The Fall

[A/N: Short Chapter]

Marcus kept observing the automatons as they chased the raiders while they desperately tried to run away or fire their guns or even through molotov's and their TNT's at it.

The damage from these hot weapons though little filled them with hope only for the next moment their hope to be crushed as they regenerated from the rocks and debris lying around.

Marcus though at the moment was unconsciously comparing the automatons to the ones he has in his memories as a result of the Divine Blessings of the Runic Gods.

Their weakness, he had long figured it out when he first looked over the automatons. It was a single rune placed at the nape of the automatons or golems.

The problem though was that it was going to be a hard fight as he didn't had a single weapon on him as he expected being able to take down even Ra's Al Ghul easily with his Divine Blessing and even behest Shiva, though he wasn't sure as she is supposedly the pinnacle of martial arts.

He at the moment could fight the golems but he had to fight them barehanded and if some ruins that he noticed from the distance are really what it seems then it was really going to be a hard time and honestly Marcus was excited of this outcome.

Why? It's simple. It has been a long time since he has got himself a nice workout cause no human that he had encountered so far could match a percent of his capabilities.

With the squishing of the last of the grave robbers Marcus approached the automaton from the back nimbly only to jump at the nearest one with his fist backed and slamming it hard on the collar bone guard which broke as his hand passed through to the rune inscribed there effectively downing the automaton.

All this took a minimum of 3 sec and he didn't stopped as he leapt towards the nearest with his reinforced kick straight to the nape.

However he couldn't follow through as by that time the other automatons had noticed him and started protecting their napes. So he jumped off the third automaton that he tried to break only to fail with just the automatons hand which it recovered back to an open place only for him to jump again as a rock hand slammed in his place making cracks on the ground.

This forth and back of combat by Marcus went on to continue for another 15 minutes with him successfully downing 11 of them only for 8 more to appear adding to the rest.

'I need to find the command rune for them, where could it be.' thought Marcus.

As he was thinking about the Command runes for them a fiery fireball approached him at high speed which he could barely dodge only for the closest brawler to slam him straight in the face flying straight to the hull of the ship.

"Cough.. These automatons can perform magic" said Marcus with a light blood leaking from his lips as he focused on the lone automaton at the far front "No it's not magic it's Fire Bending!" exclaimed Marcus as he saw how it raised his hands only for he flames from the nearest fire lamp to rush to him.

"Fuck... let's take the entire ship" said Marcus as his hands glowed and the entire ship disappeared into a glowing tattoo on his knuckles but this didn't stop the automatons to keep coming at him.

'Maybe this entire place powers them' thought Marcus as he ran forward through his swiftness kicking and punching at the weak points and taking out an automaton 1 in 3.

This kept going on for an entire hour with now Marcus huffing in tiredness and few cuts or bruises all over his body with multiple stone like bodies lying around and the entire floor filled with cracks.

Taking a deep breath Marcus used his runes to enchant his fists as they lighted in fire as he started brawling again taking out several automatons at once but causing him increase in stamina loss.

'This isn't getting anywhere' thought Marcus as he looked around again for the nth time for something to catch his eyes only this time to see the floor breaking in places.

'Could it be....' trailed off Marcus as a crazy plan formed in his head as he started punching the floor avoiding the onslaught of the automatons with finally the ground breaking and him falling down going away from the automatons range as he freefalled through a dark passage.

Hearing the sound of water splashing due to the rocks falling marcus immediately realised the presence of a possible water stream so he changed his posture as he finally dived in through the bright blue water like liquid and him losing his consciousness.