more empathetic than some human... I particularly find it cute."
Selene also commented but pointed out the bigger picture about how the robots got there in the first place
"Yeah, that was certainly cute, but we're forgetting the fact that how the hell did they end up here?!"
Simon was snapped back by Selene's voice
"Oh right, yeah I'm sorry. At least we found d something related to the noises of such things- but now that I think about it the giant robot seems eerily familiar"
Selene and Lucia laughed at Simon, interested in where he might've heard of the robots. Lucia was the first one to ask Simon about the robot
"What do you mean they're familiar? How so?"
Simon kept thinking and later remembered the information he knew about the robot, he remembered his studies about gods and the abilities they grant their people
"That's it! In a book I once read this robot was mentioned, it's named Gearbound Colossus as seen earlier they have
piston-like arms, not only do they have clockwork armor in their bodies, inside, they have a magic core made from the physical crystal-like form of the contracted spirits, and-"
Selene interrupts Simon to ask about the spirits as she is still intrigued about that part of the robot
"What about spirits? I've heard this too from Eldric studying; isn't the spirit a specific type? That's related to the God of Machinery?"
Simon looks at Selene like he is offended by her cutting him off, Selene gestures to Simon that she's sorry, and Simon just sighs
"So anyway, as I was saying, those crystals are the physical form of the spirit type Runeforged, a spirit type made by the Mechanical Heart... But something about this is bothering me."
Selene looked curiously at Simon, gesturing he should continue what he was saying; Simon sighed and continued.
"Yeah, but these robots are made by the singular Saint of the Machine God; the Saint was the only one who followed the Machine God as the Machine God is particularly picky about his followers, not only that the robots should have been destroyed because of an event erased from history..."
Simon finished talking and he looked at the girls and he sees Lucia about to fall asleep, Lucia almost fell down but Simon
"Ah! Oh uhm... Thanks Simon"
Simon smiled at Lucia, making her blush, and she thanked him; while they were busy being in their own world, Selene gestured to go forward deeper into the forest.
As they walked deeper in the forest the smell of something burning and oil. In the distance, Simon saw the giant robot walking slowly.
The robot looked like it was carrying some dead boars inside a cave where the burning and oil came from, a bit later the robot went out, and it saw them it suddenly scanned them for information
[Gender: Woman
Race: Human
Danger level: 4-5
Class: Swordsman
Miscellaneous information: The human woman has white hair, no support from any gods from the fact she doesn't have any signatures to suggest she is being supported
Gender: Woman
Race: Elf
Danger level: 7-8
Class: Enchantress
Miscellaneous information: This person has black hair and seems to be part of the Velthorne clan by the way she processes her mana I should be careful to fight against her due to how powerful individuals but individuals from this usually don't have any patron gods
Gender: Male
Race: Elf-???
Danger level- ???
Class- Mage
Miscellaneous information: black haired individual seems to also be a Velthorne individual due to how his race is an elf and another unknown race, due to this I cannot fully rate how dangerous he can be]
The trio went into a battle stance, with both of the siblings going behind Lucia. The giant was the first one to act runranwards them and smash the ground making a big crater but fortunately, Simon avoided the attack and made a gravitational force pulling Selene and Lucia out of the way
"Be careful. Despite its size, it's unexpectedly fast. Lucia protect us while we find a way to weaken its armor"
Selene interrupted Simon
"But why do we need to weaken its armor? Aren't piercing spells enough?"
Simon quickly answered Selene with no time waste
"No, its armor is too strong we need to somehow weaken it to reach the core"
Lucia nods at Simon, gesturing she's going to follow him; once again, the giant robot rushes towards them and throws a strong punch, but Lucia parries it; Simon thinks of a way to weaken the armor, and a sudden idea pops into his head.
"I'll try to summon a tome I got just hold on"
Simon used magic to connect to the magic Tome wishing it may work and a sudden burst of energy filled him after his effort was rewarded the time, the book suddenly appeared out of thin air and opened into the spells of the Sagittarius constellation
"What spell should I use, something strong enough to melt touts strong enchanted metal."
His eyes read through the pages trying to find the perfect spell to melt the strong armor, Simon was even more stressed by Lucia shouting at him to be faster while Selene was casting buffs at Lucia
"That's it! [Wildfire Wave]"
A sudden wave of fire was manifested in front of Simon Selene and Lucia sees this and gets away from the fire, and then the wave hits the giants melting it's armor.
Suddenly Simon shouts at Lucia
"Lucia finish the job! Hit the core in the middle of it's boey!"
Lucia jumped and was about to bury her sword deep into the robots chest but a pair of mechanical hands come out of the cave and drags the giant robot back inside.